Fall of Singapore and Palembang advance reshape Southeast Asia
Allied air and sea strikes hit Japanese cruisers and transports around Palembang while Singapore falls. Churchill declares empire defeat. Curtin calls mobilization as Australia braces for battle. Japan's southern push aims at Java with heavy fighting in Malaya and Bataan pressure mounting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
Palembang
Sumatra
United Nations
Java
MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
War Department
Malaya
Netherland East Indies
Iver
Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
Australia
Curtin
Gibraltar
London
Curtains
Sydney
Britain
Dunkerque
Churchill
Malay Peninsula
Empire
Asia
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Prinz Eugen Hie
English Channel
Army plane crew credited with sinking submarine off coast
Six crew members received letters of commendation after an Army Air Force B 25s bombs destroyed an enemy submarine near the Delaware coast. Bombardier Donald J. Raker of Indiana Pa said he prayed then released bombs from about 200 feet. The mission also directed rescue of survivors from the tanker China Arrow, torpedoed February 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Army Air Force
Rrigata
Donald J. Raker
Indiana
Governors Island
Army
Louis M. Abernathy
Arkansas City
Kan
Navy
Delaware
Coast Guard
Abernathy
Arthur J. Rush
Chicago
Thomas C. Day
Blum
Tex
Joseph R. Tokar
Ellsworth
John J. Duffy
Philadelphia
Indiana Pa
Air Corps
Arkansas City Junior College
Peiping Student Speaks at Lawrence Rotary on US China Ties
Mou Hui King, K A sophomore from Peiping, addressed the Lawrence Rotary Club at noon as part of a nationwide effort to improve US China understanding amid Pacific tensions. He discussed cultural clashes with Japan and argued the United States could aid peace by preparing for possible contingencies rather than delaying warfare. Dr. F C Allen praised Chinese resolve and noted American Chinese solidarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mou-Hui King
Peiping
China
Lawrence Rotary Club
America
Puntry
United States
Tan
U.S
Japan
Pacific
F. C. Allen
George Staples
Haskell
L. L. Thompson
Baldwin Club
Emil Liston
Baker University
Baker
Kansas
Cars Collide on Street Injuring Two K U Students
Minor injuries were suffered by two Kansas University students when a 35 Oldsmobile coupe and a 43 Plymouth sedan collided at the Tenth and Indiana streets intersection Saturday night about 11 o'clock. The coupe occupants Maz Kuchs and Isle Kadel were among those listed. the sedan carried Ben Spencer Jeff King Dickey and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenth
Indiana
Jean Cody
Clay Center
Watkins Memorial
Joe Laird Talmage
Bill James
Alabama
Tenth Street
Laird
Maz. Kuchs
Ouray
Cole
Luisle Kadel
Beloit
K. U
Ben Spencer
Fansas City
Jeff King
Wichita
Alas Jory Dickey
Kansas City
Ine Fox
Jean
Radio Equipment Placed in Ashcraft Planes
Ashcraft flying service at the municipal airport equips planes with idio receivers and a transmitter in the control tower. The FCC license is awaited before operation. Tower transmitter will contact training planes, with three receivers covering aircraft bands and weather data for pilots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashcraft Flying Service
Federal Communications Commission
Launch Alabama Battleship in Norfolk Yard
The battleship Alabama slid from the Norfolk navy yard into the Elizabeth river nine months ahead of schedule amid cheering crowds. Secretary Knox hailed the event as the end of the defense era and a shift to a war era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Alabama
Norfolk Navy Yard
Elizabeth River
Frank Knox
Massachusetts
Indiana
South Dakota
Knox
Supreme CourtAffirms Congress Power To Draft War Ship Biz
The Supreme Court upholds government contracts with Bethlehem Shipbuilding for WWI ships. Justice Black states Congress can draft business organizations to support troops and may need more anti profiteering laws. The decision cites existing power to requisition production and to fix prices or tax high profits if needed. Justice Frankfurter dissents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Justice Black
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Justice Department
Shipbuilding Company
Black
Justice Frankfurter
Chamber of Commerce Board to Meet Wednesday
The board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce will meet on Wednesday at 12:30 PM at Wiedemann's to discuss ongoing business and upcoming events.
