Windsors Arrive in Miami for Dental Operation
The Duchess of Windsor and Duke arrive aboard the yacht Southern Cross in Miami for a major dental procedure. They visit St. Francis Hospital for X rays and address reporters before a formal reception as crowds watch and police manage traffic.
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Miami
Fila
Duchess of Windsor
Southern Cross
St. Francis Hospital
Biscayne Boulevard
Roosevelt
Coast Guard
Edward
Southern Crows
Duke
United States
New York
Prince of Wales
Alexia Wenner-Gren
Windsors
Jones outlines state government reorganization plans
Governor Sam Jones said the reorganized state government will be largely in place by January 1 after the constitutional amendment. He will sign executive orders to form new departments and appoint directors early, with incumbents serving until successors are qualified.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
B. A. Hartley
Conservation Department
Conservation and Minerals
New Orleans
Reserve Officers to Be Ordered Out
The War Department announced plans to extend active duty for about 20,000 reserve officers through next June. By month end nearly 30,000 reserves would be on active duty as expansion of the nation’s land forces proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Army
Department
Baltimore
German Spies Executed at Pentonville Prison
Two German agents Jose Waldberg and Karl Meier were executed at Pentonville at 9 am after being convicted under the treachery act. They arrived in England recently and used a radio transmitter to gather military information while posing as from German occupied territory.
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London
Pentonville
Jose Waldberg
Mainz
Karl Meier
Koblenz
England
Central Criminal Court
Waldberg
Meier
Letters From Twin Cities Plea For Christmas Help
Readers are urged to aid the Good Fellows fund as Christmas nears. Unfortunates in the Twin Cities send letters to News-Star-World asking for candy toys or food, noting hardships of orphans and the aged.
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Twin Cities
News-Star—World
Indo China dissension threats to Vichy cabinet in Indochina
In French Indo China dissension grows as groups in the south favor joining De Gaulle’s Free French and Britain while Japan presses for concessions. A Matsumiya mission sought economic terms, now moving to Tokyo under Henry with over 20 negotiators. Military privileges and Haiphong bases are among reported Japanese aims.
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Yates McDaniel
Hanoi
Associated Press
Japan
Vichy
de Gaullist
Oriental Empire
Saigon
Hajime Matsumiya
Matsumiya
Tokyo
Charles Arsene Henry
Indo-China
Haiphong
China
Greeks Push Into Albania Advancing Toward Elbasani
Greek troops reported gains near Piqueras north of Porto Edda and near Keleyre on the Premet Berat road as Italian forces withdraw. In the northern front Greek forces captured positions around Lake Ochrida after heavy losses to the Ninth Italian division, aiming for Elbasani and advancing the southern push amid Italian retirement.
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London
Piqueras
Porto Edda
Albania
Keleyre
Premet
Berat
Athens
Lake Ochrida
Elbasani
Tirana
Rome
Abanie
High Command
Tesseni
East Africa
Idarwald Sunk After Failed German Scuttle Attempt
The 5,033 ton German freighter Idarwald sank after a prize crew aboard the British cruiser Diomede failed to prevent scuttling by its German crew. The 45 crewmen are prisoners aboard the Diomede. Reports cite U S and Cuban sources. Idarwald left Tampico November 29 for Spain and was intercepted off Cuba’s south coast.
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London
United States
Tampico
Mexico
Spain
Diomede
Cuba
Cienfuegos
Isle of Pineland
Grand Cayman Island
Rhein
Atlantic
Phyrgia
Subsidization of Cotton Sought by Farm Leaders
Southern farmers at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention urged using surplus-removal funds to subsidize raw cotton exports. I. W. Duggan of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration warned of an export outlook this season that trade experts expect to fall under 2 million bales, versus 6.26 million last year. President Edward A. O'Neal backed the subsidy push.
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Baltimore
American Farm Bureau Federation
I. W. Duggan
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Southern Division
Federation Cotton
Edward A. O'Neal
Federation
Secretary of Agriculture
Saguenay Repairs After Submarine Torpedoing
War bulletins report the Canadian destroyer Saguenay docked in an English port for repairs after a submarine torpedo attack. British forces claim 4,000 Italian prisoners in western Egyptian desert drive, with tanks captured and Sudan patrolling aided by artillery. Italian and Greek fronts show continued fighting and casualties across Europe and Africa.
