Government eyes car plant to serve war needs
United Press reports Washington Marching toward keeping one small plant open to manufacture cars solely for government lend-lease and essential civilian use after January 31. Defence officials foresee rationing a 650000-car stockpile within a year, with 200000 cars this month from existing parts. Seizure of civilian cars remains a possibility if new production falters.
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United Press
Washington
Defense
Stark County Auto Dealers Map Plans Amidnew Car Freeze
Stark county automobile dealers sketch tentative adjustments to operations as Washington imposes a sales freeze on new cars and trucks through January 15 and contemplates a rationing plan thereafter. Over 1,000 people in the county work in sales, service, and related posts. Leon Henderson, head of the OPA, wired a clarifying reply to C. M.
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Stark County
Washington
Leon Henderson
OPA
C. M
Price curb bill reaches Senate
The Senate prepared to consider a wartime price control measure intended to save billions and curb living costs. Senate banking chair Sen Brown outlined four key issues including a single price administrator, price limits tied to parity, licensing of buyers and sellers, and exclusion of wage controls. The bill aims to stabilize prices from guns to butter and oppose profiteering amid the war effort.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
House
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
Sen. Brown
Michigan
Roosevelt
Leon Henderson
Banking Committee
Germans Lose Three U Boats in Convoy Raid
The admiralty reported at least three German submarines and two long-range bombers destroyed by convoy defenders in the Atlantic. More than 90 percent of 30 plus freighters reached port after a four day battle. the Stanley and Audacity were sunk, and U boats damaged or forced to surface, with prisoners taken. An American built Liberator joined the counterattacks in the final phase.
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Associated Press
London
Admiralty
Atlantic
Stanley
United States
Raymond Fitzmaurice
George VI
H. M. S. Stork
Mercury Holds A Cold Night Then Rises To 24
The thermometer stayed at 22 degrees from 6 p m to 8 a m, then inched up to 24 by noon. Snow flurries persisted for a day but remained unmeasured, and the forecasted cold wave did not arrive as expected.
Only 8 Traffic Cases Disposed Of By Court
A slim traffic court session ended with Judge Gordon J. Burris disposing of eight driving cases on Friday. Charles Christy faced intoxication after an accident and was fined $25 plus costs. John H. Huntley received $25 and costs for reckless driving. Domenico Tersigni was fined $15 and costs for permitting an unlicensed person to drive. Dwight N. Gauze was fined $15 for reckless driving. Paul Carson was fined $10 for reckless driving. George Mavrakis was fined $10 for driving with insufficient brakes. Franklin H. Gallagher and Richard Dunlap were each fined $5 and costs for disregarding stop signs.
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Gordon J. Burris
Charles Christy
Harrison Ave SW
John H. Huntley
13Th St NE
Domenico Tersigni
Market Ave S
Dwight N. Gauze
RD 5
Paul Carson
Beach City
George Mavrakis
5Th St
Franklin H. Gallagher
RD 2
Bellaire
Richard Dunlap
Walnut
Nazis build up Atlantic ports coast to coast
United Press reports from Stockholm that Germany is mounting large scale military preparations along the Atlantic coast from Narvik to Brest. Army air and submarine forces are expanded, Narvik and Trondheim garrisons boosted with parachute troops and amphibian tanks, with vast aerial reinforcements to Norway Denmark Holland Belgium and France. Civil authority restrictions and population moves are described as part of the buildup, including a new enormous submarine base near Trondheim and a Norwegian airbase near Oslo with long concrete runways and underground hangars.
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United Press
Stockholm
Germany
Atlantic
Narvik
Arctic
Norway
Brest
Trondheim
Norwegian
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
France
Great Britain
Oslo
North Atlantic
Boy 16 Gives Up After Debut As A Gunman Fails
A Lorain youth, 16, attempted to rob a theater cashier at Mozart theater on Tuscarawas Street East. After his holdup failed, he surrendered to police within an hour, saying he realized crime doesn’t pay. The cashier Irene Zimmerly of Massillon stalled him. no gun was found.
