Chinese score wins Canton encirclement in Kwangtung reports
Chinese officials claim Japanese defensive lines around Canton are crumbling after defeats in Kwangtung Province. Other dispatches note a German plane driven off by RAF fighters east of Aberdeen, Taisto Maki wounded at front, Denmark's parliament backing neutrality, a Charlotte forecast of 5 to 10 degrees, Finns report enemy positions near Lake Ladoga, and F J Thompson jailed for five to seven years for second degree murder.
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Hong Kong
Kwangtung
Canton
South China
London
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Aberdeen
Scotland
Reuters
Helsinki
Taisto Maki
ISETS
F. J. Thompson
State
Raleigh
Forsyth Superior Court
Five Burn To Death In Texas Holocaust
Five people were killed in a Texas house fire that swept a small frame residence. Victims included Tom Ruiz Joe and Peter Her Ee Edmundo Guzan Dolores Ruiz and Mrs Ruizs two daughters. Guzan survived after six hours in a hospital. The blaze started near a coal burning heater and Mrs Ruiz along with her daughters escaped, believing the others perished.
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Austin
Tex
Ivo
Tom Ruiz
Joe
Peter
Edmundo Guzan
Dolores
Guza
NLRB Order Costs Eagle Picker Mining to Comply
House investigators heard estimates that the Eagle Picker Mining and Smelting Co. must pay 125000 to 1000000 dollars to reinstate with back pay 204 discharged workers from 1935. The firm appeals to the Eighth Circuit while officials give varying cost figures. Chairman Smith suggested a compromise.
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Washington
National Labor Board
Eagle Picker Mining and Smelting Company
Joplin
Eighth Circuit
Rpurt of Appeals
Harry W. Blair
Charles Fahy
Smith
D-Va
House Committee
Meme Iney
Berlin Treason Convicts Severely Harmed in Attack
Wer er Kukuk and Cyprian Gabrysch were severely harmed in Berlin today. Both had been convicted of treason with Kukuk spying on state matters and Gabrysch divulging military secrets to Poland.
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Lywo More
Berlin
Werer Kukuk
Cyprian Gabryschere
Hadeen
Kukuk
Gabyrach
Poland
Basin Opening in Northwest Backed By FDR
President Roosevelt said the National Resources Board plans to open the Columbia Basin in the northwest to settlement within a few years. He cited the project as a model for preventing overlapping activities and economic waste while urging Congress to provide funding.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Resources Board
Columbia Basin
Northwest
Congress
House
Senate
Independent
Planning Board
Office of Government Reports
Committee On
Tobacco Outlook Warns of Less Demand and New Crops
Dr. I O Schaub of North Carolina State College Extension Service warned that Britain’s withdrawal from the U S tobacco market could turn tobacco into just another crop. He urged farm families to grow food this year to shield against 1940 hardship and noted a large tobacco surplus from 1939.
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Raleigh
I. O. Schaub
N. C
Schaub
Great Britain
J. B. Hutson
AAA
Last Battle Hope Abandoned For Sen Borah
Senator William Borah, 74, remained in a nearly continuous coma after a cerebral hemorrhage Tuesday. A secretary reported he was failing rapidly as the death question loomed minutes and hours away. His wife and close friends waited in his apartment, while Borah’s long stand against the League of Nations echoed from the Senate chamber.
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William Edgar Borah
Idaho
United States
League of Nations
Sen. Borah
Washington
William E. Jucky
Barkley
Borah
Senate
Cora Rubin
Senate Chamber
FDR Praises Crawford as Just Man for Guild Leader
President Roosevelt at a Washington press conference joked that Kenneth Crawford, newly elected president of the American Newspaper Guild, was the right man for the job. He noted Crawford won with votes from Maine and Vermont, the only states Roosevelt did not carry in 1986.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Kenneth Crawford
Crawford
American Newspaper Guild
Maine
Vermont
Guild
Browder Case: Witness Confirms Morris Passport Link
George E. Powers testified in New York that he identified George Morris on a 1927 passport application and later realized Morris was Earl Browder, linking Morris to Browder in a passport fraud trial. The former International Workers Order official faced cross examination.
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New York
International Workers Order
Earl Browder
George Morris
Morris
Browder
George E. Powers
Sweden Accepts Soviet Apology Over Territorial Breach
Stockholm reports Moscow apologizes for Soviet warplane trespasses into Sweden and Norway, admitting only overflights amid severe weather. Oslo awaits full note as Scandinavian counsel debates response to Finland aid and northern defense cooperation.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Norway
Moscow
Scandinavia
Finland
Northern“Defense League
Denmark
Kallaks Island
Gulf
Bothnia
Lulea
Kallaks
Oslo
Two Men Gasped At Central Prison In Back-To-Back Executions
In Raleigh on January 19 two condemned men were executed by gas at Central Prison. Clarence Rogers, 26, of Durham, took 17 minutes to die after confessing involvement in a death row escape during the killing of a Durham newsboy. Glenn Maxwell, 50, of Alleghany County, died in about 13 minutes after the gas was turned on at 10 02. Witnesses included R G Shepherd and J F Shepherd.
