Soldiers Arrive at Beauregard and Find Life's Easy
In Alexandria Detachment 21 describes new civilian guardsmen and conscripts expected to number up to 100000. Officers promise comfort and training in Louisiana pine forests while forcing gradual outdoor conditioning. First contingents from Michigan Wisconsin 32nd division and Ohio 37th national guard division arrive with tents pitched and hot breakfast served.
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Norman Walker
Alexandria
America
Louisiana
John Dee
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ohio
Miss
Fort Benning
Four Monroyans Die in Auto Crash Near Monroe
Eight miles east of Monroe a Sunday wreck killed four Monroyans. Max Bird 23 an employee. Mrs Dorothy Bird 20 his bride. Thomas McEnany 28 a hardware worker. Miss Ivy Delle Smith 19 a telephone operator. Miss Smith’s service was held at her home and interment at Mt. Vernon cemetery. Funeral plans for Mr. and Mrs. Bird set for Tuesday. Mulhearn Funeral Home in charge.
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Eest
Monroe
Max Bird
All Company
Dorothy Bird
Bird
Thomas McEnany
Hardware Company
Ivy Delle Smith
Miss Smith
Malvern Street
D. D. Cantrell
Mt. Vernon
Juanita Smith
Ellix Smith
Baton Te
Ernest Truily Gates
Ee Hopgood Noah
Fae Iven Causey
Tommy Dent
O. L. Hoskins
E. L. Hoskins
Charles H. Worley
J. W. Warren
Walter Geary
B. ©. Taylor
A. Sheppard
Mulhearn Funeral Home
State police training expands with fifty cadets in six week program
Fifty cadets from 34 parishes begin a accelerated six week training schools to boost state police strength. Superintendent Steve Alford says five instructors will shorten courses from eight to twelve weeks with new assignments to Alexandria and other defense centers.
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Baton Rouge
Steve Alford
Alexandria
Alton
Corley
Denham Springs
O. Jr. Hebert
Louis R. Westerburg
Winnsboro
Robert FE. Lasseigne
D. P. Tolar
Jonesboro
R. L. Nance
Coburn Hood
Truett Sledge
Coushatta
T. J. Bankston
H. C. Moorehead
Winnfield
Joseph E. Craube
New Orleans
Sam Westly Aaron
Natchitoches
Perry A. Dickinson
Lake Charles
Maxwell Barousse
Crowley
Allen L. Latiolais
Breaux Bridge
Sounds Prove More Awful Than Sight In This War
London correspondent Robert E Bunnelle describes how hearing the war overwhelms sight. He notes nighttime bomber sounds, exploding bombs, shell fragments, and sirens that keep him awake, contrasting the constant noise with limited daytime visuals of explosions, fires, and wreckage.
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Robert E Bunnelle
London
Associated Press
Plane Disappearance mystifies Army in California
Ground and air searchers moved to locate two army reserve officers, Second Lieutenant Volney R. Stiles and Lieutenant Nathan H. Samuels, who vanished Saturday after departing Oakland for Monterey in a training plane. The aircraft had a radio for distress calls and was last seen near the Santa Cruz mountains amid good weather.
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Oakland
Calif
Army Reserve
Volney R. Stiles
Nathan H. Samuels
Infantry Reserve
Monterey
Santa Cruz Mountain
Supreme Court rejects Weiss LeSage Adams appeal in hotel furniture case
The U.S. Supreme Court refused review for Seymour Weiss Louis LeSage and J Emory Adams in the $75 000 Bienville hotel furniture fraud tied to Louisiana State University The defendants face prison terms with Weiss to serve 30 months and pay a 2000 fine while LeSage and Adams each receive a 1000 fine and one day in jail.
