Nazi Arms Speed Up Reported Across Balkans
Budapest reports Nazi leaders ordered a major speed-up in Romania's war material production as 1 160 troop trains move through Hungary toward the Balkans. Observers note possible showdowns with Russia and Turkey amid Danube control disputes and growing Soviet activity in the region.
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Budapest
Pnazi
Rumania
Romania
Hungary
Balkan
Mihai
Balkans
Bucharest
Germany
Galati
Danube
Turkey
Greece
Bulgaria
Russia
Reich
Soviet
Slovakia
Moscow
Stock Market Index Edges Higher in Early Trading
The stock market index for 60 shares shows a slight rise with an average of 43.1 on Tuesday and 43.2 in the morning session as investors watch the early moves.
British Guards Doubling On Channel Coast In Mist
British guards doubled along the Dover coast to deter a possible German thrust through mist over the Strait. Troops armed with Bren guns and others searched coasts while traffic was halted and IDs checked amid an unofficial Christmas truce and cautious London analyses of German intent.
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Channel
Dover
London
Strait of
Washington
Berlin
Walter von Brauchitsch
Adolf Hitler
England
Britain
British Isles
RAF wings pound Greek theater as Italian strikes surge
Italy says it shot down 39 Allied planes in nine British losses during November 7 to December 21 in the Greek Italian conflict. RAF operations supported Greeks, bombing Albanian Varona Valona Durazzo and Porto Edda dockyards, depots, ships, and barracks amid attacks on Italian troop concentrations and airfields.
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Italy
Tost
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Valona
Durazzo
Porto Edda
Adriatic
Corfu
Registration Deadline For Aliens Is Tonight
Tonight at midnight is the deadline for alien registration. The local post office will accommodate registrants up to that hour. As of now 120 aliens have registered. Penalty for failure is a $1000 fine and six months imprisonment.
Viereck Denies Charges From New York Club
George Sylvester Viereck, recently expelled from the overseas press club, brands a club secretary’s statement as bristling with preposterous falsehoods. Burnet Hershey said Viereck was asked to resign due to the presence of zestanos and bandists at meetings. Viereck retorts that no such person is in his circle and he did not bring anyone to a meeting knowingly.
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New York
George Sylvester Viereck
Overseas Press Club
Gestapo
Band
U. S. Credit Seen For Allied North Africa Victory
Italian weekly Tempo claims the United States underpins the British win in North Africa and frames a Europe united against the Anglo-Saxon world. Mussolini era papers, including Il Popolo d Italia, downplay Churchill's radio appeal and omit mentions of the United States and Mussolini’s war entry.
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Rome
United States
North Africa
Tempo
Europe
England
America
North America
Mussolini
Il Popolo d'Italia
Winston
Churchill
Italy
Stefani
Brenner Pass
Slow drizzle settles over Topeka and eastern Kansas
Chilly winds keep Kansans shivering as a slow Christmas day rain adds moisture statewide. Totals include .75 inch at Florence and .61 in Wichita, with cooler tonight and highs around 85 to 90 tomorrow. Rain also observed in Oklahoma Missouri and Nebraska as soil moisture improves for next year.
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Topeka
Fl Dorado
S. D. Flora
Coffeyville
Wichita
Lebo
Chanute
Geneseo
Pode City
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Missouri
Nebraska
Thirty Fifth Division to Move to Camp Robinson
Kansas National Guardsmen of the 35th Division begin moving to Camp Robinson Arkansas with advance detachments from January 1 and main bodies through January 8. Units include 161st field artillery 187th infantry 127th field artillery and 180th field artillery with motor and rail transfers.
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Ark
Seventh Corps
Omaha
Neb
Service Command
Camp Robinson
Kansas
161St Field Artillery
Topeka
Kan
187Th Infantry
Horton
127Th Field Artillery
180th _ field artillery
Kansas National Guardsmen
White House urged to push for defeat of axis powers
More than 150 prominent Americans including editors lawyers actors and educators sign a letter urging President Roosevelt to declare defeating the axis powers the settled policy of the nation and to use all means, with Britain strong, to win. Verne Marshall announces Helen Dortch Longstreet joins No Foreign War. Roosevelt to address the nation Sunday night on the present emergency.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
New York
Verne Marshall
No Foreign War Committee
Helen Dortch Longstreet
Defenders of the Republic
Democratic Party
Holly
Kansas Winter Wheat Is In Excellent Condition
Kansas' winter wheat remains in excellent condition as melting snow and rain boost soil moisture. Government reports say moisture supports good growth under favorable winter conditions. Sheep and lamb movements are normal with regions sending livestock back to fields after earlier snow.
