Debates Over Warships For Britain In Lend Lease Talks
Washington hears questions on adding more warships to Britain under the lend lease plan. Stimson urges swift passage and cautions against an amendment tying aid to ships. Roosevelt notes no point in more destroyer trades and references a prior ship swap. Hearings may run into next week. Browder deposits $1.3 million in a New York bank, Dies reports.
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Washington
Britain
Qravy
House
Vest
Roosevelt
William E. Browder
New York
Greek Reports Claim Albanian Front Shifts In War News
Athens dispatches report new gains in Tepelina and areas north of Kisura while Greek press claims one third of Italy's forces in Albania have been knocked out of the war.
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Athens
Tepeleni Ares
Kisura
Italy
Albania
Fleet Purchase Is Far-Fetched Says Roosevelt
President Roosevelt told White House correspondents he favors keeping aid to Britain and allowing Serica to buy equipment. He warned against speculating that the United States would buy the British fleet, calling such thoughts cow-jumped over the moon.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Britain
Serica
America
United States
Britain and U S Center on Cargo Control in War Aid
Britain and the United States consult on halting supplies to Germany via Russia. London weighs contraband control base in the West Indies possibly Trinidad. Britain also weighs American views on the Pan American neutrality zone.
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London
Britain
United States
Germany
Russia
West Indies
Trinidad
Wife of J. C. Man Held In Slaying
Mrs Mildred Johnson 23 is held on murder charges in Johnson City over the fatal shooting of her husband Sam Johnson 25. Police say the case centers on an eternal triangle after an argument in a taxi cab near his workplace ended with a shot fired.
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Johnson City
Mildred Johnson
Sam Johnson
Johnson
Administration Education Bill Tabled In House
Tennessee politics report shows administration's general appropriation bill of 42 million dollars passing the senate 28 to 0. House delays education bill amid fierce debate. Rep Hall calls education bill a rape on small counties. Speaker O'Dell and Rep Cummings clash over process as tabling moves proceed. Police probe involves pistol thrown from a car in a separate incident.
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Nashville
Tenn
The
Senate
House
Frank Hall
Dickson
House Education Committee
Tennessee
Hall
J. B. Ragan
Chattanooga
Alexander J. Kennedy
Madisonville
Losirg
Education Committee
Finance, Ways and Means Committee
John Ed O'Dell
Bristol
Finance Committee
James H. Cummings
Woodbury
Plants Here Hard Hit By Flu Epidemic
The influenza outbreak grips Kingsport area with many students out sick while several plants report operations resuming. Scott county plans reopening as epidemic wanes. Eastman and Borden Mills note mild cases and returning workers. Holliston Mills reports many cases. Kingsport Press largely unaffected.
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Kingsport
Eastman
Borden Mills
Holliston Mills
Kingsport Press
Mexico and U S Seek Closer Ties
Washington and Mexico will open formal negotiations after President Roosevelt's inauguration to strengthen good neighbor ties and inter-American defense plans. Preliminary talks in Washington and Mexico City have prepared for agreements on oil and agrarian expropriation claims and other long pending issues.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
Roosevelt
Mexico City
French Squadron Sinks Thai Warships in First Indo China Conflict
French sources report the Asiatic squadron sunk two Thai warships and damaged a third in the early naval engagement of the undeclared war between Indo China and Siam. The clash marks a significant armed confrontation between the two neighbors.
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Saigon
Indo-China
Thailand
Siam
Senator Wheeler Demands Roosevelt Release War Reports
Senator Wheeler of Montana pressed for disclosure of all reports from Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy and former Ambassador William C Bullitt before any European war. The demand seeks public or Congressional access to diplomatic communications.
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Washington
Senator Wheeler
D-Mont
Roosevelt
Congress
Joseph P. Kennedy
William C. Bullitt
Washington Secretary Stimson calls Navy sale rumors fantastic
Secretary of War Stimson dismisses reports the United States would buy the Royal Navy if Britain falls as fantastic and preposterous. He says it is fantastic to believe British warships would be allowed to operate from American ports.
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Washington
Stimson
United States
Royal Navy
Britain
Hull
U. S. House Foreign Affairs Committee
Japan
Germany
Italy
High Seas
Thai army launches five sector offensives on Siam frontier
Bangkok radio reports large scale Thai offensives across a 1000 mile border with French Indo China. Five sectors are active and several Indo-China districts are said to be occupied in coordinated action by the Thai army.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Siam
Indo- China
Japan's leaders condemn Hull remarks amid anti US press
Tokyo officials and leading newspapers attack U S policy as cabinet and military chiefs meet at the premier's home. Domai reported talks touched vital questions amid growing cooperation between army and navy and a bitter press campaign branding Hull's remarks as axis hostility.
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Tokyo
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
United States
Far East
Bill Requires Source of News in Tennessee House
Hayes Gordon introduces a Tennessee bill requiring newspapers to publish names and addresses of sources for any quoted statements. The measure makes publication without source details unlawful and imposes a misdemeanour charge with fines from 125 to 100 dollars for violations.
