Not since Nov. 26, 1940, has the National Guard, Company C-3rd Battalion, 156th Inf., 256 Brigade, been activated for duty in a threat of war. Many area men were called to active duty prior to World War II. Now, 123 men of the lo
Allen Lee Roberts, the man who fashioned a key from a broom handle and nonchalantly unlocked cell doors and walked to freedom from the Jeff Davis jail last July 28, has been apprehended in Pheonix, Arizona, and officers there will surrender him to Sheriff Azenor Buller as soon as the extradition papers are completed.
Isaac John, an employee of the Louisiana State Rice Milling company was shot in the left index finger and the left foot by Earl Breaux, another employee of the plant Thursday morning following an altercation over a lunch basket. Breaux is in the parish jail where he is being held on a charge of shooting with intent to kill.
The Live Oak Hotel at Lake Arthur was built by the L.A. Town Lot and Land Co. before 1890, and stood on the corner of Arthur Avenue and Lake Street until it was dismantled in the mid-1930s.
Sunday will mark officially the second time in more than 40 years that the town of Elton has had a public library. The difference this time is that more than likely it is here to stay.
A general one-third cut in railroad passenger service on lines using coal has been ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The reduction is effective at 11:59 p.m., local time, Sunday, January 8th. The ICC said the action was made necessary by the dwindling supplies of coal due to the union-management crisis in the coal industry.
NEW ORLEANS - Charles Monroe Beard of Jennings, in a federal court suit filed here last Friday, claimed he worked 8,641 hours overtime for the Continental Oil company of Delaware, defendant, in Louisiana fields and asked $11,892.70 compensation from the company under the fair labor standards act of 1938.
Jennings and Jeff Davis autoists who need a tire or a tube are just out of luck. Sale of either was forbidden by national orders starting this morning and the ban will be in effect until December 22 when a ration system will be in effect.
The drastic order became effective with the changed Pacific outlook and because this country has only a year's supply of raw rubber on hand and this will be needed for the military.
