Vinson Seeks Half Billion Cut in Naval Expansion
House Naval Committee Chairman Vinson proposes a 500 million cut in the pending 1.3 billion fleet expansion, eliminating 34 destroyers while preserving three new aircraft carriers and additional cruisers and submarines. He argues the reduced tonnage still allows efficient buildup within a reasonable pace.
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Washington
Vinson
Dga
House Naval Committee
Germany
Navy
Maas
R-Minn
Drewry
D-Va
Congress
Bomber Forced Down Near Albuquerque During Stratosphere Test
Four engine Army bomber attempting a record flight from San Diego to Dayton was forced to land in Albuquerque by bad eastern weather. Pilot Major Stanley M. Upstead and Captain Leonard F. Harmon were aboard the craft which took off just after midnight with an eight hour target.
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Albuquerque
N. M
San Diego
Calif
Dayton
Stanley M. Upstead
Leonard F. Harmon
Germans Rescue 80 From Submarines Near Helgoland Bight
Berlin reports four officers and 26 men were saved by German forces from the British submarines Starfish and Undine, destroyed January 15 in the Helgoland Bight. The British admiralty had said 108 officers and men were missing from three sunk subs, with 78 deaths. The Sea Horse was not yet mentioned by Germany.
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Berlin
Helgoland Bight
London War Plant Explosion Kills Five
Five men died and several others were injured in rapid explosions at a north London war factory, believed the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Walham Abbey. Police said the blasts were accidental with no enemy action, shattering windows, collapsing ceilings, and forcing civilians to seek air raid shelters as a massive smoke column rose from the plant.
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London
Ministry of Supply
New York
Royal Gunpowder Factory
Waltham Abbey
Fifty Killed In New Quake Seistan Turkey
A new earthquake in Turkey’s Nigde district killed about 50 people and injured 160. The shocks followed the previous December 28 disaster that left at least 30,000 dead in northeastern Anatolia.
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Ankara
Turkey
Nigde
Here
Anatolia
French and German Artillery Engage Near Saar River
French and German artillery traded heavy fire for over three hours yesterday west of the Saar River. French sources say Germany opened the bombardment, and French batteries answered with strong fire until German guns subsided.
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Paris
S.f
Saar River
Sandler Urges Baltic Military Cooperation
In Stockholm on January 18 Swedish Socialist Frederik Strom pushed for a northern defense league to bolster Scandanavian military ties amid the Russia Finland war. Former Foreign Minister Richard Sandler backed the plan during a stormy budget debate in the Riksdag and Strom warned Finland would have avoided war had such a league existed.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Frederik Strom
Northern“Defense League
Richard Sandler
Riksdag
Sandler
Strom
Finland
Nazi Train Wreck Fatal To Twelve
A passenger train and bus collided at a grade crossing in a snowstorm near Zittau Saxony killing 12 and wounding 20. It marks the eleventh German rail crash since October 8 with buses involved in two earlier incidents. The worst in the series occurred at Genth in December killing or fatally injuring 196.
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Zittau
Germany
Genth
Saxony
Czzecho
Slovakia
Prague
Browder Names Are Identified
Federal Judge Coxe allows a government passport agent to identify Earl Browder’s signature on a 1934 passport application amid defense objections. The case alleges Browder used aliases including George Morris and Albert Henry Richards and seeks up to 100 years in prison with fines. Elma Waldron testified Browder renewed his passport in 1937 and sought a 1938 DEW passport under his own name.
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New York
Alfred C. Coxe
Earl Russell Browder
James J. Hughes
Browder
Nicholas Dozenberg
George Morris
Albert Henry Richards
Coxe
Witneses
DEW
Elma Waldron
Department of State
France
Switzerland
Soviet Russia
John W Robinson Chosen Leader Of NC Agricultural Fairs
John W. Robinson of Hickory was elected president of the North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs for 1946, succeeding Dr. A H Fleming of Louisburg. Hobart Brantley of Spring Hope is first vice president, Aaron Weinstein of Lumberton is vice president, and W H Dunn of Wilson is secretary treasurer. Three gubernatorial candidates lauded achievements of agriculture.
