British hold loosens as Japan widens Pacific attacks
Japanese forces press Hongkong Malaya and Borneo fronts amid fierce fighting. Hongkong under heavy assault. Sarawak landings reported. Macao seized. U S submarines active in Japanese waters. Manila and Vigan air and sea clashes cited. Royal Navy and U S forces balance counterblows as Pacific crisis deepens.
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London
Western Pacific
China Sea
Hongkong
Malayan
Borneo
Malaya
Penang
Singapore
South China Main
Macao
Sarawak
Java
Netherlands East Indies
Knox Spurs Industry With Story of Wake
Secretary of the Navy Knox urged industry to speed production citing the Wake Island defense by United States Marines. In a telegram to manufacturers and shipyards, he said the Navy at Hawaii is undaunted and the Marines still hold Wake, asking them to meet the challenge.
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Washington
Navy
Frank Knox
Hawaii
Knox
Frank Beatty
Wake Island
United States
Wake
Secretary of the Navy
Broker Guilty in Sex Case in White Plains
A Westchester County jury convicted 41 year old Isaac Brown of attempted first degree murder and first and second degree will fraud after a weeklong trial. Prosecutors said Brown a New York insurance broker stabbed an 11 year old girl five times under the pretext of performing an abortion. The maximum sentence faced is 25 years in prison. Brown reportedly took the verdict calmly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Plains
N. Y
Isaac Brown
New York
Westchester County
Mathilde le Boyer
Brown
Deliberian
Hi Suit
Theatre Ticket At Strand And Dixie Theaters Tonight
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Lalah Gillespis of 535 Prospect Street to attend tonight's showing of Hurry Charley Hurry at the Strand theater or the final screening of Smilin Through at the Dixie theater.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Lalah Gillespis
Prospect Street
Strand Theater
Dixie Theater
U S Censorship Plan Moves Through Congress
Washington December 17 Congress pressed to approve wartime censorship measures for the press radio cables and foreign mails. President Roosevelt would appoint Byron Price to administer the program directing military data protection and broad executive powers over contracts finances and alien affairs.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Byron Price
Associated Press
Trace Activities of Man Who Poisoned Self
Bluefield police traced the death of Russell Brown Snyder, 35, from his December 8 hotel registration to his discovery in his room yesterday. Officers and the prosecutor's staff concluded he killed himself by poison and had been dead about five or six days. No inquest will be held.
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Bluefield
Russell Brown Snyder
W. B. Owen
F. Morton Wagoner
W. W. McNeal
New York Firm Lowest Bidder on Large Bridge
The Harris Structural Steel Company of New York City submitted the low bid of 738000 for erection of the 2230 foot span of the New Sandy Hook bridge linking Maryland and Virginia. Substructure work is underway near Harpers Ferry West Virginia. The entire project is expected to cost about 2150000.
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Baltimore
Harris Structural Steel Company
New York City
Sandy Hook
Maryland
Virginia
West
Two Plans to Boost Savings Bonds Purchase
Chicago reports a nationwide drive to enroll all citizens in buying savings bonds. A payroll method allows employers to deduct from wages, while house-to-house canvasses secure printed pledges. The goal is a billion dollars monthly across all bond types, with $400 million monthly from small $18.75 bonds maturing at $25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Treasury
Harold N. Graves
Secretary of the Treasury
British Push Rommel Into Finish Fight In North Africa
British pressure on Rommel’s battered North African army continued with gains west of Tobruk as anti tank guns and guns were abandoned. Despite storms, RAF countered axis air attacks and targeted transport. Dispatches said a flanking move near Gazala could cut Rommel’s retreat route along the highway to Denia.
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Cairo
Erwin Rommel
Tobruk
RAF
Halegh el Olebam
Gazala
Rommel
Dena
Relics found in Drake's Bay Indian mound evidence
San Francisco reports physical evidence of 16th century contact between California Indians and Europeans. Excavations at Es to mound near Limantour bay uncovered corroded ship spikes and Wan Li porcelain fragments dating to 1573 1595. Researchers cite Drake's Bay brass plate from 1579 as supporting context.
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San Francisco
Drake's Bay Area
Robert F. Heizer
Department of
University of California
California Historical Society
Estero
Limantour
Drake's Bay
Francis Drake
A. L.kroeber
University
U S Bombers Destroy 26 Japanese Planes Near Vigan
U S bombers struck the beachhead at Vigan Philippines, destroying 26 Japanese planes and setting fuel depots ablaze while subs of the Asiatic fleet joined action for the first time in the 11 day war. One Japanese aircraft fell in the air, about 25 more were destroyed on the ground. No change in land positions reported.
