Entire German Division Falls Near Moscow
Moscow dispatch reports the Red Army wiped out Adolf Hitler's 184th division and killed or wounded 37,000 Germans in 10 days, with seven Nazi divisions encircled south of Ruza. Heavy equipment losses included 319 tanks and over 5,700 motorized units, as Germans were driven west of Moscow and rail junctions captured. The 134th division commander died. no German escaped in a final surrender claim. The article also notes British forces advancing toward Derna in North Africa, with emphasis on relentless pursuit and airport capture aiding coastal highland control.
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Moscow
Adolf Bitler
Moscow Radio
Mos
Kaluga
Farussa
Kanino
Ruza
Jim
Derna
Mekili
Bengasi
Qur
Derima
Russians Open Major Offensive Along Finnish Front
London reporte Russians launch a major southward and northern push along the entire Finnish front as German forces retreat three fifths of their strength. Dense waves of armor and infantry strike with artillery and tanks, Finland reports say.
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eSoviets
London
Yfinnish
A&a
Stockholm
News-Chronicle
Svir
Lake Ladoge
Leke
Onegather
Missouri Weather Summary For Weekend Forecast
Fall night and Saturday expected with little temperature change. High around 61 and low near 33 at Jefferson City. Lake of the Ozarks forecast shows inflow about 3 feet and outflow about 1 foot for the week ending Dec 27 with lake stage about 0.3 feet below full, Osage River at St Thomas averaging 5 feet.
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Missouri
Jefferson City
St. Thamas
Hermann
St. Louis
Lake of the Ozarks
Fall Reservoir
St. Thomas
Draft Registrants Undergo Rough Screening in City Hall
About 200 Cole county selective service registrants received rough screening physical exams at City Hall. The tests, conducted by American Legion volunteers, aim to identify obvious physical disqualifications before preinduction evaluations at Jefferson Barracks and Fort Leavenworth to clear the draft records.
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Cole County J Selective Service
City ‘Hall
Jefferson Barracks
Fort Leavenworth
Coede Uim
Jmen
American Legion
State Highway Officials Attend Chicago Meeting
Three ranking officials of the fat meeting of high gray builders of Chicago today. Cerl W. Brown chief engineer, Edward W. Gray ting chairman, and P. 4. Dan, engineer of survey and ac cesis, plans. The meeting was called by G. iD. Kennedy, Michigan, president of the Amercan Association of Highway Officials. Brown said he hoped to return with a better understanding of what strategic roads will be built in Missouri under the provisions of the $220,660,000 highway defense act recently approved by the president.
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High Gray Builders
Chicago
Cerl W. Brown
Edward W. Grayting
P. 4
Dan
G. Id. Kennedy
Michigan
Amercan Association of Highway Officials
Brown
Missouri
Japs Stage Brief Raid on Manila Base
Japanese planes attacked Cavite on Manila Bay with two waves totalling 33 aircraft. American fighters engaged. no damage or casualties reported at Cavite. A separate raid near Tarlic near Luzon was also noted. Philippine defense said dominion largely held except for three Japanese beachheads Aparri Vigan and Legaspi. Ground fighting details scarce.
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Manila
Cavite
Menila Bay
Bay
Pe Menta
Tarilac
Manla
Commonwealth
Philippine Defense Forces
Luzon Island
Aparri
Vigan
Legaspi
U. S
City Asked to Find Quarters for WPA
City officials said they were asked to provide quarters for the Works Projects Administration division office now housed in the courthouse. WPA may be moving out while Center Town bridge work is being discontinued. WPA has reduced county project support since last summer amid lower appropriations. Centertown bridge was last active in the county road program. City projects remain largely unaffected as the park board expansion and sewer districts continue.
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Works Projects Administration Division
Court House
County Court
WPA
Center Town Bridge
Missouri
Congress
Centertown
I i
Park Board
Soldiers’ Board
Christmas Rush At Post Office Starts Early In Capital
Crowds line up before Parcel Post windows as the city begins its pre Christmas mail surge. Postmaster Col A Linxwiler notes early business variable but predicts Christmas mail may reach or exceed last year’s peak. Many packages ship to army cantons for soldiers on furloughs canceled by emergencies.
