British Smash Path Through Africa Bombers at Bardia
British bombers artillery and ships batter Bardia as 900 prisoners are reported captured and surrounding forces tighten. Western desert units reinforce and take four guns while Sudan frontier patrols press aggression. Australian cavalry spearheads advance toward Giara bub oasis as Italian garrison resists in Libya.
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Cairo
Egypt
Bardia
Sudan
Rodolfo Graziani
Tobruk
Derna
Libya
Giarabub
Il Duce
Milan
el Wak
Albania
Ghedares-Roseires
Port Sudan
Italy
Britain
Italian Base Damaged in RAF Greek Offensive
British RAF bombers based in Greece attacked Brindisi oil tanks and railways amid poor visibility. Greek forces reportedly captured an Italian colonel and two battalions near Tepeleni as Allied naval forces pressed into the lower Adriatic and Valona harbor area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Royal Air Force
Brindisi
Adriatic
Otranto
RAF
Albania
Tepeleni
War Department Awards Plane Plant To Tulsa
The War Department announced Tulsa Oklahoma will host a heavy bomber assembly plant operated by Consolidated Aircraft Corp of San Diego California. The facility is one of four bomber part plants to be run by the automotive industry with Omaha Nebraska designated for a medium bomber plant by Glenn L. Martin Co and Kansas City Kansas for a plant by North American Aviation Corp.
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Washington
War Department
Tulsa
Okla
Consolidated Aircraft Corp
San Diego
Calif
Omaha
Neb
Glenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
Kansas City
Kans
Highway Unit Unable To Restore Pay Cuts In Arizona
Phoenix December 21 The Arizona highway department announced it must defer action on Governor Jones recommendation to restore salary cuts until the new budget is prepared in June. Officials said current fiscal year budget contains no provision for restoring the pay cuts put in effect after Jones took office. The governor sent a letter requesting restoration citing rising cost of living.
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Phoenix
Arizona Highway Department
Jones
Legislative supply bids asked for Arizona legislature
Phoenix December 21 bids were called for supplies for the 15th Arizona legislature. The 60 day regular session begins January 13. Mulford Windsor director of the state legislative bureau said the items include roll call sheets and official stationery.
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Phoenix
15Th
Arizona Legislature
Mulford Winsor
State Legislative Bureau
Japan cabinet shakeup amid unease over Axis ties
Shanghai observers note Prime Minister Konoye reshuffles justice and home affairs ministers to calm growing public disquiet over the military alliance with Italy and Germany. Baron Hiranuma becomes home minister, Heisuke Yanagawa justice minister, with Araki considered for a broader role. Strict enforcement of economic limits cited as a factor.
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Shanghai
Prince Konoye
Italy
Germany
Japan
Konove
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Heisuke Yanagawa
Baron Sadao Araki
Hiranuma
Prince Konove
Baron Hiranuma
Konoye
Eija Yasui
Defense High Command Takes Over For FDR
Washington dispatch reports a new four man defense agency board assumes production management duties urging Americans to pull off their coats and roll up their sleeves and concentrate on defense efforts.
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Defense High Command
Washington
Super Defense Agency
France refuses to alter its cabinet in Vichy
Informed sources say Fernand De Brinon will replace De La Laurencie as delegate general in the occupied zone. Petain, on German orders, rejected calls to oust Marcel Peyrouton and Raphael Alibert, while Laval’s resignation stems from lost confidence, not collaboration. German reaction awaited. Flandin ill with influenza.
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Vichy
France
Fernand de Brinon
Paris
Philippe Petain
Pierre Laval
Petain
Otto Abetz
General de la Laurencie
Ocupied
Marcel Peyrouton
Raphael Alibert
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Paul Baudouin
Council
Laval
Duke of
Reichstadt
Napoleon I
Vienna
Baudouin
Italian Naval Units Bombard Grecian Coast
Italian naval units attacked the Ionian coast of Greece and scored heavy hits ashore according to the high command. No details were released and no Italian ships were seen by British reports of an earlier raid into the Adriatic. Greek counterattacks were repulsed along the Albanian front with one Italian raid gaining an important position unconfirmed by specifics.
