Blockade of Tobruk Said to Be Made
British mechanized patrols sweeping from the Bardia victory establish a close blockade of Italian forces at Tobruk near Marshal Graziani’s next Libyan front. Australian dispatches report casualties under 90 with 36 900 Italian prisoners and three tanks captured. Soviet circles warn Berlin as Balkan crisis deepens with troop movements and Red Army concentrations near the Danube.
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Associated Preas
Bardia
Tobruk
Rodolfo Graziani
Libyan
Bardis
Central Standard Times
Mussolini
Daily War Bulletin
Bardia Front
Balkan
Moscow
Berlin
Rusia
Germany
Rumania
Belgrade
Russia
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Balkans
Bessarabia
Lower
Danube
London
Balkance
Britain Blurs Fire Invasion In London Night Raid
London faced a night raid as warplanes dropped incendiaries. Government said several fires started but were quickly contained and no heavy scale attack. five bodies were recovered from wrecked houses as volunteers and watchers fought the blazes.
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London
Eqine
Financial and Commercial Center
Churchill names three executive bodies for postwar Britain
Prime Minister Churchill named three new government bodies to direct production imports and postwar reconstruction policy. Production is assigned to Labor Minister Ernest Bevin Imports to Sir Andrew Duncan and reconstruction policy to Arthur Greenwood minister without portfolio.
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London
Churchill
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Andrew Duncan
Arthur Greenwood
Watch on Spanish Falangist Propaganda Spreads in Americas
U S warns of falangist activities in Latin America tied to Spain’s government and Axis propaganda. Officials say Spanish embassies may be used to revive Spain’s influence and counter Inter American solidarity amid Nazi and Fascist aims. Ramon Serrano Suner leads the drive as Spain shifts toward Axis collaboration.
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Washington
Ameriter
State Department
Spain
Atai
Philippines
Cet
Ramon Serrano Suner
Axis
Berlin
Rome
Falange
Civil Service Head Test to Be Given
A three man examining committee will prepare an exam for selecting the executive head of Louisiana’s state civil service system, effective in 1942. Members are Samuel H. Ordney Jr., Louis L Kroeger, and Dr. Charles S. Hyneman serving with Charles E. Dunbar Jr., chairman of the state civil service commission.
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New Orleans
Charles E. Dunbar, Jr
Louisiana Civil Service Commission
Samuel H. Ordney
New York
National Civil Service Reform League
Louis L Kroeger
California State Civil Service System
Charles S. Hyneman
Louisiana State University
School of Government and Public Affairs
Bureau of Government Research
Leahy Begins as U.S. Ambassador in Snowbound Paris
Admiral William D. Leahy started work at the French chancellery today as the new United States ambassador to France arriving last night amid unusually heavy snowfall in Southern France.
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Vichy
France
William D. Leahy
United States
Death Edict For 4 Upheld
NEW ORLEANS January 6 The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the conviction and death sentences of four escaped Arkansas penitentiary convicts for the murder of Deputy Frank Gartman in Caldwell Parish. The quartet named Willian McHarg William Landers William Heard and Floyd Boyce were captured after fleeing a prison farm and kidnapping two girls and a boy.
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New Orleans
Arkansas
Parish
Louisiana Supreme Court
Frank Gartman
Willian McHarg
William Landers
William Heard
Floyd Boyce
Arkansas Petal Farm
Louisiana
Columbia
Gartman
Landers
McHarg
Heard
Boyce
Vicksburg
Supreme Court may act today on wage law
The high court may rule on the constitutionality of the federal wage hour law as 29 cases await decision after a two week recess. The case tests minimum pay and a 40 hour week for interstate industries amid challenges from Southern mills and a Georgia lumber firm.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Southern Textile Mills
Georgia Lumber Company
Justice Department
William L. Hutcheson
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Anheuser-Busch, Inc
St. Louis
Eastern Missouri Federal District Court
Chicago
Labor Board
Gestapo Loots Paris Libraries in Wide Raids
German Gestapo raids swept Paris libraries and bookstores along the Seine ordering owners to surrender within a half hour all copies on a list of 143 books. The operation targeted anti Nazi writings and much philosophical and historical literature, reaching the American Library in Paris among those served.
