Britain declares war on Finland Hungary and Romania
London reports Britain will be at war with Finland Hungary and Romania at one minute after midnight Greenwich time for refusing to halt fighting Russia. Police round up over 200 enemy aliens, mainly Finns, for removal to camps while Finnish minister G A Gripenberg prepares to depart for Helsinki.
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London
Great Britain
Finland
Hungary
Rumania
Greenwich
E.S.T
Britain
Scotland Yard
G. A. Gripenberg
Helsinki
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Russia
Soviet Union
Foreign Office
Litvinov Arrives in San Francisco En Route to Washington
Maxim Litvinoff, newly named Soviet ambassador to the United States, arrived in San Francisco by Pan American from the Orient. He met a delegation at Treasure Island and paused for a brief stopover with Soviet Consul General Scorucov before continuing to Washington to assume his post.
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San Francisco
Maxim Litvinoff
United States
Pan-American Airways
Orient
Washington
Pan-American
Treasure Island
Honolulu
United Airlines
Alexander A. Scorucov
Kuibyshev
Russia
Litvinoff
Japanese Council Defies Effort Of United States To Bar New Order
Tokyo faces pressure from Washington as Tokyo Japan stance on a new order in East Asia unfolds. Tokyo denounces U S attempts to halt expansion while awaiting Roosevelt Churchill next moves amid Far East crisis.
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Japanese Council
United States
Washington
Pacific
Japan
Far East
Tokyo
Hull
Roosevelt
Indo-China
Indo- China
U.P
East Asia
East Asia Economic Council
Russia
The
Economic Council
Winston Churchill
White House
Chugai
Churchill
Teichi Suzuki
Cabinet Planning Board
Shigenori Togo
Manchukuo
China
Mongolia
Hochi
Soviet Union
Siberia
Future Faced In Meeting Of Livestock Men
Two major livestock groups plan for future conventions in Salt Lake City focusing on industry stability amid Argentina competition and high freight, with demands for more production to meet military civilian needs and postwar relief stockpiles. The American National Livestock association and the National Wool Growers association meet Jan 7-9 and Jan 21-23 respectively as they discuss boosting output despite boom-bust cycles and wool supply constraints.
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Salt Lake City
American National Livestock Association
National Wool Growers Association
Manila Evacuation Ordered as Defense Lines Mapped
Manila authorities urged immediate evacuation of non essential civilians from Manila and nearby areas with possible compulsory evacuation to follow. Areas to be evacuated will be set after consultations between the Civilian Emergency administration and General Douglas MacArthur. Schools in danger zones may remain decision pending.
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Manila
Commonwealth Cabinet
Manuel Quezon
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
Far East
Senate Girds For Battle On Smith Measure
Washington December 6 influential forces in the senate campaigned to replace the house approved strike curb bill with a milder measure next week. The senate labor committee may keep only the title of the Smith bill and substitute Ball plan mediation for a voluntary system to handle labor disputes and outlaw strikes over the closed shop. Norris urged hearings to allow a cooling off period before action. Connally pressed for seizure and freezing powers, while McNary called for deferring all labor legislation until Smith is heard. Byrd urged speedy committee action for fair play to the house and public.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Labor Committee
Rep
Smith
D-Va
Senator Ball
R-Minn
Ball
Norris
Congress
House
Defense Mediation Board
Labor Committee
Thomas
Utah
Connally
Senator Connally
Dtex
Senator McNary
Oregon
Byrd
Dva
Batista Seeks Emergency Powers From Congress
President Fulgencio Batista asked congress to declare a state of emergency and grant the cabinet extraordinary powers to rule by decree for 45 days in a national defense move. He urged immediate action without detailing the specific powers requested.
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Havana
Fulgencio Batista
Congress
Batista
Reports claim 100000 Japs in Indo China
Shanghai dispatch cites a foreign source claiming 100000 Japanese troops in French Indo China with 75000 in southern and western areas capable of striking at Thailand. The informant says 25000 in Tonkin lack tanks and artillery, while Cambodia hosts a strong mobile force with tanks and air bases.
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Indo-China
Shanghai
U.R
Japan
Thailand
Vichy France
Cambodia
Sisophon
Bangkok
China
Tonkin
Laos
Saigon
Britain
Malaya
Indo- China
Chungking
United Press
Brophy Services Held in Bisbee
Funeral for James E. Brophy 90 pioneer merchant and rancher was held at St. Patrick's Catholic church in Bisbee with relatives including Mr and Mrs W P Stuart of Phoenix and Prescott among attendees.
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Bisbee
James E. Brophy
Lowell
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
W. P. Stuart
Phoenix
Prescott
Italians 18 Called for Military Enrollment
Rome reports the government announces 18 year old Italians are called to enroll in the army and air force. The measure targets youths entering national service as part of wartime mobilization.
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Rome
U.P
Italy
Huge Defense Bill Advances to Senate Amid War Aid
The Senate receives an 8.243 billion supplemental defense bill approved by the House 309 to 5. It expands the Army to 2,000,000 men and lifts total wartime spending to 67 billion dollars. It includes 1.536 billion for lend-lease tanks and heavy ordnance. Two isolationist amendments to cut provisions were defeated.
