U.S. flier who sank battleship killed in Philippine fighting
The Far Eastern army command announces the death of Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr. after he was credited with three direct bomb hits on a Haruna class Japanese battleship. Admiral Hart reports U S navy planes damaged the Kongo off northwest Luzon and notes three American planes lost since Pearl Harbor. Kelly, 26, a 1937 West Point graduate, was promoted to captain in 1940.
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Manila
Colin P. Kelly, Jr
Thomas C. Hart
Luzon
Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Far Eastern Army
Boyd D. Wagner
Army Air Corps
Aparri
Wagner
Hart
C. A. Keller
J. V. Petersen
Admiral Hart
Gulf of Davao
Pearl Harbor
Kelly
Florida
U. S. Military Academy
United States to Take Over Eritrea as War Arsenal
Cairo reports the United States will virtually administer Eritrea for the war, while Britain retains title and governance of the Red Sea strip. US will send thousands of technicians to build factories and plants, making the area a powerhouse behind regional combat troops.
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Cairo
United States
Eritrea
Middle East
Great Britain
Red Sea
Italy
Britain
Rescue Crew Recovers Two Bodies From Powhatan Mine Fire
A 19 hour fire fight five miles underground at Powhatan Mining Co. Coal mine ended with rescue crews retrieving the bodies of Charles Funk of Millfield and Steve Liskanich of Powhatan. Thirty eight other miners were saved. A cable short circuit is believed to have started the blaze.
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Powhatan Point
Powhatan Mining Co
Charles Funk
Millfield
Steve Liskanich
Powhatan
Canton Drivers Vote Retention of Meters
A mail referendum in Canton shows 76 percent support keeping parking meters. Of 12 122 motorists who voted, meters have operated in the business district for six months. The city has 600 meters with 250 more on order for delivery in the next 10 days.
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Canton
Last Civil War veteran Leonard Gribben dies at 95
Leonard Gribben, the last Civil War veteran at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home, has died at age 95. His body was sent to Pittsburgh for burial.
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Sandusky
Leonard Gribben
Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home
Pittsburgh
Blackouts On West Coast Prove Effective During War
In the war era blackout drills sweep Los Angeles and San Diego with brief alerts. An army information service spokesman cites an unidentified object off San Diego as trigger for the alert. Santa Cruz residents endure a 3.5 hour blackout with 1000 evacuated inland and lights out as soldiers tour door to door.
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Los Angeles
San Diego
Army Information Service
Santa Cruz
Ohio Draft Boards Ordered to Reclassify 4-A Draftees
Columbus selective service headquarters directed 330 draft boards in Ohio to reclas sify all 4-A men who have completed service in the regular armed forces. Lt. Col. C. W. Globe said the move affects about 3,900 Ohioans and that there would be no further discharges from the armed services.
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Columbus
Selective Service
Ohio
Regular
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
C. W. Globe
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Faces Ten Lawsuits
The Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co. is named defendant in ten suits seeking a total of 103 300 dollars after a explosion a year ago that killed 14 people.
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Cincinnati
The_ Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co
Agriculture Heads See No Shortage of Food
Washington officials reassure housewives that there is ample food for all and more to spare abroad. They cite record summer production, bulging granaries, and high milk egg meat output as war demands rise. Sugar supplies remain ample for months, with few shortages anticipated.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
America
Roosevelt
United States
Far East
Ten Billion Bill Promised Amid Pacific War News
Washington reports the nation focuses on major finances as battles rage in the Pacific. The wake defense at Wake Island and the Philippines confront renewed Japanese action while lawmakers consider a ten billion dollar bill to support the war effort.
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Washington
Wake
Tobruk
Philippines
AFL Workers Captured as War News Says Midway Guam Fell
The AFL reports over 1,000 building trades members captured by Japan as Midway and Guam fell. Navy adds three enemy ships sunk and a fourth damaged, while Wake loses loom with Marines holding out. Roosevelt calls for labor management talks on a binding dispute settlement. Civilian car production to curb to aid war effort. Navy Secretary Knox arrives in Hawaii amid continued Japanese activity. Cash defense bonds rise sharply in banks.
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American Federation of Labor
Navy
Midway
Guam
Pearl Harbor
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Wake
U. S
Knox
Hawaii
Army
The
Treasury
Sailor's Wife Who Led Blackout Mob Is Jailed
Seattle police court fined 25 dollars and ordered 30 days in jail on a disorderly conduct charge for Ethel Chelsing, 19, wife of a sailor, who officers say led a window breaking crowd during Monday night’s test blackout. she elected to serve the sentence.
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Seattle
Wash
Ethel Chelsing
Applicants Swamp Recruiting Stations Across Nation
Recruiting officers reported jam-packed stations with applications up ten to twenty fold and enlistments doubled. People remembering Pearl Harbor line up for hours at army navy and marine offices nationwide. Some stations stay open around the clock and offices close only when workers collapse. The War and Navy Departments are overwhelmed with paperwork and the army projects 50 000 volunteers in December while the Marine Corps aims for 4000, both doubling recent totals.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Army, Navy and Marine
Navy
War
Navy Departments
Army
Marine Corps
Ohio Officials Urge Surplus Sharing With Local Governments
More than 250 local officials and civic groups pressed Gov Bricker to call a special session to distribute the wartime surplus. They seek funds to pay a $6 million school debt, and propose dividing next year’s sales tax receipts 60 percent to schools and 40 percent to local governments. County auditor Harold Fromm suggested $10,000 to each county plus allocations by tax duplicates.
