U S Boosts Naval Staff in Far East
The United States plans to increase its naval staff in the Far East and South Pacific with observers stationed in Singapore Darwin Sydney Auckland and at U S legations in Canberra and Bangkok. Four US cruisers and nine destroyers tour Australian and New Zealand waters with warships in Auckland and Sydney harbors. Australian Navy Minister Hughes calls the visit a sign of goodwill and a school holiday was declared.
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New Zealand
Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
United States
Far East
South Pacific
Singapore
Darwin
Sydney
Auckland
Canberra
Bangkok
United States Navy
Australian
W. M. Hughes
Australia
Commonwealth
Experts Advise New System of Guarding Ships
US and British experts urged abandoning the convoy for a continuous destroyer lane across the Atlantic from Labrador to the British Isles. The plan calls for 50 destroyers patrolling a 2000 mile route, rotating crews, and ensuring no merchant ship is far from protection, allowing faster sailings and quicker reloads.
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New York
Atlantic
Vutel
Great Circle
Labrador
British Isles
Britain
Coast Guard Searches For Overdue Boat Florida Blazer
New Orleans March 19 coast guard plane V 184 and cutter Woodbury searched for the motor boat Florida Blazer overdue 24 hours on a trip from Port Isabel Texas to Port Aransas. Meanwhile the Hazel J with five aboard was taken to the life saving station at Port Isabel. The Hazel J was beached yesterday five miles north of Isabel.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard
Woodbury
Port Isabel
Tex
Port Aransas
Isabel
Former Judge and Executives Named in Fraud Case
Federal grand jury probes alleged conspiracy to obstruct justice and defraud the United States involving former Third Circuit Judge J Warren Devis, William Fox and family, David Kaufman, Morgan Kaufman, plus firms All-Continent and Parkwood. Witness Mary Seagrave Davis Firestone, wife of Roger Firestone, testifies as inquiry opens. Fox interests traced to 1932 All-Continent creation and 1936 bankruptcy filing in Atlantic City.
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Philadelphia
J. Warren Devin
United States Circwit Court of Appeals
William Fox
Fox Picture Empire
United States
Robert H. Jackson
Guy K Bard
United States District Court
Department of Justice
Jackson
Mary Seagrave Davis Firestone
Lawrenceville, N. J
New York
Roger S. Firestone
Firestone Rubber Company
All-Continent Corporation
Fox
Atlantic City
Circuit Court of Appeals
Davis
Kaufman
Towanda
Old
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Navy gets approval for record peacetime outlay
The Senate appropriations committee unanimously approves a 3.448 billion dollar outlay for Navy maintenance and expansion for the fiscal year starting July 1. The House plan adds 1.515 billion for new ships and six battle cruisers, plus 350 million for Navy airplanes and 60 million for ground facilities.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Optometrists Convene In Louisiana State Meeting
The 27th annual convention of the Louisiana State Association of Optometry opens at Hotel Frances with members from many cities. Sessions run through three days as the women’s auxiliary also meets. Mayor Benoit welcomes delegates and Dr J Otis White responds. Lectures and committee reports follow, including a guest lecture by Dr A M Skeffington, with a chicken barbecue supper planned.
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Louiiana
HC. Hughes
J. Otis White
Geneval
C. H. Hagans
T. A. Brute
C.C Broomfield
P. H. Floyd
W. T. Reynolds
C. E. Lewis
H.C Hughes
George Gautreaux
S. §. Lewis
R Gordon Smith
The
American Optical Company
A. M. Skeffington
Graduate Clinic Foundation In Optometry
Gordon Smith
T. A. Brule
Monroe
Louisiana to host massive wartime troop maneuvers in 1940s
Brigadier General Raymond Fleming announced in New Orleans that west central Louisiana will host September maneuvers involving 350 000 to 500 000 troops. The Third Army, training in Louisiana Mississippi and Texas, and the Second Army, in several midwest and southern states, will battle in the Leesville area near Camp Polk, with 15 to 20 divisions in full equipment and heavy mechanized support.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Raymond H. Fleming
Louisiana National Guard
Fleming
Washington
Second Army
Memphis
Bennes
Mississippi
Texas
Lake Charles
Ar- Tennessee
Michigan
Missouri
Kansas
Alabama
Shreveport
Monroe
United States
Piney Woods Forest
Ria
Leesville
Camp Polk
National Guard
Roosevelt Plans Conference Series
President Roosevelt scheduled a series of important conferences on the defense picture today before leaving for a Southern vacation. White House press secretary Stephen Early withheld trip details, saying only that the President would depart for the South during the day.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
White House
South
Small group of aid foes to fight bill
A band of House Republicans announced a last-ditch fight to slash the 7.9 billion aid lease-lead appropriation as final votes near. Representative Lamberton accused President Roosevelt of eagerness to become a war president, while supporters predicted a strong majority to show resolve. Amended proposals would be crushed with lop-sided votes to save time.
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Bill
Washington
House
United States
Senate
Lamberton
Kansas
Roosevelt
Federal move to end defense production strike delays
The Roosevelt administration planned an executive order to form a federal mediation board to settle labor disputes. The War Department eyed taking over a 5.9 million dollar Wright Field project and possibly requisitioning civil service mechanics to finish the work after a four hundred A F of L craftsmen walked off.
