Axis blows sink Sydney and Parramatta in action
London reports two Australian warships sunk the cruiser Sydney and the sloop Parramatta amid heavy fighting with the German raider Steiermark. The Sydney allegedly drew enemy fire before going down as Allied ships pursued the Steiermark near the Pacific, with Canberra fearing the loss of all 645 crew aboard. At Singapore a reinforced British fleet arrived, including the battleship France of Wales, as Rommel's forces pressed a Libya corridor breach toward Tobruk.
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Parramatta
Acion
Naxi
Pacific
Steiermark
France
Wales
Singapore
Royal Australian Navy
Mediterranean
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John Curtin
Kor| Moran
Cairo
Erwin Rommel
Suceese
Tobruk
Ftrom
Rommel
Rezegh
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Desert
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Resegh
Zaafran
Kezegh
Bir el- Hamed
Attempt on Life Of Duce in 1938 Bared by Italy
Italian official dispatches reveal a large anti fascist conspiracy centered in Trieste aimed at Mussolini. The plot allegedly planned to assassinate the premier, blow up war plants, and wreck trains with hundreds killed. Sixty conspirators have been arrested and await trial. organizers included Communists and anti Italian liberals.
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Rome
Trieste
Stefani
Piacenza
Royal Navy Unit Sinks 3 of Duce's Ships Off Libya
A British Mediterranean squadron led by the light cruiser Aurora sank the Italian tanker Mantovani, a munitions ship, and the destroyer Alvise de Mosto, while also blowing up the Adriatico. The operation, credited by the admiralty, left no British casualties. Rome claimed the Aurora was sunk by Italian torpedo planes off Tobruk.
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Aurora
Libya
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Glaukas
Crete
W. G. Agnew
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Alvise de Mosto
Mantovani
Rome
iThe High Command
Tobruk
Agnew
25 Miners Killed in West Virginia Mine Strike
Twenty five miners died in West Virginia coal mines during November as production totaled 11,500,000 tons. Fatalities for the year to date reached 288 with 127,500,000 tons mined and a fatality rate of one death per 476,000 tons.
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West Virginia
State Department of Mines
H. G. Houtz
Britain to mobilize three million conscripts and women in uniform
London reports Prime Minister Winston Churchill urging 3,000,000 conscripts and voluntary female service as a step to resolve manpower and equipment shortages. He proposed raising the conscription age and shifting to individual deferment based on war work importance, with women to serve in auxiliary roles but not in combat. He also noted an 18-year-old cutoff adding manpower in 1942 and overseas deployment for under-20 conscripts if allowed by parliament. Meanwhile in New York, Lepke Buchalter and two aides were sentenced to death for murder tied to the Rosen rackets, with executions slated at Sing Sing amid capital-punishment appeals.
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Winston Churchill
House of Commons
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Auxiliary Services of the Crown
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New York
Brooklyn
Kings County
Franklin Taylor
Louie
Lepke
Buchalter
Joseph Rosen
Emanuel Wendy Weiss
Louis Capone
Rosen
National
Supermobsters
Capone
Weiss
Sing Sing Prison
Rhudge Taylor
New York State
Melt Down 90 000 Statues Solon Urges
Rep. Young proposes melting 90 000 statues and memorials to reclaim nearly one million tons of metal for national defense. He argues many figures on horseback and in stone are of martial or political significance and could be repurposed.
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Solon
Washington
Rep
Young
Rostov Retreat Imperils Whole Nazi Right Wing
In a wartime dispatch analyst Kirke L. Simpson notes shifting fronts as winter grips the Russian theater. The Red Army claims German repulses near Tula southeast of Moscow with Nazis pushed from villages and retreating in heavy snow. Upper Volga regions near ice bound hinder Nazi heavy units, while forces north brace for harsher conditions.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Moscow
Upper Volga
Tula
Banks Pay $2,500,000 in West Virginia Christmas Savings
The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce reports an estimated 2.5 million dollars in Christmas savings accumulated in state and national banks during December. Charleston led with 624,000, Wheeling 362,500, Huntington 228,360, Martinsburg 131,420, and Parkersburg 131,000, among other listed towns.
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Panhandle
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Bluefield
Clarksburg
Elkins
Fairmont
Hinton
Lo- Ran
Montgomery
Morgantown
Moundsville
Oak Hill
Piedmont
Point Pleasant
Princeton
Ronceverte
Sistersville
Spencer
Welch
Wellsburg
Germans Retreat From Rostov Pressed By Soviets On Donets
Soviet information bureau reported five days of German retreat from Rostov as Red Army pursued Nazis toward Mariupol. Germans faced transport bottlenecks and fierce pursuit, with major units entrapped in a 100 mile retreat corridor. Soviet claim Rostov route disproves invincibility and signals continued blows to Wehrmacht on Moscow front and southern flank.
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London
Rostov
Red Army
Soviet Information Bureau
Moscow
Mariupol
F Red
Ewald von Kleist
Donets Basin
Kuibyshev
5. A. Lozovsky
von Kleist
Stalinogorsk
Milder Strike Bill Proposed in Congress
Washington Dec 27 moderate anti strike legislation gains traction in the house amid railroad settlement debate. Lawmakers weigh a 60 day cooling off period and avoid alienating labor support while critics label the CIO as linked to crime. Rep Landis plans an amendment to deny Wagner Act benefits to unions led by accused figures.
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House
Diet D. Tex
Committee On un-American Activities
CIO
Landis
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Labor Committee
Roosevelt accuses Japan of flouting Indo-Chinese accords
President Roosevelt demands Japan explain its large military buildup in Indo-China and southern Asia amid ongoing peace talks. He says America will not discuss future peace while Japan masss troops and prepared for aggression. Envoys Kurusu and Nomura were briefed on the demand and returned silent.
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Indo-China
Washington
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U. S
Far East
Thailand
Tokyo
Saburo Kurusu
Kichisaburo Nomura
Sumner Welles
State Department
Welles
Ambassador No- Mura
Pacific
British Malaya
Singapore
India
Dutch East Indies
Australia
Cal
Foes Encircle Island Realm Tokyo Warns
Tokyo reports a massing of hostile forces in Southeast Asia as Japan weighs U S negotiations and prepares to meet any collapse. Dispatches claim Britain plans to invade Thailand and the U S may declare a Philippines state of emergency while Dutch East Indies and Chinese help form an ABCD encirclement. Premier Tojo and top naval leaders consult as nationalist Seigo Nakano urges vigorous action to end foreign influence in East Asia.
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Asia
U. S
Britain
Thailand
Phillippines
East Indies
Singapore
Prince of Wales
Imesector Nomura
Saburo Kurusty
Hull
Hideko Tojo
Koshiro Oikawa
Supremeée War Council
Seigo Nakano
East Asia
Nakano
Tohokai
Washington
Rail Wage Boost Averts Nationwide Railroad Strike
President Roosevelt announced a compromise wage agreement with railroads granting 80 cent daily raises for 900,000 non operating workers and 78 cent daily raises for 350,000 operating workers. The deal, delivered by an emergency fact finding board, ends a threatened Dec 7 strike and will raise annual railroad costs by about 2.3 to 3.25 billion dollars.
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Roosevelt
Chicago
President Roosevelt Offered Big Stick During Jap Crisis
An elderly Washington journalist presented President Roosevelt with a big stick during a discussion of the Japanese crisis. Charles A. Barnllien, 84, the veteran reporter for the Binghamton Press, shouted, Here is a big stick, there have been none around here since Teddy Roosevelt. The president replied it was a hefty, well balanced gift.
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Teddy Roottvelt
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Binghamton
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