British Clear Land West of Bardia Siege
British forces press the Bardia siege westward while artillery targets the Italian base. Four Italian guns captured. POWs at 38,114. Egypt weighs peace terms and its role, with Cairo noting Egypt’s treaty duties and Britain’s protection.
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Cairo
Egypt
Bardia
Libya
Eayster
Mussolini Self
Tobruk
Spain
Toledo
Francisco Franco
Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha
Liberal Party
Britain
Winston Churchil
London
Italian Forces Claim Destruction Of British Detachment At Bardia
Rome reports a swift Italian motorized thrust in the Libyan Bardia sector destroyed a British mechanized detachment and captured its crews. Italian planes bombarded coastal armored detachments and front line bases while fighter combats continued. British planes reportedly engaged no Italians. An Italian ship was sunk by torpedo, and a Greek front claim notes repelled Albania attacks with some prisoners taken.
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Rome
Italy
Libyan
Bardia
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Preveza
Greece
Albania
Governor Carr weighs leniency for escaped prisoner Filippo
Colorado Governor Ralph L. Carr plans leniency if Michael Filippo a World War veteran and father of seven who escaped from the Colorado State Prison 25 years ago has rehabilitated himself. Warden Roy West seeks extradition while Carr awaits more facts before deciding.
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Denver
INS
Ralph L. Carr
Michael Filippo
Brooklyn
Colorado State Prison
Filippo
New York
Carr
Roy West
State Penitentiary
Bus overturns injuring 26 on U S Highway 89
A Los Angeles bound bus overturned on U S Highway 89 injuring 26 passengers and the driver in Wickenburg Arizona. Doctors said none of the injuries were serious. The driver swerved onto a soft shoulder to avoid a truck. Injured included Mrs. P. H. Cates of Olean New York and others.
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Wickenburgh
Ariz
Los Angeles
U. S
P. H. Cates
East Mate Street
Olean
Werulses
Britain Faces Twin Perils as Nazi Threat Met by Ocean and Air
The Evening Standard and Britain’s leaders warn that invasion remains a twin danger alongside a German blockade. RAF coastal bombing from Norway to France hits Lorient Cherbourg and Bordeaux, with ships and docks struck amid a broadened night patrol plan to blunt Luftwaffe raids.
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Britain
United States
Evening Standard
Lord Beaverbrook
Hitler
Norway
France
Royal Air Force
Coastal Command
Air Ministry
Lorient
Haugesund
Cherbourg
St.Nazaire
Scotland
English Channel
Inman
Channel
Nazis Claim Sinking Of Five British Ships
Berlin reports the destruction of 37,163 tons of British shipping by two German submarines including four merchant vessels and the 12,823 ton Waiotira. The High Command confirmed attacks on London including fires and explosions and a bombardment near Dunkerque. An overnight raid on the capital caused extensive damage in the Hyde Park area.
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Berlin
High Command
Thames
Britain
London
Dunkerque
French
Channel
Hyde Park
DNB
Chinese Banker Missing From Liner Between Manila
Lingoh Wang a 56 year old Chinese banker from Hong Kong and former official disappeared last night from the liner President Pierce. Ship officers held he was lost at sea. Wang had served as consul general to the Philippines and minister to Spain and was traveling to Manila on business.
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Manila
Greek Sub Destroys Three Italian Ships in Aegean Action
The Papanicolis torpedoed three Italian ships east of the Viosa River, capturing a captain and significant materiel including machine guns and automatic rifles. The sub returned safely after depth-charge salvos as Greek forces tighten around Tepeleni, where Italian forts are reported smashed and morale lowered amid bayonet charges and shell-fire.
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Viosa River
Papanicolis
Greece
Jane
Mead urges Western Hemisphere independence from Europe
Buffalo on December 28 Senator James M Mead on his 55th birthday says the Western Hemisphere should become separate from European powers. He cites Atlantic and Caribbean islands and foreign owned Central and Northeast South American possessions and calls for American control to defend the Monroe Doctrine. He supports negotiations with European nations to place these under U S jurisdiction.
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Hemisphere
Europe
Mead Buffalo
United States
James M. Mead
Buffalo Evening News
Western Hemisphere
Atlantic
Caribbean
Central America
South America
Mead
Norma Shearer Remains Hospitalized in Sun Valley
Movie actress Norma Shearer is under a physician's care in Sun Valley Idaho recovering from influenza after arriving for a Christmas visit with her two children. News agency report cites her condition as improving today.
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Norma Shearer
Sun Valley
Ida
Axis eyes U.S. aid impact as Ireland route sparks fear
The piece reports on Gayda and Axis commentators arguing that continued U.S. aid to England via Ireland risks provoking U.S. intervention and widening the war. It notes threats to block American convoys, potential Irish neutrality loss, and a world conflagration if Japan enters the conflict, alongside recent naval attacks near Nauru and off the Azores.
