Nazi and Soviet claim gains on Moscow front
Reports from German and Soviet sources claim territorial gains near Moscow amid extreme cold. Germany says Mozhaisk Klin and five towns east of Orel captured. Soviets report breakthroughs in Kalinin sector and ongoing counteroffensive, with heavy losses to German divisions.
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Klin
Orel
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Ukraine
Eivesearn
Malo
Reuters
Red Army
Bridge firm to pay assets to shareholders
Huntington December 6. The Huntington & Ohio Bridge Co. assets totaling 1.2 million dollars will be distributed to preferred and common shareholders before January 1. The plan uses funds from a 2 million dollar county court purchase last August 3. About 600 thousand goes to preferred stock and 600 thousand to 12 thousand common shares at 50 dollars each. Remaining 800 thousand to be withheld pending tax liabilities and expenses, then residual assets go to common stockholders. The firm, formed in 1926 to build and operate the Ohio River bridge between Huntington and Chesapeake, has paid 7 percent on preferred stock.
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Huntington & Ohio Bridge Co
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The Grafton Sentinel Invitation to Strand and Dixie
A clipping invites Dick Hasslip of 21 W Washington Street to tonight’s Strand showing featuring Belle Starz and Scattergood Meets Broadway. The Dixie Theatre advertises a double feature The Big Stampede.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Dick Hasslip
Washington Street
British Erect Huge Bastion
Cairo December 6. The British are shaping a vast defensive belt from the Mediterranean through Syria Iraq and Iran toward India in anticipation of possible German advances. Observers see this as a potential turning point theater with March 1942 as a planning horizon. Thousands of Allied troops and 30 000 Arabs in Syria are mobilized to build airports highways and roads under desert skies.
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Egypt
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Turkey
Mediterranean
Syria
Iraq
Iran
India
Suez
Britain
Africa
King of Italy narrowly escapes British air raid
Rome dispatch reports King Victor Emmanuel III escaping a British air raid at San Giovanni on the Italian mainland as he returned from a nine day visit to bombed Sicilian locations. British planes reportedly strafed ferries between italy and Sicily and targeted sidings at San Giovanni.
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Rome
Vittorio Emanuel
San Giovanni
Sicily
Middle East
Britain Sees New War Battlefield Shifts to 1942
H R Knickerbocker, former war correspondent now with Chicago Sun staff, predicts U S aid will force Japan into accepting terms under pressure from a terrorist group. DeWitt MacKenzie reports on a Cairo-bound perspective showing British plans to consolidate a line from Gibraltar to the Caspian, with Libya fighting a western flank action and Russian delaying efforts near Rostov. The piece ties this to a broader future battlefield outlook for March 1942.
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H. R. Knickerbocker
New Chicago Sun
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Preston Grover
Turkey
Valley of the Nile
Grover
Suez
Caspian Sea
High Wycombe
Ratween
Gibraltar
Libya
Black Sea
Rostov
Caucass
Welders Urge Wide Strike Seeks Defense Industry Action
Morgantown December 6. Striking members of the United Brotherhood of Welders, Cutters and Helpers press for a nationwide strike of welders in defense industries in protest against AFL affiliated unions. At Morgantown Ordnance Works the group seeks a Sunday strike, to take effect Tuesday, after Lloyd Payne of the national union indicates support. The walkout affects over 100 welders, halting work at a $40 million plant forging anhydrous ammonia for explosives.
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Morgantown Ordnance Works
Lloyd Payne
National Welder's Union
Pittsburgh
AFL Steamtfitters Union
British, Axis clash in Libyan desert drive gains
Cairo dispatch reports 7,600 German and Italian prisoners captured in the Libyan desert with many more uncounted. RAF claimed 22 Axis planes downed amid dust storms while British forces pressed all Libyan fronts, suffering six aircraft losses and heavy Axis casualties.
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Egypt
RAF
Libya
Ed Duda
Soldier Takes Duty Seriously in Forgotten Soldier Tale
Private Victor Golas of Company H, 104th InfantryCamp Edwards, endured 30 hours directing a convoy after a truck dropped him at a railroad crossing. He stayed as rain fell, eating iron rations while children watched, until orders to depart arrived. A brunette named Charlotte spoke to him in the rain, promising another stop.
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Victor Golas
Camp Edwards
Mass
United States Army
Charlotte
Golas
104Th Infantry
Chilean Ambassador Arrives in New York on Clipper Plane
Chilean ambassador Gabriel Gonzalez Videla arrives in New York by clipper plane while en route home from Vichy. Rumors say he may run in the next Chilean presidential election.
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Vichy
Gabriel Gonzales Videla
New York
Chile
BALK AT PAYING DUCKS CHECKS IN IDAHO FARMERS
Melba Idaho farmers protest a $25,000 daily bill attributed to ducks damaging a seed crop near Lake Lowell. Rex Jensen leads the Melba Farmers Protective association claiming the seed corn supply in the region is threatened by hungry wild fowl. Federal official Robert Bach notes permits may be issued but no blanket order to shoot ducks is expected. Seeds grown in the area include hybrid sweet corn on 4500 acres. Page 5.
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Idaho
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Lake Lowell
Rex Jensen
Melba Farmers Protective , Association
United States
Jensen
Robert Bach
Federal Fish and Wildlife Service
Boise
Secretary of the Interior
Star Witness in Case Only Three Days Old
In Houston on December 6 Louis Lopez faced Judge Lawrence Dumas for failing to report an accident after a collision. Lopez said he spent three days pacing hospital corridors while his wife looked after their newborn child. The judge dismissed the case after reading the infant's birth certificate.
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Houston
Tex
Louis Lopez
Lawrence Dumas
Lopez
Little Miss Lopes
Britain declares war on Finland Hungary and Romania
Britain will declare war on Finland Hungary and Romania at midnight Greenwich time after their failure to stop fighting Russia. Czecho Slovak circles say their government is at war with the three nations as they align with Britain and the Soviet Union. An official Foreign Office statement followed their unsatisfactory replies to the demand to withdraw.
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Great Britain
Finland
Hungary
Rumania
Greenwich
Britain
Mentees
Russia
Lyion
Soviet Union
Czecho- Slovakia
Foreign Office
Young Gops End Meet in Charleston Dinner Concludes Conference
At Charleston, about 300 attendees heard leaders from state and national GOPs discuss foreign policy foundations set by the president. Rep. Robert A. Grant of Indiana will speak at tonight's banquet and dance closing the two day gathering. Speakers at the luncheon included state Republican Chairman Robert H. Kay and national committeeman Walter Hallanan.
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Young Republican League
Robert A. Grant
R-Ind
Robert H. C. Kay
Walter
Hallanan
Chiarlespon
Nearep Bee Young Gof
Page
Britain orders troops to Singapore amid war threat
The British government recalls all fighting men to Singapore as tensions rise in the orient. Australia plans to send tank troops, Dutch East Indies may defend, and 7 officers and men are told to report immediately. Civilians face evacuation warnings and travel bans as the crisis deepens.
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Associated Press
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Singapore
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Dutch East Indies
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Orient
Butla
Malaya
Scrub Woman Is Opera Star
A young blonde soprano, Dorothy Kiiten, rises to star billing with Grace Moore after a chance meeting in 1936. Moore mentors Kiiten, guiding wardrobe and vocal training as the aspiring singer progresses from a dentist’s office charwork to major performances.
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Deveau
Saad
Kir
Moore
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