Showdown Near in Struggle for French Indo China
Editor notes Glenn Babe York recalls a tense battle for control of French Indo China as Japan presses southward. Japanese moves threaten Saigon and Cam Ranh Bay with troops planes and ships while French and Vichy factions clash and US interest looms amid imperial ambitions in the region.
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Glenn Babbee
Far East
Associated Press
Japan
Glenn Babe York
East Asia
Camranh Bay
Indo-China
Sai
Jean Decoux
France
Indochina
Thailand
Siam
Ina Ha
United States
Hull
Hanoi
Hainan
Dutch East Indies
Malaya
Burma
India
Aus
New Zealand
Britain
Germany
Cam
Laos
Ned
Market shift toward defense stocks amid holiday lull
New York stock traders favored smaller defense linked issues as the $17 billion national defense plan loomed, lifting prices to year highs while war shares like aircraft and steel lagged. Timken Detroit Axle, New York Shipbuilding, Bath Iron Works, Lima Locomotive and American Locomotive Jones & Laughlin Preferreds advanced. Volume ran about 760000 shares and commodities rose modestly with corn and oats up, other grains mixed.
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New York
Timken Detroit Axle
New York Shipbuilding
Bath = Iron Works
Lima Locomotive
American Locomotive
Jones & Laughlin Steel
Markets at a Glance in New York and Chicago
New York stock activity mixed with irregular defense shares and rail bonds improving while foreign exchange remains quiet. Cotton steady with light hedging, sugar narrow with liquidation absorbed, metals dull though brass and copper rise 1 to 4 cents. Wool tops improve as trade and commissions buy. Chicago corn about steady on light demand. cattle steady to lower as demand slows. hogs steady to 26 up with light receipts.
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New York
Chicago
Cotton futures rise on New Orleans board ends steady gains
Cotton futures advanced in New Orleans with mill price fixing and covering supporting gains. Closing prices were steady with net gains of 3 to 8 points as contracts showed modest improvement across the session.
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New Orleans
Cotton futures rise on late trade in New York
In New York on December 3, cotton futures closed higher after a late surge. January jumped about 10 points, with other deliveries up 3 to 6 points. Prices ranged around 10.00 to 10.18 for January and near 9.36 to 9.38 for October. Middling west held at about 10.38.
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New York
Cottonseed Meal Prices and Trading in Memphis
Prime cottonseed meal futures closed dull with 41 cents gains. In Memphis on December 26, prices were 27.25 for April, 26.15 for March, 25.60 for May, and 25.25 for July with sales of 1,600 tons.
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Memphis
Tenn
Sinside Joes Fos
Bee
Nashville Livestock Roundup Prices Slated In Nashville Tenn
Salable cattle 150 calves 75 Early clearances available cattle at mostly steady prices vealers strong to 50 high er. Medium shortfed yearlings and Steers 8.25-9.00. goddy fed einds quotable 10.00 and better. Common and low medium heifers and year lings .6.00-8.00. Meaty beef cows to 6.25 and above bulk 5.50 down can ner and cutter cows 3.50-5.00. Top dealers 12.50. Salable hogs 500 Prices 10-high er. Good and thoice 190-300 lbs 7.00 same grades 130-180- Abs 5.75-6.30, and few sows 5.35. Fat -, to 8.50 top fat ewes
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Nashville Livestock
Nash Tennh
U. S. Dept. Agri
Wheat prices finish near day’s high on Chicago close
In Chicago on December 26 wheat prices moved within a narrow range, advancing fractionally and then slipping 1 to 2 cents below the prior close. By the close prices were nearly unchanged, with the market recovering to around the day’s best level.
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Chicago
Wheat and corn prices quoted in Chicago market
Chicago market report lists cash wheat No. 2 hard at 90. Corn No. 3 yellow at 61 1 2 to 62 1 2, No. 4 white 65 to 66 1 4. Oats No. 2 white at 39 1 2, No. 2 white heavy 40, sample grade 28.
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Chicago
Poultry live receipts and prices dip at Chicago market
Chicago market report shows poultry live receipts of 1 11 trucks and strong demand. Hens over 6 lbs bring 18 1 2 cents, under 18 1 2, leghorn hens 14, broilers 2 1 2 and down. White and colored varieties quoted with weights from 4 lbs up to 18 lbs, turkeys also listed with tom weights and prices, other prices unchanged.
