Roosevelt Labels Soviet Dictatorship in Youth Congress Speech
President Roosevelt, speaking before the National Youth Congress at the White House in cold rain, called the Soviet Union a dictatorship and said America would extend aid to Finns. He defended Communists’ rights to advocate ideas but urged lawful methods to influence government.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
Soviet Union
Youth Congress
Young Communist League
Daladier Wins Unanimous Confidence Vote in France
Paris Feb 10 Premier Edouard Daladier won a 534 to 0 confidence vote in the French Chamber after two days of secret debate on national defense. The chamber backed his pledge to conduct the war to victory despite questions on operations and operations strategy.
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Roy P. Porter
Paris
Edouard Daladier
Chamber of Deputies
Daladier
France
United States
Cordell Hull
Germany
Avia
Tornado devastates Albany area kills 18 and injures hundreds
A pre-dawn tornado cut a two mile path through Albany injuring nearly 500 and leaving $5 to $9 million in damages. The storm hit downtown and a Negro residential district, destroying buildings, trapping residents, and overwhelming the city’s 50 bed hospital. Over 500 rescue workers cleared debris as emergency facilities were set up in schools and churches. Dora Belle Shiver, 32, is identified among the dead.
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Albany
Dougherty County
St. Nicholas Hotel
Flint River
Dora Belle Shiver
Oglethorpe Avenue
Q. Wright
First Methodist
G. C. Hamrick
Internal Revenue Bureau
Wright
Britain reports sea losses in latest air raid
British admiralty said 22 seafarers died after German raiders attacked North Sea shipping. Four vessels were damaged or sunk including patrol boats. two British ships, the Robert Bowen and Fort Royal, were lost with officers and crews. A German plane was shot down and several merchantmen were damaged in the raid.
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Ndon
Britain
Ger
North Sea
Robert Bowen
Fort Royal
Mark
Royal
John Moore
Ie Admiralty
Moore
Boston
Admiralty
Gainard Denies Charge Made By Crew Members
Captain Joseph A. Gainard of the City of Flint denied NMU charges accusing him of neglecting crew safety while the ship was under German control. The union said affidavits from crew members supported the complaint and asked for revocation of his license.
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Gainard
New York
Joseph A. Gainard
City of
Flint
National Maritime Union
CIU
Melrose
Mass
Algie
Montevideo
Uruguay
NMU
Baltimore
Brooklyn
Union
William L. Standard
Commdr
R. 5. Field, Director of the Marine Inspection and Navigation
Washington
Peter Waldking
Cook
Midland City
Ala
Henry Andrevett
Allies vow real peace not patched up pact
Britain and France reject a patched up peace and pledge to crush German threats to world security. Air Minister Kingsley Wood says Allies will fight on for a genuine peace, not a pact that lets Europe endure further atrocities. Paris notes welcome U S officials’ fact finding tour but warn Germany must be crushed before a new order solidifies.
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J. C. Stark
London
Britain
France
Roosevelt
Bristol
Kingsley Wood
Europe
Paris
Germany
United States
Sumner Welles
State Department
England
Pelley Jailed After Hearing
William Dudley Pelley leader of the Silver Shirt Legion was taken into custody by a detective after Dies Committee questioning on his finances and activities. He faced a North Carolina warrant for probation violations and claimed his NC conviction was a technical error while acknowledging over $220,000 in receipts from 1931 to 1939.
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Washington
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirt Legion
Dies Committee
Representative Starnes
D-Ala
Jay Roane
Washington Police Force
Pelley
North Carolina
Sudden German assault repulsed on Western Front
Paris reports a sharp fight in no mans land on the Nied River sector northwest of Saarlouis. More than 200 German troops attacked an French advance post but were driven back by sustained machine gun fire. Some German dead remained on the wire as they retreated.
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Paris
United States Seeks Neutral Support for Postwar Planning
Secretary Hull invited neutrals to join in shaping a postwar world and in formulating plans toward a peaceful order based on economic sanity. He said talks would cover armament reduction and liberal policy, with Undersecretary Sumner Welles to survey Europe for the President.
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United States
Washington
Hull
Russia
Sumner Welles
Europe
Roosevelt
Welles
Rome
Berlin
Paris
London
La Guardia Denies Entering Race for President 1940
New York February 10 Mayor La Guardia stated he has no intention to run for president in 1940. He said municipal government is his interest and noted nomination papers filed in his name for the Illinois Republican primary on April 9.
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New York
la Guardia
United States
New York City
Illinois
Louisville
Austin
R-Vi
Supreme Court
New Hampshire
Roosevelt
Friends of
Garner
Russian Front News: Demoralized Troops and Tank Losses
Helsinki reports a massive Soviet offensive near the Karelian Isthmus has left hundreds of Red Army tanks destroyed or captured as Finnish forces hold the line. Officials say more than 6 tanks captured or destroyed since late November, with 72 tanks reported down in two days and 330 Soviet planes confirmed down.
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Wade Werner
Helsinki
Mannerheim
Graphic
Finland
Karelian
Tonig
Agai
Red Army
Vilho
Freedom of Press Wins For Photog
In Bessemer Alabama on February 10 Pete Little Birmingham News photographer had disorderly conduct charges dismissed by City Recorder Keith Jr. He argued the photographer acted within press freedom though police objected to the act. Little was arrested after taking a photo of a Bessemer officer using a blackjack on Clyde Dyer Jr. who works for a city meter installation firm.
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Bessemer
Ala
Pete Little
Birmingham News
Bessember Street
City Recorder
Palmer Keith, Jr
Keith
Little
Clyde Dyer
D Jr
Polish Government Charges Nazi Atrocities In War Prisoner Deaths
The Polish government in exile reports that more than 200 of 2,000 Polish POWs froze to death on a 13 day rail trip from East Prussia to Warsaw. Many survivors were driven to near madness, with 149 of 211 frozen deaths in the earlier Russian-occupied prisoner contingent.
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Paris
East Prussia
Warsaw
Farley Enters Massachusetts Primary By Delegates
James A Farley entered the 1940 presidential race by agreeing to file delegates pledged to him for Massachusetts April 30. Massachusetts Democratic chairman William H Burke Jr released Farley authority to file delegates and said the move had the president s approval.
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Associated Press
James A. Farley
Massachusetts
William H. Burke, Jr
Farley
Burke
Roosevelt
Lewis Proposes CIO AFL Union Vote Plan
John L. Lewis urged a March 15 ballot on uniting CIO and AFL, calling it a practical plan to end labor division. He proposed a Constitution Hall meeting with AFL and CIO factions on opposite sides and said merger details could follow the vote.
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CIO
Washington
Perkins
Lewis
Roosevelt
White House
AFL
Constitution Hall
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Parrish E. Freeman
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