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Associated Press
Japan
U.S
Thomas C. Hart
U.S. Army
Manila
Vigan
Luzon
Hart
Washington
War Department
Kehulul
Hawaiian
Mauri
Philippine
Singapore
Sarawak
See
U. S. Asiatic
Philippines
Three Trainmen Die In Wreck of Flyers
Jefferson City Missouri December 17 The westbound Katy Flyer collided head on with the standing eastbound Flyer four miles north of Jefferson City killing three trainmen and injuring five other railroad employees No passengers were seriously hurt By dawn all wreck personnel were accounted for Two locomotives were thrown into an embankment baggage cars ripped open and toppled while a third locomotive and the passenger cars stayed upright The standing train had two locomotives
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Jefferson, City
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Here
No Trains Run in Chicago Subway But It's Good Shelter
Chicago engineers completed a bomb proof air raid shelter beneath the city as trains will not run before June 30, 1942. The 834 miles of tunnels, ventilated with modern gear, can house about 130,000 sleepers during air raids, though no bunks are provided.
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Chicago Subway
Chicago
Pearl Harbor
Russians Retake Kalinin as Germans Retreat on East Front
Moscow reports recapture of Kalinin and Vysokoie as Soviet central front counteroffensive drives six German divisions westward. Victory claims include Berlin radio noting sacrifice for General de Torelli and heavy enemy losses while Soviet air and ground forces push toward Mosow region.
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Kalinin
Moscow
Vysokoe
Adolph Strauss
Star
Soviet Information Bureau
Upper Volga
Vologa
Ivan Dpi Ma
Klin
Information Bureau
Coal Operators Invited to Washington for Defense Conference
Huntington December 17 J D Francis president Island Creek Coal Co and L E Woods Crystal Black Coal Co among prominent operators summoned to Washington by Secretary of the Interior Harold L Ickes for a conference on solid fuels coordination for defense. They aim to map a program to promote efficiency in the development production distribution and utilization of coke and bituminous and anthracite coal.
Stress Home Defense Plans in Charleston
Charleston reports a plan to coordinate the state defense council and civilian defense office as government limits wartime prep to organizing citizens' groups. Governor Neely, from Washington talks, says no state military service requirements yet and no home guard planned. The two agencies aim to finalize coordinated operations within days.
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Charleston
State Defense Council
State Office of Civilian Defense
Neely
Washington
Office of Civilian Defense
Carleton C. Pierce
Hawaii Buries Raid Victims In Honolulu
A day by day account from Honolulu describes Marines guarding graves as Navy and Army casualties from the December 7 raid are honored with taps and committal rites. The article notes 91 officers and 2,638 enlisted Navy and 168 Army dead, with ceremonies continuing as service members return to duty amid blackout conditions.
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Honolulu
America
Navy
Army
Fleet
William A. Ma
Woman Takes Up Where Slain Son Leaves Off
Philadelphia woman Reba Feldman visits the Army recruiting station to join and serve, saying her son Jack, 18, was killed at Pearl Harbor. She is assigned a job in the Army quartermaster depot to continue his effort.
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Philadelphia
Reba Feldman
Jack
Army
Pearl Harbor
Ideal Xmas Gifts Portable Typewriters and Machines
Remington Rand Agency at 428 Adams St Fairmont offers portable typewriters and adding machines. Postcard representative will call. Buy sell repair of type writers and adding machines. Phone 471.
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Ideal Xmas
Remington Rand Agency
Adams St
Fairmont
War bulletins report German activity in Bulgaria and talks of a French German conference
War bulletins note considerable German military activity in Bulgaria with Turkey concerned and mention plans for a French German conference on African colonies. A Dutch bomber hit a Japanese destroyer near Miri Sarawak, and British bombers attacked Wilhelmshaven Bremen and other targets in the north.
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Bern
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Turkey
Batavia
Dutch East Indies
Miri
Sarawak
Mir
Borneo
British North Borneo
London
Wilhelmshayern
Bremen
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Far East
Great Singapore
Admiral Ha
Jap Isle
China Seas
Nippon
New Yorker
U. S
California
Rome
Hugo de Torelli
Torino
Russia
Berlin
Athristmas
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