Skipper Seeks Vengeance For Sinking Ship
San Francisco December 24 The Montebello’s captain Olaf Eckstrom praises his 40 man crew after the tanker sank off the California coast following a torpedo strike from an Axis submarine. The Larry Doheny and other ships survived or escaped while several vessels were attacked or sunk along the Pacific coast.
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San Francisco
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Texas Oil Company
Idaho
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H. M. Storey
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Agwiworld
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Samoa
Freighter Lahaina Sunk by Submarine Reaches Hawaiian Shore
Survivors tell of adrift lifeboat escape after the 5646 ton Matson freighter Lahaina was shelled 800 miles from Kauai by a Japanese submarine. Nine to 12 crew died or were missing across the perilous voyage as they reached Spreckelsville Maui at dawn.
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Spreckelsville
Maui Island
Evincure
Matson
Ahukini
Kauai Island
Hanso Matthiesen
Lahaina
Victory V lights brighten Covington Christmas display
In Covington Indiana a tall V formed by lights stands beside a prewar Christmas star on a business block. Town volunteers spent a night installing the sign to bolster holiday cheer amid looming conflict. In Sullivan First Baptist Church trustees voted to convert a 1083 dollar building and organ fund into defense bonds with pastor Atkinson noting endurance of government over church needs if the nation cannot survive the crisis.
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Covington
Ind
United States
Sullivan, Ind
First Baptist Church of
Sullivan
Cc. B. Atkinson
Pesos
Robbery at Ann Arbor store ends with small haul
In Ann Arbor a masked man entered a shop and pulled a revolver. Mrs. Lewis Corbett opened the cash register and the thief took about 19 dollars, leaving 3 dollars in nickels as change.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Lewis Corbett
Liquor order robbery ends with odd return of change
Harry Dorsey, delivering a liquor order from a drug store, was held up and robbed of $38 in Kansas City. After the gunman fled, he counted out $1.50 and returned it, saying Here s some change for you.
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Real Holiday Spirit
Kansas City
Harry Dorsey
Roosevelt signs 512 million defense bill with housing drive
President Roosevelt signed into law a 512 million defense appropriation bill. It provides for a large expansion of defense housing and an emergency food reserves program for Hawaii and its civilian population.
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Washington
Hawaii
Roosevelt
Wake Island Marines Endure Christmas Amid Heavy Odds
UPI reports Marines on Wake Island brace for continued resistance against a vastly larger Japanese force as Christmas Eve nears. Amid reports of Japanese landings and naval losses, the small garrison fights on, with wounded remaining and renewed attacks anticipated through Christmas Day.
Japs Report Wake Invaded at Night
Japanese reports say Wake Island fell completely at 1 A.M. after a night assault despite American defenses and rough seas. In the Philippines, Tokyo claimed success at all points and dominance in sea air and land, signaling inevitable capture.
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Tokyo
Wake Island
Allies Sink 3 Transports and 1 Jap Tanker Off Borneo
General Head Quarters says Allied forces sank three large Japanese troop transports and one tanker off the Sarawak coast in a convoy move. A front dispatch reports heavy fighting on Malaya's west coast with British Imperial troops repelling massed Japanese assaults near Ipoh and along the Perak River corridor.
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Alled
Sarawak
Borneo
Malaya
Empire
Ipoh
Perak
Port Wels
Kuala Kangsar
Batu Kampar
Rangoon Target for Mass Jap Attacks
British radio reports a mass Japanese air attack on Rangoon with American fliers and R A F fighters engaging the raiders. The fate of several planes is unclear. yesterday three American aircraft were lost and 13 enemy planes were shot down.
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New York
NBC Today
Rangoon
R.A. OF
Pearl Harbor Cry Copyright Sought for Defense Book
Leavenworth Kansas December 24 Cleveland Williams chief warrant officer at the Command and Generals Staff School seeks copyright on the battle cry Remember Pearl Harbor to be used as a book title The book will contain only the text I give this stamp with one solemn thought in my mind My country my home and long may our land be a free democracy The rest of the book will be blank spaces for defense stamps Williams says the copyright is to keep the idea from commercial use.
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Leavenworth, Kas
Cleveland Williams
Command and Generals Staff School
Pearl Harbor
Williams
Pope Urges Armaments Limitation Amid War's Destruction
The pope calls for restraint amid a brutal war, urging faith and hope from the crib of the Nativity. He laments aerial bombardment, dwindling resources, and global suffering while defending Christianity's mission and urging steadfast moral action.
Germans claim sinking of Unicorn carrier in Atlantic
Berlin announced that a German submarine reported sinking the Unicorn in the Atlantic. The High Command said undersea boats sent 23 500 tons of British shipping, including a large tanker and three merchant vessels, to the Rang between Gibraltar and England. The Unicorn is described as a 14 000 ton fleet air supply and repair ship, not previously reported in action.
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Atlantic
High Command
Ravenu
Rang
Gibraltar
England
Fleet Air, Arm
Bigall
Defense Stamps Discouraged as Currency in War Drive
US official warns defense savings stamps should not replace currency. John Phillips Jr of the Federal Reserve Bank says buyers should accumulate stamps to convert into defense bonds. Reports say some citizens faced refusals to accept stamps for purchases and bills.
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U.S. Kansas City
Uncle Sam
John Phillips
Federal Reserve Bank
Printing Executive Asphyxiated in West Side Fire
William B. Growstage 70 an American Colortype Company executive was asphyxiated in a kitchen blaze in his West Side apartment. His wife Nellie 49 was overcome by smoke and revived after firefighters treated her for 15 minutes. he did not respond to oxygen after an hour.
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New York
William B. Growstage
American Colortype Company
Nellie
West Side
Inquiry Slated In Hercules Blast Kenvil N J
An investigation planned to determine cause of Hercules Powder Company plant explosion in Kenvil New Jersey. Painter Leo Gross was killed and four others injured in the blast. A prior 1940 explosion at the same plant killed more than 50 people.
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Hercules
Kenvil
N. J
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Hercules Powder Company
Leo Gross
British Seize Key Airfield Near Bengasi
Cairo dispatch reports British forces capture Benina airfield 12 miles east of Bengasi and Barce as Rommel’s retreating army shows signs of disintegration. Armored vanguards cut off retreating Germans south of Bengasi. one mobile column took 500 men yesterday and 17 tanks were found among abandoned enemy material.
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Cairo
Egypt
Cirenatca
Benina
Bengasi
Barce
Erwin Rommel
Bening
Britain
British Desert Smash At Tripoli Foreseen
London predicted a swift British sweep in the desert to attack Italian bases near Tripoli and deny Axis reinforcements to North Africa. Rommel's German units were described as desperate, with Bengasi defenses doomed and a Dunkirk-like escape risk for Italian remnants. British patrols already penetrated 150 miles into Tripolitania threatening Rommel's fuel and supply caches.
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London
Tripoli
North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Bengasi
Rommel
Tripolitania
Ring Returned From World War Cake Sale
Mrs A A Vial of Greytown Natal missed her wedding ring months ago while helping mix cakes for troops abroad. A note with 150 cakes asked finders to return the ring. This week her son Sgt Ronnie Vial wrote that he found it.
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London
A. A. Vial
Greytown
Natal
Sergi
Ronnie Vial
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