Artillery Fire Shatters Jap Drive North of Singapore
Japanese bomber formations battered near Singapore as 125 planes in three waves attacked coastal defenses and a naval base area. Preliminary surveys found little damage, while the city endured dense anti aircraft fire and bursting bombs. British forces reportedly destroyed valuables at Kuala Lumpur before retreating, as Japan pressed inland from the Thailand border toward Seremban and Singapore.
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Thailand
Kuala Lumpur
Federated Malay States
Seremban
London
Sadn
Associated Press
Orel
Red Army
Moscow
BBC
New York
NBC
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Leningrad
Crimea
Lake Hman
Smolensk
Hitler
British Exchange Telegraph Agency
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Ore
Kaluga
Salum Captured as British Tightens Halfaya Encirclement
Cairo Jan 13 British Middle East headquarters announced the capture of Salum as imperial forces push toward the Axis held Halfaya sector. 7,000 to 8,000 Axis troops believed isolated near the Egyptian Libyan border. about 330 prisoners taken, including many Germans, with water shortages reported for the Halfaya garrison.
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Salum
Britain
Halfaya
Middle East
Salam
Outpost
Sulu
Farm Amendments To Price Control Opposed By FDR
President Roosevelt told House members that farm amendments in the Senate price control bill would spark a spiral of higher prices for labor and farmers. Banking committee members said he gave them a "Free hand" after White House talks. Sources said the O Mahoney parity link to industrial wages was the most objectionable move, likely lifting agricultural price ceilings and provoking wage demands.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Banking Committee
White House
Congressional
O'Mahoney
Steamer Sunk Off Nova Scotia With Losses
A large steamship torpedoed and sunk by a submarine 160 miles off the Nova Scotia coast. Survivors estimate 94 lives lost and 89 saved. Among the rescued 66 were Chinese and 23 were white. Four white crewmen and about 90 Chinese perished in near zero weather aboard rafts and small boats.
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Nova Scotia
North American
United States
Opium Warfare Debate Difficulties Amid Allied Silence
Washington faces a decade long claim that Japan used drugs to demoralize enemies. Efforts to curb drug use as a weapon were hampered by major powers. Critics accuse Britain of protecting profits in Far East colonies and the State Department of soft-pedaling the issue. Evidence remains buried in League of Nations files and late opium scandals were hushed during appeasement.
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Ray Tucker
Japan
Geneva
Philippines
Malay States
United States
Canada
India
Italy
China
Tokyo
Ca Varonni
Mussolini
Far Eastern
League of Nations Library
State Department
British Take Heavy Toll In Mediterranean
London reports the British admiralty said a 5222 ton Italian supply ship was torpedoed, another Axis supply ship of medium size caught fire from gunfire, and the Italian minesweeper Santa Pietro sunk by British submarines in the Mediterranean. The damaged supply ship Sirip was last seen in tow, possibly reaching a harbor, and a surface submarine attack on the burning vessel was halted by enemy shore batteries.
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London
Admiralty
Mediterranean
German forces massing for potential Malta invasion
London papers report German troops massed in Italy facing Malta with an assault expected within ten days to three weeks. Disclosures say reinforcements operate from Brindisi to Syracuse and Western Europe and Norway may see troop movements under Hitler’s command. Royal Air Force observers note significant German buildup in western Europe and Norway.
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Italy
Malta
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Norway
Britain
Daily Mail
Madrid
Rome
Brindisi
Syracuse
Daily Express
Royal Air Force
Adolf Hitler
France
Hitler
Willkie Named On War Labor Board Of 12
President Roosevelt named Wendell L. Willkie as one of several arbiters on a 12 member War Labor Board created to arbitrate disputes to keep war industries producing. The board supersedes the Defense Mediation Board and shares four public, four industry, and four labor members. Major names include George W. Taylor, Frank P. Graham, Wayne L. Orse, A. W. Hawkes, Walter C. Teagle, Thomas Kennedy, George Meany, R. J. Thomas, and Matthew Woll. Meany and Kennedy were on the prior board.
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Wendell L. Willkie
War Labor Board
Willkie
Stephen Early
Labor Board
William H. Davis
Defense Mediation Board
Wilkie
Industry Labor
Davis
New York
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AFL
George W. Taylor
University of Pennsylvania
Frank P.graham
University of North Carolina
Wayne L. Orse
University of Oregon Law School
A. W. Hawkes
Chamber of Commerce
Consoleum-Nairn, Inc
Montclair
N. i
Roger D. Lepham
San
Francisco
American - Hawaiian Steamship Company
Edg. Millan
Standard Knitting Mills, Inc
Walter C. Teagle
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Aphant
Teagle
Thomas Kennedy
United Mine Workers
George Meany
R. J. Thomas
Detroit
United Automobile Workers of America
Matthew Woll
Oil War Fronts and Tarakan: Red Army Advances and Japanese Capture
The report details Soviet offensives around Orel with a new shock army and encirclement efforts near Smolensk, plus British and BBC notes on retaking Orel. Separately Japanese forces seize Tarakan off northeast Borneo after heavy fighting, with Dutch garrison survivors escaping and oil facilities destroyed.
Japanese Envoy in Reich Predicts Singapore Fall in Two Months
Dispatches from Bangkok quoted a Japanese embassy spokesman stating the fall of Singapore is certain within two months. The reports also said Japanese forces raided an airport north of Rangoon but offered no details on the impact.
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Singapore
Berlen
Bangkok
Thailand
Rangoon
Burma
Domei Recounts Unbroken Nippon Successes In Far Eastern Battle
Do Mei news agency reports rapid Japanese advances in Malaya with tank corps near Negri Sembilan and Kuala Lumpur while British forces retreat. Chungking agrees to send 200000 troops to defend Burma and attack from rear. Japan bombers strike Singapore Rangoon and Dutch East Indies targets. naval air action damages positions, sinks a Dutch minelayer Prins Van Oranje near Tarakan.
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China
Hongkong
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Guam
Philippines
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Singapore
Malay Peninsula
Celebes Islands
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Lumpur
Johore
Perak
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Burma
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Tengah
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Menado
Celebes
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Prins van
American Guns Superior To Nipponese On Batan Battle
AP dispatch notes American and Filipino artillery proved superior in 24 hours of fighting on the Batan peninsula near Manila Bay. Japanese tanks and infantry units were shattered as 11 Japanese batteries were silenced and forces withdrew under heavy shelling.
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Washington
War Department
Batan
Manila Bay
Philippines
Corregidor Island
Centunique
Philippine” Theatt
War Today on Pacific Progress and Allied Strategy
The report portrays ongoing Japanese advances in the Pacific aiming at Java Sumatra and Singapore with a major assault expected. Allied reinforcements are said to be en route though vital warplanes are not confirmed. Secretary Knox vows to prevent Axis distractions from defeating Hitler, a view echoed by Allied commands.
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Sumatra
Singapore
Far East
Knox
Hitler
Colonel Knox
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