20 Dec 1940
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1940
Page
1
The article describes a suburban England market trip noting affordable fare in thrupence stores and rationed items like beef and offal at markets. It highlights shops with canned foods, tea cakes, and bread variety while detailing weekly meat allowances and the absence of ration cards for some items.
In Baton Rouge and New Orleans a dispute over subpoenaed oil company records continues. Gov. Sam Jones aide T. Owen furnished Perez counsel with crime commission minutes as Perez challenges the commissions access to records tied to mineral operations on public lands. The case involves Leander Perez and a challenge to the commission’s authority.
British warships pounded Valona as part of an Adriatic sweep while cruisers and destroyers probed northward toward Bari and Durazzo. In North Africa, Mussolini’s forces remain under siege at Bardia with heavy bombardment reported by British and desert troops. RAF raids hit Derna and Ruhr targets including Essen and Bonn amid the extended air war.
Captain Paul Ayres Rockwell, a South Carolina born journalist and long time soldier for France, recalls enlisting with French forces in World War I and later serving on the French general staff. He blames long standing weaknesses observed in France for the nation’s collapse and describes his flight to Bordeaux and arduous return home with discharge papers and visas.
One of the largest crowds in local football history is expected at Brown Stadium as the Bastrop Rams meet the Ponchatoula Greenies for the Louis A Class A title. Both teams are undefeated, with Bastrop advancing by 20-0 over Neville and 14-7 over Homer, while Ponchatoula beat DeQuincy 7-0 and defeated Baton Rouge High 12-7.
Mrs. H. A. Moore of West Monroe won the annual Christmas Color Contest sponsored by News-Star-World Publishing. Prizes ranged from 35 dollars for first place to 1 dollar for several entrants, with checks to be mailed Saturday morning.
A strong earthquake centered in New England rattled from southern New Jersey to Montreal early today. It lasted about W seconds with fiercest motion near Lake Ossippee New Hampshire. injuries were minor but widespread alarm and property damage reports followed.
Washington dispatch notes a possible move toward U S import controls as part of foreign trade regulation. Colonel Russell L Maxwell, head of export control, signals study of import limits alongside exports as a major early problem needing solution. Authorities offered little further detail.
The United States Weather Bureau in New Orleans predicted cloudy weather for tonight and Saturday in the Twin Cities area with a low near 41 degrees. Temperatures reached 48.8 to 51.1 degrees on Thursday night into Friday morning, with rainfall of 0.02 inch. Louisiana forecast calls for clouds tonight and Saturday with rain and drizzle in southern areas, cooler in the southwest, and fresh easterly to northerly winds along the coast.
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce reports November activity rose above October and 1939 levels. Private employment swelled sharply while public posts fell, and telephone service, vehicle registrations, postal receipts, electric power use, and bank deposits all climbed.
War bulletin reports heavy damage to the Baglietto shipyard at Varazze near Genoa, where small torpedo boats are built. Fire started in the woodworking shop and spread to the machine shop, though boats on the ways escaped damage.
The Vichy government announced the creation of a new office to centralize French news distribution. The agency will gather and disseminate news in France, the colonies, and foreign countries, including the Havas agency. Ten thousand tons of potatoes arrived in the occupied zone from Holland and Germany.
In Baton Rouge a crash at a downtown grade crossing involved the Southern Belle deluxe train and an automobile. Doc Melvin died at Our Lady of the Lake Sanitarium. His wife suffered a head wound, Ruby Lee Brown Buell and Charles J. Shelton were injured with a skull fracture and crushed chest.
The Good Fellows fund has received 720.72 so far but remains far from its goal as Christmas approaches. Ouachita Parish High School students in rooms 115-A and 115-B delivered two large baskets of fruit and foods to the News-Star-World office to aid the needy. Send contributions to the News Star-World to help Santa visit hundreds in need.
FBI agents in Santa Rosa disrupted an extortion plot tied to the De Tristan kidnapping. A man in a black overcoat visited a cabbage patch rendezvous with a cigar box of fake money before escaping. The case recalls Wilhelm Muhlenbroich, held at San Quentin after abducting three year old Marc De Tristan Jr. in September.
In Bethel Vermont three boys aged 11 and 15 confessed robbing and beating Miss Jennie Kendall, 73, after entering her home. State's Attorney Black said grand jury action was possible despite their age, with Attorney General Jones to be consulted. Sheriff Schoenfeld linked a poker and stove shaker as weapons. youths were made wards of the court and jailed in Windsor county.
The Philadelphia mint approves a 350000 dollar improvement plan to nearly double capacity. Rising payrolls from defense orders and the defense tax boosted demand for coins, with the plant producing about 4 million coins daily on a 24 hour shift and still behind orders.
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