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Japan
Gayda
Berlin
Trelandt
United States
Avvenire
England
Ireland
Roosevelt
Nazis Say British Plan To Seize Irish Bases
Berlin reports quote Nazi controlled press accusing Britain of plans to seize Irish bases and win US convoy support to Ireland. Spokesman praises coverage as excellent while detailing alleged aims to breach German blockade and create a transport bridge from the United States to the British Isles.
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Berlin
United ‘States
Western Hemisphere
Eire
United States
British Isles
Britain
Ireland
England
Nachtasugabe
Winston Churchill
New York
Washington
Flood Threat Cancels Open of 1940-41 Season
Flood peril near Binghamton cancels opening of the 1940-41 competitive season. Ice shortage postpones the Middle Atlantic Championships at Newburgh to January 5 from New Year’s Day. State police warn against unnecessary travel in Warren Saratoga Washington counties and parts of Northern New York due to fog and mist.
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Newburgh
Warren
Saratoga
Washington
New York
Fog Delays Air Travel as Syracuse Airport Cancels Flights
Dense fog and rising river levels curtail travel across central New York. Syracuse airport cancelled all out of town flights after Thursday night arrivals. local flying persisted only slightly. Flood reports from Binghamton Cortland Norwich describe the Susquehanna Chenango and Tioughnioga rivers nearing or at flood stages but expected to be controlled by cold weather.
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Jransport
iSyracuse
American Airlines, Inc
Syracuse
Herald- American
Binghamton
Susquehanna
Chenango
U. S
Thomas E. Reed
Whitney Point
Binghamton- Cortland Highway
Broome County Fair Grounds
Weather Bureau
Giant Waves Batter Redondo Beach Ca
The winter’s highest tide battered Redondo Beach causing four buildings to be destroyed with losses around 200000 dollars. City officials and engineer D L Bundy noted no further damage to waterfront structures beyond what was already reported.
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Redondo Beach
Calif
D. L. Bundy
Waves threaten homes as crowds hinder rescue efforts
A dozen houses were at risk as waves battered the coast. Crowds blocked highways hindering police firemen National Guardsmen and home guards from reaching threatened areas and assisting in evacuations.
New Deal Defense Critics at Student Union Meeting
Speakers at a national student union convention attacked the New Deal defense policies as war measures harming labor progress. Roy Lancaster of the CIO youth division labeled the defense push anti labor, while Edward Strong of the Southern Negro Youth Congress condemned the administration for eroding democratic rights in favor of fascist principles.
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New Deal
New York
Annusi
VU American
Roy Lancaster
Youth Division of Labor
Nonpartisan
League of the C.I.0
Defense Commission
Great Britain
Lancaster
Edward Strong
Southern Negro Youth Congress
Australia seeks Pacific amity with United States and Japan
Australian Army Minister Percy Spencer on a Singapore visit said Australia wants the three great Pacific powers the United States Japan and Australia to live in amity. He hailed Singapore as vital as a link in empire communications and noted closer ties with the United States following the European war.
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Australia
Dominion
Singapore
Percy C. Spender
V. Aa. H. Sturdee
Pacific
United States
Japan
Gibraltar
Sir John Latham
Defense Adds Third To Buffalo's Output
Buffalo defense contracts total nearly 200 million dollars boosting local manufacturing. The Chamber of Commerce reports 133,678,420 in orders for local airplane plants, 14,029,569 to 50 other industries, and 16,078,045 to 30 locally based firms. Unestimated contracts and subcontracts for shells and goods for Great Britain make up the remainder.
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Buffalo
Ity
Chamber of Commerce
Great Britain
De Gaulle Urges French Fight as War Speech Broadcast
In a CBS broadcast from Nazi-occupied Paris, de Gaulle called on all French leaders to draw the sword against Germany. He noted French losses, urged unity of Free French with allies, and proposed a New Year hour of hope with a silent plebiscite in both occupied and unoccupied France.
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Paris
New York City
CBS
Auguste Wnogues
French
Morocco
Casablanca
Vichy
Budapest
Petain
North Africa
Maxime Weygand
de Gaulle
Italian
Libya
Egypt
Hun
Bordeaux
Lille
Rheims
Strassbourg
France
Berlin
Federal Expenses Reach Five Billion by Dec 26
Treasury figures show federal expenditures totaled 5,005,471,942 dollars as of December 26, up 322,633,079 from a year earlier. War Department spending totaled 816,117,301 dollars and Navy outlays 814,943,921, with net receipts at 2,888,007,323 and a gross debt of 44,998,148,740.
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Washington
Treasury
War Department
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Colorado
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Athania
Trooes
U.S
Erin
Western Pacific
Nauru
Standard Oil
West Africa
Ceutral Azores
Puenta del Gada
HMSS
Vivian
Sherburne
Norwich
Here
Noriwich
Aren Eran Ern Et
City ‘Savings and Loan Association
AU Accomm
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