Japanese cabinet seen as likely to press southward move
From Singapore observers assess Japan under premier Eiki as likely to pursue a southward campaign against British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies to settle Asia and force a settlement of the China issue. The view arises as Britain rushes reinforcements and Dutch refusals curb Japanese economic leverage, with a cabinet vow to pursue an Axis-aligned course and a militant Eastern Asia strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingapore
Japan
Eiki
Asia
China
Siberia
Malaya
Singapore
Hodges Resigns as Louisiana Conservation Commissioner
W H Hodges resigns as Louisiana conservation commissioner effective at governors pleasure. Gov Sam Jones accepts after Hodges returns to private life, citing long service and plans to retire to Elm Grove plantation in Bossier parish. Hodges previously resisted a prior resignation tied to brother Cam Hodges LSU presidency. governor notes resignation will stand until a successor is named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aton Rouge
W. H. Hodges
Louisiana Conservation
Sam Jones
Jones
Hodges
Cam Hodiges
Louise State University
Eunice
Lafayette
Louisiana State University and
Ce Institute
Elm Grove
Bossier Parish
Monroe City Council Cuts Taxes Again
The Monroe city council voted another tax reduction, lowering the mill rate to 2.0?6 mills from 2.344 for 1941. Officials said several bonds will be paid off next year and further cuts are likely as other bonds retire and city operations improve. Mayor Harvey Benoit and Commissioners C. R. Idwell and W. D. H. Rodriguez praised the move and anticipated continued relief for taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizns
Monroe
Harvey Benoit
C. R.idwell
W. D. H. Rodriguez
Berlin weighs Kearny torpedoing and U boat losses
Berlin debated whether the United States destroyer Kearny was torpedoed as part of a broad Atlantic convoy battle. German sources claimed heavy Allied shipping losses by U boats, while offering no confirmation of any attack on the Kearny and noting political angles for Roosevelt. The high command reported 101,000 tons of British ships sunk by October 18 and 40,000 tons by air, amid cautious official wording.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
United States
Kearny
Atlantic
High Command
United States Navy
England
North America
Roosevelt
Congress
NBC
Navy
Iceland
Britain
Air Force
Glass calls for full repeal of neutralit y law
Senate debate looms as Senator Glass of Virginia urges repeal of the entire neutrality law calling the act craven and insisting the house amendment arming ships be discarded Senator Pepper of Florida backs repeal of all neutrality provisions except munitions control while Senator Wheeler Montana calls for total repeal and open peace or war clearly defined. Connelly favors freedom of the seas for American merchants but signals possible abolition of current rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oct
Senate
Glass
Democrat
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Foreign Relations
Pepper
Florida
Wheeler
Montana
Connally
Trans-American outlines Texas to Savannah oil pipeline plan
The Trans-American Pipeline corporation reveals a 1050 mile 12 inch crude line from northern Texas through Louisiana Mississippi Alabama to Savannah Ga. The project aims at national defense and later peacetime supply at lower tanker cost, with 10000 barrels daily to the East coast and independent carrier operation. The plan, projected since 1938, awaits hearing urged by congress members and filed with Harold L. Ickes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Trans-American Pipeline Corporation
Texas
Savannah
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
Trans-American
Harold L. Ickes
Congress
Ickes
Ralph K. Davies
Wichita Falls
Alabama
Georgia
Terras
New York
Aldace Freeman Walker
Community Chest drives near goal in Twin City area
Campaign to raise 27500 dollars for nine civic agencies shows 19830.53 raised Saturday night. Walter Kellogg expresses satisfaction and urges reporters to submit unfinished reports. Funds support crippled children, expectant mothers, destitute families, and cleaner Monroe and West Monroe communities. Continued on second page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twin City Community Chest
Walter W. Kellogg
Kellogg
Community Chest
Monroe
West Monroe
Top Elevens Collapse In Saturday Grid Wars
Michigan dethroned Northwestern 14 7 at Evanston halting an undefeated streak as Kuzma threw two passes to Bob Timm. Minnesota routed Pitt 39 0 but lost halfback Bruce Smith to injury. Navy defeated Cornell 14 0 while Texas Texas A and M Duke Vanderbilt Army Fordham Penn Temple Notre Dame Ohio State Detroit and Georgia remained unbeaten in a crowded national scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herb Barker
New York
Michigan
Wolverines
Northwestern
Minnesota
Evanston
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Nebraska
Texas Christian
Tom Harmon
Gary
Ind
Tom Kuzma
Kuzma
Ann Arbor
Pitt
Panthers
Bruce Smith
Texas
Longhorns
Texas A
M. Duke
Vanderbilt
Army
Navy
Fordham
Penn
Temple
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Detroit
Georgia
Bill Busik
Pleads Not Guilty of Evading Draft in Louisiana
Jesse Roy Thornton of Richland parish pleaded not guilty in federal court to draft evasion in an indictment. Bond set at 2000 dollars. Milton Coverdale Jr. to represent him. John Henry Lewis of Tensas parish pleaded guilty to three counts of falsifying a selective service questionnaire and was sentenced to two years in federal prison on count one. The other two counts suspended. Lewis placed on active probation on release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Roy _Thornton
Richland Parish
Thornton
Milton Coverdale, Jr
Monroe
Jehovah’s Witnesses
John Henry Lewis
Tensas Parish
Dawkins
Federal Penitentiary
Lewis
United States
Malcolm Lafargue
Louisiana
Fund cut would hurt farm aid and youth programs
The budget bureau outlined that large non-defense spending cuts would force steep reductions in farm benefits work relief and aid to youth. It showed possible savings of 1 000 000 000 1 500 000 000 and 2 000 000 000, noting many cuts would impair defense and other vital activities. A 450 000 000 tentative saving is earmarked from the 6 581 000 000 non-defense budget for 1941 42 unless further actions occur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Budget Bureau
