Benghazi Falls to British as Libya Campaign Advances
Cairo reports Benghazi, eastern Libya's key base, fell to British armored forces after a southward cut of Italian lines and Derna advance by Australians. The drive across desert territory now brings British positions toward Tripoli, with Graziani's defense shifting to the capital.
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Cairo
Egypt
Italy
Libya
Bengasi
Halian
Africa
Cienaira
Derna
Jebel el Akbar
Rbengasi
Eritrea
Gheren
Mann
Arordat-Barenta
Abyssinia
Gondar
Accelerated Deliveries to Air Corps Planes Expected
Secretary Stimson told the Senate committee the War Department foresees accelerated deliveries of the latest combat planes to the Army Air Corps within four to six months. He noted foreign orders expanded U.S. production and allowed incorporation of new developments. Williams argued air forces are being stripped of planes for training and Britain aid policies faced Democratic leadership pushback.
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Air Corps
Washington
Stimson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
War Department
Army Air Corps
Charles Clayton Morrison
Chicago
Williams
Great Britain
Hoose Democratic
Figst
Benghazi Falls to British Drive in Eight Days
London reports Cairo announcement that Benghazi is in British hands signaling capture of Cirenaica. The 160 mile advance in eight days involved land forces with naval and air support, facing stubborn Italian resistance. Benghazi noted as a naval base and Graziani HQ with harbor improvements at a cost of about $2 million.
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London
Cairo
Bengasi
Cirenaica
Libya
Benrasi
Marshal Graziani
Sicily
Talian
Gulf of Syrt
Fire crews respond to overheated furnace blaze at Reed home
Fire department was called to Glenn Reed at 1406 Connecticut Street at 1 PM for an overheated furnace causing lint in heating pipes to smolder. Fire Chief Paul Incels said no damage occurred.
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Glenn Reed
Connecticut Street
Paul Incels
Consider a Strike Affects 750,000 Railroad Workers
The Associated Press reports that about 750000 class 1 railroad employees across 14 unions may strike for paid vacations. A ballot vote by February 15 with 30 days for the process and a 60 day cooling off period could delay a walkout until late spring if called, while mediation continues. Meanwhile other industries face strikes and delays, including tractor plant workers in Chicago and Milwaukee, and rubber workers in Akron. A Dayton truck driver strike was settled after 18 firms agreed to a union contract.
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George M. Harrison
Washington
Standard Brotherhoods
National Defense
Chicago
International Harvester Company
Allis- Chalmers Co
Milwaukee
Wis
United Rubber Workers
Lieberling Rubber Co
Akron. O
International Union
Dayton
Italian Press Criticizes Roosevelt Aid To Britain
Rome reports focus on American aid to Britain and Lindbergh criticism. The official radio questioned U.S. public opinion, attacking Anglo-Saxon bias and alleged Jewish influence on policy, with Il Giornale D Italia among papers editorializing on the theme.
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Rome
Roosevelt
Britain
Charles A. Lindbergh
Africa
Rome Radio
United States
Great Britain
Itaro
Winant’s Ambassadorship to England Planned Soon
President Roosevelt said John G. Winant is expected to depart for England in about 10 days to serve as the United States ambassador there. He noted the appointment was based on citizenship rather than party and that other diplomatic moves are not yet decided. Roosevelt also anticipated meeting Wendell Willkie and Col. William J. Donovan after their respective returns or visits.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John G. Winant
England
United States
Winant
Benjamin Cohen
London
Col
William J. Donovan
Karl F. Baldwin
University
Pms&t
Kansas City
Congress hears claim federal workers hold Soviet bonds
Representative Cox says Dies committee evidence shows federal employees hold Soviet Russian bonds. He cites a long list of workers involved, including a $10,000 bond earning 6 percent. The Rules Committee mulls extending Dies inquiry to April 1, 1942, with action postponed to tomorrow.
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Washington
Cox
D-Ga
House Rules Committee
Dies
Rules
Dies Committee
Dickstein
D.-N.y
House Immigration Committee
RAF Bombers Hit Invasion Ports In Heavy Coastal Attacks
British air raids set fires in Boulogne Dunkerque and Dieppe docks and harbor facilities at Calais and Fecamp amid poor weather. The Air Ministry said planes dived in low to strike. one British aircraft missing. A German raider and a low flying German plane caused civilian damage in East Anglia and Scotland respectively.