Enemy Sub Shells Aruba and Curacao Oil Installations
An enemy submarine shelled the Aruba refinery and torpedoed three tankers off Willemstad Curacao in the first western hemisphere land attack. The Aruba refinery suffered slight damage with no land casualties while one tanker crew member was minorly injured. American troops guard both islands with Dutch cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Aneta
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Aruba
Venezuela
Willemstad
Dutch West Indies
Panama Canal
Curacao
Bonaire Islands
Puerto Rico
Sixteen Dollars Added To School Defense Fund
The high school defense stamp fund gained sixteen dollars from the V for Victory Hop, a Saturday dance in the gym run by the student council. About 250 attendees bought 10 or 25 cent stamps with the event themed on the war effort, featuring an American flag display, service banners, Uncle Sam character, and posters from the art department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Bayles
Charlies McBeth
Cordley
Uncle Sam
Weekend Rain Totals Reach .99 Inch in Lawrence
Rains over the weekend dropped .99 inch in Lawrence bringing February total to 1.27 inches. Prof C J Posey, volunteer observer, notes an overcast sky and cooler temperatures with a steady north wind. At noon airport readings show a 20 mph gust as Louis Copeland reports from the control tower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
C. J. Posey
Louis Copeland
Will List Old Bridges to Gather Scrap Material
Topeka February 16 Vice President Governor Payne Ratner urged the highway commission to list abandoned state and county bridges road building equipment and other structures that may hold iron or steel useful for scrap. Lessing J Rosenwald wartime industrial conservation chief warned of critical material shortages and stressed tapping every large dormant scrap source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Payne Ratner
Highway Commission
Lessing J. Rosenwald
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
War Department Board
Ratner
Six Governors Opposed To Increasing Unemployed Benefits
Washington reports six state governors testified against a $300 million federal boost to unemployment compensation for workers displaced by industry shift. The measure seeks up to 26 weeks of aid, with opposition from Stassen Minnesota and colleagues OConor Maryland Shrieker Indiana Broughton North Carolina Saltonstall Massachusetts Blood New Hampshire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
McCormack
D-Mass
Roosevelt
Ways and Means Committee
America
Harolld E. Stassen
Minnesota
National Conference of State
Herbert O’conor
Maryland
Henry F. Shrieker
Indiana
J. M. Broughton
North Carolina
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Robert Blood
New Hampshire
Near Zero Chill Hits Kansas Weather Alert
A cold wave will drop temperatures to near zero by tomorrow morning in Kansas with light snow possible. Farmers should shield livestock and motorists check antifreeze. Winds from the Dakotas bring sub zero air to northern counties, while Topeka and Wichita saw mild temps yesterday. Rain and snow amounts varied across eastern and western areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Eather Bureau
Dakotas
S. D. Flora
Quenemo
el Dorado
Wichita
Kansas City
Ellis
Goodland
Concordia
Nebraska
Landis Pushes Limited Fitness Program Focus
Washington February 16 James M Landis director of civilian defense told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the national physical fitness program should be limited to men about to enter the army and production workers with entertainment aspects removed He opposed abolishing the OCD arts division but urged not to teach arts as a primary function He stressed fitness as a government role for defense while Congress pushes OCD legislation amid other probes and pensions discussions
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James M. Landis
Senate Appropriations Committee
Landis
Senator McKellar
D-Tenn
Maynus Chaney
Franklin D. Roosevelt
McKellar
OCD
Congress
Normandie
Tax aid available at Lawrence post office
Local residents seeking help with 1941 federal income tax returns may confer with C. Robert Barnes deputy collector at the Lawrence post office from tomorrow through Saturday. He will be in room 205 on the second floor to assist filers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Robert Barnes
Lawrence Post Office
Barnes
Post Office
Axis moves loom as Italy targets Britain and Turkey
The report outlines Mediterranean fighting with axis air and sea strikes sinking British ships and bombers hammering Malta while land clashes flare in Libya and Tobruk. Berlin analysts speculate on moves toward Turkey as Soviet gains press the eastern front and Russian advances widen near Wilno and the Polish frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Turkey
Mediterranean
Libya
Rome
Alexandria
Malta
Augusta
Syracuse
Floridia
Sicily
North Africa
Ain el Gazala
Tobruk
Egypt
St. Nazaire
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Brest
Dover Strait
Russia
Hitler
Moscow
Stockholm
Red
White
Wilno
Vilna
Lithuania
