Axis planners map new Mediterranean blow against Allies
Axis officials hint at a major strike in the Mediterranean as Germany Italy and Japan sign a military convention. Raeder and Riccardi met to map strategy while Malta and the Suez route loom large. British gains on the Libyan border are announced as Feodosiya changes hands and Russian front reserves are organized for spring operations.
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Adolf Hitler
Germany
Italy
Japan
Mediterranean
Hitler
Erich Raeder
Mussolini
Arturo Riccardi
Turkey
Suez Canal
Spain
Gibraltar
West Africa
Libya
Malta
Sicily
Crete
Russia
Crimea
Feodosiya
Eople
Gulf of
Sirte
Salum
Britain
Shetland Islands
Arctic
Murmansk
Mozhaisk
Moscow
France
Smolensk
Red Army
Joseph Stalin
Jenkins Sees Sales Tax as War Financing Option
Ohio Republican Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins urged that taxation remains vital to winning the war and suggested a sales tax may be needed to finance the U.S. military program. He noted Congress may cut personal exemptions, raise income rates, broaden excise taxes, and require withholding to reach high earners, warning current sources may not cover seven billion dollars.
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Jenkins
Washington
Ohio
House
Ways and Means
Thomas A. Jenkins
Committee
Treasury
Ironton Republican
Congress
Roosevelt
Ohioan
Former Logan Sp Fire Chief Dies in Automobile Crash
Walter A. Nixon former Logan fire chief, 47, died at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis from injuries after a car wreck at the Gallipolis Airport. Lawrence Schorr, driver, was injured but survived. Nixon to be buried at Roberts Funeral Home with services set for 2 30 p m Tuesday.
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LOGAN
Roberts
Walter A. Nixon
Logan Fire
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Nixon
Lawrence Schorr
Schorr
Lobster Thief Nabbed After Incident At New Haven Eatery
In New Haven a restaurant manager heard screams from the live seafood area and found a man with a lobster gripping his hand. Police charged the man with theft after the bizarre capture inside the seafood room.
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New Haven, Conn
Auto Dealers Plan Future Agenda Amid Armament Shift
Representatives of the nations 42 000 auto mobile dealers met in Chicago to map a future as the industry shifts capacity to armaments. The National Automobile Dealers Association marks its silver anniversary amid fears of insolvency for many dealers and job uncertainty for about 400 000 workers in garages and showrooms.
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Chicago
National Automobile Dealers Association
Wickard Sees Shortage of Sugar Fats and Oils
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard warned on a radio program that shortages of sugar fats and oils are likely by year end due to wartime demands and Pacific island cutoffs. He urged using alternatives like honey and urged belt tightening while noting current food supplies remain ample. He projected fats and oils could run short in 1943 and called on farmers to boost peanut and soybean production.
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Washington
Claude R. Wickard
Franklin Dell
Wickard
America
Pacific Islands
United Nations
United States
Japanese Arrested on Suspicion at Gallipolis
A guard at Kanauga's New York Central Railroad bridge detained a 25 year old Japanese man named Tatsuo Tajima on suspicion. He claimed Portland Oregon as his home, held selective service papers, a telegram from Engineering Research Corp, and a wallet with about $43. He said he returned to the United States eight months ago and will be held for investigation.
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Gallipolis
New York Central
Kanauga
State Patrol
E. E. Hatfield
Tatsuo Tajima
Portland
Oregon
Portland High School
Portland Polytechnic Institute
Tajima
Engineering Research Corporation
Washington, D. C
Yokohama
Vancouver
Honolulu
Sheriff Hatfield
Japan
United States
Auto Wreckers Back Scrap Saving Plan in Ohio
About 250 auto wreckers in Ohio pledged full cooperation with a scrap salvage campaign described by Gov. Bricker as vital to wartime needs. The group agreed to junk cars older than 1933, aiming to supply around 100000 tons of scrap steel for open hearth furnaces, with potential nationwide impact of 1500000 tons.
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Columbus
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Frazier Reams
Toledo
Fifth Area
Ben J. Solomon
Auto Wreckers Association of Ohio
U. S
Solomon
Ohio Farmers Told To Stay Within Goals
Columbus reports Elmer F. Kruse state AAA chairman warns farmers against exceeding 1942 production goals for wheat corn and tobacco. He says excess crops waste labor and supplies needed for other essential wartime needs and urges not to plough pastures and hay meadows. Hay and pasture are needed to increase dairy cattle.
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Columbus
Ohio
Elmer F. Kruse
State
AAA
Kruse
Churchill flies part way home in transatlantic plane
The report says Prime Minister Winston Churchill piloted part of the huge 74 passenger flying boat across the Atlantic on the return to Britain Saturday. Churchill learned to fly before World War I and drew concern in Parliament during the war when he served as first lord of the admiralty.
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London
Winston Churchill
Washington
Atlantic
Britain
Churchill
Admiralty
Defense Stamp Chain Letter Plan Is Halted
A Cleveland attorney who wrote 1,500 Defense Stamp chain letters agreed to recall the letters. The letters bore Help Your Government at the top and Help Your Government and Help Yourself at the bottom. Recipients were asked to send a 25 cent defense stamp to the top name and add their own.