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Columbus
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Harold M. Fromm
Clark County
Holiday Leaves for Ohio Men Sliced in Half
CAMP SHELBY Mississippi Major General Beightler said Ohio 37th Division leaves are cut to 25 percent of strength instead of 50. First train to Hat tiesburg leaves tonight with two more trains to follow next night and Monday. Officers get up to 12 days liberty while soldiers’ furloughs are reduced to seven or eight days.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
Ohio
Hattiesburg
Robert S. Beightler
Two Ohioans Killed In Jap Attack Sunday
War Department lists 37 more fallen soldiers from the Hawaiian attack with two Ohio names Corporal John J Kohl of Springfield and Private Robert R Kelley of Findlay Kelley a 22 year old bombardier and machine gunner at Hickam Field near Honolulu wrote he doubted he would return in his last letter home according to his father in Findlay.
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Washington
Hawaii
War Department
John J. Kohl
Springfield
Robert R. Kelley
Findlay
Kelley
Hickam Field
Honolulu
All But One Soldier Get a Return Trip
Richmond report says the Women's Motor Corps of the Volunteer Service Bureau made over 20 trips to bring soldiers back to Virginia army posts in a single night. Captain Merritt Ruddock notes every man was welcomed except one private who could not be returned to his camp in Shepherd, Texas.
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Richmond
Women’s Motor Corps
Volunteer Service Bureau
Virginia
Merritt Ruddock
Shepherd
Texas
Ohio CIO Pledges Support for War Effort
The Ohio CIO council executive board pledged support for the national war effort in a letter to President Roosevelt. The message was signed by council president John Owens and other officers.
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Columbus
Ohio Cio Council
Roosevelt
John Owens
BI Arrests Germans Japs In Ohio Drive
Treasury agents closed and placarded at least three Japanese owned businesses in Ohio including the Tokyo Chow Mein Company Sam Sato Restaurant and Oriental Trading Company in Dayton Eleven enemy aliens were taken into custody in the tri state area Nine Germans were arrested in Cincinnati one in Dayton and one in Huntington W V Two Japanese picked up at Logan W V were sent to Fort Thomas Ky for detention Civil defense plans expanded with William W Jarrell restoring licenses to student pilots and industrial flyers after citizenship loyalty proof Licenses of most civilian pilots were suspended earlier in the week
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Columbus
Treasury Department
Ohio
Cincinnati
Tokyo Chow Mein Company
Sam Sato
Oriental Trading Company
Dayton
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Tri-State
Huntington
W. Va
Logan
Fort Thomas
William W. Jarrell
Civil Aeronautics Inspector
Cleveland District
Huge Russian Drive Seizes War Supplies Near Leningrad
London commentators see a full scale Russian counterattack along the front as frostbitten German regions brace for winter. Recapture of Tikhvin yields 42 artillery pieces 27 tanks 10 armored cars 102 trucks and many infantry weapons. Pravda calls Japan's US war entry a hazardous venture likely to end in defeat.
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London
Berlin
Tikhvin
Leningrad
Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
No Action in First Contact With Nipponese Fleet
Japanese ships reportedly fled under cover of night after an initial encounter with U S Asiatic Fleet units in the Pacific. The clash marked the first sighting in the region during the current operations.
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Pacific
U S Congress to Require Universal 19 to 45 Service
Speaker Rayburn announced immediate introduction of legislation mandating registration for all men aged 18 to 65 with 19 to 45 deemed responsible for service after a Capital meeting with Secretary Stimson and General Hershey. In the Pacific, Hart reported heavy Japanese strikes on Cavite and Luzon as MacArthur noted 113 bombers and a Legaspi landing.
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Washington
Rayburn
Stimson
Lewis B. Hershey
Admiral Hart
Cevite
Manila
Cavite
Japan
Luzon Island
U. S
Wake Island
General MacArthur
The
Philippines
War Updates From Pacific Front Sinking Battleships and Invasions
U S planes reportedly hit a Kongo class battleship off northwest Luzon along with a light cruiser and destroyer near Wake Island. Haruna is declared sunk by Japan, while Tokyo reports nine lost planes. Japan presses toward Singapore as Hong Kong and Luzon feel pressure.
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Far East
Britain
Singapore
Hongkong
Kowloon
Crown Colony
Victoria
Kwangtung
China
United States
Germany
Italy
Japan
Berlin
Rome
Washington
Russia and Japan in tense balance amid Pacific war fears
Russia signals a common cause with Britain and the United States while keeping a peace stance toward Germany. Soviet spokesmen reject peace feelers as Japan fights China Malaya and the Philippines on three fronts. Tokyo fears a sudden Russian move could strike from air bases in Tokyo and alter Japan's strategic posture.
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Soviet
Russia
Germany
Pravda
Communist Party
United States
Britain
Manila
Luzon
Aparri
Tip
Pacific
China Sea
Japan
Maxim Litvinoff
America
China
Malaya
Philippines
Tokyo
Nazis Hold Americans In Reprisal Arrests
Berlin reports that Germany will jail United States citizens in parity with German nationals held in the United States. An official Nazi spokesman said Americans will be confined here if further German arrests occur. He claimed U S newspapermen were kept in filthy cells while American reporters in Berlin were housed in a private mansion.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Oak Hill Child Burned In Fall Into Fireplace
Gallipolis report says Marlin Miller four year old son of Mr and Mrs Dwight Miller of Oak Hill was rushed to the hospital with serious burns after falling into an open fireplace at the family home this morning.
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Gallipolis
Marlin Miller
Dwight Miller
Oak Hill
Miller
German Regiment Destroyed in Africa by British Forces
British troops shattered the German 361st African regiment and pressed a two day fight through a sandstorm, advancing fifty miles beyond Tobruk in the campaign near Cairo.
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Africa
Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
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