Knudsen Urges Faster Defense Effort and Unity
New York December 14 William S Knudsen production chief of the National Defense Advisory Commission bluntly assessed defense results as not satisfactory and pressed for more steam speed and full time operations. He questioned labor and industry readiness and called for a war like approach while noting signs of American ingenuity coming to the fore. He urged cooperation and a concerted effort to complete the defense program.
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New York
America
William S. Knudsen
National Defense Advisory Commission
Knudsen
National Association of Manufacturers
General Motors
Defense Commission
Europe
Rica
Socialite to face her butler in court on assault charge
Greenwich court will hear Mrs. John K. Strubing Jr. face 31 year old Joseph Spell her butler charged with attacking her three times at her home. Assistant Prosecutor Archibald Tunick sought a postponement of a week as Spell awaits plea and bail set at 15000. The accuser remains hospitalized in White Plains New York.
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Greenwich
Conn
John K. Strubing, Jr
Greenwich Society
Archibald H. Tunick
Joseph Spell
Tunick
Lewis E. Sisson
Spell
Leu
Strubing
Eleanor Paul
Philadelphia
New York
North Castle
White Plains
N. Y
Raw Genesee River Water Contaminates Rochester Supply
City officials blamed an unmarked valve for pouring raw Genesee River water into Rochester mains. Ernest Jones was suspended while Anthony Morlante admitted opening the valve. tests showed widespread contamination and doctors treated numerous patients for stomach ailments as boil orders spread.
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Genesee
Water Department
Louis B. Cartlwright
Cartwright
Ernest Jones
City Water Department
Anthony Morlante
Kohl
Johnson
State Health Department
Albany
Maintenance Department
Morlante
Britain Cuts Meat Ration as Supply Decline Forces Change
London reports a Food Ministry decision to reduce weekly meat per person from two shillings two pence to one shilling ten pence. The move reflects falling home-killed supply and may require Britain to seek cold storage imports.
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London
Food Ministry
Britain
Navy May Set Up New York Harbor Seaplane Patrol
The Navy considers a daily vigil 75 miles offshore to guard New York Harbor approaches. Seaplanes would begin flights in months, supplementing the Coast Guard and Neutrality Patrol. Floyd Bennett Field commander Lieut. Com. Don F. Smith announced the plan and urged foreign vessels to report destination and purpose.
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New York
Navy
United States Navy
New York Harbor
Coast Guard
Don F. Smith
Floyd Bennett Field
War Today: Air Supremacy and Desert Front Stakes
The article discusses whether an immediate invasion of Libya is feasible given air supremacy. It notes the risk of pursuing a retreating foe from stretched lines and scarce water. British Navy activity near the coast supports supply transport and bombardment to aid advancing infantry, with a vivid AP report from Larry Allen aboard a destroyer detailing mine-field navigation and shore bombardment.
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Libya
Royal Air Force
Egypt
Larry Allen
Associated Press
RAF Attacks Kiel Bremen and Bordeaux Uboat Base
Conti reports RAF bombers hit Kiel docks and shipyards and targeted Bordeaux Uboat base with heavy bombs causing multiple fires and spectacular blasts. Bomber raids on England's east coast caused some damage and a few injuries while London had a brief night alert. A lone Nazi plane dropped a bomb on a northeast town but caused no casualties.
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Kiel
Bordeaux
Fig
Britain
England
London
Nazis Report Light Activity Over Britain
Berlin reports limited Luftwaffe raids over England with reconnaissance flights and minor damage. DNB says Oslofjord likely hit a mine and another 10 000 ton vessel torpedoed off the French coast. British RAF bombers attacked targets in Germany, with minor losses and limited damage. A U Boat under Lehmann-Willenbrock sunk about 40,900 tons of enemy shipping in a recent cruise.
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Berlin
DNB
Oslofjord
Canada
New York
French
England
Germany
R.A.F
High Command
Lehmann-Willenbrock
Laval Quits Amid Reported Arrest and Germany Ties
The article recalls Laval as a link between the Vichy regime and Germany. It notes a 24 October remark forecasting democracy’s demise and hints at his wish for England’s defeat through collaboration. It discusses General Weygand’s stance and the North Africa role in the Vichy context with De Gaulle aligned to Britain.
