Allied Fighters Meet Attacks Burma Is Critical
Japanese planes attacked Java with demolition bombs and machine guns in a two hour raid aimed at Soerabaja and other key targets. Allied planes and anti air defenses repelled the attack, causing only slight damage and some casualties. Reports say Bali and Sumatra positions were prepared for a Java assault as Dutch forces brace for further invasions.
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United Press
Java
Soerabja
East Indies
Japan
U. S. Navy
Pacific
Marshall and
Gilbert Islands
Tokyo
Bali
Batavia
Burma
Sittang
Rangoon-Mandalay
Pegu
Timor
Australia
Koepang
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Rabaul
Sydney
Sumatra
Sittang River
Rangoon
China
Calcutta
India
Weather and wartime notices mix in terse report
Amarillo area forecast shows freezing or above this afternoon with a new cold snap tonight. West Texas and New Mexico remain chilly with daytime warming and colder nights. A U boat incident is reported with missing crew from the tanker attacked in U S Atlantic waters. captains name several missing and presumed dead.
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Amarillo
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos River
New Mexico
Two U S ships wrecked off Newfoundland in gale
A United States destroyer the Truxtun and the stores ship Pollux were wrecked in a gale off Newfoundland near Lawrence harbor with at least 189 officers and men dead or missing. Lieutenant Commander Ralph Hickox of Washington commanded the Truxtun. Survivors were pulled from icy seas by Lawrence residents as rescue lines failed amid oil slicks and heavy currents.
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Washington
Newfoundland
Navy
Ralph Hickox
Washington, D. C
Lawrence Harbor
Lawrence
North Atlantic
Iceland
Japan rules air and sea in ABDA area Churchill says
London reports Prime Minister Churchill told Parliament that Japan controls air and commands the sea in the ABDA area and has superior land forces. He predicted a long war with possible 1943 or 1944 outcomes, noted heavy British shipping losses, and said a postwar reconstruction plan would be proposed soon. Chiang Kai-shek joins Pacific war council.
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London
Churchill
House of Omrmmons
Japan
Abda
Britain
United Nations
Red Army pushes toward Smolensk as Dorogobuzh falls
Western front dispatches say Soviet forces drive from Dorogobuzh toward Smolensk, amid heavy fighting east of Smolensk. Dorogobuzh capitulation follows dawn assault as Red Army vows to liberate Nazi-occupied territory. Soviet reports claim 500 German casualties, 10 settlements retaken, and multiple German tanks and guns captured.
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Moscow
Smolensk
Red Army
Dorogobuzh
Western Front
Stalin
Mozhaisk
Soviet Information Bureau
Kharkov
Cold Weather Expected With Brief Warm Afternoon
The forecast calls for extended cold with a brief warm spell this afternoon reaching near freezing. Temperatures will then fall again tonight, though not as severely as last night.
Texas Democrats Ate As if They Meant It
Fort Worth report on a Democratic fundraising dinner raising near a hundred thousand dollars with a 30 million gate. Panhandle supporters exceeded quotas and rumors swirled about Jimmie Allred and Lyndon Johnson challenging O Daniel for the U S Senate.
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Texas
Panhandle
Potter County
Joe Dooley
Amarillo
Seventh Court of Criminal Appeals
E. C. Nelson
W. T. Link
Clarendon
Jimmie Allred
Houston
W. Lee O'Daniel
U. S. Senate
Tom Connally
Sam Rayburn
Senator O'Daniel
Raymond Buck
Allred
Lyndon Johnson
O'Daniel
Johnson
Jerry Mann
Lull on Bataan Front Amid Japanese Bombing
UPI reports a quiet 24 hours on the Bataan jungle battlefront with no ground attacks by either side. Japanese planes dropped incendiaries as observers weigh possible troop reorganization or Japanese shifts elsewhere while President Roosevelt hails MacArthur’s defenders and pledges future offensive action.
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Washington
UPI
Bataan
Douglas MacArthur
Army of
War Department
Japanese air raid on Port Moresby reports no major damage
Canberra dispatch reports two waves of Japanese planes raided Port Moresby on the British New Guinea island. No vital damage or casualty details were released by Sir Arthur Drakeford, the Australian minister, and he provided no further information.
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Canberra
U.P
Port Moresby
British New Guinea
Arthur S. Drakeford
Drakeford
Chiang Kai-Shek Returns From India Visit
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek has returned from his visit to India, announced today in Chungking.
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Chungking
Chiang Kai-Shek
India
Sub Shelling of U S Coast Marks Wartime Incident
A large Japanese submarine surfaced about eight miles north of Santa Barbara and fired 12 to 15 shells at Elwood and nearby oil facilities at 7 10 P M California time. The Bankline Oil refinery sustained minor damage with no fires. a blackout followed along the coast from Santa Barbara to Ventura.
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United States
Cape Cod
Santa Barbara
California
Elwood
11Th Naval District
Bankline Oil Company
F. W. Borde
Ventura
Goleta
Activi
American Pilots Let ’em Have It
American air crews blasted a Japanese invasion fleet off Bali with dive bombers and heavy bombers. Reports say one cruiser sunk, six hit, one transport sunk, another hit, and at least four Japanese fighters down, with ten fliers earning silver stars and one American plane missing. The action occurred near Den Pasar and the Lombok Strait as Bali’s coast endured the attack.
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Bandoeng
Netherlands
Java
Malang
Bali
Bali Strait
Japan
William B. McDougall
Arkansas
L. H. Galusha
Little Rock
den Pasar
Galusha
J. B. Summers
D. H. Skiles
Eliot Vandevanter
Washington, D. C
Ray Swanbeck
Flagstaff
Ariz
P. L. Mathewson
Richmond
Lombok Strait
Loss of Teeth Rouses Anger At Nazis
A. H. Rankin, a 56 year old Houston stewards aboard the S. S. Republic, recalls torpedoes that sunk the ship near West Palm Beach. He lost his false teeth during the chaos and cursed the Nazis while clinging to a rope and surviving the ordeal. The account describes the torpedoing, lifeboat catastrophe, and the sailor’s indignation at dental loss.
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Republic
Steward
A. H. Rankin
Houston
A. M. Rankin Steward
S. Republic
West Palm Beach
Fila
Tanker Republic Torpedoed Off Atlantic Coast Five Dead
Two torpedoes struck the 5,287 ton tanker Republic near the Atlantic coast. The ship survived but five men were lost with 28 survivors reaching port. One fireman from Puerto Rico recounted a frantic escape via a porthole with pants and $72 left behind.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
U.P
Republic
Atlantic
The
Petroleum Navigation Co
Houston
Texas
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Andersen
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Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Bob Kesterson
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Berlin
Pacific Warouncil
U.S
Salt Lake City
By Lewis Nordyke
Fort Worth
W. Douglas Hudgins
Broadway Baptist Church
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