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Kansas
Topeka
War Fronts Report Small Actions and Silence
British headquarters announces no change in Libya and a patrol raid east of Kaasala on the Sudan frontier captures a prisoner and equipment. Other fronts show nothing notable. Berlin notes a brief Christmas lull with no extraordinary events on December 25 and 26.
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Egypt
Libya
Sudan
Kaasala
Berlin
High Command
Greeks Press Adriatic Front Despite Snow and Rain
Athens reports Greek forces continue advance along the Adriatic coast north of Chimara despite heavy rain and snow. Local engagements dominate as Tepeleni and Klisura endure intense cold with reports of Italian battalions decimated by weather and frostbite. a captured Italian lieutenant colonel cites Bersaglieri losses and supply troubles.
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Athens
Chimara
Tepeleni
Klisura
Iscope
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Air Truce Holds With No Major Attacks Over Britain
London reports a third quiet bombing night with only one aircraft sighting at Sheppey and no casualties. The official communique says no further reports and no London raids since the prior night. the only incident was a German plane shot down off the Orkneys and four crew captured.
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Thames Estuary
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Sheppey
Royal Air Force
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Coast Guard searches 10 missing guardsmen near Stanwood rescue
In a stormy Pacific operation near 130 miles northwest of the Golden Gate the coast guard pursued 10 missing guardsmen who went to aid the Stanwood. More than 100 volunteers from sea and air joined, with amphibian planes and cutters Aridne and Shawnee aiding in the perilous retrieval efforts.
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Coast Guard
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Stanwood
The
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Aridne
Coast
Point Arena
Belgians Called to Arms to Aid English Troops
In New York on December 26 192? the Belgian consul general announced a decree calling 19 to 25 year olds and reserve officers to arms. Volunteers 16 to 36 may join armed Belgian units forming in England to fight with British and allies. Belgians in German-occupied areas must consult a consul.
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New York
Charles Hallaert
England
Hallaert
British Ship Waiotira Torpedoed in Atlantic
New York reports the British freighter Waiotira, a 12 823 ton refrigerated vessel, torpedoed about 400 miles northwest of the Irish coast. It joins Napier Star and Orab as recent food ships sunk in submarine attacks aiding England.
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New York
Mackay
Australia
England
Typewriters Stolen From Library Recovered. Suspect Arrested
Police recovered three stolen typewriters after an anonymous tip linked a man to the library burglary. John Welton Martin confessed to multiple thefts in Salina and Leavenworth and is wanted in California for parole violation. Officers Ingalls Hayter and Hunter made the arrest. pawn tickets tied Martin to phoned thefts and a forged check.
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John Welton Martin
Martin
Leavenworth
Salina
California
John Ingalls
William Hayter
Floyd Hunter
Journal-World
Kansas City
Bunker Hill
Denial of Hitler in West Frontover Invasion Hint
German sources say Hitler and Field Marshal von Brauchitsch were on the western front at Christmas but this does not guarantee an immediate invasion of England. They note Hitler could be in Berlin or at the front and that no attack occurred on the west wall last Christmas.
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London
Bucharest
Danube
Red Army
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Siretul
Adolf Hitler
Walter von Brauchitsch
England
Hitler
von Brauchitsch
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May Have Sunk Hamburg Raider Off Portuguese Coast
Captain Joel Gomes of the freighter Concalo Vehlo reported sighting an empty lifeboat named Hamburg about 200 miles east of the Azores on December 11. The 22,117 ton Hamburg, once dubbed a floating athletic field, was laid up in Hamburg after fleeing New York at the war’s start and evaded British warships in fog while flying French lines.
