Defense High Command Seeks Cooperation for War Production
Washington reports the defense high command aims for maximum production across all fields to win the crisis. Knudsen calls for every element of society to help while export controls extend to 15 more items including aviation gasoline and chemicals for war. Navy orders include submarine chasers and auxiliary vessels with nets placement capability. A Tulsa site is chosen to refit planes from customs. A $6.76 million contract goes to Hercules Powder for a powder bag plant near a $36 million plant to support government needs.
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Navy
Pulaski
Radford
Washington
Defense High Command
William S. Knudsen
Office For Productions Management
The
Defense Commission
Sa Conaeele
Tulsa
Cutoma
Cllocapeeha
Kansas City
Labor policy revision debated in defense contracts
Washington reports the administration is studying ways to soften a major labor policy in defense contracts. Key figures clash over including Wagner act guarantees while Ford contract disputes prompt a compromise review. Sidney Hillman and CIO leaders push for labor rights. Knudsen and war officials weigh necessary changes.
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Washington
Labor Department
Sidney Hillman
Defense Commission
CIO
Hillman
War Department
Ford Motor Company
Wiliams
Knudsen
Defense
Defense Ceuse
War
Ford
Labor Board
Repr
Woman Plunges From Local Hotel Window
A woman identified as Mrs Laura Bragg from Mobile Alabama died after leaping from a fifth floor window at the West Virginian hotel in Bluefield. Police and coroner ruled the death a suicide as investigators noted she appeared unsettled earlier, with her body found on the Commerce Street extension. The body was taken to Mercer Funeral Home for identification as authorities sought relatives in Mobile.
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West Virginian
Laura Bragg
Mobile
Ala
Commerce Street
C. N. Wilson
Morton Wagner
W. W. McNeal
Chief Wilson
Laura
Brags
Bluefield
Mercer Funeral Home
Letter to God Found in Mailbox in Richmond Indiana
A child's handwritten note titled Dear God addressed to God Heaven and signed A little girl who says her prayers every night is found in a Richmond mailbox. The letter pleads for forgiveness for bad deeds and asks for mothers recovery and for her parents to live together, acknowledging worry over the mother’s illness and family strain.
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Richmond
Ind
Heaven
Fatal stabbing ends Spanishburg Lashmeet miner row
Harlow Basham a 29 year old miner at Arista died after being stabbed in the chest following a 2:30 AM confrontation on a side road off the Lashmeet Spanishburg road. Kenny Cline was arrested on a murder charge after Basham identified him as the assailant. Basham died at Memorial hospital at 5:50 AM with Sheriff Crumpecker and witnesses present. Funeral services are set for Mount Olivet church Lashmeet.
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Spanishburg-Lashmeet
Harlow Basham
Arista
Kenny Cline
Basham
River
Spanishburg
Memorial Hospital
Cline
G. H. Crumpecker
Crumpecker
C. C. Elmore
Eliza Farmer
Doris
Melvin Basham
Lashmeet
Lilly Shrewsbury
Springton
Stella Bartrum
Taylor
Montcalm
Exie McKinney
Rocks
Edgar Farmer
Blue Jay
Viola Taylor
Cline Brothers
Ross
James Ross
Arlie R. Cline
Tilden Cline
Kenny
Mount Olivet
A. L. Basham
Lonnie McKinney
Kenneth James
Earl Ross
Esley Bowling
Hil) Ballard
Bloodhounds Track Fugitive After Officer Slaying in Georgia
Ringgold Georgia December 21 bloodhounds searched mountains of north Georgia and Tennessee for a fugitive motorist who shot and killed Corporal P F Black of the Georgia highway patrol after a traffic stop. More than 200 officers and civilians joined the manhunt. A woman passenger described the suspect as Charlies Butler claiming to have married him in Memphis.
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Virginia-Kentucky
Clyde Buchanan, Jr
Buchanan
Middleboro
Will Shaffner
Ringgold
Georgia
Tennessee
P. F. Black
Georgia Highway Patrol
Chin
Sullivan
Charlies Butler
Memphis
Miami
Oklahoma
Sixishoma City
Georgia - Tennessee
Berlin Watches Uct Reaction On Aris Ships Feeler
German foreign office says Britain incites America to act against the axis and Germany awaits U S reaction. Berlin also says the U S State Department will recall three Paris embassy staffers amid charges involving a British officer and the embassy. Hull says the three will be reassigned and that an inquiry will proceed.
