British raid on Bremen continues with heavy fires
London reports the second large British raid on Bremen lasted Thursday night with enormous fires. The air ministry says the RAF returned to Bremen to destroy ship building yards and factories and to worsen wartime disorganization. The mission flew through a snowstorm to reach the port city. In Egypt, Australian forces aided by tanks breached defenses at besieged Bardia, part of the Libyan front where Italians defend against a long British push.
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London
Bremen
Air Ministry
RAF
Seaport
Cairo
Egypt
Bardia
Rodolfo Graziani
Sidi Barrani
Libya
Bombardment hits Tripoli port in two raids
British air raids on Tripoli Libyan port during the night of January 1 and the following day struck two motor vessels. The communique said fires spread across the port with heavy smoke, damaging the south east mole, seaplane hangars, customs jetty and moored ships amid multiple explosions.
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Cairo
Tripoli
Britain
Middle East
British forces push beyond Bardia toward Tobruk
Reports from the front yesterday said British mechanized forces swept past Bardia to a point 75 miles from the Egyptian border, suggesting a possible strike against Tobruk, the Italians’ Libyan base. The advance included control of a road segment from Bardia to Tobruk, about 80 miles away.
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Bardia
Toburk
Tobruk
Arantz Rites Scheduled Here
Prayer services for Mrs. John F. Arantz will be held at Brown's Chapel on Ferry Street at 7:30 p m Friday. Funeral is at 10 a m Saturday at St Ann's Catholic Church with Rev Patrick Buckley officiating. The Decatur resident died at 4 a m Thursday at her daughter’s home in Birmingham at age 81. She is survived by three daughters and two sons, fourteen grandchildren, and was a longtime Catholic church member.
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John F. Arantz
Brown's Chapel
Ferry Street
St. Ann's Catholic Church
Patrick Buckley
James Burns
Arantz
Decatur
Illinois
Ughter
Birmingham
Catholic Church
Navy patrol bomber rides out storm to safe lagoon landing
In Edinburg Texas two navy pilots Lt. Murray Hanson and Ensign Robert B. Clark steered a patrol bomber through snow and fog to a shallow lagoon on the Santa Fe Ranch about 30 miles north of Edinburg. They reported five crew parachuted earlier with one fatality and that the plane landed in water only a few inches deep. The craft, en route from San Diego to Pensacola, was guided to the lagoon as darkness fell, then the pilots and two cowboys traversed brush to reach help near dawn.
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Edinburg
Tex
King Ranch
Murray Hanson
Robert B. Clark
San Diego
Calif
Pensacola
Fla
Navy
Santa Fe Ranch
Texas
Gulf Coast
Lt. Hanson
Big Spring
Hanson
Clark
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EX-Residents Rites Held For Arlis Wood Thompson
Final rites for Arlis Wood Thompson 36 were held at 3 30 Friday afternoon at Brown's Chapel Ferry Street by Dr John C Cowell Jr Rev Homer Britton and Rev R L Archibald. Former Decatur resident Thompson had lived in Birmingham where he worked for Continental Gin Company. He is survived by his mother Mrs Kizzie Thompson two sisters Mrs Roy Street and Mrs Ernest Carpenter a son A W Thompson Jr and a brother T B Thompson Pallbearers were John Aycock W B Brown John Loomis Grady Young Robert Street Addison Poole and John Pate.
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Arlis Wood Thompson
Brown's Chapel
Ferry Street
John C Cowell, Jr
Homer Britton
Central Baptist Church
R. L. Archibald
Central Methodist Church
Ciee
Brown
Thompson
Twenty-First Street
Decatur
Birmingham
Continental Gin Company
Kizzie Thompson
Roy Street
Ernest Carpenter
Mobile
A. W. Thompson
de Funiak Springs
Florida
T. B. Thompson
John Aycock
W. B. Brown
John Loomis
Grady Young
Robert Street
Addison Poole
John Pate
Debt Knocked Down Thirty-Two Thousand in Decatur
The City of Decatur reduced its bonded debt by 32000 dollars as part of a long term plan to retire four percent bonds. The next payment is expected around early March and the refinancing aims to retire the entire indebtedness over thirty years while covering principal and interest with the same payment amount.
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Decatur
County Singing Convention Set at Morgan County High School
The Morgan county singing convention will be held Saturday and Sunday January 11 12 in the auditorium of Morgan County High School at Hartselle. The event starts 10 a.m. Saturday with many musical units and soloists from Morgan and nearby counties on the program. Feature act is the Speer family of Lawrenceburg Tennessee appearing in concert Saturday night.
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Morgan County
Morgan County High School
Hartselle
Morgan
Speer
Lawrenceburg
Tennessee
Decatur Council Adjusts License Schedule for 1941
The Decatur city council amended the license ordinance adding Items 17 and 93 covering industrial banks and loan companies. Industrial bank licenses remain $125 yearly while loan company licenses revert to $125. chiropractors license restored at $25. tourist camps license fixed at $50 per year. Council also discussed welding class space, strict garbage enforcement, and voiding ten thousand dollar bonds due to holes.
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Decatur
John Fowler
Fowler
Roosevelt outlines plan to build 200 merchant ships
President Roosevelt announced steps to begin constructing about 200 merchant vessels of 7,500 tons each at a total cost of 300 to 350 million dollars. The ships will be government owned and built in new yards. It is unclear where the yards will be located and whether the program will aid Britain. A report on steel production capacity is due in a few days. Some ships may be ready within a year.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Congress
Britain
Maritime Commission
Childersburg to Get Smokeless Powder Plant
The War Department announced President Roosevelt approved construction of a smokeless powder and bagloading plant at Childersburg Alabama to supply an army of two million. Negotiations on building and operating the plant were under way with contracts to follow.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Childersburg
Ala
War Department
Charlestown
Ind
Radford
Alabama
Birmingham
Talladega Couny
Twins Born in Auburn in Husband's Auto
Auburn New York January reports twin girls born to Mrs Donald Smith in Auburn City Hospital. The husband drove from Scipio in his car to the hospital about 15 miles, halting twice during the trip. The hospital listed both twins as well and noted the husband was the sole attendant.
