British and German Luftwaffe clash over Europe and Africa
British daylight raids hit the French coast while night bombing targeted Brest and the Ruhr. British forces push into Italian East Africa with Tobruk in sight. Metaxas reports a Greek triumph in Albania as Churchill vows to rip apart Africa's holdings. Cairo confirms Tobruk build up and Libyan desert operations. Buna and Konya valgary areas mentioned.
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RK. A. FP
Subemmarine
Brest
Britain
Italian East Africa
Tobruk
North Africa
Greece
Mussolini
Albania
Belis
Aegean
John
Metaxas
Kiwara
Albanie
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Valona Verona
Kiisura
Cairo
Libya
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Healy
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Civitan Club Meets Tonight in Monroe Charter Night
Plans are in place for Monroe's Civitan Club to hold its first official meeting at Hotel Frances tonight at 7 30. The charter night will honor Arthur Cundy international secretary as Dr H C Hughes is elected president and W L Dean secretary treasurer. Cobbling details note Civitan International founded 1917 in Birmingham Alabama with now over 750 clubs.
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Hotel Frances
H.C. Hughes
W. L. Dean
Arthur Cundy
Birmingham
Ala
Cundy
Seimanfield
Civitan International
United States
Canada
J. L. Neely
Mr. Neely
Boy With Bone Refuses Lunch At School
A lean boy arrives at a Dallas school refusing a free lunch ticket and presents a bone from his sack, prompting the principal to inspect the contents and reveal only the bone inside.
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Boy With Bone
Dallas
Jan
Sonny
Legion Post Seeks Public Help For Banquet Honoring Guardsmen
L. B. Faulk American Legion Post sponsor a banquet at Hotel Frances Saturday to honor officers and members of the former Monroe national guard now the second battalion of the Bath coast artillery anti aircraft. Post Commander C B Braun urges Twin Cities residents to buy tickets at 2 each. Tickets from Hotel Frances Silverstein R A A and W Sandwich Sig Hans Promos Frenchies Walgreen Liggett Sostafora Drug Store. About 189 guardsmen and similar civilian attendance expected.
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Monroe National Guard
Bath Coast Artillery
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L. B. Faulk American Legion
Twin Cities
Silverstein's
A. and W
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Braun
Braun Indica
Hopkins Quickly At Work In Europe
Harry Hopkins, Roosevelt’s special representative, arrived in London and planned talks with Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign Secretary Eden, and Ambassador Lord Halifax. He began with breakfast in his hotel and a London tour to follow, dismissing an air raid shelter during the night.
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London
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
United States
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Lord Halifax
Washington
Hopkins
Bride 13 Sees Happiness Ahead in Early Marriage
Logansport reports 13 year old Bessie Cook Stepp wed Robert Stepp two days before Christmas in Inez. The bride left school to start housekeeping and defended the match saying she loves him and they can be as happy as other couples.
Arkansas Valley Authority proposed to mimic TVA scale
Washington January 10 a Democrat Representative Ellis proposed creating the Arkansas Valley Authority to administer in the White St Francis Arkansas and Red river basins across eight states. The plan includes a yardstick rate for 308 165 square miles and would assume federal projects from the Arkansas River basin and Red River basin now under construction or authorized by Congress.
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Arkansas Valley Authority
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Arkansas
Roosevelt
White
St. Francis
Red River
Louisiana
Missouri
Kan@s
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Parole bid for Indiana Klan leader Stephenson faces opposition
In Indianapolis on January 10 the mother of Madge Oberholtzer urged the state clemency commission to deny parole for D C Stephenson, former head of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, who is serving a life term for the death of Oberholtzer. The petition was taken under advisement as Stephenson's long legal fight for freedom continues after a Michigan City sentence of 15 years.
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Miss Oberholtzer
Statehouse
Stephenson
Matilda Oberholtzer
Clemency Commission
Souvenir Section Planned For 204th Coast Artillery Departure
Citizens urged to contribute messages to a News-Star-World souvenir section honoring the Monroe batteries of the 204th Coast Artillery. The units will be saluted at a Saturday banquet by the American Legion, then depart for Camp Hulen, Texas, Sunday afternoon.
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Sunday Morning World
Monroe
204Th Coast Artillery
Louisiana National Guard
204Th
American Legion
Camp Hulen
Tex
Eleven Baking Firms Indicted in Bread Price Fix Probe
Philadelphia January 10 indictments target 11 baking companies and 32 individuals in a nationwide price fixing probe under the Sherman act. Companies from New York to Delaware face charges of conspiring to limit day old bread sales and fixing discounts while officials of the Interstate Bakers Council are named among those cited. Trials likely no earlier than June.
