Miners halt coal digging as 330000 walkout spreads
About 330,000 miners across eight Appalachian states suspend mining after the old contract expired. Violence flared in Kentucky and Wisconsin as pickets clashed with police. President Roosevelt urged a quick coal agreement while negotiators worked in New York.
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Associated Press
Harlan
New York
Appalachian
Roosevelt
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Milwaukee
Jones
Oral Ellen Coal Corporation
Herbert Cawood
Bill Gibbs
Gibbs
Friends
Coal Mine Guard
Harlan-Central Coal
Totz
Frank Joyner
Green Lee
Joyner
Tugwell sees Louisiana bonds retired by 1957 plan
State Treasurer A. P. Tugwell urged using surpluses from debt service funds to retire $3.5 million Confederate pension bonds by 1957 and to begin callable treatment on $6.145 million in new bonds. He predicted pension fund receipts would exceed pension needs by 1947 and a surplus of nearly $2 million by 1951.
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Baton Rouge
A. P. Tugwell
Tugwell
Confederate Pension Fund
War predicted for United States within sixty days
Arthur Cundy, Civitan international secretary and WWI veteran, told West Monroe Civitan members at a banquet that the U.S. is already at war and will be actively engaged within 30 to 60 days. He blamed the rejection of Wilsons League of Nations and World Court for the nations missed chance at world peace. The talk followed a charter presentation to president F. C. McConnell with nearly 100 attendees from nearby Civitan and Kiwanis groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Arthur Cundy
Civitan
West Monroe
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
World Court
J. L. Neely
Monroe
F. C. McConnell
Methodist Church
Bastrop
Monroe Civitan Clubs
West Monroe Kiwanis Club
Allas Goss
Oss
Turkish papers forecast British role in Nazi downfall
In Istanbul on April 1 Turkish papers argued Germany would fall this war due to Balkan politics. Vatan credits Balkan independence will and Yeni Sabah says Britain may prevail this spring by overcoming German air and Balkan campaigns.
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Istanbul
Germany
Vatan
Yeni Sabah
England
Balkans
Measure to Freeze Cotton Loans Proposes Grower Equity Payment
Senate agriculture committee approved a bill by Chairman Smith to seize title to all government loan cotton and hold it until Congress acts. Growers would receive any equity in loan cotton, with the secretary of agriculture allowed to use loan stock for relief, defense, or grade adjustments without disrupting markets. Bankhead’s similar plan cites about $11 million equity in 1940 crop cotton under loan.
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Washington
Smith
South Carolina
Todlay
Senate Agriculture Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Bankhead
Democrat
Alabama
Bahkhead
Roosevelt to rush supplies to Britain and Greece
President Roosevelt return to the White House signals a prompt expansion of military aid to Britain and Greece. He aims to accelerate defense production by resolving labor disputes and has already used influence to avert a coal industry tieup crucial for steel mills.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
James Roosevelt
Britain
Greece
Noe Denies Planned Amalgamation With Other Groups
Former Governor James A. Noe rejected reports that his supporters would unite with other political organizations. He said there has been no amalgamation, his followers remain independent, and they will back the ticket that upholds their past gubernatorial principles. The denial follows news of potential alignment with the Jones organization and signals a wider rift between Noe and Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Noe
New Orleans
Noe
Jones
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Food Stamp Plan Begins in Ouachita Parish
The food stamp program began at 9 am Tuesday in Ouachita Parish with the parish issuing office at 501 Walnut Street opening for stamp sales. E N Thompson notes the plan should boost business, especially in the food industry, as clients queued to obtain orange stamps. Fred Hanna and Dan Breard oversee the local office. Monroe serves as the distribution center for 11 northeast parishes with area headquarters in the courthouse.