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Washington
Paris
Seine
Eleven Die As Navy Transport Plane Crashes Near San Diego
A Navy transport plane on a routine flight crashed into Mother Grundy Peak near White Mountain California killing all 11 aboard. Weather was blamed for the fatal mishap with low ceilings and dense fog 35 miles southeast of San Diego. Survivors from a previous Texas bomber incident helped in the rescue as an official board of inquiry began.
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San Diego
Calif
Mother Grundy Range
Navy
Texas
Here
Simpson Ranch
White Mountain
Army
CCC
Naval Air Station
Pensacola
Fla
Corpus Christi
Tex
Joseph Henry Gowan
Head Hill
Ark
David Everett Ferguson
Neponset
W. Va
Stephen Bland Cooke
Harrison
Victor S. Gaulin
Lowell
Mass
James Cyril Flemming
Reading
Frank Recke, Jr
National City
Cale
J. Hughes
Grand Rapids
Mich
H. E. Neff
A. M. Parry
Los Angeles
Marvin Magee
Long Branch
N. J
Frank Richard Naylor
Dayton
Crew
La Follette warns of potential total war in U S policy
Former Wisconsin governor Philip F. La Follette said Roosevelt risks dragging the United States into total war by pursuing his foreign policy. Speaking on Mutual radio for the America First Committee he warned of a prolonged “thirty year war” if convoying ships and Atlantic war zones trigger widespread combat.
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Chicago
Philip F. la Follette
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
United States
America First Committee
la Follette
Atlantic
la Pollette
Robert M. la Follette
National Progressives of America Party
Europe
Asia
Ministers in Balkans rush to Moscow amid German troop moves
Balkan ministers from Russia including Slavia Romania and Bulgaria travel to Moscow for Kremlin consultations on Germanys rising military force in the Balkans. Reports say German troops mass on the border while rail sabotage and Romanian border disruptions persist.
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Russia
Moscow
Budapest
Slavia
Rumania
Bulgaria
Kremlin
Germany
Balkans
Hungary
Romania
Berlin
Belgrade
Romania Cut Off as Nazi Troops Pour In
Rumanians mined the Danube at Galatz and began canal work under German direction. Diplomatic circles cite reports that Russians seized the Sulina canal as evidence of border clashes with Romania. Turkish press cites Germany moving troops into the Balkans fearing British attack. Italy seen as effectively out of the war.
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Black Sea
Danube
Galatz
Cerna-Voda
Sulina
Romania
Germany
Balkans
Italy
Davis Asks Congress to Probe His Activities
William Rhodes Davis, an international oil operator, called for a congressional investigation into claims he engages in no activities harmful to the United States. He said he has kept the State Department informed and denied backing a No Foreign War group while favoring groups sharing his view of world tranquility.
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New York
William Rhodes Davis
United States
United States Department of State
Wheeler
Montana
No Foreign War Committee
No Strikes Pledge Presented By AFL Metal Trades
Washington reports that the AFL metal trades division offered a no strikes pledge tied to employer arbitration of labor disputes. The plan covers 13 unions with over 850,000 workers, aiming for industry wide agreements by region in shipbuilding and other defense sectors.
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Washington
Metal Trades Division
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
John Frey
Frey
Roosevelt asks Congress for greatly increased armaments
President Roosevelt told a joint session that the nation faces an unprecedented foreign peril and urged swift increases in defense spending and taxes to finance munitions for democracies abroad. He outlined four freedoms and a policy to aid Britain China and Greece without declaring war, warning dictators will not wait for aggression to be formalized.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
House
Senate
Britain
China
Greece
Mr. Roosevelt
Norway
Belgium
Netherlands
Crowded Orleans Federal Docket Opens New Session
At Orleans federal court Judge Alexander Akerman opened a new session amid a docket crowded with Louisiana scandal cases. Avery Island native E A McKhenny is slated for arraignment January 17 on mail fraud charges tied to landscaping contracts at Louisiana State University. Former Governor Richard W is set for arraignment February 28 with pleas in a case accusing Leche and others of conspiracy to violate the Connally hot oil act. Leche’s appeal from a mail fraud conviction in the Alexandria truck purchase case is scheduled for February 3 before the U S Court of Appeals.
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New Orleans
Alexander Akerman
Orlando
Fla
E. A. Mcckhenny
Avery Island
Nateralist
Louisiana State University
Richard W
Leche
Alexandria
United States ‘Filta Circuit Court of Appeals
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Bulgarian Communist Party
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Sweden
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Rumanian Iron Guard
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