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PAGE FIVB TOPS 1941 NEWS Associated Press Telemats Summarize Historic Events 1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1941. ' -4 T 7- 1 o . Hi! y BPS?' rl wlt if W : 'V.v riff ""a X fr A r rkirC7M IC Calm wes the Atlantic In Annul when Roosevelt, the nation's dCA KtMUCtVUUj firet third-term president, and Churchill met aboard the battle ship Prince of Wales, later sunk, to formulate elitht war alms, chief of which Is "destruction of Nail tyranny." In December, the two nations thus represented were full-fledged allies In World War II, and on Dec. 22 Churchill, accompanied by Lord Beaverbrook and a technical staff, arrived at the White House to "discuss with the President all questions relevant to the concerted war effort" tx ... f"? JlJeU, 7f IXAXINIX attack on Hawaii. Admiral Ernest J. King (top), S2, of Oiiio, became conjnander of entire I'. S. fleet in charice of all operations; Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (lower), 56. tot command of Pacific Fleck I ID MODTI4 Far from home are two southerners, I. C. UK rtWlNlM Waters (left) and G. C. Morsan, on patrol In Iceland which U.S. forces occupied In July to forestall Axis threats. Durint 1941 I'ncle Sam built up Atlantic bases leased from Britain, and on Nov. 23 U.S. troops landed In Dutch G"lana to protect the bauxite ore needed lprliunlnum mines there, a k D V IKJTO THE CPA Iler Identity as a U.S. ship unmistakable, the empty freighter Lehigh sank after a sub attack Oct 19 off Africa, Joln VJLU ULvKT I w I ilE JEM inn n watery (rave other attacked American-owned vessels, as the Robin Moor, Steel Seafarer, Bold Venture, and the U S. destroyer Reuben James. The latter sank with loss of about 100 lives Oct St while on North Atlantic convoy duty. These repeated raids on U. 8. sblpplnc broucht the September "shoot first" order for navy and air units on watcb for Axis craft led to neutrality act revision to permit ths arming of ships. ft VV 2 X ' vv1 i II1 'V ify. ' ' ' 1 1 .wVZili I:a,-;,:i,iiifiiwiii Tii -rx w-f Hfa.'X iAwJ Vj A 7 1 I I OFT A Powerful Russian offensive, plus sub-sero cold that the Zeds blithely called Klml J m Jt I s frost in Decemoer reversed me German anve on Moscow, irrt Nasi booty or Russians (above). Hitler, who'd disposed of Yugoslavia and Greece In a month, April, Invaded tussia June 22. His supply-hungry troops found factories rased, fields laid waste. So complete waa he rout of Nails that Hitler, answering what he said waa an "inward call," assumed command of German armies Dec. 19, ousting von Brauchltsch. For her part In war, Finland lost U. S. friendship,. kj k r Discord In U.S. on which the Axis may hare been TT MIV counting melted swiftly after war dec!artlon against Japan Dee. 8, against Germany and Italy Dee. 11 (above). "America First" dissolved! Lindbergh called for "united Amer icans": Isolstlonlst Sen. Wheeler said of Japanese: "We must ttckj bell out of them." Latin American nations meet la Jaooaraw V -7 C 3 V ;s J it.,; CI If.HT 8,111 England's TLIUIl I war prisoner, Rudolf Hess (above). No. S Nasi, flew some 800 miles frosa Ger many to Scotland where he sur rendered to a farmer May 10. Stalin elslras Hess sought to line up British and D. S. against Reds. Some thick he brought peace bid. nrCCDT n ACU Brllons engaged In driving Axis ant of Libya, possibly before Nails UEOCIv I lAjn could bolster flagging efforta and create new threats to Sues and ths Mediterranean, hurry Into action. In this drive the British garrison at Tobruk, under Axis siege sines April 13, wss relieved. Nsii pressure on Frsnee wflich has a fleet as well aa strategic bases on ths African coast Dsksr Is 1.620 miles from Nstsl, Brstil msy hsve helped speed up the British clean p campaign. In April, Hail Selassie regslned Addis Absba and Ilia kingdom Italians look In May, 1931 ! ' I I I sfT ill a mm im si ifiim I AWC King liisill W V C (above) of Belgium, whose first wife. Queen Astrid, died In an auto accident In 1935, on Sept 11 wed a commoner, Mary Baels. Since Msy, 1940. Leopold has been wsr prisoner In ewn land, living near I r ' : ' I . -J f , t , f i , v . .. ' 4r K '-T' ' V :jf tX? -.S1 j- .1 - . " ' -'ill lis? --'-) It "Il -' -w,a.Hfcs xd - Y'v- ' " ' if (- tf) V. ,7 l llC A TIDCn tJ 1 1 fY Repeatedly "sunk" by Ax's claims. Britain's trtot-toa slrersft carrier, the Ark Royal (above), LlixC A IIKCU V-Mll-L' finally did sink Nov. 14. "toppling over Uke a Ured child" while being towed sfter a submsrlne atuck east of Gibraltar. Thus did the Axis settle a score sgslnsl the Ark Roysl. for It wss torpedo-carrying planes from this esirler thst unk Germinr s new battleship, the Ji.0-ton Bhmarck, May 11 in swift revenge for Bismarck's finking of snother British ship, the 42.IO. ton cruiser Hood. Japan en KtCj.Lt sank Britain i new J5,00-ton battleship Prince ef Wales and IZ.tM-toa cruiser Repulse, off MaUys, flJICC On ranny, blunt mYl I Ef fl rumflu Mae. Arthur, who on Dee. II inducted entire Filipino army Into the V. ". army, rests burden ef di recting defense ef Philippines against Japanese bombings snd Invasion attempts slmed chiefly at Manila and Lason bland. ..'"-a 1 BOMBERS ABLAZE Smoke from biasing B-17 bombers, eaaghl igrond by Jsaa"s surprise asaault Dee. 1 ea Pearl Harber. Hawaii, earls a past ens bomber thst earsned dsmage. In this attack, staged even as Jspsn's "peace" envoy Karasa waa seeing Hull. sme 1 397 sol iters and sailors were killed, and the battleship Arlioes. three destroy ers, a Isrget ship, a mine layer and "other vessels" were sank. A 1-msa board beaded by SapraaM Court Justice Roberts will stady Hawaii's Isck of alertness, as discovered by Navy Secretary Kant ea bis Inspection tour. Knox also reported finding evidence el "most effective fifth eeleaM work at wsr."