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Rome
High Command
Ionian
Greece
Royal Navy
Ionian Sea
Strait of
Otranto
Adriatic
Valona
Italy
Roosevelt Creates Production Office for Defense
President Roosevelt named William S. Knudsen Sidney Hillman Henry Stimson and Knox to head a new office for production management in defense. Knudsen will be director and the board will coordinate civil life with defense needs. Functioning by Jan 1 with orders to follow.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
America
Office For
Defense
William S. Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
Defense Commission
War
Stineson
Navy
Knox
Knudsen
Defense Advisory Commission
Defense Commissioners
Big
Border Patrol to Build New Headquarters Near Rodeo Field
Carson Morrow, chief patrol inspector, said an allotment of 23000 dollars may fund a new Border Patrol substation here. He has not been officially notified, but learned in El Paso that construction is planned this spring on 20 acres south of the rodeo field. The current HQ is an old residence at 850 South Ninth Avenue.
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U. S. Border Patrol
Carson Morrow
Morrow
el Paso
Rodeo Field
Border Patrol
South
Ninth Avenue
Tovrea Agrees to Demands by Union
Phoenix December 21 wage increases of 10 percent and paid vacations will be granted to about 300 workers at Tovrea Packing under a union contract with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers of North America. The deal includes a union shop with company control of hiring and firing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Tovrea Packing Company
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers of
North America
Phil Tovrea
Allen Williams
American Federation of Labor
Tovrea
Call For Arizona Draftees To Be Delayed 30 Days
SAN ANTONIO December 21 delay in cantonment construction shifts induction of over 6 000 draftees from Oklahoma New Mexico Colorado and Arizona from January 3 to February due to bad weather at Fort Sill influenza not a factor. Pima county draft board No 2 told to call 78 men to duty January 28.
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Arizona
San Antonio
Eighth Corps
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Colorado
Fort Sill
Oklo
Pima County
British RAF Bombers Hit Berlin In Long Night Raid
London reported Berlin endured a long destructive raid by RAF bombers flying close to rooftops. The Air Ministry said factories goods yards and railways were targeted with fires and explosions amid heavy anti aircraft fire.
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London
Berlin
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Reich
RAF
Winter Wheat Acreage Estimated by U S Department
Washington December 21 UPH The Agriculture Department reports winter wheat acreage at 46,271,000 acres and projects production at 633,000,000 bushels for 1941. The previous year acreage stood at 43,820,000 acres.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Value Of Dodecanese Group To Italians Now Negligible
British air bombardment of three Dodecanese islands highlights their shrinking strategic value as Italy loses ground in Libya and the Italian fleet is immobilized. The 13 islands off Asiatic Turkey are now cut off from Italian supply by sea and can only reach Italy by air.
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J. W. T. Mason
United Press
Dodecanese
Little Archipelago
Libya
Italy
Asiatic
Turkey
Aegean Sea
Suez
Aegean
Dardanelles
Egypt
London
Cyrenaica
Tripolitania
FDR and Dykstra Discuss Permanent Draft Plan
Reported White House talks between President Roosevelt and Draft Director Clarence A. Dykstra explore transforming the emergency selective service into a permanent system to maintain a trained reserve army. A 21 year old compulsory training option is floated if international conditions justify it.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Clarence A. Dykstra
White House
Germany Warns Against Accepting Enemy Ships in Refuge
Berlin reports the German foreign office criticized Britain's proposal to turn over enemy ships in refuge to Britain as an act to provoke a war. The spokesman insisted Germany has shown restraint while others press with pin pricks and moral aggression. He called the cross talks with Britain and the United States on aid to Britain a serious matter awaiting American reaction.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
United States
Britain
America
Germany
Washington
Hull
Ronald H. Cross
London
Reich
Cross
Great Britain
Roosevelt Adds 15 Items to Export Licensing List
President Roosevelt issued a proclamation placing 15 more materials under the export licensing system raising the total to 73. The additions include aviation lubricating oil equipment, bromine ethylene cobalt and various gauges machines and tools. The move follows earlier protections of aviation gasoline machine tools tin rubber and other strategic materials.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
War Department
Germany asks U S to recall envoys over aid to escapee
Berlin reports Berlin asks Washington to recall Cecil Cross Leigh Hunt and Mrs Elizabeth Deegan for aiding an unnamed British officer to flee. An official note says the U S government began investigations after Germany notified its concern and Paris embassy staff were found implicated.
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Berlin
News Department
Washington
Cecil M. P. Cross
Leigh W. Hunt
United States
Paris
Elizabeth Deegan
United State
Reich
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Mussolini
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Yugo
Romania
Belg. Congo
Suez Canal
Ghedaref
Uganda
Iraq
Arabia
Kenya
London Admiralty
Saseno
Valona Harbor
Axis Alliance
U.S
Hillman
Grecian
UNION
U. S
FDR
Dykstra
John A. Reichmann
Congress
The
Tucson Daily Citizen
F. Legler
E. Drachman
State Theater
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