England the war changes London life not the provinces
An editor notes how wartime London alters daily life while rural England preserves old social rituals. Milo M Thompson and wife travel with limited clothes and rations, observing differences in dining, hospitality, and rationing between city bomb shelters and countryside shires. The piece reflects on egg shortages, ration cards, and social customs amid bombing.
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Hitler
London
Milo M. Thompson
Engand
Draftees Named For Second Call From Ouachita Parish
Seven white volunteers from Ouachita Parish are drawn for one year of military training and will depart January 13 from Union Bus Depot Monroe to Camp Beauregard Alexandria. Names include Roberts Scott Trichel Scabrough O Farrel Snowden Dearman and White. Thirteen white men from Winnsboro are set to leave January 10 for Camp Beauregard as part of the second call, including Martin Osborn Cannon Clark Stigall Muckelrag Reeves McDaniel Cupp Ivy.
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Ouachita Parish
Selective Service Board No. 2
West Monroe
James Hugh Roberts
Monroe
Edward Winfield Scott
Collinston
Augustine Lesty Trichel
Fairbanks
Willie Edward Scabrough
Ponchatoula
Gilbert O'Farrel Snowden
Box 60
Lester Maurice Dearman
Swartz
Herman White
Camp Beauregard
Alexandria
At & Am
Union Bus Depot
Winnsboro
Connie Lee Martin
Don Frederick Osborn
John Beniman Cannon
Charlie Clark
Marioard Stigall
Clyde Elbert Muckelragh
Needom Davis
Claude Edward Cox
Bart McDaniel
Melvin Martin Cupp
Ervin C. B. Reeves
Grady Albert McDuff
James Armster Ivy
Owner of Pigeon Sought After Christmas Note
Midway Alabama December 27 A homing pigeon with a leg band and a message from John to Bob was shot by M W Hall who thought it was a dove. Hall seeks to locate the owner by tracing the leg band NPA 39 and deliver the note saying Had nice Xmas.
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Midway
Ala
John
Bob
M. W. Hall
Hall
British Navy tightens Pacific raider hunt
New orders require all ships bound for Fiji to call at Suva for orders starting Jan 1. British and Dutch forces may have mined areas to trap raiders, expanding control over Pacific routes. Air Chief Marshal Brooke-Popham arrives in Hong Kong for inspection as London reports a six day strike over a uniform factory dispute ending.
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New York
South Pacific
Fiji
Suva
Navy
Hong Kong
Robert Brooke- Popham
Britain
Far Eastern Command
London
Albert
Indians protest dances before registering as aliens in Buffalo
A protest march in Lafayette Square, Buffalo, saw about two dozen Iroquois alter their stance by registering as aliens after staging war dances. Clinton Rickard, Tuscarora chief, said the act aimed to safeguard jobs in defense industries and urged that treaties guarantee their citizenship across North America.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Lafayette Square
Main Street
Clinton Rickard
America
Rickard
North America
Delta Air Lines resumes regular flights after heavy rain
Delta Air Lines restored its regular schedules Friday after a 24 hour interval ending at 6 30 a m during which 1 93 inches of rain fell at Selman Field Civil Aeronautics observers reported wind between 17 and 31 miles per hour Thursday evening and the lowest temperature Friday was 53 2 degrees No flights touched Monroe Thursday but two passed over Delays were reported along the line The Weather Bureau forecast unsettled weather for the Twin Cities with rain and cooler temperatures and coastal storm warnings extended from Houston to St Marks Fla
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Delta Air Lines
Civil Aeronautics
Selman Field
Delta
Monroe
Twin Cities
United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
Houston
Galveston
St. Marks
Fla
Louisiana
Rehabilitated Alien Awaits Colorado Decision on Fate
Michael Filippo an Italian immigrant living in Brooklyn seeks relief as Colorado weighs extradi tion. Governor Ralph L Carr says he unlikely to sign extradition if rehabilitated proof holds. Filippo, once listed as Mike Phillips, escaped Colorado prison with four years left for felonious assault. He served with the A E F in France and now faces citizenship and relief questions after wartime service and WPA cutoffs. He has seven children and his family relies on relief.
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New York
Michael Filippo
Colorado
Brooklyn
France
Filippo
The
Daily News
Ralph L. Carr
Mike Phillips
Roosevelt Bills and Budget Details Stir Congress
Roosevelt plans defense spending near 10 billion for the coming fiscal year, doubling this year’s outlay. Officials expect a total budget around 16 billion with non-defense cuts to the bone and potential new taxes to cover a projected 8 billion revenue.
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Irving Perimeter
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Morgenthau
Treasury
Roosevelt weighs CI O plan for 500 planes a day
President Roosevelt said the CIO proposal to pool auto industry facilities to produce 500 all metal pursuit planes daily is being seriously studied by the defense production office led by William Knudsen. The plan, drawn by Walter Reuther for CIO President Murray, envisions output within six months if workable.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Philip Murray
Walter P. Reuther
General Motors
United Automobile Workers
C. I
Defense Production Office
William
Knudsen
Reuther
Coast Guard Extends Aid to Distressed Vessel Near Bell Pass
Coast guard dispatched a cutter from Grand Isle to assist a small boat in distress a mile and a half south southwest of Bell Pass in the gulf. A commercial plane observed the signal and reported six men aboard.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard
Grand Isle
Bell Pass
Gulf
Skin Game Charged To Pair By Sheriff In West Carroll Parish
A sheriff charged James K Simpson 17 with involuntary homicide after a wreck at Pontchartrain boulevard New Orleans left police sergeant James J Adams 52 and youth Robert H Hyland 18 dead. Adams was investigating a prior accident when a second car struck. Patrolman John Herty directed traffic at the scene.
