Allied Crisis Grows Daily in Pacific War Analysis
DeWitt MacKenzie notes Singapore's precarious defense as Japanese forces push ashore on the northwest coast. He cites air power and reinforcements as critical, warns of strategic impacts on Malacca Strait and Rangoon if Singapore falls, and highlights Sydney reports on the fighting and the AP journalist McDaniel. He also notes intensified Japanese pressure on General MacArthur at Bataan as a broader pivot toward the Dutch East Indies.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Singapore
Orient
Sydney
Palau Ubin
Johore Strait
Sumatra
Malacca Strait
Rangoon
Burma
China
Pacific
C. Yates McDaniel
Associated Press
McDaniel
New York
Hame
America
MacArthur
Bataan
Dutch East Indies
Tough Guy Killed During Bold Rescue in Chicago
In Chicago on February 9, Joseph Skupien an ex convict known as a neighborhood tough was killed after a tavern shooting spree. Detective John Leahy cornered Skupien in the police squad room and fired two shots then two more after Skupien fired at witnesses. Skupien died on the station floor as two men were previously slain in a tavern holdup.
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Chicago
Joseph Skupien
Stockyards
Skupien
New City
Joseph Connelly
Bruno Jachmyak
John Leahy
Connelly
Leahy
Appian
Jachmyak
Nurse Is Charged With Slaying New Born Baby
New York February report says Irma Twiss a 32 year old Bronx Maternity Hospital nurse, described as elegant, is charged with homicide in the death of a newborn girl and accused of feeding narcotics to another infant. She denies, claiming crying drove her to actions. she is jailed for a Wednesday hearing.
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Nurse
New York
Bronx Maternity Hospital
Louise M. Wagner
Irma Twiss
Miss Twiss
Martin Kraus
Kraus
Bellevue Hospital
Bronx
Castro Valle
Fred Fantagone
Valle
Mrs. Valle
Old Dobbin Ts No Substitute For Auto Tire
Kansas City report on a grocery chain swapping to horse drawn delivery due to tire and truck shortages. Westport and Country Club area crews switch from streetcar to horse wagon teams, using resurrected wagons from storage and other locations. Delivery staff crave a ride in the wagons as students recall earlier days.
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Kansas City
Dobbin
Westport
Country Club
Bonner Springs
White Church
Kan
Linkville
Gun Fire Ends Couple's First Airplane Ride
Delbert Henson and 15 year old Beverly Ann Keith were shot during their first plane ride near Alton Illinois. Henson was critically wounded with bullets hitting his hip stomach and the fuel tank. Pilot Delbert Richardson steered the crippled craft back to the Granite City airport as Army guards investigated communications to Seventh Corps in Omaha.
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Granite City, II
Delbert Henson
Beverly Ann Keith
Henson
Alton
Til
Western Cartridge Company
Jefferson Barracks
J. A. Wilhauer
Army Guards
Army
Seventh Corps
Omaha
Delbert Richardson
Granite City
Miss Keith
Richardson
Keith
Left Leg Charmed at Dayton Petitions Stir Horse Haven
Wayne Kin nan, 21, suffers his seventh broken right leg above the knee. Petitioners may be from customers' families. Horses remain undisturbed as a motorist backs into one, the steed calmly steps onto the curb while the driver departs.
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Dayton
Ore
Wayne Kinnan
Black-Draught Laxative Ad Promotes Easy Relief
A vintage advertisement claims Black-Draught provides gentle thorough relief from constipation. It touts vegetable ingredients including a tonic laxative, promises 25 to 40 doses in a yellow box for 25 cents, and urges readers to seek the genuine time-tested product.
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Southwest
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Couple
Texas
Sam
Texas M
Continent Oil and Gas Association
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