United States Launches South Dakota in Bid for Sea Supremacy
Secretary Knox called the 35000 ton battleship South Dakota built to prevent war as Navy launches third battleship in a year. The ceremony at Camden featured Mrs. Bushfield smashing a champagne bottle while keel laying for the cruiser Santa Fe on the same day. Knox urged reach of the two ocean navy and a strengthened sea power with 12,000 workers and 500 officials present.
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Camden
W. J
United States
South Dakota
Knox
Philadelphia
Harlan J. Bushfield
Delaware River
New York Shipbuilding Company
Yegd
U S O Set for ULS C Drive in Northeast Louisiana
Final plans for a United Service Organizations setup in Northeast Louisiana will be shown at a city hall meeting Monday night at 7 30. C Apperson fifth district chairman announced the USO drive will run over the next two weeks with district and parish officers named and parish chairmen plus assistants to attend. Dr L M Norton district speakers bureau chief will explain the plan. Apperson will preside and Irish organizations have nearly completed their leadership slate.
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United Service Organizations
Louisiana
I C. Apperson
Fifth District
U.S
Roosvelt
Apperson
L. M. Norton
Pperson
Louisiana Mississippi trucking reciprocity ends July 1
The Louisiana revenue department will cancel the 1940 pact with Mississippi on July 1 after Mississippi sheriffs and constables failed to follow terms. Louisiana trucks will need Louisiana licenses as Mississippi motorists must switch to state licenses due to the ending agreement.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Mississippi
Luisiana Revenue Department
Willcome
Rufus W. Fonterot
van W. Patterson
Patterson
Atterson
Fontenot
Frank Mize
Cansation
Missippi
Ranks Are Split Wide Apart At Aircraft Plant
Berlin reports deny German responsibility for peace stories in the United States. A German official spokesman says the claims come from English and American sources and that Roosevelt’s charge is based on falsified documents. He asserts Nazi propaganda orders aimed to promote peace talks and denies hostile Western Hemisphere aims.
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Berlin
United States
Roosevelt
England
Britain
Germany
Hemisphere
Winant
London
Wendell Willkie
Phi Kappa Meet Opens Monday at Hotel Virginia
The 1941 Phi Kappa national convention opens June 9 at Hotel Virginia with Eta chapter Monroe as host. Over 100 delegates and 2 sponsors attend sessions through June 11. Registration starts Monday at 9 am, a preconvention open house at 8 pm today, and a noon group photograph precedes the 2 to 4 pm assembly and tea.
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Phi Kappa Fraternity
Virginia
Eta
Monroe
Southern College
Haynesville Man Dies After Self-Inflicted Gunshot
Haynesville Louisiana June 7. FE B Stall 47 a clerk and cashier for the Louisiana and Northwestern Railway Company was found dying at the railway offices with a .38 caliber revolver beside him. He died hours later at a local hospital. No witness or note. Coroner ruled death self-inflicted. Stall had worked for L and N W since 1938 and previously for Illinois Central at Gibsland. Survived by wife.
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Haynesville
B. Stall
Louisiana and Northwestern Railway Company
Stall
W. A. Crawford
N. W
Illnois Central
Gibsland
F. Palmer
Homes
Frankensteen Delivers Broadside Against Communist Influence
In Inglewood California Richard T Frankensteen head of the UAW aircraft division accuses local CIO members of unauthorized strike action. He warns Communists to stay out of division policies as a wage dispute with a 75 cent hourly minimum and 10 cent raise looms.
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Inglewood
Calif
North American Aircraft Corporation
Richard T. Frankensteen
United Automobile Workers’ Aircraft Division
Frankensteen
West
Roosevelt
Elmer Freitag
Debate Over Draft Age 21 to 24 at Capitol
Washington reports indicate military leaders favor limiting army conscription to men aged 21 through 24. Administrations want to amend the selective service law to grant the president discretion on the top age limit for induction. The push contrasts with a Republican backed amendment seeking a definite age limit.
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Washington
Capitol
Roosevelt
Senate Military Committee
Reynolds
North Carolina
Military Committee
Senate
War Department
Gurney
South Dakota
Hitler to Broadcast Amid Red Status Tensions Across War Fronts
Axis forces mass in Moldavia facing Ukraine as Bulgaria sends troops toward the Soviet border. Reports say Hitler may outline a peace plan or new declarations Monday, with Germany pressing on Ukraine and Syria as Britain debates Mediterranean strategy.
