No Holiday For President Who Prepares Talk
President Roosevelt skips the holiday to craft the State of the Union message expected Monday. The address may seek broad authority to send war supplies to Britain and negotiate repayment in kind or other products. He plans to direct defense production under the supreme command.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Britain
William S. Knudsen
Supreme Command
Defense
Army
George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Great Britain
No Foreign War Committee
Lee
D-Okla
Angel
W. R. Davis
New York
Verne Marshall
Davis
State Department
Marshall
Foreign Affairs
Wheeler
D-Mont
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Tydings
D-Ma
French Break With Germans Reported Amid War Talks
A Reuters dispatch from Lisbon says Petain's Vichy government and Germany cut off negotiations. No confirmation from other sources. Laval ousted Dec 14. Fernand de Brinon now leads talks. Darlan met Hitler near Beauvais. Hitler to consider Petain proposals.
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Reuters
Lisbon
Philippe Petain
Vichy
Germany
Associated Press
Petain
Pierre Laval
Laval
Fernand de Brinon
Paris
Otto Abetz
Adolf Hitler
Jean Darlan
Bern
Switzerland
Hitler Petain
Darlan
Fuehrer
Beauvais
Hitler
France
Greeks strike in Albania front as Me Tasas eyes 1941 victory
Greek troops push on in Albania with gains on the Lin sector and near Klisura. More than 500 prisoners and heavy guns captured. Premier Metaxas calls for victory and renewed resolve as British air raids hit Valona in Albania.
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U.P
Albania
John Metaxas
Lin
Klisura
Italy
Metaxas
Greece
Royal Air Force
Valona
Raid blows hit Taranto and Naples bases in Italy
Royal Air Force planes of the Middle East command carried out bold assaults on Taranto Naples Palermo Valona and Torre Annunziata to end the year. Taranto had already faced a crippling strike last month from the Mediterranean fleet air arm.
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U.P
Royal Air Force
Middle East
Taranto
Naples
Palermo
Valona
Albania
Torre Annunziata
Crotonne
Italy
Toree Annunziata
America Cannot Keep Out Of War Says Smuts In Broadcast
Premier Jan Christian Smuts declared on BBC that America cannot afford to stay out of the war. He urged U S intervention as necessary for victory and peace, likening the world to a battle between freedom and slavery. The report also notes Allied bombings of Naples Palermo and Crotonne and RAF actions around Bardia and in East Africa with continued artillery activity near Sudan and Kenya.
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Jan Christian Smuts
South Africa
British Broadcasting Company
America
South America
Smuts
Roosevelt
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Bardia
RAF
Libya
Taranto
Bar
Sudan
Kenya
One Death Marked First 11 Hours in Tucson 1941
Manuel Aguayo, 45, employed by Tucson Gas Power, died at 7:30 am in a local hospital. He lived at 840 South Mission Avenue. Doctors noted no births by 11 am at St Marys hospital and Storks Nest, continuing the early year trend.
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Manuel Aguayo
Tucson Gas, Electric Light and Power Company
South Mission Avenue
St. Mary's Hospital
London Rings in 1941 with Defiant New Year Spirit
Londoners faced 1941 with defiant shouts against Hitler as bomb-ravaged streets stayed quiet for new raids. indoors, revelry and singing filled shelters and clubs while RAF activity remained limited by weather. Britain prepared for harsher campaigns in the new year.
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Ben
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Hitler
Millions of New Jobs Seen From Defense Program
Washington forecasts 4,000,000 workers may gain defense related jobs in shipbuilding aircraft arms and supplies for national defense and aid to Britain. An additional 2,000,000 could enter non defense sectors as payrolls expand.
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Washington
Britain
Bardia Defense Extends Delay In Libyan Advance
An Associated Press survey notes more than 50 deaths in New Year celebrations across the United States due to violence traffic mishaps fires and shootings. In Libya British reports say Italian defenses at Bardia weaken as an armored column nears Tobruk, but 20 000 Italians hold the garrison.
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National Safety Council
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Kentucky
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New York
J. W. T. Mason
United Press
Libya
Tobruk
Bardia
North Africa
British Isles
Floods Damage Bridges Rush Recedes In Tucson Area
After a 24 hour flood surge causing approaches to two bridges to be washed away the Pantano Rillito and Santa Cruz rivers began returning to normal. Tucson engineers report the Campbell Avenue bridge will be closed over two weeks for a new approach and repairs. About 100 feet of the north approach was washed out.
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Pima County
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Daylight RAF Bombings Reported Over Europe
The air ministry said British bombers conducted daylight raids on targets in Germany Belgium and the Netherlands during scouting missions. Bombs were seen on a Cologne factory and Rotterdam docks. an anti aircraft ship near Flushing was damaged. two British aircraft were missing.
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Air Ministry
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Cologne
Rotterdam
Ijmuiden
Flushing
Reserve Board Asks Lowering Of FDR Power
The Federal Reserve Board asked Congress for expanded monetary powers at treasury expense and urged that Roosevelt's devaluation power expire on June 30. It called for broad fiscal and monetary reforms to support defense needs and prevent inflation due to credit control defects.
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Federal Reserve Board
Congress
Treasury Department
Roosevelt
Nazi Raiders Are Loose In South Pacific
Survivors from Emarau island report German raiders controlling the south Pacific since last August. They describe sudden night attacks on British Norwegian and French ships with some crews treated well and others kept prisoner below hatch.
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Melbourne
Australia
South Pacific Ocean
Emarau
Veteran financial writer Captain J Wallace Bostick dies
New Orleans life veteran and former Times-Picayune editor in chief Captain J Wallace Bostick died at 78 at his home. He retired Oct 17 1930 after 50 years with the Times-Picayune and predecessors and was noted for his coverage of the New Orleans cotton exchange in later years.
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J. Wallace Bostick
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Times-Picayune
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War toll of 1940 shadows New Year in world summary
War leaders express aims for 1941 as Europe fights on while the Americas prepare for defense. Hitler vows a great victory, Churchill pledges resistance, Mussolini silent, Petain warns of hunger. In the US, Roosevelt urges making the nation the arsenal of democracy amid hopeful industry and private celebrations.
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England
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Germany
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America
British raid pushes near Tobruk in Libya
British armored column penetrated about 70 miles into Libya near Tobruk and observed defenses around the Italian base. Italian forces at Bardia shelling continued as British reinforcements poured in despite sandstorms, while 40 forts defended Bardia behind a wide anti tank ditch.
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Richard PD. McMillan
Libya
U.P
Tobruk
Rodolfo Graziani
Bardia
Public Ledger of Philadelphia Sold to New Company
The Evening Public Ledger, founded by Cyrus H. F. Curtis, is sold for an undisclosed sum to a new company led by Robert Cresswell, former treasurer of the New York Herald Tribune. Cresswell becomes president and publisher and C. M. Morrison returns as editor, replacing George F. Kearney as Curtis Publishing’s holdings include the Morning and Evening Ledgers and related Philadelphia and New York papers.
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Ledger
George F. Kearney
Curtis
Curtis Publishing
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New York
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