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Roosevelt
Federal Mediation Board
War Department
Army Air Corps Experimental Laboratories
Wright Field
Ohio
Civil Service
A. F of L
Penner Construction Corporation
C. O
New York City
C. I. O.united Mine Workers
Annual Cooking School Opens With Many Present
The 1941 News-Star and Morning World cooking school opened at Neville High School auditorium Wednesday at 2 pm with Miss Esther Branch as instructor. Sessions run for three afternoons and a final Friday night session with free prizes from Monroe merchants including a Stewart-Warner refrigerator and multiple radios.
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News-Star
Morning World Cooking School
Neville High School
Pam
Esther Branch
Miss Branch
Monroe
Monroe News-Star
Morning World
Stewart-Warner
Monroe Furniture Company
Home Furniture Company
Zenith
Massey
Montgomery Ward and Company
Plan to Await Final Decision on Reform Act
Governor Sam Jones halted the $400000 mental hospital improvement program pending a Supreme Court ruling on the reorganiza tion amendment. Judge Womack delayed signing a voiding judgment after a plaintiff’s counsel failed to appear, delaying an appeal. State officials anticipated short-lived effects on salaries and welfare payments.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
J. D Womack
K. K. Kennedy
Supreme Court
Womack
Jones
A. P. Tugwell
Finance Department
Fights Against His Dismissal Seeks Relief From State Dept
Ogden H. Hammond Jr. filed a district court complaint to block his dismissal from the foreign service. He names Secretary Hull and other State Department officials as defendants, denies reports of disloyal conduct and a liaison with a foreign agent, and cites his Vienna and Leipzig service with a leave of absence.
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Washington
Hull
State Department
Ogden H. Hammond, Jr
Spain
Teday
Foreign Service
Yale
A A. Berle, Jr
Roosevelt
Louisiannian billiard hall owner gives $1000 extra tax
John Dakmak of Baton Rouge acknowledged voluntarily contributing an extra one thousand dollars with his defense tax in Louisiana. Internal revenue officials in New Orleans confirmed several voluntary contributions, the largest being one thousand dollars. Dakmak, a Baton Rouge native and unmarried, said he did not seek publicity and urged all to aid national defense.
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Baton Rouge
John Dakmak
New Orleans
Dakmak
World War II Armies Clash Across Europe and Africa
The World Today reports heavy Luftwaffe fire over Hull with high casualties feared, RAF raids on Kiel Wilhelmshaven Emden and other targets, and German claims of sinking six British ships. British advances in East Africa, capture of Jijiga, and Italian campaigns. Ankara and Belgrade monitor Greek invasion fears. Turkish Greek talks underway. Albanian front quiet.
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Associated Press
Hull
London
Kiel
Wilhelmshaven
Emden
Rotterdam
East Africa
Jijiga
Ethiopia
Rome
Cheren
Eritrea
Belgrade
Greece
Eden
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Bulgaria
Balkans
Germany
Aegean
Adolf Hitler
Monroe voters approve 875000 power plant expansion plan
Mayor H H Benoit announced engineers will study how to spend the 875 000 power plant fund after Monroe voters approved the plan 2969 to 823 with 1414 of 5206 registered residents not voting. The measure passed despite opposition over timing and costs.
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H. H. Benoit
Monroe
Commission Council
Harvey H. Benoit
C. R. Tidwell
W. D. H. Rodriguez
Finance and Public Utilities
Severe cold spell shows signs of ending across nation
The weather system easing with some mid western regions recording up to 20 degree gains from yesterday. While Pennsylvania New York and New England faced strong northwest winds and snow squalls Florida and Maine logged colder readings and a few coastal areas saw light rain along the Pacific Northwest coast. Sub zero temps were confined to two small spots Houghton Michigan and Holton Maine with Bangor and New Orleans noting zero and low single digits.
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Mid-West
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
New England
United States
Florida
Maine
Rocky Mountains
Mississippi Valley
Texas
Oregon
Washington
Houghton
Mich
Holton
New Orleans
Final Assault Opens in East Africa as British Leap Forward
Cairo reports British forces push toward Cheren in Eritrea while Italian resistance yields with heavy losses. The advance aims to seize Cheren and Asmara before the rainy season, aided by a large British empire army and U S aircraft.
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East Africa
Cairo
Egypt
Cheren
Eritrea
Middle East
G. H. Q Wer
Jijiga
Ethiopia
Nairobi
Kenya
Associated Press
Africa
Britain
Balkan
United States
Asmara
Red Sea
Massaus
Houston girl and convict to marry in jail wedding
Norma Fuqua of Houston and Howard Jensen were married in a jail cell as Jensen prepared to begin a three year prison term for theft of 17400 dollars in jewelry from a yacht. Jensen, once steward of the yacht Elsanbil II, was jailed after pawning pieces in several cities. Sheriff L R Baker noted Fuqua would return to Houston after the ceremony.
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West Palm Beach
Fila
Raiford
L. R. Baker
Norma Fuqua
Houston
Tex
Howard Jensen
Jensen
New York
William T. Price
Marion
Lake Charles
Birmingham
Ala
John L Moore
Sherif Baker
Fuqua
Safety Record Highlights Yearly Accident Trends
The report shows accidents to date this year at 112 versus 10 last year. Personal injuries stand at 23 this year compared with 15 last year. Deaths to date this year are not reported, while last year's deaths data is missing. The figures illustrate rising incident levels this year.
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By Taylor Henry
Jay Allen
Alliance
DNB
France
NAVY
Optometrists
Hotel Frances
DR. Skeffington
Women’s Auxiliary
Doen
Lady Eve
Dick Denning
Donna Schreyer
Sioux Fails
S. D
Stephens College
Columbia
Hollywood
High Court
Council
Monroe Voters
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