Ouachita Parish Police Jury Sets 1940 Budget Below 1939
The Ouachita Parish Police Jury adopted a 1940 budget totaling 12900 dollars, 3000 less than 1939, with anticipated revenues at least 3000 less than this year. The report notes all items stayed within budget except the Young’s beyon drainage project, now funded at 5000 to continue city and delta farmland drainage improvements.
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Ouachita Parish
J. Lloyd Warren
Monroe
Delta
Parish Board of Health
Justices of Peace
Cyst Fm
Churches in Leningrad become military hospitals in war effort
Moscow reports wartime use of churches as hospitals to treat Red Army casualties from the Finnish front. Tass notes Finland dispute response, while papers praise Soviet liberators and Red Star urges global workers toward Soviet leadership. Diplomatic intrigue grows with Slovakia’s Dr Tiso mission. Red Army claims village and railroad occupations near the Finnish frontier.
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Leningrad
Tass
Russia
League of Nations
United States
Britain
Sweden
Terijoki
Red Star
Soviet Union
Joseph Tiso
Slovakia
Red Army
Markajarvi
Salla
Finland
Huntilla
Huunnukka
Lake Ladoga
Konpinoja
Koipinoja
New Orleans Editors Cited For Contempt In Mail Fraud Trial
Two employes of the New Orleans Item and Tribune James A Webbe and J W F Moore were cited to show cause why they should not be adjudged in contempt for publishing prejudicial coverage of the mail fraud trial under way in federal court. The case involves Abraham Shushan former Orleans levee board president and four others over a 49000 bond refunding fee allegedly shared among them. The government signaled it was near the end of its case as the trial continued after a December 13 citation.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Item
Tribune
Abraham Shushan
Orleans
The
Item
J. W. F. Moore
the Tribune
Shushan
Kerensky Links Popular Front Decline to Stalinist Downfall
Alexander Kerensky, exiled former Russian premier, said the breakdown of the popular front in the United States, Britain, France and Spain and the invasion of Finland doom the Stalinist dictatorship. He spoke at a Democratic federation mass meeting with Oscar Tokoi, Finland’s first premier after czarist collapse, predicting puppet regimes in Finland could presage similar moves in Denmark Norway and Sweden.
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Popular Front
United States
Great Britain
France
Spain
Finland
Alexander Kerensky
Kerensky
Joseph Stalin
Siberia
Stalin
Democratic Federation
Oscar Tokoi
Firstmier
Tokoi
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
War veteran held after family deaths in canyon crash
Lauren H Crawford a 41 year old World War II veteran is jailed on suspicion of murder after a car carrying his wife Elva Ruth Crawford 41 and children Alice 15 Paul 10 and a friend plunges 1000 feet down a canyon road from Mount Wilson observatory Crawford who survived had insured all four victims for 40500 and blamed faulty brakes and a bad gearbox saying it was his fault. The incident left the family dead and Crawford searching for innocence.
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Los Angeles
Lauren H. Crawford
Crawford
Mount Wilson Observatory
Paul Mahoney
Elva Ruth Crawford
Alice
Paul
Hel
Martin Snyder Granted New Trial In Murder Case
In Los Angeles on December 13 the Court of Appeals granted Martin Snyder a new trial for the attempted murder conviction of Myr Alderman, pianist for Ruth Etting. Snyder had argued jail life threatened his eyesight and gratitude erupted as he praised the ruling. Alderman and Etting had eloped and married during the trial.
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Martin
Snyder
Santa Claus
Superior Court
Myr Alderman
Ruth Etting
Court of Appeals
Alderman
Miss Etting
Las Vegas
Nev
Miss
Voter Registration Deadline Notes In 1938 39
Announcement urges residents to register and obtain poll receipts to be eligible for the upcoming primary. The registrar’s office closes next Saturday 30 days before the primary. Voters may sign the poll book any time before December 31 and may register at the courthouse.
Finnish Defense Stiffens as Soviet Offensive Looms
Reports from Helsinki indicate Soviet Russia may mass 1,500,000 front-line troops with 1,000 aircraft for a strike, centered on the Karelian isthmus. Finnish forces hold at the Mannerheim line while another large-scale offensive is said to have been repelled on the Ladoga front.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Helsinki
Finnish Telegraphic Agency
Soviet Russia
Finland
Karelian
Mannerheim
Lake Ladoga
Muola
Japan Hopes for Pact with United States amid Trade Talks
Tokyo reports Foreign Office spokesman Yukichiro Suma confirmed Japan will begin talks with the Soviet Union on January 10 toward a trade treaty while still seeking a new agreement with the United States. The current pact was terminated effective January 26, and Suma warned the U.S. market remains crucial, noting 78 percent of California trade involves Japan. He argued absence of a U S treaty would harm both nations and mark a historic shift since Commodore Perry.
