Britain rounds up 3000 civilians in occupied France
A fresh roundup of British civilians in Nazi occupied France is described as military necessity by German authorities. The act follows raids and reprisals as RAF bombers target military and naval bases. British air attacks hit Brest Cherbourg and Dutch coastal shipping while Swansea suffers fires. Churchill stresses ships and supplies from America amid lend lease debate.
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Associated Press
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England
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
Berlin
Britain
Swansea
South Wales
Brest
Cherbourg
Battle
Domei
Gulf of Siam
Lamotte-Picquet
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Virginio Gayda
Il Giornale D'Italia
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Italy
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Albania
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Switzerland
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Sofia
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Romania
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America
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Harry Hopkins
U. S.S
Wheeler
Washington
Inaugural Parade Emphasizes Armed Power and Leadership
Captain Woolsey Finnell promoted to lieutenant colonel to serve as executive officer of the 151st Engineer Regiment under Colonel Ed win W. Jones. The piece outlines Roosevelt's inauguration amid vast defense displays, paraded military units, West Point cadets, and plans for thousands of attendees and foreign diplomats.
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State Military Department
Montgomery
Woolsey Finnell
Decatur
151St Engineer Regiment
Edwin W. Jones
Huntsville
Finnell
CMTC
Anniston
Fort McClellan
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Alabama National Guard
Alabama
North Alabama
Hull to Give Willkie Dope
The White House said President Roosevelt asked Secretary Hull to brief Republican candidate Wendell Willkie on European conditions and U S policies ahead of their 3 30 p m meeting at Willkie's hotel. Hull would outline government reasons and policies. Willkie travels to Europe and London, meeting British leaders.
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White House
Roosevelt
Hull
Wendell L. Willkie
United States
State Department
Willkie
Europe
Stephen Early
Early
London
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Clipper
Lisbon
British halt French ship Mendoza off Brazilian coast
The 8,199-ton French freighter Mendoza, trying to run the British blockade toward France, was reported halted and probably seized by a British warship off the lower Brazilian coast. She reportedly left Porto Bello in Santa Catarina and moved slowly along shoal waters inside Brazilian territorial waters, where seizure was believed unlikely under international law.
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Bellenos Aires
Mendoza
France
Porto Bello
State of Santa Catharina
Brazil
French freighter Mendoza halted north of Porto Bello
Naval sources report the French freighter Mendoza edging along the Brazilian coast to break the British blockade was stopped by a British warship north of Porto Bello, Brazil, near Montevideo on January 18.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Mendoza
Porto Bello
Brazil
Decatur seeks WPA aid for Sixth Avenue widening project
The City of Decatur submits a WPA proposal to widen Sixth Avenue nearly a mile to 46 48 feet from 32 36. If approved the city’s share drops from 34336 to 4528.03. A separate Moulton Street resurfacing project estimated at 11000 with city cost around 2500 is planned for later inclusion.
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Decatur
WPA
Sixth Avenue
Moulton Street
Bee Line Highway
Ninth Avenue
T. R. Harrison
A. C. Dillehay
H. H. Hunter
Russell Speake
City Finance Committee
Montgomery
Walnut Street
Sixth Street
Honeymoon Hotel Bought Near Honeymoon Island
Clinton Washburn backs Honeymoon Island project and buys the 100 room Pale-Mar hotel on Dunedin Florida shore from Louis L. Sonmer. New owners plan to transform it into a honeymoon hotel cabin, add a movie theater and two docks for access to the island with landscaping work to begin.
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Dunedin
Fla
Clinton Washburn
Honeymoon Island
W. H. Tutus
New York
Louis L. Sonmer
New York City
Yacht Basin Shore
Titus
Nelson buys first ticket to new theatre Roxy
James A. Nelson, longtime Bank Street merchant, purchases the first ticket for the new theatre named the Roxy, described as Asia’s newest business enterprise.
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Nelson
Roxy
James A. Nelson
Bankstreet
American Supplies Due Late This Year
Washington reports Rep Tinkham plans to subpoena Wendell Willkie to testify on the British aid bill after his Europe trip. William S. Knudsen, production head, told the Foreign Affairs Committee it would be late 1942 before full defense output, including shells and heavy arms, could aid Britain under lend lease. He said collateral and policing the world were not intended by the bill.
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Washington
Tinkham
Rmass
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Wendell L. Willkie
Europe
Roosevelt
Knudsen
Rogers
Mass
Chiperfield
Bill
England
Johnson
Secrehees
Britain
United States
Britain’s united will reshapes postwar social order
The article argues that Britain, facing intensified conflict with Hitler, will emerge as a new nation with unity and a transformed social and economic structure. It warns against utopian fantasies while stressing honest, fraternal cooperation and shared sacrifice across classes in the struggle for survival.
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Britain
Hitler
British Isles
England
Changes Inevitable In Life of Britain
A columnist argues Britain has learned that class divisions vanish in wartime. Shared sacrifice through digging for bomb victims, underground shelters, and community kitchens shows that privation crosses social lines. The piece notes a moral remoulding and public recognition of unity, with a continuation teased.
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Britain
Cold wave to hit Alabama forecasts frost and freezes
The weather forecast warns a cold wave will lower Alabama temperatures below freezing in many areas through Sunday. Officials predict interior lows of 25 to 28 with near 30 along the coast and frost in the southern portion tonight, followed by continued cold and fair conditions Sunday.