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Cleveland
Chain Letters
Gallia Youth Dies After Auto Crash In Gallia County
Sherman Mitchell a 14 year old Swan Creek resident was killed when struck by a car driven by 19 year old Ralph Boswell. Boswell held for state patrol examination. The accident occurred Sunday night as the boy and others walked along the highway. No other injuries reported.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Sherman Mitchell
Swan Creek
William Mitchell
Ralph Boswell
Boswell
State Highway Patrol
Springfield
Marietta
Mitchell
Democrats to Oppose Herbert Supreme Court Move
Democratic leaders meeting in Columbus expect to ask Attorney Harry F. Pager of Cleveland to oppose a suit by Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert aimed at invalidating the new state senatorial districts drawn by the reapportionment board last spring. Pager would represent Secretary of State John F. Sweeney and Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson, Democratic members who prescribed the districts.
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Columbus
Harry F. Pager
Cleveland
Supreme Court
Atty
Thomas J. Herbert
Pager
John F. Sweeney
Joseph T. Ferguson
Ex Cabinet Member To Take Army Post
Patrick J. Hurley former secretary of war in the Hoover years will join the U S Army as a brigadier general. President Roosevelt sent the nomination to the Senate today but the White House will not disclose his assignment.
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U.S. Army
Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
Roosevelt
Senate
White House
Hurley
Sergeant's Body to Return for Burial After Oregon Bomber Crash
The body of Sgt Donald Clark 24 one of eight killed in a Saturday bomber crash near Pendleton Oregon will be returned for burial his parents Mr and Mrs Dwaine Clark reported today.
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Ada
Donald Clark
Pendleton
Ore
Ame
Dwaine Clark
Ohio to register men 20 to 45 Feb 14 to 16
Ohio conducts its third selective service registration for men aged 20 to 45 who have not yet registered. Registration runs February 14 and 15 from noon to 6 PM and February 16 from 7 AM to 9 PM at local draft board sites for those born on or before December 31, 1941 or who will not yet be 45 by February 16, 1942.
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Columbus
Ohio
Selective Service Headquarters
Body of Star Taken From Crash Scene
Las Vegas morgue holds the shattered bodies of Carole Lombard and 22 others from a mountaintop plane crash on Friday night. Edgar J. Mannix identified Lombard from hair and facial contours as Clark Gable grieves in seclusion.
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Las Vegas
Carole Lombard
Miss Lombard
Edgar J. Mannix
M.G.M. Studios
Clark Gable
Elizabeth Peters
Studio
Otto Winkler
Sub Raiders Hit Atlantic Tankers As Canada Receives Survivors
Axis submarines pressed attacks along the U S Atlantic coast with reports of the Allan Jackson tanker sunk off North Carolina and a fourth ship damaged or sunk in the wave of raider operations. Survivors reached Canada as ships and planes hunted the raiders while in the Pacific the Bataan defense saw MacArthur’s forces regroup for renewed action.
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Canada
THE
Associated Press
Axis
Atlantic
North Carolina
Standard
Allan Jackson
United States
Norfolk
Gordon Bennett
Muar River
Singapore
Singapore Bombarded as British Mobilize Defense Forces
Allied pressure in the Philippines grew as MacArthur's retreat continued. In Malaya, fighting along Johore State intensified while Singapore faced aerial hits and a call to draft European British men under 41 for renewed defense.
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Philippines
MacArthur
Malaya
Singapore
Johore
Gibraltar
Orient
Johore Strait
Singapore Island
Southwest Pacific
Britain Faces Press Outcry Over War Strains and Singapore Trump
The piece notes British patience fraying over Singapore threats and calls for cabinet resignations as critics argue for restructuring. It cites Churchill's return from Washington and the need to defeat Hitler first while warning there may be divided focus if war in Europe and the Far East runs simultaneously.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Churchi
Washington
Singapore
House of Commons
Britain
Europe
Far East
Hitler
Garman
No Reply to Lewis Plea for Labor Unity
John L. Lewis urged AFL and CIO to reunite and end their split since 1936. CIO President Philip Murray made no public statement while AFL President William Green indicated readiness to meet with a CIO committee. The two bodies remain divided despite the call for quick reconciliation.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
AFL
CIO
Organized Labor
United Mine Workers of America
Philip Murray
William Green
Murray
Green
Thirteen Ohioans Die in Week-end Traffic Accidents
AP report from Columbus notes thirteen Ohioans killed in weekend crashes. Among the injured and identified victims are Warren residents Mrs. Margaret D. Shaffer, about 45, and Asa Mather, 52, in a auto truck collision near Newport Pennsylvania. Other fatalities include Columbus patrolman John M. McCullough, 90, and Mary Shannon, 34, in a toxic truck accident. William Merrill was struck by a machine.
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Columbus
Warren
Margaret D. Shaffer
Asa Mather
Newport
John M. McCullough
Mary Shannon
William Merrill
Sister Matilda Farly Dies at St Mary Convent
In Columbus, Sister Matilda Farly, 59, died Sunday at the St Mary of the Ebkibee Convent after several months of illness.
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Columbus
Matilda Farly
St. Mary of the Ebkibee
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Gallia
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Newark
Ernest Winkler
Catholic Youth Movement
Batan Peninsula
Douglas A. MacArthur
Philippine
Africa
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Dominion
Tommy Atkins
British Isles
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