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New Orleans
Seymour Weiss
Louis LeSage
J. Emory Adams
Supreme Court
Washington
Seymour W
Weiss
New York
LeSage
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana
Adams
RAF Intensifies Bombing Campaign Across Europe
Allied air assault surges to 100 bombs a minute striking Berlin northern Italy and Norwegian base Tromsoe with raids on German seaports and an Arctic outpost. Berlin reports civilian casualties and damage while Rome notes Italian city strikes. Nazi daylight raids hit London and Liverpool as part of a broader weeklong exchange.
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Associated Press
Great Britain
RAF
Berlin
Italy
Tromsoe
Norway
Arctic Circle
West Berlin
Britain
Rome
Channel
London
Liverpool
New Conductive Rubber Aims to Prevent Anesthetic Explosions
Chicago report details a new conductive rubber shown to the American College of Surgeons that allows electricity to flow through while behaving like ordinary rubber. It is proposed to prevent static-induced explosions of anesthetic gases during surgery by reducing static buildup on floors shoes and equipment.
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Chicago
American College of Surgeons
Southern Tuberculosis Conference Opens in Monroe
The annual Southern Tuberculosis Conference opened at the Virginia Hotel with about 200 physicians and public health workers from the South. The Louisiana Tuberculosis Association met in connection, with a seal sale and luncheon. The medical section in the Crystal ballroom featured an X ray clinic and open discussion led by Dr. Frank Carman and Dr. Paul Turner.
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News-Star
Frank Carman
Dallas
Tex
Paul A. Turner
Louisville
Southern Tuberculosis Association
Virginia Hotel
Carman
Turner
Virginia
South
Louisiana Tuberculosis Association
Crystal Ball
Frank W. Webster
Winston-Salem
N. C
Virginia and Frances
Victor Fcullen
Baltimore
American Trucheau Society
J. D. Riley
Booneville
Ark
Cullen
R. H. Frost
Monroe
G. B. Cooley
Automobile Show Opens Tonight In Monroe
Monroe hosts its first automobile show starting at 7 tonight. The event runs along Onward Street from Grand to Jackson and North Second Street from DeSiard to Jefferson, featuring 1941 models from local dealers. Music will accompany demonstrations of new car features.
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Monroe
Grand
Jackson
North Second Street
DeSiard
Jefferson
Roosevelt to draw first number in draft lottery
President Roosevelt will draw the first number in the draft lottery at noon October 29 in the inter-departmental auditorium in Washington. Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra said the glass goldfish bowl will be used, with blue capsules for numbers and about 16.5 million registrants tied to the process.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Clarence A. Dykstra
Selective Service
Dykstra
Labor Department
U S Questions Witness Again In Weiss Case
Architect Edward F. Neild testifies as government witness in the Leon C. Weiss mail fraud trial. He recalls a October 3 1936 certificate showing a contract of 291 482 13 and admits his firm was paid in full and overpaid. He notes uncertainties about who received details of Ruston job work through Weiss officials.
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Edward F. Neild
Neild, Somdai and Neild Architectural
Shreveport
Leon C. Weiss
Ben C. Dawkins
Malcolm Lafargue
Government Counel
Hugh Wilkinson
Weiss
Neild
Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth
Ruston
Lewis Roeger
George Rice
Weiss, Dreyfous and
Seiferth
Wilkinson
Calhoun Resident Dies After Self Inflicted Wounds
Calhoun October 21 Special Ed Turpin 60 fired two bullets into his heart in a field Sunday morning. He was found by his wife and G S a Calhoun school principal after he allegedly answered a question with the shots. He died minutes later. Body taken to Kilpatrick Funeral Home Ruston as funeral plans were made. Sergeant E Roy Bird investigated.
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Ruston
Roy Bird
State Police
Infantry Still Backbone Of Conflicts
Washington reports the War Department views hard trained infantry as the decisive force on the modern battlefield. General Marshall notes the tough infantry will fight on foot after arriving at action, as plans develop 435 infantry divisions with high infantry to other arms ratios.
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Washington
Europe
War Department
George C. Marshall
Air Force
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U. S
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