New A. E. F. on the Way to World War Fronts
The Associated Press reports that U S forces are moving toward combat fronts or already engaged. Roosevelt confirms reinforcements and supplies to the south Pacific, boosting Allied morale. Details remain secret, but officials promise broader moves across continents and seas.
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Associated Press
Washington
New
Great Hood
United Nations
Franklin D. Roosevelt
South Pacific War Zone
Pacific Theater
United States
Earth
Nick Athens
Lecompte
Newport News
North Carol Building and Dry Dock Company
Election set at Bohn plant to choose union bargaining agency
Between 2000 and 3000 Bohn Aluminum employees will vote Thursday in a National Labor Relations Board election to determine a union bargaining representative. The Independent Magnesium Aluminum Workers Union Local 750 UAW AFL and Local 963 UAW CIO seek the rights. a majority is needed to win. If neither side reaches 50 percent, a second election will be held. George C Halverson NLBR field examiner will supervise alongside company and union representatives. voting runs 6 am to 9 30 am and 1 pm to 6 pm with no campaigning on election day. Voters include those on payroll as of December 20. observers from each side will monitor the polls.
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Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation
Magnesium Fabricators
National Labor Relations Board
Magnesium & Aluminum Workers’ Union
Uaw-Afl
Uaw-Cio
George C. Halverson
NLRB
Adrian
Yankee Mosquito Boat Skipper Stings Japanese Ship To Death
A Navy statement credits Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley and his crew for a bold night attack using a small motorized boat to torpedo a 5,000-ton Japanese vessel near Subic Bay Luzon Island. The operation, hailed as a debut of new tactics in the Pacific theater, underscored speed, surprise, and nerve under enemy fire. The report notes eight crew members supported Bulkeley in the daring raid.
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Washington
Philippines
John D. Bulkeley
Long Island City
New York
Binan
Binangi Bay
Ga Bay
Subic Bay
Luzon Island
Far East
Ins
Thhat
Asault
Miew
Wife recalls Navy hero husband exploits in Philippines
New York January 21. Mrs Hilda Bulkeley says she expected Lieut John Duncan Bulkeley to pull off such a feat after he sank a 5000 ton Japanese vessel in Binanga Bay aboard a tiny motor torpedo boat. The couple, New Yorker and Long Island City resident, recounts of letters home show concern for their daughter's teeth and pets. He had attended Hackettstown, New Jersey high school, later joined the Naval Academy, and met his wife in Shanghai where they were married.
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New York
Hilda Alice Bulkeley
Navy
John
Duncan Bulkeley
Binanga Bay
Philippines
Elizabeth Bulkeley
Bulkeley
Long Island
United States
Japan
Joan Isabel
Joan
Bunky
Jasper
New Yorker
Frederick Bulkeley
Remington, Rand, Inc
Hackettstown
N. J
South America
San Antonio
Texas
U.S. Naval Academy
Randolph Field
Orient
Cecil Robert Wood
Swatow
China
Shanghai
War Production Plan for Western Hemisphere Outlined
A high Commerce Department official disclosed a joint war production plan for the Western Hemisphere. It calls for abolition of trade barriers, a common currency among anti Axis nations, and use of U S naval and air power to move hemispheric shipping. The plan will be reviewed at the Rio de Janeiro foreign ministers conference and may be adopted by nations joining the hemispheric collaboration. Argentina and Chile reportedly hesitate on severing ties with the Axis. The outline at Rio is from Sumner Welles Wayne C Taylor and Warren Lee Pierson.
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Washington
Western Hemisphere
United States
Commerce Department
American Conference of Foreign Ministers
Rio de Janeiro
Argentina
Chile
Argentine
Rio
Sumner Welles
Wayne C Taylor
Warren Lee Pierson
Export-Import Bank
Legislature Seeks Early Adjournment War Session
In Lansing the war preparedness special session moves to end soon led by the senate with hopes for adjournment by Thursday or Friday unless Governor Wal Wagoner offers a supplemental unemployment benefits plan. The senate advanced eight of nine defense bills while the house progressed several measures including a $5,000,000 war financing bill. Republicans contemplate a caucus and possible resolutions faulting the governor, with talk of winding up this week unlikely.
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Lansing
Senate
Wal Wagoner
House
John P. Espie
Ways and Means Committee
Walt Wagoner
Espie
Senate Finance Committee
van Wagoner
Russians Recapture Mozhaisk as Germans retreat west
Moscow reports Mozhaisk fallen to Soviet forces under Lieutenant General Leonid Govorov after a hard drive through fortifications. Germans, count of up to 100000, withdraw by rail to the rear amid heavy fighting and frostbitten casualties. Rail traffic notes trains evacuating wounded as Moscow broadcasts claim a decisive central front counteroffensive.
