British advance along Libyan coast plan hinted by Howe
Howe announces Canada may produce heavy bomber planes capable of Atlantic flights and build destroyers domestically if plans proceed. He notes 18 freighters for the UK will be increased and names Harry Carmichael as production troubleshooter. Delay acknowledged for bomber program under Empire Air Training Plan.
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C. 4
cACKBURN
OTTAWA
Jan
Canada
Atlantic
Howe
United Kingdom
Harry J Carmichael
General Motors Corporation
munitions and supply department
England
Sharmabidle deer
Paris Couples Held Over Cat Killing and Feasting
In Paris on January 27 a man and a woman friend were detained for killing and eating about 100 stray cats. The arrests come as ration cards are issued for cats, dogs, and other animals amid ongoing food shortages. A baker was also seen attempting to trap pigeons to train them for the stage.
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PARIS
Berlin
Churchill Baby Gift Blessings and Beaverbrook Shoework
Quotations from Quentin Reynolds recount Winston Churchill's grandson christening party with Lord Beaverbrook presenting a sequence of yearly shoes. Beaverbrook spent 21 days shopping, ending with a shoe inscribed for the child's 21st birthday when he enters the House to take his seat. The item ties to wartime era reporting and cross references to other notices.
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Quentin Reynolds
Collier's
Exeter
Reynolds
Dixie Tighe
New York Post
Winston Churchill
friendson
Randolph
Pamela Churchill
Lord Beaverbrook
Churchill
Beaverbrook
Winston
Eng
Fatal U S accident toll climbs in 1940 shocked by deaths
The National Safety Council reports 96,500 people died in U S accidents last year and 9,100,000 were injured. The 1940 toll exceeded 1939 by about 4,000 lives, with Chicago noted among affected locales.
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U.S
CHICAGO
National Safety Council
United States
London Raids Hit Three Hospitals In Afternoon Bombing
London reports say three hospitals were damaged in afternoon raids by single German planes with two bombers shot down. Staff injured and patients lightly hurt while first aid worked. Bombs struck in streets and a London square, with authorities noting no large casualties and attackers aiming at barrage balloons.
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London
Dover
Urge to raise funds for larger school grants urged
Edmonton reports the Alberta School Trustees association annual convention passed a resolution urging the provincial government to raise funds for larger school grants amid rising educational costs and falling profits in agriculture. The measure was amended to drop financing by a sales tax or government enterprise profits.
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EDMONTON
Alberta School Trustees’ association
War Savings Stamps Drive Promoted on CBC Network
A five program series promoting the Dominion wide war savings campaign features Canadian and American radio stage and screen stars. The broadcasts will air tonight on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Western network from 8:15 to 9:15 M.S.T. in Toronto.
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TORONTO
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
United States aid bill sent to House for debate
The administration’s British aid bill is moved to floor debate in the House with three days for general discussion. Navy Secretary Knox warns of a grave crisis within 60 to 90 days and says the United States may have to fight if the aid bill is not enacted, while the House Rules Committee grants a three day rule and unlimited amendments.
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WASHINGTON
United States administration
house of representatives
Navy
Knox
Germany
Great Britain
house rules committee
Sol Broom
Denn
New York
foreign affairs committee
United States
Capitol
foreign relations committee
Gerald Nye
Rep
North Dakota
Call For Tenders For Bomber School At Kenyon Field
The Ottawa based call for tenders confirms plans for a bomber school at Kenyon Field to be completed by May 31 with about 1500 men stationed there. The project, tied to the Empire air training plan, follows prior reports of a Lethbridge site costing roughly 900000 and moving the current elementary training school to High River.
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Ottawa Air Headquarters
Kenyon Field
The
Herald
Lethbridge
High River field
Alberta
Ottawa
Tepeleni Abandoned On Albanian Front Italian Pullback Report
Italian troops reportedly withdrawn from Tepeleni on the central Albanian front as Greek forces advance toward Valona. Athens dispatches claim Italian counterattacks were repulsed, with 200 prisoners taken and heavy material seized. Some reports say tanks were used but bogged down in soft ground.
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BELGRADE
Yugoslavia
A.P
Tepeleni
Valona
London
Associated Press
ATHENS
Khsura
Italy
Says Aberhart On Trial In Camrose By Election
Premier Aberhart faces scrutiny as the Camrose by election looms on February 6. Chester A. Renning, provincial CCF leader and candidate, declared the by election the biggest test in Canadian provincial politics since Confederation in an Edmonton radio address.
