Japanese Attacks Repulsed by U S Forces at Bataan Cavite
General Douglas MacArthur reported heavy fighting on the Bataan peninsula as Japanese dive bombers roamed overhead. American troops and Filipino defenders repulsed the attacks while Manila Bay fortifications silenced several enemy siege batteries along Cavite shore, according to War Department communiqué number 98.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Philippines
Manila Bay
Cavite
War Department
Todt, Nazi General, Dies in Eastern Front Air Crash
Major General Fritz Todt, a top Nazi official and master builder behind Germanys wartime roads and Siegfried Line, was killed in an air accident on the eastern front. A state funeral was ordered. Todt was 50 years old, reputed for rapid bridge and road projects and for directing munitions and construction.
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Berlin
Fritz Todt
Adolph Hitler
Todt
Siegfried Line
Germany
Moscow
Poland
Netherlands
Belgium
France
The Grafton Sentinel Invites Heflin To Two Theatres
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Anna M Heflin of Loveland Addition to tonight's Strand showing of I Wake Up Screaming or Dixie screening of Rise and Shine featuring Jack Oakie.
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Strand
Dixie
The
Grafton Sentinel
Anna M. Heflin Loveland
Strand Theatre
Jack Oakie
Dixie Theatre
Nation Goes On War Time Across United States
The nation started War Time with clocks advanced one hour for the duration. Roosevelts plan makes it effective at 2 a.m. standard time in all four time zones. Transportation and radio sectors expected little disruption as the nationwide shift aligns with wartime needs.
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Washington
Roosevelto
Roosevelt
Red Army Losses In Berlin Battle Reported
German high command says the Red Army suffered heavy casualties in 14 days of fighting on the Donets front. The enemy reportedly lost more than 1,000 prisoners, several thousand dead, 17 tanks, 52 guns and 87 machine guns and mine throwers.
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Berlin
Red Army
Donets
Debt limit hike proposed to 100 billion dollars
Administration leaders in Congress plan to urge raising the national debt limit from 65 billion to 100 billion dollars. Senate Finance Chairman George of Georgia indicated initial talk of 85 billion but decided that most members would prefer a single, large increase.
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Washington
Congress
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Thousands Needed in Australian War Industries
An official survey in Melbourne reports that over twenty thousand workers are required for munitions factories within six months. It calls for diverting labor plants and materials from non-essential tasks to meet urgent war production needs.
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Melbourne
Airplane ride ends in gunfire injuring Delbert Henson
In Granite City Illinois on February 9 a burst of gunfire during a first airplane ride wounded Delbert Henson and 15-year-old Beverly Ann Keith. Henson received several blood transfusions as Army guards and Western Cartridge officials declined to comment. The shooting occurred near a restricted defense area adjacent to the Western Cartridge plant and was reported to Seventh Corps headquarters in Omaha.
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Granite City
Til
Delbert Henson
Beverly Ann Keith
Henson
Alton
Western Cartridge Company
Army
Jefferson Barracks
J. A. Wilhauer
Army Guards
Seventh Corps
Omaha
Delbert Richardson
Granite
Fire probes seek cause of capital hotel blaze near White House
Fire inspectors searched the steel skeleton of a 1,000 room hotel under construction three blocks from the White House for the blaze origin. Flames struck late yesterday on the second story, ripping through flooring and burning supporting timbers as concrete blocks fell. The Statler Hotels project began last April and aimed for June or July completion. engineers have not yet assessed the damage to the framework.
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Washington
White House
Statler Hotels Company
Police slay young tough in Chicago Stockyards
A self proclaimed neighborhood tough Joseph Skupien, an ex convict with a long prison record, burst into the New City police station after a tavern shooting and fired a shot before dying on the station floor. Police say he aimed to rescue his partner amid a backdrop of two tavern slayings.
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Chicago
Joseph Skupein
Stockyards
Skupien
New City
Joseph Connelly
Bruno Jachmyak
British Columns Routed in Libya by Axis Forces
German high command said Axis bombers and dive bombers supported German and Italian columns in Cyrenaica scattered British columns while British reconnaissance thrusts were repulsed. Ten British fighters were reported shot down with no German losses.
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Berlin
Libya
Cirenaica
Defenders of Singapore in Real Dander
Dewitt MacKenzie analyzes Japan’s foothold on Singapore Island with a bold aerial assault and strong ground push. He notes the battle remains undecided as Japanese forces drive eastward under cover of darkness while Australians defend the northwest coast. Air power is emphasized as crucial to offset the Japanese gains.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Singapore
Sydney
Fhe Sane
Comig
Australia concedes MacArthur praised for Luzon stand
Australia honors General Douglas MacArthur and his men with a broadcast from Army Minister Francis Forde. He praises their superb courage and skill as Australia prays for their triumph and looks forward to joining forces with American fighters in other theaters of war.
