Ed Scott's Normandie expose sparks dockside storms
West Broadway dispatch reveals Edmund Scott a PM reporter was hired on the Normandie by the Longshoremen Union amid fears of union control and possible sabotage. Scott found high criminal salience among dock workers and flagged lax safeguards aboard ship, but PM's editors allegedly suppressed the story. Captain Zeerfoss warned PM to remove Scott.
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Chicago
Edmund Scott
Whatizzit
Marshall Field
New York
Normandie
A. F. of L
Dockwalloper
Dick Butler
Chelsea
Harry Thaw
Matteawan
Joseph Driscoll
West Side
Scott
Union
North River Docks
Charles H. Zeertoss
Maritime Commission
Zeerfoss
Senators Press Coast Defense Amid War Threats
Three senators Walsh Massa chusetts Byrd and Johnson urged strong coast defense as War Secretary Stimson warned dispersal could slow offensives. New Dutch Indies reports show 16 P 40s intercepted 25 Japanese bombers over Soerabaja, Java, killing five bombers and one fighter. one American plane was downed but crew saved.
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Washington
Walsh
Massachusetts
Byrd
Virginia
Johnson
California
Stimson
Netherlands East Indies
Soerabaja
Java
Yates McDaniel Arrives in Batavia After Hazardous Journey
Associated Press correspondent C Yates McDaniel arrives in Batavia aboard a British warship after a week long trek via life boat native junk and jungle paths. He survived his ship being bombed and sunk after leaving Singapore as the last American newspaperman to depart. The route included interior Sumatra contact with Dutch troops leading to British forces and a final voyage on a warship. The journey followed his Singapore message reporting heavy Japanese air attack.
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Batavia
C. Yates McDaniel
Associated Press
Singapore
Sumatra
Supatra
Henry Steel
McDaniel
Soviet Red Star predicts Nazi collapse in 1942
The Soviet army newspaper Red Star declared the winter offensive would crush German counterattacks and predicted Hitler’s spring campaign would fail this year. It claimed the United States Britain and Russia outnumber Germany and would decide the war by economic strength. Churchill reshaped his war cabinet highlighting Sir Stafford Cripps as lead figure and Oliver Lyttelton as production minister.
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Associated Press
Russia
Red Star
Adolf Hitler
United States
Britain
Germany
Hitler
Winston Churchill
North Africa
Far Pacific
Stafford Cripps
Moscow
Oliver Lyttelton
Winston
Middle East
Singapore
BBC
Sir Stafford
Two Die in Truck and Bus Crash Killing Osaka Team
Magnolia Mississippi reports a fatal crash between a freight truck and a school bus returning Osaka High from Fernwood. The dead are Minnie May Raborn and Clifton Speed. J P Maxwell and seven others are injured including James Harrell and Louie Raborn. the Osaka team suffered multiple serious injuries.
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Magnolia
Miss
Osaka
Fernwood
J. P. Maxwell
Minnie May Dickey Raborn
Curtis Raborn
Clifton Speed
James Harrell
Louie Raborn
Quadruplets Born to Arkansas Couple
Neshy and Odell Wellburn near Marianna Arkansas welcomed quadruplets weighing a total of 22 pounds. One girl died minutes after birth. Three surviving babies and the mother were reported in good condition with welfare workers coordinating hospital transfer.
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Little Rock
Ark
Neshy
Odell Wellburn
Marianna
Brazilian freighter Olinda sunk by axis submarine off Atlantic
The 4080 ton Brazilian freighter Olinda was sunk by a pocket-sized axis submarine off the Atlantic coast. Forty six crew members were saved after twenty hours adrift in lifeboats. Francisco Nogueira and Captain Benemond were questioned aboard the sub. The raider fired a volley before the torpedo hit amidships. US planes were seen approaching as the sub dived.
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Norfolk
Atlantic
Fifth Naval District
Francisco Nogueira
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Jacob Benemond
Olinda
Nogueira
United States
U S Plans Expanded Food Aid to Soviet Russia
Washington reports the United States and Britain will deliver additional canned meats fats vegetable oils butter and other foods to Soviet Russia beyond the wheat flour and sugar already arranged. Ocean shipping limits may curb totals while Canada assists with wheat and Cuba sugar quotas are discussed as alternatives.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Agriculture Department
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Canada
United Nations
Hawaii
F D R Speech May Touch On Strategy
President Roosevelt’s Monday night address is expected to focus on a world at war and its local impact rather than detailed military strategy. White House press secretary Stephen Early said the speech will show oceans as less protective and that actions far from home affect every community and worker.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Stephen Early
Early
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
Cripps Named Key Aide as Churchill Rejigs War Cabinet
London Feb 20 Churchill cuts war cabinet from nine to seven in a swift shakeup. Sir Stafford Cripps named lord privy seal and Commons leader, becoming second in importance to Churchill. Oliver Lyttelton to oversee production, Beaverbrook leaves for US, Attlee moves to dominion affairs.
