Senate approves vast naval bill and China loan vote
The Senate fast tracked a $26.5 billion naval supply bill and $500 million China loan, boosting military appropriations to about $39 billion in the first month of the session. The measures, approved 72 to 0, will go to President Roosevelt for signature. the China aid is administered by the treasury with president’s direction.
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Washington
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White House
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Roosevelt
Navy
Navy Irfe
House
The War Today Crises Deepen Over Singapore Invasion Threat
Japanese bombs pound Singapore with intensifying destruction as Mikado siege guns from the mainland unleash fire and long enemy columns advance along peninsula roads toward the British stronghold. The invasion moment nears, a keystone that could shape the Pacific war and world conflict.
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Nippon
Pacific
Several Subs Pay Penalty In Atlantic Sub War
London reporting that several Italian submarines sent to aid Germany in the Atlantic have paid the ultimate penalty. The Ferraris, a 900 ton boat with eight torpedo tubes and two 3.9 inch guns, was sunk after Catalina damage in 1941. The Ferraris completed a long Red Sea voyage via a German supply ship under the Stars and Stripes. Australians to register canberra aliens must register by February 10 under a plan tying service in armed forces or civil defense. The British admiralty announced the loss of the submarine Triumph.
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Europe
Canberra
Australia
Captain Of Freighter Grateful To Be Alive
Captain Walter W. Koch recalls the torpedo attack on the Panama registered freighter San Gil off the Maryland coast. The submarine let crew launch lifeboats before shelling and torpedoing, saving 39 survivors and a passenger as the ship sank after seven hours adrift. Radio operator Robert L. Throp and passenger Stuart Condon improvised an antenna and sent SOS flashes guiding the coast guard.
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Del
Walter W. Koch
Maryland
United Fruit
Atlantic
Koch
Robert L. Throp
East Orange
N.J
Stuart Condon
Boston
Coast Guard
American Ship Escapes Subs as Patrol Planes Intervene
An American passenger liner, unarmed, arrived in New York after a dramatic escape from three Axis submarines. Submarines crash-dived when a patrol aircraft appeared during the voyage from a West Indies port. Crew reports say one U boat passed under the ship as it attempted to ram. Navy withheld ship name.
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Navy
West Indies
Third Naval District Headquarters
Hospital Ship Attacked By Jap Planes Nine Times
A hospital ship carrying wounded American soldiers and nurses from the Philippines to Australia was attacked nine times in one day by Japanese bombers and fighters. The Mactan, 2,067 tons, reportedly reached Darwin after sailing from Manila, with raids occurring off Celebes between mid day and late afternoon on January 8.
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Australia
Philippines
U.S. Army
Darwin
Manila
Dutch East Indies
Celebes
American Red Cross
U. S. Army
Few Details From Libya
Cairo reports British patrols and mobile columns active along the front with no specifics on Libyan fighting against the Axis. RAF fighter sweeps and bombers targeted enemy columns and vehicles as US observers note German tank repair units and Rommel's forces in desert operations.
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Libya
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United States
Ervin Rommel
Tough Scout Unit Formed In England
London readers learn of a new British army reconnaissance corps with unprecedented weapons and mechanization. Each infantry division will receive a battalion to probe enemy lines by stealth, with combat capability if needed, creating a mirrored role to amphibian commandos.
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Associated Press
London
Yanks Coming Leaflets Tell French People
R A F bombers delivering U S Army leaflets strewn occupied France with messages that the Yanks are coming. Stephen Early announced the intensified leaflet raids, especially on the Brittany peninsula, recalling Doughboys first landed in that region decades ago.
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Washington
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U.S.A
France
America
Stephen Early
Brittany
Soviet Guerrilla Units Rebel Behind Nazi Lines
Soviet guerrilla detachments reported wholesale panic behind German lines as raids damaged railways and communications. On the Kalinin front Soviet forces recaptured five localities, killed or wounded 5,300 Germans, and seized seven more areas. The communique said 27 German tanks, cannons, and eight machine guns were destroyed as Red Army pressed west toward Smolensk in severe winter conditions.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Kalinin
Red Army
Smolensk
Leningrad
Sugar shortage blamed on hoarders and alcohol makers
Washington by Ray Tucker argues sugar scarcity stems from hoarders and certain alcohol producers. He notes 7 million tons used last year, with 1 million saved by families and firms and another million lost in the Philippines. Domestic crop gains and Cuban imports could fill gaps, but rationing will be needed amid British and Russian demands. High-test molasses from Cuban sugar is urged by spirit interests, resisting use of wheat or corn bases.
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Ray Tucker
United States
Philippines
Railroads Granted 10 Percent Rate Increase In State
The North Carolina Utilities Commission granted railroads a 10 percent increase in intrastate passenger rates, effective next Tuesday. The raise matches a recent Interstate Commerce Commission decision on interstate fares and excludes armed forces members on furlough. The commission had also allowed bus companies a 10 percent intrastate increase with similar military exemptions.
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Kalinin Foresees Slavic Nations Returning to Russia
Moscow reports quote President Kalinin saying occupied republics will rejoin the Soviet Union as Red Army nears borders of White Russia and the Baltic states. He notes more Ukrainian territories are returning to Russia while Germans push and Russian counter preparations intensify.
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Michael Kalinin
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Red Army
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Estonia
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Ukraine
Kalinin
Josef Stalin
Japan Still Delays Drive On Singapore
Japan hesitated to risk a direct assault on Singapore as heavy artillery clashes raged across the Johore Strait. Japanese bombers pressed attacks on Soerabaja and Port Moresby while U S P-40s claimed a dogfight victory in Java. Dutch Indies front, Singapore defense, and Port Moresby raids frame a widening Pacific confrontation.
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Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
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Indies
Archibald P. Wavell
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Pacific
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Johore Bahra
Belleaguered
Tokyo
Union Shop Demanded By Auto Workers
The United Automobile Workers CIO announced six wage demands for General Motors including a $1 daily wage rise, a union shop provision, seniority revisions, and expansion of the impartial umpire powers. Reuther said details will be reviewed by 190,000 GM workers across 90 plants, with a potential offset from living costs noted for last year's 10 cent per hour gains.
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United Automobile Workers
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Walter P. Reuther
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General Motors
Reuther
Uaw-Cio
President Roosevelt Delays Labor Leaders Conference
The White House said Roosevelt postponed the first heart-to-heart with CIO and AFL leaders until tomorrow. Six leaders from the rival unions were invited to discuss labor's role in the war, but CIO figure John L. Lewis was not on the guest list.
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White House
Roosevelt
CIO
AFL
John L. Lewis
Spy Ring Linked to Ship Sinkings in New York Harbor
In federal court, Lucy Boehmler testified that a German spy ring gathered data on New York ships, cargoes, origins, and sailing plans, wiring details to Nazi authorities including Himmier. She described trips to ferries, the Navy yard, defense centers, and named Kurt Ludwig as the ring’s brains.
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Heinrich Himmier
Gestapo
New York Harbor
Lucy Boehmler
Ludwig
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Boehmler
Kurt Frederick Ludwig
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