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Nashville
Hayes Gordon
Giles
State of
Tennessee
Soviet Rumanian Friction Grows In Balkans Tense
Belgrade reports rising Soviet Rumanian friction and hints Hitler plans to seize Romania as a German protectorate. Balkans fear intensifies as Hungarian rail traffic halts, signaling drastic troop movements and border clashes on the Russo Romanian frontier. A diplomatic leak cites tests of Nazi limits over Moldavia and northern Dobruja.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Soviet Russia
Rumania
Adolf Hitler
Balkans
Moldavia
Dobruja
Russia
Bessarabia
Bucovina
Bulgaria
Three of Family Die of Burns in Suburban Fire
In Louisville Kentucky a mother and father died from burns after their kitchen stove exploded while the father tried to light a fire. Their five month old son, William Dudley Jr., had died earlier. A two year old daughter, Mary Jane, remained in critical condition as flames sprayed the family.
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Carterville, Ill
Forsythe-Carterville Co
Louisville
William Daley Martin
William Dudley, Jr
Mary Jane
Missing Bomber Hunted By Army
McChord Field Washington units launched a four state air search for a missing B-18A twin motor bomber with seven aboard. The aircraft disappeared after leaving McChord at 10 20 am bound for Sacramento California. No radio contact was made and a storm affected northern California. Col Walter Beck said the search could extend into Nevada with hope from a prior bomber crash in southwestern Washington where eight crew parachuted to safety.
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McChord Field
Wash
Army Air Corps
Sacramento
Calif
California
Walter Beck
Nevada
Washington
Revival of Indian sign language could aid modern communication
Robert Hofsinde argues in Natural History that the elaborate Plains Indians sign language, once used with 169 gestures to convey messages that would need 1000 written characters in English, should be revived as a valuable addition to contemporary civilization. John P. Harrington notes its eloquence and potential as an adjunct to deaf hand alphabets.
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New York
Robert Hofsinde
Hofsinde
John P. Harrington
Russell Marriage Licenses Fall in December
Lebanon Virginia's new marriage law reduced December licenses. Russell County Clerk Ellis P. Hargis reported only eight licenses issued, down from 36 in December 1938 and 32 in December 1939. Names listed include James Ring and Barbara Wise, Earl N. Carter and Stella E. Grizzle, Winford Vance and Justine E. Moore, William Dean and Gertrude Sheen, Joseph L. Boyd and Bonnie Mae Holton, Henry Collins and Thelma Gibson, Carl B. Hughes and Thelma Gibson.
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Lebanon
Virginia
Russell County
Ellis P. Hargis
Hargis
James Ring
Barbara Wise
Earl N. Carter
Stella E. Grizzle
Bradley Powers
Mildred I. Carter
Winford Vance
Justine E. Moore
William Dean
Gertrude Sheen
Joseph L. Boyd
Bonnie Mae Holton
Henry Collins
Thelma Gibson
Carl B. Hughes
Judge S H Bond Veteran Lawyer Dies at Gate City
Judge Samuel Henry Bond 73 dean of Scott county bar died at his Gate City home after four months illness. Native of Guest Station area, son of Rev William W Bond and Mary Newberry Bond, licensed 1892. Practiced in Norton then Gate City. county judge of Scott county before merger into circuit court. active Methodist and Virginia Association member. Survived by widow Elizabeth Richmond Bond, two sons Richmond and Hagan, daughter Mary Ruth, three brothers and two sisters. Funeral Saturday 2 p.m. Walnut Street Methodist church. burial Holston View cemetery. Scott county bar to pallbear.
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Gate City
Samuel Henry Bond
Scott County
Bond
Guest Station
Coeburn
William W. Bond
Mary Newberry Bond
Bland County
Norton
Richmond and
Hagan Bond
Mary Ruth Bond
T. C. Bond
W. W. Bond
Rye Cove
G. W. Bond
East Stone Gap
Jennie Kilgore
Alice Starnes
Slant
Walnut Street Methodist Church
S. O. Frye
Holston View
British Say 10 Nazi Planes Lost In Raid on Malta
British authorities at Malta said 10 axis planes were shot down in a raid on the harbor and city yesterday with three more damaged. The attack came after heavy overnight raids that set 100 fires in Bristol and a highly successful strike on Wilhelmshaven, as British bombers attacked Nazi bases along the French coast and the big naval port.
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Malta
Strait of Dover
Bristol
England
Wilhelmshaven
Island Citadel
Mediterranean
Hitler
Sicily
Valletta
North Atlantic
Almeda Star
Zealandic
London
Virginia Posts Record Wholesale Trade Peak in 1929 Dollars
The Census Bureau reports Virginia wholesale establishments last year handled business valued at more than 627 million dollars, surpassing 1929's 621 million and beating 1935's 487 million. Employment rose to 28 thousand with salaries near 34 million dollars, marking the best wholesale activity in modern Virginia history.
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Washington
Virginia
Census Bureau
Tenure Act Proposal for Sullivan County Teachers
Supt. Lewis I. Chase announced plans to urge Sullivan County legislators to sponsor a tenure act as a companion to the retirement bill. The act would grant definite tenure to all county education staff after probation, with indefinite tenure after a fourth year and a permanent certificate, subject to removal only for incompetency or willful misconduct.
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Lewis I. Chase
Sullivan County Schools
Sullivan
County Department of Education
Chase
Boerd Educavome
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