Study Setup Of Economic Control Body
Washington January 22 reports say President Roosevelt plans an independent White House based agency to coordinate all economic defense efforts. The unit would oversee Treasury foreign funds and ships, Federal Loan Agency assets, Justice Department business links, State Department economics, export control, and more. Decisions on freezing assets and licensing exports loom as possible powers under study with action expected in days to weeks.
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Noosevelt
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Heen
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Federal Loan Agency
Justice Department
Anis
State Department
White House
National Defense Commission
Roosevelt
Latin America
United States
Russia
Axis
Japanese Warship Sunk and Transport Lost on Yangtze
The Central News Agency reports Chinese shore batteries shelled and sank a Japanese warship and a transport in the Yangtze near Nanking. The warship went down January 12 with many troops drowned. the transport with munitions and supplies followed January 14. Japanese minesweeps were sent to clear river mines. Japanese forces retreating near Ichang after a failed attack.
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Hong Kong
Central
Yangtze River
Nanking
Ichang
Willkie Heads to Britain to Observe War Effort
Wendell Willkie departs by clipper plane for Britain to assess English resistance to Hitler and planned ceasefire talks. He mentions meeting Churchill and Bevin, expects to return Feb 10, and notes discussions with Secretary Hull on return. He wears a tin helmet for reporters and vows to report on observations without plans to meet the President.
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England
Hitler
Tle
John Cowles
Landon K. Thorne
Fifth Avenue
Churchill
Ernest Bevin
Labor
Hull
Magistrates Back Revisions to New York Motor Vehicle Law
Albany January 22 The State Association of Magistrates backs amending the motor vehicle law to allow bond posting tied to an insurance policy as bail and to make license revocation for leaving an accident discretionary. They also urge enactment of a uniform city court act and elected Peter J Conlin as president succeeding Peter S Beck.
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State Association of Magistrates
New York
Peter J. Conlin
Rensselaer
Peter S. Beck
Freeport
Right to memory sparks license tale in Albany
Albany letter to the State Motor Vehicle Bureau reveals a wife asking for a low license number due to memory slips while forgetting to sign the name and forward the renewal stub. The note underscores domestic blame and license procedures in a quirky enactment of state rules.
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Albany
State Motor Vehicle Bureau
Russians Push Turks Toward Erzerum Forts
Twenty five years ago on January 22 1916 Russian forces pursued Ottoman troops toward the forts defending Erzerum in a Eastern Front action. Military units clashed amid snowbound terrain as the campaign around the fortress intensified with strategic implications for the wider theater.
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Erzerum
Boston Harbor Tragedy Prompt Federal Inquiry
Federal investigators from the Steamboat Inspection Service Coast Guard and the U S Attorney General's Office opened a probe into the sinking of the fishing schooner Mary E O'Hara in Boston Harbor killing 18. They seek cause of collision with the anchored coal barge Winifred Sheridan as rescued crew members are questioned and divers search Finn's Ledge for more bodies.
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Boston
Mary E. O’hara
United States Steamboat Inspection Service
Coast Guard
U. S. Attorney General's Office
Winifred Sheridan
Philadelphia
O'Hara
North Star
Coast Guards
Finn’s Ledge
Jobless Insurance Payments Decrease in 1940 Totals
Albany reports state unemployment funds at year end 1940 stood at 203,976,913 dollars versus 177,912,009 a year earlier. New York jobless benefits paid in December totaled 5,669,121 dollars, down 3 percent from November per the State Labor Department.
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Albany
New York
State Labor Department
U.S. Lifts Plane Embargo on Russians Amid Diplomatic Cals
The United States ends the moral embargo prohibiting Russia from buying American airplanes and materials such as aluminum and molybdenum. Officials say it is largely a diplomatic gesture with defense needs and export controls continuing, while questions remain about broader aims toward Britain and Axis powers.
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Washington
Russia
Britain
United States
Roosevelt
Finland
Hull
Constantine Oumansky
Moscow
Tokyo
State Department
Italian Air Raid on Elbasani Rages as Greeks Hold Klisura
In a Royal Air Force communique British planes pounded Elbasani Albania, near Tirana, with bombs on military buildings and railways as heavy ground fighting raged in the Klisura sector. Greek reports say Italians suffer losses and steady retreat north of Klisura despite fighting in the mountains near Valona and Kanina.
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Elbasani
Albania
Tirana
Royal Air Force
Greece
R.alf
Klisura
Ugo Cavalerio
Kisura
Salonika
Volos
Public Security Ministry
Aegean
Chimara
Struga
Valona
Kanina
Keraunias
Valona Bay
Greeks Repulse Italian Attacks Near Dukati and Valona
Reported Greek forces fought for two hours and repelled two Italian counterattacks three miles northwest of Dukati on the main coast road five miles below Valona Bay. Another Greek force advanced toward the Pra Sekii and Susica confluence inland, within about a mile of the river junction.
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Dukati
Valona Bay
Pras Sekit
Pra Sekii
Susica
Kitten's Phone Call Triggers Police at Central Avenue
Police rush two squads to 1320 Central Avenue after a tip that the receiver was off the hook. A grocery investigation finds a kitten mewing into the telephone mouthpiece.
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Kansas City
Kas Dan
Central Avenue
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