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Ouachita Parish
Walnut Street
Federal Surplus Marketing Administration
E. N. Thompson
Parish Food Industries Committee
Thompson
Fred Hanna
Jackson Street
Dan Breard
Riverside Drive
Monroe
Ouachita
Morehouse
East
West Carroll
Lincoln
Madison
Richland
Tensas
Franklin
Concordia
Natchitoches
Louisiana
Hair Waving Death Blamed on Poisoning in Atlanta
Georgia matron Mrs. Agenes Scott Searcy 39 of Griffin died from acute hydrogen sulfide poisoning after a hair waving treatment in an Atlanta beauty shop. Autopsy showed poison entered via scalp lesions, unclear if from curling solution or preexisting. FDA agent tests samples of the solution at Washington labs.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Agenes Scott Searcy
Griffin
Allen Bunce
Searcy
John J. McManus
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Bunce
Washington Laboratories
Judge Blake Laughs Through Dishes At All Fool's Banquet
Judge Samuel H. Blake, president of All Fool's Asylum Inc., presided over the annual banquet last night in Los Angeles. Dishes crashed as the jurist roared with mirth after a corner of the tablecloth was snagged in his vest. Members are restricted to those born in April.
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Los Angeles
Samuel H. Blake
Protests Over Axis Seizures in U S Ports
Reports from Lima and Washington detail German and Italian ships seized or held in protective custody at U S ports. Peru reports occupation of Lufthansa workshop and two Junkers at Limatambo. Mexico directs guards to guard 12 ships. Axis notes demand ship and crew release.
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Lima
Peru
Lufthansa
Limatambo
Junkers
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Tampico
Paita
Barge unloads 900 tons of pipe for gas line
Nine hundred tons of pipe from Republic Steel, Youngstown, arrived by river barge at Monroe for the Southern Natural Gas line from Logansport, Louisiana to Perryville Oklahoma parish to augment gas supply for Birmingham and Atlanta. Ford Bacon Davis engineers said the line will cost about two million dollars and ten more coal carges will unload in Monroe for this end.
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Republic Steel Company
Youngstown
Monroe
Perryville
Southern Natural Gas Company
Logansport
Ouachita Parish
Birmingham
Atlanta
William von Pheel, Jr
Ford, Bacon and Davis
Fraim Ordered to Go to Washington for Flying School
Captain John Pearson Fraim Jr., director of Louisiana State University’s flying school since 1933, has been ordered to Washington effective April 5. LSU officials had requested a stay, but the Air Corps said his experience is needed in Washington. Fraim arrived from Barksdale Field, Shreveport, and is son of Mr and Mrs Joan Pearson Fraim of Jackson Mississippi.
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Baton Rouge
John Pearson Fraim, Jr
Louisiana State University
Washington
Fraim
Air Corps
Barksdale Field
Shreveport
Joan Pearson Fraim
Jackson, Miss
U.S. and Mexico Agree on Air Field Use for Panama Transit
The United States and Mexico signed a convention allowing reciprocal use of Mexican air fields for military airlift toward the Panama Canal. The pact, signed by Sumner Welles and Francisco Castillo Najera, enables US aircraft to fly through Mexico with notice and planned routes for refueling and repairs. It awaits ratification by Mexico’s congress and Senate approval before becoming operative.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
Panama
Swnner Welles
Francisco Castillo Najera
Senate
Mexican Congress
Panama Canal
Rio Grande
Canal Zone
Congress
Sumner Welles
Martin aircraft plant hampered by material shortages
Baltimore April 1. Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Co says critical shortages of aluminum forgings castings and other pre fabricated parts plus engines and propellers limit output to about 75 percent capacity. Propeller lag delays new bombers as the firm races to finish orders for the army and navy. It expects seven to eight months for new facilities to ease the bottleneck.
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Baltimore
Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory
Army
Navy
Martin
Army Air Fields
Culligan Named Special Assistant to Louisiana Attorney General
M. E. Culligan Sr. was announced as a Special assistant to the Louisiana attorney general. He will be assigned to the New Orleans office of Attorney General Eugene Stanley.
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New Orleans
M. E. Culligan, Sr
Louisiana
Eugene Stanley
Germany massing troops on frontier as ultimatum nears
AP reports Germany has 75,000 troops on the Yugoslav Hungarian frontier and has completed removing nationals in advance of a Hitler ultimatum to Yugoslavia. A Berlin dispatch notes a major rally as 11 patients die in a hospital bombing and UK raids continue with new explosive bombs.