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London
Boulogne
Dunkerque
Dieppe
Air Ministry
Calais
Fecamp
House votes down move to bar Navy disposals to beligerents
Washington reports the House defeated a Republican bid to forbid President Roosevelt from disposing any part of the US Navy to a bel Igerent without congressional consent by 183 to 128. The debate urged that such actions could draw the country into war without a formal declaration.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Representative Fish
R-Ny
Fish
To Expel Undesirables Around Camp Robinson
U S District Attorney Sam Rorex said undesirables drawn to Camp Robinson would be forced to move out. He warned that lagging would bring a mob of gamblers profiteers and street women, and announced that law enforcement officers have organized a campaign to expel them.
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Little Rock
Ark
U.S
Sam Rorex
Civilian Military Council
Camp Robinson
Gods Green Earth Investment Ad Gains Value
An advertisement argues land ownership protects wealth through inflation. It claims God’s Green Earth by Cleventer J. Rene and Charles E. Louk at 135 Mass. offers a safe investment as bond dollars shrink and selling prices rise, urging buyers to act.
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Cleventer
J. Rene
Chas
E. Louk
Market Index Report Shows Slight Dip from Yesterday
The stock index averaging 60 stocks stood at 42.2 yesterday, down from 42.4 previously. Investors watched broad market moves and sector shifts amid cautious trading.
Italian Troops Guard U S Embassy as Demonstration Fails
Rome February 7 Italian troops ringed the United States embassy to deter a planned student march. More than 2,000 students staged protests in Naples and Rome, hoisting German soldiers in solidarity, but dispersed before reaching the embassy as patrols remained in place.
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Rome
United States
Naples
Italy
Britain
France
Knox urges ensigns to defend liberty amid world conflict
Secretary Knox addresses Annapolis at the United States Naval Academy graduation. He warns that control of the high seas could fall to totalitarian regimes and urges new ensigns to defend individual freedom, facing a world in irreconcilable conflict.
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Annapolis
Knox
United States Naval Academy
High Seas
Navy Department
Europe
Asia
Temperatures to fall but not drastic in Kansas
Meteorologist D Flora predicts cooler tonight across Kansas with fair skies and little change in temperatures. Snow flurries touched eastern and southern Kansas but no measurable moisture, while highs reach 30 to 33 degrees statewide and lows dip to 12 to 20 in northern and southern areas.
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Topeka
Flora
Kansas
Chanute
Wichita
Goodland
Dakotas
Britain warns Home Guard as invasion threat grows
Britain's homeguard chief Lieutenant General T. R. Eastwood told 1,700,000 guardsmen to know their job as the danger of invasion lingers and will rise with improving weather. The text notes the ongoing invasion threat and urges readiness.
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London
Britain
T. R. Eastwood
Kansas Senate kills bill on county tag prefixes
Topeka February 7 The senate highways committee rejected a bill by Sen. Clarence P. Oakes to use county prefixes on license tags replacing population based numerals. Other measures about tag numeral order and four year terms for state executives were also acted on. Reflective rail car buttons and armory bond projects were debated.
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Topeka
Senate
Ettanthiee
Clarence P. Oakes
R.independence
Allen
House Roads and Highway Committee
H. S. Jennison
Allen County
Anderson County
House Judiciary Committee
W. W. Fowler
Executive Department
Bond Issue For Airport Lands Bypasses Election
The 1941 Kansas legislature passes a local bill authorizing Johnson County to issue bonds to buy land for an Olathe to Gardner airport. Sen. Lolla Coleman introduced it. Gov. Ratner signed it. Land cost about 64000 dollars with federal aid of 188000 dollars.
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Topeka
Lolla W. Coleman
R.-Mission
Johnson
Olathe and
Gardner
Payne Ratner
AFL Leader to Present Racketeering Cases to Council
William Green said he will bring to the American Federation of Labor executive council next week several racketeering cases involving federation officials. He met with President Roosevelt at the White House before departing for Miami where the council meets Monday, but he did not name any individuals.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
Roosevelt
White House
Miami
Fla
A.F.L
British Long Range Artillery Shells Valona Reported
Greek reports from Albania say long range artillery of British origin shelled the port of Valona for the first time. Tepeleni, a key mountain town, was reported in flames for the third day as Italians resist. North of Klisura Greeks claim defeat of Italian motorized units to gain ground. In the Devol valley an Italian attack near Dobrie collapsed, allowing a Greek counter-attack to seize positions.