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Federal Grand Jury
R. McDonald Gray
United States Attorney General's Office
Pennsylvania
South Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Continental Baking Company
Generic Baking Company
The
Ward Baking Company
New York
Freihofer Baking Eempany
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Parkway Baking Company
Fischer Baking Company
Dagen Brothers of
New Jersey
Interstate Bakers’ Council
George A. Welsh
Flood control work to be sped up under Roosevelt plan
Army engineers proposed accelerating flood control construction in line with President Roosevelt's budget plan. Major M Reeber said projects under construction or with bids solicited would proceed to completion with a 70 million dollar appropriation for fiscal 1942, closely matching the prior year.
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Washington
Army Engineers
Roosevelt
M. Reeber
Congress
Reeber
Whittington
Mississippi
House Flood Control Committee
Annie Henry Seeks Indictment Quash in Louisiana Court
Hearing on a motion to quash a murder indictment against Annie Beatrice Henry will occur next Tuesday in Charles Parish district court. Her attorneys claim the grand jury was illegally constituted after Henry was convicted last year for killing Joseph P. Calloway of Houston, Tex. and sentenced to hang before the supreme court granted a new trial.
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Charles
Annie Beatrice Henry
Joseph P. Calloway
Houston
Tex
Supreme Court
Louisiana Executive Cabinet Holds First Meeting
In Baton Rouge acting Governor Marc Mouton led the Louisiana executive cabinet at its first formal gathering. The session reviewed general state issues as most department heads attended and monthly meetings are planned.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Marc M. Mouton
Mouton
Ian Jones
Roosevelt Debt Limit Suggestion Sparks Borrowing Debate
President Roosevelt argued that a statutory debt limit serves little purpose as Congress faced demands to maintain strict control over government borrowing. The debate centers on the need for fiscal restraint and oversight of national debt.
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Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Congress
Monroe Traffic Toll Rises in 1940 Police Report
Seven deaths and 519 traffic accidents marked Monroe in 1940. Chief Frank V. Reitzeill reported 79 injuries, 3,365 traffic tickets, 72 drunken driving charges, 2,174 arrests, and 3,164 city court cases with 3,018 convictions. Auto theft recovery and offense totals followed, with fines exceeding \$11,221 and streets charges at \$32,601.
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Monroe
Frank V. Reitzeill
British consider offensive against Italy to threaten invasion
London sources report military circles eye a possible British strike to knock Italy out and force surrender or revolution after North Africa and Albania victories. Analysts warn Germany would need to redeploy planes and troops, while Britain would gain prestige in the Balkans and boost Allied morale.
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Associated Press
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Italy
Germany
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Mediterranean
Army of the Nile
Albania
North Africa
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Brenner Pass
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English Leaders See Hope Of Beating War Invasion
Neutral analysts note limited naval reach to move ships into the Mediterranean and challenge British naval dominance. They recall Winston Churchill’s past Dardanelles plan and say if the current leadership heeds him the bold shift could proceed.
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Britain
Winston Churchill
Dardanelles
New Orleans Daily Consolidates Morning Tribune Into Item
The New Orleans Item will absorb the Morning Tribune effective January 13. The Tribune’s last morning edition will appear Saturday. Tribune staff will join the Item, with news and features merged into one enlarged paper for readers.
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New Orleans
South
Morning Tribune
James M. Thomson
The
Tribune
Item
Thomson
Item- Tribune
Wide Powers for President Are Proposed
President Roosevelt seeks rapid action on a broad lend lease bill to grant the chief executive authority to manufacture or procure defense articles, sell or lend them to allied governments, repair and outfit equipment, share defense information, and release articles for export, aiming to strengthen national defense and aid Great Britain and other democracies. The plan was unveiled as Congress prepared to consider the measure.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Great Britain
United States
Absolves Man in Death Car in Louisiana
The funeral for Charles T. Chadwick a 4 ex service man killed on the Delhi to Tallulah highway will be held at Williams Funeral Home. Interment will follow in a local cemetery. The coroner’s jury absolved B A Brady of Transylvania La of blame in the fatality. Chadwick’s brother Luther Chadwick of Epps and a sister in Mississippi survive.
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Tallulah
Charles T. Chadwick
Delhi
Williams
Alexander
Chadwick
Gulfport
Miss
Luther Chadwick
Epps
B. A. Brady
Transylvania
Brady
Mississippi
Repressure Plant Hearing Recessed In New Orleans
A public hearing on a $500 000 recycling and repressure plant to maintain gas pressure in wells was recessed. Stanolind Oil and Gas proposes the facility in Jefferson Davis parish south Jennings field, the area’s sole producer, to allow land and lease owners to confer with oil representatives for an amicable settlement.
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New Orleans
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company
Jennings
Jefferson Davis Parish
B. A. Hartley
Refugees Offered Haven by Pitcairn Islanders
Weymouth Mase Jan 10. Pitcairn islanders, hurt by the war in Europe, offer a haven to child refugees from bomb torn Britain on their Pacific island. The offer was revealed in a letter received this week from an islander.
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Mase
Pitcairn
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