Mother of 12 Missing in Bronx. Nine Sons in Service
Mrs. Emma Van Coutren, 59, mother of twelve, disappears from her Bronx home. Nine of her children are sons, six in the armed services with five in the Navy including Pearl Harbor, one in the Army, one seeking Marine enlistment. three daughters remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma van Coutren
Armed Services
Bronx
N. Y
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Army
Marines
Central Press
Battle line tightens as Singapore defends half island
London reports British Imperial forces hold about half of Singapore Island amid Japanese assaults. Defenders spurn surrender demand and battle continues, with heavy costs on both sides as the island shape remains contested late in the day.
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London
Singapore
Pacific
Ascot
Bideots Island
The
Troops Immunized for Tropic Duty Across Army
All Army officers and men were ordered immunized against yellow fever to be rapidly available for service in the tropics. Secretary of War Stimson said vaccines previously covered only Panama and Puerto Rico. He also noted RTC summer camps for college students are discontinued for the war's duration and six months after.
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Washington
Tropics
Stimson
Panama
Puerto Rico
Reserve Officer Training Corps
Singapore
East Indies
Australia
U. S. Army
Curacao
Venezuela
Curcao
Aruba
Filipinos Decline Japanese Efforts Amid Hunger and Cruelty
Reports from Manila say Japanese attempts to win Filipino friendship fail as hunger and mistreatment spread. At least ten to twenty Filipinos are said to have been executed at Fort Santiago for opposing the occupation, with bodies disposed into Manila Bay.
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Clark LI
Batan Peninsula
Manila
Old Fort Santiago
Douglas MacArthur
Manila Bay
Pilipinas
Navy
Nny Bretots
The Grafton Opens Night With Henry Aldrich for President
Mrs C E Hyett of 471 W Francis St plans to attend tonight's Strand double feature presenting Henry Aldrich for President. Also showing are Man At Large with George Reeves and Thundering Hoofs with Tim Holt at the Dixie Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton Sentinel
C. E. Hyett
W. Francis Street
Henry Aldrich
Strand Theatre
George Reeves
Tim Holt
Dixe Theatre
Ford Workers Back on Jobs at Rouge Plant
Ford Motor Company Rouge River plant divisions resumed operations this morning after a shutdown sparked by a protest over a worker who allegedly struck a fellow employee. About 10,000 were out of work as the stoppage ended with morning reopens at 7 a.m. union spokesmen said.
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Detroit
Rouge River
Ford Motor Company
Tool
Uaw-Cio
Ford Workers
Ten Year Prison Term Meted Out In Old Case
Fred Anderson Roberts, 67, was convicted yesterday of the shotgun slaying of J. J. Walker, 20 years past, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Walker died February 2, 1922, after a dispute over Roberts' housekeeper George W. Crewiey. Roberts was arrested July in Independence and had escaped county jail in August 1922 awaiting trial, with his attorney who defended him in the trial.
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Richmond
Fred Anderson Roberts
J. J. Walker
Walker
Roberts
Independence
George W. Crewiey
Some Draft Deferments Flayed By Sen. Truman
Senator Truman disclosed that the senate defense investigating committee will probe whether many men deferred from the draft due to essential occupations should be called for service. He said thousands in airplane factories and other defense plants have deferments because their work is essential to the war effort, though the jobs could be done by women.
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Washington
Truman
D.-Mo
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Detroit Goes War and Converts Plants for Armament
Detroit's auto industry shifts to war production as plants convert to tanks engines and anti aircraft guns. Analysts say by year’s end output will surge and more than a million workers will be needed, with thousands of women joining factories amid layoffs in consumer car output.
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David J. Wilkie
Detroit
War Production Board
Ernest C. Kanzler
WPB Automotive
Jack
Axis Forces Scattered By British on Libyan Front
Cairo February 12 The British said an enemy force including tanks was scattered by British artillery near El Mechili. British mobile forces continued aggressive actions in Ain El Gazala to El Mechili while other Axis units were observed but not engaged. The RAF supplied bomber protection and attacked Axis rear bases.
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Cairo
el Mechili
Ain el Gazalatmimi-El Mechill
Fe el Mechili
RAF
Landon urges new leaders as GOP aims to stay ready
Alf M. Landon, the 1936 Republican presidential nominee, told Lincoln Day diners in Washington that victory is endangered when the administration bungles. He urged fresh leadership as the party opens its congressional election campaign, criticizing the war effort as a political project.
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Washington
Alf M. Landon
Lincoln Day Dinner Tonight With Ex Congressman Schiffler
Ex congressman Andrew O Schiffler of Wheeling will deliver the principal address at the annual Lincoln Day dinner in Grafton tonight. The event, planned by the United Republican club, will be held in the dining room of the Andrews sodlist chi. Tickets have been selling in advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew O. Schiffler
Wheeling
Grafton
United Republican Club
Andrews Sodlist
National rallies color week of political campaigning
Dozens of events are planned across the country tonight tomorrow and Saturday as Wendell L. Willkie speaks in Boston and Thomas E. Dewey appears in New York with Senator Taft listed for another stop in the schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell L. Willkie
Boston
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Senator Taft
Berlin Reports Russians Driven Back By Attacks
Berlin reports German forces including Romanian and Croatian troops pressed on the Donets front driving the Russians back. The eastern front bulletin said numerous enemy attacks were repulsed.