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Bitoli
Yugoslavia
Albania
Valona
Tepeleni
Klisura
Devol River
Dobrie
Phog Allen to Captain Kansas Baseball Team This Spring
Kansas University athletics announce that basketball coach Phog Allen will pilot the Jayhawker baseball team for a 16 game schedule starting April 4 against Kansas State. Allen played second base for KU in 1906 and 1907 and previously coached Warrensburg Teachers from 1913 to 1919.
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F. C
Phog) Allen
University of Kansas
Gwinn Henry
Allen
Jayhawker
Kansas State
K. U
Warrensburg
Kansas
Nebraska
Mike Getto
Brooklyn
War talk at Co-Operative club meeting tribute
Members and guests heard an off the record war discussion by George Harris of Lawrence on 30 day leave from flying for the British ATA. The K U Serenaders sang several numbers with accompaniment from Co-Operettes. Two new members Howard N Williams and Albert B Martin were introduced. silver cups were given to new fathers Joe Wilson and Dr H W Craig for Linda Sue Wilson and Jeri Burton Craig.
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Co-Operative Club
George Harris
Lawrence
K. U
Kansas Electric Power Company
Albert B Martin
League of Kansas Municipalities
Joe Wilson
Linda Sue Wilson
H. W. Craig
Jeri Burton Craig
Trainees Leave for a Wyoming Fort for Year
A train carrying 301 selective service trainees departed Fort Leavenworth for Fort Warren Wyoming for a year of military training. Among arrivals were 189 from Kansas City Missouri. Trainees will undergo examination and classification with hundreds expected daily at the reception center and many to Camp Robinson Arkansas to help bring the 35th division to war strength.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Fort Warren
Wyo
Kansas City
Camp Robinson
Ark
Banks Closed in Lincoln Birthday Holiday
The banks along Lawrence will not be open on Wednesday February 12 due to a legal holiday Lincoln's Birthday. Ad notice.
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Lawrence
Lincoln’s
Greeks Occupy New Positions on Central Front in Albania
Greek forces have taken new positions north of the Trebessina mountains on the central Albanian front amid heavy rain and sustained fighting. A British air force communique reports RAF bombers struck Italian positions west of Tepeleni destroying stores and transport while Italian counter-attacks were repelled after close-range engagements.
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Albania
Athens
Trebessina
R.A.F
Tepeleni
Midyear KU Enrollment Dip Awaits Official Figures
University of Kansas faces an expected midterm drop of several hundred students though about 200 newcomers arrive and more than 4,000 carryovers persist. Officials note factors such as the draft, defense employment, and global uncertainty.
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University of Kansas
Raymond Nichols
Strike Halts Powder Manufacturing Program At Allis-Chalmers
Mibwaukes Feb 7 The entire United States powder manufacturing program is blocked as key equipment is tied up by a 17 day strike at Allis-Chalmers. Col Donald Armstrong Chicago ordnance district executive said he and an aide arrived to seek removal of certain powder manufacturing machinery from the plant amid disputes with the CIO United Automobile Workers over removal procedures. He added that they expect the two sides to reach an agreement.
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Mibwaukes
United States
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Donald Armstrong
Chicago Ordnance District
Armstrong
C.I.O. United Automobile Workers Union
Potatoes to Feed Stock and Landon to Testify Tomorrow
The Agriculture Department announced a buy for 12.5 million bushels of 1940 grown Irish potatoes in eight western states to be diverted for livestock feed with payments of 25 cents per hundredweight. Senator Capper said Alf M. Landon would testify before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on the lease lend bill.
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House
Mott
R-Ore
Bloom
D-Calif
Western Hemisphere
United States
Richards
D-S.c
Washington
GPI
Neuteon
Colorado
Nebraska
Wyoming
Idaho
Oregon
Utah
California
Agriculture Department
U.S
Weather outlook for Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma
Five day forecast shows fair conditions in Kansas with snow developing southwest tonight. Temperature expected below normal with a colder trend by Tuesday. Precipitation forecasts range heavy for the season, locally moderate in northern Kansas and Oklahoma. Temperature readings note 5 p.m. 27 F. yesterday high 40 low 22.
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Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Gas Ofice
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Soviet Russia
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Hitler
Luther Johnson
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Foreign Affairs Committee
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Judiciary Group
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Rens
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R-Allen
Karl W. Root
R-Atchison
Richard B. Stevens
R-Douglas
Supreme Court
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K. U. Nine
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Phog Allen
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Kansas State College
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