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Col. A. Linxwiler
Col. Linxwiler
Army Local Office Seeks Recruits for Foreign Service
The local army recruiting station reports vacancies for foreign service in the Philippines Hawaii Panama Trinidad and Puerto Rico. Regular army roles include quartermaster coast artillery engineers signal corps ordnance medical field artillery and more with additional posts in the chemical warfare service armored force and radio. Recruiter in charge Set John Tauchman notes 29 Central Missouri youths have enlisted last week listing names from Jefferson City Mexico Laddonia Fulton Guthrie and several other towns.
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Philippines
Hawaii
Panama
Trinidad
Puerto Rico
Army
United Stattes
Quartermaster Corps
Coast Artilery
Engineers
Signal Corps
Ordnance Department
Medical Corps
Field Artillery
Regular
Chemical Warfare Service
John Tauchman
Missouri
Doctors to Present Health Plan to Council
Members of the Cole County Medical Society said last night that an indigent health aid plan should be presented to the city council at its first January meeting. A society committee has drawn up a program to compete with plans urged by the state health department.
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Cole County |Medical Society
iDlans
State Health Department
House Clears Way for Army of 4 Million
Congress approved a selective service act expansion for men 18 to 64 inclusive and those 20 to 44 eligible for active service. Officials expect registration to begin in weeks with a total 2,215,000 additional volunteers available soon, on top of 1,800,000 already in uniform. The plan raises the active pool by 600,000 from ages 20 to 21 since last registration and 600,000 more from ages 21 to 35 already registered.
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Washington. Bee
Congress
Roosevelt
selective service /headquarters
War Department
Senate
Reato
Navy
Red Cross War Relief Halfway Mark in Cole County
County Red Cross reaches half of its $10 000 Cole county war relief quota as campaign chairman Carl W Brown reports after a rally at St Thomas He urges school districts to contribute and notes funds aid distressed civilians and soldiers from the county with campaign to finish early next week.
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Cole County
Red Cross
Carl W. Brown
St. Thomas
Brown
Congressmen End Survey With Startling Report on Axis Espionage
A House committee and Rep. Nichols report Axis espionage and propaganda in Latin America based on a 2000 mile air survey of 16 nations. It urges the State Department to quicken negotiations to replace German and Italian airlines with American firms and warns subversive forces threaten inter American aviation. Details cover Argentina Peru Chile Mexico Colombia Guatemala and Brazil with thousands of Nazis and Japanese in key cities and unions.
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Latin America
Washington
America
House
Tee
Nichols
D-Okla
State Department
Argentina
Peru
Chile
Mexico
Colombia
Guatemala
Brazil
Buenos Aires
United States
Charles A. Lindsbergh
Lima
el Commercio
la Prenza
Germany
Spain
Italy
Wake Island Marines Hold Fast Amid Daring Japanese Attacks
Washington dispatch reports United States Marines on Wake Island clinging to the atoll after repelling two more Japanese assaults. Manila says defending forces control most of the area despite three landing parties. Congress approves draft ages and MacArthur is promoted to full general. Possible Axis conference in Washington discussed. Defense housing and civilian food reserves funded. continuous air attacks on the Philippines noted with limited detail.
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Washington
Wake Island
Atoll
Philippines
Manila
Congress
Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Senate
Sword
White House
Hawaii
Defense Stamps and Bonds Sales Double in Jefferson City
Jefferson City reports a doubled weekly sale of defense stamps and bonds as war drives rally. Thorpe J. Gordon of the Cole county committee says 40 teams contacted 250 retailers with 10 and 25 cent stamps, only one merchant refusing to be bothered, and a goal of 1500 in stamps with bonds expected to rise. Over $660,000 in stamps and bonds have been sold since last spring.
