British march on Tobruk and Bardia fall reported
British mechanized patrols press toward Tobruk after overrun of Bardia. Australian casualties in breaking the siege cited as under 500 with 30,000 Italian prisoners and 50 tanks captured. Mussolini’s command silent on Bardia as Balkan tensions rise and German forces move in the Balkans.
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Bardia
Tobruk
Rodolfo Graziani
Mussolini
Balkan
Moscow
Berlin
Russia
Germany
Rumania
Belgrade
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Balkans
Red Army
Bessarabia
Lower Danube
London
Oliver Twist
Associated Press
Archibald P. Wavell
Annibale
Bergonzoli
Key to Racket Seized in New York Bust Holds as Witness
Jacob Benioff, once key to the racket above, was seized by New York detectives after a two month search and held on $50,000 bail as a material witness in what DA Thomas E. Dewey's office calls the biggest racket in the country’s history.
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Jacob Benioff
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
County urged to borrow funds for school building program
County Judge T R Bandy tells the county court an enabling act is needed to authorize issuing up to 75 000 more in bonds to finish the school building program and 40 000 more to cover road repairs under the Farm to Market plan Bristol and Kingsport will receive 43 750 each from the bond proceeds leaving insufficient funds for the project and pro rata shares.
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T. R. Bandy
Bandy
Bristol
Tennessee
Kingsport
Virginia Spends Two Million on Highways
Virginia reports spending over 2.25 million dollars on highways in the past decade. State Press Secretary Robert Harper says gasoline tax collections rose by more than 9 million dollars from 1940 to 1940.
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Virginia
Richmond
Robert Harper
Court Okehs Resolution For School Blountville
Sullivan county court defeated a plan to build a lower end school but approved an enabling act to raise 25000 for the project with funds to the county and excluding Bristol and Kingsport. The court also rejected a new high school building plan and reported overdrafts totaling 198573.31 across six funds, plus partial cash balances and budget cautions. A road grant authorized one mile of road and an underpass project with Clinchfield Railroad to ease east side access. Poor farm records show 33 inmates and $588.65 quarter expense, while the highway department reports 43065.34 receipts and 34549.86 disbursements with 8515.48 cash balance.
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Blountville
Sullivan County
Bristol
Kingsport
Sullivan High
T. Mack Ketron
Joe 3. Richards
Fain
Rumors of German Entry into Bulgarian Territory Reported
Bulletin cites reports that Soviet Russia agreed for German forces to enter and take over Bulgarian territory but finds no confirmation from Russian Bulgarian Romanian or Turkish sources.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Russia
Ireland cites German flights over its territory
Berlin diplomat Berlin P Warnock, Ireland's charge d affaires, visited the foreign office to present Dublin's views on alleged German air incursions over Irish airspace.
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Berlin
William Warnock
Ireland
Foreign Office
City seeks limit extension and taxi liability rule in Union City
Union City will ask the legislature to extend its corporate limits and authorize the city to require taxi companies to carry liability insurance. Mayor W. M. Miles cited reckless driving by at least some taxi drivers as prompting the taxi provision.
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Union City
Tenn
City Commission
W. M. Miles
Tennessee Town Seeks Charter Change
Paris Tennessee city council studies proposed charter changes to raise population by 1125 and boost assessed property value by 350000 to 500000, per Mayor John Reeves.
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Paris
Tenn
John Reeves
Former Slave Dial Dies at 107 in Chattanooga
Dial, a former slave aged 107, died yesterday in Chattanooga. He said he served with his master in the Civil War at Vicksburg and Richmond at Lee's surrender. He moved to Lookout Mountain 53 years ago from Alabama.
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Chattanooga
Emanuel Dial
Dial
Vicksburg
Richmond
Lee
Lookout Mountain
Alabama
Fall of Bardia Ends Axis Hopes In Mediterranean Drive
The British and Allied victory at Bardia shatters Fascist aims to seize the Mediterranean, reducing Axis plans to invade Egypt and threaten the Suez Canal. Graziani’s force suffers another heavy blow with 39 000 more Italian prisoners taken, boosting total losses since the offensive began to 85 000. The surrender strengthens Britain's position and threatens Tobruk.
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Libyan
Berlin-Rome
Mediterranean
Egypt
Suez Canal
Marshal Graziani
Italy
Tobruk
Mussolini
Libya
Supreme Court to Rule on Wage Hours Law Powers
The Supreme Court may decide today if Congress can limit working hours and fix minimum wages. The constitutionality of the wage and hour act is at issue in two cases on today's docket.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Tennessee General Assembly Opens With Poll Tax Debate
The 72nd Tennessee General Assembly convened at noon in Nashville in a harmonious opening day. Lawmakers will wrestle with repealing the state's poll tax as a prerequisite for voting.
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Nashville
72Nd
Tennessee General Assembly
Coldest Weather Of Season Hits City
The Kingsport area endured the season’s coldest 24 hours as the low near McKellar airport dropped to 10.5 degrees about 6 am. The day before the maximum reached 28.7 degrees, following a Sunday low of 15.7. Officials expect a gradual warmup with cloudiness midweek and no widespread damage beyond frozen radiators and pipes.
