Roosevelt signs law broadening draft and overseas service
President Roosevelt signed bills giving authority to send draftees and national guardsmen anywhere in the world to prosecute the war against the Axis. The measures extend army service up to six months after victory and naval enlistments beyond the war, with a push to register all men 18 to 63 for potential duty.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Congress
Japan
Det Cancut Ve
Western Hemisphere
Henry L. Stimson
Stimson
War Department
House Military Affairs Committee
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Reynolds
N.C
Senate Military Affairs Committee
May
House
McCormack
Mass
Howe
Page
Gallant U S Sailors Resist Japanese Assault at Guam and Hawaii
The article recounts wary losses at Guam and Wake Midway where U S sailors battled a massive Japanese air and sea onslaught. It notes a Japanese fuel oil cargo seized near Costa Rica aboard the Alert, seven Japanese crew captured, and MacArthur's forces continuing mop up on Luzon. Six pilots praised for gallantry including Welch Taylor Sanders Sterling Rasmussen Brow.
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U. S
Guam
Wake
Midway Islands
Costa Rica
Panama Canal
Douglas A. MacArthur
Philippines
Luzon
Hawaii
Army Air Force
Navy
U.S
U. S. Pacific
Army
George 5. Welch
Wilmington
Del
G. Walter ©. Short
Hawaiian Department
Kenneth M. Taylor
Henrig Okla
Lewis M. Sanders
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Gordi H. Sterling
West Hartford
Conn
Philip Rasmussen
Boston
Mass
Harry W. Brow
Amarillo
Tex
Taylor
Welch
British Drive On in Libya as Gazala Siege Bites
British Imperial columns pushed deeper into Libya after overtaking Axis coastal defenses around El Gazala 120 miles west of the Egyptian frontier. New Zealand troops pressed a hot siege on Gazala while mobile British units advanced along the Cyrenaica coast to sever Axis positions, with Cairo reporting main forces advancing toward the Jezel El-Achdar hills near Bengesi.
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el Gazala
Cairo
Libya
Gazale
Highth
Imperial Army
Britain
Jezel El-Achdar
Bengesi
Russians Claim Crush of 30 Nazi Divisions and 100 Towns
Soviet dispatches report the Red Army advancing across multiple fronts in a broad counteroffensive. They claim recapturing at least 32 towns in the Moscow zone and more than 70 southeast of Leningrad, with large numbers of German troops killed, captured, or forced to retreat.
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Kuibyshev
Insi
Red Army
Gay
Moscow
Leningrad
Donets
Sea of Azov
Crimea
Mius
Sevastopol
London
NBC Saturday
Berlin
Germany
Tass
Orel
Livny
Efre- Mov
Kostenko
Efremov
Adolf Hitler
Litvinoff Says Russia Aims to Smash Hitler Hordes
Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov tells an embassy press conference that Russia will crush Hitler and his Nazi satellites Italy and Japan. He indicates Russia may host Allied troops if opportune but not yet in the Pacific. Senator Connally sees possible Russian bases in Asia to help defeat Japan.
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Washington
INS
Maxim Litvinoff
Germany
Hitler
Italy
Japan
Litvinoff
Russia
Pacific
Roosevelt
East
West
Lees Gran
Tom Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sitvinoffs
Asiatic
Connally
U. S
Siberia
Italian Cruiser Blown Up and Fleet Hit by Allied Attack
Allied destroyers Sikh Legion Maori and Isaac Sweers with Dutch ship Isaac Sweers surprised two Italian cruisers near dawn. One cruiser blew up while the other burned, a torpedo boat was sunk and an E boat damaged. No Allied casualties reported.
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Thomas C. Watson
London
INS
Italy
Mediterranean
Sikh
Legion
Isaac Sweers
Admiralty
Libya
Halians
Rome
Grethead
Egypt
North
Africa
Marines Stand Guard on Guam Midway and Wake
In the Pacific, Marines on Guam Midway and Wake held off a Japanese assault for six days. An officer emphasized the men are simply doing their job and keeping the Stars and Stripes flying, with communications cut as a navy communique arrives.
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Lee Carson Washington
INS
Guam
Midway
Wake Islands
America
Pacific
U. S
Fighting Leather
Japan
Navy
U S Army Hurls Japs Off Luzon
Army reports heavy Japanese losses in Luzon mountains after hours of fighting with Filipino forces. Parachutists and land troops were wiped out. Lingayen landing parties driven back by American forces. Manila remained quiet after a raidless night with no new actions.
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Bulletin Manila
Sandays
Luzon
Manila
INS
Philippines
Lingayen
Woman Seeks Munitions Job for Husband at Wake Island
A Hartford job seeker told a state employment office she would take any position making ammunition or guns, anywhere, but quickly. She explained her husband is a marine at Wake Island and promptly landed employment.
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Hartford
Conn
INSI
Atate Employment Service
Wake Island
Dutch Submarines Sink Four Japanese Troop Transports
Batavia reports Dutch submarines destroyed four Japanese transports at the mouth of the Gulf of Siam and annihilated a Japanese post on the east coast of Dutch Borneo. The bulletin says about 4,000 Japanese troops were killed as East Indies forces strike in the early war phase.
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Siam Gulf
Borneo
Batavia
Sundaty
Dutch Borneo
Gulf of Siam
Netherlands East Indies
East Indies Navy
Singapore
Malaya
Thailand
East Indies Army
Navy
Celebes
Bosworth Quits Post as State Police Supt
State Police Supt John W Bosworth resigned yesterday after Gov Neely demanded his departure amid Gary mine strike unrest. Gov appointed H Clare Hess of Mannington as successor. Hess will take command of the 250 man force once Bosworth’s resignation is formalized. The resignation followed a prior note from Highway Safety Director C W Boone terminating Dec 31.
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John W. Bosworth
Neely
H. Clare Hess
Mannington
Hess
Bosworth
C. W. Boone
Logan
Ord
CIO
Gary
Matthew M. Neely
John L. Lewis
British forces report heavy Japanese attacks in Malaya
Singapore dispatch says about 50 000 Japanese troops attacked northern Malaya as Dutch subs sank four transports with about 4000 Japanese dead. RAF raids disrupted enemy movements and Singora port seen as key invasion point. RAF reinforces rushed to Malaya and Far East, with possible transfer of American Eagle units.
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Singapore
INS
Malaya
RAF
Royal Air Force
Thailand
Singora
London
Far East
Eagle
Oriental War Theater
British
Far Eastern High Command
Kedah
War Insurance Corporation Created for Home Protection
The federal administration announced the creation of a war insurance corporation with a capital of $100,000 to provide reasonable protection against losses from enemy attacks on private property in the continental United States. Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones said the corporation had been set up by the Reconstruc
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Washington
Bec
War Insurance Corporation
Lomes
Continental
U. S
Jean
Jesse H. Jones
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