U S Requests Italy Close Detroit and Newark Consulates
The United States orders Italy to close its consulates at Detroit Michigan and Newark New Jersey for national policy reasons. The action follows Italy's move to close Naples and Palermo consulates and directs withdrawal of personnel while allowing possible transfer to Italian posts. Giacomo Prefili heads Detroit consulate and Renati Delle Chiesa heads Newark vice consulate.
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Washington
United States
Italy
Detroit
Newark
N. J
State Department
Naples
Palermo
Mich
Ite
Elaerehere
Job Hunters in Louisiana Reach 107 605, Officials Say
A report by the employment security division shows 107 605 Louisianans seeking jobs from laborers to public officials. Many are employed but seeking better positions, with high turnover in unskilled trades and seasonal work. The tally includes 14 972 unskilled construction workers and 19 243 agricultural laborers, plus 6 679 chauffeurs and drivers and a woman listed among them.
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Baton Rouge
Employment Security Division
General Brees Arrives for Beauregard Training Conference
Lieutenant General H. J. Brees commander of the third army lands at the artillery-range airport six miles east of Camp Beauregard for a two day inspection and training session with 32nd and 36th division officers. Major General Campbell Hodges escorts him with Camp Beauregard headquarters nearby.
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Alexandria
H. J. Brees
Third Army
San Antonio
Tex
Camp Beauregard
Campbell B. Hodges
Fifth Corps
Brees
William C. Dolan
Paul A. Gavan
John T. Tucker, Jr
Hodges
Four convicts to broadcast before death in Louisiana
Four condemned inmates from an Arkansas farm escape slaying will broadcast final statements on a Monroe radio station Friday before their scheduled hanging in Caldwell Parish. The four, among six who fled Labor Day, abducted students and killed a patrolman and an automobile dealer. two others died earlier. The sentences were upheld by the Louisiana Supreme Court with no clemency granted.
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Columbia
Arkerews Pricen
Rayville
Posmeman
E.G. Erskine
Caldwell Pariah
Bill Heard
William Landers
Bill McHarg
Lloyd Boyce
Arkansas
Louisiana
A. J. Cowtes
McHary
Erskine
S Far Po
Louisiana Supreme Court
State Pardon Board
Japan announces agreement on mediation plan points
Tokyo reports Japan has reached agreement on the principal points of its mediation plan to settle the territorial dispute between French Indochina and Thailand. French ambassador Charles Arsene Henry and Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka conferred on remaining details, with completion expected within days as a border armistice renewal looms.
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Tokyo
Japan
Thailand
Charles Arsene Henry
Yosuke Matsuoka
Germans Sink British Ships Several Times Claim
An admiralty statement refutes Axis claims that Germany and Italy sank or seriously damaged British warships. Britain says only 15 ships remained at the outbreak of war while Axis reports overstated losses, with Britain noting some vessels were reported sunk multiple times. The admiralty notes aircraft carriers and submarines as of today and questions exaggeration by enemy communiques.
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London
Germany
Italy
Britain
A. V. Alexander
Admiralty
Local Lawyer Bernstein Injured In Auto Crash
Monroe attorney Milling Bernstein was critically injured when his car left a Lafourche swamp curve between Rayville and Monroe. He arrived at St Francis hospital around 3 am after a Tri-State bus driver found the wreck. Surgeons planned surgery on his left arm while treating shock and blood loss with a transfusion.
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Milling Bernstein
Island Drive
St. Francis
Bernstein
Monroe
Lafourche Swamp
Rayville
Tallulah
Rankin Extradition Papers Signed
Extradition papers for William G. Rankin, former Louisiana conservation commissioner, indicted for embezzlement, were signed in Baton Rouge by Governor Sam Jones. Rankin allegedly used $3,287 from conservation funds to pay personal debts and has been living in Waveland since parole from an Atlanta penitentiary for mail fraud.
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New Orleans
Waveland
Miss
William G. Rankin
Louisiana Conservation Commissioner
Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Rankin
Conservation Department
Atlanta
Improvements Under Way on Mexican Ports
Mexican ports Salina Cruz and Mazatlan are being developed as part of US Mexican talks on a mutual assistance agreement. Dredging and upgrades to the Salina Cruz channel, dry docks, wharves, and the rail link to Puerto Mexico are planned. A survey team will visit Mazatlan for a construction study with US funded bases proposed at Magdalena Bay Acapulco and Gulf sites.
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Mexico City
Salina Cruz
Mazatlan
United States
Mexico
United States Navy
California
Panama Canal Zone
Ministry of the Navy
Puerto Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Salina Cray Les
Oaxaca
Sinaloe
Lower
Washington
Magdalena Bay
Acapulco
Vote to Replace Tech President Believed Narrow
Shreveport reports the Louisiana Board of Education, in a six to four vote, ousted Dr. E S Richardson as president of Louisiana Tech and named Dr. Claybrook Cottingham as his replacement. Governor appointees dominated, while four elected members opposed the change.
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Shreveport
State Board of Education
E. S. Richardson
Louisiana Tech
Claybrook Cottingham
Shreveport Journal
Rufus Harris
Tulane
Harris
Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Richardson
Morgan Walker
Alexandria
Cottingham
Louisiana Baptist College
Pineville
Dr. Richardson
Dr. Cottingham
Sam Jones
Walker Teekell
John Graham
Ruston
Eden pledges aid to Greece as battles loom
Greek leaders and the press hailed Anthony Eden’s pledge that Britain will stand by Greece until final victory despite German forces gathering on the Bulgarian frontier. Eden praised Greek resistance and warned the path ahead may be arduous as he left Athens with General Dill after talks asserting agreement on Balkan tensions.
