Rightists name new premier as Japan tightens control
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma is ordered by the emperor to form a cabinet amid rightist pressure for a stricter economy and one political party. In China fighting resumes, with towns recaptured on the Sui River and at Tawantsun. Spanish insurgents report an advance near Artesa. France's Daladier inspects Tunisian defenses as Italy proclaims Tunisia safe.
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Associated Press
Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
Barcelona
Konoye
China
Empire
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Sui River
Yangtze
Kiukiang
Tawantsun
Hankow
Shansi
Spain
Artesa
Segre
Daladier
France
Tunisian
Italy
Tunisia
North African
Emperor Hirohito Orders New Cabinet Under Hiranuma
Tokyo reports Emperor Hirohito commanded Baron Kichiro Hiranuma to form a new cabinet replacing Prince Fumimaro Konoue. The move follows Konoue’s resignation amid strong militarist nationalist pressure for reorganization and a single party state policy in Japan.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Kichiro Hiranuma
Privy Council
Fumimaro Konoue
Hiranuma
Konoye
China
Japan
East Asia
Heihin Ikeda
Eda
Daladier Tours Desert Maginot Line in Tunisia
Premier Daladier inspected the Mareth defense works in Tunisia and declared the Maginot line of the desert sufficient to resist any attack. He pledged France will protect Tunisian security and noted troops and irregulars drill across the sands amid dust and parades.
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Deserts
Maginot
Robert B. Parker
Gabes
Tunisia
Premiere Daladier
Mareth
France
Germany
Tunis
Libya
Mareth Oasis
Daladier
Sidi Ahmed
Dixon Keeps Hands Free In Alabama Party Fight
Governor elect Frank M. Dixon said he will not participate in selecting a chairman for the state democratic executive committee. He released a letter to Jefferson county member David S. Anderson stating he would not influence the January 16 meeting in Montgomery and wants a leader who will aid the delegation to the 1940 Democratic National Convention without pledging to any candidate. Several names were listed as possible chairmen, with Anderson denying candidacy.
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Birmingham
Ala
Frank M. Dixon
Dixon
David
Anderson
Gessner T. McCorvey
Mobile
E. C
Bud Boswell
Geneva
Nelson O. Fuller
Centerville
B. Grady Wilson
Jasper
Silas Cater
Montgomery
J. M. Moore
Fayette
Walter J. Price
Huntsville
Carroll T. Prince
Brewer Dixon
Talladega
Democratic Party reorganizes after Dixon inauguration in Alabama
Montgomery January 4. The Alabama Democratic Executive Committee will meet at 3:30 p m inauguration day January 16 to organize after the governor elect Frank M Dixon’s inauguration, departing from prior practice. Incoming members will elect a chairman and a national committeeman to fill the McCord unexpired term. Several candidates are in the race for chairman.
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Montgomery
Ala
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Frank M. Dixon
John D. McQueen
Tuscaloosa
New Democratic Committee
McQueen
Alabama
Leon McCord
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Carnegie students en route to school after Sugar Bowl trip
A special 11 car train carried 43 football players and staff from Carnegie Tech through here on the L and N at 1130 AM to Pittsburgh from New Orleans after the Sugar Bowl game with Texas Christian. The group visited New Orleans sights before returning.
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Kittie
Carnegie Tech
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
Tech
Texas Christian
Crescent City
Old Town
Japanese trio in Bee Line accident near Hartselle
A Japanese three aboard a car driven by Cecil S. Vanauner of New Orleans veered off the Bee Line highway south of Hartselle just before nine. The car toppled, baggage scattered, and all three were checked by patrolmen and treated before being taken to the Tennessee Valley hotel as insurance adjusters were awaited.
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Bee Line
Hartselle
Cecil S. Vanauner
New Orleans
Francisco
Cate
Yanauner
Tennessee Valley Hotel
Death edict will stand for McCall in ransom kidnaping
Florida Supreme Court unanimous decision upholds the death sentence for Franklin Pierce McCall in the ransom kidnapping and murder of James Bailey Cash Jr. at Princeton last May 29 after $10,000 was paid. No mercy due to lack of extenuating circumstances.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Supreme Court
Franklin Pierce McCall
McCall
High Court
James Bailey Cash, Jr
Princeton
Bread price dispute roils Mexico City bakers
In Mexico City a labor dispute centers on whether bread should be sold as one piece or two. The price remains five cents, with union bakers pushing for larger pieces while patrons favor the old halves. The union wants to retain the peddler with a basket balance, and several shops have new contracts backed by the federal labor department, though public anger has surged.
