Authorities Cool to Convoy Idea Amid War Zone Proposals
A presidential proclamation may designate belligerent nations and fix a combat zone affecting American shipping to the British Isles and European coast. Changes could allow entry to neutral Ireland while risking exposure to Germany's blockade. In Australia, 13 survivors are saved from a ship wreck off the coast, with six presumed lost.
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Britain
Germany
Great Briain
Camberra
Australia
Greeks say forces enter Porto Edda and push toward Argirocastro
Greek sources claim counter invasion into Italian held Albania with troops entering the southern port of Porto Edda and reporting 1500 Italians captured near Elbacant. They expect to seize Argirocastro, while Italian withdrawals continue toward Tepeleni. Neutral observers note new Italian divisions arriving in Albania amid snow and fog. Refugees warn Italy faces Albanian uprisings without food.
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Ochrida
Yugoslavia
Albania
Porto Edda
Elbacant
Argirocastro
Vioga
Tepeleni
Porta Edda
Athens
Rome
Kamia
Mokra
Elbasani
Tirana
Italy
Ioannina
Greece
Phiorina
Salonika
Greeks Drive Italian Forces From Albanian Front
Greek assaults pushed Italian units from Keritza and Pogradetz as heavy fighting raged across southern and central Albania. Reports claim Greek advances threaten Italy’s last frontier base in the region with RAF support aiding the push. An RAF communique cited bombardment of Italian troops and withdrawal routes from southwest Albania, including damage to an Italian destroyer near Porto Edda and several planes destroyed. The fates of Porto Hdda and Argirocastro remained tied to Premet, a town Greece claimed to have taken within 15 miles of the Albanian frontier.
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Keritza
Pogradetz
Porto Eide
Arghriestro
Italy
Albania
Royal Air Force
Athens
Porto Edda
Porto Hdda
Argirocastro
Premet
Barbara Hutton’s Father Dies in South Carolina
Barbara Hutton’s father Franklyn L. Hutton died at his plantation near Charleston after several weeks illness. He was a retired New York broker and owner of a 5504 acre estate. A private funeral will be held at his home. Hutton’s family traveled to be by his bedside including his wife Irene Curley Bodde and other relatives. His daughter Barbara was summoned from the west coast. Edna Woolworth, mother of Hutton’s titled daughter, had died in 1917.
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Charleston
D. C
Franklyn L. Hutton
Woolworth
Barbara Hutton
West Coast
Irene Curley Bodde
Detroit
Edward F. Hutton
Thomas Middleton
Pleasantville
N. J
Hutton
Edna Woolworth
F D R Views Site of Base on Jamaica
President Roosevelt toured Jamaica as part of a coastal defense visit aboard the Tuscaloosa. A British delegation led by Sir Arthur Richards accompanied him, with luncheon aboard near Portland Bight after Watson was ashore. Roosevelt later surveyed Guantanamo defense plots with naval commanders.
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Arthur Richards
Jamaica
Drive to Curtail Cities' Spending In New Jersey
East Orange New Jersey Walter Kid die, chairman of the Cost of Government committee of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, announced a statewide drive to reduce municipal government appropriations for 1941. He noted two thirds of the state’s 516 municipalities cut tax levies this year and urged unity to sustain the downward trend in local tax rates. He said bonded debt burden is declining, pay as you go dominates, and tax collections are strong, arguing taxpayers should expect further reductions if operating expenditures are held down.
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East Orange
N. J
Walter Kiddie
New Jersey
Kiddie
British City on South Coast Hit in Heavy Raid
A British city on the south coast endured heavy raids and anti aircraft fire during daylight, with damage to targets along the southeast coast and off the southwest, while a separate assault struck a mental institution in a southeastern town. Casualties were not announced and London's warning arrived briefly in the afternoon.
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London
Badger Seaplane Tender Grounds Near Bermuda in Storm
The U S seaplane tender Badger dragged her anchors and went aground in heavy seas off Hamilton Bermuda as high winds built a heavy sea. Naval tugs expected to refloat the vessel when weather moderates.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
U. S
Badger
Plane Crash May Have Been Caused by Icing
Inquest details an Illinois crash where the plane nosedived after a left turn from about 150 feet. Witnesses cite possible icing conditions and a weather snow. officials from U A S and federal agencies await recovery of survivors and continued investigations.
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O'iara
O'Hara
OtHelul
U.A.S
Chicago
Keller TF. Melton
Charles W. Manville
Cleveland
Philip €. Scott
George 5. Young
Gal Part
Stuart W. Moore
Wilbert J. Austin
Jane Selby
Akron
Ohio
Lee F. Haneline
Downers Grove
CCC enrollment opens in January for Montana
Approximately 270 men aged 17 to 23 will be enrolled in Montana for the CCC during the next quarter from January 2 to January 31, 1941. Unemployed, unmarried applicants within the age limits should apply at their county welfare department selecting agency.
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Montana
6.C.C
State Department of Public Welfare
C.C.C
Five Vessels Call for Help West of Britain
Five ships in submarine infested waters west of Britain sent distress calls. New Chwang, 2482 tons, requested immediate assistance 706 miles west of Scotland. Empire Thunder, 6990 tons, reported main engine disabled 475 miles west of Scapa Flow. Taygetos, 4295 tons, undetermined distress near British coast. Sallwick, 3776 tons, 700 miles west of Scotland with steering gear trouble. Aghia Eirini, 4530 tons, 600 miles west of Scotland also reported steering problems.
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New York
Britain
Scotland
Sunderland
England
An & US
McKay Radio
Scapa Flow
Taygetos
Sallwick
Aghia Eirini
Storma
Personal travel notes and a vision tip from the era
The column notes Andy Lyle departed on the Northern Pacific to Seattle. W J Howard secretary of the Retail Lumbermen association left for Chicago. Mrs H W Mulling also left for Chicago en route to State College Penn to visit her daughter Bonnie. A Better Vision Institute joke suggests a one eyed picture hanger notices bigger things.
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Are
Andy Lyle
Northern Pacific
Seattle
W. J. Howard
Llumbermen
Chicago
H. W. Mulling
State College
Penn
Bonnie
The
Better Vision Institute
Astor salutes American Eagles in RAF troops
London dispatch reports Tony Nancy Astor praising 30 American volunteers of the Eagle flying squadron. She predicts thousands more will join Britain, calls this the greatest hour of trial for English speaking peoples, and says Britain and the United States should collaborate for world peace after the war.
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London
Tony Nancy Astor
Eagle Flying Squadron
Britain
America
United States
Peeress
Red Cross
Great Britain
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