Allied Air Pressure Drives Rommel Retreat in North Africa
Allied air forces hammer Rommel's retreating Axis columns in Libya and Tunisia. One hundred American P-40 bombers join Australian and British planes to raid trucks and equipment as British Eighth Army nears El Agheila. U S Army Air Forces target Tunisian ports and rail hubs, destroying ships and locomotives while French troops report armored column losses near Sfax and Faid.
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Associated Press
London
North Africa
Rommel
Libya
Eighth Army
London Daily Mail
Marble Arch
S el Agheila
Tripoli
Mussolini
Tunisia
U.S. Army Air Forces
Bizerte
Tunis
Sousse
Sfax
Faid
Man jailed again after rock breaks Morenci eatery window
Joe Banfield, 48, of Sacramento, released after 30 days for disorderly conduct, was arrested by Morenci officers for throwing a rock through a plate glass restaurant window. He admitted the act, saying cold weather and unsatisfactory meals drove him to seek jail time. Window replacement cost $80.10. Arraignment pending. charges not yet filed.
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Joe Banfield
Sacramento
Cal
Joe
Morenci
Roscoe Scott
Reds Battle Fierce Nazi Attacks on Fronts
MOSCOW December 15 Soviet arms fought to repulse a series of German counter-attacks on multiple fronts. In the Stalingrad sector heavy fighting left about 600 Germans killed in one area and 500 in another as stores were seized. West of Rostov German reserves surged then were repelled with about 400 enemy deaths reported. Despite the battle, Soviet rail repair around Stalingrad neared four miles of track. Red Army continued counter-attacks as Axis tanks aided infantry, with total enemy toll surpassing 1,000. Dispatch notes shifting positions along the Tikhoretsk line toward Kotelnikovski.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Red Arms
Stalingrad
Fzhev
Red Army
Izvestia
Tikhoretsk
Kotelnikovski
New Rental Regulations Issued for War Housing
Washington reports strict rules require war housing be rented for at least four months with occupants eligible to buy, limited to war workers defined by WPB, NHA, and War Manpower Commission. WPB to supply materials, NHA to develop programs, WPE to allot by quarters, and standards set for utilities and temporary construction.
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Washington
War Production Board
National Housing Agency
War Manpower Commission
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
John B. Blandford
Nelson
WPE
NHA
Auctions Across Delta Area Detail Early December
Notices list multiple auctions in early December near Delta and Bliss Field. Joe Ryan and Al Linehan serve as auctioneers with advertisements guiding buyers to sales northeast of Decr area and market pages for further details.
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Delta
O. Joe Ryan
Blissfield
al Linehan
Decrdeta Ange Linghan
County's Surplus Food Contract May Be Canceled Within 10 Days
Lenawee county social welfare board may end surplus food distribution within a week or ten days due to labor shortages and war related concerns. Chairman William H. Ruesink with directors Arthur J Allis and Harold Hough will seek cancellation of the contract with the state welfare commission. They cite lack of help and the impropriety of distributing free surplus foods amid shortages. Onsted hot lunch issues are noted as separate and unrelated.
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Lenawee County Social Welfare Board
William H. Ruesink
State Welfare Commission
Ruesink
Arthur J Allis
Harold Hough
Ewill
State ‘Commission
Adrian
Onsted
Washington
Earl C. Michener
Senawee
Ray Turner
Canine Veteran Enlists in Army for Defense Service
Four year old Fritz von Troll, a Doberman with a storied Army background, officially enters active service to become one of the Army's dogs for defense. Owned by Lieut. Col. Arthur Ewart, Camp McCoy chaplain, the dog joins the regional Dogs for Defense program after extensive service with infantry and artillery units in Tennessee, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
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Milwaukee
Fritz von Troll
Tennessee
Camp McCoy
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Arthur Ewart
The
Dogs For Defense Organization
Baltimore Transit Strike Ends After White House Pressure
Nearly 500 Baltimore Transit Company workers returned to their jobs as the War Labor Board urged the company to consider employee grievances. The walkout had reduced operations by about a third, with 476 workers active and over 550 at a union meeting. Officials warned continued noncompliance could provoke federal action while sparrows Point and Curtis Bay plants faced the heaviest impact.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Transit Company
Settike
Troliey
War Labor Board
White House
AFL
Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Waldolf C. Holden
War Labor
Washington
Av H. Keeler
International Union
WLB
Ines Jeading
Sparrows Point
Curtis
Bsy
Javas
Air raids on Munda base. missing Western Airlines liner
In South Pacific action American air forces bombed the Japanese air base at Munda on New Georgia Island on December 11. In California a Western Airlines passenger liner with over 20 occupants vanished after takeoff from Salt Lake City at 1 05 am. No radio contact was reported and air search was organized.