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Berlin
Uct
ARIS
U. S. State Department
Paris
Hull
Foreign Office
Britain
America
United States
Germany
London
Ronald Cross
Rome
Rnment
Uni
Copertorce
Elizabeth An
Asheville
N. C
Me Cross
Leigh W
State Department
Washington
Injuries Fatal To Hal Kemp
Hal Kemp, 36, a swing bandmaster and orchestra leader once associated with the Duke of Windsor, died of pneumonia after injuries from a Wednesday automobile crash. He had been a modern music specialist, and his debutante wife Martha Stephenson of New York was at his bedside. Funeral planned in San Francisco with burial in Charlotte, North Carolina. A negligent homicide charge was filed against Casimiro Asparren, 36, in Fresno justice court.
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Madera
Calif
Hal Kemp
Kemp
Duke of Windsor
London
Prince of Wales
Martha Stephenson
New York
Alex Holden
San Francisco
Charlotte
N. C
Thomas D. Kemp
Justice Court
Casimiro Asparren
Fenedenel Asparren
Darden Seeks Governor Post After Congress Term
Norfolk Va December 21 Representative Colgate W Darden Jr announcing his candidacy for governor of Virginia subject to the Democratic primary August 5 1941 says he will resign from Congress before active campaigning He pledges a program to win voter approval and to preserve his congressional seat during the campaign
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Norfolk
Colgate W. Darden, Jr
Virginia
Darden
Congress
House of Representatives
Fascists Battle British at Bardia as War Continues
Dispatches report fierce fighting around the Bardia base as fascist forces make a desperate stand against British troops while political maneuvers in Vichy unfold. Petain delays Laval reintegration as Brinon, on orders, signals no restoration and seeks German accord.
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Bardia
Associated Press
Vichy
France
Fernand de Brinon
Paris
Pierre Laval
Brinon
Philippe Petain
Petain
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Bardia Under Siege as British Reinforcements Pour In
Cairo dispatch reports 18 days into the Libyan campaign British reinforcements reach Bardia besieged by Italian forces. The town has been cut off for two days with most Italians inside, while British land and sea guns pound the stronghold toward Tobruk.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Egypt
Bardia
Britain
Tobruk
Arenas
Rodolfo Graziani
Castel Benito
Tripoli
Libya
Aira
Mediterranean
Hoover calls for arbitration in war effort
Former President Herbert Hoover urges employers and workers in essential war industries to waive lockouts and strikes in favor of arbitration. He criticizes intolerance in the nation and stresses unity and increased industrial efficiency to meet defense needs.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
NBC Blue
Pennsylvania Society of New York
Hoover
United States
Great Britain
WHIS Moving to New Home on January 1
Radio station WHIS will relocate to enhanced facilities on Commerce Street, with the move completed by New Year’s Day. Station Manager J Lindsey Alley said the transfer includes three studios, a studio auditorium, expanded offices and lobby, plus a special New Year’s Eve broadcast and open house on January 1.
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WHIS
Commerce Street
J. Lindsey Alley
Alley
NBC
Greeks Press Albanian Front in Multi‑Axis Drive
Greek and British forces claim major advances in Albania with 300 prisoners and seized Italian positions at Tepeleni Klisura and north of Pogradetz. RAF bombers hit Brindisi and Berati while Greek infantry breach Tepeleni defenses and seize an Italian colonel and two battalions. Destroyers reportedly shell Valona and push into the Adriatic toward Saseno.
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Athens
Albania
Tepelent- Klisura
Chimara
Pogradetz
Greece
Adriatic Sea
RAF
Berati
Tepeleni
Kitsura
Adriatic
Valona
Italy
Saseno
Italian Prophecy Says Suez Will Be Reached By Troops
The Fascist weekly Relatoni Internazionali asserts Suez will be reached despite Libyan fighting. Virginio Gayda claims British command misled with a white flag and reports 12 trains of wounded reach Cairo. He cites 46 destroyed British armored cars and 38 trucks as Italian artillery dominates North Africa.
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Rome
Suez
Mediterranean
Libya
Relatoni Internazionali
Virginio Gayda
Il Giornale d’ Italia
Bardia
Gayda
Cairo
Ital
North Africa
Kenya
Somaliland
Ethiopia
Britain
Red Sea
East
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William D. Leahy
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