Southampton Is Pounded by German Attack and Italian Surrender
German forces pressured Southampton in a fierce raid while a Greek dispatch claimed 5000 Italian troops surrendered in the central Balkan front signaling a wider Italian retreat. A convoy attack west of Ireland left at least 10 vessels hit as Britain and Spain move toward financial accord.
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Associated Press
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Southampton
Mussolini
Ireland
Mackay
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Spain
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Samuel Hoare
Madrid
Ramon Serrano Suner
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
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Hungary
Rumania
Budapest
Yugoslavia
Slovakia
Berlin
British Press Association
England
Bargains Draw Throngs: Santa Coming Tomorrow
Amarillo shoppers flood downtown for Dollar Day bargains as Santa Claus plans a 3:50 PM parade from Municipal Auditorium down Polk Street to Taylor Street and Fifth Avenue. Christmas spirit boosts stores ahead of 19 remaining shopping days and a predicted surge in holiday purchases. President Roosevelt departs Washington by train for a Caribbean defense inspection cruise. He may visit Miami and other Florida ports as preparations for naval movements surface. his exact destination remains undisclosed.
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Roosevelt
Miami
Florida
Stephen Early
White House
Early
Caribbean
Panama Canal
Santa Claus
Polk Street
Municipal Auditorium
Third Avenue
Tenth Avenue
Taylor Street
Fifth Avenue
Santa
Amarillo
Four Die After Powder Plant Explosion Near Tacoma
Four men were killed or seriously injured when a mixing plant at the Columbia Powder Company near Tacoma exploded early today. Undersheriff Clyde Knowles reported.
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Tacoma
Wash
Columbia Powder Company
Here
Clyde Knowles
Vacation Ends as Local Schools Open Amid Storm Repairs
Amarillo area students return to class at most schools today after a Thanksgiving holiday that extended through the week due to storm damage to power lines. Pleasant Valley School plans to resume classes tomorrow as electric line repairs finish.
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Amarillo
Pleasant Valley
Sksgiving
Jasses
Italian Girls Aid Greek Relief Drive in Kansas City
A Greek war relief tag sale in Kansas City drew Italian girls and a young Italian seller who told Thomas McGee an insurance man that she is Italian, not Greek. The scene features several Italian misses joining Greek girls in the fundraising effort with volunteers collecting tags.
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Kansas City
Greek War Relief Fund
Thomas McGee
McGee
Woman Uses Rock After Gun Fails to Fire in Yard
In Bloomsburb, Pa, on a December day, Mrs. Arthur Allegar retrieved the family pistol to shoot a rabbit fleeing through her yard. The gun misfired, so she threw a rock instead, killing the rabbit.
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Bloomsburg
Arthur Allegar
Mrs Roosevelt Opposed To Sending Troops
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt says it will likely never be necessary or wise to send American men to Europe. She criticizes adding manpower in England as a feeding problem while affirming support for aid to England in current ways.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Fort Worth
Dec
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Europe
England
Hemingway Novel Banned in St Joseph Library
Public library officials in St Joseph Missouri ban Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls citing robust language and also ban To Have and Have Not.
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St, Joseph, Mo
W.P
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway
Orchestra To Play Tuesday In Gala Event
Amarillo will open the 1940 41 symphony season with the Philharmonic Orchestra at 8 15 p m in Municipal Auditorium. Baritone Barre Hill formerly of the Ziegfeld Follies and Chicago Civic Opera Company will sing operatic arias with the orchestra. Conductor Robert Louis Barron oversees final rehearsal and full instrumentation. J R Pendleton directs a near completed membership drive with season passes priced 1 for adults 50 cents for students 5 and 10 for special classes.
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Amarillo
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Municipal Auditorium
Ight Opera
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Ziegfeld Follies
Chicago Civic Opera Company
Clarence Brady
Robert Louis Barron
J. R. Pendleton
Knife and Fork Club to Welcome Ella Enslow Lecture
Amarillo prepares for a large Knife and Fork Club meeting at the Amarillo Country Club with Ella Enslow as lecturer. Enslow gained fame after early teaching work and a series in the Saturday Evening Post. Members can reserve tickets at Maxor Drug or the Amarillo Hotel news stand. dinner begins at 7 o'clock.
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Ella Enslow
America
Miss Enslow
Cumberland Mountains
Saturday Evening Post
Hills
Knife and Fork Club
Maxor Drug
Fisk
Amarillo
Approval for Credit to China Moves Forward
Senate Banking and House Coinage committees unanimously approve a plan to extend 100 million dollars in aid to Chiang Kai-shek's government. Half from the treasury stabilization fund and half from the Export-Import Bank, with Hull and Morgenthau detailing policy and terms.