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Sydeny
Australia
Army
Francis Forde
Douglas MacArthur
Luzon
Forde
British Desert Troops Hold Firm To Positions
Cairo dispatch says British desert fighters stand firm before Tobruk and patrol the El Mechili area, south of Gebel El Achdar. Mobile columns clashed with Rommel’s infantry and artillery 12 miles west of Ain El Gazala as air forces harassed Axis supply lines.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
el Mechili
Gebel el Achdar
Edwin Rommel
Ain el Gazala
One Federal Employee for 87 Civilians Found
Budget figures from Harold D Smith forecast one employee per 102 people by mid year. By February the ratio stands at one federal employee for every 87 civilians, with over half in the War and Navy departments. Pearl Harbor and postwar demands have altered plans and pushed headcount higher than expected.
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Herman Allen
Wide World
Washington
Harold D. ‘Smith
United, ‘States
Pearl Harbor
West
War and Navy Departments
Axis Inspired Trouble In Tangier Probed
The British consul general in Tangier lodged a strong protest with General Uiate after axis inspired riots Saturday. Spanish troops were sent to restore peace, and authorities stated the protest was made immediately following the incident.
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London
Tangier
Uiate
China Arrow Sunk by Sub off Atlantic Coast
Survivors of the Socony Vacuum Oil China Arrow say a submarine attacked and torpedoed the 8403 ton tanker, setting it afire 100 miles off the coast. All 37 crewmen were rescued after 56 hours in boats as sister ship India Arrow and freighter San Gil were also sunk nearby.
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Lewel
Del
China Arrow
Atlantic
Socony - Vacuum Oil Co
Navy Department
Coast Guard
India Arrow
San Gil
Lincoln Day Banquets Planned Across State 1942
Charleston reports Republican hopes for success in the 1942 off year elections will get an oratorical boost at Lincoln day dinners statewide. Local committees handle arrangements as war constraints persist. Mundt from South Dakota speaks in Parkersburg, Hallanan at Wellsburg, Schifler in Wheeling Grafton.
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Charleston
Robert H. C. Kay
Parkersburg
Karl M. Mundt
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Walter 8. Hallanan
Wellsburg
U.S
A. C. Schiffler
Wheeling
Grafton
Charge nurse charged with slaying newborn in Bronx hospital
Irma Twiss a 32 year old Bronx Maternity hospital nurse was charged with homicide for the opium narcotic death of a newborn girl and alleged poisoning of another infant. Hospital officials described her as an elegant nurse while prosecutors say crying babies drove her to act. Twiss, jailed without bail, had prior hospital observation for overdose in 1940 and had recently returned to the Bronx institution after leave.
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New York
Bronx Maternity Hospital
Louise M. Wagner
Irma Twiss
Miss Twliss
Martin Kraus
Kraus
Bellevue Hospital
Bronx
Soybean Seen As Means Of Producing Rubber
Scientists at the U S Department of Agriculture discuss soybeans as a potential rubber substitute. They note progress is slow but feasible with soybean protein being used in plastics and synthetic wool research.
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Washington
U. S. Department of Agriculture
United States
Postmasters Ordered to Register All Aliens in Proclamation
Charleston February 9. Postmasters of first and second class offices and county seats received a new duty today to register aliens. German Italian and Japanese aliens must obtain certificates of identification before March 1 if aged over poted years.
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Charleston
Japs land on island under gun barrage
Singapore dispatch reports Japanese forces making a night landing on a western front of the island while Australian defenders under Major General Henry Gordon Bennett pledge to hold a strong line. Japan navy expected to join battle as tempo intensifies before dark with reinforcements stalled.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Singapore
Henry Gordon Bennett
Tokyo
Oslo
Japan
Johore Strait
Philadelphia Blaze Leaves City in Shock and Loss
A major Philadelphia fire swept a dense business and residential block near Columbia and Ridge avenues last night, injuring about 200 people and destroying four buildings while damaging 13 others. Eight alarms, 40 fire companies and 75 apparatus fought the blaze as winds drove flames high into the air. a fireman suffered a crushed foot and back, with eleven hospitalized.
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Philadelphia
Columbia and
Ridge Avenues
William Cowden
Nelgbors
Philly
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