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West Carroll Parish
New Orleans
James J. Adams
Pontchartrain Boulevard
Louisiana
Robert H. Hyland
New Basin Canal
Guy Johnson
James K. Simpson
John Herty
Adams
Hyland
Edward Sanford
Charles Timmesch
Simp
Air Corps Private Kills Himself Holding Girl Photo
James Lewis Dawkins an 18 year old air corps private on Christmas furlough was found dead at his Memphis home. A .22 caliber rifle lay beside him and two letters were found one to his mother and one to his sweetheart. He had told his family he had a date to keep and left for the room after saying goodbye. Dawkins enlisted September 15 and was to return to Chanute Field tomorrow.
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Memphis
Tenn
James Lewis Dawkins
Army Air Corps
Don Owens
Homicide Bureau
Dawkins
Air Corps
Chanute Field
Rantoul
Car Crashes House In Atlanta Dramatics
An Atlanta doctor faces a dilemma after a thief drove a car into the Crumleys’ frame residence. A brick pillar was knocked out and a front wheel lodged in the home, the porch collapsed, while the wheel partly supported the living room.
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Atlanta
Sec
H. C. Crumley
Men Allegedly Solicited Funds For Information Service
In Oak Grove two men, Steve McGee of Oklahoma and Lee Sadler of Malden, were jailed on charges of a confidence game. They allegedly charged about $1 from draftees to provide a service promising updates on draft dates and European war progress. Fingerprints were sent to Washington and their home cities for further checks. The sheriff said the suspects refused to talk and urged anyone approached to notify authorities.
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Oak Grove
L. B. Moseley
West Carroll Parish
Moseley
Washington
Famous Polar Ship to Sail Saturday
In Dunedin New Zealand on December 27 Rear Admiral Richard E Byrds polar ship The Bear will sail for Little America to bring home the men of the United States Antarctic expedition after Congress refused funds for another year. The coast guard cutter North Star from Seattle will join The Bear at the Antarctic base to assist in the removal. They plan calls at the west base and then the east on the South American side. The Bear crew celebrated Christmas with roast turkey.
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New Zealand
Richard E. Byrd
Little America
United States Antarctic Expedition
United States Congress
Coast Guard
North Star
Seattle
Wash
Antarctic
Army to expand Newfoundland base and regional defense line
Washington reports an initial army garrison to Newfoundland will grow to 50 000 or more as the United States strengthens offshore bases from Newfoundland to Panama. Reinforcements will follow first expedition, with engineers surveying Georgetown British Guiana as part of a broader Atlantic defense posture.
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Washington
Newfoundland
Panama Canal
Hemisphere
Atlantic
Great Britain
Puerto Rico
Guantanamo
Cuba
Army
Marine Corps
British Guiana
South American
Panama
Europe
America
United States
Georgetown
Secret Albania Recognition Delayed Sixty Years Ago
U S state department records show Albania recognition was withheld in 1925 until King Zogu exiled in England was cleared of involvement in two American deaths. Zogu later became president then king after a career marked by escapes and political intrigue. His wife Countess Geraldine Apponyi fled with him and their infant Crown Prince Skander during 1939 Fascist invasion.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Albania
Zog
England
Ahmet Zogu
the Bird
Europe
Ulysses Grant-Smith
Tirana
Zogu
Charles Evans Hughes
Geraldine Apponyi
Julius Nagy-Apponyi
Grads Stewart Girault
Virginia
Fierce fighting at gateway 10 north reported
Greeks press a strong offensive in the Klisura sector as Italian forces sustain heavy losses amid snowbound battles. Italian reinforcements arrive, and prisoners and war materiel are noted. In the Pacific, a Japanese flagged raider shells Nauru, causing damage with no casualties.
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Associated Press
Klisura
Nauru
South Pacific
Melbourne
Australia
London
Pacific
Robert G. Menzies
Marshall Islands
Hawaii
Germany
Bordeaux
French
Menzies
Nauru Island
Soldiers Leave Camp for City, Two Three Day Trips Planned
One thousand officers and men left Camp Beauregard for New Orleans on the first of two three day trips. They will arrive at Fortier Boys High School at 4 p m Friday for a day in the city. The second trip begins Monday morning with return Wednesday morning.
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Alexandria
Camp Beauregard
New Orleans
Floyd Evans
G. J. Burlingame
Fortier Boys’ High School
Adjutant General's Office
State of
Louisiana
Joseph W. Gable
107Th Ordnance Company
Cook-Nelson American Legion
Pontiac
Mich
Food Ministry Aide in Britain Dies at 55
Sir William Alfred Cecil Goodchild, assistant director of the food ministry since 1999, died at age 55 in London. He joined the Scottish civil service in 1909 and held senior posts including assistant secretary in 1926 and secretary of the Scottish economic and Highlands and Islands committee in 1936. He served on Britain’s delegations to the World War reparations commission and Hague conferences in 1929 and 1990, and was a member of a financial mission to Brazil.
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London
William Alfred Cecil Goodchild
Food Ministry
Sir William
British Civil Service
Committee On the Highlands and
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