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Kingsport
McKellar
Weather Bureau
Volunteers Increase Draft Call in Tennessee
Nashville reports a surplus draft call adding 50 selectees to assist volunteers among draft registrants. Adj. Gen. Thomas A. Frazier said the quota will be called January 23 and credited against the February draft. Counties with many volunteers include Williamson, Rutherford, Lawrence, Fentress, Fayette, and Lake.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Adj
Thomas A. Frazier
Selective Service
Williamson
Rutherford
Lawrence
Fentress
Fayette and
Lake
Three In Family Die At Crossing At Harriman
Three members of the Galyon family were killed near Harriman Tennessee when they were overtaken on a railway trestle by a fast Southern Railway passenger train. Mrs Ruth Galyon 37 Elmer Galyon 43 and Elmer Galyon Jr 10 were the victims with the two bodies recovered and Elmer Sr not yet found.
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Harriman
Tenn
Southern Railway
Emory River
Elmer Galyon
Ruth Galyon
Elmer, Jr
Galyon
Teacher Becomes 'Iven the Terrible' at Bardia
Major General Iven Gifford Mackay commanded Australians at Bardia, earning the D.S.C. at Gallipoli. in civilian life he was headmaster of Cranbrooke School in Sydney. A mild mannered teacher in peace time, he earned a soldier’s nickname for wartime leadership.
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London
Iven the
Iven Gifford Mackay
Bardia
Mackay
Cranbrooke School
Sydney
Gallipoli
Rumblings as Tennessee General Assembly Opens
The Tennessee 72nd General Assembly begins with smooth sessions as House and Senate caucuses nominate administration backed leaders. John Ed. O'Dell will again serve as speaker of the House and Alan Maxwell as Senate speaker, with clerks and officers chosen. Governor Cooper plans a balanced budget from a $20 million revenue, avoiding new taxes, and may seek a 50-day session though some resist binding to that limit. A potential fight over selecting a tenth congressman under the 1940 census looms.
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Cooper
Assembly
General Assembly
Ohn Ed. O'Dell
Bristol
House
Alan Maxwell
Memphis
Senate
G. Edward Friar
Knoxville
B. B. Gullett
Nashville
Thomas O. H. Smith
Roy Melton
Camden
Im McEwen
Mary C. Cummings
McMinnville
Elizabeth Litchford
B. Ragan
Hamilton County
Robert Bilbrey
Cookeville
Sam Cole
Five Injured Over Weekend In Kingsport Area
Weekend accidents in the Kingsport area sent five people to Community Hospital with injuries. Serious conditions described for two patients included Mary L. Hoosier, 18, who suffered a scalp laceration and left shoulder fracture after reportedly toppling from a car near the Civic Auditorium. Amanda V. Groves, 70, of Benham, Va., was treated for a fractured right hip from a porch fall and remained in fair condition. A 12-year-old boy, Robert Brown, was treated for a severely damaged finger and scalp lacerations after being found in a parkway near Kingsport Press. he could not recall the incident. Prennie Wexler suffered facial injuries from timber striking him after a tractor incident. J. B. Fletcher, 33, of Gate City, required care for a scalp wound after a motor vehicle crash on Gate City highway.
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Kingsport
Community Hospital
Mary L. Hoosier
Jackson Heights
Johnson City
Civic Auditorium
Amanda V. Groves
Route 2
Benham
J. E. Upchurch
Kingsport Press
Brown
Roller Street
Broad
Prennie Wexler
Pactorus
Gate City
J. B. Fletcher
20 Feet Between Life and Death For Navy Fliers
Navy transport plane crash near San Diego killed all 11 aboard in fog and low clouds. Survivors included two from a Texas mishap. investigation ordered. Names include Nayor Franklin Richard Naylor and crew members Lt Cmdr Gowan Cooke Bland, Gaulin, Flemming, Ferguson, Magee, Recke Hughes Neff Parry and others.
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Calif
Mother Grundy Range
Navy
Frank Richard Naylor
Dayton
James Cyril Flemming
Reading
Frank Recke, Jr
National City
L. J. Hughes
Grand Rapids
Mich
H. E. Neff
A. M. Parry
Los Angeles
Texas
Marvin Magee
Long Branch
N. J
German troop move feared as Bulgaria likely falls
United Press reports private New York advices say German troops will march into Bulgaria within days. Bulgars supposedly bowed to a Nazi ultimatum with Wednesday as likely timing. Observers see aims toward Salonika or pressuring Greece to end war with Italy.
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New York
United Press
Bulgaria
Adolf Hitler
Salonika
Greece
Italy
State Lacks Cannon For Inauguration Salute
Nashville officials face an embarrassing shortage as Tennessee cannot provide a 19 gun salute for Gov. Prentice Cooper's inauguration because all National Guard field pieces are tied up in federal service. One official called the situation unprecedented and lamented the absence of a cannon.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Prentice Cooper
National Guard
Congress Told All Action Must Center On Threat
President Roosevelt told Congress the United States faces an unprecedented foreign peril and must vastly expand armaments for defense and aid to democracies in war, funding munitions and war supplies, with tax funding favored. He outlined three policy goals and four freedoms guiding national defense and support for resisting aggressors.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
State of the Union
House
Senate
Norway
Belgium
Netherlands
Mr. Roosevelt
U. S. Tracks Falangist Spread in Latin America
The State Department says Spanish Falangist activities in the American republics are under close watch amid evidence of Spain aiding Axis propaganda in the Western Hemisphere. Officials say Falangist efforts via embassies and consulates are rising, while German and Italian influence seeks to sow Nazi and Fascist doctrine and potential fifth columns.
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Washington
State Department
Spain
Axis
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