Japan Defers War Showdown with U S Aims to Peaceful Solution
Japanese envoys in Washington delivered a reply to Cordell Hull on why troops are massed in French Indochina. Tokyo asserted forces act under an agreement with Vichy France and within French limits, while denying aggression toward Thailand or a broader conquest. President Roosevelt reviewed the document and planned further talks with Hull.
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Cordell Hull
Hull
Saburo Kurusu
Roosevelt
Japan
Tokyo
State Department
White House
Indo-China
Yunnan
Thailand
Hull Note. Net
Kichisaburo Nomura
Kurusu
Indo- China
United States
Great Britain
Cool Front Drops Temperatures Across Kansas Snow Reported
A north cold front brought light snow to parts of northern Kansas with lows around 21 at Goodland and 25 to 30 in western areas. Goodland logged .12 inch moisture including two inches of snow. Concordia .05 inch. Phillipsburg .14. Ellis .08. Topeka trace. Skies cleared, winds subsided, with highs 45 to 50 expected and a warming trend to Sunday or Monday.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Tommorrow
Concordia
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Colorado
Nebraska
S. D. Flora
Soviet Armies Nearing Mariupol In Push Toward Axis
Soviet forces advancing toward Mariupol 100 miles west of Rostov and 4 000 square miles recaptured as they press a southern front counteroffensive. Taganrog bypassed while Marshal Timoshenko’s troops push west of the Donets and toward the Mius river as Germans reform lines. The Polish government in exile signed a mutual assistance pact with Russia.
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Associated Press
Soviet Ukraine
Mariupol
Rostov-on-Don
Taganrog
Fedor von Bock
Moscow
Red Capital
Klin
Dimitrov
U.S.S.R
Semeon Timoshenko
Donets River
Sea of Azov
Mius
Red Army
Pravda
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Russia
Germany
Wladyslaw Sikorski
Hitler
Hands Off Policy Splits Over Defense Labor Bills
Roosevelt adopts a hands off stance leaving Senate leaders to untangle a tangle of defense labor bills. Three factions push differing plans to curb strikes, seize plants, or restrict closed shops while CIO and AFL denounce the Smith bill.
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Roosevelt
Senate
Smith
Connally
D-Tex
van Nuys
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Hatch
D-N.m
Norris
Ind.-Neb
Austin
R-Vt
Judiciary Committee
Thomas
Utah
Hill
Ala
Ellender
Taft
Ohio
Ball
Minn
Senate Labor Committee
Byrd
Dva
House
Mediation Board
Philip Murray
C.I.O
William Green
A.F.L
New Jersey Supreme Court Reverses Rally Speech Sentences
The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed nine sentences for anti Jewish speeches at a German American bond rally and ruled the state race hatred law invalid for conflicting with free speech. Wilhelm Kunze and August Klapprott led organizers. Camp Nordland in Sussex County hosted the event.
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Trenton
Nat
New Jersey Supreme Court
Wilhelm Kunze
August Klapprott
Seaboard
Klapprott
Camp Nordland
Sussex
Andover
John C.losey
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Nts
Septs
District Farm Bureau Festival Planned at Haskell Auditorium
A district Farm Bureau Women festival is set for Monday afternoon at the Haskell auditorium. Franklin Wyandotte Bourbon and Douglas counties will join with plays choruses vocal and instrumental numbers. Miss Doris Compton from Kansas State College will judge. Best acts advance to Farm and Home week in Manhattan in February.
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Kansas State College
Manhattan
Beattie Collins
Douglas County Farm Bureau
Vichy Agrees to Hand Over Bases if Nazis Advance
Reuters reports a Goering Petain meeting reached a deal allowing Germany to take naval and air bases in French North Africa without French fleet help. In return Vichy would gain prisoner releases and lower occupation costs.
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Reuters
Europe
Vichy
Germany
French North Africa
Reichsmarshal Goering
Petain
France
Britain Note Countdown Pressures Finland Hungary Romania
Midnight deadline nears for replies from Finland Hungary and Romania to a British note urging withdrawal from the war on Russia. Indications grow that all three nations will reject the demand.
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London
Finland
Hungary
Rumania
Russia
Young Republican convention backs Kansas GOP lawmakers
The Kansas State Young Republican convention adopted a resolution praising the eight Kansas congressional delegation for backing President Roosevelt's foreign policy. Key figures including John Buehler Alf Landon and Sen Clyde Reed praised the delegation, while critics urged stronger opposition to national policy. General commentary warned about the cost and efficiency of federal policy and urged election focus on state offices.
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Topeka
State
Young Republican Convention
Reet Operen
Kansas
Congress
Young Republican’ Convention
G.O.P
Roosevelt
John Buehler
Atchison
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Alf M. Landon
Clyde M. Reed
Martin
Republican National Committee
House
Boy Scout Boards of Review Set for Monday at Two Churches
Boards of review for local Scouts are scheduled Monday December 8 at 7 30 pm at First Methodist Church and West Side Presbyterian Church. Scouters Bailey Shenk and Key will run the West Side review. Randall Franks and Smith will run the Methodist review. All Scouts must appear and merit badge and rank blanks are due by 5 pm Saturday December 6. The December Court of Honor meets December 11 at 7 30 pm in the Chamber of Commerce rooms.
