Britain declares war on Finland Hungary and Romania
London reports the British government declared a state of war with Finland Hungary and Romania effective at midnight Greenwich time following unsatisfactory replies to a demand to withdraw from the Russian war. Hungary and Romania reportedly backed Germany while Finland signaled no intent to halt hostilities.
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Finland
Hungary
Rumania
Greenwich
Russia
United States
Britain
Bucharest
Budapest
Romania
Germany
Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim
Weather forecast summary for the Southeast states
An extended forecast shows fair and cold conditions across South Carolina Georgia and Florida with frost in interior zones Alabama and inland portions of extreme southwest Florida and cooler temperatures tonight through Sunday. Northern winds remain moderate to fresh along the coastal regions diminishing tonight.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Britain recalls forces as Far East crisis tightens
Britain orders immediate posting of all fighting men to Singapore amid mounting tension in the Far East. Australia contemplates sending tank units to defend the Dutch East Indies. non-Britons barred from leaving British Malaya. Japan recalls embassy attaches and may seek pacific talks. U S and China issue cautious responses.
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Great Britain
Singapore
Associated Press
Far East
Australia
Dutch East Indies
All Services
Britain
Gibraltar
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Bombay
Japan
Washington
Tadamori
Aringo Uchida
Domei
India
Geylon
Tokyo
S.S
Hiyo Maru
United States
Australian Associated Press
Week's war news breaks picture into pieces
DeWitt Mackenzie notes a fragmented war picture as Cairo reporting by Preston Grover suggests British strategy aims to unite lines from Gibraltar to the Caspian Sea. March 1942 preparations and Libyan desert actions are viewed as a western flank anchor.
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Preston Grover
Turkey
Valley of the Nile
Grover
Suez
Caspian Sea
High Wycombe
Gibraltar
Libya
British Seamen at Singapore Ordered Back to Ships
In Singapore on December 6 British eastern fleet units were ordered to return to their ships immediately. Trucks and other vehicles were sent to downtown central points to transport the men to their base.
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Singapore
Britons and Turks in a widening war front 1942
The article describes British imperial aims in the Middle East as the Russians slow German advances near the Caucasus. It notes U.S. support to Britain in Turkey, making Turks potential lease loan beneficiaries, with Turkey seen as a soft spot and crucial to lines against a looming German southward move.
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Black Sea
Rostov
Caucaus
Middle East
United States
Britain
Turkey
Holland
Middle-East
Caucasus
British cruiser Dorsetshire sinks Nazi raider in Atlantic
London reports the British cruiser Dorsetshire intercepted and sank a German commerce raider in the south Atlantic. The vessel fled leaving five oil and provisions laden boats. Dorsetshire had earlier credited with sinking the Bismarck and helped trap other raiders, with submarines hindering rescue efforts.
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London
Admiralty
Ataantic
Bismarck
Rio Dr Janeiro
Woman killed as truck hits auto in Georgia
In Hazelhurst Georgia on December 6 Mrs Reese Jordan of Lumber City died when a truck knocked her car into Sugar Creek at a bridge on the McRae Lumber City highway. Five children were injured in the crash.
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Hartford
Hazelhurst
Reese Jordan
Lumber City
Jordan
Sugar Creek
McRae-Lumber City
Indiana judge sentences 23 year old for rape slaying
Terre Haute Indiana December judge John W Gerdink sentenced 23 year old Cozzie Merrill Jones son of a West Terre Haute minister to life imprisonment in Michigan City State Prison for the rape slaying of 12 year old Edith Idelle Barton a neighbor girl Jones convicted of second degree murder stood mute as judge passed sentence Officers planned to take him to prison later today
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Terre Haute
Ind
John W. Gerdink
Cozzie Merrill Jones
West Terre Haute
Michigan City
Edith Idelle Barton
Jones
Kerdink
Italian Radio Reports Mass Movement Toward Moscow
Italian radio announced a massive Soviet offensive involving one point five million men eight thousand tanks and one thousand guns moving toward Moscow in the fiercest attack of all time NBC recorded the statement.
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Moscow
New York
NBC
King Emmanuel Narrowly Escapes Air Raid in Sicily
King Cittàrio Emmanuele narrowly escaped a British air raid Thursday while en route home from a nine day visit to bombed places in Sicily. Anti aircraft fire and Italian fighters chased off the attackers as the king crossed from Messina to San Giovanni. Three planes were shot down at sea.
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San Giovanni
Sicily
Rome
Georgia Motorists Urged to Give a Life for Christmas
Safety Commissioner John E. Goodwin Laday urged Georgia motorists to give a life for Christmas. He said a safe drive could save lives and cited 51 highway accidents in December last year causing 69 deaths and 308 injuries between December 15 and 30.
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Atlanta
John E. Goodwin Laday
Georgia
Godwin
Soviet Troops Cut Off German Front Supply Line
Bibyshev Russia December 6 dispatches report Soviet forces severed the highway linking German troops in the city of Tikhvin with their northern front rear bases, disrupting supply routes and isolating units from bases.
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Bibyshev
Russia
Tikhvin
Uneasy Peace Hangs Over the Pacific
Washington reports an uneasy peace as Japan weighs conciliation versus conquest in the Far East. Tokyo's reply to Secretary Hull regarding massed troops in French Indo China delays renewal of Japanese American talks.
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Japan
Roosevelt
Indo-China
Thailand
Washington
Tokyo
Privy Council
Emperor Hirohito
Weing
Pacific
Kentaro Kaneko
United States
Hall of
Far East
Lloyd Eee
Upi
Lems
Hull
Kichisaburo Nomura
Saburo Kurusu
China
Burma
Chiang Kai-Shek
IndoChina
Malaya
France
Most Terrific Nazi Offensive Reported Against Moscow
The Associated Press says Hitler hurled 1,500,000 troops and 8,000 tanks into a claim of the most terrifying offensive toward Moscow. Soviet ski troops fight in subzero cold as German advances threaten the Red capital with battles near Mozhaisk Klin and Tula while Leningrad resists and North Africa sees renewed clashes.
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Associated Press
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Kalinin
Moscow
Volga
Leningrad
Tikhvin
Mozhaisk
Klin
Orel
Kursk
Midway
Ukraine
Malo- Arkhangelsk
Livny
Novosil
Mtsensk
Chern
Reuters
Red Army
Pravda
Tula
Tula-Moscow
Proda
Hiller
Eningrad
Railroad Strike Bases as Employees Ratify Terms
The nationwide strike threat ended as 350000 union operating employers ratified a Roosevelt mediation backed settlement. A 9 percent hourly rise or 76 cents daily for workers earning over $5.06 was agreed, while 900000 non-operating workers signaled continued negotiations and did not strike.
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Roosevelt
Negro Acquitted in Georgia Rape Case
Eddie Lee Spivey a 22 year old farmer was acquitted by a superior court jury of rape charges after being mobbed from a Dodge county jail and later returned. The defense argued lack of identification and the jury deliberated about 50 minutes **. The public was excluded from the trial which lasted a week.
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Macon
Eddie Lee Spivey
Spivey
Dodge County
Mol
Compromise Offers Tiny Wage Hike Amid Worker Pay Gap
The proposal calls for raises of 1 cent an hour or 80 cents a day, while workers have averaged 63.4 cents per hour and sought increases of 30 to 34 cents. The disagreements reflect a narrow gap over pay in the ongoing labor talks.
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