Yesterday's News

4 LOCAL MEN MISSING IN KOREA ACTION

The War Department has announced that four area Army men have been reported missing in action in the Korean War.

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Sunday, May 24

Memorial Services

The memorial services for the old soldiers was held in the Methodist church Sunday at 11 a.m.

Reburial rites for Pvt. Leo Jeanise held

A guard of honor from the American Legion met the remains of Daniel Leo Jeanise yesterday afternoon and escorted it to the Catholic church where the Rev. Law M. Fournet officiated at services.

Names of 22 soldiers who lost lives in WWI to be commemorated in BR

The names of twenty-two soldiers from Jefferson Davis Parish who lost their lives in the World War, either from wounds or disease, have already been assembled and will be inscribed in bronze on the new memorial tablet which will be placed in the War Memorial Building on the

CIVIL WAR VETERAN

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This undated photo shows Andrew Fox and his wife. Fox was a veteran of the Civil War.

LAKE ARTHUR BOY KILLED IN FRANCE

PFC William Broussard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Broussard of Lake Arthur and husband of the former Miss Ollie Mae Kibodeaux, was killed in action in France on July 26, a telegram to the wife from the war department yesterday revealed.

Body of Morrish, last of war dead, to arrive here Friday

The body of Sgt. T.H. (Jack) Morrish, who fell in a bombing mission over Bulgaria, will arrive here at 3:30 Friday afternoon over the Southern Pacific. He is the last of the Jeff Davis war dead slated to be brought home for reinterment.

Evangeline Marine is cited posthumously

EVANGELINE - Lance Corporal Ellias Boullion, U.S. Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Boullion of Evangeline and a former member of Company K, Third Battalion, 24th Marines, Lafayette, has been posthumously awarded the Bronz Star Medal with Combat "V" and cited by the Secretary of the Navy in recognition of heroism displayed in action in Viet Nam.

LOCAL SOLDIER, LISTED MISSING, BACK IN ACTION

Jan. 15, 1951