Mammoth Pool To Wage War
Congress moves toward nationwide registration of about 50 million men aged 18 to 65. War department aims to expand army, with estimates of 7.5 to 19 million possible under draft law. May of Kentucky introduces bill. hearings set. Hershey and Clark explain program as Rayburn urges swift action in both houses.
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AFL Men Join Guam Fighting
AFL reports workers on Guam did not fall to Japan but joined Marines in defense of the island. They seized weapons and fought hand to hand, with the AFL correcting earlier capture claims. In Hawaii 11,000 AFL tradesmen stay on job despite air raids, rushing fortifications.
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Hawaiian Islands
Building Trades Unions
British Wary As Vichy Fleet Enigma Deepens
London reports growing concern over Marshal Petain's government possibly surrendering the French fleet to Nazi Germany. Hull and Ambassador Lea monitor the situation as rumors spread of British submarine actions and renewed German pressure, with talks at Turin and St Florentin signaling potential shifts in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theater.
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France
Jean Darlan
Count Ciano
Turin
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Ciano
Reuters
Bizerte
Tunisia
London Evening Star Today
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Page four contains continuations of briefs and notices. It notes court entries and legal items, with emphasis on calendar actions and schedule updates. Entities include Cal. Supreme Court, districts, and filing deadlines. The page provides legal notices, public schedules, and docket references in compact items.
FBI Seizes Axis Aliens and U S Citizens
FBI report shows 2 541 Axis aliens and 43 American citizens of German Italian and Japanese extraction arrested. Adv Gen Biddle released the figures noting the American captives were seized in Malai.
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Japanese Claim Pincer Attack Begun in Luzon
The Tokyo Der radio report says Japanese troops aided by human torpedo airmen landed in southern Luzon to begin a pincer attack on American forces in the Philippines. An imperial headquarters communique lists ten more Japanese planes lost in suicide attacks and a total claim of 202 U S war planes. The agency also notes sinking of a minesweeper, heavy damage to a second vessel, and slight damage to a light cruiser, while denying Washington’s report that the Haruna battleship was sunk.
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Washington
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Penang Island
Bombing of Oahu War Games Delayed by Censor
Dispatch by Thomas Yarborough describes Honolulu harbor during the first Japanese air raid as ships and passengers misread it as war games. A whistling bomb splashed near the vessel, prompting speculation and a dealer’s astonished warning. The reporter notes timing of the raid and the shallow scare aboard.
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Thomas Yarbravgi
Honolulu
San Francisco
Navy
Reds Surge Forward Retake Seven Towns
KRUIBYSHEV December 12. Soviet officials report over 85,000 German officers and soldiers killed on the Moscow front from November 16 to December 10 as Soviet forces reclaim seven towns and rout Nazi units. German losses include 55,000 killed between Nov 16 and Dec 11 and 30,000 more from December 8 to 11. Red forces capture vast booty including tanks and guns. Stalinogorsk and other towns also reoccupied as German advance stalls.
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Gazette Announces War Department Caution on War News
The Gazette will suspend publishing casualty lists draft quotas induction calls names and pictures of service members and any local armed forces details beginning tomorrow in accordance with War and Navy department guidance to avoid aiding enemies.
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War link seen in decapitation slaying in Seattle
In Seattle a 39 year old Chinese man identified as Chow Get Ming, a teacher and English student, was found in a south end alley with hands bound and head nearly severed. Coroner Mittelstadt and police suggested a possible war connection amid pacific tensions. Chinese friends doubt the victim was a Chinese agent, noting he lived at the YMCA under the name Paul Lee.
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Chow Get Ming
Otto M. Mittelstadt
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Chow Owas
YMCA
Paul Lee
Senate Approves Supplemental Army Navy Bill
The Senate approved a supplemental army and navy appropriations bill totaling 10.57 billion dollars in cash and contract authority to accelerate military activities. The measure consolidates and increases war department funding to 7.378 billion with related allocations, and sends the bill back to the House for action on increases totaling 2.93 billion. Final enactment would raise overall defense and lease lend appropriations.
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Jap Warships Put to Flight By U S Fleet
An American pilot shot down two Japanese planes in a skirmish during the Pacific air war as U S forces pursued carrier and fleet actions. The engagement left Japanese vessels wary as they faced renewed U S naval patrols and air strikes.
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Japanese Warships Flees After First U S Asiatic Fleet Clash
Manila dispatch reports Japanese warships escaping pursuit after clashing with U S Asiatic fleet as American defenses repel heavy aerial assaults. 112 Japanese bombers engaged Batangas area near Manila Bay Clark Field. 1st Lt Boyd Wagner, lone American airman, fought off five fighters, downing two planes and strafing Japanese ships before crash landing.
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Clark Field
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Bombardment and Reconnaissance Over Malaya Reported
British eastern command says dawn raids on Singora and widespread reconnaissance over Malaya. Royal Air Force activity described as intense with bombs dropped in Kedah and ships bombarded by planes along the coast.
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Thailand
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New York
Malayan
Singora
Kedah
Landing scrambles in Luzon still blocking Japanese push
Washington dispatch reports US forces on Luzon repulsed Japanese landings south of Vigan and north of San Fernando after earlier claims of Legaspi and Aparri diversions. Wake and Midway defenses hold, while Guam capture remains unconfirmed. Manila raids persist and registration bill advances in Congress as war mobilization continues.
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Desert offensive drives deep into Cyrenaica fronts
British Eighth Army pushes 120 miles west in Cyrenaica as Derna and Gazala come under heavy naval shelling. A German regiment of about 1,200 men is destroyed, parts of two Italian divisions cut off, and Gazala encircled. Derna port facilities are bombed by a cruiser.
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Cirenaican Desert
Derna
Tobruk
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Gazala
Dervia
Crete
Rome
Mardi Gras Called Off For Duration
New Orleans declares carnival season of 1942 canceled by carnival groups. 39 balls costing up to 30000 dollars plus eight outdoor parades are shelved as war concerns loom. Mardi Gras 1942 falls February 17 with debutante season already underway.
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