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Lorain
Mozart Theater
Tuscarawas St E
Ray Barrett
John Everett
Irene Zimmerly
Massillon
Miss Zimmerly
Daily newspaper index and feature sections teaser
An index page listing today's sections and features across amusements comics crossword sports and editorials. Highlights include Believe It or Not Bring Up A Family Church News Damon Runyon Day in Canton Deaths Markets and Financial Pitfalls of Love and Walter Lippmann features.
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Damon Runyon
Canton
Paul Mallon
Walter Lippmann
Mussolini urges Italians to rally behind Axis
Premier Benito Mussolini told the national Fascist committee that Italy must closely unite with Axis comrades as the future life of the Italian people is at stake in the world war. He described the conflict as a war between two worlds and appealed for stronger national unity.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Fascist Party
Mussolini
Job payrolls rise in Canton year end totals
Canton ended 1941 with 8,264 more payroll names than 1940 as the Chamber of Commerce labor barometer shows. As of December 26, 33,333 production workers were employed, up 143 that week. The 1940 December 26 figure stood at 25,069.
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Canton
Chamber of Commerce
Reds Recapture Historic Ground In Russia War Report
The Associated Press notes Soviet forces recaptured Maloyaroslavets near Moscow, a pivotal site in Napoleonic retreat lore, as Russian pressure grows on German lines around Mozhaisk. Berlin reports cite severe cold and four straight days of attacks with little rest for troops.
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Associated Press
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Russia
Adolf Hitler
Maloyaroslavets
Moscow
Berlin
Mozhaisk
Moscow- Smolensk
Crimea
Kerch
Feodosiya
Sevastopol
Bardia
One Dead and Ten Burned in Pittsburgh Fire
A four alarm blaze near West Penn hospital destroyed a Friendship avenue rooming house and damaged another. A nurse, Miss Marie Gabriel, about 40, died. At least ten people, many nurses, were burned, some seriously, in the incident near St. Francis Hospital.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Friendship Ave
West Penn Hospital
Marie Gabriel
St. Francis Hospital
Island Guns Battle Assault By 60 Bombers
U S anti aircraft batteries fought a five hour assault by Japanese planes on Corregidor island fortress near Manila Bay. About 60 bombers took part, with three planes shot down and 13 Americans killed and 35 wounded. Ground attacks lessened as American and Philippine forces prepared for intensified resistance. Generals MacArthur and Tokyo reports differed on Manila's fate as reinforcements sought to halt enemy advances.
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Associated Press
U. S
Corregidor Island
Manila Bay
War Department
Batan
Douglas MacArthur
Corregidor
Tokyo
Imperial Tokyo
Manila
U. S. War Department
Cuba Opens Voluntary Cuban Enlistment For Service
Havana January 3 Cubans aged 18 to 50 began voluntary enlistment for military service. Army Chief Col Manuel Lopez Migoya did not specify the service details or duties to be performed by the volunteers.
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Cuba
Havana
Army
Manuel Lopez Migoya
Four troop barges sunk as Japanese landings thwarted
Singapore, Jan 3. British artillery crippled a small Japanese transport and sunk four invasion barges along the West Malaya coast near lower Perak. The convoy withdrew in defeat after the transport was set ablaze. Japanese gains around Kuantan and Tapah reported with heavy casualties in one sector, while air raids on Singapore caused minor damage.
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Singapore
West Malaya
Malaya Command
Lower
Perak
Kuantan
Japan
County to pick tire board Monday after long meeting
County commissioners delayed the appointment of a three member rubber rationing committee after more than an hour of discussion Friday. The panel, once named, will coordinate with personnel from other local rationing boards for an overall supervisor.
Akron Fire Destroys Art Collection At University Museum
A major blaze in Akron damaged about $30,000 of artwork last night at the Akron art institution. Several paintings and objects were ruined, including the Baird collection of ninth century Siamese pottery owned by the University of Akron.
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Akron
Akron Art Institution
Baird
University of Akron
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