Submarine Shells Oil Field Near Santa Barbara
An enemy submarine fired 25 shells at an oil field near Goleta, seven miles north of Santa Barbara, causing damage to a pumping plant and derrick but no fires or casualties. The attack lasted from 7:10 to 7:35 p m during Roosevelt's address, with blackout warnings and coast guard activity along the 101 corridor.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Roosevelt
Goleta
Here
United States
Pacific
Atlantic
Orleans
Mass
Carpenteria
California
Staniff Place
Brown
Barnsdall Oil Co
No. 101
Tecolote Ranch
FDR Warns U.S. Against New Losses
President Roosevelt told Americans to brace for further reverses on the war fronts while reports came of a submarine firing on the California coast. The wartime notice framed the threat as ongoing and developing.
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FDR
U.S
Washington
Roosevelt
California
Phones Silent as FDR Urges Uninterrupted War Production
In Philadelphia the Electrical Bureau and police switchboard reported no emergency or official calls during President Roosevelt's radio address. Private calls dropped to almost nothing as the nation faced Axis sub raids and the call for continuous production to build war superiority. The speech urged uninterruptible output and noted Allied advances and growing American air and ground forces in the Pacific.
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Philadelphia
Municipal Electrical Bureau
Police
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Atlantic
Pacific
Axis
United Nations
Pearl Harbor
Pacific Battle Theater
Bostic Funeral Held in Gallia County
Funeral services for A. O. Bostic 76 a long time Gallipolis resident were held at Bethesda Church. He died Sunday near Bladen in the care of his brother Emmett Bostic survived by three married daughters living out of state.
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Gallipolis
A. O. Bostic
Emmett Bosic
Bladen
Bethesda Church
Used Equipment Needed On Farms Ad Teaches Cash Sale
An old Mes senger Classified style notice urges farmers to place ads for used equipment and repair parts. It promises wide reader reach with over 45 000 readers and offers to write the ad for three-line notices at a low cost.
Red Army advances threaten Nazi retreat from Moscow
Russian spearheads drive toward Dorogobuzh near the Moscow-Smolensk line threatening the main Nazi retreat route. Panino captured near Rzhev while Sevastopol fires burn and heavy fighting continues around Kharkov and Leningrad. Norway reports Germany ordering 500,000 pairs of skis for a renewed eastern front winter.
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Russia
Moscow
Dorogobuzh
Moscow-Smolensk
Vyazma
Smolensk
Panino
Rzhev
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Sevastopol
Crimea
Kharkov
Leningrad
Norway
Experts Okay Tax Increases
Treasury and congressional tax experts reportedly agreed to recommend drastic increases in corporation taxes, individual income taxes and excise levies to raise seven billion dollars in additional revenue. Sources say a general sales tax and war profits tax are not practical now, while accelerated levies on firms with lucrative government contracts remain possible.
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Washington
Treasury
Congressional
Egg prices fall amid U S government price floor impact
In Chicago a scrambled market faces a price floor as wholesale egg dealers and traders return after Washington's Birthday. Prices have declined since mid January, while households buy eggs at substantially lower levels despite large shipments to Great Britain.
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Chicago
Mercantile Exchange
Washington
Great Britain
Tin shortage not to affect Ohio sauerkraut
A cooperage industry spokesman told Ohio sauerkraut packers to relax over wartime tin can shortages. Fred R. Hankerson, executive secretary of the Cooperage Industries of America, said they can furnish cooperage to pack every ounce of sauerkraut in Ohio.
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ST. Louis
Ohio
Thin Man Hunted In Liquor Robbery
Two hundred cases of liquor worth $6,000 were stolen over the weekend from a downtown Cleveland store. Police say a thin man crawled through a 9 by 16 inch opening after sawing a grilled window bar, then sawed off locks on two doors to reach a rear parking lot. Tire marks suggest a truck was used to haul the loot.
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Cleveland
Churchill says Axis strength waning with potential early final victory
In the House of Commons Churchill asserted Japan rules the air and holds a temporary sea dominance in ABDA areas. He warned of Japan's large land forces and heavy Allied shipping losses, predicting a long war possibly to 1943 or 1944, with a postwar reconstruction plan to follow and a chance of victory arriving unexpectedly.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Japan
Abda
Britain
United Nations
Germany
Berlin
Local Stores Buy Hoarders Sugar Supplies
In Columbus the State Defense Council announced a three ply program to move hoarded sugar from homes to distributors. Retail grocers and stores will pay households the current retail price for sugar turned in for resale before rationing begins.
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Columbus
State Defense Council
Courtney Burton
Council
Eric Ferguson
Bomber Fund Starts For Bataan Defense Under MacArthur
A “Bomber for Bataan” drive launches among American Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula and in Corregidor and Manila Bay islands. The fund aims to buy at least one bomber from the United States after reports of booming aircraft production. The slogan states Better buy one bomber than be buried on Bataan.
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Gen. MacArthur
Bataan Peninsula
Bataan
Corregidor
Manila Bay Islands
United States
Ford
Mrs. C. W. Leeper Dies At Home in Gallipolis
Mrs. Charles W. Leeper who died at her Gallipolis home Sunday will have a funeral on likely Wednesday after the arrival of her son Lawrence Leeper of Dallas Texas. She was formerly Miss Jessie Langley, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Langley, and is survived by her son and two sisters Mrs. J. E. Kreck of Hawks Vinton County and Mrs. Martin Geiler of Cleveland.
