Startle court trial ties Am movement to submarine plot
Los Angeles December hearing details claims that the Am movement’s followers aimed to destroy German submarines near the Panama Canal. Testimony cites Guy W Ballard's Chicago speech predicting the erasure of 364 foreign spies and a coming cataclysm, with witnesses outlining apocalyptic decrees and energy maneuvers.
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Panama Canal
United States
Ralph Lazarus
Guy W. Ballard
Chicago
The
Voice
Germany
Hitler
Ballard
Secret Service
America
Muriel Bliss
Parents urged to change tactics with Santa visits
Kansas City dispatch notes Lew Ayres, veteran Santa, criticizes parents for scaring children during visits while recounting his soft approach. The piece also reports that about 350 of every 1,000 men seeking army enlistment are rejected for physical reasons.
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Kansas City
Santa Claus
St. Nick
Lew Ayres
Santa
Britain Faces Spring War Crisis If Supplies Lag
Secretary Hull warns Britain faces a life or death spring crisis unless American war aid deliveries rise. Hitler plans a supreme assault by land and air, with Beaverbrook predicting invasion before spring. Britain leans on US planes and ships to outpace German air and submarine power as a 1941 land campaign looms.
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Associated Press
Hull
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England
Fuehrer
Lord Beaverbrook
Beaverbtook
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Italy
Mussolini
Europe
London
Montreal Fire Displaces Ten Families In Cold Blast
An explosion started a blaze in Montreal injuring five people and driving ten families from their homes in near zero weather. Debris spread for two blocks as flames rose up to 100 feet. origin of the blast was not identified. Firemen contained the fire after four hours. one or more residents remained unaccounted for as shelters filled.
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Tetraultville
Plane output estimated by industry forecasts
The Associated Press reports that American factories may produce 1,500 to 1,700 warplanes monthly, 18,000 to 20,000 yearly, in seven months. Knudsen notes 30 percent behind schedule as engines and tools constrain output. By mid-1941 about 250,000 workers could be employed in aircraft and engine plants, versus 400,000 in Germany and England. In 1937, Ralph Heilman raised 900 bushels of corn on five acres.
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William S. Knudsen
National Defense Commission
Washington
Defense Commission
Knudsen
England
Ralph Heilman
Hope, Ind
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