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Berlin
Donets
Daily War Bulletin
Mother Kills Three Sons Before Failing Suicide
In Evansville Indiana on February 12 Mrs Madie Messerrly 34 shot and killed her three sons aged 9 10 and 12 then wounded herself rather than surrender them to welfare authorities. Deputies arrived at a river boat home to execute a custody order and found the unfit dwelling with goats and dogs. The children had been sent from school three weeks earlier and never returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Madie Messerrly
Frank McDonald
County Welfare Department
Ohio River
McDonald
Welfare Department
WPB Reduces Uses of Tin
The War Production Board announced changes effective after March 1 limiting tin cans for many everyday items. Pork and beans coffee dog food beer tobacco and oil will not be packed in tins, while certain secondary products stay to 1940 output and small cans are eliminated. Tin remains allowed for perishables like fruits vegetables tomato juice milk and fish.
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Washington
America
War Production Board
U S Shore Defense Guns Smash Japanese Attack
American shore defense guns on Bataan peninsula repelled a Japanese pre-dawn landing attempt. Artillery and machine-gun fire sank barges and a tug, with daylight hits sinking more barges and leaving troops stranded or captured. heavy losses inflicted on the enemy while aiding General MacArthur's western flank defense.
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Bataan
Douglas MacArthur
Indiana school buys last private Lincoln collection
BLOOMINGTON Ind Feb 12 Indiana University under President Herman B Wells disclosed it had purchased the Oakleaf Lincoln collection, one of the nation's five leading Lincoln libraries. The volumes and photographs were assembled over 43 years by Judge Joseph B Oakleaf of Moline Ill, who died in 1930. Price not released. See Large Lincoln page 4.
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Bloomington
Ind
Ene University
Abraham Lincoln
Herman B. Wells
Lincoln
Country
Joseph B. Oakleaf
Moline, Il
Wells
Release of Cars Bought Before Jan 1 Ordered
Charleston reports that applications and transfer certificates permitting pre January 1 car buyers to take delivery have been mailed to county rationing boards by the Office of Civilian Defense. After proof the purchases were made before January 1 the delivery period for new cars runs February 12 through February 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Office of Civilian Defense
Three Vessels Ready for Use at Navy Yard
Philadelphia reports three new destroyers the Butler and Gherardi sliding down the ways to mark Lincoln's birthday. Private ceremonies schedule around lunch periods so shipbuilders can watch without halting other work. Across the Delaware, rivers at...
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Philadelphia
Lincoln
W. T
Butler
Gherardi
Navy Yard
Delaware
Crooked Cop Held For Robbing Auto Meters
In Whit Plains New York on February 12 the public safety commissioner traced 60 malfunctioning parking meters to Patrolman Robert Foster. He confessed after a meter key and 39 nickels were found on his person.
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Whit Plains
N. Y
Public Safety
Robert Foster
Thomas Foley
Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Chester to theatre double feature
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs D C Chester of Park View to attend tonight’s Opera House presentation featuring Don Red Barry in Death Valley Outlaws and Johnny Mack Brown in Arizona Cyclone as a double feature at the theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton ‘Sentinel
D. C. Chester
Park View
Don “Red” Barry
Johnny Mack Brown
Opera House
Dutch Indies In Front Line
Report from Batavia dated Feb 12 argues the peril to the Dutch East Indies is grave as the United Nations may lose the islands vital for resources and bases. The piece notes Indies lie deep behind the democratic front, separated by the China Sea from Hongkong and Manila, with oil and naval bases at stake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Witt Hancock
Batavia
N. E
United Nations
Manila
Indies
Five Die, One Missing In Army Plane Crash
Windsor Locks Connecticut February 12 five Army flyers died and a sixth was missing after a multi engine plane crashed on a routine flight between East Granby and Tariffville. An open parachute was found near East Willington but no occupant traced. Col Clyde V Pinter will appoint a board of inquiry to determine the causes.
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Windsor Locks
Conn
East Granby
Tariffville
Bradley Field
East Willington
Clyde V. Pinter
Burma Faces Grave Danger as Japanese Press Salween
In Rangoon Burma on February 12 British forces fought to stem a Japanese drive across the Salween river. Observers doubt the river crossing will be the last push as the invaders threaten Rangoon and the Burma road gateway to India. Martaban Falls to Japs after Moulmein holds the river’s east bank fortress briefly.
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Daniel DE Luce
Rangoon
Burma
Salween
India
Martaban
Moulmein
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U. S.86
Som
Bailey
FORD
Sen
Landon
U.S
Arge Lincoln
Indiana School
Dutch Indies
Salween River
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