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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
1
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Manila dispatch reports about 500 people aboard a passenger steamer that struck a mine and sank near Corregidor. About 400 are rescued and the fate of many others remains uncertain as recovery efforts continue. Names of noted Filipino figures connected to the incident are mentioned.
About two thousand toys were distributed by the Golden Rule Cub as children mobbed Santa on Nash Center street. Balloons airplanes and other novelties delighted the youngsters who cheered the open evenings program. Stores stayed open late boosting Christmas shopping.
In Robinson Tennessee seven youths died when a National Youth Administration bus left Illinois highway 1 and overturned near West Union. Driver Perlis Williams 35 from Casey was hospitalized with critical burns. seven others had burns and two youths from Marshall were unaccounted for. The dead include Tom Ollinger 17 Henry Olinger 16 James Olbeck 18 Barney Shonk 15 Richard McGlure 20 Earl Melton and Vic Timer Turner from Casey and Marshall.
The United States shifts top Pacific command to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz as part of a broad inquiry into the Pearl Harbor fatality. Vice chiefs and generals are reassigned while the War and Navy Departments defer judgment on superseded officers.
Formal announcement reports two new pieces of equipment donated by Drs G H Bennett N T Gillette and H A O’Hare and V W Ghiham. A Be vite surgical knife and a McWesson Rophing resuscitator, valued over 900 dollars, placed in use at the hospital. A campaign for hospital expansion funding was approved by the Federal Works Agency but faced delays.
Senate elections committee voted 13 to 8 to recommend denying Senator Langer of North Dakota a seat. The action follows a year of charges of moral turpitude tied to his career as attorney and former governor.
Roosevelt era industry labor conference recessed after an hour to draft recommendations for a fan strike agreement for wartime. labor management and government groups will meet separately before a full 26 member board resumes talks under Chairman William H. Davis.
The War Department reports Major General Herbert 4 Dargue commander of the First Air Portle is missing since December 12 after an transcontinental flight. Also aboard were five enlisted men and a list of officers including Col. Charles W Bundy and Lt. Col George W. Ricker. Near Palmdale California the craft was last sighted or believed to have gone down.
The Journal notes new regulations banning release of draft call details including names and encroachment dates. Local boards nationwide will restrict publicity as part of wartime censorship and security tightening, with heightened scrutiny of alleged Axis sympathizers in Corre and nearby areas.
London dispatch reports that Allied troops occupy the Portuguese part of Timor, a strategic point on the Japanese air line between Java and Australia. Japanese forces had threatened occupation but offered no resistance as the Allied move proceeded.
Harrisburg reports the state defense council, once a $25 000 appropriation with little fanfare, now tops Pennsylvania government functions. It runs 16 executives from the state capitol, with more funds and a high volunteer following. Director A C Marts, urged to head civilian defense in the Third Corps area, plans to stay coordinating Pennsylvania industry.
Manila reports Lieutenant General MacArthur presented President Manuel Quezon with a ten million dollar relief check. The Roosevelt emergency fund reportedly provides the funds sent yesterday to aid civilians and public relief efforts across the islands.
Tokyo reports the navy admits five special type pocket submarines failed to return from the December attack on Pearl Harbor. One was captured, another destroyed. 29 planes lost. Japan claims submarines penetrated Pearl Harbor and sank a battleship, with heavy fleet damage. In Pacific actions, three enemy submarines sunk. one Japanese destroyer missing.
Deputy Lawrence Baibun reports no inquest will be held into the death of Mitton Sutton who was struck by a tree while in the woods north of Clymer. Sutton died early Wednesday after being treated at Corry Hospital. Funeral services are planned at the Davison Lineal home with burial in Ble Grove cemetery.
Bulletins from London Chicago Chungking Batavia Philadelphia Cleveland Formosa Toll report war and crime updates. Americans in Norway ordered to report to police. FBI action in Chicago seizes Japanese official coast guard staff. Chinese countermeasures against Japan in Kwantung. Japanese air offensive planned for Dutch Ternate and New Guinea coast. Chinese dispatches note Shansi districts abandoned to bolster Pacific fronts. Bread price conspiracy sentences in Philadelphia total 85500 dollars. Hotel employee helps foil robberies in Cleveland with 140000 dollar haul. Formosa earthquake toll 19 dead 437 injured.
Government moves to establish civilian rationing boards in Corry and surrounding communities as a step toward wartime rationing. Machinery prep and rules on automobile tires limit nonessential use, with bonds determining who receives rationed copra and broader implications for civilian goods distribution.
Allied reports speak of Axis defeats in North Africa and Russian successes on the Leningrad front. British and Soviet dispatches claim German and Romanian forces are under pressure as Yugoslav and Greek resistance bands unite against the Axis advance.
Washington dispatch reports Allied observers deem the Red Army’s success in Russia a major blow to the Axis. The setback is viewed as undermining Tokyo’s timetable and complicating Japan’s efforts to seize Hong Kong and Singapore while Britain and Russia back the Allied cause.
Russians mass near Manchukuo border amid Red Army maneuvers. Unclear purpose and distant observations suggest heightened tension with Japanese forces in Manchukuo and Liberite region.
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