Global War Turbulence Mounts Across Europe and Asia
The article reports on Leningrad under siege with German dive-bombers and naval strikes, Kronstadt base silenced, and ships sunk. It notes Kiev’s loss, German advances toward Rostov and Crimea, and Russian retreat plans. Britain and the United States gear up aid to Russia while Japan seeks a settlement with the United States as Sino-Japanese fighting continues with heavy casualties.
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Leningrad
Kronstadtsland
Thefuehrer
Atlantic
Germany
France
Norway
Berlin
Kiev
Rostov
Don
Crimea
Caucasus
Ukraine
Russia
Sebastopol
Sea of Azov
Dnieper
Berislav
Kharkov
Donets
London
United States
Moscow
Marshal Petain
Far East
Japan
Fumimaro Konoye
Roosevelt
Tokyo
Washington
Shanghai
Konoye
Japan Chronicle
Kobe
Foreign Office
Britain
Pacific
Hirohito
Hunan
Coast Guard Duty Open to Draftees
Chief Boatswain's Mate B. B. Rawls of the United States Coast Guards will be in the Monroe post office lobby all day Monday through Wednesday to confer with interested young men. Draft registrants are eligible to pursue this branch of service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. B. Rawls
United States Coast Guards
Monroe Post Office
Doctor Who Cured Family, Dies of Fever
Dr Allen G Flythe treated a family of five for Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Durant Oklahoma then died from the same illness. The case highlights the rare disease's presence in the area and the doctor’s final sacrifice.
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Durant
Okla
Allen G. Flythe
Rocky Mountain
Fire chiefs open one day meeting here
Jules Hebert Plaquemine fire chief will open the convention at 1 p m with over 500 expected registrants. Highlights include a memorial service for fallen members, a barbecue at Bernstein park, and a banquet and dance. Thursday features officer reports and elections with speakers from Louisiana and neighboring states.
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Jules Hebert
Plaquemine
Thibodeaux
Bernstein Park
Steve Alford
Public Safety
Louisiana
Sam Caldwell
Shreveport
Edward Wright
Houma
Walter K. Grant
Louisiana Rating and Fire Prevention Bureau
New Orleans
Andrew Triche
Major L. A. Newson
State Department of Safety
Baton Rouge
Sherwood Brockwell
North Carolina
Japan’s War Dilemma Focuses on Prices and Pressure
Report notes farmers can get Tokyo price parity in nearby villages despite transport costs. A spy scare in Japan is described as terrible with secret police monitoring movements of Americans and departures seen as fortunate. Japan claims no retreat in oil tanker passage to Vladivostok as a temporary expedient while emperors’ invincibility remains a belief amid multiple foes. Informants arrived on the President Cleveland with no advance notice.
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Tokyo
Japan
Japanese
Vladivostok
President Cleveland
Keating Praises Workers Morale In Defense Effort
Edward Keating editor of Labor ridicules fears about labor loyalty in defense. He notes strikes in defense sectors caused minimal downtime, citing Paterson's report that 44,000 of 66,600,600 man days were lost, under one tenth of one percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Edward Keating
Washington
Labor
America
Keating
Robert P. Patterson
Hostesses Eliminated on Japanese Airways Planes
Officials announced that hostesses will be eliminated on Japan Airways planes to provide extra seats on overcrowded routes. The move aims to increase passenger capacity amid high demand and crowded flights.
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Tokyo
Green Wisecracks at St Louis Hod Carriers Rally
The speech attacking union criminals singles out named figures and argues that the attack on racketeers is an attack on workers. It criticizes William Green and links him to gangsters while detailing a controversial election and fiscal report at the convention.
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St. Louis
Mr. Green
Scalise
John Nick
Umbrella Mike Boyle
Chicago
Jack Dempsey
Cincinnati
The
Iron Workers
Willie Bliff
Capone
New York
Browne
Green
Upcn
Hod-Carriers
Union
America
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Herbert Rivers
Moreschi
Anti Social Life In City Weighs On Social Ties
Dr Burgess warns urban life fosters dead pan expressions and a cynical mask labeled sophistication. He says this mental inertia erodes social fabric, dulls romance, and dulls community ties as modern city life strips sympathy and sentiment.
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Dr. Burgess
Dr. Burggees
Four Boys Then Triplet Girls Reported at Rochester Hospital
Rochester Ind Sept 22 The William Snipes family after four sons welcomed three daughters in quick succession at Woodlawn hospital. The Tippecanoe area farmer and wife observed the births in one day, the first triplet set for their family arriving in about an hour and 12 minutes.
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Rochester
Ind
William Snipes
Snipes
Tippecanoe
Here
Woodlawn Hospital
Gulf Storm Nears Coast With High Winds and Evacuations
A tropical disturbance in the Gulf strengthens toward hurricane force, moving toward the Texas coast. Widespread gales loom from the western Gulf to Florida and Louisiana as evacuations continue and high tides threaten coastal areas.
