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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1942
Page
1
Chicago writer Westbrook Pegler rails at American industrial leaders, calling them poisonous bores in social gatherings. He cites their loud locker room jokes, incoherent speeches, and lurid dinner-table rituals as symptomatic of a class that dominates markets yet degrades public manners.
Washington reports fear in Congress that Germany may press Vichy to surrender most of the French fleet after Berlin's gains in home waters. Senators note a possible plan to combine the French ships with German surface forces to challenge Allied navies.
The first sizeable group of nine Japanese surrendered voluntarily to General MacArthur's forces on the Bataan Peninsula. They handed over personal belongings and were treated well, then became reluctant to answer questions and claimed they were captured while sleeping.
Axis submarine sinks and shells targets near Aruba in the western Caribbean. In Southeast Asia, Japanese forces advance to Palembang as Allied forces strike two Japanese cruisers and five transports in Bangka Strait. heavy fighting continues in Bataan and Malaya as Singapore falls.
Attorney General Biddle told Congress the Justice Department previously mishandled investigations of government employees linked to un American groups by the Dies committee. He said a new system now investigates complaints without consulting department heads. He noted changes since taking office last October and praised improvements over his predecessor Robert H. Jackson.
Second Lieutenant John F. Burdette aged 28 from Trenton New Jersey was killed in a wreck near Camp Claiborne. An additional officer and three civilians were injured during eleven automobile accidents in the Alexandria area over the weekend.
Hundreds of enemy aliens in California’s restricted zones were cleared over the weekend as authorities meet a February 24 deadline for removal from prohibited areas. Tom C. Clark said martial law could be considered to accelerate removal of thousands more.
The Supreme Court says Congress has constitutional power to draft war related businesses and may devise more measures to curb profiteering. It also overrules government claim that Bethlehem Shipbuilding earned unconscionable profits on World War I ship contracts, upholding Fleet Corporation's profits as lawful under presidential authority. Justice Black writes for a 5 to 1 majority with Justice Frankfurter dissenting.
The butler in the home of John D. M. Hamilton, former Republican national chairman, was arrested as an enemy alien by the Philadelphia FBI. Hamilton said he reported the existence of an un naturalized German employed in the household for security reasons.
London reports a dramatic RAF victory over Axis planes in North Africa. In the Acroma area near Tobruk, 18 American made Kittyhawks claimed 20 Italian and German aircraft shot down in five minutes, with the rest damaged. The pilot described swatting flies as the enemy tried ground strafing. Continued on tenth page.
Moscow dispatches report Red Army forces break through basic German winter lines meeting Nazi reserves in furious clashes. advance runs about 30 miles in recent days as Soviet forces push toward the old Polish frontier and Wilno district amid ambiguous front details.
Tokyo reports detail a 49 minute meeting in Singapore in which Lieutenant General Yamashita demanded unconditional surrender and Percival agreed to terms while promising to protect lives of British and Australian troops and civilians. The exchange shows Japanese threats of renewed attack if no surrender and a deadline set for 10 p.m. with cease fire.
Churchill told Britons that the United Nations can square all accounts and that the war's turning point will show U S power on side. He stated Singapore has fallen and all of the Malay peninsula was overrun and warned of other dangers beyond Britain. He urged continued confidence amid mounting disaster and political strain.
The battleship Alabama slid into the Elizabeth River at Portsmouth after nine months ahead of schedule. Navy Secretary Frank Knox called the launch the end of the defense era and the start of a war era as 35 000 ton vessel joins the fleet amid cheers and naval planes.
Smiling but noncommittal aviator Charles A Lindbergh registered for selective service in Washington. He previously held an air corps reserve commission, resigned last summer amid criticism of the president's foreign policy, and now works in a civilian research assignment for the war department.
Axis forces push from Singapore into the East Indies while Japan holds Singa pore. Dutch report Palembang oil center fallen and allied air raids devastate invaders along Sumatra. Aruba and Curaçao attacked. Britain reports little escape from Singapore. Italians claim sinkings. Soviets report continued offensives against German winter defenses.
Nine simple questions to be answered at registration centers as 9,000,000 men aged 20 to 45 register for possible service in the United States Army. President Roosevelt urges this step as essential for victory with another spring draft planned for 18 to 20 and 45 to 65, expanding total potential manpower over 42 million.
More than 100 law enforcement officers from the New Orleans area attend the opening of a week long instruction in highway regulation under F B I sponsorship. George Barton and R F Weller lead sessions noting civilian traffic cuts from rationing and a rise in military traffic in defense areas. The course travels to Shreveport and Alexandria later in March as part of a nationwide series.
Japan hails the surrender of Singapore as a major victory giving control of key supply routes and possibly India and Australia. Official notices mention 1,000 British troops to police the city and that warships and bases in Singapore were transferred, with a formal triumphal entry planned midweek.
In Senate testimony James M. Landis urged limiting the national physical fitness program to prospective soldiers and workers with entertainment aspects removed. He cited public support decline for OCD and criticized the arts division and selections involving Selyyn Douglas and Maynus Chaney as harming war effort perception.
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