Cripps predicts inevitable Russia Japan war
Sir Stafford Cripps returning from Moscow says war between Russia and Japan is inevitable and Russia will crush Germany by next winter. He cites 3,000,000 well equipped troops and says Russia intends a complete conquest. He notes differences with Japan can only be settled by force.
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London
Star Cripps
Britain
Moscow
Pacific
Russia
Japan
Red Army
Germany
East
Sir Stafford
Joseph
C I O selects three man panel to work with AFL
The C I O executive council names a three man committee led by Philip Murray to confer with an AFL panel on a wartime labor board. Members are R J Thomas and Julius Emspak. Roosevelt would join as seventh member. AFL names Green Meany and Tobin. Murray expects initial session after current CI O talks with Little Steel.
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New York
Philip Murray
American Federation of Labor
White House
Murray
R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers
Julius Emspak
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Roosevelt
William Green
A. F. of L
George Meany
Daniel J. Tobin
C. Leh
C. I. O Labor Unity Board
Sidney Hilloran
John L. Lewis
Vote called off in East Carroll parish
Governor Sam Jones recalled an executive proclamation for a March 24 special election to fill the late J Martian Hamley parish tax assessor seat. The attorney general ruled he can appoint a successor, so Jones appointed Mrs Kate Hamley to fill the vacancy though Hamley’s term had more than a year left.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
East Carroll Parish
J. Martian Hamley
Hamley
Jones
Kate Hamley
Western Hemisphere breaks with Axis at Pan American meeting
Uruguay and Peru sever diplomatic ties with Germany Italy and Japan after a Western Hemisphere compromise at the Pan American conference in Rio de Janeiro. Sumner Welles hailed “the utmost measure of success” as Brazil Bolivia Ecuador and Paraguay were urged to follow, with Argentina and Chile likely the last holdouts.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Uruguay
Peru
Germany
Italy
Japan
Montevideo
Lima
Sumner Welles
United States
Welles
Brazil
Bolivia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Argentina
Chile
Alberto Guani
Alfredo Baldomir
Axis
Morgenthalu Urges Tax On State Bonds For War Revenue
Morgenthau pledges to close tax loopholes and end tax-exempt state and municipal bonds to help reach Roosevelt’s goal of nine billion dollars in new revenue. He warns such bonds undermine national unity and morale and links this to wartime production goals for 1942. He criticizes tax-free securities as a refuge for wealthy taxpayers from all income taxes.
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Cleveland
Secretary of the Treasury
Roosevelt
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
City Club
Morgenthau
New Orleans Faces Fiery Municipal Primary as Long Ties Resurface
In New Orleans a furious municipal primary pits Mayor Robert Maestri against foes Herve Racivitch and Shirley G. Wimberly. Huey Long’s influence looms as James A. Noe breaks with Governor Jones to back Maestri, while old Regular Democrats rally behind the incumbent amid a tense political climate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Huey P Long
Long
Sr . H. Jones
Robert S. Maestri
Huey Long
Regular Democratic Association of
James A. Noe
Jones
Maestri
Noe
Herve Racivitch
Shirley G. Wimberly
Huey P. Long
Earl K. Long
Wimberly
Help Demanded for Australia Aid Angers Britain
Britain faced urgent pressure over Australia relief as Churchill weighs a Pacific front plea. Parliament, press, and public demand definite aid news while critics target Sir Archibald Sinclair and cabinet members.
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London
Australia
Britain
Churchill
Whitehall
A. B. C. D. Pacific Front
Archibald Sinclair
Stafford Cripps
Moscow
Russia
Communist Party of Great Britain
West Coast Told of Attack Danger
Thirteenth naval district warns of possible Japanese attack on merchant vessels off the West Coast. Reports of flares at sea and blinker lights are being investigated. Submarines sighted off Alaska and unidentified vessels offshore suggest reconnaissance by the enemy.
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Seattle
Thirteenth Naval District Headquarters
Atlantic
Alaska
Oil as the prize drives Nazi and Japanese campaigns
A World War II analysis notes Hitler and Japan both seek oil as the decisive resource. German advances stall near the Caucasus, while Japanese gains in the China Sea reach Tarakan and Borneo but still fail to yield immediate oil. Wells lie thousands of feet underground, delaying access and challenging Axis plans.
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Japan
China Sea
Russia
Hitler
Europe
Caucasus
Caspian Sea
Caspian
Borneo
Netherlands Indies
Tarakan
Russia reports vast German provisions seized in drive
Associated Press detailing a Russian push that dislodged the northern German line near Rzhev and threatened Smolensk. The article notes large German stores captured as proof of winter readiness and cites Sir Stafford Cripps predicting an inevitable war between the Soviet Union and Japan.
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Associated Press
Russia
Berlin
Rzhev
Five in Arkansas Denied Acquittals in Civil Liberties Case
In Jonesboro Arkansas on January 24 federal judge T C Trimble denied acquittals for five Crittenden county residents charged with a civil liberties conspiracy. The defendants Harold Bud Holland Omer Curlin C C Culp Cecil Nance and Jim Miller face a trial by jury after final arguments. The government contends the group conspired to deprive about twenty people of civil rights through false arrests and extortion near the Mississippi River and Memphis.
