Fleet Is on Job In All the Seas
Secretary Frank Knox described the U S Navy as engaged in a vast global mission to protect and fight in all the seas and oceans against one indivisible enemy. He spoke at a Chicago luncheon linking the Pacific, Atlantic, Russia, China, Malaya, and Libya as a single war and praised press and radio for cooperation during wartime information restrictions.
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Chicago
Frank Knox
United States Navy
Chicago Association of Commerce
Hitler
Pacific
Atlantic
Russia
China
Malaya
Libya
Knox
Navy Department
Supreme Crisis Near in Malaya
The British line weakens as Singapore faces a last stand on the island with civilians ordered to evacuate to a beach strip. Japanese forces press the western peninsula while Allied air and sea actions surge in the broader Pacific theater, including American victories against transports and bombers aiding Burma lifeline efforts.
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Associated Press
Singapore
Pacific
Sigapore
CBS
East Indies
Australia
Indies
Hongkong
Malayan
Singapore Island
Rengit
Sengsarang
Sattle
Kluang
Jema ‘Uang
RAF
Royal Australianir
Malaya
U. S
Churchill Urged To Confer With FDR On Eire Ports
In London, January 28, Rev Dr James Little pressed Parliament to urge Prime Minister Churchill to seek Roosevelt's help in joint representations to Eamon De Valera for use of Eire seaports and bases during the war. Attlee replied Churchill would not comment further at this time.
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Churchill
FDR
Eire
London
House of Commons
Roosevelt
Eamon de Valera
Erie
James Little
Clement Attlee
Free Postage for Service Men Is Voted by Senate
The Senate voted free postage on letters for all soldiers sailors and others in the armed forces. Majority Leader Barkley of Kentucky warned he would seek changes to limit the provision to lower paid enlisted men and noncommissioned officers and to letters addressed to the United States or possessions.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
United States
Test Blackouts in Texas Barred
Governor Stevenson said the regional Office of Civilian Defense barred further test blackouts in Texas cities until talks with the Third Interceptor Command U S Air Force. He noted approved blackouts remain unaffected and OCD has scheduled Cherokee County for Feb 11 and Wichita Falls for Feb 12.
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Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
Regional Office of
Civilian Defense
Texas
U. S. Air Force
OCD
Cherokee County
Wichita Falls
Price Controls Await President Approval and Vague Limits
Washington reports President Roosevelt is to sign the amended price control bill while signaling it does not go far enough to curb wartime inflation. The measure creates a price administrator with ceilings tied to parity or historic market levels, requires prior Agriculture Secretary Wickard approval, and allows revocable licenses to enforce the program with rent controls in defense zones.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
McCormack
Senate
Massachusetts
House
Loor
Wickard
War Chiefs Meet In Washington
President Roosevelt and top U S officials met at the White House with British officers to unify war strategy. Attending were Stimson Marshall Arnold Stark King and Dill Memyss Harris Little for the allied side. Patrick Hurley was named minister to New Zealand amid Pacific war planning.
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Waecnington
Van
Roosevelt
Stimson
Army
Navy
White House
George ‘C. Marshall
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Corps
Harold R. Stark
Ernest J. King
United States
John Dill
Colville Memyss
A. T. Harris
Charles Little
Patrick J. Hurley
New Zealand
Far Pacific
Hurley
British Raid Docks At Brest And Boulogne Last Night
British air raiders hit the aft bombed docks at Brest and Boulogne on the German occupied coast again last night according to the air ministry.
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London
Brest
Boulogne
Air Ministry
Weather item fragment with unclear location
A partial weather note from Combined Daily mentions a value 34.892 with no clear location date or forecast.
Nazis Claimed in Eire 33,000 Army Planes Approved
Washington and Dublin reports detail a $12,556,672,474 army appropriations bill for 23,000 fighting planes and 10,000 trainers. John Dillon accuses IRA links to an outside power. De Valera denounces U S troop landings. Prime Minister Andrews defends the American arrival amid cross-border tensions. A Belfast interview notes Northern Ireland neutrality debates. A Berlin broadcast promises a warm reception for returned American troops.
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Dublin
Eire
Washington
Senate
White House
John Dillon
House
Justice
George Boland
Congress
Navy
Ate
Hermann Goertz
IRA
Norway
Dillon
Lr.a
Boland
de Valera
John M. Andrews
Eamon de Valera
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Patrick Maxwell
Happy Maxwell
Foyle
Londonderry
U. S
France
Simmons
Berlin
Reich
Continent
250 Persons Missing in Sinking Of Canadian Ship
A 7,988 ton Canadian liner Lady Hawkins was sunk 11 days earlier by an Axis submarine. 321 aboard, 109 crew and 212 passengers, 71 survivors including 17 Americans, were rescued near San Juan by Captain Helgesen on the Coamo. Survivors spoke of two torpedoes and rapid sinking, with a 2-year-old child among those saved. several died in lifeboats.