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Raleigh
Clarence Rogers
Durham
Glenn Maxwell
Alleghany
Charlie Shepherd
Central Prison
Milford Exum
Wayne County
Rogers
J. 5. Chesser
Maxwell
R. Glenn Shepherd
Sparta
J. F. Shepherd
Furbhes
R. G. Shepherd
Charlie
Manwell
Fight To Keep Weed Market
Two North Carolina Congressmen urged Secretary Wallace to press the Agriculture Department to defend the United Kingdom as a market for American tobacco. They warned Britain’s embargo and Turkey as an alternative could cause surpluses and price collapse, and floated potential economic measures pending Hull talks.
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Washington
Tobacco Belt
Wallace
Agriculture Department
United Kingdom
Cooley
Warren
North Carolina
J. B. Hutson
Agricultural Adjustment
Turkey
United States
State Department
Hull
Great Britain
Plan to aid Finland with modified loan package
Senator Brown announced a revised loan plan for Finland is being drafted by Reconstruction Finance Corporation experts. A new bill, likely following the President's suggestion to boost Export-Import Bank capitalization, could request up to 30 million dollars for non military Finnish purchases.
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Washington
Brown
Mich
Finland
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jesse Jones
Michigan
Roosevelt
Wagner
N. Y
Garner
eSpeaker
Congress
Helsinki Guns Hold Off Red Raiders in Air Raids
Helsinki and surrounding areas endured an air raid shelter drill as anti aircraft batteries repelled Soviet raiders. Reports say bombs fell outside the city and fires appeared in the distance while Finnish forces claimed advances in the Salla sector and a push back toward the border amid a Russian retreat near Markajarvi.
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Wade Werner
Helsinki
Russia
Salla
Markajarvi
Joutsijarvi
Finland
Kemijarvi
Netherlands Fires On Enemy Airplanes Over Holland
Netherlands anti aircraft fire hit unidentified foreign planes over northeastern Holland during the night. A government communique said there were indications the planes were British and London was asked for amplification. An eight page propaganda sheet resembling Hitler’s paper was found near the German frontier.
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Amsterdam
Holland
Netherlands
London
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Volkischer Beobachter
Observer From
Hitler
Volkischer
National Observer
Stalin
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Newspaper Ad Sales Still Lead Media Says Allen at Institute
Charles L. Allen executive secretary of the New Jersey Press Association told UNC editors at the 16th Newspaper Institute that newspaper advertising still outsold all other media. He urged resolutions for 1940 to boost reader interest clear subscriptions cooperate with advertisers and study consumption. Other speakers included John W. Harden Earl Johnson Frank Waldrop and Dewitt Mackenzie with sessions at Duke tonight.
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Chapel Hill
Charles L. Allen
New Jersey Press Association
16Th Newspaper Institute
University of North Carolina
Allen
John W. Harden
Salisbury Post
Earl Johnson
United Press
Frank Waldrop
Washington Times-Herald
Institute
Washington
Congress
Waldrop
Roosevelt
America
Duke University
Dewitt Mackenzie
Associated Press
H. E. Spence
Duke School of Religion
British Airmen Raid Nazi North Sea Bases
London reports RAF strikes on German North Sea sites including Sylt and possibly Helgoland with conflicting official word. German submarine blamed for sinking the British tanker Inverdargle off the southwest coast, and the Italian steamer Premuda was refloated after grounding. Britain suspends for three months the import of American surplus cotton under a cotton rubber barter deal. Scotland section noted.
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London
Royal Air Force
North Sea
Fron
England
Air Ministry
Tonder
Denmark
Sylt
Helgoland
Inverdargle
English
Goodwin Sands
Britain
Scotland
Bitter cold wave grips eastern half of U S
Bitter cold from the Canadian northwest blankets the eastern half of the nation with subzero readings from Michigan to the South. Windy storm paralyses New York traffic as Watertown sees two feet of snow and Jamestown hits minus 10, while Niagara River ice jams curb the falls.
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Associated Press
United States
New York
Michigan
Ohio
Maryland
Kentucky
West Virginia
Huntsville
Ala
North Carolina
Memphis
Tenn
South
Watertown
Jamestown
Niagara River
American Falls
Virginia
Shendandoah Valley
Danville
Red Relations Debate Moves to Congress Over Russia
Senate Foreign Relations Chair Pittman and Senator Vandenberg pushed a resolution asking President Roosevelt for details on 1933 Soviet pledges tied to U.S. recognition. Nye and Brown voiced reservations while Borah’s illness kept the Senate light on business and the House pressed a large independent offices appropriations bill.
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Washington
Russia
Pittman
D-New
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Vandenberg
Rmich
Senate
Roosevelt
Moscow
Finland
Nye
RND
Brown
D-Mich
Reconstruction
Finnce Corporation
Jesse Jones
Borah
Idaho
House
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