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Teau
Ees
Laval
Vichy
Germany
Aong
Adolf Hitler
France
England
Weygand
Near East
Compiegne
French North Africa
Charles de Gaulle
North Africa
Marshal Petain
King George VI Celebrates 45th Birthday Quietly at Home
King George VI marks his 45th birthday without pomp due to war. Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose join him at a country home. The war ends the Hyde Park 21-gun salute, though private homes will fly the Union Jack.
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London
George VI
Elizabeth
the Royal
Margaret Rose
Hyde Park
Fishermen Moved 250 Million in Gold During Invasion
New York, Dec 14. A quarter of a billion dollars in gold was moved from Norway by innocent fishermen under Nazi occupation. Frederick Haslund, secretary to the supply minister of the Norwegian government in exile, said the gold was evacuated to England as German forces invaded, carried by small boats.
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New York
Norway
Frederick Hastand
Haslund
England
Crumbling Italian Front in Libya Reported by Cairo
Reports from Cairo say Libyan divisions and Gen Pietro Maletti were shattered with Maletti killed. British forces used two divisions plus a Free France unit and pushed Italians toward the Libyan frontier. Prisoners flooded in as British advances string along the Sollum Bardia road and Libyan frontier.
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Pietro Maletti
Italy
Maletti
Free France
Africa
Suez Canal
Cairo
Sollum
Bardia Boite Neck
Libya
Egypt
Tobruk
British Empire
Sidi Barrani
Veterans Wilfred Lucas and George Regas Die
Hollywood mourns two veteran actors Wilfred Lucas 69 and George Regas 50 who died within days of each other. Lucas a silent film pioneer from Ontario began in 1907 and starred in Acquitted and Enoch Arden under Mary Pickford and Griffith. Regas born in Sparta rose from New York stage to film in Pickford’s Love Light and last appeared in The Mark of Zorro.
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Wilfred Lucas
George Regas
Hollywood
Mary Pickford
David Wark Griffith
Miss Pickford
Ontario
Canada
Enoch Arden
Sparta
Gen Wood Named In Polio Campaign
Gen Robert E Wood chairman of Sears Roebuck accepted appointment to lead the National Retail Committee for next year's fight against infantile paralysis. He met with Keith Morgan national chairman of the President's Birthday Ball to head the drive for support from stores and workers nationwide.
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New York
Robert E. Wood
Sears, Roebuck and Company
National Retail‘ Committee
Wood
Keith
Morgan
Sne
Roosevelt outlines Caribbean bases as stepping stones for US defense
President Roosevelt returns to Charleston after a 4000 mile Caribbean inspection cruise aboard the USS Tuscaloosa concluding bases would anchor the outer defense line. He favors distant locations like Newfoundland Bermuda and the Bahamas while noting Mayaguana Long and Eluthera need further study and Jamaica offers a workable harbor with dredging and nets for submarine proof. The Duke of Windsor supported Bahamas base plans though anchorage conditions remain unsettled.
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U. S. S. Tuscaloosa
Roosevelt
Charleston
S.C
U. S
Washington
Puerto Rico
Bahamas
Windward
Leeward
United States
Caribbean
Gibraltar
Duke of Windsor
Miami
Panama Canal
Americas
Duke
Mr. Roosevelt
Mayrant
Trippe
Eleuthera
Jamaica
Central America
Cojlemaia
St. Lucia
Antigua
Mayaguana
Princess Maria of Greece Dies at 64
Princess Maria aged 64, aunt of King George II, died of a heart ailment. Sister of the late King Constantine and aunt of Marina, Duchess of Kent. Widow of Grand Duke Georges Mikhailovich, shot by Bolsheviks in 1919, she later married Admiral Pericles Ioannides and lived in Rome.
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Athens
Greece
Maria
George II of
Constantine
Marina
Duchess of Kent
Georges Michailovitch
Grand Duke
Imperial Russia
Bolshevists
St. Petersburg
England
Pericles Ioannides
Rome
I Am Movement Trial Recessed As Judge Deliberates
Ten leaders of the I am movement facing mail fraud charges had their trial recessed for the weekend after witnesses said followers were taught they would join an ascension and escape predicted cataclysms. Testimony described rules of bodily purification and abstaining from meat liquor tobacco narcotics and card-playing.
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I. Am Movement
Los Angeles
I Am
Christmas Shopping Tragedy Ends Trip in Fort Edward
Charles F Bailey of Schenectady died after a heart attack as he arrived to deliver Christmas gifts for his daughter and two grandchildren at Mia Terrio's home in Fort Edward on December 14. Bailey began his trip happily but was seized by a heart attack shortly after reaching the residence.
