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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1941
Page
5
Col H C Kress Muhlenberg, a 55 year old officer in the Army Air Corps since 1920, was ordered confined to quarters by Maj Gen Daniel Van for a public speech. The action was announced from Columbus on December 18.
Col Muhlenberg, former Hickam field commander, told Curtiss Flying Club employees that air superiority saved Hawaii and the Philippines from Japan. He urged bombing over battleships and warned that Hawaii and the Philippines must become Pacific Gibraltars as a strategic aim. Official confinement to quarters will continue pending an Army Inspector General probe.
CBS and BBC reports from New York indicate continued military activity in Asia and Europe. Updates mention British forces repelling a Japanese attack in Kelantan with heavy losses, German ships at Brest targeted by RAF, and Italian generals killed in Rome broadcasts. Additional items note Russian Far Eastern maneuvers near Manchukuo Siberia and Japanese views on Russian troop movements.
Timor was placed under full occupation by Dutch and Australian forces to deny Japanese seizure, with Portugal’s protest and the island’s mixed Dutch Portuguese governance. Japanese raids killed 40 and wounded 100 on Terampa in the Anambas, as news notes a damaged ship misidentified.
During a visit by district deputy grand exalted ruler Dewey E. Kuhns, 34 members of an I Am An American class were initiated by the Charleston Elks lodge, with five former members reinstated. The class honors Grand Exalted Ruler John S. McClelland. New members include Joseph Abrams, Walker Amole, Larry Barker of Dunbar, Alfred M. Bennett, Cecil C. Broom of Spring Hill, and others.
The piece lists members including Elton Pierson South Charleston A A Raptis Donald Stacy Hal Steeves and others with reinstated members LeRoy Barratt Alfred Carey R Woodrow Hill W D Johnson Frank Knight It notes Dr Walter Bailey now at Charleston General Hospital attached to York Pa lodge No 213 and claims by South Africa to be the sole producer of seamen sheepskin coats.
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