Japanese Reinforcements and Widening War Front Reported
Allied communiques detail new Japanese troop landings at Olongapo and growing air and artillery pressure on MacArthur in Bataan. Soerabaja losses reported as allies hit transports and barges. Java defense strengthens with Australian and American forces, while Subic Bay influx foreshadows a major push against Luzon and Corregidor fortress.
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MacArthur
Olongapo
Bataan
Java
Sumatra
War Department
Pacific
Batavia
United Nations
Archibald P. Wavell
Soerabaja
San Francisco
Aneta
Rome
Timor
Bali
Philippines
Subic Bay
Singapore
Luzon
Corregidor
U. S
Manila Bay
Masarahu Homma
Cabcaben
Cavite
Dutch East Indies
Bangka
Borneo
Japan
Ocean
China
Manila
Bataan Peninsula
Burma Road
China Sea
Dancing Friend of Mrs Roosevelt Resigns Defense Post
Maynus Chaney, known as Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt’s dancing friend, resigns from a $4,600 yearly civilian defense role amid congressional criticism. She says the resignation halts controversy and she only aimed to help prepare children for possible air raids.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Maynus Chaney
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Soviet Big Guns Smashing Germans
Eye witness dispatch from the Philippines by United Press correspondent Frank Hewlett describes Japanese snipers in Bataan, green painted uniforms and foliage blending, with officers targeted. Also reports the tanker E. H. Blum damaged off the Atlantic coast and Frances Perkins denying resignation rumors. Japanese and Allied actions in early 1942 are summarized with brief notices.
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Associated Press
Sumatra
Dutch Indies
Sunda Strait
Java
Philippines
United Press
Bataan Peninsula
Frank Hewlett
General MacArthur
U.P
Bataan
Douglas MacArthur
Washington
Navy Department
E. H. Blum
Atlantic
Navy
Atlantic Refining Company
Soviet Gains Reported Across Front and Churchill Criticized
Soviet forces, with help from radio-directed guerrilla detachments, reportedly smashed Nazi positions from Leningrad to the Southwest. In Kalinin sector a German counterattack was repelled. 15 German cannons abandoned after concentrated Russian fire. In the Southwest, Soviet batteries damaged 36 targets in one day and recaptured several villages, including Sosino and Manakhovo. Churchill faces renewed calls for a cabinet reshuffle as London papers urge stronger action and critique his governance. Berlin claims cutoffs, prisoners, and heavy losses on the eastern front, while Allied air raids continue on northwest Germany. Roosevelt prepares a major address for Monday night.
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Rangoon
Burma
Chiang Kai-Shek
Thailand
Bilin
Sittang
Salween
Martaban Gulf
China
Billin
Chiengmai
Bangkok
Jina
Brazil
United Nations
Japan
Busin
Moscow
Leningrad
Kalinin
Red Army
Sosino
Smolensk
Manakhovo
Berlin
Germany
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Amarillo Girls Show Camp Bowie Show For Soldiers
Twelve Amarillo girls boast of two rare experiences as Dixie Dice's Dancers travel by blitz buggy to Camp Bowie at Brownwood to perform for soldiers. The feature notes the lively display at the Russell Stationery Company venue with desks chairs and tables involved.
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Amarillo
Dixie Dice
Bowie
Brownwood
Russell Stationery Company
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Continued cold with gradual warming during the day and near zero tonight. West Texas remains very cold this afternoon and tonight. New Mexico grows colder tonight, especially southwest and south central, with cold elsewhere this afternoon and tonight. 24 hour extremes: min zero, max 45. Noon temperature today 22. Precipitation trace.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Noted author of many dog stories dies at 69
Albert Payson Terhune, 69, famed author of dog stories, died at Sunnybank in Pompton Lakes New Jersey after years of heart illness. He is survived by his widow Anice Morris Stockton Terhune, a composer, and daughter Lorraine Stevens.
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Pompton Lakes
N. J
Albert Payson Terhune
Sunnybank
Terhune
Anice Morris Stockton Terhune
Lorraine Stevens
Winter Chill Hits Amarillo School Children
Amid zero weather nearly 1000 pupils rely on the lunch fund for warm meals. A nickel lunch helps, and a $1 contribution funds 20 meals for a day. Call 2 2630 to report donations and support.
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Amarillo
Gandhi and Chiang Kai-Shek Meet in Calcutta Meeting
Mohandas Gandhi and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek met in Calcutta as Chiang tours India and holds talks with Indian leaders. Insurance firm Neely Greenhill Lowndes is noted in the byline.
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Mohandas Gandhi
Calcutta
Chiang Kai-Shek
India
Orrin J Brown To Die in Chair
Orrin J Brown is set to die in the electric chair for the road side hammer murder of Leota Murphy near Spearman. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the death sentence after defense argued the prior prison record should not be admissible. The case details describe Brown luring Murphy via a Denver based correspondence club, stealing her money belt, and killing her with a dime store hammer near a Harris County road.
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Orrin J. Brown
Spearman
Asan Court of Criminal Appeals
Brown
Leota Murphy
Marion
Ind
Hansford
Jack Allen
Bill McConnell
Panhandle
Murphy
Denver
West Coast
Amarillo
Plainview
New Mexico
Dalhart
Canadian
Perryton
End of Severe Spell Brings Cold Snap Across Regions
The article notes a rapid temperature plunge this week, dropping to four degrees by 3:30 PM and to zero within an hour, with a shifting wind. It marks the swiftest fall of the winter, a near finish to the spell though continued cold remains as far south as South Texas. A light snowfall of less than an inch was recorded, part of the 13th snow event of the winter.
Get Acquainted Edition for Amarillo Week
Amarillo announces a special Get Acquainted Edition published Sunday Feb 22 featuring hundreds of local residents in cartoon style. Limited extra copies available, order by phone. Price per copy five cents, ten cents mailed anywhere in the nation.
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Amarillo
British Convoys Striking Back In Mediterranean Clash
British naval planes and ships repelled a three day Axis attack on Mediterranean convoys. They torpedoed at least two or three enemy cruisers and one destroyer, shot down five to nine planes, and two British merchant ships were damaged but all other ships reached safety. A submarine scored hits on one cruiser on the return journey. Rome reports a Cairo class cruiser sunk. Berlin cites a submarine turret hit.
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Soerabaja
East Indies
United Nations
Sumatra
London
U.P
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Eney
Rome
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Winston Churchill
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