Churchill Returns to England as Singapore Crisis Grows
In a daily Wide World broadcast, Fred Vanderschmidt notes Churchill's arrival by flying boat to reassure Britain amid the Malaya and Singapore crisis. He warns Americans that Singapore’s defense matters more than Manila’s loss, and outlines a strategy to secure supply lanes across Burma, China, India, the Dutch Indies, and Australia.
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Winston Churchill
England
Gibraltar
Malaya
Singapore
Manila
Hammersmith
Golders Green
Rangoon
Johore
Churchill
Eeksin
Tobruk
United Nations
Burma
Free China
India
Dutch Indies
Australia
Informal Chats Decide Future Of S A Parley
Delegates at the third foreign ministers conference of the Americas spend time in hotel discussions likely shaping the region's stance toward the Axis. Eight resolutions including a proposed unanimous rupture with the Axis are debated as Argentina's position remains pivotal despite no firm pledge.
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John P. McKnight
Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Sam
Americas
Argentina
Castillo Ofrgentina
Chile
Cassine
Atack
Oswaldo Avanha
Sling
Peru
Ecuador
Carole Lombard Believed Killed In Plane Crash
Carole Lombard socialite and film star wife of Clark Gable and 21 other passengers including Lombard's mother and 15 army fliers were believed dead after a TWA luxury airliner crashed on Table Mountain near Las Vegas Nevada. Ground searchers faced rugged terrain and snow as they pressed to reach the wreckage. Gable chartered a flight to join the search but was advised to wait for word from authorities.
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Los Angeles
Carole Lombard
Clark Gable
TWA
Las Vegas
Nev
Woody Pierce
Glenn Jones
Herbert Anderson
Army
Jack Larry
Jim Wilson
Jones
Army Air Corps Ferry Command
Long Beach
Calif
Pacific Coast
Albuquerque
Douglas Sky Club
Blue Diamond
Art Cheney
Western Air Lines
Table Mountain
Cheney
Charleston Range
W.T. McMillan
Blue Diamond Mine
Mohave
Gable
Lockheed Air Terminal
Burbank
Talif
Carole
Miss Lombard
Von Reichenau Dies Of Apoplexy At 57
Berlin reports Field Marshal General Walter von Reichenau has died of apoplexy at age 57. He led the Northern France campaign, earned promotion to field marshal after that drive, and earlier commanded armies on Poland's southern front. He supervised the Belgian army surrender negotiations. His WWI service included the general staff. he rose from colonel-general in 1939 to major-general by 1934.
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Berlin
Walter
von Reichenau
France
Poland
Werner von Blomberg
Contracts Set For 632 Ships
Washington January 17 The Maritime Commission announced it had negotiated contracts for the construction of 632 additional emergency liberty ships. The new tonnage will help meet President Roosevelt's shipping targets of 8,000,000 deadweight tons this year and 10,000,000 next year. Captain Howard L. Vickery said the 632 vessels costing about 1.11 billion dollars would be completed by the end of 1943. He noted American shipyards would output over 1,900 vessels in 16 years, the greatest shipbuilding drive in history, adding these ships bring total new maritime construction to 18,500,000 tons.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
Roosevelt
Howard L. Vickery
Vickery
United States
Two Mass Killings Shocks Pierce County Wisconsin
In Pierce county near Ellsworth two mass killings left eleven people dead in 24 hours. Thomas Seipel 31 killed his wife Lucille 29 and their five children then killed himself. A second farm family Mrs Arthur Pelan 29 and three children George 10 Neil 6 Sylvia 3 were shot stabbed and their house set on fire. The father 35 survived. A neighboring father James Simecek 22 is charged with first degree murder for the Pelan case after a confession.
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Ellsworth
Wis
Pierce County
Heodore A. Waller
Thomas Sveiper
Lucille
Joanne
Cleo
Jean
Garry
Arthur Petan
George
Neil
Sylvia
Seipel
Waller
Plum City
Seipels
James Simecek
Pelan
Simecek
Halfaya Pass Falls to British Forces in Egypt Front
British siege forces captured Halfaya Pass on the Egyptian Libyan frontier, forcing the surrender of over 5,500 Axis troops after a bombardment by dive bombers and naval guns. The fall opens the coastal supply route toward Tripolitania as Axis reinforcements faced desert supply hurdles. In Sevastopol, Hitler’s command claimed Russian assaults were repelled on the Crimean front while noting local Axis gains east of Kursk amid ongoing winter battles.
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Tobruk
Halfaya
Hellfire
Middle East
Tripolitania
Cairo
Envin
Rammel
Gulf of
Sirte
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Sevastopol
Crimea
Kursk
Moscow
Hitler
Crimean
Simfero- Pol
Fire at Elon College destroys kitchen and dormitory
Fire of undetermined origin obliterated the kitchen and dining area at Elon College and damaged the girls dormitory about four this morning. College officials put the damage at about 35000 dollars.
