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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1940
Page
4
The United States plans a large scale alien registration starting August 27 and ending December 26 with fingerprinting and basic data for up to 3,600,000 non citizens. Officials stress no fee and protection for loyal aliens while noting questions about clubs and political activities and urging careful handling to avoid prejudice.
The author weighs a rough estimate that Britain builds about 2000 war planes monthly, possibly including American imports, while air losses run about a dozen ships daily. Both sides withhold larger fleets, suggesting a looming mid air grapple of vast fleets that could decide the war’s outcome.
The National Safety Council reports 14,740 traffic deaths from January to June, up 8 percent from the same period in 1939, with auto mileage up 7 percent. The pattern began with the war and France's surrender, prompting a relentless fight against death's motorized divisions.
The passage extols seasonal abundance with fields, grain, fruit, and flowers thriving as summer ends. It contrasts this richness with human wastefulness and the famine and destruction in Europe, noting the world’s enormous resources yet failure to use them wisely.
Miscellaneous notes on politics war figures and theater from the era. References include Louis Johnson as secretary of war, a Hitler Mussolini gift train, reactions to balcony speeches, Tobacco Road closing, a potential DuBarry Was a Lady merger, Connecticut travel notes, postal timing in Essex Saybrook, Pierre Laval on trial, an alleged $500000 embezzlement genius, Life With Father grossing over a million with rights offer, Buck Crouse anecdotes, and a remark about charge for March 8, 1942 seats.
A terse news item notes a woman’s defiance over hat whereabouts causing a conscience clash. The quirky line about Joe DiMaggio and a cryptic remark on Democratic nations appear in a column released by Associated Newspapers.
This essay argues parents and teachers should delay over controlling children and allow self directed growth through safe exploration. It cites huts, boats, pets, and experiments as constructive outlets that foster self control, responsibility, and maturity with encouragement rather than premature interference.
Washington officials discuss the heat as a 84 to 94 degree effective temperature driving thousands of clerks home. The piece names Henry A. Wallace, Urdahl, and references government service, humidity, and summer morale in a humorous Washington Daybook column.
The new post office on August 1 in West Monroe is praised by residents as a needed sign of progress across the river. Mrs. J. C. Kramer Frances and Mrs. Jack Addison return from an automobile tour of the west. T. E. Flournoy plans to join his family at Fair Haven Lake Winnepesaukee NH this August. Mrs. Lee Lemle with son visits Mrs. I. Lucas in Alexandria. Ouachita Parish High School adds two more units this fall. Waholi Camp Fire Girls and friends hike to Camp Waholi Monday.
Richmond attorney Captain Charles M. Wallace congratulates Henry A. Wallace on his vice presidential nomination. Henry Wallace replies simply with a brief thanks on the margin of the letter.
Nelson Mc Laurin dozed on railroad tracks near the Laurinburg station and was knocked away by an oncoming train. He suffered no serious injuries and awoke to find himself unharmed after the mishap.
Police recovered a poisonous snake used in ceremonies from a religious group, then found a second snake. A woman, Mrs Ethel Sheehy, 48, was bitten and treated at a hospital. Lieut Jacob Schardt said the cult had been ordered to stop using poisonous snakes weeks earlier.
A stenographer on a Portland, Oregon, street reported a fluctuating roadside sighting as a head seemed to appear on a roof, then vanish, followed by a leg, a torso, and then further vanishings, prompting a frightened retreat for water.
San Francisco report tells of Spot a brindle bulldog sick for three months then cured at a pet hospital. An automobile later struck Spot breaking his right front leg, but he limped back to the same hospital where the bone was set.
Former Columbus mayor completed arrangements to produce 50 three reel religious movies yearly for five years to be shown in churches. Charles Anson Bond signed with Metropolitan Pictures for color films, first subject due September 15, Bond formed Biblical Photo Plays Inc under Maryland law to run the project.
In Peoria Illinois a furnace crew dismantling for a new unit mislocated a house finding two Riersons in the 100 block on Margaret Street. They spent hours correcting the mistake after discovering the error while preparing to install the furnace.
Two robbers entered a Chicago grocery, took $147, and ordered Mrs. Joanna Kubiczew ska into the ice box to cool off for 15 minutes. She stayed five minutes, escaped, and notified police.
In Pueblo Colorado airport notes warn lovers away from parking on runways. Port attendants say a collision between a transport plane and a car would be disastrous and must inspect runways before night landings or takeoffs. Recently they chased away a couple who parked in the dark at the runway end.
In Hollywood chatter Kay Kyser Ginny Simms and Lana Turner anchor gossip on marriages careers and remakes. Marlene Dietrichs daughter seeks film work while Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck surface in varied headlines amid casting twists and publicity stunts.
George Tucker reports from the Plymouth Theater in New York about Lyle Talbot, star of Separate Rooms, reflecting on his stage career and the Hartman stock company’s path to Hollywood. He notes the cast Glenda Farrell and Alan Dinehart, the play’s rising box office, and Talbot’s choice to stay in New York with possible future touring.
A group of representative negroes urged their race to exercise every legitimate means to obtain the right to vote. The resolution was drafted for the state central planning commission by leaders who met to study methods to raise the economic standard of their race.
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