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Auburn
N. Y
Donald Smith
Auburn City Hospital
Smith
War relief work to be resumed by Red Cross
The Red Cross war relief program will resume Monday with opening rooms at 110 West Vine Street. Mrs. Roy Poteet, the chairman, announced a large demand for sweaters and asked knitters to volunteer by calling 358.
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Red Cross
West Vine Street
Roy Poteet
Poteet
New session of Congress opens with defense and aid debates
Washington dispatch reports the new Congress opening amid grave international problems. Leaders from both parties discussed a broad program on defense and aid to Britain, with Roosevelt's forthcoming State of the Union expected to expand on transforming America into an arsenal for democracy.
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Washington
America
House
Senate
Garner
Martin
South Trimble
James Shera Montgomery
Republic
Britain
Congress
Roosevelt
Jeaders
White House
Rain disrupts Alabama capital phone lines
A heavy rainstorm cut phone service in Montgomery affecting Maxwell Field and fire department lines for several hours. Police coordination kept alarms functioning via radio as crews repaired corroded cables, with 57 inch rainfall in the last 24 hours and colder temperatures expected tonight.
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Maxwell Field
Aly Training Center
Telephone Co
Fire Department
Montgomery
Weather Bureau
Dothan
Birmingham
Florence
Evergreen
Mobile
Gadsden
Selma
Huntsville
Death toll declines in Jefferson County in 1940
Coroner Gip M. Evans reported that deaths from homicides, accidents, and personal crisis fell in Jefferson County in 1940, totaling 48 fewer fatalities than 1939. White and negro homicide counts dropped, while accidental deaths and personal crisis reports also decreased.
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Birmingham
Ala
Gip M. Evans
Jefferson County
Jefferson
Bessemer
Fairfield
Greeks Break Through Italian Defenses in Albania Front
Allied dispatches report Greek forces pierced Italian lines from Chimara to Tepeleni along the Adriatic coast. Fierce coastal fighting and tank clashes followed as Greeks repulsed assaults and advanced, with Italian losses and several tanks destroyed. Weather remained severe as Greek units found 200 Italian soldiers frozen in a mountain cavern field hospital. Royal Air Force raids on Elbasani, Albania caused major fires and damage in the center of town and along the main road.
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Associated Press
Athdens
Chimara
Adriatic
Blisura-Tepelent
Albania
Pogradets
Fronta
Kilsura
Aeae
Elbasani
Royal Air Force
Tirana
RAF
Elbasan
Dode Fish's Last Show Funeral Draws Packed House
Circus veteran Dode Fish aged 81 died Wednesday in Columbus Ohio and planned a joyful funeral with a three piece orchestra. Nearly 300 attended as a red and white coffin sign urged not crying but laughing and celebrating. He directed burial in Wisconsin and left a $10 money order for his grandchildren to fund a show and enjoy themselves.
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Columbus
Dode Fish
Fish
William
Doc
Waddell
Dode
S Dode
Wonewoc
Wis
Italian Submarine Reported Sunk by Thunderbolt
The admiralty said the Italian submarine sunk by the British Thunderbolt was hit while en route to a base in enemy-occupied territory under escort. The Thunderbolt, formerly Thetis, sank in 1939 with 99 men aboard, later raised and renamed.
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London
Admiralty
Thunderbolt
B. Crouch
Ireland Bomb Attacks Provoke German Policy Warning
London reports from neutral sources say bombs on Ireland came from German planes signaling Nazi hopes to deter Ireland from neutrality or alliance with the Allies. Dublin confirms daylight raids and protests to Berlin, with Dublin demanding full reparations and measures to prevent recurrence.
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London
Ireland
Germany
Eire
England
Dublin
Neutral
Berlin
Bonapartists Seeks Return of Napoleon’s Heir for France
Bonapartists report talks with Vichy to allow Louis Napoleon Jerome Victor Emanuel Marie, 26, the Count of Montfort, to return and rule modern France. He lives near the Swiss border, and a 55 year old law would need abrogation to admit male descendants of a French ruling family.
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Nyon
Switzerland
Vichy
Napoleon
France
Ron
Here
Louis Napoleon Jerome Victor Emanuel
Marie
Count of
Montfort
Adolf Hitler
L'Aiglon
Paris
Dublin Raid Details Tie to German Planes in Daylight Assaults
Government reports connect two daylight Dublin attacks to German aircraft. A 12:20 p.m. strike on Donore Avenue houses killed or injured about 20 people amid frantic ground fire. Officials had avoided naming a nationality, noting incendiaries and magnetics mines tied to German製 planes in a continuing series of daytime raids.
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Eamon de Valera
Dublin
Donore Avenue
Donore Avenue Bom
Tennessee River Gauge Rises to 19.22 Feet Amid Light Rain
Weather update notes the Tennessee river at 19.22 feet and rising, with temperatures around 65 degrees and 40 degree lows over the past 24 hours. Light rain fell overnight, with Saturday expected to be fair but colder.
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Warrenville Baptist Church
Aiken
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W. Compton
Dallas
Philanthroper
Compton
Ussery
Bates
Hopkins
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Sam Rayburn
Senate Finance Committee
Byrnes
South Carolina
Appropriations Group
Barkley
Dorothy Derene
New York
Times Square
Dorothy Pearl Cloyd
West Monroe
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