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First Methodist Church
West Side Presbyterian
Lowell E. Bailey
Henry Shenk
Richard’ Fe, Key
West Side Presbyterian Church
John Randall
Kenneth Franks
Warren M. Smith
Methodist Church
A. E. Woestemeyer
Court of Honor
Chamber of Commerce
Three Reelected to Kansas Potato Show Board
Scott E. Kelsey Topeka Ralph Travis Manhattan and C O Browning Linwood were reelected to the Kansas Potato Show board of directors at a morning meeting. They now serve as president vice president and secretary respectively. Four trustees of the Kansas State Horticultural Society were reelected Ezra Shields Wathena Sebastian Hahn Coffeyville Emmett Blood Wichita and James N Farley Hutchinson.
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Scott E. Kelsey
Topeka
Ralph Travis
Manhattan
C. O. Browning
Linwood
Kansas Potato Show
Kansas State Horticultural Society
Ezra Shields
Wathena
Sebastian Hahn
Coffeyville
Emmett Blood
Wichita
James N. Farley
Hutchinson
McNary Seeks Delay on Anti Strike Bills for Hearings
Senator McNary of Oregon announced he would propose delaying action on pending anti strike legislation in the Senate until hearings are held on the Smith bill. He said many communications urged more study and noted bipartisan calls for hearings. Senator Connally planned to push his own bill while Senator Maloney predicted strong Democratic support for McNary’s delay plea.
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Washington
McNary
Oregon
Senate
Chamber
Connally
D-Tex
Maloney
D-Conn
gicNary
Bright for Santa Parade Delights Lawrence Crowds
Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus arrived by plane with a police escort and joined thousands along Massachusetts Street for a Christmas parade. Chief Jude Anderson led the parade as 50 degree sunlit weather provided a festive backdrop after the airport arrival at 3 30 p.m.
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Santa Claus
Lawrence
Southpark
Santa
Massachusetts Street
From the Raw to the Tiber A Journey in Journalism
Miss Alice Roche recounts two decades in European reporting from the Lawrence Journal to Denver and New York. She describes Rome World War era work as United Press correspondent in the Vatican cloister with an Italian assistant, and fielding questions about Mussolini.
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Alice’ Rohe
Denver
New York
Kansas
Rome
United Press
Vatican
Mussolini
Miss Roche
Harold G. Barr
Library Board of Directors
Allied ship losses slide from April 1940 peak
London authorities said aerial attack losses over the past five months averaged eight per cent of the April 1940 peak, crediting safer seas to improved guns and gunnery standards.
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London
To Train More Bombers
Washington reports the government plans to train 10 000 bombardier navigators within a year to keep up with rising long range bomber production and deployment.
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Washington
Zemy
Flying Boat Catches Fire Before Water Tests
The Mars, a 70 ton flying boat built by Glenn L. Martin for the U S Navy, caught fire and went aground while taxiing out for water tests in Baltimore on December 5.
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Baltimore
Glenn L. Martin Company
U.S. Navy
Nazi Attacks Hit Paris Vichy Officials
A German officer was shot and seriously wounded in Paris today during another flare up of anti Nazi violence, while an attempt on a second officer failed.
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Britain
Ed Duda
Tobruk
London
Alan Cunningham
Libya
Middle East
Duda
New Zealand
Paris
Vichy
Jer
American Eagle Pilot Lands in Eire Interned
The information ministry announced that American Eagle Pilot Officer Roland L. Wolfe of Ceresco Nebraska landed by parachute in Eire and has been interned.
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Eire
The
Minis of Information
American Eagle
Roland L. Wolfe
Ceresco
Neb
Soviet Front Endures Brutal Cold in Moscow Region
German dispatches report temperatures down to 13 below zero Fahrenheit on the Moscow front, highlighting extreme winter conditions affecting operations and movements in the Berlin Moscow area.
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Moscow Front
Berlin
R. A. F. Resumes Attacks on German-held French Coast
Royal Air Force resumed attacks on the German-occupied French coast at Folkestone England on December 5 following a weeklong lull.
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Folkestone
England
A. F
Kansans urged to grow more food for war effort
W G Amstein urged Kansas to boost home gardening in 1942 at the Kansas State Horticultural Society meeting. Kansas aims to raise 115,900 gardens next year, up from 80,306, with commercial tomato potential in river valleys and a Columbus plant needing 300 to 500 more acres. Ralph Travis won sweet potato prizes at the Kaw Valley show. prizes sold at auction.