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Washington
Senate Banking and House Coinage Committees
United States
Treasury
Hull
Chiang Kai-Shek
Morgenthau
House
Wagner
New York
Weather forecast and temperatures for Amarillo area
The U S Weather Bureau forecast calls for fair and slightly colder conditions tonight and Tuesday for Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas and New Mexico show fair weather with colder readings in the Panhandle, and temperatures ranged from a 34 degree minimum to a 50 degree maximum in the past 24 hours with noon at 50. New Cameo model dictaphones, Russell Stationery Company.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
Panhandle
New Mexico
Russell Stationery Company
Pruning damage cited by Amarillo mayor
Mayor Ross D. Rogers cites pruning damage after the storm as the real harm to Amarillo trees. He warns many inexperienced workers have cut trees too deeply and urges owners to hire qualified professionals to prevent further destruction and future regrets.
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Amarillo
Ross D. Rogers
Mr. Rogers
Italy's mystery plane tests without propeller
Fascist reports say Col Mario de Bernardi flew Italy's no propeller aircraft at 625 mph. Invented by Secondo Campini, the machine runs on compressed gas and aims for 3000 mph in the stratosphere for civilian and military use with Mussolini's backing.
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ROTE
U.P
Italy
Mario de Bernardi
Secondo Campini
Caproni Air Works
Bedo Mussolini
Campini
Atlantic
Milan
Corriere Della Sera
Weather forecast predicts steady temps with little moisture
Mr Colman forecasts fair weather tonight and tomorrow with few changes in temperature. For the rest of the week he says conditions remain “as is” or cooler with no expected rain.
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Mr. Collman
Campaign Chiefs Subpoenaed in Presidential Campaign Probe
Edward J. Flynn and Joseph W. Martin Jr chairmen of the Democratic and Republican national committees were subpoenaed to testify before a special grand jury examining major party expenditures in the recent presidential campaign.
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Washington
Edward J. Flynn
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Oil Drilling Yields Carbon Dioxide Well in California Desert
BRAWLEY Calif Dec 2 The Venice Oil and Refining Company failed to strike oil but brought in a carbon dioxide well near Brawley. President R R Horrowitz said the gas well was gushing about 1 000 000 cubic feet daily and likely the most productive of its kind in the world.
Robber Targeted Cigar Store. $250 Loss Reported
Police today hunted a robber well stocked with cigars after Grant H. Arnold of Ottawa, Kansas reported 6400 cigars stolen from his car in Kansas City Missouri. The total value was $250. The item is noted as a 25 years ago snapshot from December 2, 1915, with a withdrawal of Allied troops from Serbian territory.
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Kansas City, Mo
Grant H. Arnold
Ottawa
Kans
Nazi Paper Bitterly Attacks Switzerland Front Page Undiplomatic
The Frankfurter Zeitung prints a front page attack calling Switzerland unneutral and pro Britain in a piece titled The Swiss in Churchill's Service. It condemns Swiss public attitude as the war rages and cites perceived slander by a neutral nation during wartime.
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Berlin
U.P
Frankfurter Zeitung Today
Switzerland
Churchill
48 Page Objection to Being in Army Reported in Lapeer
An unidentified man in Lapeer Michigan filed a 48 page objection to military service with the local selective service board. He filled many pages with biblical quotations emphasizing peace and the golden rule.
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Lapeer, Mich
U.P
Selective Service Board
Hoover Prophecies Denounced by Protestant Leaders
In New York on December 2, 34 Protestant religious and educational leaders condemned Herbert Hoover’s forecast that 15,000,000 would starve in German conquered Europe this winter. They called his predictions gravely inaccurate not responsible and an exaggeration and rejected plans to supply Germany via England despite the blockade.
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New York
U.P
Herbert Hoover
Europe
Germany
England
British Destroyer Sturdy Reported Lost in War
The admiralty today reported the loss of the destroyer Sturdy 905 tons the 33rd British destroyer admitted missing since the war began in Britain field.
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London
Admiralty
Sturdy
Britain Tightens Blockade Says Argentina Trade Quietly Shifts
Buenos Aires reports Britain secretly tightens restrictions on ocean trade to curb shipments to Axis nations. Britons reportedly deny navicert approval for 100,000 tons of Argentine cotton to Spain and hamper deals for Argentine meats fats and hides destined for France Russia Sweden Finland and conquered France. Swiss buyers store essentials in Argentina amid wartime constraints.
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Associated Press
Buenos Aires
Britain
Russia
Sweden
Finland
France
Spain
Argentina
Letter With Money Goes Unclaimed
Post office clerks in Anderson South Carolina issue notice to sender or addressee of a found letter containing currency but no address or message. The letter bears no sender details and postage due two cents. efforts to deliver have failed.
81 Year-Old Man Is Father of 8 Pound Boy
Springfield Oregon December 20 J F Allison 81 today accepted congratulations on the birth of a son to Mrs Allison the infant weighed eight pounds Also mentions Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance as part of the text.
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Sprinfield, Ore
J. F. Allison
Mra Allison
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