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...southernmost tip. As she did so a Rebel cruiser hove into sight from the African shore. Six more Rebel warships, cruisers, destroyers, minelayers soon joined the chase. Guns from the 10,000-ton cruiser Carnarias, pride of the Rebel fleet, boomed. Batteries from Ceuta. in Rebel-held Spanish Morocco, some 15 miles across the Straits, bellowed. The destroyer, outclassed, nonetheless elected to fight. A shell struck the Jose Luis Diez's forecastle, killed four men. One of her own guns exploded and killed more of her crew...
Finest present of all was reserved for the President's admired friend, Harry Hopkins, who with his daughter. Diana, 6, was a house guest. Supreme Court Justice Reed came over Christmas Eve, Mrs. Roosevelt supplied a black morocco Bible, and in the presence of about 50 high officials in the President's study, Harry Hopkins was sworn in as Secretary of Commerce...
...Chicago's skyscraper Opera House. Choreography by Philadelphia's Catherine Littlefield, capers by Chicago's newly imported Littlefield Ballet, helped make it agreeable to ballet fans and tired businessmen alike. A good-natured, showy satire on night-club life, its scene recalled Manhattan's El Morocco; its main characters were thickly disguised as Heavyweight Max Baer, "Chain-store Nymph" Barbara Hutton, Columnist Lucius Beebe...
...France from Sultan Sidi Mohammed, who has nominal authority over the natives of French Morocco, Spanish Morocco, now in the hands of Spanish Rightists, and Tangier, came the pledge: "No matter what happens, if the worst comes to pass I can assure you that the Sultan of Morocco and all his subjects will align themselves at the side of France...
Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco was reported to have withdrawn German pilots from bases near the French border as a "gesture of neutrality" toward France. From, internationally-governed Tangier, Morocco, came reports of anti-Rightist rioting in adjoining Spanish Morocco, resulting in 35 killed, 400 arrested. Meanwhile, the British freighters Bobie and Standlake were badly damaged-they were said to be the 64th and 65th to be bombed -and four British seamen killed by a Rightist air raid on Barcelona's water front. Other casualties: 31 dead, 112 wounded...