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Sabine
Brownsville
Tex
Apalachicola
Fla
Lake Charles
Gulf of Mexico
Middle
Gulf
Texas
Louisiana
New Orleans
Lake Pontchartrain
Gulfport
Miss
Baton Rouge
Coast Guard
St. Bernard Parish
St. Marks
Jacksonville
Atlantic
Charleston
Cape Hatteras
The
Burrwood
Shipp River
Negro escapes capture on Illinois Central train
A wounded Black escapee from Lincoln parish road camp, L. C. Wilson, was removed from an Illinois Central passenger train in West Monroe and returned to Lincoln parish by Lincoln sheriff's deputies after being found in the train's Jim Crow car. He was shot earlier near Simmsville, with a bullet breaking the left arm bone, and was held by West Monroe police until transfer.
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Lincoln Parish Road
Rust
Lincoln Sheriff's Department
West Monroe
L. C. Wilson
Lincoln Road
Jeff Caldwell
Lincoln Sheriff's
Simmsville
Captive Mine Strike Ends Amid District Seven Vote Plan
A UMWA local ended its September 10 strike after a vote to elect new District Seven officers. Dues rose to 1.50 monthly and a separate assessment to 6 annually, both deducted from miners’ pay under a Consolidated Aircraft contract in San Diego. Meanwhile the Seafarers Union widened a West Indian war bonus protest, tying up 19 ships. At Ford Instrument in Long Island City CIO workers authorized possible action to secure a navy fire control contract.
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American Federation of Labor
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
Sidney Hullman
Office of Production Management
Long Island City
Ford Instrument Company
United States Navy
Contracts Let to Louisiana Firms
The War Department lists contracts awarded to Louisiana firms. Higgins Industries of New Orleans to build off shore patrol boats for 40,000 dollars. A M Mitersbaugh of Lake Charles to construct barracks shelving and coat hooks at Camp Polk Louisiana for 15,546 dollars. Stahl Urban Company of Brookhaven Mississippi to supply 100000 khaki cotton trousers for 57,942 dollars. Delivery dates not disclosed.
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Washington
War Department
Higgins Industries, Inc
New Orleans
A. M. Mitersbaugh
Lake Charles
Camp Polk
Stahl Urban Company
Brookhaven
Miss
Miss Wright Named Vice President at Southern TB Conference
The Southern Tuberculosis conference in Asheville North Carolina adjourned after a successful meeting with Monroe delegate Miss Bernice Wright elected vice-president Also elected were Dr A C Shipp president and J P Kranz secretary treasurer Louisiana delegates included Dr Julius Wilson Dr A Brown and Mrs John M McBride The next conventions will be in Memphis Tennessee in 1942 and Jacksonville Florida in 1943 The 350 delegates attended the 1941 event with the 1940 gathering in Monroe.
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Asheville
N. C
Bernice Wright
Monroe
Louisiana
Julius Wilson
A. Brown
New Orleans
John M. McBride
Miss Wright
A. C. Shipp
Little Rock
Ark
J. P. Kranz
Nashville
Nashville, Tenn
Memphis
Tenn
Jacksonville
Fla
O. P. H. S. Office Remains Open for Enrollments
Quachita Parish High School offices will stay open all week to enroll new students. Already 150 students have enrolled, and staff urge any remaining applicants to enroll at once.
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Quachita Parish High School
Move to create central defense transport coordinating office
Reports grew of a proposed federal central office to regulate and coordinate transport by rail, motor, waterways, air, and pipelines for defense and peacetime needs. The plan would monitor rolling stock and manufacturing for freight cars and planes, with ICA chairman Eastman mentioned as a possible leader. Rail freight reached 913,000 cars last week, the highest since 1930, and airlines operated planes to support defense tasks over holiday weekends.
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Paul Gesner
John Beckley
New York
News-Star Special News Service
Defense
Central Transportation Coordinating Agency
Interstate Commerce Commission
Joseph B. Eastman
Couch Heads Board of KCS in Kansas City shift
C Peer Couch and William N Ceramus rise to top posts of the Kansas City Southern railway. Couch becomes chairman succeeding the late Harvey Couch, while Ceramus is named president. Both say operating personnel remain unchanged and headquarters stay in Kansas City Missouri.
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New York
C. Peer Couch
William N. Ceramus
Kansas City Southern Railway
Couch
Harvey C. Couch
Pine Bluff
Ark
Ceramus
Kansas City
Shreveport
Louisiana and Arkansas Railway
K Cs
Balkans Tense as Bulgarian Fleet Maneuvers Highlight War News
Reported shifts in Turkish and Bulgarian positions influence German plans along the Black Sea coast. Amid rumors of a Bulgarian fleet exercise and a Bulgarian merchant ship sinking, observers weigh potential Russian and Iranian implications. A German trade mission reaches Sofia to start talks while King Ferdinand reviews maneuvers of a large Bulgarian force.
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Caucasus
Turkey
Tur
Black Sea
Balkan
Germany
Russia
Iran
Balkans
Istanbul
Meany
Sofia
Errol Flynn in Fisticuffs With Jimmie Fidler
A telephone account describes a disturbance involving Errol Flynn and Jimmie Fidler. Flynn allegedly struck during a confrontation, knocking Fidler to the floor as witnesses and a band intervened. The scene includes taunting and a dramatic moment with Lupe Velez.
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Fidler
Flynn
Appa
Falleye
Jenesses
Lupe Velez
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