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Washington
Senate
House
America
William E. Lamberton
Kans
Military Affairs Committee
U. S
Boice Seeks Outside Study Of Arizona Tax Method
Henry Boice urged Arizona bankers to back an outside independent survey of the state tax structure to reduce taxes. He cited bias among groups and proposed a legislature authorized inquiry with funding, naming Brookings as an example. Boice argued for equal assessed valuation and suggested cutting sales tax collection costs as a possible relief.
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Arizona
Henry Boice
Arizona Tax Research Association
Pioneer Hotel
S. S. Shattuck
Miners and Merchants Bank, Bisbee
R. A. Becker
First National Bank of Arizona
E. N. Holgate
Phoenix
Glen Taylor
The
Valley National Bank
Wade Barbee
First National Bank
Nogales
W. K. Humbert
Phoenix Bank and Trust Company
Boice
Brookings Institute
British Prepare For Final Fight In Middle East Area
British forces build a vast battlefield from Suez to the Caspian Sea as March 1942 approaches. The strategy aims to anchor a line from Gibraltar to the Caspian while Libyan desert fighting secures the western flank and Russians delay German advances north of the Black Sea.
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Middle East
Cairo
Preston Grover
Turkey
Valley of the Nile
Grover
Suez
Caspian Sea
High Wycombe
Panses
Bibleland
Gibraltar
Libya
Black Sea
Axis Prisoners Reach 7500 In Libyan Drive
Cairo dispatch reports 7500 German and Italian prisoners captured in the Libyan desert with many more uncounted. British forces press Libyan battle area as 22 Axis planes are shot down at modest cost. Ed Duda slight gains, 400 Axis troops and 150 vehicles hit, and additional losses noted west of Bardia and at Bir El Gobi.
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Cairo
Egypt
Libyan
Ed Duda
RAF
Libya
Bardia
Bir el Gobi
Conservation Election To Be Held Here
Gov. Sidney P. Osborn presents a motion as the state soil conservation committee authorizes a referendum for farm owners to decide if a conservation district should be created in the Santa Cruz Pantano and Rillito valleys. About 50 farmers attend. 55 land owners sign the petition. The district would cover 17 708 acres of irrigation and dry farming land with no cattle or sheep ranges.
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Sidney P. Osborn
State Soil Conservation Committee
Santa Cruz
Pantano
Rillito
Melvin Haskell
Rillito Valley
W. H. Lane
Continental
C. R. Kroeger
Santa Cruz Valley
Ex-Congressman John M. O Connell Dies at 69 in Westerly
Former Rhode Island congressman and Roosevelt ally John M. O Connell, 69, of Westerly, RI, a long time figure in Democratic circles, died at home.
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Westerly
R. L
John M. O’connell
Roosevelt
Rhode Island
Moscow Line Also Broken During Fierce Fight
Soviet dispatches say German forces retreating in disorder on Mozhaisk and Volokolamsk sectors west of Moscow after a sudden Red army counterattack in severe cold. Thousands of Germans killed or wounded as battles rage 50 to 60 miles west of Moscow. A CBS report notes Red Army counterattack south of Moscow recapturing villages and driving Germans to the west bank of the Nara river near Serpukhov, 50 miles south of Moscow.
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Kuibyshev
Russia
Mozhaisk
Volokolamsk
Moscow
Red Army
New York
CBS
Serpukhov
Soviet Cut North Road Link To Tikhvin Fronts
Soviet dispatches report troops severed the highway linking German forces in Tikhvin to northern front rear bases and advancing toward Tikhvin. Front activity centered near Medvezhya Gora by Lake Onega with Finnish attempts to seize the White Sea canal halted. Germans and Finns failed to advance along the Arctic Kola peninsula while Soviets inflicted severe blows in Murmansk region and prepared for defense by two generals.
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Kuibyshev
Russia
Tikhvin
Leningrad
Medvezhya Gora
Lake Onega
White Sea-Baltic Canal
Arctic
Kola Peninsula
Murmansk
Kandalashka
Red army drives breakthrough in Kalinin sector
Reuters reports Red army forces broke through German lines in the Kalinin sector northwest of Moscow. A village was captured as the drive continued with a heavy blow to two German infantry divisions southeast of Kalinin. Soviets outflank the Mius river line as Germans are pushed west of the strategic waterway near Stalino.
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London
Reuters
Red Army
Kalinin
Moscow
Red Capital
Stalino
Rostov-Mariupol
Belgian King Learns of Third Marriage to Commoner Mary Baels
King Leopold III of Belgium reportedly wed Mary Lelia Baels, daughter of a former East Flanders governor, in a Sept. 11 ceremony per a German radio report quoting a pastoral letter by Archbishop Van Roey. The letter says children from the marriage would not inherit the throne. Leopold’s earlier wife Queen Astrid died in 1935.
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New York
Leopold III
Astrid
Mary Lelia Baels
East Flanders
Monsignor van Roey
Belgium
Leopold
Josephine Charlotte
Prince Baudouin
Duke of Brabant
Prince Albert
Prince of
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Miners and Merchants Bank
Arizona Bankers Association
DeWitt MacKenzie
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