Pacific Access Battle Won Says Writer
The Christian Science Monitor reports from Wellington New Zealand that American forces landed there marking the first unit under Admiral Herbert F Leary in the Anzac Area The voyage from Pearl Harbor included multiple way stations along a 4000 mile route and featured waves of hats and flags as the destroyer entered Wellington harbor The dispatch describes Americas supply line to the Pacific battlefront as secured Japan suffering its first major reverse and Bluejackets arriving with vital war weapons
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Boston
Wellington
New Zealand
Christian Science Monitor
Joseph C. Harsch
Pearl Harbor
Harsch
Herbert F. Leary
Leary
Anzac
Monitor
Gilbert and
Marshall Islands
mid-Pacific
Tropic Islands
Hawaii
Wellington Harbor
America
Far Pacific
Japan
Japanese Move Against Macassar Escalates Indies Offensive
The Japanese launched a sixth assault near Macassar on Celebes southwest coast, signaling major forces in a fresh push toward Java. Communiqués report Dutch destruction of military installations in advance of landings and slight damage to Batavia airfields amid fighter raids. Two Adrian boys, ages 14 and 16, confessed to multiple thefts at a local junior high, including $14 from the principal’s office. Tests and robberies were linked to other minor incidents as police prepare arraignments before Judge Tripp.
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Dutch East Indies
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Celebes
the Indies Armed Forces
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Soerabaja
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Indies Islands
United Nations’ Supreme Command
South-West Pacific
Indies
Driscoll
East Church
Broad Streets
Majang
Church and
Dean Streets
Soerahaja
Communiané
Jois
Chamber of Commerce
Trent and
Beecher Streets
Maurice E.tripp
Dutch Resistance Continues in Amboina as Invasion Presses
Reports indicate patrols maintain slight filtration in southeastern and southwestern Borneo as Japanese forces seek footholds across the Java Sea from Java. The Dutch garrison at Amboina remains in resistance, though most of the island was already under Japanese control.
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Borneo
Java Sea
Java
Amboina
Indies
China's Chief Chiang Kai-Shek Visits India
Chinese war leader Chiang Kai-Shek travels to New Delhi with his staff for undisclosed talks with Indian officials. Lord Linlithgow calls the meeting a seal of comradeship in arms between China and India and warns Japan that the alliance bodes it no good.
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Associated Press
New Delhi
India
United Nations
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
China War
Lord Linlithgow
Japan
Conservation Group To Entertain 600 Art League Dinner
Six hundred Lenawee County sportsmen will attend the Len awee Conservation League banquet and meeting in Adrian on Wednesday night. Buffalo meat, 931 pounds shipped from Hermosa, South Dakota, will be served at 6:30 PM at both the Methodist and Baptist churches, 300 at each. After dinner the group will hear moving pictures in the Masonic Temple auditorium, with Judge G Arthur Rathbun toastmaster. Officials will report on conservation progress and 1942 plans.
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Lenawee County
Lenawee Conservation League
Adrian
Hermosa
South Dakota
Masonic Temple
Pic Vsures
G. Arthur Rathbun
Ship Normandie toppled into Hudson with 1 dead, 220 hurt
New York February 10 The famed Normandie, an $80 million liner repurposed as US Navy auxiliary, toppled in the Hudson river mud after a raging blaze. Firefights consumed hours as 2,200 aboard faced injuries. one welder Frank Trentacosa died of a fractured skull after leaping to the pier. Sailors hoped salvage, while Admiral Andrews noted no sabotage and a precautionary abandonment earlier.
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Hutson 1 River Pier
New York
Associated Press
Hudson River
Manhattan
Frank Trentacosa
Bear
Adolphus Andrews
Third Naval Distrtrict
Auxiliary planned at Bixby Hospital
Emma L. Bixby Hospital to form an auxiliary of Adrian area women to aid in hospital work amid nurse shortages. Mrs. Carl Yost named chair. Miss Pearl Worley, superintendent, supports the effort. The group started a traveling library for patients and will operate democratically without church or group limits. Officers elected: president Mrs. Yost, vice president Mrs. Burtless, secretary treasurer Mrs. Baldwin, assistant Mrs. Kane. directors include Mrs. Cutler, Mrs. Goodwin, and Mrs. Schoen.
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Emma L. Bixby Hospital
Adrian
Carl Yost
Pearl Worley
Bixby Hospital
Pendence
Eng
America
Yost
Charles E. Burtless
Clarke
W Baldwin
E. P. Kane
Gerald Cutler
Budd Goodwin
Charles Schoen
U S Nearer to Defeat Says Georgetown official
The Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, vice president of Georgetown University, warned at a Knights of Columbus meeting in Buffalo that the United States is nearer defeat today than at any time in history. He said fewer than 20 percent realize the nation is at war and urged vigilance beyond complacency.
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U. S
Buffalo
Edmund A. Walsh
Georgetown University
United States
Knights of Columbus
Father Walsh
Commercial zone enlargement by city
The city commission adopted an amendment to the zoning ordinance placing parts of Broad Street and Toledo Street in the commercial zone at the owners’ request. The change extends 175 feet east of Broad Street and 174 feet north of Toledo Street. January accounts totaling 8,579.56 were approved and ordered paid.