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Associated Press
Germany
Hitler
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Berlin
London
United States
Rome
France protests British shelling of French convoy off Algiers
French ambassador Henry Haye delivered a formal protest from the Vichy government to the U S State Department for transmission to Britain over British warships shelling a convoy of French merchants near Algiers. He outlined barter links between occupied and unoccupied zones and sought US action concerning French ships in American harbors. He noted reports of possible US seizure of French vessels as with Italy Germany and Denmark.
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Washington
Gaston Henry Haye
State Department
Vichy
Algiers
Vichey
London
United States
Henry Haye
France
Four Dead and Seven Wounded in French Incident
A government spokesman reported four deaths and seven injuries among French casualties in Vichy on April 1. No further details were released about the incident or its cause.
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Vichy
France
Three Killed as Boiler Explodes Near Roanoke
An eastbound Virginian coal train at Stewartsville station near Roanoke Virginia suffered a locomotive boiler explosion killing engineer John Dudding brakeman H L Harrison and fireman M E Brown all residents of Victoria One body was found in a distant creek and the blast damaged track while the 150 coal cars stayed on the rails Cause of the blast was not immediately known.
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Roanoke
Stewartsville Station
Here
John Dudding
H. L. Harrison
M. E. Brown
Victoria
Citizen's Day Observed Across Twin Cities Sees Congressional Endorsement
Congress designates the third Sunday in May as Citizenship Day to honor new citizens and those coming of age. Judge Ben C. Dawkins and Judge Gaston L. Porterie urged to help promote observances with local patriotic groups, schools, and civic bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Ben C. Dawkins
Gaston L. Porterie
Twin Cities
L. B. Faulk Post
American Legion
Spanich-American War Veterans’ Posts
Veterans of Foreign Wars
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
The
Traffic Safety Record and Passing Ordinance of 1941
The issue lists 1941 year to date accidents at 128 and deaths at six, compared with 119 and three last year, plus personal injuries 18 this year vs 23 last year. It also describes Section 10 prohibiting passing a preceding vehicle at max speed, following too closely, or passing within 75 feet of an intersection, with rules for safe passing and speed adjustment.
Germans Turn Propaganda Upon Serbs
The report surveys wartime developments with Germany pressing propaganda against Serbia and Yugoslavia’s government weighing neutrality pacts with the Soviet Union and Turkey. It notes Yugoslav moves under Prime Minister Simovic, Croat minority negotiations, and possible high-level diplomatic visits to Ankara and Moscow.
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Pelgrade
Yugoslavia
Russia
Turkey
Soviet Union
Prince Paul
Cvetkovic
Germany
Milan Gabrilovic
Moscow
Ankara
Dusan Simovic
Vladimir Macek
Zaoroh
Anthony Eden
John J. Dill
Britain
Imperial
Bridges Faces Triple Attack in Deportation Case
Government prosecutors in San Francisco press a threefold case against Labor Leader Harry Bridges seeking his deportation. They aim to show Bridges’ ties to the Communist party the Industrial Workers of the World and the Marine Workers' Industrial Union. Evidence includes testimony on subversive aims and Bridges’ alleged connections, with Bridges denying Communist membership.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Communist Party
Industrial Workers of the World
Marine Workers’ Industrial Union
Bridges
Clarence N. Goodwin
Immigration Department
Benjamin Gitlow
Carol King
New York
Charles Brown
Four Louisiana Bar Exam Winners Named in New Orleans
Four candidates who passed the March 10 12 bar examinations were announced by Stephen A Mascaro assistant to the secretary of the interim committee on admission to the bar. The list includes Alfred W Spiller Jr Hammond Sargeant Fitcher Jr Baton Rouge Frank M Brame Lake Charles and Harwell L Allen Winnfield. Twenty two persons took the exams at Tulane University.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Stephen A. Mascaro
State Supreme Court
Alfred W. Spiller, Jr
Hammond
Sargeant Fitcher, Jr
Baton Rouge
Frank M. Brame
Lake Charles
Harwell L. Allen
Winnfield
Tulane University
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