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Jefferson City
America
Col. A. Linxwiler
Thorpe J. Gordon
Cole
Gordon
Cal. Linxwiler
Trucking Firm Files Reorganization Petition
Core Motor Service Inc filed a petition for reorganization under the Chandler Act in federal court. Judge J C Collet set deadlines to file a statement of assets and liabilities by January 16, 1942 and to submit a reorganization plan by February 1940. Petitioner R E Dadmeyer, president, said the firm has 10 years in business with $10,000 capital stock and estimated assets at $24,000 with liabilities excluding capital stock at $73,000.
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Core Motor Service, Inc
Federal
J. C. Collet
R. E. Dadmeyer
Naval Disaster Fails To Kill Christmas Spirit in Honolulu
Honolulu endures wartime strain after Pearl Harbor with nightly blackouts yet thrives on holiday cheer. Santa Claus appears in blackout ads as Navy personnel join shoppers, while the civilian defense office launches a morale section promoting loyalty and interracial harmony led by an American with Chinese and Japanese American assistants.
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Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
Santa Claus
Territorial Office of Civilian Defense
United States
Hawaii
Columbian Elected By Engineers Group Leader in Missouri Society
Horace W. Wood Jr of Columbia, MU engineering professor, was elected president of the mid Missouri section of the American Society of Civil Engineers at its winter meeting in the Missouri hotel. He succeeds W Scott Johnson of Jefferson City. Other officers include S M Rudder Jefferson City first vice president E W Carleton Rolla second vice president Raymond W Brooks Jefferson City secretary and G K Gillon Columbia junior director. Guests included Brig Gen Til Col Johnson and Col Copeland of Fort Leonard Wood and L H Dodd of St Louis. General Grant Til spoke on engineers in civilian defense. Also Ray Meredith of St Louis hospitalized with influenza and bronchial pneumonia.
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Horace W. Wood, Jr
Columbia
University of Missouri
mid-Missouri
American Society of Civil Engineers
Missouri Hotel
W. Scott Johnson
Jefferson City
S. M. Rudder
E. W. Carleton
Rolla
Raymond W. Brooks
G. K. Gillan
U.S. Grant Til
F. M.S. Johnson
Copeland
Fort Leonard Wood
L. H. Dodd
St. Louis
Grant
Report Much Of Colony in Jap Hands
London dispatch reports heavy fighting for Hong Kong as British Canadian and native troops resist Japanese forces. Authorities deny full fall, while broadcasts claim advances around Victoria and key artillery positions. Governor Young reportedly remains in colony as consulate shelter is damaged by shellfire.
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London
Hongkong Island
Crown- Colony
Hong~ Kong
Victoria Hilly
Hongkong
Rséd
Hong Kong
Bath
Kowloon
Gene
Victoria
Bate Ie
Colonial Office
Mark Young
Chungking
Victoria Peak
British Halt Japanese Offensive in Malaya
British official announcements said the Japanese attack in northwestern Malaya has been halted. Penang, an outflanked island settlement off the west coast, was withdrawn to reinforce defenses for Singapore’s approaches. The situation suggested Penang’s fall remained inevitable.
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Singapore
Malaya
Penang
Two Cole Countians Safe at Pearl Harbor
Ralph Sweaney of Jefferson City reported that his brother Logan Sweaney and Charles Lee Weaver, both Cole Countians with Navy units at Pearl Harbor, have written they are safe and well. Logan, a coxswain, third class, will have been in the Navy two years next spring. Weaver is safe according to the letter received yesterday.
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Ralph Sweaney
Jefferson City
Logan Sweaney
Charles Lee Weaver
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Sweaney
Logan
Will
Weaver
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Donald Kitchens
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Sylvester Brown
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Wooldridge
Herbert Flynn
Laddonia
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Victor Ibler
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Steelville
Francis Sweeney
John Ambrose
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James Smith
George Duncan
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Wallace Martin
James Baker
Robert Owens
New Bloomfield
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Stock
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Charles Lersman
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