Spokesman in Tokyo Admits Heavy Losses
Allied warplanes sink three big enemy transports in the Dutch East Indies campaign as Tokyo confirms 26 Japanese transports sunk or damaged. Commander Itaru Toshiro says UN air and sea forces threaten heavier Japanese losses. MacArthur reports widespread American Filipino success on Bataan.
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Japan
Dutch East Indies
Tokyo
Pacific
Itaru Toshiro
Naval Press Section
United Nations
U. S. War Department
N.E.I
Acassar
Celebes Island
Palembang
Sumatra
Ohio House Members Oppose Pension Bill
All four Ohio representatives voted yesterday for repeal of the Congressmen's pension bill. The House approved the repeal by a 389 to 7 vote in Washington.
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Ohio
House
Washington
Burr Oak Dam project eyed for favorable report
A Rivers and Harbors Commission hearing in Washington on the Burr Oak Dam in the East Branch area of Sunday Creek drew support from Ohio figures. Promoters including Congressman Jenkins and Senator Burton pressed the project while opponents raised land-owner concerns. The commission is expected to issue a favorable report.
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Glouster
Rivers and Harbors Commission
Washington
Burr Oak
East Branch
Sunday Creek
Thomas A. Jenkins
Athens County
C. F. Wallace
Burr Oak Association
M. M. Bryson
C. E. Handley
W. E
Conservation Department of
State of Ohio
Don Sheldon
Association
Attorney Hale
Columbus
Jenkins
U. S
Harold K. Burton
Cleveland
Robert A. Taft
Robert Secrest
Stephen A. Young
Claypool
Attorney Cox
McConnelsville
Owens
Hale
Impossible To Send Plane to MV Arthur
President Roosevelt said it is impossible to get aircraft reinforcements to General MacArthur's army on Bataan Peninsula. At a press conference he questioned how a bomber could be landed there and whether a navy bomber could alight on water and endure.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Clark Lee
Associated Press
MacArthur
Workmen Recovering Bodies From Towboat G. W. McBride
In Newport Kentucky crews search the wreck of the Towboat G. W. McBride as the river's drop allows access to the buckled hull. Fifteen people are believed drowned after a cross current drove the vessel into a bridge pier. The body of Mrs. Jessie Foulks of Miller was recovered last night after the river fell enough to reveal her pinned beneath steam pipes.
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Newport
G. W. McBride
Jessie Foulks
Miller
Herbert S. Duffy Seeks Democratic Nomination for Governor
Columbus reports former attorney general Herbert S. Duffy announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor. Duffy, who served as attorney general in 1937 38, declared his bid yesterday in a statement to reporters.
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Columbus
Herbert S. Duffy
Ofce
Village rescue saves 43 seamen after storm wrecks ships
In St. Lawrence Newfoundland villagers rig a bosun chair to haul 43 survivors from a 200 foot cliff after the destroyer Truxtun and the supply ship Pollux were wrecked in a violent storm. At least 189 men died. one rescued dory was swamped while others saved. A third U S ship also ran ashore but remained afloat.
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ST. John's
Newfoundland
U. S
St. Lawrence
Washington
Work or Fight Legislation Urged to End War Production Strikes
Aimed at arming the War Labor Board with power, the plan would draft striking workers into the armed forces if they are defered due to essential war jobs and blackball nondeferred strikers at plants on government contracts. President Roosevelt urged no work stoppages in his radio address, boosting support for the measure.
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Washington
Administration
War Labor Board
Congress
Roosevelt
Body of Cleveland Conductor Is Found
Middletown reports the discovery of W G Faber, 56, a Cleveland conductor for the Big Four Railroad. Police probe the Dec 29 stabbing and canal dumping, noting the body showed chest wounds and that he may have died before or after being cast into the water. Coroner Garrett Boone indicated the incident remains under investigation.
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Middletown
W. G. Faber
Cleveland
Big Four Railroad
Faber
Garrett
Boone
Bricker Seeks State Coal Need Reports for War Emergency
Governor John W. Bricker asked county commissions mayors and boards of education to report their solid fuel requirements for the coming year to ensure government facilities stay supplied during the war emergency. He warned of potential coal and coke shortages for government utilities schools and public buildings.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Boards of Education
School Children May Be Used To Harvest Crops
Fay W. Hunter of Washington, head of the farm placement section at the U S Employment Service, said it may become necessary to draft school children from seventh grade upward to meet the nation's farm labor shortage.
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Chicago
Fay W. Hunter
Washington
U. S. Employment Service
Ohio Workers Reopen Plants Hit by Strikes
Ohio workers return to two plants after government appeal for uninterrupted war production. In Columbus Ralston Steel Car Co workers vote to resume duties following NLRB plea, while SWOC seeks election at the plant. In Cleveland CIO Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Union members resume work at Monarch Aluminum pending NLRB hearing on a bargaining election.
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Ohio
Columbus
Ralston Steel Car Co
Philip G. Philips
National Labor Relations Board
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
NLRB
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Ralsa
Howard Porter
SWOC
Frank Livingston
Cleveland
Monarch Aluminum Manufacturing Co
Farm price rise halted request pitch to Senate bloc
Washington AP reports administration leaders offered a compromise to the Senate farm bloc and then pressed for a show down vote on restricting government stock sales of corn wheat cotton and other commodities. Senator Brown proposes an amendment to keep market prices near current levels arguing the original bill would lift living costs by about one billion dollars.