Capitol
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Senate-House
Snee Proposes Major Changes in Institutions
Retired director J E Snee urges moving or repurposing four state facilities and creating two new ones in a year end report. He cites Florida Parishes hospital near Charity as unsuitable for a general infirmary and calls for sale or transfer. Pineville site adjacent to a military area should be disposed of. State Industrial School for Girls near Camps Beauregard and Livingston should move. Confederate Soldiers home in New Orleans should be repurposed with protections for veterans. He also recommends a mental hospital near New Orleans and a delinquent Negro youths correctional school linked to Monroe's Louisiana Training Institute, noting funding limits hinder reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
J. E. Snee
Snee
Florida Parishes
Independence
New Orleans Charity Hospital
Pineville
Beauregard
Livingston
New Orleans
Louisiana Trainig Institute
Monroe
Ammonia Plant Construction Begins Near Sterlington
Work has started on a 9 250 000 dollar anhydrous ammonia plant near Sterlington with temporary warehouses and offices completed. Main plant construction to begin immediately per Captain R H Stratton, executive officer of the ordnance department. Drainage and roads completed, deep water well sub contract bid from Carloss Well Supply of Memphis awaiting zone quartermaster approval. Much of the cost will fund specially designed machinery and equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterlington
R. H. Stratton
Ordnance Department
Stratton
Carloss Well Supply Company
Memphis
Tenn
Quartermaster
Dog Honored For Meeting Atlantic City Trains Twelve Years
ATLANTIC CITY, N J Oct 18 Rags a stray mongrel of airedale mix who met all incoming trains at Atlantic City day and night for 12 years was honored today with a bronze plaque in memory of a great mascot and rail roader 1928 1941 The cornerstone at the union terminal was set with a ceremony attended by policemen cab drivers red caps commuters and WPA brass band The crowd included many dogs While J W Hemmerly a Pittsburg steel magnate donated the plaque Mayor Tom Two was among speakers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Rags
Union Terminal
WPA
J. W. Hemmerly
Pittsburgh
Tom Two
Nineteen More Axis Executions Reported Worldwide
Nineteen additional executions and at least six more death sentences were announced as Axis powers suppress opposition. Victims include 18 alleged communists in Italian Dalmatia and Hubert Chartier of Couillet Belgium. Also noted were Czech officials and Jews sentenced for economic sabotage and other anti Axis acts. A Norwegian court martial sentenced Bjoern Nordheim for throwing plates at troops. Also reports of Free French propaganda arrests in Paris and the University of Paris professor Lucien Villey being jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Dalmatian
Italy
Hubert Chartier
Couiljet
Belgium
Pariser Zeitung
DNB
Prague
Franz Frolik
Agriculture Ministry
Bohemia-Moravia
New York
NBC
Toulouse
France
Oslo
Norway
Bjoern Nordheim
Paris
Lucien Villey
University of Paris
Interpreting The War News: Moscow May Yet Beat Hitler
Moscow remains a vast fortress within a defense zone with officials evacuating toward Kazan. Leningrad fights on while Nazi pressure grows on Dnieper lines as Moscow guards a potential pivot to the Caucasus oil fields. Resistance inside German-occupied Russia, including Ukraine, signals growing turmoil behind front lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Hitler
Kirke L. Simpson
Associated Press
Russia
Europe
Kazan
Volga
Leningrad
Mos
Verdun
Napoleon
Caucasus
Soviet Moscow Battle Report Amid Heavy Snowfall
British and American dispatches describe Stalinist defense as Moscow endures a long siege. Hitler claims a spectacular victory as German forces and eight Russian armies clash near Vyazma and the capital. Russian radio notes heavy fighting, winter weather, and continued Soviet resistance to the Nazi push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Moscow
Moscow Radio
London
Russia
Vyazma
Norway
Berlin
Six Seriously Hurt In Blast At Permanente Plant
Six men were seriously injured and more than a dozen treated after a gas explosion at the Permanente magnesium plant in Los Altos California. The plant, not in production last week due to expansion, was rushing to complete a defense project. Officials said welding sparked the blast and the condition of all patients was hopeful as of 3 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jose
Calif
Los Altos
Sam E. Series
Santa Clara
E. F. Triguen
Back Buck
Jeme Martin
W Albin
Alvin Serpa
California
Ten year old boy dies in Mississippi landslide
In Vicksburg Mississippi a ten year old boy was killed and two other children were narrowly escaped when earth slipping from an eroded roadway bank collapsed. Deputy O J Bori Jr said the victim was Robert C Houser, son of a millworker, and the children were playing near the bank when the slope caved in. Rescuers were summoned after neighbors heard the cries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicksburg
Miss
O. J. Bori, Jr
Robert C. Houser
Bob
Houser
Dr Joseph Menendez seeks New Orleans city council seat
Dr Joseph C. Menendez former national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars announced his candidacy for the New Orleans commission council in the January 1942 municipal primary. He said he would back mayoral candidate Herve Radevitch and oppose those deemed responsible for dictatorship in New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menendez
New Orleans
Joseph C. Menendez
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Commission Council
Herve Radevitch
New Orleana
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pates
Russian Radio
America
Odges
Accedes
Eiki Tojo
Hirohito
Bussia
Prince Kanoye
U. S
Boy
Margaret Leeds Braden
John Leeds
Media
Elizabeth Watson
W. F. Carter
AXIS
Dnieper
Central Battle Front
Holland
Belgian
Balkans
Western
Lon
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!