British Stop Jap Advance On Singapore
British Imperial forces halt a Japanese push southward along the Grik Ipoh highway in Malaya with heavy casualties. British reorganize along a new line from Ipoh toward the Perak River as Ipoh nears possible Nipponese objectives. Two Japanese planes are shot down in an air raid on Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur airport attacked and Sungei Patent air drome raid observed with unclear results.
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Singapore
Grik
Ipoh
Perak
Kusla
Kansar
Acastars
Ivor Bk Davee
Netherlands East Indies
Near East
Malaya
Archibald Wavell
Thailand
Batavia
Nieuws van den Dag
R.A.F
Japan
China
Kuala Lumpur
Far Eastern
Art
Sungei Patent
Kuching
Talmadge Receives Cigar Gift After Tobacco Talk
Governor Eugene Talmadge spoke to rural schoolchildren about tobacco and alcohol effects on health and brains. After his talk the pupils left a Christmas tree gift of a box of cigars for him in Atlanta.
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Talmadge
Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
Roosevelt Gives Signed Photos to White House Staff
President Roosevelt in the Oval Office distributed autographed eight by ten photographs of himself and Eleanor Roosevelt to 206 White House staff members. Taken by AP photographer George Skadding last July 4, the image shows the President in shirt sleeves and the First Lady knitting, with the caption Christmas 1941.
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Roosevelt
White House
Washington
Churchill
Red Qreent Greniin Acantaran
Oval
Hiyde Park
N.Y
Court upholds consolidation of New York City offices
The Court of Appeals today upheld the November 4 citywide vote consolidating county offices. In a 5 to 2 ruling it denied injunctions from Harold and Viola Burke of Kings County to block civil service exams for new metropolitan sheriff and clerk posts. A similar suit by Herman M. Albert of New York County was rejected on authority of the Burke decision.
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Alony
Court of Appea
New York City
Harald
Viola Burke
Kings County
Herman M. Albert
New York County
Burke
Burkes
Theaters Set Up Raid Fire Brigades
Theaters in Southern California and Arizona form employee fire brigades trained by professional firemen to safeguard patrons during possible air raids. Battalion Chief J. L. Danke of the Los Angeles Fire Department stresses the plan to keep morale and the show going.
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Los Angeles
California
Arizona
L. Danke
Wagner Resigns N Y Assembly to Enlist in Armed Forces
Robert F. Wagner Jr of New York has resigned his seat in the New York State Assembly after enlisting in the armed forces. Speaker Oswald D. Heck announced the move. Wagner, son of the senior U.S. Senator, was first elected from Manhattan's 16th District in 1937.
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Wagener
Assembly
Albany
Robert F. Wagner, Jr
New York
States Assembly
Oswald D. Heck
Young Wagner
United States
Manhattan
New Airport May Honor Colin Kelly
The New York City Council will consider naming the new Queens airport Colin Kelly Airport in honor of Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr., hailed as an early American war hero. The proposed site covers 1,200 acres, larger than LaGuardia Field.
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New Airport
Colin. Kelly
New York
Queens
Colin Kelly
Colin P. Kelly, Jr
LaGuardia
Field.t
T V Soong Named As New Chinese Foreign Minister
T V Soong was appointed Foreign Minister of China replacing Quo Tai Chi. A 1915 Harvard graduate and brother of Madame Chiang Kai Shek, Soong has held Finance Ministry posts and led the executive Yuan as acting president. He chaired the Bank of China's board since 1935 and guided Sino American lease negotiations.
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T. V. Soong
Chunching
Quo Tai-Chi
Dr. Soong
Harvard University
Chiang Kai- Shek
Sun Yat- Sen
Columbia University
New York City
Orient
China
Executive Yuan
Bank of China
United
Women Go to Work in Bell Aircraft Plant
Buffalo December 23 1940 women employees began production work at Bell Aircraft Corp initial group will do small parts assembly machine and inspection work after training at least 100 to be hired in two weeks officials say several hundred more expected for Airacobra pursuit planes within months
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Buffalo
Bell Aircraft Corporation
Airacobra
Blood Bank Aims 5000 Flask Goal in Hawaii
Honolulu reports between 3000 and 4000 donors have contributed to the blood bank since December 7, the day of the Oahu bombing. Medical authorities hope to reach 5000 flasks within two months for transfusions.
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Hawaii
Honolulu
Oahu Island
Gunther Dies Former U S Minister to Rumania
Franklin Mott Gunther 56 longtime U S minister to Rumania has died in Bucharest. His service included posts in Japan Nicaragua Portugal Brazil Norway Holland Italy Egypt and Ecuador.
