Stricken on Hunting Trip Ack Hood Dies at 59
Ack Hood longtime Scioto County elections official dies at home after collapsing on a hunting trip near Locust Grove. Hood 59, native of Luasy, served as deputy director and election board member, noted for pre election vote size forecasts and involvement in modernizing absentee ballot procedures.
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Community Santa Claus Party Planned Tonight
Residents of Portsmouth Apartment launch a boys party with St Nick and his reindeer at 6 15 pm on Gallia Street. Clowe and Patrol Cook lead in organizing, with decorations from Louis Kinney and a display brought by the Transfer Co. City band will lead the parade from City Hall through police departments.
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Licenses Back in Price Bill
The Associated Press reports a Senate battle over a wartime price control bill with strong enforcement. A finance panel gave tentative approval for licensing retailers and tightening farm price control, while Senator Taft opposed a single administrator plan favoring a board. Final draft readied after holidays, with a Jan. 5 Senate floor date.
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Michigan
Two Injured in Blast at TNT Plant near Sandusky
A blast at Plum Brook ordnance plant six miles south of Sandusky injured at least two men. Austin James, 23, of Oberlin, and Louis Harlan, 51, of Sandusky, were hospitalized with a possible leg fracture and burns respectively. State patrols said five were hurt and a three story building on a production line was demolished. The plant, valued at $40,000,000, remains incomplete with only one line operating.
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Fights Likelier With 20 as Minimum Age for Draft
Washington reports compromise talks on selective service to extend active duty eligibility to 44 and to lower the minimum drafting age to 20, with debates over 19 and 21 as possible floor ages. Army officials push for vitality and stamina, while conferees weigh speed of enactment and broader enrollment.
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North Carolina
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Connecticut
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Texas
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Weather report for today with temperatures
Observer Schirrman reports at 11 am temperature 29 degrees with a 33 degree low later, and a 44 degree high yesterday. It shows one year ago today’s maximum 44 and minimum 27.
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Talk Grows Of Parley In U. S. To Pick Joint Allied Command
EMPLOYES BEGIN SAVINGS PLAN Employees of Stewart's grocery and 84 full time employes of The Portsmouth Times became the first to announce 100 percent enrollment in the defense savings program. They agreed to allot part of each pay to defense savings stamps to support Morgenthau's drive to raise a billion dollars a month for the war. The Times chapel of the International Typographical Union circulated a petition for payroll deductions to fund their participation and other departments joined. R. F. Fletcher named chairman of the Scioto county defense savings staff with William A. Burke as vice chairman. An organization meeting will be held.
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Preliminary Conference Likely In January
Reports say an anti axis conference to coordinate allied strength may open in January with the United States Britain and Soviet Russia leading arrangements. The aim is to concentrate military and economic power at key times and places worldwide.
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Defense Council Urges Paper and Cardboard Conservation
Portsmouth civilian defense council led by Kenneth B Lehman announces a campaign to save waste paper. Boy Scouts will collect paper citywide while residents are urged to contact a scout or call headquarters. Volunteers are being enrolled at six locations to support the effort amid industry shortages of paper and cardboard.
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Knox says 30 minutes warning could have changed Pearl Harbor
Secretary of the Navy Knox told the Naval Academy class of 1942 graduation that a half hour warning of the Japanese air attack would have altered the outcome, noting the third wave was met by devastating anti air fire and turned away without striking a target. He called the assault infamous treachery and stressed the need for timely alerts.
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72 BRITISH SAVED IN MID-ATLANTIC LAND
The chief engineer of an American freighter, Girard L. Bresson, says 72 survivors from the British light cruiser Dunedin were rescued after four days on seven rafts near the equator. They were wounded by dogfish and landed at a British port after the sinking was announced by the British Admiralty.
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Hong Kong Falls Feared as Defenders Slip in Night Attack
Japanese forces stormed across the channel to Hong Kong Island and began a night assault. London reports heavy fighting and a serious situation as British and Indian troops defend the 1 million resident colony. Wake Island saw two new aerial attacks while U S forces hold at Luzon and await further action.
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MacArthur Promoted to full General by Roosevelt
General Douglas MacArthur, commander in the Far East, was nominated by President Roosevelt to become a full general. Tokyo reports detail Japanese operations including attacks on Manila area and Cavite, with US submarines sinking a transport and likely a destroyer. Philippine morale remains high as residents resist with improvised weapons and counter the invaders.
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Germans Quit Finland as Soviet Push Advances
Reports from Helsinki say Adolf Hitler's invasion armies retreat after losses in Russia and North Africa. Soviet dispatches announce huge gains as a 17 day counter offensive on the central front continues. Allies claim German forces abandoned their Finnish allies amid the advances.
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Rescue Numbers Reported After Tunisian Coast Attack
About 1,000 Italians were saved along the Tunisian coast after a convoy attacked by the British. Two Italian carriers a destroyer and three transports were sunk with 5,000 Italian casualties. Italian cruisers Guisussiano and Barbiano, both 5,000 tons, were sunk with about 1,200 sailors lost.
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British Forces Report Gains in North African Desert Drive
British radio claims all German troops have withdrawn from Finland in a hurried retreat and reports a Red army push near Leningrad. Derna airport is captured, with Derna still in Axis hands and British advances north and west of Mekili. Axis counter blows cited as Mussolini’s command evaluates the situation.
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No Draft Lists To Be Posted By Draft Boards
Columbus December 19 state selective service headquarters announced that lists of men selected for the army will not be posted hereafter by local draft boards.
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