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Tokyo
Yukichiro Suma
Foreign Office
Japan
Soviet Russia
United States
Suma
America
California
Perry
Matthew C. Perry
Government to Rest in Shushan's Trial in New Orleans
The government prepared to rest its mail fraud case against A. L. Shushan and four other defendants in the second federal scandals case. Evidence traced registered letters and checks from Newman Harris to Chicago and New York banks to show mails involvement in an alleged overpayment on a 1936 bond refunding contract worth more than $496000.
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New Orleans
A. L. Shushan
Orleans
O. John Rogge
United States
Newman, Harris Company
Chicago
New York
Shushan
Levee Board
H. W. Waguespack
Robert J. Newman
Norvin Trent Harris, Jr
Henry J. Miller
Taft Advised Balanced Budget In Two Years
Taft promotes New England support for his 1940 presidential bid with a platform to balance the budget in about two years by cutting deficits revising regulations and boosting private enterprise. He argues against inflation and warns Democrats of economic collapse and loss of democracy.
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Robert A. Taft
Ohio
New England
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Roosevelt
Germany
Italy
Russia
Republican Club of
Massachusetts
Christmas Plea as Twin Cities Face Bare Tables
The Good Fellows movement seeks public aid for Christmas baskets toys and clothing as poverty rises in the Twin Cities. Donations are needed to help orphaned children elderly citizens and struggling families facing a difficult season with scant supplies and a dwindling fund.
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Good Fellows Movement
Santa Claus
Old Age Pay Checks Start Soon Across Nation
The Social Security Board moves to launch the old age insurance program next month and may recover up to 9 million dollars already paid to 178000 beneficiaries from a discarded lump sum plan who were too old to qualify for monthly lifetime benefits under the original law.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Eunice Editor Goes to Trial in Fierce Local Feud
Eunice editor and state senate candidate Howard D. Strother faces trial in Opelousas on charges of libel slander and obtaining money under false pretenses. He accused officials of gambling and charged local authorities with allowing it. District Attorney Fontenot noted two dual officeholding prosecutions were resolved by the Louisiana Supreme Court, and vowed no further dual officeholding prosecutions.
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Opelousas
Howard D. Strother
Eunice
Strother
Supreme Court
Fontenot
Charles A. O'Neill
Train collision in Germany kills 17
Seventeen people died and 41 were injured when two passenger trains collided in Hagen Germany last night. The cause is not yet clear and the incident marks a continuing string of wartime railway disasters in Germany with prior totals of 123 killed and over 158 injured.
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Hagen
Germany
Linz
Noe Accuses Earl Long in Louisiana Governor Race
James A. Noe told a Shreveport radio audience he photographed New Orleans poll books to ensure a fair election. He claimed illegal names exist there and pledged to nullify them. He framed the race as Noe versus Earl Long, denouncing Sam Jones and disputing Holt Ross as an AFL representative.
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
Shreveport
Noe
State Supreme Court
Sam Jones
Vincent Moseley
Earl K. Long
James H. Morrison
Huey Long
Huey
Earl Long
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Holt Ross
A. F. of L
Louisiana
Hollywood plans Fairbanks tribute after star’s death
Hollywood reacts to the death of Douglas Fairbanks Sr a heart attack at his Santa Monica Beach home. Services expected tomorrow with burial at Forest Lawn where many screen legends lie. Widow Lady Sylvia Ashby faces family decision as tributes and condolences pour in from across the industry.
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Douglas Fairbanks
Robin Hood
Santa Monica Beach
Forest Lawn
Will Rogers
Jean Harlow
Sylvia Ashley
Fairbanks
Doug, Jr
Beth Sully Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
Russian steamer Indigirka goes aground off Hokkaido in storm
Reports from Hokkaido detail a Russian vessel disaster with hundreds missing or presumed dead after the Indigirka sank near the north coast amid a blizzard. The Karafuto Maru rescued 390 aboard as rescue efforts faced high seas and uncertain death tolls.
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Hokkaido
Japan
Indigirka
Kamchatka Peninsula
Vladivoestok
Tokyo
Foreign Office
Vladivostok
Landon backs Roosevelt on foreign policy goals
In Washington on December 13, Alf M Landon signaled general accord with the Roosevelt administration on foreign policy. He urged domestic issues be kept separate from national deliberations and joined Knox in a pact to set aside partisan politics during wartime crises.
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Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Landon
Lima
Frank Knox
Chicago
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