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Chicago
White Rock
Plymouth Rock
Chicago Dairy Receipts and Prices Report
Chicago market notes show butter receipts at 93077, creamery grade scores around 93 with various price figures and little change. Peas receipts total 5756 with steady demand and prices for fresh graded, firsts and refrigerator lots listed. other prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Dev
Nazi Moves Hint at Russia Focus in Danube Crisis
Reports suggest troop trains move toward the Soviet frontier while rumors spread of Russians planning to seize the Danube outlets by force. Diplomatic notes cite protests by Moscow over Romania as observers recall wartime repression in Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. Italian Russian talks on Danube mouth control collapse amid fistfights as Mussolini’s side buys tugboats to fly Italian flags on the Danube.
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Reich
Soviet
Slovakia
Danube
Moscow
Bucharest
Bessarabia
Bukovina
Mussolini
Rome
Vanderbilt Professor Appointed Johns Hopkins Surgeon Chief
Baltimore December 26 04 Dr Alfred Blalock 41 professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University Nashville is named professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital He succeeds Dr Dean Lewis who retired September 1 1989 and will begin duties July 1 next year Blalock earned an A B from Alabama in 2018 and an MD from Hopkins in 1922 His family home is in Jonesboro Arkansas.
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Baltimore
Alfred Blalock
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tent
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dean Lewis
Blalock
University of A Gia
the Hopkins
Jonesboro
Mrs John Baber Dies After Illness in Birmingham
Mrs John Baber dies in Birmingham after a four year illness. Friends and relatives mourn her passing as funeral services are arranged for Friday at three o'clock in Decatur at McAfee Howell Young funeral home on Grant Street with interment to follow.
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Birmingham
John Baber
Decatur
McAfee, Howell & Young Funeral Home
Grant Street
John Thompson
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
East Cain Street
Demand for good apartments drives rental ads
In a crowded market, well located units attract steady inquiries as renters seek quality offerings. Landlords showcase features and prices to stand out, using brief notices to reach focused tenants quickly.
U S Credited With North Africa Victory By Tempo
Rome dispatch says Tempo credits the United States for the North Africa triumph and portrays a war of Europe against the Anglo-Saxon world. The piece argues America supplied tanks planes and munitions enabling Britain to fight on. Mussolini and Il Popolo D Italia downplay Churchill’s speech, citing only a summary.
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Rome
United States
North Africa
Tempo
Europe
England
America
North America
Mussolini
Il Popolo D'Italia
Winston Churchill
Italy
Stefani
Churchill
Brenner Pass
Three Die in Birmingham Area Traffic Toll Rises
Decatur ham John W. Allen 58 Pine Level died of injuries from a Tuesday auto crash. Phillip Hornbuckle 34 Pratt City and Tucker killed in separate auto accidents. Birmingham reports 42nd traffic toll as 23 others hospitalized after Christmas morning crashes amid rain and fog.
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Ham
John W. Allen
Pine Level
Phillip Hornbuckle
Pratt City
Tucker
Allen
Montgomery
Toll From Christmas Violent Deaths Reaches 383
A holiday toll of at least 383 violent deaths was recorded across the nation during Christmas observances. Traffic accidents caused 274 deaths on Christmas Eve and Day, with 109 other violent deaths from various causes pushing the weekend total well above last year. New York led with 41 fatalities, followed by Ohio with 29 and Illinois with 28, while Pennsylvania and California had 24 each and Texas 22. States show varied counts from Alabama to Florida and Georgia to Tennessee.
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Pennsylvania
California
Texas
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Mississippiione
South Carolina
Tennessee
French Minister Returns to Vichy After Paris Visit
Navy Minister Jean Darlan, replacing Laval as France's negotiator with Germany, returned from a 24 hour trip to Paris. He went into urgent talks with Ptain, Huntsiger, Peyrouton and Bouthillier, seeking how collaboration might continue.
