Tragical Marlsborough Apartment Fire Claims Many Lives
A blaze at the Marlsborough Apartment Hotel in Minneapolis killed 18 to 20 people. Morgue estimates listed 17 bodies by 10 a m with at least one more expected. Victims included Mrs Mabel Brown 34 who died after leaping from a third floor window and Otto Franke 25 and his sister 16. Fire started before 6 a m with an explosion reported by Jo Knack 49 the janitor. Fire spread rapidly collapsing stairways as firefighters battled freezing conditions and ambulances ferried injured and dead from the 85 apartment building.
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Minneapolis
Marlsborough
John Anderson
Mabel Brown
General Hospital
Anden
Otto Franke
Flor- Hesse
Herth
Jo Knack
Finland relief drive seeks funds via Daily cooperation
The Daily asks readers to contribute to a Finland distress fund started to aid those affected by the invasion. Gifts will be collected and delivered to the committee in New York, with acknowledgments published in the newspaper. Address gifts to Finland Fund care The Decatur Daily in Decatur Alabama. Otto Moebes pryman.
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Hoover
Finland
New York
Decatur
Ala
Dies committee pins blame on CIO unions in major report
The Dies committee estimated that up to a million Americans are affected by subversive influence, warning that most CIO members show communist sympathy while leaders of a quarter of CIO locals are heavily tinged with communism. It calls for continued scrutiny, enforcement, and a clear stance against communist fronts and foreign influence.
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Washington
Dies Committee
United States
House
CIO
John L. Lee Ett
American Youth Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Youth Congress
Hitler
Stalin
Bund
Communist Party
Russia
Lewis
John L. Lewis
Dempsey
N. M
Starnes
Ala
Germany may be forced to join Russian war in Finland
Berlin reports authoritative Nazi sources say Germany would be forced to take an active part in the Russian Finnish war if France sends Alpine troops to Finland. They warn landing French or British troops would widen the conflict and breach neutrality if Norway or Sweden aid such transport. Reports in Brussels quote French papers claiming 10,000 French troops headed for Finland.
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Berlin
Germany
France
Finland
Russia
Britain
League of Nations
Norway
Sweden
Brussels
Washington U. fullback dies in car crash after Orange Bowl trip
Victor C. Theiling, fullback for Washington University in St. Louis, died after a car accident while returning from the Orange Bowl game. Companion Carl J. Reinecke Jr., 19, also a Washington U. student, was fatally injured. Theiling, recovering from injuries, believed Reinecke fell asleep at the wheel. The two drove all night from Miami after witnessing the game. Theiling's father was expected from St. Louis.
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Troy
Ala
Victor C. Theiling
Washington University
St. Louis
Carl J. Reinecke, Jr
Washington U
Miami
Georgia Tech
Missouri
Theiling
Reinecke
Murphy to be named to Supreme Court and Jackson as attorney general
Washington reports that Frank Murphy will be appointed to the Supreme Court and Robert H. Jackson will succeed him as attorney general. The shift follows Justice Butler's death last November and comes after Roosevelt met with Murphy and Jackson. Jackson led the antitrust division before becoming solicitor general in 1933. A Senate nomination for Schwellenbach to the federal district court bench in Washington State was also planned.
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Washington
Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Justice Department
Pierce Butler
Roosevelt
Murphy
Jackson
Homer Cummings
Michigan
Philippines
Stanley Reed
Capitol Hill
Senate
Senator Schwellenbach
Wash
Eastern
Federal District Court
Washington State
Woman Kills Own Mother Then Falls From Hotel Window
Pittsburgh dispatch reports 34 year old Agnes West, a West Virginia University librarian, strangled her mother Helen West, 58, secretary of the university health service, with a scarf. Agnes leaped from a hotel window but survived with back and internal injuries.
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Pittsburgh
Cyril Letzkus
James O'Kane
Agnes West
West Virginia University
Morgantown
W. Va
Helen West
West Virginia University Health Service
Letzkus
O’kane
Miss West
University Health Service
University Infirmary
Congress Opens With Roosevelt Address In Divided Debates
Washington January 3 1941 Congress convened to hear President Roosevelt’s annual message amid divisions over the reciprocal trade treaty program federal spending Wagner act and defense policy as lawmakers brace for domestic clashes while seeking to avoid broad controversy. The opening featured formal sessions busy with security precautions and ceremonial notices as the president prepared to speak at a joint session in the afternoon.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Big House
America
Bankhead
Barney T. Phillips
James Shera Montgomery
City Records 11 Degree Cold Snap with Record Lows
The Mercury fell to 11 degrees above zero in a 24 hour period ending today, surpassing the 19 degree low set two years ago. The forecast notes 22 degrees at 11 am, while snow lingers and roads remain slick. Streams froze solid and burst pipes are reported citywide amid the deep freeze.
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Aero Tormey
State Highway Patrol
Nollaehs
Severe Cold Grips Tennessee Valley As Snow Covers Alabama
A harsh cold wave grips the Tennessee Valley after a snow blanket, driving temperatures to 6 degrees at Florence and 14 to 24 degrees across Mobile, Birmingham, Montgomery, Evergreen, and Dothan. The Muscle Shoals reading is the coldest in Alabama since 1937, with forecasters warning of continued frigid conditions.