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Elon
Elon College
Turpin Adds Horse Drawn Wagon To Kansas City Fleet
L. 5. Turpin introduces a newly built horse drawn delivery wagon to his grocery fleet the first of its kind from a local carriage works since 1916. He plans to replace his other three trucks with horse and wagon outfits soon.
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Kansas City
L. 5
Turpin
Spanish Port Raid by Free French Seizes Axis Ships
Three axis merchantmen were seized by a Free French destroyer in a raid on the harbor of Santa Isabel, Fernando Poo, off the West African coast. Arriba reported from Madrid citing the raid as proof of action in non belligerent Spain.
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Associated
Fress
Madrid
Santa Isabel
Spain
Fernando Poo
Africa
Arriba
Free French deny Santa Isabel coup reports
London dispatch notes Free French headquarters deny German-sourced claims of a destroyer coup at Santa Isabel as unbelievable. Arriba, Falange organ in Spain, hints Spain may raise the seizures as a diplomatic issue and vows to oppose such actions.
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London
Santa Isabel
de Gaullist
Unemployment Relief Plan Backed by Roosevelt and Congress
President Roosevelt and leaders agreed on a plan to spend about 450 to 600 million dollars to aid roughly 4 million workers temporarily out of work as US plants shift to war production. Unemployment benefits would total 60 percent of wages, capped at 24 dollars weekly, with the federal government funding the difference for those now on state aid. The president will likely send a message to Congress early next week, and a bill to authorize and appropriate funds will be developed in the House Appropriations Committee.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congressional
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
White House
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Japs Break Through Australian Lines Near Singapore Crisis Looms
Japanese invasion forces reportedly pierced Australian defenses in Batu Pahat Sector, 50 miles northwest of Singapore, as Tokyo dispatches claim U S and Filipino defenders retreat toward Manila Bay. British, Malay, and Burmese fronts report foothold on Muar River and advances toward Johor and Burma, with RAF bombing transport columns and renewed air raids over Malacca and Singapore.
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MacArthur
Manila Bay
Burma
Muar
Roger .D. Greene
Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Batu Pahat
Singapore
Britain
Bafan
Luzon
Philippines
Corregidor Island
Alamita Bay
Batan Peninsula
Singa
Johore Strait
Malayan
Domei
Johore State
Malacca Straits Settlement
Gemas
Malacca
Tang Jong
British
China
Rangoon
Mayitta
Johore
Gemins
Wit
Churchill Returns to London After Atlantic Flight
Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived at Plymouth aboard the four engine flying boat Berwick after crossing the Atlantic from Bermuda to the English coast. He traveled with Lord Brooke Admiral Pound Air Chief Marshal Portal and Sir Charles Wilson and may broadcast a report to the empire soon.
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London
Churchill
United States
Canada
Atlantic
Bermuda
Plymouth
Berwick
British Airways
J.C. Kelly Rogers
Washington
Roosevelt
No. 10
Downing Street
United States of America
Mr. Churchill
Air 3
Lord Brook
Dudley Pound
Sir Charles Portal
Charles Wilson
Bombers Do Little Harm at Amboina Harbor Works
Twenty four high-lying Japanese bombers caused slight damage at Amboina harbor works in the Molucca group today and killed a civilian while machine-gunning two nearby sites. The Dutch command said eight bombers escorted by three fighters took part in raids on a Celebes air drome, dropping eight bombs with minimal damage and no casualties. No new details were available on fighting in the Minahassa zone of the Celebes. Bonus For Births. St Louis: A. P. Spack signs contract with CIO union providing $25 for each child born to an employee in 1942, with no ceiling.
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Batavia
Amboina
Molucca
Netherlands Indies
ST. Louis
Stork
A. P. Spack
CIO Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Spack
Taxes Relating To U S Soldiers Clarified By Revenue Dept
North Carolina state revenue rules say out of state residents in the armed forces serving in North Carolina pay no state tax on 1941 incomes. Active duty personnel receive this wartime relief. NC residents stationed in other states pay taxes to their duty state first, then NC if needed. Non residents stationed in NC owe no NC tax but may owe their home state tax.
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Raleigh
State Department of Revenue
North Carolina
Army
Navy
Warings
Coast Guard
A. J. Maxwell
Red Parachute Troops Land Behind Nazis
London dispatches say Red Army parachute troops dropped behind German lines in the Mozhaisk sector to join guerrilla bands and pressure the front. German counter attacks on the central front are costly and repulsed. The drive aims to wipe out the Mozhaisk salient while reports note Axis bombardment and Soviet advances across multiple fronts.
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London
Red Army
Mozhaisk
Mozhaisk Salient
Soviet Information Bureau
Moscow - Smolensk
Red Star
Moscow
Arctic Fisher Peninsula
Crimea
Taganrog
Kharkov
Kursk
A. Ta
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McWitt Mackenzie
Wide World News
Fred Vanderschmidt
Peaceful
Wisconsin County
Halfaya Pass
The
Falange
de Gautist
Aussies
Ocean
Dutch Harbor
U. S
Revenue Department
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