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Eden
Greece
Athens
Asyrmatos
John G. Dill
Imperial General Staff
Jones to Discuss New Orleans Charity Hospital Control
Gov Sam Jones will start talks on the New Orleans Charity hospital controversy with Lt Gov Marc Mouton. An executive order placed the hospital under state department control. Dr O P Daly of Lafayette named superintendent and six hospital board members resigned in protest.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
New Orleans Charity Hospital
Marc M. Mouton
Mouton
State Department of Institutions
O. P. Daly
Lafayette
IM SAFETY RECORD Accidents to date this year
Report summary shows 5 accidents to date this year and 93 last year with 13 personal injuries this year and 19 last year. No deaths so far this year though 2 deaths occurred last year.
Banister Warns Monroe Charity Hospital Funds Endangered
Representative D. Ross Banister accuses the state administration of trying to deprive Monroe Charity Hospital of funds to equip and open it. An appropriation of 432,859 expires June 30, 1941, risking loss if not used by then. He urged Governor Sam Jones for immediate action to use or lose the money.
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Monroe Charity Hospital
D. Ross Banister
Quachita Parish
Sam Jones
Banister
Weygand Talks in Vichy with French Chief
General Maxime Weygand arrived in Vichy for a face to face talk with Marshal Petain, his first since five months. He traveled with two officers in plain clothes and went to Petain's Pare hotel HQ.
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Vichy
France
Maxime Weygand
North Africa
Marshal Petain
Weygand
Pare Hotel
Petain
Jean Chiappe
Syria
Chiappe
Mediterranean
Werygand
Jean Darlan
Princess Hohenlohe Deportation Order Upheld by Board
A final deportation order stands against Princess Hohenlohe of Hungary after the immigration appeals board rejected her appeal. Her attorney said she has been unable to obtain a passport to another country and the government must provide safe transportation if the order is executed. The princess, known as Maria Waldenburg, entered in 1939 and is linked to Fritz Wiedemann. she remains detained on a $25,000 bond in Palo Alto with her son Franz questioned about his status.
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Washington
Princess Hohenlohe
Hungary
Immigration Service Appeals Board
Justice Department
Stephanie Hohenlohe Waldenburg Schillingesfurst
Maria Waldenburg
United States
Fritz Wiedemann
San Francisco
House of Commons
Hitler
Palo Alto
Calif
Franz
Major test of strength over British aid amendments in Senate
Administration leaders fight provisions restricting use of U S forces abroad as Senate plans compromise ideas. Senator Ebiender proposes clause barring extra presidential powers for land or naval deployments overseas. Hull worries such limits could aid Japan while White House weighs possible concessions. Roosevelt letters reiterate support for the measure's policy.
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Washington
Senate
Ebiender
Louisiana
Hull
Japan
Orient
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Clark
Missouri
Town Hall kicks off year with banquet and new board
Town Hall seeks 500 members for 1941 1942 and will hold a kickoff banquet at Hotel Frances Thursday at 7 p.m. New board members will serve as team captains and their assistants will attend. Dean Calvert of Northeast Junior College will preside as president of Monroe Town Hall. Elmer Schlotz of the national Town Hall organization will speak on growth and benefits. Headquarters open in Hotel Frances lobby and invites former members to visit.
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Rebekah Assembly
Monroe
Hotel Frances
Grand Lodge
West Monroe
Henry Castle
Town Hall
Dean C. C. Calvert
Northeast Junior College
Monroe Town Hall
Elmer B. Schlotz
National Organization of Town Hall
Schiotz
Correction clarifies Sam Ladart arrest identity mix up
The paper corrects an earlier Thursday report declaring Sam Ladart as the owner of Ladarts Spaghetti Garden on Park Avenue. The arrested individual for receiving stolen property is not the same Sam Ladart, and the News Star World issues this correction.
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Sam Ladart
Ladart
Park Avenue
News-Star—World
Germans Push Preparations in Bulgaria
German forces in Bulgaria ramp up to 1 700 planes with 150 000 troops nearby as Greece readies six divisions near Salonika. Antonescu returns to Bucharest after Vienna talks with Goering. Moscow notes threaten cessions of Black Sea bases. Britain seeks to block Yugoslavia from joining Rome Berlin Tokyo as Prince Paul may visit Vienna. Turkish sources say Hitler message was not clarified.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Greece
Fourth Air Fleet
Salonika
Albania
Ion Antonescu
Bucharest
Vienna
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Antonescu
Moscow
Goering
Belgrade
Soviet
Russia
Ruemania
Black Sea
Britain
Yugoslavia
Tokyo
Sor
Prince Paul
Ankara
Adolf Hitler
Farm Exports at Low Level Across World Markets
The Commerce Department reports January farm exports at 22 million dollars out of 325.355 million in total U S foreign trade, down from 1940's prior months. Decline blamed on European wartime disruption, UK blockade, and reduced UK imports, with war supplies increasing share of shipments.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Europe
United Kingdom
Treasury to Start Public Sale of Defense Savings Stamps
March 6 Washington Treasury Secretary Morgenthau announced the public sale of defense savings stamps certificates and bonds will begin May 1. The program may offer 0-cent stamps for children up to $1000 bonds for bankers with up to 250000 sales locations. Post offices are ready and stores and other convenient blocks are being sought. He expects schools to sell stamps and may set quotas for schools.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Defense
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