Battleship Arizona and Five Warships Sunk at Pearl Harbor
Secretary of the Navy Knox announced that the battleship Arizona and five other warships were lost in the Pearl Harbor raid. He reported 91 officers and 2,638 enlisted men dead, 20 officers and 636 men wounded, and noted Japanese losses include 3 submarines and 41 aircraft.
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Knox
Pearl Harbor
Washington
Arizona
Hawaii
Norway
Luke
New York Navy Yard
Oklahoma
New York Shipbuilding Company
O'the Cassin
Shaw
Downes
Cassin
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Norfolk Navy Yard
U.S
Navy
Utah
Mild Days Forecast for Topeka With Warm Weekend
Forecasts indicate continued mild weather across Kan as sunshine and southerly winds push readings near 45 to 50 degrees today and tomorrow. No precipitation reported statewide. a light freeze possible in the northwest with lows 30 to 35 degrees. The Journal World offers Christmas gift subscriptions with a gift card.
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Topeka
S. D. Flora
Phillipsburg
Goodland
Flora
Journal-World
House approves scaled two ocean navy expansion and wartime controls
Washington reports the House naval affairs committee backs a reduced 150 000 ton expansion for a two ocean navy with discretionary ship types, while no battleships are promised. Senate panel endorses extraordinary wartime powers for Roosevelt including non domestic censorship and trading with the enemy provisions. draft age changes and selective service actions set to move quickly, with registration planned for 19 to 44 year olds and defense duties for 18 and 45 to 64. Reserve mobilization targets include up to 1 000 000 men and allocations to navy and marines.
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Washington
United States
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Navy
Navy Department
Vinson
D-Ga
Senate Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
van Nuys
Senate
Biddle
House Military Affairs Committee
Selective Service
Selective Service Act
Marine Corps
Civilian Defense Meeting At Liberty Memorial High
Discussion on blackout air raid warnings fire sabotage and civil defense plans to be held tonight at 8 at Liberty Memorial High School under sheriff's office. All residents urged to attend to hear the U.S. civilian defense program.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Sheriff’s Office
U.S
Third report on lend lease funds in wartime aid
President Roosevelt announced the third lend-lease report showing aid to 33 allied countries totaling 1.202 billion dollars through November 30 with 595 million exports by December 1. The document notes 83 eligible nations, the vast geographic reach, and continued U S support while stressing shipbuilding and food shipments to Britain, Russia, China and other allies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
Congress
Britain
Russia
China
British Empire
United States
Egypt
Belgium
Free
France
Greece
Iceland
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Turkey
Yugoslavia
USA
Island Defenders Hold Off Japs At Legaspi
U S bombers damaged two Japanese transports near Legaspi Luzon as ground reinforcements struggled to land. Reports say Philippine air and sea actions show heavy Japanese losses with submarines sinking transports and tankers off Nalaya and in the Gulf of Siam. Manila braces under emergency as Quezon extends wartime powers.
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Knox
Tte
United States
Roosevelt
Manila
United States Army
Legaspi
Luzon Island
U. S. Army
Luzon
Nichols Field
Netherlands
Nalaya
Batavia
Gulf of Siam
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Cts
Vigan
Lingayen
MacArthur
Philippine Army
Aparri
Army
Philippine National Assembly
Quezon
Germany
Italy
Journal-World withholds troop movement details in wartime
The Journal-World notes that Associated Press dispatches carried no troop movement reports today. It explains this follows a voluntary agreement to refrain from publishing information of military value, in response to requests during war.
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Journal-World
Associated Press
Axis Leaders Meet to Discuss New War Tasks
Berlin reports a summit of Germany Italy and Japan to map widened wartime aims and closer axis cooperation in the common fight against the Anglo-Saxon powers. Ribbentrop Keitel Raeder Milch attended as negotiators outlined plans for extended coordination and future actions.
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Berlin
Germany
Italy
Japan
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Wilhelm Keitel
Dino Alfieri
Hiroshi Oshima
Erich Raeder
Erhard Milch
Air Force
Russians Push On In Major Soviet Offensive
AP reports the Soviet army advances northwest of Moscow to restore Moscow Leningrad rail link thru Klin. Pravda claims recaptures near Sovnetschnogorski and 42 German tanks destroyed in a single day, with 6,000,000 Soviet losses tally since June 22. German command says attacks repulsed with heavy losses.