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Ernest J. King
San Francisco
United States
Bruce McCandless
South Pacific
McCandless
Itsj
Washington
Navy
Munda
New Georgia Island
Los Angeles
Western Airlines
Salt Lake City
Fairfield
Utah
Leo Werikotte
Vicw
Churchill Reveals British Tank Shortage in 1940
London report notes Prime Minister Churchill told Parliament Britain had only about 16 tanks on July 11 1940 facing invasion risk after France fall. He warned invasions could come in spring 1941 or 1942 and cited tanks as weak against German anti tank guns. He also outlined new air weapon development and a reconstituted anti U boat warfare committee chaired by himself.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
France
Great Britain
Fireman Dead in Pittsburgh Hotel Blaze
One fireman died from smoke and over 158 others were overcome while fighting a stubborn blaze in the second sub-basement of the 22 story William Penny hotel. The hotel housed about 1,000 guests who were not injured, though many fled in pajamas as smoke filled the lobby. Flames broke out around 11 o'clock in a basement storeroom containing hotel furnishings and chemically treated matting, which burned fiercely and produced acrid fumes.
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Pittsburgh
New York
Chicago
Dames
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Boston
UMW Ready to Organize Rail Labor Amid Demand
Washington report says United Mine Workers District 50 is prepared to organize railway labor on a voluntary basis to meet worker demands. Ora Gasaway notes thousands have petitioned for affiliation, with rail workers seeking a single union to effectively represent them across crafts and classes under the Railway Labor Act.
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Washington
District 50
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Ora Gasaway
Gasa
Way
AFL
CIO
UMW
Gasaway
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Detroit
Cleveland
Kansas City
St. Louis
Toledo
Giant war weapons to arrive by next summer drives Axis back
AP wire reports that air sea and land forces expect overwhelming drives by late next summer as new giant weapons enter production. Arnold says planes will outstrip current fighters. Navy speeds up carriers and tank carrying cargo planes. Wounded Major G Chandler Bond, in southwest Pacific, is recovering after action.
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Associated Press
Washington
Axis
Pacific
Henry BH. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Arnold
Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp
Hheen
Navy
G. Chandler Bond
Southwest Pacific
War Department
Congress Moves Toward Adjournment in Wartime Session
Washington December 15 The 77th Congress, after declaring war on the Axis following Pearl Harbor, begins rapid steps to adjourn for a brief Christmas recess. Capitol leaders plan to reconvene January 6 for the 78th Congress. President Roosevelt will address a joint session January 7 to review the war and discuss postwar reconstruction and peace.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Capitol Hill
Rosevelt
Senate
Congress
Attlee rejects mass meetings for war leadership plan
London December 15. Dominion Secretary Clement Attlee says a supreme imperial war cabinet is impractical as leaders cannot be constantly absent or cede plenary powers. He notes delegates would slow the war machine and cites empire manpower figures across Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa Newfoundland and Rhodesia.
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London
Dominions
Clement Attlee
Imperial War Cabinet
Allied War Council
Attlee
Royal Empire Society of London
Canada
Navy
Air Force
Australia
Army
New Zealand
South Africa
Newfoundland
Southern Rhodesia
Jones to Join Drive for New Houston Cruiser
Washington reports Secretary of the Navy Knox and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Metcalf will travel to Houston for the final campaign meeting to raise 36 604 000 for a new cruiser named after Houston. He will also help launch destroyer escorts Keith and Moore and present an Army Navy E to Brown Shipbuilding. The effort follows the loss of the cruiser Houston in the Java Sea. In Detroit a reward of 500 is urged for information leading to the arrest of the killer of Clyde McCay with two women implicated in the knock-out drops case.
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Washington
Knox
Jesse Tries
Houston
Tex
Keith
Moore
Brown Shipbuilding Company
United States
Java Sea
Jarea
Java
Navy
Naval Service
Detroit
Wayne County Board of Auditors
Clyde A. McCay
Fort Wayne
Ind
William E. Dowling
McCoy
Allied push drives into Buna and Gona amid heavy fighting
Allied headquarters in Australia report American jungle fighters, aided by Australians, storming Buna village as heavy fighting rages around the Japanese Bune mission. Forces from Australia and the United States press the center and flank the enemy along the Gona Buna battleground. The combined landing and bombardment campaigns disrupt Japanese invasion efforts, with ships and landing craft hit and retreats under cover of darkness.
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Associated Press
Australia
Buna
New Guinea
Goma
Melbourne
Gona-Buna
Sanananda Point
Buna Village
Kumusi
Mambare
Melbourne Herald
Kumisi
Wait At A Glance Libya Rommel’s forces retreat under pressure
Libya Rommel s tattered forces retreat westward under heavy pressure from a British eighth army, with 300 American and Allied planes. Axis army 40 miles from collapse El Agheila line to stand 85 miles farther west. Beclin radio reports Allied landing on north coast of Tunisia and actions against German supply lines near Bizerte.
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Associated Press
Libya
Rommel
el Agheila
Mediterranean
Beclin
Tunisia
Bizerte
Medej el Bab
Tunis
Naples
Toulon
Buna
New Guinea
Pa- Duan
Guinea
Kumusi River
Russia
Red Army
Rzhev
Stalingrad
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Rues
Baltimore Transit
Bulletins
Britain
U.S
Major G
Chandler Bond
MASS
Buna Mission
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