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Mexico City
Federal Labor Department
World’s Fair Trophy Game Sought for TCU and Tennessee
Atlanta celebrates invited Tennessee and Texas Christian after bowl wins to play either January 14 or 21 for a world’s fair trophy. No official confirmation. rumors circulated of a post season clash as fans await a decisive national title outcome.
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Tennessee
Texas Christian
Atlanta Celebrations Commission
Paul Stevenson
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Robert Neyland
Davey O'Brien
Carnegie Tech
Fort Worth
Tennessee Volunteers
Oklahoma
Sooners
Miami
Weyiald
B. M. Waits
Texas Christian University
White man sought in assault of 13 year old Ada Owen
Ada Owen a 13 year old Negro girl of 718 McCartney street was in serious condition as Decatur police searched for an unidentified white man after she said he Criminally hurt her near the cemetery just after 7 pm Tuesday. She told officers the man wore a brown zipper jacket and drove a four door black sedan. Police and her aunt Ella Jenkins reported the incident and a doctor said her condition remains serious. Morgan county court officials said no prior white man accused of attacking a Black woman is recalled.
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Ada Pearl Owen
McCartney Street
Decatur
W. P. Moore
Ella Jenkins
Lee Street
Hunter
Terry
Weatherly
Blalock
Hostal
Seneratio
Morgan County
Decatur High School Football Banquet Plans
The Decatur high school football banquet will be held Thursday night in the Riverside building study hall starting at seven. Organized by the school athletic association, the event expects over 100 attendees including 40 squad members, their dates, cheerleaders, the board of education, coaching staff, Superintendent Prof. H. B. Alverson, and several faculty members.
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Decatur High School
Riverside
School Athletic Association
Board of Education
EB. Alverson
Alabama business outlook discussed by Dean Bidgood
Dean Lee Bidgood of the University of Alabama Commerce School spoke to a Civic Club in Birmingham on "Business Research." He examined prospects for improved business conditions in Alabama during 1939.
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Birmingham
Ala
Lee Bidgood
University Alabama Commerce School
Alabama
Negro Faces Court Today In Greensboro Murder Case
More than a score of state highway patrolmen escorted Grady Tubbs to Greensboro for arraignment on murder charges in the deaths of Horace Nash and Mrs. Golda Lyles near their parked car. Tubbs admitted Nash slaying but denied killing Mrs. Lyles. he has been held in Jefferson County jail for safekeeping.
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Birmingham
Ala
Grady Tubbs
Greensboro
Horace Nash
Nash
Golda Lyles
Rober, McAdory
Tubbs
Mra. Lyles
Jefferson County
N. W. Kimbrough
Biblical Beginning in Encino Parish Holds First Services
A new Episcopal parish in Encino California will hold its first services this Sunday in a barn at the Edward Horton launch site. Rev Harley Wright Smith likened the birth of the parish to the birth of Christianity and chose the sermon topic a few dumb animals and a number of wise men.
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Encino
Calif
Episcopal Church
Edward Everett Horton
Harley Wright Smith
Element Of Time Proves Factor In Preventing School Tragedy
Four hours saved many students at Decatur high school from a campus disaster when a classroom ceiling collapsed at 4 a.m. The mass of plastering and laths fell to the floor, but no injuries occurred. Principal Hurston and Superintendent Alverson secured the scene and planned repairs.
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Decatur Regio High School
Alex Vaughan
C. J. Hurston
E. Alverson
Roosevelt Averts World War Threat but Warns Peace Not Assured
President Roosevelt notes in his message to Congress that a global war was avoided yet peace remains precarious. He stresses religion democracy and good faith as vital to national defense and urges mobilizing capital and labor to reach a yearly national income of at least eighty billion dollars.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Roosevelt Foresees Threats to Religion Democracy and Good Faith
The president warns of raging undeclared wars and a world on edge as he opens the seventy sixth Congress. He stresses three pillars religion democracy and international good faith facing challenges from forces of aggression and calls for united action to defend faith and civilization worldwide.
Roosevelts warning of storms from abroad in anew congress address
President Roosevelt told Congress that peace is not assured after Munich and cited events in Europe Africa and Asia as threats to democracy. He warned of undeclared wars deadly armaments and new aggression and urged a strong unified nation with adequate defense and social reform.
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Jan
Roosevelt
Congress
Congress of the United States
World Today
Munich
Senate
House
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Germany
Africa
Italy
Ethiopia
Asia
Japan
China
Eal
The
United
Omenar
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