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Pravda
Communist Party
Moscow
Red Army
Moscow-Leningrad
Klin
Sovnetschnogorski
Tikhvin-volkhov
Leningrad
Caucasus
Adolf Hitler
Donets
Don
Henry seeks East West game at Memorial Stadium
University of Kansas athletic director Henry offers Memorial Stadium for the annual East West football game. Chancellor Malott approves. Gov. Ratner backs the plan. Major Jones discusses best site, considering Atlanta or Texas for better weather. Earl Falkenstein says 40 000 could be accommodated with south end seating and track seating.
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Gwinn. Henry
University of Kansas
Memorial Stadium
Shrine Committee
Deane W. Malott
Cambridge
Mass
Payne Ratner
The
Journal-World
Henry
Biff Jones
Nebraska
Atlanta
Texas
Earl Falkenstien
Athletics Association
Pleers
Agreement to Prevent Railway Strike
Wayne L. Morse of the emergency mediation board announced that 14 unions of non-operating railroad employees and carrier managements signed an agreement to implement mediation provisions. The deal, reached after 88 hours of talks in Washington and Chicago, assures that the wage disputes threatening a national strike are settled.
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Chicago
Wayne L. Morse
Emergency Mediation Board
Washington
KU Students Quizzed On Selective Service Survey
University of Kansas registrar mails letters and questionnaires to about 1000 students to assess how selective service affects colleges. Officials clarify the survey precedes any government reclassification. some students feared a wartime change. Doris Twente leads a defense committee among women students.
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University of Kansas
United States
Jamies K. Hitt
Frank Stronghall
Hitt
Lawrence
Kansas City
Women’s Self-Governing Association
Doris Twente
Christmas Vespers Draws 6000 At University Dekorations
The annual Christmas Vespars at Fraser Hall chapel grew from a modest start to large crowds, with about 6000 attendees for yesterday’s afternoon and evening performances. A brass quartet played as audience members gathered, followed by Laurel Everette Anderson’s organ rendition of Les Cloches. The program featured tableaux by design and drawing departments, with costumes, scenery, and makeup by named faculty, plus carols sung by a University A Cappella choir and a visiting quartet directed by Mrs. Alice Moncrieff.
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School of Fine Arts
Fraser Hall
T.wenty
Eugene Crabb
Mac Herman
Paul Adams
Kenneth Geoffrey
Hoch Auditorium
Laurel Everette Anderson
le Begue
Mr. Anderson
Bobbie Hageart
Jommy Hawkins
Waldemar Gelich
Raymond Stuhl
Jack Stephenson
Mervyn Anderson
Laurel E. Anderson
University
Candies
Marjorie Whitney
Betty Schwartz
Arvid Jacobson
Bernard, Frazier
Raymond Eastwood
Donald Silks
T. D. Jones
Maud Ellsworth
Josephine Dalton
Bethlehem
Rosemary McClure
Michael Getto
Marilyn Barr
Cindy Stevens
Paul Benson
Dean Tack
Harry Tavl
Howard Babcock
Kenneth Cooper
Bill Imel
Bill Perdue
Mary Jean Miller
Georgia White
Helen Naramore
Donald Witzgerald
Duane Johnson
Lucile Conley
Adean Hagan
Tom Jones
Greek Guerrillas Halt 24 Axis Divisions in Greece
London reports a Greek government in exile spokesman says 24 Axis divisions are immobilized by guerrilla resistance. About 826000 Italian, German, and Bulgarian troops are tied down, with famine worsening and daily deaths cited as Greece starves.
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London
Greece
Alonce
Rose Bowl Game Moves From Pasadena to Durham
The New Year’s Day football game between Duke University and Oregon State College is transferred from Pasadena to Duke’s 52000-seat Durham stadium. Oregon State’s Percy Lacey announced the change after a call with Duke athletic director Wallace Wade. The Rose Bowl sponsor will attend as official observer.