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Washington
Senate Farm Bloc
Brown
D-Mich
Japanese Rear Admiral Shusaku Shibuya Killed
The navy ministry announced that Rear Admiral Shusaku Shibuya was killed in action on February 14 off Borneo during Japanese broadcasts reported by AP.
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Tokyo
Navy Ministry
Shusaku Shibuya
Borneo
Russians Striking Breakthroughs Threaten Leningrad Axis Lines
Soviet forces claim a major victory as the 16th Field Army is crushed and three divisions are shattered in Staraya Russa, with 12 000 German troops killed. New gains reported between Orel and Kharkov amid German setbacks, while Turkey faces a bombing near Ankara. Allied shipping losses climb to 8 300 000 tons through January 1 1942, with Axis totals likely higher.
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Dili
Portuguese Timor
Koepang
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Arma
Sittang River
Rangoon
Sittang
Tse
United States
Mandalay
DNB
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Hitler
Moscow
Germany
Staraya Russia
Leningrad
Orel
Kharkov
Ukraine
Ankara
Turkey
Franz von Papen
Chamber of Shipping of
United Kingdom
Britain
Jenkins Urges Labor Trains for Point Pleasant Plant
Congressman Thomas A Jenkins said labor trains will serve workers on the TNT plant project near Point Pleasant West Virginia. Labor trains run from Charleston and Huntington with about 7500 workers expected on site and many to come from Ohio as informed by plant superintendent R F E McCurdy.
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Washington
TNT
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Thomas A. Jenkins
Jenkins
R. F E. McCurdy
Charleston
Huntington
Ohio
Escapee Captured in Trunk by Relatives in Arizona
Officers end a two week manhunt by arresting George R. Primman, escapee from Mansfield Ohio State Reformatory, found hiding in a trunk at a relative’s Phoenix home yesterday.
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Phoenix, Ariz
George R. Primman
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Change Plan Of Induction
Washington announces a new induction plan that absorbs recruits on the day they pass their army physicals. Local boards will implement once mailed instructions arrive. immediate furloughs possible to avoid undue civilian hardship.
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Washington —T
Selective Service
War Department
Navy Reports Loss of Two More Tankers
The Navy announced that the Norwegian freighter Blink was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast. Earlier reports said the 8 103 ton Cities Service Empire and the 5 287 ton Republic were torpedoed with 16 sailors dead or missing and 57 rescued.
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Navy
Washington
Atlantic
Cities Service Empire
New York
Republic
Houston
Tex
United States
John Ll. Hall
Utica
Fort Pierce
George Sebek
Valley City
Medina County
Ohio
Goose and duck feathers limited for war use by order
Washington reports the War Production Board barred manufacturers and dealers from using goose and duck feathers for civilian goods. The restriction targets filling existing civilian orders as army and navy demand far exceeds production.
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Washington
War Production Board
Army
Navy
Senate committee proposes aid for rationed retail dealers
The Senate Small Business Committee urged government support for retail dealers of rationed articles. It proposed authorizing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to buy their frozen inventories or provide cash to help them sustain investments.
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Washington
Senate Small Business Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
FBI Tracks Japanese Invasion Prep Coast to Coast
FBI agents comb Monterey Higashi Hotel and nearby sites for covert war gear. They seized a floodlight and found firearms radios and searchlights amid raids from Monterey to Salinas and San Francisco. Authorities link abalone divers and a Tokyo police officer turned priest to the broader espionage trail.
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San Francisco
Wide World
Monterey
Calif
FBI
California
Japan
United States
Monterey Harbor
Fort Ord
Tokyo
Watsonville
Salinas
First U S Anti Aircraft Fire North of Los Angeles
In wartime defense news anti aircraft guns fired repeatedly at an unidentified slow moving object off the Southern California coast early today near Santa Monica and Signal Hill. No bombs or planes were reported. officials offered no comment amid blimp speculation.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Western Defense Command
United States
Santa Monica
Signal Hill
Army
Lost destroyer incident and blackout across Southern California
Charles Kirby Potter of Calverton New York, an Ohio University graduate and Navy ensign, served on the destroyer Truxton. Reports describe U S Army planes in action briefly and unconfirmed anti aircraft activity. A broad blackout covered Southern California after earlier shelling at Ellwood tideland oil field with minimal damage and a minor scare near Venice and Long Beach.
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Charles Kirby Potter
Calverton
N. Y
Ohio University
Navy
Truxton
Athens
Potter
Japs Believed To Use Plane Carrying Submarines
London informed sources say Japan uses at least one plane carrying submarine and perhaps more. They claim the Monowai was attacked near New Zealand waters about a month ago by a submarine aircraft strike, with both attacks failing to cause damage.
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London
New Zealand
Monowai
El Paso native named commander of the 7th Infantry
Col. William B. Tuttle, 47, from El Paso Texas, has been named commander of the 7th Infantry. His promotion follows a long Army career with multiple prior assignments and leadership roles.
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William B. Tuttle
el Paso
Texas
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