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London
Saguenay
North Atlantic
British African Command
Sudan
Gallabat
Rome
Greece
England
Africa
Chamber Plans Aid For Farmers In 1941 Program
The Chamber of Commerce Agriculture committee meets at 7 p.m. with County Agent D L Bornman and assistant H B Fairchild to review 1941 plans and methods to carry them out. In 1940 the committee purchased four sprays for farmers and funded the 4 H club baby beef project which was sold in a Baton Rouge auction at LSU. Bornman thanks the committee for its support of the agriculture program.
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Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee
D. L. Bornman
H. B. Fairchild
Chamber Committee
Baton Rouge
Bornman
WPA approves 68 defense projects totaling 8.25 million dollars
The Work Projects Administration announced that in the last two weeks of November it approved 68 national defense projects totaling 8,251,196 dollars. The five month total reaches 116,140,432 dollars, funding airport improvements, army and navy post work, training facilities for the national guard, and two nationwide vocational programs, with projects in Jacksonville Florida Jackson Mississippi Caribou Maine Princeton Maine Birmingham Alabama Hartford Connecticut and Macon Georgia.
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Washington
Work Projects Administration
WPA
Naval Air Station
Jacksonville
Fla
Jackson
Miss
Caribou
Princeton
Birmingham
Ala
Hartford
Conn
Macon
Hitler Vows Victories as Workers Hear Defiant Speech
In Berlin Adolf Hitler urged munitions workers that Germany would defeat the entire world and mocked democracies and capitalism. He portrayed Germany as champion of labor and the have-nots, spoke to workers, radio audiences in conquered lands, and allies, and insisted Germany could not be stopped.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Fuehrer
Britain
Hitler
Italy
Hungary
Slovakia
Dies condemns gag on anti subversive probe stance
Representative Martin Dies says he would prefer the committee on un American activities be killed rather than handicapped by funding limits. He warns that ending the probe would be a victory for Hitler Stalin and Mussolini and urges discharge of fifth columnists from government service and defense industries.
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Orange
Tex
Martin Dies
Texas
Dies
Committee On UN- American Activities
Congress
Hitler
Stelin
Mussolini
All-American Selection Of Dizzy Didoes Is Tops
Paul Jones of the National Safety Council lists 1940s oddest accidents in Chicago and other places. Reports include Joseph Callahan slipping with his denture causing a forehead bite, Bob Forde between two men with window glass, a Bur gaw carpenter’s mouse trap snapping shut on a finger, a taxi back door swinging open and a trolley patron toppled, and Ralph Lyman injuring himself while answering a phone call about a furnace and leg.
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Chicago
Paul Jones
National Safety Council
Joseph Callahan
Mr. Callahan
Bob Forde
Marysville
Calif
Eugene Ramsey
Burgaw
N. C
Ralph Lymaan
Clarinda
Dr. Burnett
Lyman
Churchill reports British march on Sidi Barrani and coast
Prime Minister Churchill told the house of commons that desert forces in Egypt had cut behind Marshal Graziani toward Sidi Barrani and reached the coast between Sidi Barrani and Buqbuq. Four thousand Italian prisoners were reported captured as fighting widened in the Western Egyptian desert.
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Associated Press
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
Egypt
Rodolfo Graziani
Sidi Barrani
Mediterranean Sea
Buqbuq
The
Nile
British African Command
Egyptian
Albania
Greece
Britons See Quiet Night as Luftwaffe Skips London
London reports a lull in Nazi raids with over 24 hours without alarms or bombings. Spotters watched a moonlit sky while shelters filled. RAF strikes targeted submarine bases at Lorient and Bordeaux areas as officials weigh possible reasons for the quiet.
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London
British Press Association
Royal Air Force
Germany
Luftwaffe
North Sea
England
Lorient
French
Bordeaux
Atlantic
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Wally
Jones Planning Organization
Havana
Good Fellows Fund
Pentonville Prison
Roger Casement
Arteries
Chimara
Shanghai
Kinhwa
Chekiang
Southern Baptist Mission
Hangchow
Cont
Louis P. Lochner
Solon
Dizzy Didoes
Sidi Barran
Churchill
Free French
Pep
Nas
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