Congress Debates Highway Bill Revisions and Costs
Congress considers restarting work on a highway bill with a shift in funding. The House plans to report a defense highway measure of 287 million dollars while Senate leaders replace the original with a 100 million dollar strategic network and cut access roads and air strip allocations amid Roosevelt criticisms.
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Representative Wolcott
Mich
House Committee
Moot
Oregon
Senate
McKellar
Tennessee
Senate Post Office and Post Roads Committee
Roosevelt
Treasury Hints Big Tax Hikes to Fund Government
John L. Sullivan testified that current expenditures and a large deficit require boosting revenues by about 5.6 billion dollars beyond pending bill provisions to fund two thirds of operating costs. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau urged limits on exemptions and considered taxing oil depletion, state and local bond exemptions, and tougher estate taxes while noting uncertain reach into lower brackets.
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John L. Sullivan
Treasury
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
House
Ways and Means Committee
Barkley
Prediction of 10 817 000 Cotton Bales For 1941 Crop
New Orleans August forecasts the 1941 cotton crop at 10,817,000 bales, below trade expectations. The report cites an average lint yield of 2244 pounds per acre, lower acreage than last year, and region by region yields and outputs for Alabama Mississippi Arkansas Louisiana and Texas. The forecast sparked futures gains of about one dollar per bale that failed to sustain.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
New Orleans
Market trims gains as crop report notes 109000 bale deficit
Prior to today the market hovered around yesterday's close with prices mixed. Profit taking reduced gains and by mid session prices stood 6 to 10 points higher with October 16.70, December 16.90, March 17.01, and May 17.03 cents per pound.
Highways To Be Busy Next Week In Army Movements
Units move from Baton Rouge to Kernan and Lake Charles as 170 officers and men of 126th quartermaster company head south. The 135th medical regiment departs Camp Shelby via Baton Rouge and Opelousas en route to Gillis to establish hospital facilities. V army corps observation squadrons advance to support main bodies. The Orient yields about 250 by products from soybeans.
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126Th Quartermaster Company
Mobile Shoe Repair
Baton Rouge
Kernan
57Th Quartermaster Regiment
Lake Charles
135Th Medical Regiment
William J. Bleckwenn
Camp Shelby
Opelousas
Soviet plane attack reports and RAF raids across Europe
A Soviet air attack on ships and Alexandria harbor facilities is cited alongside a British communique claiming 24 German planes destroyed on the Channel coast. The report notes RAF night raids on Essen Dortmund Hamm and Boulogne and denies a Berlin raid by Berlin officials while suggesting possible Russian involvement.
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Alexandria
Channel
London
Essen
Dortmund
Hamman
Air Ministry
Boulogne
Denmark
France
Berlin
Red Air Force
English Channel
Britain
Hamm
Reich
Deaths Mrs Concetta Romano 81
Mrs Concetta Romano aged 81 of 312 Speed Drive died at her home Friday morning. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Friday noon but will be handled by Peters Funeral Service.
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Concetto Romano
Concetta Romano
Peters
Armistice Sign Ends Syria War to Bring Britain and France Peace
Signing of the armistice ending the British French war in Syria marks a historic return of adversaries to the same peace table since Waterloo. Representatives of France and Britain meet as war ends and a new diplomatic process begins.
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Syria
France
Britain
Russians Attack Nazi Claims As Wartime Propaganda
Russians dismiss German wartime communiques as false fairy tales and accuse Germany of exaggerated war prisoner counts. They cite operations in Kakisalmi Kholm Smolensk and Bel Tserkov as ongoing fronts while noting Germany's motives and losses. Canada reports coke production of 958200 tons in Q1 1940.
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Germany
Kakisalmi
Kholm
Smolensk
Bel Tserkov
Karelian
Social Roundup From Marion Texans Visit and Affairs
Marion notes recount Mrs. J L Ratliff returning to Lubbock after a week with her brother BE Powell. A tea hosted by Mrs Alice Hopkins celebrated Ratliffs visit with floral decor from an old home and a family table centerpiece. Other items mention Mr and Mrs Lifford Allen homebound from Alabama, Miss Patsy Thompson hosting for Miss Juanita Dennis, Rev G C Dennis visiting, and relatives visiting between Arkansas and Indiana locales.
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J. L. Ratliff
Lubbock, Tex
BE. T. Powell
Alice Hopkins
Mrs. Lifford Allen and Sons
Alabama
Allens
Bula Lee Hornsby
St. Joseph
Torris Eldridge
Visitors and travels pass through Monroe and nearby towns
Collinston and Monroe residents hosted and visited relatives from Wisner Warren Borger St. Joseph and Alexandria. Parole and public works notices follow with bids for highways and college renovations in Monroe Louisiana dated July 25 to August 12, 1941.
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Louisiana Department of Highways
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Chamber of the House of Representatives
State Capitol
Ouachita Parish
Department OF Highways
W. Prescott Foster
Monroe
Local visits and travel notes across multiple towns
The column lists residents visiting friends and relatives in Crossett El Dorado Anguilla Alexandria Rayville Farmerville Tyler and Bros in various combinations. It notes an influx of warplane models built in the United States for Britain and Canada and reports unusually high tourist arrivals in Alaska this summer.
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Great Britain
Canada
United States
Isaac Lee Monroe Applies for Pardon or Commutation
The notice states Isaac Lee Monroe seeks clemency including pardon or sentence commutation. Details reference Lt. status and dates Aug 5 8 13 1041. No additional parties or locations are listed in the readable text.
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Monroe
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