U.S. Enters War Against Axis as Battle Front Expands
Washington reports the Haruna battleship sunk off Luzon and notes Japanese landings near Aparri. Army bombers repulse air attacks on Cavite and Nichols Field while Hawaii aviation suffers losses, and Berlin claims Lexington sunk off Hawaii. Manila reports air raids, wake of bombardments, and casualties as Japanese forces push toward Clark Field and Wake Island.
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Manila
Cavite
Nichols Field
Stimson
Hawaii
Berlin
London
U. S
Lexington
Malaya
Bern
Llagan
Aparri
Domei
Wake Island
U. S. Army
Tokyo
Clark Field
Iba
United States
Guam
Luzon
Philippine Islands
Vigan
Ilagan
Haruna
Axis declares war on United States in historic move
Mussolini and Hitler announced Rome and Berlin support for Japan and war on the United States. Mussolini urged Italians to seize the hour as Hitler praised a united effort and vowed decisive action in the Pacific and Europe.
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Mussolini
Hitler
Japan
United States
Il Duce
Palazzo Venezia
Rome
Washington
Berlin
Reichstag
E.S.T
Palazzo Veneta
Congress Declares War on Germany and Italy After Roosevelts Appeal
Congress votes swiftly to war against Nazi Germany and Italy in response to President Roosevelts call for rapid united action. Senate approves unanimously separate votes. House tally 393 to 1 Present with Rep Jeanette Rankin opposing war with Japan. Diplomatic observers in galleries.
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Washington
Congress
Germany
Italy
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Jeannette Rankin
Lord Halifax
Lady Halifax
McNary
R-Ore
Archduke Otto
Austria
United States
Broadening Selective Service Could Register All Able Bodied
Washington AP reports Brig. Gen. Louis B. Hershey outlined plans to register and classify up to 40 million people including women for military and civilian defense. He said 20 million could serve in various capacities and about 1 million men could be immediately available by lowering standards.
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Washington
United States
Selective Service
Louis B. Hershey
Director of
Hershey
General Hershey
Armed Services
Ohio Cold Snap Hits Early Winter Day
Ohioans endured the season's coldest start with Archbold 9 degrees above zero Cambridge 11 Toledo 12 and statewide light snow flurries. Officials warned of slick spots near Cleveland Painesville Chardon Ashtabula and Warren as clouds gather for a modest warm-up Friday.
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Columbus
Dawn Patrol regularity linked to Pearl Harbor surprise
Military men familiar with Pearl Harbor theory say the Dawn Patrols' fixed schedules could have aided Japanese attackers. A Hawaii-based officer recalled routine morning flights and returns, suggesting observers on sugar plantations timed patrol ranges to gauge how close carriers could approach unseen.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Hawaii
Publisher W A Craft 64 Dies After Heart Ailment
William Alfred Craft publisher of The Glouster Press, died at his home after a heart ailment that began December 1. He lived in Glouster and was active in civic affairs and the Masonic Fraternity. Surviving are his wife Nona, a son Alfred, a daughter Mrs Jack Dillon, and one grandchild. Funeral plans are being made.
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William Alfred Craft
Glouster Press
Mr. Craft
Vinton County
Athens
Trimble
Calvin C. Myers
Masonic Fraternity
Craft
Nona Southerton Craft
W D. Southerton
Alfred
Jack Dillon
Crown Point
Ind
Flour Buying Flurry Dies
War time flour demand surged with news of the Pacific attack but faded as buyers learned U S wheat stocks are about twice normal for a year. Trade reports indicate a sharp recent sales spurt has subsided as this realization spread.
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Chicago
United States
Axis Pledges War To End With U S and Britain
Tokyo official radio reports Germany and Italy vow not to seek peace until the Axis war with the United States and Great Britain is concluded. The board of information announced the pledge today.
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Tokyo
Germany
Italy
Japan
United States
Great Britain
Board of Information
Woman Fatally Burned In Explosion at Beverly
Marietta reporter says Mrs. Luther J. Cline age 20 died in an oil explosion that burned her home near Beverly. Her sister Mrs. Brady Adams of Marietta was critically burned while rescuing her four year old son Harold who slept in an upstairs room and remained unharmed.
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Marietta
Luther J. Cline
Beverly
Brady Adams
Harold
Infant in Kendallville Suffered Broken Collarbone
Three month old Billy Dean Davis cried when held and doctors diagnosed a broken collarbone. Parents could not determine how the injury occurred.
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Kendallville
Ind
Billy Dean Davis
Hitler claims over three million Russians taken prisoner
London reports Adolf Hitler announced that by December 1 German forces had captured or destroyed 3,806,865 Russian prisoners and 21,391 tanks 32,541 guns and 17,325 aircraft.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Red Cross opens new campaign asks county to raise funds
Telegram from Washington calls Athens County to raise 10000 as part of a national Red Cross appeal for 50000000 for U S War Relief work. Norman H. Davis states We Must Not and we Shall Not Fail. Story on page 15.