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Theodore F. Korp Ashington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Capitol Plaza
Pennsylvania Avenue
Alabama
Associated Press
Montgomery
U. S
North Portion
South Portion
Bitter cold wave grips central to southern states
A northwest to southeast cold front drives zero to 35 below readings from the Dakotas to Minnesota Wisconsin and Nebraska while snow affects the Great Lakes and Deep South. Temperatures fall sharply in Duluth and Fargo with a widespread freeze and new snow from Little Rock to Maine.
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Canada
Mississippi
Vateley
Great Lakes
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Gulf States
New England
Maine
Duluth
Minn
Minneapolis
LaCrosse
Wis
Devil's Lake
Bismarck
N. D
Fargo
Huron
Valentine
Neb
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Colo
Little Rock
Memphis
Nashville
Shreveport
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Towa
Louisa
Charleston
W. Va
Pennsylvania
York
New Hampshire
Vermont
Officers Map Plans Here
Officers of the 51st engineer regiment in Hartselle Decatur Athens Huntsville and the Tri-Cities met at Cornelian Court hotel for a dinner last night. They discussed mobilization preparations and set January 27 as the move into armories. Induction into active service and related matters were reviewed.
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51St Engineer Regiment
National Guard
Hartselle
Decatte
Athens
Huntsville
Tri-Cities
Cornelian Court Hotel
Installation Service Set for Rev John Troxler at Westminster
Huntsville Presbytery will install Rev John A Troxler as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church Sunday at five in the church auditorium. Nashville representative Robert L Houston will deliver the sermon. Elder N K Bitting will pose the constitutional questions to the pastor and congregation. Rev F Plynn Humphreys will give the charge and J W Caldwell will address the people. The service includes prayer by Rev Edward Ramage and a Decatur Ministerial Association representation. The new pastor came December 1 from Pepper Memorial Presbyterian Springfield Tenn. He previously chaired Nashville Presbytery evangelism and worked at Cumberland University and has degrees from Cumberland and Princeton Theological Seminary. After the service the Women’s Auxiliary will host a supper for visiting ministers.
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Huntsville
The
Presbyterian Church
John A.troxler
Wesminster Presbyterian Church
Ee Church
Robert L. Houston
Nashville
Penne
Board of National Missions
Wouk
N. K. Bitting
Athens
Fpiynn Humphreys
Central Presbyterian Church
J. W. Caldwell
Edward Ramage
First Presbyterian Church
Decatur Ministerial Association
Pepper Memorial Presbyterian Church
Springfield
Tenn
Wife No 2 in Court Action
Marion Sayle Taylor is accused by his second wife of urging a divorce to dodge an alienation suit from his first wife and of taking a third wife. Jessie W. Taylor seeks to set aside a five year old divorce and to obtain an accounting of a property settlement she says earned her at least $800 monthly. She claims Taylor revealed threat of alienation action, promised to remarry, and later wed a third wife Mildred Taylor.
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Los Angeles
Marion Sayle Taylor
Jessie W. Taylor
Draft quota to be hired in state
Alabama selective service headquarters said preparations were made to induct a large number of military draftees in February. No definite quota yet, but authorities expect to handle twice January. about 2,000. Alabama has furnished 1,447 draftees, 1,000 called this month.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Selective Service
German Help to Italy to Be Discussed in Conference
Reports from Bern say a full dress conference among Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini and top aides is planned for Sunday. The topic is German aid to Italy in the Greece and North Africa campaigns with speculation over possible action at Gibraltar or air support from Italian or Albanian bases. No confirmation was available in Rome or Berlin, with decision expected after the meeting ends.
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Bern
Switzerland
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Brennero
Italy
Mussolini
Hitler
Florence
Greece
Gibraltar
Rome
Berlin
German air force builds bases in Southern Romania
Reports from Belgrade say the Luftwaffe is expanding at more than a dozen southern Romanian landing fields with thousands of ground crew and vast fuel stocks. Civil airports near Bucharest are taken by German units as 24 hour defenses rise and Danubian towns blackout nightly.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Romania
Mediterranean
Rumania
Rumanian
Beneasafo
Bucharest
Romanian
Danubian
Vienna
Italy
Greece
Salonika
Craiova
Danube
Bulgaria
James W Rollins Dies At Home In Hartselle
James Wesley Rollins 62 died at 8 this morning at his home Hartselle Route 2 Funeral services set for 2 p m Sunday at Johnson Chapel with Rev J W Aldridge and Drinkard in charge Burial to follow He is survived by four brothers R H A V W H and M L Rollins and three sisters Mrs Robert Estes Mrs Mack Niles and Mrs Young Harrison
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James Wesley Rollins
Hartselle
Johnson Chapel
J. W. Aldridge
Drinkard
R. H
A. V
W. H
M. L. Rollins
Robert Estes
Mack Niles
Young Harrison
Bomb-proof shelters planned for Woodbury homes
Builder George W Grace announced bomb proof sub cellars will be built into a group of new houses in Woodbury New Jersey The shelters will be covered with rolled metal and 10 inch reinforced concrete and designed for four persons and a family pet The site is near the New York Shipbuilding Corporation yards in Camden New Jersey
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Woodbury
N. J
George W. Grace
Grace
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Camden
Weather Summary for Tennessee River Region and Alabama
The Tennessee River gauge stood at 18.14 feet Saturday with a rising trend. Temperatures ranged from 37 to 54 degrees with no rainfall. Alabama forecasts fair and colder conditions with a hard freeze in the north and interior lows around 25 to 28 degrees, about 30 near frost areas, followed by continued fair and moderate northerly winds along the coast fading later.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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