Fascist Troops Driven Toward Derna in North Africa Flight
Reports from the RAF say Italian forces retreat toward Derna Libya as Bardia falls under threat and Tobruk looms. Reconnaissance notes retreating units between Bardia and Tobruk with Allied aircraft bombarding from above. Haile Selassie rebels surge in Ethiopia as Britain aids opposition.
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Derna
North Africa
RAF
Libya
Bardia
Tobruk
HAF
Dera
Communiqun
Sioyan Desert De-Front
Italy
Princess Hohenlohe Ordered to Leave United States
Princess Hohenlohe of Hungary received orders from the Justice Department to depart the United States by Saturday or face deportation. Officials cited her close association with Nazis as inimical to U.S. interests and rejected her bid for an extension of her visitor’s permit.
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Washington
Princess Hohenlohe
Hungary
House of Commons
Hitler
Justice Department
United States
Department
Jackson
Immigration Service
Denver University
Karl Scheuring
Hohenlohe
New York
England
Dr C W Pugsley Dies In Omaha
Charles William Pugsley 62 former head of extension at Nebraska University and assistant secretary of agriculture under Harding died in a Omaha hospital after months of illness. He led South Dakota State College of Agriculture in Brookings from 1923 until his resignation last July due to poor health.
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Charles William Pugsley
Northwest
Pugsley
South Dakota State College
Omaha
South Dackota State College of Agriculture
Brookings
S. D
Woodbine
Nebraska University
Harding
South Dakota College
The
Probe of Cincinnati Blast Deepens Inquiry
Cincinnati authorities began a full inquiry into an explosion that collapsed a three story brick building killing 13 people. Coroner Coppock questioned Julia Koebbe while noting gas levels in victims and identifying working victims Elmer Campbell and Joseph Loebbe among the dead.
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Cincinnati
Frank M. Coppock, Jr
Julia Koebbe
Joseph P. Loebbe
Elmer Campbell
Campbell
Coppock
Koebbe
A. C. Moorhaus
George Zavison
Davison
Robert Morgan
Doris Smith
Frank Schnetzer
Lillian
Carrie
Helen
Leonard
Joseph
Brighter Picture Of U S Warplane Output Seen
American factories are expected to reach 18,000 to 20,000 warplanes a year within seven months, with monthly production of 1,500 to 1,700 machines. The industry cites engine and tool shortages as the main bottlenecks, while noting a projected rise in trained workers and capacity toward 500,000 to 600,000 domestic aircraft and engine workers.
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U.S
New York
Tate
Ersonne
William S. Knudsen
National Defense Commission
Washington
Defense Commission
Knudsen
England
Canadian Official Reported Perished in Western Prince Sinking
Gordon Scott of Montreal once Quebec treasurer and adviser to Canadian Munitions Minister Charles D. Howe was among at least seven killed when the liner Western Prince was torpedoed off Ireland. Howe, E. P. Taylor of Toronto, and Col. W. C. Woodward of Vancouver survived, reaching a British port with others after lifeboat disaster.
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Gordon Scott
Montreal
Charles D. Howe
Howe
Scott
Quebec
E. P. Taylor
Toronto
W. C. Woodward
Vancouver
New York
England
Ireland
Car Plates On Sale In Beadle County For 1941
Beadle County treasurer announces 1941 automobile license plates arriving from the Secretary of State Olive Ringsrud. Plates feature yellow numbers on black and go on sale Thursday January 2. Huron residents use a 3 with stars while non Huron plates use a dash to separate the county and license numbers. Reservations urged at once with some already made at the treasurer's office.
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Beadle County
Olive Ringsrud
Joe Reilly
Huron
Start Work On Chain Of Bases
Washington reports that work has begun on selecting and surveying a chain of air and naval bases in South and Central America. The bases will be available to all twenty one American republics to form an impregnable defense system for the western hemisphere. The defense ties will be supplied by the South and Central American republics, with the United States funding improvements where needed. Most bases have been chosen but locations and other details remain military secrets.
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Washington
South
Central America
Europa
Asia
United States
Ibea
Ickes Warns Of Sabotage And Lindbergh Appeaser
Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes told a Columbia University audience that Axis powers plan to cripple the United States and warned of further explosions in American powder plants. He urged vigilance of the Panama Canal and branded a group of Americans as appeasers, naming Charles A. Lindbergh as a prime example.
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Ickes
Lindy
New York
Panama Canal
Harold L. Ickes
Columbia University
United States
Colr
Charles A. Lindbergh
Logan Walter Bill Veto Sustained By House Ruling
The House upheld President Roosevelt's veto of the Logan Walter bill and failed to override, 153 to override and 128 to sustain. The measure would expand court review of federal agency rulings and was seen as advancing uniform procedure but deemed likely to cause chaos in administration at a critical time.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Seneis
Jackson
Aoea
Iam
Estella Hunt Embezzlement Trial Moved Again
The embezzlement case of Estella Hunt, former game department bookkeeper, was rescheduled to January 2 by Circuit Judge John F. Hughes after requests from both sides. The court remains tied up with another case in Winner and had previously moved the trial from Monday to Thursday.
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Estella Hunt
Pierre
Game Department
John F. Hughes
C. P. Warren
Glenn W. Martens
Hunt
France Plans No Policy Change Amid Laval Ouster
BERN Switzerland December 18 authorities report Marshal Petain assured Adolf Hitler that Laval’s removal as vice premier and foreign minister has not altered France’s collaboration policy. Laval left Vichy with Abetz amid talks, with Petain deciding Laval may act as a special negotiator in Paris under Petain’s authority.
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Bern
Switzerland
France
Marshal Philippe Petain
Adolf Hitler
Pierre Laval
Germany
Petain
Otto Abetu
Paria
Perain
Laval
Vichy
Abetz
Paris
Foreign Ministry
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Hitler
Pioneer Stagecoach Driver Is Dead
Richard W. Mathieson 91, a former South Dakota stagecoach driver, died Monday night at his daughter Maud Myers home in Silverton Oregon after traveling there by air from Fort Pierre three months earlier. He had been part of early frontier transport and was remembered for his significant role in regional travel.
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Silverton
Ore
Richard W. Mathieson
South Dakota
Mra Maud Myers
Mathieson
Ft Pierre
Roosevelt outlines plan to back Britain with loaned war materiel
President Roosevelt proposed a broad lend and lease style program to supply Britain with tanks airplanes and other munitions worth at least 2.5 billion dollars before the end of the war with repayment to be arranged in kind after peace. Congress would be asked to legislate and fund the plan in 1941.
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Washington
Britain
Roosevelt
United States
Great Britain
England
Congress
Minion
Indiana
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FDR
Balkan
Duce
Associated Press
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Mussolini
Africa
Richard A. Butler
House of ‘Commons
London
C. W. Pugsley
Long Ilness
State College
Devon Francis
Associated Press Aviation
South and
Logan
Walter
Navy’s Floating Machine Shop
National Defense
U. S. S. Vulcan
New York Shipbuilding Corp
Camden
N. J
Otto Abetz
U. S
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