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Jonesboro
Ark
Crittenden County
T. C. Trimble
Mississippi River
Memphis
Harold “Bud” Holland
Omer Curlin
Marion
Howard Curlin
C. C. Culp
West Memphis
Cecil Nance
Jim Miller
Trimble
Sugar Rationing Announced Amid War Shortage
Washington news reports government sugar rationing will begin early next month with a one pound per person per week limit. Price Administrator Leon Henderson cites a one third shortfall and warns hoarders that excess stocks will be reclaimed and use urged.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Henderson
OPA
Automotive leaders pledge full war production cooperation
Detroit January 24. Heads of the nations auto industry vow to convert all machine tool capacity to armament output. The pledge came at the war production council meeting with Ernest Kanzler, new automotive division chief, urging faster action and a united effort across car makers, tool firms and allied industries.
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Detroit
Council For
Ernest C. Kanzler
Automotive
War Production Board
Kanzler
War Board
Council For War Production
US Asiatic fleet aids in Macassar strait night action
In a bold night assault, a flotilla of destroyers near Macassar strait sank two enemy ships and pummeled the convoy with torpedoes and shells. Only four men were injured, one seriously, as Allied forces pressed a clockwork campaign with Dutch Indies air support.
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Navy Department
Dutch East Indies
The
Indies Air Force
Supreme Command
Straits of Macassar
Borneo
Celebes
Navy
Rangoon
Malaya
Singapore
R. A
American fliers score successes over Rangoon air battles
In Burma the combined RAF AVG and American pilots shot down seven Japanese bombers and four fighters in a mid day dogfight over Rangoon. The two day tally hit 32 Japanese aircraft while land actions near Moulmein continued with strategic movements.
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Rangoon
Burma
Mandalay
Moulmein
Kipling-esque
Gulf
Martaban
United States Army
Navy
United Nations
Nason Named Mayor of Harrisonburg
N N Nason has been appointed mayor of Harrisonburg village in Catahoula parish by Governor Sam Jones. He succeeds Joseph E Ransdell Bethard who resigned. Other appointments include Stewart Bond to the Livingston parish gravity drainage district board and Robert Y Newell and J W Tyler as justices of the peace in Tensas and Catahoula parishes.
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Baton Rouge
N. N. Nason
Harrisonburg
Catahoula Parish
Sam Jones
Joseph E. Ransdell Bethard
Stewart Bond
Livingston Parish
Louis F. Harris
Robert Y. Newell
Tensas Parish
J. W. Tyler
World War II frontline actions widen across multiple theaters
Night actions erupt as US destroyers sink at least two ships in Macassar straits while Dutch bombers hit ships nearby. In Rangoon raids, Japanese losses include seven bombers and four fighters. Australian artillery shells tanks near Singapore. MacArthur’s forces shell further up the Philippines. Libyan battle plans unfold with Axis advances, Soviet stores seized, and 8,000 ton Italian freighter captured. Sir Stafford Cripps returns, foresees a Soviet–Japanese war, and a 9,000,000 strong Soviet army vows to crush Germany by 1942 winter.
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Associated Press
United States
Macassar Straits
U.S
Rangoon
Singapore
MacArthur
Libyan
Stafford Cripps
Russia
Yankee Smile Faults in Nazi Writer Satire
In Bern Switzerland on January 24 a Nazi officer writing in Adolf Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter lists twelve alleged universal faults of Americans. He mocks American habits such as smiling driving cars and drinking grapefruit juice while calling them homo dollaricus uniformis and assigns traits like herd instinct, gullible reading of print, and gum chewing.
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Bern
Switzerland
Adolf Hitler
Ahlswwede
Germany
Broadway
State Colleges Ask Over 9 Million For 1942 44 Biennium
Louisiana state board of education unanimously approved requests from 17 state colleges and related institutions for legislative appropriations totaling more than 9 million dollars for 1942 44. Budgets of about 4.57 million for 1942 43 and 4.49 million for 1943 44 include salaries to offset rising living costs and proposed capital outlays. The committee urged approval of capital funds only if materials are available after the world emergency ends. Enrollments are expected to fall by 5 to 15 percent. The totals go to the state budget officer for the governor to present to the legislature in May.
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Baton Rouge
State Board of Education
Govenor
National survey nears completion on specialized workers
Louisiana State Personnel Director Willard E. Parker reports the National Resources Planning Board is close to finishing a vast survey of specialized workers. Parker splits time between Baton Rouge and Washington, overseeing Louisiana’s new civil service program and aiding the planning board’s study.
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Baton Rouge
National Resources Planning Board
Willard E. Parker
Parker
Washington
Louisiana
Pearl Harbor Inquiry Finds Duty Dereliction by Short and Kimmel
A presidential board of inquiry attributed the Pearl Harbor raid’s success mainly to dereliction of duty by Lt Gen Walter Short and Adm Husband E. Kimmel. It faulted their failure to act on warnings, noting misperceptions about enemy air activity and limited alert procedures. The panel, led by Justice Owen J. Roberts, cited several contributing factors and meticulous incidents before the attack.
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Washington
Jan
Pearl Harbor
Walter C. Short
Husband FE. Kimmel
Army
Navy
Short
Kimmel
Japan
Western Pacific
Naval Base
Oahu
Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court
Former Vinton Mayor Acquitted of Murder Attempt
Lake Charles La Jan 24 Former Vinton mayor Athan Perry was acquitted by a district court jury of shooting with intent to murder his successor Walter J Romero. The trial covered a June 13 office clash over succession with Romero wounded by two bullets and eye witness Lucille Broussard describing a struggle for a gun.
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Lake Charles
Pathan Perry
Vinton
Walter J. Romero
Perry
Romero
Lucille Broussard
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Masaharu Homma
Douglas MacArthur
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