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Associated Press
Montreal
Atlantic
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Helgesen
Coamo
United States
St. Joseph
David Schoonover
Percy A. Kelly
Coamp
Marian Parkinson
Janet Johnson
Albert Johnson
Foreign Service
Johnson
Romania
Kelly
Hope
Birkhead
Eng
Canadian National Steamship
West Indies
Boston
New York
Lady Somers
Francis FE. Powell
Norfolk
Coast Guard
T. J. Harrington
Guy Devone
Clarksburg
W. V
Texas Gulf
Alva Bernhard
Naval Air Station
Corpus Christi
Port Aransas
Mustang Island
Bernhard
Battle of Macassar Strait Jap losses claimed
New York January 28 British radio reported by CBS that 25 000 to 30 000 Japanese are said to have been drowned already in United Nations air and sea attacks on Japanese troop transports and warships in the Strait of Macassar.
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Navy Department
Port Arthur
Texas
Bernhard
Naval Air Station
New York
CBS
United Nations
Strait of Macassar
Three Americans Billed In Jap Propaganda Plot
A federal grand jury indicted three Americans and three Japanese on charges of failure to register as foreign agents. The case centers on the Japanese committee on trade and information formed in San Francisco in 1937 and disbanded in 1940, which allegedly received over 175000 from the Japanese consulate there. Indicted Americans include Ralph Townsend, David Warren Ryder, and Frederick Vincent Williams, with others named as Tsutomu Obana K Takahashi and Takeuchi.
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Washington
Japanese Committee On Trade and Information
Jikyoku Tinkai
San Francisco
United States
Wester
Ralph Townsend
Lake Geneva
Wis
David Warren Ryder
Frederick Vincent Williams
Tsutomu Obana
K. Takahashi
Takeuchi
Townsend
FBI
Justice Department
The
Herald
Scribners
Ryder
Williams
Pacific
Obana
Japanese Chamber of Commerce
Takahashi
Nyk
Japanese Steamship Line
Mitsubishi Company
America
Asia
Want Ad Drive Seeks Tenant For Vacancy Home
Urges readers to place rental ads now to fill a vacant dwelling. Mrs Edwards rented a furnished two room apartment at 504 Georgia on the first day via Globe-News Want Ad. Call 6262 for Want Ad HQ.
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Ad Headquarters
Texmor Realty Buys Polk Street Corner for 120000
The Texmor Realty Company of New York purchased lots 9 and 10 in block 79 at the northwest corner of Polk Street and Seventh Avenue for 120000. The sale, announced by Paul E. Wise of Hester and Wise in Houston, was on behalf of Nanny Irene Slade heirs and trustees G G Ordway S D Vaughan and D D Connally. The corner leases to F W Woolworth Co for 35 years and will be developed after a new building in 1945.
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Texmor Realty Company
New York City
Polk Street
Seventh Avenue
Paul E. Wise
Hester and Wise Business
Houston
B. L. Morgan
Amarillo
Plemons Addition
Irene Slade
G. G. Ordway
S. D Vaughan
D. D. Connally
F. W. Woolworth Co
RAF Blasts French Ports on Southeast England Coast
RAF bombs Boulogne and other German held French ports in a moonlit raid early tonight. Observers across the water reported bright explosions while German long range guns briefly fired on the Dover area.
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England
RAF
Boulogne
France
Dover
Finns Repulse Red Attacks Near Lake Onega and Fronts
Finnish headquarters reported two local Russian attacks above Lake Onega were repulsed. Artillery duels and infantry skirmishes occurred on the Leningrad front while patrol activity continued along the far northern front.
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Helsinki
Finland
Lake Onega
Leningrad
Nelson Has Eye On Politicians
Washington January 28 Senate passes omnibus war powers bill excusing most war workers from Hatch Act plus mail postage free for soldiers sailors and marines. Nelson defends War Production Board rules rejecting political ties while acknowledging pressures from special interests.
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Washington
Senate
House
Chamber
CCC
Taft
Ohio
Federal Reserve Bank
McNary
Oregon
Civilian Conservation Corps
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Pan Americans End Quarrel Ends Peru Ecuador Border Row
Rio de Janeiro January 28 Brazil's Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha announced that an agreement was reached on the Peru Ecuador border dispute, ending an 111 year quarrel that blocked the Pan American Conference's Axis severance plan. Bray remained the 18th republic to sever ties as Argentina Chile and Ecuador awaited action. Paraguay? (Note: text preserved as per source context)
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Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Peru-Ecuador
Axis
Bray
Foreign Office
Argentina
Chile
Ecuador
Peru
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Burma
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North Central Portion
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
Eens
Leeks
Fenee
Gulf
Varanger
New Jersey
Bomber Command
First Air Force
Russell Stationery Co
Georgia
Dial 6262
Slade
Polk
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