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Raleigh
John W. Robinson
Hickory
North Carolina Association of Agricultural Fairs
A. H. Fleming
Louisburg
Hobart Brantley
Spring Hope
Aaron Weinstein
Lumberton
W. H. Dunn
Wilson
Achierraimente
Avrienl
British Buyers May Be Unable To Take Weed
British action embargoing American tobacco may bar buyers from exercising options on about 178 million pounds held for them. Britain, the top U.S. tobacco market, imposed import restrictions at war start, lowering prices. Options expire July 1 for flue cured and October 1 for dark types. buyers paid around $1.50 per 100 pounds.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Great Britain
Commodity Credit Corporation
Wallace
State Department
Ore Loaded German Ship Strikes Mine off Aland Islands
The 2342 ton German steamer August Thyssen sank this morning off the Aland Islands at the Gulf of Bothnia after hitting a mine believed Swedish. The crew launched boats drifting among ice. a Swedish warship moved to aid survivors. The ship carried iron ore from Lulea to Germany.
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Stockholm
August Thyssen
Aland Islands
Gulf of Bothnia
Andersten
Alands
Sweden
Borah Falls Into Critical Condition After Cerebral Hemorrhage
Idaho Senator William E. Borah, 74, was reported critically ill in a coma after a probable cerebral hemorrhage. His wife and secretary described a fragile state with occasional consciousness and prayerful support from colleagues, while doctors cautioned against imminent improvement or decline.
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Washington
William E. Borah
Idaho
Senate
Cora Rubin
Borah
Miss Rubin
Mary
Britain Sets To Work To Multiply War Power
Intensely cold weather gripped the United States from the northern Rocky Mountains to Indiana. Temperatures plunged to 20 below zero in Wisconsin Minnesota and the Dakotas with 30 below in Lemmon South Dakota. Mount Washington logged a 99 mph wind as a massive cold wave swept New England and Texas reported near freezing while the Gulf Coast stayed mild.
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Associated Press
United States
Rocky Mountains
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakotas
Nebraska
Iowa
Montana
Lemmon
S. D
New England
Mt. Washington
Texas
Canada
Amarillo
Dallas
Fort Worth
Gulf Coast
Britain Dates Shipyard Revival and Tobacco Embargo
London reports revival of shipbuilding as a key aim of wartime plans. The war cabinet also weighs import barriers and rationing to boost supplies. A possible indefinite embargo on American tobacco is noted, with shifts to Balkan Turkish blends. Opposition MPs urge European sourcing. Economic warfare minister Cross compares Germany’s war stress to postwar conditions and predicts tightening economic strangulation.
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London
Great Britain
War Cabinet
Arthur Donn
East
Hugh Dalton
Robert Boothby
Britain
Virginia
Cross
Germany
Junior Order Leaders Face Orphanage Fate
Lexington January 18 The state council of the Junior Order United American Mechanics met to decide the future of the Junior Order Orphans home which has cared for 165 children for 12 years. Superintendent W M Shuford said closure is set for January 31 unless the state association assumes control.
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Lexington
State Council
Junior Order
United American Mechanics
National Junior Order
W. M. Shuford
Murphy Denies Suppressing Justice
In the Oval Room of the White House President Roosevelt witnessed Frank Murphy take the oath as associate justice of the Supreme Court while Robert H. Jackson was sworn in as attorney general. Stanley Reed administered both oaths as Murphy rose from attorney general to the Court and Jackson succeeded him.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Reed
Murphy
Jackson
Michigan
Stanley Reed
Aimilant
Francis Biddle
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
FDR
Finns claim push into Salla region. 11 Russian bombers shot down
Helsinki dispatch reports Finnish forces driving Russians back miles in the Salla sector near the Arctic Circle. An army communique says 11 Red planes were shot down with prior totals indicating heavy losses in Lapland and Joutsijarvi to Markajarvi.
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Helsinki
Salla
Arctic Circle
Lappeenranta
Southinland
Lapland
The
Weaval
Joutsijarvi
Mjarvi
Finnnish
Fin Markajarvi
Jarvi
U N
Finland
Turku
Viipuri
Rauma
Misaari
Religion and Democracy Tied in North Carolina Convocation
Greensboro January 18 Rev A J Muste told the North Carolina Council of Churches meeting that organized religion cannot endure without democracy. He urged vigorous support for democratic processes, denounced racial prejudice, and called for free discussion and choice between liberty and dictatorship to preserve both democracy and religion.
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Greensboro
Clared
A. J. Muste
Presbyterian Labor
New York
North Carolina Council _ Churches
Muste
Whll
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