BILLIONS NEEDED TO MEET BRITAIN'S WAR DEMAND
An official analyst estimated Britain would require 2.506 billion dollars in war supplies to meet demand under cash and carry or lend lease. He noted Britain hoped for 1941 deliveries with orders for 2000 tanks 10000 planes and vast ammunition while seeking further planes boats and munitions. Financial aid was deemed necessary before additional orders could be placed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Iain
Hera
Morgenthau
Army organizes ski unit at Alaskan base in snow learning
Anchorage Alaska December 18 the army formed a ski unit at its Alaska base with 13 inches of fresh snow on the ground. Soldiers began ski patrol training under Russell Dow former Dartmouth skier while other detachments practiced camouflage techniques in brush and snow with anti aircraft guns in the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anchorage
Alaska
Army
Russell Dow
Dartmouth University
Questionnaires Listed for Monroe and West Monroe Board Nos
A long enumeration lists names and addresses of individuals with race notes and street details across Board No 1 and Board No 2 in Monroe and West Monroe. Entries include Alaster Emerson 1023 Texas Monroe David Caldwell 405 Stone Monroe Wesley Shafto 1005 North Third Monroe and many others with addresses on Adams Wood Hilton Flynn Flynn street Riverside and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaster Albert Emerson
Texas Street
Monroe
David Monroe
Caldwell
Stone Avenue
Wesley Sims Shafto
North Third Street
Theodore R. Moore
Riverside
Leslie Scott, Jr
Wood Street
Milton Coleman
Marks Street
Samuel Henry White
Adams Street
Joseph Richard
Washington Street
Jease Mercy
Birchett Slater
Park Avenue
Frankie Bell Chase, Jr
Hilton Street
Ure
Willie Barron
Flynn Street
Frank Chariton Rivers
William Leon McDonald, Jr
Railroad Avenue
West Monroe
Jewel Howard Kilpatrick
Swartz
Robert Keaton
Colored
Bosco
John Smith, Jr
Route Monroe
Ferriday Student Named in Who's Who Among Colleges
Parker Wiggins son of Mrs A H Wiggins will receive a B S in commerce from Louisiana Normal College Natchitoches in June He is listed in the 1940 41 Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities Wiggins starred in football and earned backfield honors in SIAC as an alternate All American He presides over Sigma Tau Gamma and serves as business manager of the college annual He was associate editor of the yearbook in 1939 and is a 1937 Waterproof High School graduate with football honors End.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferriday
Parker Wiggins
A. H. Wiggins
Louisiana State Normal College
Natchitoches
Young Wiggins
Louisiana Normal
Demons
Southern Interleague Athletic Association
Wiggins
Sigma Tau Gamma
Waterproof High School
New Yearbooks Distributed by Vienna Club
Mrs. Bertha Bryson distributed new yearbooks at the December meeting of the Home Demonstration Club in Vienna. Garden leaders E S Brewer and J H Williamson will take orders for fruit varieties until January 8. Hostesses Lelly and Watts served refreshments to several members led by president John Lolly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Bertha Bryson
Home Demonstration Club
John Lolly
E. S. Brewer
J. H. Williamson
Lelly
J. B. Watts
Two Navy Fliers Die in Pensacola Seaplane Crash
Ensign Clarence M. Donnelly Jr. of Montgomery Alabama and Max Frederick Lettay of Manchester Massachusetts were killed when a naval training seaplane dived into 30 feet of Pensacola Bay during practice landings. Donnelly taught at the Havel wir station and Lettau served as an aviation machinist's mate second class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
Fila
Clarence M. Donnelly
Montgomery
Ala
Max Frederick Lettay
Manchester
Mass
Pensacola Bay
Donnelly
Havel Wir
Lettau
Student Pilot In Coast Guard Plane Crash
A student pilot attached to the coast guard died in a plane crash. A naval board of inquiry investigated the incident but officers said findings would not be announced here. The plane sank quickly after coming down pontoons up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tached
Coast Guard
Naval Board of Inquiry
Funeral services for Mrs Lou W Nelson 88 in Monroe
The Dixie Chapter No 179 of the Order of Eastern Star will funeralize Mrs Lou W Nelson 88 at Peters Funeral Home chapel with Rev A M Freeman and Rev Ernest D Holloway officiating. Burial in El Dorado cemetery follows. Survivors include three sons eight grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Mrs Nelson was a longtime resident of Monroe and member of the First Methodist Church. The article notes the Marine Corps as the oldest U S armed service branch, citing congress in 1775.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixie Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
Lou W. Nelson
Tom Douglas
Peters Funeral Home
A. M. Freeman
First Methodist Church
Ernest D. Holloway
First Presbyterian Church
el Dorado
Nelson
Ark
Monroe
J. R. Pumphrey
Oscar Gowins
William Lawhead
Bill Williams
Bert Coverdale
Ray Lopez
H. S. Clawson
William Rodriguez
Wallace Nelson
Shreveport
Emer Nelson
Cooper
Tex
Henry Slater
Pete McCall
Minnie Hudson
J. W. Milner
Little Rock
Christmas Fete Planned by VFW and Auxiliary in Rodney Hobbs Post
The Rodney J. Hobbs Post of Veterans of Foreign Wars and its auxiliary announce their annual Christmas party at the post clubrooms on Sixth and Oak Thursday night. Members are urged to bring staple groceries for baskets to aid needy families, with baskets including chickens for Christmas Eve distribution. The event features a tree and small gifts exchanged between groups, with refreshments served by the ladies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post, Auxiliary
Rodney J. Hobbs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post
Sixth
Oak Streets
H. M. James
James
Mr. James
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Jane
Jimmy
Tinkle
Sanitas House
Sanita
Jack Frost
Alaskan
Little Miss
Red Wood
Smart Enameled
Him
Ashaway
Dick Tracy
Monroe Furnitur Company. Ltd
London
Isaac Jenkins
Edmund William Bopp
North Fourth Street
Lemar Tatum
Lloyd Cade Antley
West Mon
James Willard Childress
James Wilton Humphries
R. J. King
Marion
Jewel Grady Sawyer
William Travis Ellis
A Warren Reed
Clayton Alfred Pardue
James Major, Jr
Sterlington
C. L. Collins
Evin Benton McCrary
Trenton Street
Walnut St
Standard
United Electric Service
Florida
Congress
The
Marine Corp
United States Armed Service
Santa
Field and General Traffic Office
Selman Field
Frankfort Distilleries, Incorporated
Louisville
Baltimore
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