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Washington
Athens County
National
Red Cross
U. S
Norman H. Davis
Sale of Tires and Tubes Suspended Nationwide
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration virtually halting the sale of all rubber tires and tubes until December 22 while a more permanent plan for rubber distribution is formulated. Severe penalties were threatened for buyers without a high OPM priority rating. used tires and tubes are exempted.
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Washington
OPM
Admiral Kidd of Cleveland Dies in Action
Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd of Cleveland, 57, the first high ranking American naval officer reported killed in the war, fell in the Pearl Harbor attack. He served as flag secretary to Admiral Husband Kimmel in the Pacific fleet. Also listed as casualties were Ohioans Corporal John J. Kohl, Private Horace Arthur Messam, and Private Richard E. Livingston, all killed in action in Hawaii.
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Washington
Isaac Campbell Kidd
Cleveland
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Kidd
Husband Kimmel
Pacific Fleet
Heweds
Naval Academy
Corp
John J. Kohl
Ralph Kohl
Springfield
Horace Arthur Messam
Air Corps
Barberton
Richard E. Livingston
Westerville
Interior Plants Will Hike U.S. Plane Output
The Office of Production Management raised the monthly goal for four motor bombers from 500 to 1000 and ordered seven day, 168 hour workweeks for warplane factories. Knudsen also extended the push to guns ships ammunition and tanks as part of a broader effort to boost heavy bomber capacity for joint operations against Japan. He cited Hawaii battle conditions altering objections to the plan.
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Washington
Office of Production Management
OPM
William S. Knudsen
Knudsen
Japan
Hawaii
Loomis Retained as Logan Service Director
Mayor-elect Denzil Weltner announced he would retain R. R. Loomis as city service director praising eight years of efficient service. Loomis has served under Republican mayors for four terms, and Weltner said politics were set aside in the decision.
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Logan
Denzil Weltner
R. R. Loomis
Loomis
Weltner
Solons Ready in Advance to Support War Message
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the resolutions and a six paragraph war message from President Roosevelt urged rapid united action against Germany and Italy. He said the forces seeking world domination move toward this hemisphere and called for Congress to recognize a state of war with Germany and Italy.
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Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
Germany
Italy
United States
United Stats
Charles Funk Killed In Mine Accident Today
Charles Scott Funk 21 was killed in a Powhatan Point mine accident this morning. The body will be returned to Millfield for funeral services. he leaves a wife Betty Tinkham a son his parents Mr and Mrs William Funk of Millfield three sisters Virginia Cheatham Ida May Gardner and Jackie Lou and two brothers William and Bobbie.
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Chauncey
Charles Scott Funk
Powhatan Point
Millfield
Funk
Betty Tinkham
William Funk
Virginia Cheatham
Ida May Gardner
Lancaster
Jackie Lou
William and
Bobbie
Japs Claim Landing Force Occupies Guam
Japanese army communique says landing forces seized Guam capital and captured 350 Americans including Governor Georg G. McMillin and other officers.
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Guam
Tokyo
Georg G. McMillin
Two Thousand Prince of Wales Repulse Survivors Reach Singapore
More than two thousand of about three thousand crewmen from the sunken battle ships Prince of Wales and Repulse were rescued from the China Sea. Survivors aboard a destroyer landed at Singapore as British officials reported Japanese attack causes.
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Singapore
China Sea
Naval Bastion
Malay Peninsula
More Troops Ordered to U S Coasts
The army pushed heavy troop concentrations to Pacific and Atlantic coasts to deter any hit run incursions. Air force units were redeployed to counter potential hostile air activity after Japanese reconnaissance flights over San Francisco. Unidentified planes over Los Angeles heightened blackout precautions and shipyards were kept at full operation.
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Washington
Pacific
Atlantic
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Logan Youth Unhurt In Hawaii Bombings
Edwin Monks, an engineer at Pearl Harbor, escaped injury in the Sunday raid on Honolulu. A second telegram confirms First Lieut. Charles Dugan and his wife with child were safe in Hawaii. Dugan is at Hickman Field bombed last Sunday. In Boston, Gustave W. Everberg suggests painting the Capitol’s golden dome blue to reduce visibility to air raiders.
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Paul Monks
N. Mulberry Sr
Edwin
Honolulu
Edwin Monks
Pearl Harbor Naval Base
Frank Murphey
Murray City
Charles Dugan
Hawaii
Dugan
Hickman Field
State House
Boston
Gustave W. Everberg
Capitol Building
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