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Fort Edward
Charles
F. Bailey
Schenectady
Bailey
Ceeching
Mia
Leo
Terrio
Driver to pay $2 fine if wife withholds money
A December letter to the Indianapolis Police traffic division links domestic strife and traffic penalties. The author promises to pay a $2 license sticker fine only after his wife approves giving him the money.
Hardman Seeks Home During Paint Job Absence
Fred Hardman of the State Game Department drove past his Portland house three times before locating it. His wife had promised to inform him by phone next time she had the house painted while he was away.
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Portland
Ore
Fred Hardman
State Game Department
Allmars Wins Eddy County Sheriff Seat by Narrow Margin
In New Rockford North Dakota Eddy County voters confirm Charles M. Allmars as sheriff by a margin of 0.91 votes after a recount. Judge G Grimson ordered tabulators to dock votes proportionally, final tally Allmars 1369.54 to Myhre 1368.63.
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New Rockford
N. D
Charles M. Allmars
Eddy County
Allmars
Martin Myhre
G. Grimson
Myhre
Coat Thief Returns Item After Christmas Wish
Claude Kastner offered a newspaper reward wishing a Merry Christmas to the person who stole his coat. The next day a parcel arrived by mail containing the missing coat, ending the mystery.
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Nebraska City
Neb
Claude Kastner
Moth Trap Brings Unusual Insect Feeding Breakthrough
New York report notes Harry T. Pierson claims a homemade moth trap lures moths with their favorite food causing suffocating larval indigestion and mass retreat.
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New York
Harry T. Pierson
Bishop Dagwell Declines Mrs Dagwell Error
In Portland Oregon on December 14 UP Episcopal Bishop Benjamin D Dagwell replies to a mistaken invitation noting there is no Mrs Dagwell after the caller asks to invite her as well. The light exchange ends with mutual acknowledgment of the misstep.
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Portland
Ore
Benjamin D. Dagwell
Oregon
Italy Faces Death Sentence Urged for War Profiteers
The Regime Fascista led by Roberto Marinacci demanded harsh discipline and death sentences for war profiteers. Lavora Fascista criticized middle class pessimism and called for the elimination of those not aligned with Fascism. Meanwhile Italian forces on the Libyan border counter attacked British advances as Greeks suffered on the Albanian front. Italian planes were active over the Egyptian Libyan front with chasers downing six British planes. British raids on Crotone caused minor damage and casualties. Mussolini met Admiral Cavagnari in a cordial talks report.
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Regime
Fascista
Roberto Marinacci
Fascist Party
Lavora Fascista
Italy
Benghazi
High Command
Crotone
Calabria
Benito Mussolini
Domenico Cavagnari
the .Navy
Arlington to house Lord Lothian ashes in vault at Arlington
The ashes of Lord Lothian will lie in a vault at Arlington National Cemetery indefinitely. A 2:30 P.M. Anglican service is planned at Washington Cathedral with Woodrow Wilson among those entombed. An Army caisson will transport his body from the British Embassy after his death.
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Washington
Lord Lothian
Britain
United States
Arlington National Cemetery
Virginia
Potomac
State Department
Washington Cathedral
Woodrew Wison
E.S.T
White House
Roosevelt
Caribbean
Stephen Early
Arlington Vault
Maine
North Atlantic
London
Sir Andrew Rae Duncan
Dunkerque
Sir Andrew
Anthony Eden
Lehman appoints Hays to State Board of Mediation
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman names Paul R. Hays of Columbia Law School to the State Board of Mediation to fill the vacancy created by William H. Davis resignation. Arthur S. Meyer of New York City is named chairman. The governor praised the board for settling hundreds of threatened labor disputes and preventing more.
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Albany
Herbert H. Lehman
Paul R. Hays
Columbia University Law School
State Board of Mediation
William H. Davis
New York City
Arthur S. Meyer
Davis
Meyer
Course in Spanish Made Mandatory For Pilot Students
Montgomery Alabama December 14 194- Col Floyd E Galloway orders all Air Corps officers at the southeast advance flying school to enroll in Spanish classes. Classes to continue until students are proficient enough to understand ordinary conversational Spanish as relations with Spanish speaking nations improve.
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Montgomery
Ala
Floyd E. Galloway
Air Corps
Southeast Advance Flying School
Galloway
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