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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
2
President Mathis says new code will cut hazards and insurance costs and reduce injuries. Agriculture committee meets with D L Bornman and 4-H Club plan. civic affairs committee discusses 1941. membership committee debates plans. Committees to elect chairmen with September air line revenue figures noted.
Doan’s Pills claim to relieve nagging backache and associated symptoms like dizziness and burning pain by flushing out poisonous matter from the blood. The ad urges quick relief and mentions years of successful use.
Funeral services for the infant son of Mr and Mrs L A Bryant were held at Carter Cemetery Bastrop. Survived by parents a brother and a sister, with arrangements by Reeder Funeral Home Bastrop. The second notice reports Mrs Bettie Head age 37 died at home Sadie Louisiana with services at noon and interment in Old Union Cemetery. Survived by two daughters a son and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Dixie Funeral Home Monroe directs arrangements.
Bangkok resents US actions as Thailand seeks to regain territories by force. The State Department denies changing the status quo by force while Manila confiscates 10 Thai air force warplanes and American firms cancel aviation fuel and gun cotton orders. Thai officials claim no threat to use force and deny collusion with Japan.
The interclub gathering in Ruston’s Virginia Hotel on December 12 will hear Mr. Titche urge spiritual rearmament. He argues churches must supply living religious ideals to motivate fight and duty, praising British unity and proposing a United States of the World as a guiding ideal.
Jasper Green, arrested on cattle theft charges, confessed October 23 1939 to attempting to poison Harvey Howard and his family in Clay Parish Mississippi. Authorities say Green tried to persuade his wife to return to Monroe while the family worked in the field. He allegedly added poison to flour milk and other foods after taking $15 from the house.
Mr and Mrs John Edy announce daughter Lynda Jane with paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs E S Edy and maternal grandparents Dr and Mrs J W Gols on. Paternal great grandmother Mrs Kate McLain, Monroe. Mr and Mrs John Givens announce a son born December 3 at Vicksburg Hospital.
Chamber of Commerce and local officials saw off Ouachita parish draftees at Union Station. Veterans recalled 1917 departure as crowds gathered to wish the boys good luck before their march to training and possible deployment.
Sixty six of Louisiana’s first draftees were accepted at Camp Beauregard and will ship to Camp Shelby today. One rejection due to bad teeth. All inductees from New Orleans area. A second group of 67 to be received today from north and south Louisiana. Medical tests by 32nd division officers completed before oath. Major Durham led the oath for the first group of about 10.
Jouett reports at the chamber meeting that production will start in new plants in 1941 with peak output by mid 1941. About 382000 shop workers could yield 15 million man hours weekly, with 10.7 million on aircraft making and the rest on engines and accessories.
A barrage of World War II era notes shows U.S. officials warning that barring a miracle, the United States will enter war. British air raids over Britain and Dusseldorf, plus Turkish trade talks, signal a widening conflict and shifting alliances amid looming global crisis.
President Roosevelt urges early surveys and talks toward a power treaty with Canada to accelerate hydroelectric development on the St. Lawrence. He emphasizes aluminum and chemical production needs, defense requirements, and the strategic value of Great Lakes shipyards and continental defense.
Investigators and airline officials described the wreck as caused by wing icing after the plane circled the airport for 28 minutes awaiting clearance. Fatalities included Captain Philip S. Chicago and First Officer George S. Young. Survivors listed include Wilbert J. Austin and several executives from refining and banking firms.
War bulletin notes Norway left Oslo and denies occupation rumors while reporting enemy raids over the country. London dispatch says 13 enemy aircraft were destroyed by fighters and anti aircraft fire, with one Allied plane lost though pilot safe. Bombing injured several and damaged buildings.
J McGovern moved an amendment to the king's address opening parliament arguing for a debate on war aims. He and three independent Labour MPs pressed that peace efforts are not discreditable and warned the war could continue under present forces.
In Crisfield Maryland Mrs E Townsend opened an oyster and found not a pearl but a silver dollar, a rumor spreading through the oyster world about curious discoveries in shells.
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