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Aberhart
Camrose
EDMONTON
All Canada
Ottawa
Chester A. Renning
C.C.F
Canada
Ronning
The Greek Soldier in Albania Battles with Italians
In Albania on January 31, a wiry Greek soldier, small in stature, defies superior officers and vents anger on fascist foes. He fights old style with rifle, bayonet, and hand grenade as Greece remains one of Europe's least mechanized armies. Moscow reports Laurenti Beria named general commissar of state security in Soviet Russia, with no explanation given for the post.
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J. WES GALLAGHER
Associated Press
ALBANIA
Europe
MOSCOW
Laurenti Beria
Soviet Russia
Bund leaders sent to jail under Jersey race law
Wilhelm Kunze national leader of the German American Bund and eight Bund associates were sentenced in Newton New Jersey to serve one year to 14 months in state prison for violating the state race hatred law.
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NEWTON
N.J
Wilhelm Kunze
Bund
New Jersey
Donovan arrives in Istanbul on Middle East tour
Col William Donovan, U S observer, lands at Istanbul after flight from Athens. He plans talks with Turkish leaders in Ankara. At the airport he meets Lt-Gen Sir James Marshall-Cornwall, head of a British officers group in Turkey since Jan 13, for staff conferences and inspection, before departing for the U S consulate.
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ISTANBUL
William Donovan
United States
Middle East
Athens
Ankara
Sydn
Viscount Forbes
Donovan
James Marshall- Cornwall
Turkey
Belief Grows Italians To Make Stand
Police charged Frederick Phillips and Earl Lund of Charlottetown with murder after the shooting of 78 year old Peter J. Traino a shopkeeper in his store. Traino died instantly from a head wound inflicted early today.
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P.E.L
CHARLOTTETOWN
C.P
Frederick Phillips
Earl Lund
Peter J. Traino
Apapa Sinks After Nazi Bombing Off Ireland
An East Coast Canadian port reports the 9530 ton British ship Apapa sunk by German bombs as she neared British shores after leaving Sierra Leone. 16 crew and passengers died. 88 survivors were rescued and landed in Scotland. The bomber struck with three bombs, two exploding midship. A three year old was saved aboard on a sea anchor amid rough seas.
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C.P
Ireland
Sierra Leone
Africa
Scotland
Calgary Mayor Requests Leave to Attend Legislature
Calgary mayor Andrew Davison asks for leave of absence to attend the provincial legislature from February 17 to session end, in a letter filed with city council ahead of Monday’s meeting.
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CALGARY
Andrew Davison
Army of Nile Rolls Along Towards Apollonia and Bengasi
The Nile army presses toward Apollonia and Bengasi advancing along strategic routes. Commanders report steady progress as supply lines tighten and reconnaissance units push ahead to secure key crossroads and hill positions.
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Nile
Apollonia
Bengasi
British advances across North Africa and East Africa reported
British troops push along the Libyan coast from Derna toward Apollonia and close on Moyale in Kenya as operations expand in Sudan Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. RAF bombs Barce as campaigns develop with Bengasi as a future objective.
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LONDON
C.P
Derna
Apollonia
Kenya
East Africa
Moyale
Kenya colony
Ethiopia
SUDAN
Eritrea
Nile
War Dept weighs labor law clause in army contracts
Under secretary Robert P. Patterson testified before the House Military Committee that the War Department is studying including a provision requiring compliance with all labor laws in all army contracts. He did not advocate coercive legislation to curb labor disputes on defence projects. The Ford Motor Co was refused a contract for army trucks valued around ten million dollars.
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WASHINGTON
Robert P. Patterson
United States war department
house
miliary committee
Ford Motor company
Strike Settled At Wright Field Expansion Project
A strike delaying a $1,550,000 Wright Field expansion near Dayton Ohio was settled. Labor disputes still hindered other United States defence projects as of January 31.
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WASHINGTON
Wright Field
Ohio
United States
Britain’s Great Hour of History Approaches
A. V. Alexander declared at a Preston war weapons meeting that Britain must seize its chance to win the war as the greatest hour of the nation’s history looms. He urged action to move from achievement to victory amid ongoing conflict.
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BRITAIN
LONDON
C.P. Cable
A. V. Alexander
the
admiralty
Preston
Mr. Alexander
BELGRADE
Yugoslavia
Bar
Antigari
Adriatic
Benunzio
Nigeria
Kenya
Kaimboni
N.B
FREDERICTON
C.P
McNair
New Brunswick
COLO. BOYS’ INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
GOLDEN
Colo
A.P
Raymond W. Combs
Boys’ State Industrial School
Colorado civil service commission
F.D.R.S
WHEELER WASHINGTON
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Aylmer
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Memorial hospital
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RAIDERS
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air ministry
department of munitions and supply
department
By MAX HARRISON
Hellas
Evzones
N.J. BUND
Col. Donovan
Apapa
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