Holiday Train Efforts Ferry Wisconsin Michigan Guardsmen Home
Seven thousand five hundred National Guardsmen from Wisconsin and Michigan left Camp Beauregard for 11 days of holiday leave. Twelve special trains carried 32nd division troops to homes across Wisconsin and Michigan. Seventeen routes connected Madison, Green Bay, Milwaukee, and other cities with stops including Neillsville, Oshkosh, and Sault Ste. Marie.
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Alexandria
National
Beauregard
Neilsville
Marshfield
Eau Claire
Chippens Falls
Rice Lake
Spooner
Superior
Menorainee
River Falls
Hudson
Wis
Sheboygan
Manitowoc
Green Bay
Sturgeon Bay
Oconto
Marinette
Escanaba
Beloit
Janesville
Fort Atkinson
Jefferson
Watertown
Arcadia
Rhinelander
Baraboo
Clintonville
Whitewater
Monroe
Platteville
Edgerton
Stoughton
Madison
Depree
Sault Ste. Marie
Marquette
Calumet
Mich
Oconomowoc
Hartford
Ripon
Beaver Falls
Portage
Mauston
Tomah
Sparta
LaCrosse
Wisconsin Rapids and Merrill
Waukesha
Fond du Lac
Oshkosh
Neonah
Stevens Point
Abbott
Shelters and London Exodus Dominate Wartime Life
Milo M. Thompson portrays wartime England with London’s mass displacement into the countryside. He notes hotels booked, real estate blocked, and trains crowded as millions of troops and evacuees strain the inland regions. Private schools relocate to mansions and hotels while clerical London offices move to villages to shelter records and reserves.
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London
Caven
London Firma
Escapees from Devil's Island seek freedom to join De Gaulle
Seven French prisoners in Miami plead for life and a chance to fight with De Gaulle's Free French after facing deportation to Martinique and execution by firing squad. A companion in Key West and twenty others in Puerto Rico reportedly await transport by coast guard cutter Unalga back to Martinique.
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Miami
Fla
Martinique
France
Devil's Island
Charles de Gaulle
United States
Key West
Caribbean
Dade County
Coast Guard
Unalga
Puerto Rico
Jean Tourin
Vichy
de Gaulle
Search for killer shifts to Tennessee after Georgia shooting
The hunt for the fugitive motorist who killed Corporal W. F. Black of the Georgia highway patrol moved to Tennessee after a theft at Chattanooga airport. A restaurant operator reported the suspect entered then fled, and he took Eddie Stork's car, which still had keys in the driveway. Black was shot Friday night a few miles north of Ringgold, Georgia, after stopping the driver for reckless driving.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
W. F. Black
Georgia Highway Patrol
Tennessee
Eddie Stork
Stork
Defense production push urged as war demands rise
The new defense high command demands maximum production in every field to aid victory and asks for full cooperation from all Americans. Steps include exporting controls to 15 more items, navy orders totaling 234 million for patrol craft, plant sites in Tulsa Omaha and Kansas City, and a 6.75 million powder plant contract with Hercules Powder Company.
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Washington
New Defense High Command
William S. Knudsen
Office For Production Management
The
Defense Commission
Tulsa
Okla
Omaha
Neb
Kansas City
Hercules Powder Company
Wilmington
Del
Pulaski
Radford
Knudsen
Chargc
Man Counts Cotton Balls and People in Sicily Island Story
Sicilian report describes James Pearl Newton of Brookhaven Mississippi who has counted vast numbers of cotton bolls daily while tracing steps and road traffic. The tale notes his lifelong habit begun by two boys and his skill at tallying sticks, wood, and other chores as he travels through town.
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Sicily Island
James Pearl Newton
Newton Twins
James Pearl
Charlie
Brookhaven
Miss
Charlie Newton
Pearl
Newton
Firemen Dig Through Debris After London Bombing
A heavy German bomb in a London tenement killed an undetermined number of Britons at a Christmas party as firemen and rescue squads dug through bricks and toys for survivors. The blast followed another daylight raid. Liverpool and Berlin also drew attention amid Allied defense and German-US policy tensions.