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Pasadena
Calif
Duke University
Oregon State College
Durham
N.C
Duke
Percy Lacey
Oregon State
Wallace Wade
Army
Pasadena Tournament of Roses
Lacey
Toys For Children Rotary Christmas Gift Drive In Lawrence
The Salvation Army sponsored day nursery will receive a large supply of new toys on Christmas Day. About 60 Rotarians contributed gifts worth delivering to the nursery school and rural families, aiding 30 youngsters and many children of employed mothers. W. C. Simons was saluted for 50 years of newspaper work. The group plans a Bob Hope fund-raiser at the Jayhawker to aid military gift programs.
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Salvation Army
Lawrence
Allen
Collie
Simons
Rotarians
John Andrews
Bob Hope
Jayhawker
Soldier Fund
John C. Warnock
Tom Evans
Baldwin
John J. Dynes
Gunnison
Colo
Bob Hope feature draws Sunday crowds at Jayhawker
Large numbers attend the first showing of Bob Hope's new show Nothing But the Truth at the Jayhawker. The run lasts through Wednesday with part of proceeds funding recreation rooms for soldiers at Camp Robinson. tickets available downtown, on campus, and at stores.
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Bob Hope
Jayhawker
Camp Robinson
K. U
Robert Haynes Safe From Pearl Harbor
Mr and Mrs E L Haynes were informed by their son Ensign Robert Haynes in the Navy stationed at Pearl Harbor that he is safe and well. Mrs Bess Bixby Scobie a Lawrence teacher 1914 1919 now in Honolulu was also reported safe by Haynes.
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E. L. Haynes
Robert
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Bess Bixby Scobie
Haynes
Lawrence
Honolulu
Civil Air Patrol in Kansas Expedited After Washington Meet
Anthony Kansas Dec 15 P J Howard Wilcox wing commander of the Kansas civil air patrol said on return from a national conference in Washington that formation of the state patrol would be expedited to enable the widest possible use of civil aviation.
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Anthony
Kan
P. J. Howard Wilcox
Kansas Civil Air Patrol
Washington
State Patrol
Three Lawrence men injured in gas pipeline blast
Three Lawrence men were injured, one perhaps seriously, in a gas pipeline explosion near Grantville yesterday. Guy Hunsinger suffered facial and eye injuries, Sherman Fletcher had facial and scalp lacerations, and Eugene Corel sustained minor abrasions. All were treated at St Francis hospital in Topeka. Corel was released and later re hospitalized. Witnesses reported the blast blew soil and smoke high, with a six to eight foot rupture in the line replacing a four inch line.
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Lawrence
Grant Ville
Guy Hunsinger
Sherman Fletcher
Rhode Island Street
Eugene Corel
St. Francis Hospital
Topeka
Corel
Cities
Lawrence Men to Visit Washington Over War Industry Site
Frank McDonald and George Hedrick secretary of the Chamber of Commerce head a group of Lawrence businessmen planning a trip to Washington to press for the Lawrence area as a site for a war industries plant between Eudora and De Soto. They seek guidance from Kansas representatives and aim to highlight the University and Haskell Institute in a potential air training program.
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Frank McDonald
George Hedrick
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
Washington, D. C
Eudora
de Soto
War Industries
Kansas
Washington
University
Haskell Institute
Schedule of Special Classes at City WPA Center
Special classes announced for tomorrow and Thursday at the City WPA recreation center in the Community building. Tomorrow at 1 30 p m women s reducing games and at 2 30 p m a bridge class. Thursday at 1 30 p m women s reducing games and at 7 p m a beginner s dance class.
Farm implement dealers to meet in Oskaloosa
Jefferson County Defense Board calls a meeting of farm implement dealers and repair men in Oskaloosa to discuss supplying repair parts and machinery to keep farms in the county operating efficiently for national defense.
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Jefferson County
Oskaloosa
Jefferson County Defense Board
Willkie Lunch Meeting With President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt invited Wendell Willkie to the White House for lunch today following Willkie’s support of Roosevelt’s foreign policy and his role as a Republican rival in the previous year’s elections.
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Willkie
Washington
Roosevelt
Wendell Willkie
White House
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