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France
Navy
Jean Darlan
Pierre Laval
Germany
Paris
Darlan
Petain
Charles Huntsiger
Marcel Peyrouton
Yves Bouthillier
More cattle is held need more cattle is held need Washington
Secretary Wickard urged farmers to boost hog production and send more cattle to market to meet expanding domestic meat demand from defense spending. He noted the 1941 spring pig crop may be about 14 percent smaller than 1940, with 1940 crops down 10 percent from 1939. Hog prices at the farm avg six dollars per hundred pounds.
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Washington
Wickard
Agriculture Department
Bombed-out Londoners endure night of terror and destruction
A survivor recalls the night siege in London during heavy bombing. Incendiaries, flares, and shattered homes uproot life as a family shelters in the basement, surveys debris, and faces loss of glass, doors, and roof slates. Despite ruin, gratitude remains for life and a chance to begin again.
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London
Arp
Decatur Parish News and Holiday Socials Grow Wide
A bustle of Christmas greetings fills Decatur as families visit kin in Montgomery and Florence, with a dozen households hosting relatives from Nashville to Birmingham. The Sixteenth Avenue Baptist church reports a strong midweek service led by Rev C L Cobbs, while local students, workers, and retired residents prepare for New Year gatherings and dental or medical updates. A hospital stay for Mrs G W Collier is noted after leg surgery, and births and arrivals include Betsy Jane at Hamilton Clinic and Ralph Richard Andrew Fowler in Eva Route 1.
British freighter Waic torpedoed 400 miles northwest of Ireland
The British refrigerated freighter Waic, 12,823 tons, reported by radio that she had been torpedoed about 400 miles northwest of the Irish coast on December 26. The vessel, sailing from unknown ports, sent the distress message as World War II operations continued in Atlantic waters.
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New York
Britons Celebrate Christmas Despite War Hardships
An unofficial truce in the air war shows as Londoners hear sirens then dance in shelters and around Christmas trees. King George VI delivers a solemn Empire Christmas message promising hard days ahead but victory and peace will come with God’s help and support from Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa and the United States.
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George VI
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
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Duke of Windsor
Siege at Bardia Reaches Tenth Day Under British Drive
Cairo reports the siege of Bardia enters its tenth day as British forces tighten around the Libyan port. Italian air force attempts to disrupt British plans for a final assault, while fascist dive bombers engage in defense but cause few casualties.
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Bardia
Garrisor
Batdia
Gladiators Arrive in Greece as RAF Blasts Italian Planes
Royal Air Force fighters entered action on November 18 as the air ministry reported. The same day, nine Italian aircraft were destroyed, marking a bold strike.
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Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Greece
Negro Charged With Purse Snatching In County Jail
George Titus Nance of Sheffield is jailed on a purse snatching charge from last weekend. Sheffield officers say he is also wanted there on two similar charges and questioned him here.
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George Titus Nance
Sheffield
Nance
Author secured interview with Wodehouse in Nazi camp
Associated Press reporter Angus Thuermer obtained special German permission to visit a prison camp in upper Silesia Eastern Germany. There he interviewed P G Wodehouse British author captured during the German advance through northern France.
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Angus Thuermer
Associated Press
Berlin
Upper Silesia
Germany
P. G. Wodehouse
France
Wodehouse in German internment camp writes new novel
British author P G Wodehouse, famed for Jeeves, is in a German civilian internment camp near Berlin with 1,100 others. He was arrested in occupied France after living at Le Touquet since 1934, then moved through Loos, Huis in Belgium, to a red brick camp formerly an asylum.
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P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves
Butler
France
le Touquet
Wodehouse
Loos
Huis
Belgium
Christmas Trench Truce and Wartime Peace Thoughts
The piece recalls the 1914 unofficial Christmas truce where soldiers left trenches to fraternize and play in no man’s land. It argues wars are driven by leaders, not civilians, and calls for peace. Queen Wilhelmina is quoted noting improved prospects, with the author predicting peace may come when one side refuses to march further into death’s shadow.
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Tommy
No-Man’s Land
Powers That Be
Wilhelmina Holland
London
Britain
Suspect Held Over in Purse-snatching Confession
A suspect in two purse-snatchings confessed to the crimes during questioning. Officials said it was undecided whether he would be held in this jail or turned over to Sheffield authorities pending further processing.
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Nance
Sheffield
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