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Maumee
Toledo
Toledo Street
Main
Broad Streets
City Commission
Toledo II Street
German Drive Aims At Russia For March Mediterranean Push
Reports from Bern say the German army is mounting a major new effort to stabilize fronts in Russia for a spring offensive. Observers forecast a broad Axis campaign reaching the Caucasus, Egypt, Iraq and the Suez, with Bulgaria and Turkey drawn in. March is seen as decisive as weather improves and Rommel reappears in Libya.
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Switzerland
Russia
Mediterranean
Caucasus
Egypt
Iraq
Suez Canal
Bulgaria
Turkey
Germany
Erwin Romrel
Libya
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House approves OCD wartime arts budget with ban on actors
The House passed a $100 million Office of Civilian Defense wartime appropriation for masks and fire equipment, but banned hiring movie actors and dancers. Critics attacked the administration over arts leadership in OCD. Bad Axe and nearby towns moved clocks to eastern war time, standardizing hours across Michigan's lower peninsula.
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Msyris Chaney
Hollywood
Melvyn Douglas
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Office of Civilian Defense
House
Senate
Douglas
OCD
Chaney
Roosevelt
Associated Press
Axe
Michigan
Lower Peninsula
Holland
Zeeland
Bond And Stamp Sales Top One Million In Lenawee
Lenawee county residents have contributed over a million dollars to defense bonds and stamps. A survey shows bonds worth 2,016,348 and stamps 30425 amounting to 1,046,771 since May 1, with Adrian banks and post offices driving more than half. Others like Blissfield Hudson Tecumseh Clinton and Morenci posted varied totals, while Telegram carriers boosted Adrian sales and schools promoted stamp drives.
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Lenawee County
Adrian
Federal Savings & Loan Association
Post Office
Blissfield
Hudson and
Tecumseh
Clinton
Martha Swaney
Morenci
Adrian Post
Telegram Cartiers
Waldron
Metalmora
Ohio
Sky lighted up by blazing oil tanks in Singapore
British and Japanese forces clash on Singapore island as reinforcements reach the front. Tokyo reports Japanese troops pressing the defense line while artillery fires illuminate the northern sky. Civilians shelter as tanks burn and air attacks intensify, signaling a dire wartime outlook.
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Associated Press
Singapore
Heavy Snow Blanket Reaches 3 Inches In Adrian Storm
A morning snowstorm began at 1 20 and dumped about three inches, ending a slushy spell. City workers cleared gutters and crosswalks as streets remained less slippery than earlier winter flakes. Temperatures rose from nine to twenty six degrees through the morning.
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Adrian
Simesi
Army Needs Get 23 Billion Request For Immediate Use
President Roosevelt sent a terse letter to Speaker Rayburn requesting 22,888,901,900 for immediate army needs, bringing defense asks to over 60 billion as Congress debates funding. The package includes 13,252,200,000 for ordnance services and supplies and 2,245,701,000 for army transportation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Cannon D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Rayburn
Escapes Defeat by Three Votes in Lords
London February 10 The government narrowly avoids a Lords defeat by three votes in a rare division. Baron Gariford proposed disapproving a plan to extend young workers hours under a Dec 23 emergency order. The motion failed 20 to 17, with Baron Wolmer warning it would censure labor ministry national service and unions.
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London
House of Lords
Commons
Baron Gairiford
Lords
Baron Wolmer
Ministry of Labor
National Service and Trade Unions
Movement to repeal pension law grows
Washington February 10 a flood of letters from back home presses Congress to repeal the new pension act for lawmakers amid political debate. House Civil Service Committee Chairman Ramspeck and Rep Smith clash over the measure with no immediate action expected.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
Ramspeck
D-Ga
House Civil Service Committee
Rep. Smith
Ohio
British Air Strikes Pound Japanese HQ Near Salween
RAF Blenheim bombers pounded a Japanese field headquarters on the Salween river 30 miles north of Moulmein as fighting in Burma continued in sporadic clashes. Tokyo radio claimed Japanese forces crossed the Salween and moved west toward Rangoon while British lines were reportedly strengthening in defense in depth.
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Associated Press
Rangoon
Burma
Raf Blenheim
Paan
Salweep River
Moulmein
Tokyo
Salween River
T. J. Hutton
Martaban
Salween
Domei
World War II Updates From Across Fronts
In a Singapore dispatch British forces begin scorched earth tactics by destroying oil tanks and firing rubber and factory facilities in the island’s northwest. In Burma Martaban falls to Japanese troops as Salween River operations shift British resistance. An international cartel reportedly pushes for negotiated peace to curb Japan’s access to raw materials. In the Philippines American forces claim seven Japanese planes shot down in 24 hours as Royal T Frank sinks in Hawaiian waters. Netherlands Indies report notes a small American air action against Japanese bombers.
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Germany
United Nations
Pacific
Japan
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Washington
Philippines
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