Yearend look shows U S maturing toward total defense
Washington reports broad progress in arming the nation for total defense. Army manpower more than doubled to 600,008 on active duty. Navy expands to about 250,000 with 21 new ships. Air force planes rise sharply, production doubles, and new bases and camps edge toward readiness as selective service begins functioning.
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Washington
Servce
United States
Great Britain
Britain
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
William S. Knudsen
War Department
Atlantic
Newfoundland
British Riding Time At Bardia Endures Siege
Cairo dispatch reports Italian defenders at Bardia continue to await events as British forces refrain from a costly assault. Indications point to starving out the Libyan port rather than storming it. Patrol activity is also noted along the Kenya Anglo-Egyptian Sudan border.
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Cairo
Egypt
Middle East Command
Bardia
Kenya
Sudan
Greeks Seize More Prisoners On Albanian Front
Athens reports over 1,000 new prisoners including an entire Italian battalion captured as Greek forces claim local successes on the Albanian front. Rome says Italians inflicted losses on Greek troops and bombed Salonika, the vesion naval base, and airfields at Ioannina.
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Athens
High Command
Rome
Salonika
Vesa
Ore
Toannina
Wheeler Attacks FDR Policies On End Of War Policy
Senator Wheeler of Montana challenged President Roosevelt on peace in Europe during a radio broadcast, urging every effort for an immediate end to the war. A state department statement later said no feasible peace proposals had been submitted, while Marshall claimed a peace conference could occur with admin approval. The White House reported strong favorable response to the President's address and promised continued war material production and expansion of lease lend to allies.
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Marshall
U. S
Montana
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Roosevelt
Europe
United States
Vernie Marshall
No Foreign War Committee
Banle Ley Whecyor Marshall
State Department
White House
Col
Jonn H Jouett
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
New Arrests In Belgrade Reported As Communists Found
Reports from Bucharest claim many new arrests in Belgrade and the discovery of several Communist organizations among railway workers. Romania’s premier Ion Antonescu asserts Romania is guaranteed by a powerful nation, seen as a warning to Soviet plans to seize Danube outlets and move into Moldova. German troops and war materiel continue moving into Romania via Hungary with the Danube front inching toward the Romanian border. In New York, Howard C Hopson, former utilities executive, is convicted of mail fraud in a case involving nearly 20 million dollars. Sentencing is set for January 3 with potential penalties up to 85 years and a 17 thousand dollar fine.
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Ion Atonescu
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Hungary
Bessarabia
Germany
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New York
Howard C. Hopson
Titan
Associated Gas and Electric System
Alfred C. Coxe
Warns Britons That Food Restrictions Must Be Tightened
Lord Woolton the food minister in a London broadcast urges Britons to eat more homegrown potatoes and oats and warns that 1941 will require less meat. He says the danger to food supplies is greater than in the last war and appeals to housewives to conserve as rationing may be needed for cheese and to avoid triggering enemy attacks on ships.
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London
Lord Woolton
County Board Hears Year End Meeting in 1949 Session
Beadie County board of commissioners closes year end business at the courthouse. They plan to open bids Friday for steel for a bridge north of Yale next summer. S. J. Schnetzer will replace L. S. Cummings on the board, who was defeated. January meeting will appoint the courthouse janitor, sanitarium matron, and county shop foreman.
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Beadie County
Board of Commissioners
Yale
S. J. Schnetzer
Income Tax Boost to Finance U S Defense Indicated
Senators Connally of Texas and Johnson of Colorado signaled heavy new income taxes to fund defense. They urged higher rates across brackets, targeting $1 billion in extra revenue and suggesting taxes on personal and corporate incomes, electricity, cosmetics, and luxury goods. They envision financing defense through bonds and a war profits tax up to 88 percent.
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Connally
Texas
Johnson
Colorado
Congress
Italian Transport Vessel Sunk Near Bar Albania War Materials
Reports from Belgrade say an Italian transport loaded with war materials for Albania was torpedoed by a British warship in the Adriatic and went down off Bar near the Yugoslav‑Albanian border. Most of the crew were rescued before Yugoslav ships reached the scene.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Adriatic Sea
Bar
Antivari
Destroyers Still At Halifax Halifax Report
Boston December 31 1971 crews of the British freighter Dromore arrived with a report that 31 of 50 United States destroyers traded to England remain at Halifax Nova Scotia and St John Newfoundland for lack of trained crews to sail them across the Atlantic. The vessels were said to be on convoy duty in the Liverpool area.
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Boston
Dromore
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England
Halifax
N. S
St Johns
Nila
Atlantic
Liverpool
Huronians Welcome New Year With Festive Gatherings
Huronians will greet the new year with merriment at dozens of parties and social events as the city observes a full holiday tomorrow. The weather bureau predicts mild temperatures but warns that last night's snowfall has left hazardous driving conditions with ice on roads and sand spread at intersections.
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State Weather Bureau
Huron
City urges safe New Year travel options
In Chicago on December 31 the National Safety Council urged leaving cars at home and using streetcars, buses, trains, or taxis for a safe New Year celebration. It advised being prepared for other drivers and not riding with drinking drivers, urging drivers to slow down and stay alert.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Hitler Predicts Great German Victory In 1941
Berlin dispatch reports the German press and government align on Roosevelt’s aid to Britain while warning against provocation. Hitler vows 1941 will yield the greatest victory for Germany. the Fuehrer praises soldiers and national strength, denounces democracies and Jewish capitalism, and frames allied nations as aggressors.
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Roosevelt
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German Reich
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