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F. M. Gunther
Rumania
Bucharest
Franklin Mott Gunther
United States
Japan
Nicaragua
Portugal
Brazil
Norway
Italy
Egypt
Ecuador
War Today looks at Washington talks and Japan threat
The column notes Allied bases face danger with Singapore at risk and questions whether Russia will join the war. It praises the Washington conference on unified control and mocks Hitler's Moscow retreat while Japan acts bold in the Pacific. It weighs how to use Moscow’s fall and further Axis moves.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Washington
Far East
Malayan
Singapore
Hong Kong
Philippines
Russia
Japan
America
Moscow
Nippon
Hitler
Fuehrer
Britain
Axis
Pacific
Allied Council
Soviet Army Hits at New Key Position and German Resistance
Russian forces push toward a major German rear area in the Kalinin sector northwest of Moscow capturing tanks trucks guns and shells as Army units flank fortifications near Schlusselburg and recapture Budogosh. In Crimea a major Axis counterattack aims to hold Sevastopol while German retreat near Leningrad becomes a rout with heavy losses.
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Kalinin
Kavast Ta
Schlusselburg
Leningrad
Fikhvin
Budogosh
Moscow
Crimea
Russia
Donets
Sea of Azov
Pelesiacen
Sevastopol
Tula
Boldin
Alexin
Tarusa
Dubny
Krapivno
Tikhvin
Iopather
Volkov-Tikhvin
Nazis Claim Bombers Inflict Heavy Losses
Berlin reports heavy battles on the Eastern Front with German forces repulsing enemy attacks and destroying 19 Soviet tanks. Luftwaffe bombers damaged ships near Sevastopol and in Kola Bay, while a U boat crippled a British aircraft carrier in the Atlantic. North Africa battles east of Benghazi continue as German fighters sweep the skies.
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Berlin
Hich
Eastern Front
Sevastopol
Fishermen
Rybachi
Kola Bay
Bigard
Atlantic
North Africa
Bengali
Christmas Birthday Society Proposed by Prof Riordan
Hugh L Riordan Marquette University professor proposed an American Association of Christmas born to protect birthday gift interests. He plans a patriotic element urging defense saving bonds or stamps as a birthday present in addition to regular gifts. He cites about 360000 Americans born on Christmas including Robert Ripley May Robson and Gladys Swarthout.
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Milwaukee
Society For
Hugh L. Riordan
Marquette University
Riordan
American Association of
United States
Robert Ly Ripley
May Robson
Gladys Swarthout
Axis and Allied Actions Report From North Africa and Malta
British and German air activity in North Africa and Malta is detailed with bombardments, fighter operations, and naval actions. Reports cite bombardment of residential quarters in Geral Belek and the shooting down of two British planes by German fighters, with naval artillery claiming an enemy bomber.
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Cirenaica
Malta
Geral Belek
U S Takes Control Of Insulin After Toronto Patents Expire
Washington reports the government seized control of insulin purity and potency after Toronto patents expired. The Food and Drug Administration will certify each batch through an assay system to protect diabetic patients from unsafe variations.
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U. S
Canada
Washington
University of Toronto
Food and Drug Administration
Federal Security Agency
W. G. Campbell
Food and Drug Commissioner
Congress
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
Panic Buying May Bring Sugar Famine Warns Officials
Officials warned of panic buying as retailers limit sales, risking artificial sugar shortages. OPM froze wholesale prices to curb price rises and MacKeachie said Cuba shipping interruptions could still allow normal supply next year. Streets around Raymond Street Jail in Brooklyn flooded by a burst water main, halting traffic.
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U.S
Washington
Office of Production Management
Office of Price Administration
Douglas C. MacKeachie
OPM
Cuba
Jay
New York
Raymond Street
Brooklyn
Roosevelt Churchill map victory amid global war talks
The Tokyo communique reported 200 killed and 600 captured as Allied leaders map postwinter strategy. Churchill and Roosevelt met in Washington amid plans to counter German, Japanese, and Russian threats and to aid Russia against renewed German onslaught.
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Douglas MacArthur
Mindanao
Luzon
Amer- Yann Farane
Lina
Pease Lorecs
Damortis
Santo Tomas
Gulf of
Lingayen
Manila
Gulf
San Fabian
Agoo
Washington
White House
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London
Klementi Voroshilov
Leningrad
Russia
Far East
Japan
Siberia-Manchukuo
Siberia
U. S. de
Hong Kong
Churchill Roosevelt
Chungking
Adolf Uwitler
Turkey
Middle East
Spain
French Africa
Britain
Fuehrer
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Satay
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