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Gallipolis
Charles W. Leeper
Lawrence Leeper
Dallas
Texas
Jessie Langley
Andrew Langley
Leeper
J. E. Kreck
Hawks
Vinton County
Martin Geiler
Cleveland
Mercy Ship Granted Safe Conduct by Nazis
London reports Germany pledged safe conduct for a British ship loaded with wheat bound for Greece but Italy has not replied to a request for assurances. A government spokesman said other shipments of wheat might be sent if distribution was satisfactory.
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London
Germany
Greece
Grain dealers urged to shield war grain stores from harm
Grain dealers were cautioned to protect war vital grain stores from loss by accident or negligence and from possible aerial bombardment. In Washington C H land Campbell, 45, died after a fall down stairs at the Eagles building.
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Toledo
Washington, C. H
Leland A. Campbell
Eagles Building
Sisters Lost in River Once Lived in Gallia
Mrs. Arlie Henderson and Mrs. Verna Connor sisters from Millers near Crown City died in the G. W. McBride towboat sinking in the Ohio River. They had previously lived in Guyan Gallia County and were daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Mons Moore of Millers.
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Gallipolis
Arlie Henderson
Verna Connor
Millers
Crown City
G. W. McBride
Ohio River
Guyan
Gallia County
Mons Moore
Findlay Infant Smothered in Crib After Father Goes to Army Post
A two months old daughter of Mr and Mrs Harvey Brooks died from smothering in her crib. The infant was born after Private Brooks left for an army post in Texas, leaving the family in Findlay.
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Findlay
Harvey Brooks
Private Brooks
Texas
Anti Axis Aid Tripled Since Pearl Harbor
The lend lease aid to the Allied nations has tripled since Pearl Harbor. Edward R. Stettinius Jr. testified that during the first eight months aid averaged about 141 million dollars monthly, rising to 338 million in December and 462 million in January. He noted extended air ferrying routes to the Middle East and Africa, with bases in Scotland and Northern Ireland now available for American troops.
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Washington
United Nations
Pearl Harbor
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Senate Appropriations Committee
Atlantic
Middle East
Lendlease
Pacific
Africa
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Willkie Calls for Full Disclosure on Pearl Harbor Report
Wendell L. Willkie urged that the complete truth be disclosed about the navy's Pearl Harbor bombing report. Speaking during a plane stopover to Hollywood, he said the public ought to know what really happened, ahead of President Roosevelt's radio address.
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Cleveland
Wendell _L. Willkie
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Hollywood
Willkie
Roosevelt
Normandie Fire Origin Linked to Acetylene Burner
Three agencies investigating the Normandie fire agreed saboteurs did not start the blaze. The Third Naval District the New York District attorney's office and the city fire department concurred that sparks from an acetylene burner ignited life preserver halos.
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NEW York 4
Normandie
Third Naval District
New York District Attorney's Office
City Fire Department
Destroyer and Tanker Destroyed in Newfoundland Storm
A US destroyer Truxtun and stores ship Pollux were pounded to pieces off Newfoundland in a gale. At least 189 officers and men are dead or missing. Lt Cmdr Ralph Hickox of Washington commanded the Truxtun. The Pollux carried 1 officer and 91 men among the confirmed dead. Surviving crews were aided by residents of Lawrence, Newfoundland, as lines and breeches buoys failed to reach stricken vessels.
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Newfoundland
Washington
United States
Navy
Ralph Hickox
Washington, D. C
Lawrence Harbor
Lawrence
Truxtun
Kearny
N. J
Hugh W. Turney
Brooklyn Navy Yard
President Roosevelt pledges offensive for United Nations
President Roosevelt stated that thousands of American troops are in the Pacific as the United Nations would take the offensive soon, boosting Allied resolve amid Japan's sea borne invasion. Reports from London and other fronts describe intensified actions in Burma Sumatra Bali and Rabaul with engagements near Rangoon Lashio and Timor Sea.
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Roosevelt
United Nations
Java
Japan
A.E.F. Vanguard
United States
Pacific
London
The
Daily Sketch
America
Burma
Sittang River
Rangoon- Lashio
Dutch Indies
Sumatra
Bali
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Rabaul
New Britain Island
Tokyo
Realizing Differences Between Draft Deferments and Exemptions
Columbus report outlines deferrals and exemptions under the selective service act. Officials note ministers and divinity students are exempt and Two-A and Two-B deferments define temporary relief. Deferments limit time and require periodic review or reassessment as war needs shift. Brig. Gen Hershey warns families to accept temporary nature of deferments.
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Columbus
Selective Service
Col. C . Goble
Lewis B. Hershey
CIO Strike Continues At Columbus Car Plant
Philip G. Phillips of Cincinnati reported that CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee members and Ralston Steel Car Company failed to reach agreement. About 70 percent of 736 employees walked out, halting production. The company had signed a contract with an independent union last July 1.
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Columbus
Philip G. Phillips
Cincinnati
Ralston Steel Car Company
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Mother Proud of Son's Last Action
Mrs Harriet E Wangberg of Lakewood says there should be no posthumous medals for Private Ronald Wangberg who volunteered to blast a Japanese machine gun nest on the Bataan Peninsular and was killed by machine gun fire. She says it will be medal enough when his country wins from such efforts.
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Cleveland
Harriet E. Wangberg
Lakewood
Ronald
Bataan
Ronald Wangberg
McArthur Man Killed in Atlantic War Action
Navy informs Mrs. Alice Bunyan of her son Joseph 27 a storekeeper on a war vessel killed during Atlantic action. He was a Miami University graduate.
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McArthur
Alice Bunyan
Navy
Joseph
Miami University
Governor Bricker to Visit Ohio Army Division
Governor John W Bricker and his executive secretary Don Power left Columbus to visit the 37th Ohio Division. They will return Thursday.
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Ohio
Columbus
John W. Bricker
Don Power
Army
37Th
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