Red Cross Drive Totals Over Five Thousand Five Hundred
Ouachita parish chapter Red Cross reports $5 756.94 raised. E C Gibson chairman notes nationwide favorable response. Inmates of Carville Leprosarium seek campaign access. a European refugee sent $1 from Trinidad Colorado to Las Vegas chapter. Norman H Davis cites wartime appeals for civilian protection and urges action to relieve suffering and boost morale. Local gifts from River Terminals workers Peerless Carbon Swartz Fisher's bakery Hancock Swartz and Personal Finance company.
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Ouachita Parish
The
Red Cross
E. C. Gibson
United States
Carville
Trinidad
Colo
Las Vegas
Gibson
Norman H. Davis
River Terminals Corporation
Peerless Carbon Company
Swartz
United Gas Pipe Line Company
Fisher's Bakery
Charles Hancock, Swartz
Personal Finance Company
Italy Quietly Expands War Prep Amid Paris Attacks
The Italian cabinet approves wartime measures extending control to African possessions with no date for Europe plunge. Paris reports an early raid by German planes with 70 French planes shot down and 5 German planes lost. Britain faces Dunkirk aftermath as naval losses include six destroyers and 23 minor vessels. King George VI commends the services and merchant navy for turning withdrawal into triumph.
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Paris
Italy
English Channel
Dunkerque
Monroe Mother Sends Aid Amid War News
A Monroe mother describes generous wartime aid to refugees in France. She purchases diapers and beds, loads taxis, and distributes supplies at canteens, noting gratitude and fatigue. The letter mentions possible air mail disruption and urges calm as Paris faces serious, not desperate, times. Olympia Brown Willis, first American woman ordained a minister in 1863.
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Paris
New York
Olympia Brown Willis
Merlone, N. Y
Churchill Portrays Dunkirk Evacuation as Miracle of Deliverance
In Commons, Winston Churchill recalls Dunkirk and credits the Royal Air Force with guarding ships and aiding evacuation. He cites 30,000 Allied losses and 335,000 saved, pledges to rebuild the BEF under Lord Gort, and warns that Britain will not accept a purely defensive war. He condemns surrender and warns of further blows from Hitler.
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Belgium
Dunkerque
Royal Air Force
Churchill
London
Britain
Lord Gort
French First Army
Amiens
Abbeville
Flanders
Hitler
Calais
FSA Officials Visit Natchez Office Moves Planned
Adams County Farm Security administration hosts A D Stewart new state director John F Gibbon farm debt adjustment director supervisor Nova Stopp home management supervisor and C W Elkin regional personnel advisor in Natchez. Local FSA office will relocate from courthouse to a new Franklin street building as state highway patrolman Robert E Burns recovers from malaria. Interstate Natural Gas employees attend a fish fry hosted by manager J B Simonton on U S highway 61 near the city limits Friday.
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Adams County Farm Security Administration
A. D. Stewart
John F. Gibbon
Miss Nova Stopp
C. W. Elkin
Little Rock
Ark
FSA
Franklin Street
Interstate Natural Gas Company
J. B. Simonton
U. S. Highway 61
Reorganization Studied By Federal Road Agency
A survey of the Louisiana highway commission maintenance division for possible reorganization is being conducted by the United States public roads administration at the request of Governor Sam H. Jones. H. K. Bishop leads the team with J. A. Elliott and M. J. Cramer assisting.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Highway Commission
United States Public Roads Administration
Sam H. Jones
H. K. Bishop
Division of Construction and Maintenance
Louisiana
Fort Worth
Tex
J. A. Elliott
Texas
Okahoma
Arkansas
M. J. Cramer
Ways and Means Committee Sets Gas Tax Hearing
Baton Rouge dispatch says the house ways and means committee will hold a 9 30 a m hearing tomorrow on a bill to divide gasoline tax revenues between parishes and municipalities.
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Baton Rouge
House
Ways and Means Committee
Huey Long Law Aimed at Newspapers Faces Abolishment
In Baton Rouge on June 4 the Huey Long law restricting newspapers publishing racing information would be repealed by one of several bills before the Louisiana House of Representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
State Bank Commission
House
Huey Long
House of Representatives
Law measures speeded to curb corruption in government
Baton Rouge reports that the house of representatives may act late this week on administration and independent bills to fight graft. Leaders expect swift committee action on proposals targeting deductions bribery and attempts to influence jurors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
House of Representatives
Conscription Doubled to Speed Up Training This Month
London war brief reports Eden stating conscripts to be trained at double the normal rate this month. Volunteers remain sufficient for London defense and those guarding utilities are armed with war department weapons or personal firearms. Irish industrialists urge mobilization of US supplies valued at 12 million dollars to replace gaps from neutral sources. A separate dispatch recalls a combat encounter where a paratrooper was downed after a four-man resistance.
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London
War
Anthony Eden
Eden
War Department
Cork
United States
British Bomber Destroyed in Collision With Barrage Balloon
London reporters say a heavy British bomber collided with a barrage balloon cable over the east coast last night. The air ministry announced that only one crew member was saved.
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London
Air Ministry
Britons in Shanghai inaugurate relief fund for European enlistment
In Shanghai on June 4 a British community fund was launched to aid local Britons willing to join empire fighting units in Europe. The drive aims to support volunteers and coordinate enlistment efforts among expatriates.
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Shanghai
Europe
Freighter Michigan Reaches Vera Cruz with 187 Ton Cargo
The French freighter Michigan dodged German submarines after a 60 day Dunkerque voyage and arrived at Vera Cruz with a 187 ton shipment for Mexican merchants. Sir Charles Vyner Brooke in England donated 1,000,000 Malayan dollars to the British war effort.
