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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1940
Page
8
The Women s Glee Club and men s chorus will perform a varied program including My Gallant from Pinafore, On Great Lone Hills, Coventry Carol and Rosita. Bass James Stewart will sing Night Shades Are Gently Falling. The concert starts at 10 30 am and the public is invited.
War era report notes Britain allows some food shipments from South America to Spain. It states Norman H. Davis urges that Red Cross shipments to France include aid to infants and children and other suffering people in occupied and unoccupied zones, aiming for neutral relief.
An ad promotes FASTEETH a non-acid powder to secure dentures replacing slipping or wobbling teeth. It claims a firm comfortable hold with no taste or paste feel and notes it combats denture odor. Available at drug stores.
President Roosevelt and congressional leaders map a heavy post inauguration agenda. Defense appropriations and tax revision top the list with Morgenthau proposing taxable federal securities. Foreign policy centers on aiding Britain with loans or gifts and neutrality act revision.
Representative Paul Maloney was sworn in as United States collector of internal revenue at New Orleans. He was appointed after his defeat for reelection by T Hale Boggs and succeeds Rafuh Fontenct who resigned to become state collector of revenue. Chotard Eustis, his secretary for ten years, will be assistant collector.
In Vichy informed sources say Paris rejected a German demand influencing the Laval ouster crisis. Laval’s successor Pierre Etienne Flandin was named foreign minister as Petain noted no policy change. Berlin reportedly approved the move though officials warned against predicting its impact.
Night arrivals bring a full battalion and chaplain to Ioannina as Italian vehicles are repurposed for Greek use. Civilians cheer, air shelters rise in a Turkish fortress, and Greek volunteers from Istanbul reinforce frontline troops amid Arctic warfare conditions.
Fourteen girls earned votes in the beauty pageant with a six to one scoring system. Miss Calhoun won with two firsts and two seconds totaling 22 points while Miss Dawson followed one point behind with two firsts one second and one third for 21 points.
An Interstate Commerce Commission report cites failure to control speed of the Gulf Mobile and Ohio freight train within Corinth yard limits as the cause of the October collision with a Southern Railway freight. One man was killed and another injured in the wreck.
A London maid, scarred by bombing, finds purpose and new friends during nightly shelters and social talk. Her transformation from taciturn worker to a cherished, buzzing presence reveals war’s unexpected gifts and a stubborn claim to home.
Panama reports slow tallying of ballots from Sundays vote on a new constitution amid unofficial claims of a landslide victory. Final results anticipated by Wednesday. approval would take effect January 2, marking the 10th anniversary of the 1931 regime overthrow.
A morning blaze at 1512 DeSiard Street caused only slight damage. The fire started from a cigarette between floor boards in a warehouse used by Kimble Truck Lines, with the Conner estate noted as owner. An earlier Sunday night alarm at Jackson airec was false.
Descriptions of Libyan battles near Sidi Barrani and Nibeiwa with Italian losses and Greek counter moves. Reports say Italian general Maletti died, British advances, and Greek forces pressing along the Adriatic coast. Diplomats note Germany’s port-use attempts and Petain’s stance.
A roundup of wartime items notes Britain leading India toward dominion status, a Piccadilly American club air raid damages, German envoy Abetz visiting Vichy over Laval’s fate, and a Canadian seized Italian freighter reporting bombing off Ireland. The vessel Bic Island, later Capo Noli, was refloated and awarded British control.
Funeral services for Mrs. S. L. Coney mother of S. J. Coney and Earl Coney of this city were held in Magnolia Miss. Interment was in Magnolia cemetery.
The forecast calls for fair skies and cooler conditions with night lows near 26 degrees in general. Louisiana shows frost in the south with freezing temps 2 to 32 in sugar and trucking area. Arkansas expects a hard freeze tonight and Tuesday.
Sheriff George Burk said two white men are being questioned in the shotgun slaying of Leeman Shields and an alleged attack on a woman near Talladega. Shields’ body was found in a recently purchased car with exploded shotgun shells nearby. the woman was examined by a doctor who said she had been attacked. The sheriff noted a statement naming a black assailant.
Eduard D Hoogh e adviser to Shanghai French concession council was fatally shot outside his residence by an unidentified assailant who fled. He had drawn Chinese ire after representing the French in talks that ceded concession courts to the Japanese backed Nanking regime. A Japanese national was shot hours earlier.
A Louisiana storm area reported a tornado causing damage as freezing temperatures spread from Texas to Louisiana and Mississippi. Shreveport and New Orleans logged low temps while other states faced cold snaps with crop and fruit losses in California and adjacent regions.
Harvard astronomer Dr. Fletcher Watson provides naked eye guidance for the approaching Cunningham comet. Watch the sunset then look slightly right and upward about three quarters from overhead to the horizon. The comet may appear first as a faint point, but the head could be the brightest since Halley in 1910.
The North Atlantic states produce only one twenty fifth of the nation's meat yet consume one third of it. This regional paradox highlights imbalance between supply and demand across Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut New York New Jersey Rhode Island Delaware Maryland and Pennsylvania.
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