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London
Winston Churchill
Stafford Cripps
Moscow
Churchill
Cripps
House of Commons
Oliver Lyttelton
Winston
Lord Beaverbrook
United States
United Nations
Kingsley Wood
Arthur Greenwood
Clement Attlee
Privy Seal
Occupational Deaths Grow Across States in January
Chicago reports show January 1942 occupational accident deaths at 711, up 19 percent from January 1941, with an 8 percent rise in overall costs. The National Safety Council cautions against predicting a trend from a single month and notes growing concern for industrial management.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Council
Hlinois
George Sees Support for Tax on Sales
In Washington, a sales tax proposal surfaces as friction grows between legislative and treasury experts over a new 7 billion revenue plan. Senator George and Rep Coughton discuss growing national sentiment for a sales levy while treasury officials favor higher excise taxes and question feasibility of creating a new agency during wartime.
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Washington
Legislative
Treasury
George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Coughton
North Carolina
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury Representatives
Congress
Congressional
New War Cabinet Member Stafford Cripps Profile
Sir Stafford Cripps emerges as a new War Cabinet figure guiding Britain's alliance with the United States and Soviet Russia. A former ambassador to Russia and dissenting Labour critic, Cripps is pictured as a tall, bespectacled 53 year old with a militant reform image and ties to agriculture. He previously built a legal career earning high incomes before joining politics.
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Stafford Cripps
Britain
British Labor Party
Russia
Soviet Union
Privy Seal
Commons
Churchill
Stafford
England
Lord Parmoor
United States
Soviet Russia
Squire
Winchester College
University College
London
William Ramsay
France
The
Middle Temple
George VI
Mrs. Roosevelt Resigns OCD Post as Assistant Director
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt resigns from her role as assistant director of the Office of Civilian Defense. Director James M. Landis accepts with gratitude for her vision and energy. She notes the division is functioning efficiently and cites protection from attacks on the agency. The first lady had led community activities and volunteers since her September appointment by F. H. La Guardia.
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Washington
Eleanor Roosevelt
Office of Civilian Defense
James M. Landis
OCD
F. H la Guardia
Daladier and Others Stand in War Defeat Trial
Five former Third Republic leaders face a second day in a French high court over guilt in France’s wartime collapse. They challenge the trial as unconstitutional arguing indictments belong to the Chamber of Deputies and trials to the Senate. Names include Leon Blum Edouard Daladier Maurice Gamelin Guy la Chambre and Pierre Jacomet.
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Riom
France
Supreme Court
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Leon Blum
Petain
Edouard Daladier
Maurice Gamelin
Guy la Chambre
Pierre Jacomet
National Defense Industries
Eisenhower Named Chief Of War Plans For Army Staff
Washington reports the appointment of Brigadier General Dwight D. Eisenhower as chief of war plans for the army general staff. He will succeed Major General Leonard T. Gerow who moves to command the 2nd Division. Eisenhower previously led the Third Army staff at San Antonio Texas as Pearl Harbor era changes reshape top commands.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army General Staff
Harry L. Twaddle
Pearl Harbor
High Command
War Department
Eisenhower
Leonard T. Gerow
Third Army
San Antonio
Tex
Senators Vote for Repeal of Own Pensions
In Washington on February 20 the Senate voted 75 to 5 to repeal the congressional pension law and then defeated Downey's 606 pension proposal 49 to 22. House action hinges on Monday with a majority favoring repeal, ending the long controversy over lawmakers' pensions.
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Washington
House
Senate
Downey
California
Ramspeck
Georgia
House Civil Service Committee
Congress
Capitol
Hope Chinese to Gain Air Bases Near Japan
Reports from Chungking say Stillwell's China visit may align with Chiang Kai-Shek on war plans for a counter offensive to push U S aircraft closer to Japan. Optimism grows as transport between India and China is reportedly solved and Bomber range reaches Formosa just 100 miles off the China coast. A government spokesman noted United States promises to send large numbers of planes to China amid calls for vigorous Allied action.
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Chungking
United States
Japan
Joseph W. Stillwell
Roosevelt
White House
Peiping
China
Stillwell
Chiang Kai-Shek
India
Burma
Formosa
Tokyo
East China Coast
United Nations
Japanese landings strike Bali and Timor in Pacific push
Japanese sea borne invasion forces massed along the Bali and Timor coast as Allied ships planes and submarines pressed to halt the assault. Batavia dispatches report heavy toll on defenders though Japanese landings surged ashore in the Bali Timor corridor.
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Batavia
Bali
Timor
Tokyo
Japan
Southwest Pacific
United Nations
Java
Australia
Associated Press
Bishop Mikell of Atlanta Dies at 68
The Right Rev. H. J. Mikell bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta and chancellor of the University of the South Sewanee Tenn died early today after a heart attack on February 9 following a bishops meeting in Jacksonville Fla He was born August 4 1873 in Sumter S C and served as rector in Charleston S C and Nashville Tenn before becoming bishop in 1917 He was noted as an administrator scholar and liturgy authority and was past national president of Kappa Alpha fraternity Continued on second page.
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Atlanta
H. J. Mikell
Episcopal Diocese of
University of the South
Sewanee
S. C
Charleston
Nashville
Henry Judish Mikell
Oglethorpe University
Mikell
Church of Holy Communion
Porter Military Academy
Christchurch
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