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Kansas
W. G. Amstein
Kansas State College
Kansas State Horticultural Society
England
Amstein
U.S.D.A. Defense Board
Amnstein
Kaw
Arkansas
Missouri
Columbus Food Company
S. W. Decker
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Manhattan
Decker
Ralph Travis
Travis
A. L. McGehee
Nancy Halls
Johnson Brothers
August Des
O. H. Elmer
Kansas State College Extension Division
Elmer
de Smet
Daniels Brothers
Sweet
Lincoln
Neb
Judd Wolfram
J. G. McElhinny
Lawrence
New Christmas Eve Story to Be Published by Journal-World
Journal-World arranged publication rights with a New York firm for a new Christmas Eve story to appear in the newspaper and be sold nationwide at bookstores for $2 per copy. The book title and author, noted for four popular novels, will be announced on Saturday, December 20.
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Journal-World
New York
Cav Rol
East
Journal- World
Stock Market Index Dips to 39.5 After Yesterday's 39.8
The daily index for 60 stocks slides to 39.5 from 39.8 observed yesterday. Financial notes indicate a minor broad market softening as traders assess recent earnings and economic signals.
Bergdoll Denied Parole Amid Leavenworth Sentence
Grover Bergdoll, World War I draft dodger and desertion case, is denied parole while serving a 7 1 4 year sentence at Fort Leavenworth. His wife Mrs Berta Bergdoll says the War Department informed of the denial after long consideration.
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Bergdoll
Leavenworth
Downington
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Berta Bergdoll
War Department
Grover Bergdoll
First Frolic Show Opens at Liberty Memorial High
The P T A Fun Frolic debuts at Liberty Memorial High School tonight at eight with performances tonight and tomorrow. Cast includes Ernest Pontius and Lloyd Houston among adults and twelve high school girls perform a Slap-Tapper routine.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Ernest Pontius
Lloyd Houston
Neal Wherry
Theodore Charlton
Charles Springer
Dorothy Jane Willcats
Sue Charlton
Mary Green
Eileen Johnson
Eloise Basom
Delores Yazza
Carol Foster
Loretta Grover
Weather seminars unite Kansas crops and meteorologists
A joint meeting of the Kansas Weather Crops Seminar and the Kansas City Meteorologist Seminar will be held in Marvin hall at the University of Kansas tomorrow. About 200 delegates are expected including representatives from the meteorological society Kansas State College research staff U S Weather Bureau forecasters and other experts. The program starts with the American Meteorological Society at 10 am and includes lectures on weather crops a lab tour on climate history and a banquet with S D Flora addressing tornado facts.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Marvin Hall
University of Kansas
The
Meteorological Society
Kansas State College
U. S. Weather Bureau
American Meteorological Society
Department of Psychology
E. C. Wheeler
Memorial Union
S. D. Flora
United States Weather Bureau
Topeka
Deane W. Malott
Stevens to Talk on Military History at Douglas County
Richard B. Stevens will address the Douglas County Historical Society on the military history of the county. President Robert C. Rankin invites parents and relatives of all men in the U.S. armed services to attend the talk Wednesday night at 7:30 at Pinckney School auditorium.
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Robert C. Rankin
U.S
Three Apply For Police Chief Post As Anderson Resigns
Walter Palmateer Ralph Dicker and Lathrop B Reed Jr seek to fill the vacancy left by Chief Jude Anderson. Mayor Russell undecided on permanent or temporary appointment as council meets to act. Reed has served as county undersheriff since 1939 and has prior federal and state policing experience.
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Jude Anderson
Walter Palmateer
Ralph ‘Dicker
Lathrop B. Reed, Jr
C. B. Russell
Anderson
Russell
U.S
Dicker
KQBM
FCC
Palmateer
Hour of Music by Kappa Alpha Psi Opens Sunday
A varied program presented by Kappa Alpha Psi resumes Sunday at 5 15 pm in Frank Strong hall auditorium. Helen Pierson freshman in fine arts will be violin soloist. J Delmas Escoe graduate student will give a dramatic reading of Tolsons Dark Symphony with music. Yolande Meek will play piano selections. George Pearson and Ethela Love will perform piano duets. Sidney Dawson baritone will sing and direct the glee club opening and closing the program.
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Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
Frank Strong
Helen Pierson
Lawrence
School of Fine Arts
J.’ Delmas Escoe
Kansas City
Melvin Tolson
Yolande Meek
George Pearson
Ethela Love
Fine Arts
Sidney Dawson
Kansas City Journal
Kappa Alpha Psi Glee Club
Noted Scientist to Speak on Climatic Weather Effects
Dr. C A Mils of University of Cincinnati professor of experimental medicine will lecture on Climatic and Weather Effects on Man in Frank Strong auditorium next Thursday at 7 45 pm. The free talk is open to the public and sponsored by the local Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity.
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C.A. Mils
University of Cincinnati
Frank Strong
Phi Beta Pi
Weather forecast for Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma
Mostly clear tonight and Saturday with cooler readings in eastern and central areas overnight. Western temps 25 to 30 guiding toward 45 to 50 by afternoon as a warming trend begins Sunday or Monday with little or no precip except possible southeastern Missouri showers Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
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