Armaments Drive Slowed by Material Needs Amid Pacific Battles
A Daily Mail dispatch from Walter Farr describes massive U.S. wartime convoys heading to the Southwest Pacific. Naval and air battles unfold as ships carry troops pilots planes tanks and guns to bolster Australia and prepare for a large offensive against Japan.
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London
Walter Farr
Daily Mail
United States Pacific
Southwest Pacific
Australia
Farr
Pacific
Java Defenders Fall Back as Java Coast Hostile Pressure Intensifies
Allied forces exhausted from unending bombardment retreating westward across western Java and Batavia as Japanese advance cripples communications. Dutch, American, Australian and British troops trade rear-guard actions while Batavia is evacuated and Bandoeng prepares for siege under air dominance.
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Java
Batavia
Dutch East Indies
Soerabaja
Bandoeng
Poerwakarta
Kalidjati
Soebang
London
Jogjakarta
Java Plain
Greater
Tjilatjap
Australia Faces Imminent Japanese Threat From Java
Melbourne dispatch reports Maj. Gen. Bennett warning Japan would strike Australia within weeks unless swift action is taken. Prime Minister Curtin calls up men to 60 for service as air raid alerts flare in Sydney. US bombers pulled from Java due to insufficient fighter cover amid Allied command movements and mounting losses.
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Melbourne
Japan
Australia
Henry Gordon Bennett
John Curtin
Bennett
Malaya
Java
Sydney
New Guinea
Washington
H. V. Evatt
Canberra
U. S
New Zealand
United States
Melbourne Sun
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Philippines
Boost in Debt Limit Approved By House Group
The House ways and means committee voted to raise the federal debt limit from 65.008 billion to 125 billion dollars. Morgenthau warned the Treasury would run out of borrowing power by May and urged voluntary savings over forced measures. He noted defense needs and defense bond sales, including 4.3 billion borrowed since last May and 68 percent of large employers implementing payroll deductions. Four wounded in a Bloomington labor dispute at a stone mill marked a violent incident in the day’s news.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
The
Treasury
Rep
Robertson
Virginia
Defense Savings
United States
Bloomington
Ind
Earl Baxter
Large Roundup of Enemy Aliens in Albuquerque
Federal agents and state officers conducted dawn raids in the Albuquerque area seizing contraband and rounding up a large but undisclosed number of German, Italian and Japanese enemy aliens. D. A. Bryce led the raids with FBI in charge, aided by top peace officers.
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Albuquerque
N. M
D. A. Bryce
F.B.I
Stage Set for 12th Annual Amarillo Fat Stock Show
The Amarillo Fat Stock Show opens Monday at the Tri-State Fairgrounds with 275 calves and over a thousand head expected. Entries will be judged starting Monday with events including swine judging at 9 AM and a blue ribbon sale for Hereford breeders on Thursday. A stock show committee will inspect entrants Sunday to determine those for sale, and a grand champion baby beef will be chosen Tuesday.
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Amarillo
Tri-State Fairgrounds
Jack Tur
Ner
Panhandle Hereford Breeders Association
Panhandle Livestock Association
Amarillo Hotel
Frenchmen Warned To Keep Away From War Factories
London dispatch reports the mysterious Colonel Britton warning French workers near Nazi controlled plants to stay clear as RAF raids intensify. He cites the recent Tuesday night Paris industrial district attack and promises further Allied air offensives.
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London
Britton
Royal Air Force
Paris
Weather Amarillo and Vicinity Saturday Winds Continue
Much wdrdr early Saturday continued strong winds across Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas saw occasional snow flurries and near freezing temperatures in the Panhandle and South Plains. A daytime drop in temperature was expected elsewhere with winds 25 to 35 mph, extending to the Del Rio Eagle Pass area in the afternoon.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
del Rio
Eagle ‘Pass
Battlefronts Update From March 6 1942 Front Lines
A quick view shows Java defense in a desperate rear guard stand on the Bandoeng Plateau as Allied numbers dwindle. American heavy bombers left Java last week though fighter support scarce. Australia imposes universal service under 60 amid looming attack. Burma reports a counterattack near Pegu with heavy casualties. Russians push beyond Yukhnov and describe its fortifications as an anchor for spring offensives. In Staraya Russa, efforts to destroy the trapped 16th German Army continue. An American freighter and a Panamanian tanker are overdue and presumed lost, and the Norwegian motorship Lies is reported sunk with crew rescue.
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Melbourne
Australia
U.R
United States
Java
East Indies
Unaed Press
Vance Johnson
Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Air Force
Mas Laya
Djokja
High Command
India
Bandoeng
George
Yukhnov
Moscow
Staraya Russa
Navy reports Nervana and Olympic overdue and presumed lost
The navy said an American freighter Nervana and a Panamanian tanker Olympic are overdue and presumed lost with combined crews of about 60. Nervana, 2677 gross tons, was Baltimore based and built in 1920 as York. Olympic, 6335 gross tons, launched in 1907, Los Angeles home port.
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Washington
Navy
York
Merchants and Miners Transportation Company of
Maryland
Baltimore
Olympic
Los Angeles
Navy Department
Nervana
Compania Internacional de Vapores, Ltd
Six Convicted in Spy Trial in Wartime Espionage Case
In New York on March 6 a jury convicted five men and a woman of espionage conspiracy, marking the nation’s first spy trial since the war began. They face up to 20 years each. deliberation lasted 2 hours 40 minutes. The alleged acts occurred before the war declaration after Pearl Harbor.
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New York
United States
Porl Harbor
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