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Associated
Pres
Moldavia
Romania
Ukraine
Balkans
Middle East
Syria
Britain
Mediterranean
Reuters
Turkey
Bulgaria
Red Army
Russia
Associated Press
Soviet
Adolf Hitler
British Broadcasting Corporation
Zurich
Switzerland
Hitler
Berlin
Ankara
Germany
Soviet Union
Reorganization Act Seen as Gate to Chaotic Louisiana Government
Louisiana state attorneys argue in a supplemental brief that striking down the reorganiza tion act would render state government chaotic and unworkable. They warn the Supreme Court could halt an amendment approved by voters, while Finance Director Martin Close estimates a $500,000 yearly printing cost if unconstitutional.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Louisiana Supreme Court
Eugene Stanley
Martin Close
Stanley
Voice of the People
Supreme Court
Germans Claim War Is Going Well for Axis in Atlantic
AP dispatch by Kirke L. Simpson assesses Nazi claims that Britain is bleeding at sea and that the Atlantic battle is effectively won by Germany. It notes Berlin cites sinking of about 12 million tons of British shipping, countered by British figures, and discusses implications for Britain's strategy, Crete, and possible eastern thrusts. The piece also covers Winant's London visit and Roosevelt's pledge of aid.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Associated Press
Britain
Roosevelt
Atlantic
Great Britain
Berlin
Winant
London
Washington
Mediterranean
Crete
Germany
West
England
Egypt
Sicilian
Africa
Syria
Three Killed As Storm Hits Near DeQuincy
A cyclone from the northeast demolished a pine shack three miles northwest of DeQuincy. Three people died: Mrs. David Mahaffey, her 3 year old son, and Alonzo Smith 17. Willie Smith and a 6 year old Mahaffey son were injured. their conditions were unclear. No additional damage reported in DeQuincy or nearby areas.
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Lake Charles
DeQuincy
David Mahaffey
Alonzo Smith
Willie Smith
Ford to mass produce B24 bomber landing gears at River Rouge
Edsel Ford announced Ford Motor Co will begin educational orders for B24-D bomber landing gears well before the Ypsilanti parts plant is ready. A Tire Plant section at River Rouge will handle the three part strut sections and gear production to five bombers daily, with Army Air Corps inspections ongoing.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ypsilanti
Mich
Edsel Ford
Ford Motor Co
Ford Company
River Rouge
Ford
Army Air Corps
Tire
Cotton Jump to New Season Highs in Active Session
Cotton futures rose 60 cents to 1.15 a bale in New Orleans as traders eyed location differentials for the new crop loan. Demand grew from brisk buying, weather concerns, and widening market interest on Worth Street. Prices closed 16 to 23 points higher with July 13.43 and other contracts advancing.
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New Orleans
Worth Street
Jones Says Free Press Now Free to State Politics
Governor Sam Jones told the Louisiana Press Association that self imposed censorship by editors is unnecessary and that papers may now take sides freely. He recalled past attempts to gag the press and said state printing contracts will be bid openly under new policy.
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Houma
Louisiana
Sam Jones
Jones
Louisiana Pres Association
Development of Navigation Sought in Red River Valley
A Louisiana Chamber of Commerce drive aims to secure federal navigation development between Shreveport and the Mississippi. The campaign precedes a July 14 hearing in Washington by the board of engineers for rivers and harbors and expands to other Red River areas with mass meetings scheduled in Winnfield Jena Alexandria Marksville Many and larger gatherings starting June 18 in Alexandria Natchitoches and Shreveport plus a possible Denison Texas meeting.
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Shreveport
Central
North Louisiana
Red River Valley
Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi
Ed C. Burris
Red River
Washington
Board of Engineers For
Burris
Denison
Tex
Roosevelt presses end to shipyard walkouts with Monday deadline
President Roosevelt issued an ultimatum to North American Aviation strikers to end the walkout by Monday or the government will seize the plant and Army operate it. He aims to resolve a second San Francisco shipyard strike and cites a lumber-stoppage in the Pacific Northwest as not causing nationwide shortages.
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C. I. O. United Automobile Workers Union
North American Aviation Corporation
Inglewood
Calif
United States
Britain
Roosevelt
Richard T. Frankensteen
Aircraft Division
Richard L. Turner
Associated Press
Washington
Early
San Francisco
Harvey W. Brown
International Machinists’ Union
White House
Pacific Northwest
General Lear lauds United States soldiers for world’s fighting potential
Lieutenant General Ben Lear says new soldiers have the qualifications to become the world’s greatest fighting force once equipped and deployed. He notes mass maneuvers with 55,000 men in central Tennessee and anticipated 77,000 due with the arrival of the second armored division. He observes simulated battles across the Cumberland plateau as drills expand into broader mechanized warfare.
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Tennessee
Ben Lear
United States
Fort Benning
Lear
IM1 Safety Record Traffic Statistics
Accidents this year 228 vs last year 201. Personal injuries this year 31 vs 33 last year. Deaths this year 1 vs 4 last year. Traffic rule of the day warns against opening vehicle doors or entering from the left side when an approaching vehicle risks a collision. One way streets extend the rule to the right side if the vehicle sits on the left side.
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Secretary Knox
MIL
Fruck
PHI Kappa
Fuehrer
U. S
Voice of People
Voice OF Press
Stephen T. Early
General Lear
Rice Yahner
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