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TRE Associated Press
Moscow
Russia
Mozhaisk
Stmp
Pivotal-Sallant
Loy
Smolensk
Breziatsk
Daily Herald
Information Bureau
Moscow Radio
Leonid Govorov
Tass
Hitler
Red Army
Iite
Stown
Nelson to abolish Office of War Production changes
Washington reports Donald M. Nelson will abolish the Office of Procurement and Management and shift its functions under his authority as chairman of the War Production Board. Six divisions will be created, the contract distribution division eliminated, and a new industry operations unit will manage conversion of U S industry to war production. In Malaya, British bombers attacked Japanese airfields. on the Bataan Peninsula, American and Philippine forces pushed back Japanese efforts with heavy losses to the enemy.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
War Department
Baten Peninsula
Singapore guns shoot down twelve Japanese raiders
Singapore reports a sharp defense against a Japanese air raid with twelve enemy aircraft shot down by anti aircraft fire and defenders. Eyewitnesses say two raiders fell to the guns as casualties from yesterday's raid totaled 150 with 50 dead. The battle centered on the west coast and inland approaches toward Batu Pahat and Kluang as naval forces clashed in the Malacca Straits.
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Associated Press
Singapore
Japan
Wipout
United Naton
Malacca Straits
Muar
Batu Pahat
Kluang
Johore
Malaya
Lenawee County Increases Corn Acreage In 1942
Lenawee county's 1942 corn allotment rises ten percent to 57,356 acres as Clarence W. Swanebeck, acting state AAA chairman, announces the nationwide increase affecting 42 Michigan counties. Farm allotments may expand to 15 acres by sacrificing eight cent per bushel payments. a 230 percent revised usual corn acreage will be allowed without loss of benefits, aiding dairy regions for higher feed needs during wartime.
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Lenawee
Clarence W. Swaneheck
State Aaa
Lansing
Michigan
Berrien
Branch
Calhoun
Cass
Hillsdale
Jackson
Kalamazoo
Monroe
St. Joseph
Washtenaw
Wayne
Swanebeck
AAA
Argentina Won’t Change Position At Pan American Parley
Rio de Janeiro Jan 21 Prospects for unanimous approval of an immediate rupture with Axis powers faded after Argentina acting president Castillo said Buenos Aires could not modify its attitude toward the proposal. His statement, generally accepted as meaning Argentina would not join an anti Axis front, leaves 20 republics anxious as Chile stands uncertain ahead of tomorrow’s debate.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Argentina
Ramono S. Castillo
Castillo
Buenos Aires
Chile
Long
Tvas
Pan- American Union
Japanese Tighten Grip On Celebes In War Report
Batavia Jan 21 The Dutch high command said reliable reports suggest Japanese forces occupy all of Minahassa the northeast Celebes arm but paid dearly for the conquest Three Japanese bombing raids hit Belawan Medan lightship in the Malacca Strait and an airfield in Dutch Borneo Dutch planes aided defense of Singapore and a Malaya raid left some aircraft missing A Tarakan submarine returned to base after repairs but could not aid Tarakan due to engine trouble Preparations were announced to guard Balikpapan against a possible southward drive.
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Batavia
Nel
Minahassa
Celebes
Belawan
Medan
Sumatra
Malacca Strait
Meden
Dutch Borneo
Singapore
Malaya
Taraxana
Borneo
Balik Papan
Tarakar
Tarakan
Archbishop Lang, 77, Resigns as Canterbury Archbishop
The Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, 77, announced he will resign as Archbishop of Canterbury on March 31 to make way for a younger, more vigorous successor. He noted postwar reconstruction demands for the church and state and said preparation should begin now for future tasks.
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London
Canterbury
All England
Edward VIII
Cosmo Gordon Lang
Jlofty
England
Church of England
York
Edward VI
Lang
Davorcee
Wallis Warfield
George VI
Edward
Tion
Church Assembly
President approves streamlining plan halting auto output
Nelson directs end of car and light truck production by Feb. 1 to switch all industry to weapons. Roosevelt backs revamp of war production, with Ernest Kanzler to lead industry conversion after Jan. 31. Heavy trucks stay in production. 130,600 new cars stored already.
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Nelson
Associated Press
Washington
Dan
Donald M. Nelson
Roosevelt
Ernest Kanzler
Henry Ford
Ford
Universal Credit Corporation
Jhew
OPS Automotive
Kanzler
Defense
OPM
Japanese Raiders Hit Kavieng and Madang in New Guinea
Melbourne reports say twenty Japanese fighters and forty bombers attacked Kavieng on the Dutch New Guinea coast this morning, with three torpedo raiders bombing Madang shortly after. Additional raids and aerial activity were noted along northern New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, including a raid on Salamaua. Casualties and damage were not yet reported.
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Melbourne
Australia
Kavieng
New Guinea
Madang
Bismarck Archipelago
Salamaua
Salamaua Sirdrome
New Britain Island
New Britain
Rabaul
Surgeon Death Highlights War Service and Leadership
Dr. George De Tarnowsky, 69, noted Chicago surgeon and war veteran, died tonight. Born in Nice France to a Russian father and American mother, he co founded Ravenswood Hospital and was a professor of surgery at the University of Illinois Medical School. He commanded the 378th medical regiment in World War I and received the Distinguished Service Medal among 22 decorations.
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Chicago
George de Tarnowsky
Nice
Frances
Ravenswood Hospital
University of Ilinois
Tarnowsky
378Th
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Fred C. Greenwald
Merkel
Yankee
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Navy Department
Lieut. Bulkeley
Emden
RAF
Air Ministry
WAZI
Detroit
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Ford Motor Company
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