Court hears evidence in $19000 damage suit against bank
Defense presents its case in the district court before Judge Hugh Means in the suit by Walter A. Dunmire of Mission Kansas against First National Bank and George Docking. Dunmire alleges injuries from an alleged September 10 1941 beating. Testimony began with Dunmire and his wife and relatives then Docking took the stand. Jury list includes Dwight Henry Fred Bremer William Turner and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Hugh Means
Walter A. Dunmire
First National Bank
George Docking
Dunmire
Lawrence Froceryman
Mission, Kaw
Docking
Hugo Rumsey
Joseph Goode
John Stavros
Lawrence
Dwight Henry
Fred Bremer
William Turner
W. L. Selzer
B.E. Vaughn
Allan Daugherty
George Warmker
Ross Cole
Roy Stecker
Fred Brown
Don Springer
O. Cooper
Ministers Get Priority Rating in New Tire Plan
Instructions place ministers in the same priority class as physicians in the tire buying plan to be made public February. Taxis fall to a secondary rating after physicians and ministers, with ambulances public safety services garbage disposal mail carriers buses ice and fuel and common carriers. No new regulations on used tires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
No U S Supplies Sent to The French Reach Libya
Sumner Welles stated that no U S aid reached axis forces in Libya via French Africa. Technical advisers oversee U S shipments to French North Africa and report none diverted. Washington awaits Vichy reply on supplies moving through Tunisia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Libya
Sumner Welles
Washington
Welles
United States
French Africa
State Department
French North Africa
France
Tunisia
Singapore Falls to Japanese Forces After Prolonged Defense
Britain confirms Singapore s surrender after heavy losses and severe shortages of water gasoline and food. General Percival’s last message notes dire conditions and decision to capitulate. Observers consider Sumatra or Malacca Strait as potential next theaters of operation in the Far East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Churchill
Singapore
A. E. Percival
Dunkerque
Japan
Far Pacific
Sumatra
Indian Ocean
Malacca Strait
Burma
Wind Whips Smoke Through Massachusetts Street Shops
A brisk north wind at 12:40 pm caused smoke to reenter rooms via cracks and a chimney at 941 and 948 Massachusetts in a freak weather event. Chief Paul Incels and crew found no damage after checking buildings housing the Permanent Wave shop Smith Hemstitching shop Boegs & Albert Millinery and Iva's beauty shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Street
Paul Incels
Smith Hemstitching
Boegs & Albert Millinery
Iva
Massachusetts
Sabol to Washington to join WPB musical instrument panel
A. G. Sabol of Reuter Organ Co will join the war production board advisory committee on musical instruments. He leaves tonight for Washington to attend the first meeting at 10 a.m. in the Social Security Building. Labor will represent the pipe organ industry. The panel will advise WPB on the proposed limitation order plant conversions and critical-material inventories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Sabol
Reuter Organ Company
Musical Instrument Industry
War Production Board
Washington, D.C
Social Security
Reno Man Slightly Hurt In U S 40 Sideswipe
A Reno man received minor injuries when his car side swiped another vehicle from Wichita on U.S. 40 about a mile north of Reno. Deputy Leonard Turner said both cars were heavily damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway 40
Reno
Joe White
Wichita
U.S. 40
Leonard Turner
Leavenworth County
Men register for draft in Douglas county
About 1,000 men had registered by noon in Douglas county third selective service registration. The Armory was open until 9 pm with 70 registrars on duty. Five Iowa State College basketball players registered, and several World War I cards were presented. Fathers and sons registered together and two registry floors operated like offices with swift processing. Bruce Cameron led the local board with Neal Wherry and Rev. John Bowers assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Iowa State College
Cyclones
al Rudolfson
Harley Damon
Carol Schneider
Reuben Mickelson
Leon Aknes
Lawrence
A. Woestemeyer
Jane Woestemeyer
Singapore
Bruce Cameron
Selective Service Board
Neal Wherry
Liberty Memorial High School
John Bowers
Trinity Episcopal Church
Stock Market Index Stands at 37.1 on Saturday
The average of 60 stocks held steady at 37.1 points this Saturday, reflecting quiet trading andunchanged market sentiment amid the week’s end.
Weather Outlook for Kansas Cold Wave and Snow Flurries
Kansas will see much colder air with strong winds and brief snow flurries. A cold wave will sweep east and north central portions tonight into Tuesday forenoon bringing temperatures near zero in the north and around six degrees in the south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
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Vichy
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Musical Instrument Committee
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