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Dodges
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Michigan
Dunkerque
London
Charles Vyner Brooke
Sarawak
England
Viscountess Cowdray gives birth as husband loses arm
London report says Viscountess Cowdray formerly Lady Anne Bridgeman bore a daughter yesterday. The same day the couple announced that her husband, a captain in the Essex Yeomanry, had his left arm amputated after being wounded in Flanders.
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London
Viscountess Cowdray
Anne Bridgeman
Flanders
Lord Cowdray
Essex Yeomanry
Four French soldiers recount Dunkerque ruse killings
Four French soldiers from Flanders said a German parachutist-impersonator killed 21 comrades on a Dunkerque beach. A civilian began talking with them as they waited for a boat to evacuate, then suddenly he whipped out a weapon.
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London
Flanders
Dunkerque
Egyptians ease exit visas as Germans urged to leave
Americans depart Egypt in rising numbers while authorities speed exit visas for foreigners and deny re entry. Five hundred German refugees, mostly Jews, who had freedom since the war began, are ordered to depart within eight days or face internment. In London, Sir Wardlaw Milne asks why alien internee women receive hotel style living while wives of British soldiers get smaller allowances.
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Alexandria
Egypt
London
Wardlaw - Milne
Home
John Anderson
Soviet Izvestia Praises Dunkirk Troop Withdrawal
Moscow radio quoted Izvestia as paying high tribute to the allies for withdrawing troops from Dunkirk. The broadcast estimated the withdrawal at more than 200000 troops.
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London
Moscow
Izvestia
Dunkerque
Allied Dispatches Report Night Activity and Allied Damages
The war office notes continued embarkations near Dunkerque amid heightened enemy pressure. Allied planes destroyed many German torpedo launches used against transports. Land activity remains light with sporadic artillery east of the Oise and in other localities. French forces repelled minor enemy patrols near Saer.
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High Command
Dunkerque
War Office
Oise
Saer
Belgian King Leopold's capitulation described in Roosevelt letter
An intimate royal confidant recounts Leopold's choice to surrender after Belgian civilians faced destruction and the army's damning position. Cabinet members fled to Paris, later disowning the king, while Leopold defended his actions citing German air power, Allied aid shortfalls, and a doomed defense along the Albert canal. About 12 Americans remained near Brussels with 120 near Antwerp, all reportedly unharmed.
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Leopold
Roger Keyes
Hubert Pierlot
Belgium
Paris
Roosevelt
Albert Canal
Gamelin
Ostend
Germany
Brussels
Antwerp
Squirrels and Engineers Spark State Reform Journal
The Baton Rouge report outlines Governor Jones reform bill ideas including locomotive coolers and sanitary cups for crews, penalties for violations, and public access changes. It also notes a fingerprinting push for officials, hotel calls becoming free, and various local social events and Dutch themed banquet details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam H Jones
Legislative Journal
Batonet
Jones Pledges Aid for Louisiana Farmers and Industry
Jones outlined plans to send field men to Louisiana to tackle strawberry marketing issues and promote higher sugar quotas. He offered Louisiana facilities for the national defense program and pledged aid to new industries. He reported mutual cooperation with WPA and Works Administration leaders, pressed for farm-to-market roads and recreation centers, discussed "hot oil" with Ickes, and aimed to keep the interior department office to protect oil resources. He met with E. A. Stephens, Raburn Monroe, Adjutant General Fleming, and F. Edward Hebert, with further calls scheduled with Morgenthau, Jackson, McNutt, and Roosevelt.
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Lace
Louisiana
Wallace
Louis Johnson
George C Marshall
Jesse Jones
WPA
Harrington
Carmody
Jones
Ickes
Louisiana Office of the Interior Department
Treasury
Ben Cohen
E. A. Stephens
Raburn Monroe
New Orleans
Raymond H. Fleming
F. Edward Hebert
Washington
Morgenthau
Jackson
McNutt
Roosevelt
Dance recital by Tallulah Frances Halloran at high school
Frances Halloran will present a dance recital at the high school auditorium with Mrs. H P Mason as accompanist. A Madison parish Home Demonstration tour runs Friday June 7 visiting homes across the parish with a noon picnic, directed by the parish Home Demonstration Council and Elizabeth Williams. A penknife weighing 42 pounds with 1851 blades is touted as the largest ever made and valued at over $7400.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Halloran
H. P. Mason
Home Demonstration Clubs
Madison Parish
Home Demonstration Council
Elizabeth Williams
Rayville Womans Club Notes Bridge to Unexplored Frontiers
Rayville Ruth Circle met at Mrs J Moore with 13 members. Mrs Calvert of New Orleans visited family, Mrs Sayre of Mangham hosted by Dr T M Sayre, and Mrs Dunaway hosted guests. Monroe Chamber official George Holland spoke to Rayville Kiwanis with senior class boys present. Holland urged youths toward unexplored frontiers.
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Ruth Circle
the Baptist
W. M
George D. Holland
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Rayville Kiwanis Club
Rayville High School
Holland
Gordon Cain
Chambers
Rayville Club
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Bete de
Renault
Villaconblay
Wrpert
Aubervillers
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Miles
Sep
Vincennes
Neuilly
Sendte
le Bourget ' An Port
France
Commons
Robert E. Burns
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King
Hart
Kelly
Natchez
Mist
Pine Bull
Rayville
L. Ht. Hime
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Hewlien
Welemnea
Fred Jones
Glynn Bilmame
John Hooks
Gurders
Dorothy Mallin
Mary Ftungall Sartor
Eveten Narcan
Evelyn Nuarony
Helen Meador
Louisiana Tech Colo Legians
Mie Dorothy Harris
Nenleriatt
Tallulah
Robert Calvert
Fred Morgan
L. N. Dunaway
Guy Williams
Met Rouge
Don
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Illinois Central
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