United States Industries Reach All-Time Highs in 1939
A wide range of sectors set records in 1939 despite war and recession. Electric power production neared 130 million kilowatt hours, motor fuel output surged to 996 million, passenger car registrations rose to about 200 million, and Bell telephone subscriptions hit 16.29 million as air transport and aviation activity climbed.
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New York
Dec
United States
Asenger
Bell System
Noes campaign managers resign in Caddo la
Noe campaign figures in Caddo Parish resign their posts as James A Noe's fourth district campaign heads. Pruitt and James Ames telegrammed resignations to Senator Noe and to Charles McKenzie in New Orleans, stating their resignations are effective immediately and offering no comment.
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Pruitt
James Aames
Manrt
James A. Noe
Charles McKenzie
New Orleans
Ator Noe
Clintor
Ignation
Ager
McKenzie
Garner Refuses to Discuss Politics in Dallas Stop
Vice President John N. Garner and Mrs. Garner stopped in Dallas en route to Washington and declined to discuss politics. Garner appeared in good spirits, noted a weight drop to 176 pounds, and said he would bed early while others prowled. He mentioned his pecan crop and a near miss on a deer hunt as he met local supporters.
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Dallas
Tex
John N. Garner
Garner
Washington
F. B
Germany
and Cairman
Jones to Speak Here Wednesday in Fifth District Rally
Sam Jones of Lake Charles, a gubernatorial candidate, will speak at Neville High School auditorium in the Fifth district next Wednesday at 8 o'clock. Campaigns note the event is a final voter appeal before the January primary. Governor Earl K. Long defended Mayor Maestri against opponents and accused Noe and Jones of trying to injure Maestri while praising his record.
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Jimmie Noe
Sam
Jones
Orleans Fifth District
Sam Jones
Lake Charles
Fifth
Neville High School
Fifth District
Oak Grove
Bastrop
Lake Providence
Leesville
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Robert S. Maestri
New Orleans
Maestri
Earl Long
Long
Train wreck near state line injures twenty one
Twenty one persons were reported injured when a New Orleans and Texas passenger train derailed near the Texas Louisiana border west of Lake Charles. Three coaches and two baggage cars overturned with four others remaining on the rails. Injured passengers, including nineteen Negroes and two whites, were taken to a hospital in Orange, Texas, with injuries not specified.
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Lake Charles
New Orleans
Texas
Here
Orange
Tex
Winter Takes Lusty Whacks At Nation
Winter moved across the United States driving colder air and snowfall in the northeast and midwest while New York City saw three inches melt by rush hour. Chicago faced snow flurries and subfreezing temperatures as Hannibal Missouri reported six below with widespread deep snow depths.
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Associated Press
Middle West
New York City
Manhattan
South
Carolina
Oklahoma
Texas
Chicago
Hannibal
Southern governors pledge balanced prosperity for decade
Eleven southern governors vow to shift the region from a one crop economy toward balanced growth. They issue identical ten point foundations aiming to align crops with livestock factories and human welfare, and plan a 1950 south world’s fair to mark progress.
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Atlanta
South
Southern Governors Conference
E. D. Rivers
Georgia
Prentice Cooper
Tennessee
Frank Dixon
Alabama
Fred Cone
Florida
Burnet R. Maybank
South Carolina
Clyde R. Hoey
North Carolina
Carll E. Bailey
Arkansas
Hugh White
Mississippi
W. Lee O'Daniel
Texas
Farl Long
Louisiana
Leon C. Phillips
Oklahoma
Governors
Rapides Parish Jury Seeks Reinstatement After Disbandment
Ousted Rapides parish grand jury petitions the Louisiana Supreme Court for reinstatement and a restraining order against Judge L L Hope who dissolved the body. The relators argue justice hinges on an independent grand jury and that a suspect cannot nullify its actions by asserting improper conduct.
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Alexandria
Rapides Parish
State Supreme Court
L. L. Hope
Louisiana
Grand Jury
Finland Relief Drive Opens With Louisiana Broadcast
The Drive 10 Help Finland campaign opens with a slogan A New Year's Gift to the People of Finland and a radio address by James E. Smitherman state chairman from Shreveport. His message will air 12 45 to 1 00 p m on KWKH and WDSU in a state wide hookup. Monroe newspapers invite contributions to the Finnish Relief fund and will publish daily acknowledgments.
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Louisiana
Finland
James E. Smitherman
Shreveport
H. F. Madison, Jr
Mr. Smitherman
KWKH_ Shreveport
WDSU
New Orleans
Monroe
Finnish Relief Fund
Britons Expect Real War To Start In Spring
Britons foresee the real war with Germany beginning by early spring and lasting six months to over three years. Confidence in ultimate victory remains high while taxes rise, rationing starts, and more men are called to service. Experts doubt a spring drive on the Maginot line and eye southeastern Europe, including a possible German move through Hungary toward Romania.
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London
Germany
Britain
France
Daily Mail
United States
America
Maginot Line
Netherlands
Belgium
Europe
Hungary
Rumania
Rumank
Declaring Support for Sam H. Jones in Louisiana Governor Race
The Louisiana governorship faces a pivotal primary with corruption blamed on the current regime. The editorial urges voters to back Sam Houston Jones as the only candidate who can restore honest government and end waste and cronyism, hoping for a decisive nomination on January 16.
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Louisiana
Sam Houston Jones
Calcasieu
Sam Jones
Francis T. Nicholls
General Nicholls
Samuel Houston Jones
Sam H. Jones
Former Head of Hospital Dies in Baton Rouge
Dr. T. J. Perkins, 71, former superintendent of East Louisiana hospital at Jackson, died in Baton Rouge. He led the hospital from 1924 to 1929, was removed by Huey P. Long, and later headed medical practice in Avoyelles parish and Simmesport. Funeral held today. he had lived in Baton Rouge since June. He was a graduate of Louisiana State and Tulane universities. He died after ill health.
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Louisiana State
Tulane
Perkins
Harold G Meeks
Noe calls probe into Louisiana liquidated banks
James A. Noe, a gubernatorial candidate, demanded an inquiry into bank liquidations in Louisiana. He accused bank books of being closed to depositors, criticized state leadership, and proposed reforms while outlining his farm aid plan and targeting Earl Long and Sam Jones.
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Jackson
James A. Noe
Louisiana
New Roads
the Conservation Commission
Noe
Finnish Skiers Halt Red Army Run Near Murmansk
British reports say Finnish snow troops repelled a third Red Army push and cut the Murmansk to Leningrad rail line in three places. food shortages are feared in Murmansk as raids disrupt the vital supply route. Bombing hits Hanko Vaasa Sipoo Kakisalmi and other isthmus towns with civilian casualties and a hospital destroyed. The third battle saw Soviet forces retreat across the border near Kuhmo, 50 miles north of Lieksa.
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Helsinki
Finland
Russia
Murmansk
Leningrad
Mannerheim
Vaasa
Sipoo
Kakisalmi
Kuhmo
Lieksa
Jones accuses sugar leaders of deserting Abbeville in protest
Sam Jones campaigning in Abbeville attacks Louisiana officials for favoring political interests over sugar growers. He claims state mismanagement costs 125000 homes their benefits and could boost the industry from 125 to 80 million dollars annually if reform occurs.
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Abbeville
Louisiana
Washington
Sam Jones
Vermilion Parish
Jones
National Congress
Department of Agriculture
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Morrison
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Bridges
Harry Bridges
Congress
Dean James Ma Landis
Harvard Law School
Special Labor Department
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