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Montgomery
Ala
Tennessee Valley
Alabama
Florence
Muscle Shoals
Scottsboro
Gulf Coast
Mobile
Birmingham
Evergreen
Dothan
Weather Bureau
Baby Dies of Pneumonia In Madison Home
Two month old Cecil Gaines son of Mr. and Mrs G A Gaines died of pneumonia at 9 15 Tuesday morning at the Madison home. The oral rites were held at 10 a m Wednesday at the residence and burial followed in Madison cemetery under the direction of Howell and Young of Decatur. Parents survive.
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Cecil Gaines
G. A. Gaines
Madison
Madison Cemetery
Howell and Young
Decatur
Finn Pursuit Near Lake Kianta After Soviet Defeat
Reporter chronicles Finnish victory at Lake Kianta as Soviet 176th division and 2000 survivors flee through deep snow and forests. Describes wrecked supply lines, battlefield remains, and captured prisoners shivering under guard.
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Witten
Sole Suspect Freed Today In Rogers Family Deaths
Fort Towson Oklahoma January 3 exoneration of a convict in the New Year s Eve killings of Elmer and Mrs Rogers and their 4 year old son Dean James Glenn Rogers 8 testified two strangers shot his parents and burned their three room house. A cook at a prison camp was cleared after Norman Horton and Jess Dunn questioned him and a Stringtown sub prison trusty implicated him as a gag.
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Fort Towson
Okla
Elmer Rogers
Dean
Jeff
Norman Horton
Jess Dunn
Stringtown
Dunn
James Glenn Rogers
James
Billie Don
E.A. Johnson
Rs. Rogers
Hutson Files Candidacy for Alabama Democrat Delegate
Melvin Hutson, solicitor of the Eighth judicial circuit, filed Wednesday to run as a delegate from Alabama’s Eighth congressional district to the Democratic National Convention. He urged party unity behind the administration and named Speaker Bankhead as a potential unifier, stressing the need to endorse the current administration. Filing was reported to the secretary of state and probate judges across the seven counties in the district.
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Melvin Hutson
Eighth Judicial Circust
Eighth
Alabama
Hoover
Bankhead
Tennessee
Limestone
Madison
Jade
Angry Soviet massing men for campaign near Karelia
Helsinki reports the Finnish high command saying a Soviet infantry attack on the Karelian Isthmus was repulsed with heavy losses. Russian forces bombed Turku and Hanko with official notices stating no casualties in Turku and light damage in Hanko. The Taipale river zone battle followed heavy artillery prep and was repelled by Finnish defense with infantry and artillery.
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Helsinki
Karelian
Turko
Hanko
Turku
Finlavnd
Taipale
Soviet massing seven divisions for major Finnish push
Reports from Helsinki say Soviet Russia plans a large offensive against the Mannerheim line on the Karelian Isthmus with about 105000 men under a new commander. Finland claims 190000 combat troops oppose the invaders as brutal winter fighting limits air operations and a Russian 163rd division is said trapped by Finnish forces on Lake Kianta.
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Thomas F. Hawkins
Lake Kianta
Finland
Lake
Kianta
Lynn Heinzerling
Helsinki
Soviet
Russia
Karelian
Germany
Siegfried Line
Mannerheim Line
G. M. Stern
West Pocket
K. A. Meretskoff
Lake Lavajarvi
163Rd
Red Army
lJake
Mrs Mainard Illness Victim Dies in Decatur at 74
Mrs Lucinda H Mainard of Decatur died after a short illness of influenza at her home 319 E Moulton Street. She was 74 and survived by five daughters and three sons. Funeral services will be Thursday at 10:30 am at Central Methodist Church with burial at Rose Lawn Cemetery. Pallbearers named. Eastern Star ladies to arrange flowers. Mrs Mainard had lived in Decatur 35 years and was a longtime Methodist member.
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Lucinda H. Mainard
Decatur
E. Moulton Street
Mainard
Central Methodist Church
R. L. Archibald
Brown
Roselawn
W. T. Hamilton
B. A. Turner
H. H. Hunter
O. L. Reed
Lumphildt
J.T. Pettey
Eastern Star
Ecl Thomas
Flora Mainard
Lillie Mainard
Callie Clapp
Memphis
Frank Spangler
Fayette
J. R. and
Irvin Mainard
Birmingham
George W. Mainard
Dallas
Roosevelt calls for unity and defense in nation’s crisis
President Roosevelt urges national unity to combat worldwide disintegration and asks Congress to finance emergency defense and extend reciprocal trade treaties. He signals budget cuts except for defense and stresses job creation to absorb surplus labor amid unsettled global conditions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
America
Weather Summary for Tennessee and Alabama Regions
The Tennessee river held at 16.5 feet with no rainfall. Temperatures ranged from 25 to 11 degrees, two degrees below Monday night, the year’s lowest so far. Alabama observed fair but cold conditions with a hard north freeze in the north. temperatures 22 to 29 degrees in the south with frost tonight. Thursday forecasts include increasing cloudiness and northeast coastal winds.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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