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New York
Hamburg
Joel Gomes
Concalo Vehlo
Gomes
Azores
Kiwanis Club Initiates Eight Members at Weekly Meeting
Eight new Kiwanis members were initiated at Wiedemann's weekly session with H L Chambers and E M Hawkins guiding. The gathering featured two films Foot ball Thrills of 1940 and Deni zens of the Colorado Desert.
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Kiwanis Club
Wiedemann’s Today
H. L. Chambers
E. M. Hawkins
Colorado Desert
Farm Leaders Gather in Salina for January Meeting
Kansas county farm leaders who direct the agricultural adjustment program will meet in Salina January 16 18 to discuss topics of vital importance to farming in the state.
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Salina Salina
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Kansas
Salina
Roosevelt to speak on aid to Britain with specifics
White House secretary Stephen Early said President Roosevelt will be very specific about aid to Britain in a nationwide radio address Sunday night but will not provide figures. The address from 8:30 to 9 p.m. CST will cover aid details and efforts to speed domestic war material production.
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White House
Roosevelt
Britain
Stephen Early
C.S.T. Early
Literary Meeting Opens in Lawrence Interstate Session
The forty ninth annual Interstate Literary Assn of Kansas and the West opens tomorrow at St Luke A M E Church Lawrence with about 150 attendees from Kansas Nebraska Missouri and Colorado The two day program lists sessions Friday including greetings memorial services and a lengthy schedule of talks and demonstrations by local clubs and church groups while committee chairs are named and the host city highlights its history with past Lawrence meetings.
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Interstate Literary Association of
Kansas and the West
St. Luke A.M.E
Ninth
New York Street
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Colorado
Milton M. Moore
L. M. Webster
Sophia Snowden
Salena Holmes
George King
Tinea
G. W. Reed
Luke A. M. E
Lawrence Song of
Sophia Snowden Lawrence
Interstate Greeting
M. Moore
Interstate Literary Association
Eugene Bell
Dpryet Oy
Reed
Luke A
E .Church
Lawrence Muste
Ruth Richardson
Lawrence Wooeilts
Mayme Jackson
Ethelyn Hardiman
George R. King
L. E. Mathis
T. W. Bellé Leavenworth
Fuehrer Tours North French Coast on Christmas Day
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler led a Christmas coastal tour along northern France with coastal batteries trained on England. He visited Boulogne and continued along the coast, promising a “better and more beautiful Germany” from the war. Darlan returned to Vichy after Paris talks with German authorities on collaboration.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
DNB
Germany
Fuehrer
England
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Darlan
Paris
Vichy
France
Navy
Jean Darlan
Pierre Laval
Indoor Tasks for Most of Soldiers in 35th Division
Soldiers returning from Christmas leave at the Lawrence based 35th Division are assigned indoor duties. Most of H and M companies are back. a light conditioning march precedes a day of schooling and housekeeping. Fingerprinting of all personnel proceeds while medical staff report few illnesses.
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Lawrence
35Th Division
H and M Companies
Italian Submarines Claim Sinking British Vessels
Rome reports Italian submarines sunk a British light cruiser in the central Mediterranean and two large steamers in the Atlantic plus torpedoed another vessel. Fascist bombers hit a British warship in a North African harbor on Christmas Eve. Artillery and Greek–Albanian actions noted around Bardia.
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High Command
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Atlantic
North African
Bardia
Libya
Albania
Greek Patrols Reach Lin on Road to Elbasani
Reports from Bitolj dated December 26 say Greek patrols entered the village of Lin on Lake Ochrida, 15 miles north of Pogradetz, on the road to Elbasani. Capturing Lin would allow Greek forces to push northwest toward a flank against Elbasani, about 30 miles from Tirana.
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Elbasani
Bitolj
Yugoslavia
Ochrida
Pogradetz
Tirana
Walter Varnum Injured in Christmas Decoration Fall
Walter Varnum injured his foot Tuesday night after slipping while putting up Christmas decorations outside his house. Doctors will determine if a small bone is broken or if a dislocation occurred.
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Walter Varnum
Weather Outlook For Kansas Tonight And Friday
Weather forecast for Kansas shows fair skies tonight with cloudy areas in the southeast, colder conditions except in the extreme northwest, and warmer temperatures in the west and north central by Friday afternoon.
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Kansas
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