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.