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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1940
Page
3
A military writer argues the National Guard is under equipped and under trained for a high-intensity war against a first-class power. He cites shortages in anti aircraft guns armor, communications, tanks, and training time, warning the guard would be overwhelmed in brief combat.
Washington June 22 Officials report President Roosevelt is studying a national defense commission plan for a billion dollar chain of government munitions plants to expand the defense program. The proposal calls for about 30 plants across the Midwest to produce powder shells armor plate aircraft and more with mass orders for planes ships and equipment to follow. An estimated 139 ordnance and aircraft plants are needed for a major national effort. only 19 exist.
German authorities plan wood burning for Diesel trucks to offset post war fuel shortages. A Goering led company will supply and stock wood filling stations using scrap and industrial wood. Subsidies of about 1000 marks for diesel engines and 600 marks for gasoline engines are offered to speed conversion.
Professor W. A. Gill Jr. resigns as director of high school bands in Concordia parish to study for another music degree at Louisiana College. No successor named.
A dense listing of NBC CBS and MBS stations by region plus a detailed Sunday schedule for June 23. It includes station call letters across East Midwest and Mountain regions and hour by hour program blocks from noon to 10:15 PM with titles such as Music for Moderns The Democracy in Action and NBC Symphony.
Quincy doctors display infant James Ford Jr who was born with the heart on the wrong side and a crammed left lung. After urgent surgery at Children’s Hospital in Boston the lung was deflated and heart repositioned. The baby recovered and is now at home with family.
The Rev. John B. Thompson pastor of the First Baptist church in Norman Oklahoma was elected chairman of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare at a meeting of the executive committee. The 1941 convention city was undecided with Savannah Georgia and Biloxi Mississippi both considered.
Admiral Byrd’s giant snow cruiser faced underpowered performance on frigid ice, engineer Charles Meyer reports after returning to the United States aboard the Bear. Snowfalls left a thick frozen crust, hindering movement, with the 75,900-pound machine failing to gain traction as conditions worsened. Meyer noted prior testing on American highways revealed mishaps and heat discomfort, while the crew endured 132 days without a proper bath due to space limits for expedition water.
The author compares Hitler and Goering to biblical devils, predicting German aggression will enslave French workers and devastate Europe. He cites Revelation imagery, argues the US has vast gold and must support the president, urging vigilance until the war ends. THOMAS A. HILTON.
In Baton Rouge on June 22 a strange armor-plated invader terrified residents in a vacant jet. Woodrow Higginbotham felt a touching, quaking creature and killed a two-foot sermadilio after asking a supervisor about it.
At a LSA assembly on Thursday H Hardy Perritt a debate coach and Ouachita Parish High School teacher was chosen treasurer of the group Other officers named include B Sellers as president C Downs as vice president Lucille McMichael as woman’s vice president and V W Barber as secretary
The Fokker trimane, used by Baron von Richthofen in World War I, had a speed of 9 percent miles an hour and featured a rotary air cooled engine.
Washington June 22 domestic cotton prices moved across a wide range this week then closed about unchanged. The 10 market price for middling 15-16 inch cotton averaged 16.67 cents a pound on Friday, down one point. Old July futures ranged up to nine points higher. Domestic exports and shipments fell week over week while Canada saw record or near record exports and strong cotton consumption.
Hyde Park June 22 James Forrestal president of Dillon Read and Company was appointed a 1900 annual administrative assistant to President Roosevelt in a presidential move recorded today.
A drive to raise 200000 among Southern Baptists to fund war affected British mission efforts was announced in Atlanta. The Baptist world emergency committee of the Southern Baptist Convention was formed at Ridgecrest North Carolina this week. The two week campaign will begin July 7.
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