Allied leaders meet in Chungking as war rumors surge
Major General Lewis Brereton and Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell arrived in Chungking for talks with Chiang Kai-shek. Chinese dispatches claim heavy fighting on multiple fronts with 2000 Japanese casualties near Lungling and Tengyuech. British reports hint at a potential Japanese plan to seize Madagascar amid patrol killings near Diego Suarez.
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Peril
Far Pacific
Chungking
Lungling
Tengyuech
Salween River
China East
Canton-Hankow
Kwangtung
British War Office
Japan
Madagascar
Africa
War Office
Diego Suarez
Nation Prepares to Parry New Aerial Blows
The navy readies a response to new aerial blows and flags secrecy as paramount. Defenses across North America from the Aleutians to Panama go on alert against further enemy thrusts.
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North America
Aleutians
Panama
Damage in Alaska Attack Is Slight
Allied defenses remained alert from Alaska to the Panama Canal after Japan's twin raids on Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians. The assaults caused few casualties and little damage, with officials noting the base was prepared. Other fronts saw British bombers hit Bremen and commando raids in Boulogne Le Touquet, while Heydrich died from an assassination attempt in Prague.
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Alaska
Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Panama Canal
Japan
United States
Dutch Harbor
Aleutian Islands
North America
C. S. Freeman
13Th Naval District
Germany
Bremen
Colongne
Essen
Boulogne-Le Touquet
Adolf Hitler
No. 2
Gestapo
Reinhard Heydrich
Europe
der Henker
the Hangman
Czecho-Slovakia
London
Berlin
Heydrich
France
Holland
Belgium
Norway
Poland
Claude Auchinleck
Tamar
Tobruk
Mussolini
Bir el Hacheim
Wisdom
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
Stimson
Anthony J. Dimond
Congress
Pacific
Victoria
B. C
Royal Canadian Air Force
British Columbia
Seattle
Los Angeles
County Defense Council
Balboa
Panama Canal Zone
Browder Case Faces Unity Criticism and Deportation Hurdles
A columnist argues three million signatories for Browder’s appeal are suspect and that unity did not justify a political favor to a prisoner. The piece notes antiwar elements align with Axis interests, questions deportation prospects, and mentions Russia Australia relations, plus a Wake Island flag-raising in 1898.
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Browder
Cause of Unity
Russia
Biddle
Axis
Supreme Court
Australia
Commonwealth
Pacific
United States
Robert Jackson
Yonkers
Newspaperman and lawyers face battle
Governor Jones scheduled to testify on a state guard bill as anti administrationists push for hearings. Louisiana lawmakers advance a new criminal procedure code and parole reforms while reorganizations create the Department of Public Safety. A proposed statewide two percent sales tax faces hearings, with industry concerns raised. Nova Scotia subsidies for aged orchard trees noted.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
House
Judiciary
Raymond H. Fleming
Louisiana Law Institute
Senate Judiciary
Senate
Jones
House Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Department of Public Safety
Leander Perez
Plaquimines Parish
Ways and Means
W. J. Dodd
Allen Parish
Dodd
James W. Scaife Listed Missing in Action
Mr and Mrs C F Scaife report their son James W Scaife is missing in action. He enlisted July 26 1940 in the army here and served with the 14th Quartermaster Corps. He was later moved with his unit to the Philippines and no word has come since October 1941.
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C. F. Scaife
War Department
James W. Scaife
Army
14Th Quartermaster Corps
Philippines
Parity payments canceled for 1942 in Louisiana
Parity payments on cotton and rice totaling about 5.5 million dollars in Louisiana will not be made in 1942. I. E. Lucas Ouachita parish AAA administrative officer announced that 1941 crop returns plus 1942 soil conservation payments keep parity level. Conservation rates set at 12 cents per pound cotton 3.89 cents per bushel rice and 18 cents per bushel potatoes.
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Louisiana
I. E. Lucas
Ouachita Parish
Limi
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Mandrake the Magician
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Phil Dan
Red Ryder
Daddy
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AV Arne
PK Real Hospitality
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Lee
Maline
Zeela
Tarzan
Skren United
Gynas
Sly Inspiration
Wornaers
DIFIA
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Burroug
Gus Edson
Helpiny
Heaven's Sake
Hello’ Hello! Police Department
Ith Ile
Chorage
Little
Orphan Annie
Harold Gray
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Monroe, LA
Gladys Parker
Canary Isle
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