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Associated Press
London
Liverpool
Berlin
Foreign Office
United States
Germany
America
Hull
Roosevelt
Defense Command
William S. Knudsen
Supreme Court Denies Writ in Rapides Coroner Case
The Louisiana supreme court denied writs by Dr. S. L. Calhoun's counsel seeking to suspend a lower court ruling in Alexandria that barred Calhoun from serving as sheriff. Sheriff A. T. Downs, reelected last April, faced removal over an alleged unaccounted sum in parish tax collections and fought Governor Jones authority to declare the office vacant.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Supreme Court
S. L. Calhoun
Rapides Parish
Alexandria
Downs
Winter Opens Across United States Saturday
Moderate winds and clear skies welcomed winter in the Twin Cities as the Weather Bureau in New Orleans forecast temperatures to hold steady Sunday and Monday. The nation showed mixed conditions with some areas experiencing warmer weather after unusual patterns.
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Twin Cities
United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
United States
Christmas Good Fellows Fund Appeal Urges Local Donations
The Monroe Good Fellows fund remains short of its goal with three days left before Christmas. The News-Star-World urges readers to contribute from their Christmas budgets to help hundreds of local children and adults enjoy the holiday. Sears and Roebuck donated about $109 in toys to be distributed by A. W. Wisenbacker, the local manager, for the fund.
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Monroe Good Fellows Fund
Good Fellows
Good Fellows Fund
News- Star—World
Sears and Roebuck
A. W. Wisenbacker
Letter to God Found in Richmond Mail Cries for Family Healing
A letter addressed to God and signed by a child was found in a Richmond Indiana mailbox. The child asks forgiveness for misdeeds, prays for the mother’s health, and wishes her parents would live together. The note ends with a Christmas greeting to God and angels.
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Richmond
Ind
Heaven
U.S. A
Scholl
Daddy
Mother
You and
All Angels
Christmas buying surges as 1940 holiday season peaks nationwide
Monroe streets bustle with thousands of shoppers during the Yuletide rush as trade centers report a record Christmas weekend. Government data credit defense production for higher wages and payrolls, with 2,300,000 additional non farm workers since February boosting retail volumes.
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Monroe
Jesse H. Jones
United States
Federal Reserve Board
University of Pittsburg Research Bureau
Pittsburgh
Atlanta
Red Star decries Roosevelt plan as aiding capitalism
The Soviet army newspaper says Roosevelt's aid to Britain is designed to strengthen American capitalism and consolidate the U S position in the imperialist powers struggle for global share. Prince Philip to serve as midshipman with the British Mediterranean fleet this Christmas. Britain reports about 5 000 air raids on Germany Italy and axis territories in eight months with almost 1 000 strikes against Italian targets.
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Moscow
Red Star
Roosevelt
Britain
England
White House
United States
Valletta
Malta
Prince Philip
Prince Andrew
George I
George II
New York
Germany
Italy
CBS
Italian East Africa
Libya
Mother and son die in Scooba auto crash
In Scooba Mississippi a car driven by James Hollis Price crashes into a log wagon injuring two men and killing Mrs. Price and her one month old son. Son Napoleon Dancey, a 12 year old negro, dies. John Dancey hospitalized. Price suffers a broken leg. Vehicle collision on Highway 45 near Scooba while en route to Paulette plantation for Christmas with her father Grover Goodwin.
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Scooba
James Hollis Price
Napoleon Dancey
Highway 45
Price
Paulette Plantation
Macon
Grover Goodwin
Germans accuse shipping official of warlike act
Berlin officials blasted Britain's shipping minister Ronald Cross for urging assignment of Axis ships in neutral US harbors. The German foreign office spokesman warned of Germany awaiting America's reaction with interest. Simultaneously Germany called for recall of three U.S. embassy staff in Paris over an escape of a British officer.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Britain
America
United States
Germany
London
Ronald Cross
Rome
United States State Department
Paris
Elizabeth Deegan
Asheville
N. C
Cecil
Weather Strikes Louisiana Crops In 1940 Decline
Louisiana’s crop value dropped nearly 24 million dollars from 1939 as bad weather reduced harvested land by 33 000 acres to 4 155 million acres. Corn rose one bushel per acre while cotton and rice fell. Louisiana led in sugar cane and cane syrup and ranked high in several crops despite overall drop in value.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Department of Agriculture
Jackson pledges aid and fair treatment to aliens
Attorney General Jackson urged registration of aliens who entered illegally and promised a square deal for those who confess. He said penalties for illegal entry would not be withheld and pledged humane handling with no indiscriminate rejection of claims. The registration total neared 4,200,000 with five days left in the seven‑day window.
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Washington
Jackson
United States
CBS
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