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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1941
Page
10
A source reports corvettes turned out since July 1940 are key to Britain's Atlantic campaign. Their 17 to 18 knot speed, gunry, and depth charges allow hunting subs and fending off aircraft. Mass production aids merchant ship transport. also notes German sub losses and mutinies in 1918 as context for convoy battles.
British notices indicate only Tirpitz and Admiral Scheer remain active sea ships from the large German surface force. Bismarck has sunk. Gneisenau and Scharnhorst likely damaged at Brest. Graf Spee scuttled. Luetzow believed torpedoed. Cruisers reduced by air and sea attacks. Bluecher sunk off Oslo. Prinz Eugen damaged by RAF bombs. Light cruisers Leipzig Koenigsberg Karlsruhe sunk. Koeln Nuernberg still active.
Biloxi Mississippi June 27 There will be no sightseers at the 17000000 technical air school where 1000 men now building it will soon be increased to 14000. The United States Engineers office announced travel in the post area will be restricted. Workmen with badges and keys will carry stickers on their automobiles.
The article notes invitations issued to aid maintenance costs of a $350,000 building financed privately and turned over to the federal government last July 4. Fred W. Shipman, formerly with the national archives in Washington, was made director of the library, located about 200 yards from the president's home.
The Ouachita Parish 4-H delegation to Camp Grant Walker arrived in Monroe shortly before noon Friday after almost five days at the camp near Pollock. Mrs. E. Denis Braden and H. B. Fairchild led the group with a program of educational classes outdoor and indoor recreational activities and campfire specialties planned for each day. Cyprus has been a British colony and base since 1914.
A survey of European states under Nazi pressure shows Sweden allowing German troop passage to Finland and Finland potentially becoming Hitler's puppet. Britain denounces Sweden and Finland as weak links while other nations move toward axis alignment. The piece ends by noting 67 waterfalls with heights greater than Niagara.
A mob of more than 100 men stormed the jail in Eastman Georgia last night seizing Eddie Lee Spivey 28 a new suspect in an assault on a 65 year old farm woman taken away but returned today for want of evidence Deputy Sheriff Gus Lewis said the incident followed a night of unrest in the county. Washington's population has grown from 278 718 at the turn of the century to more than 700 000.
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