Snow Slips on Roads After Night of Light Snow
Winter's second snowfall arrives with milder temperatures and mixed precipitation. In city, depths range from one to two inches with heavier falls in Gambrill Park and Fishing Creek. Statewide, snow, sleet, and rain create slush, but traffic remains largely normal in Hagerstown Cumberland and Salisbury.
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Sheldon H. Burns
Gambrill Park
Fishing Creek
Frederick
Robert E. L. Putman
State Roads Commission
Butman
Roger H. Willard
Associated Press
Maryland
Hazerstown
Cumberland
Salisbury
Baltimore
Chinese Wipe Out Japanese Garrison Near Waichow
Chinese communique reports Japanese infiltrations driven back east and west of Waichow in Kwangtung with Waichow recaptured. Downstream Japanese retook Poklo on the main road. In Nanchang area 12 miles below Waichow on both river banks Chinese claim 2,600 Japanese killed or wounded and a garrison wiped out at a railroad town.
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Chungking
China
Waichow
Kwangtung
Poklo
Waichaw
Chang River
Nanchang
Railroad Income Shows Large Increase in 1941 Profits
The nation's Class 1 railroads earned an estimated net income of 500,545,671 dollars in 1941, more than two and a half times the 1940 profit, per the Association of American Railroads.
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Washington
Association of American Railroads
Admiralty says several Italian submarines sunk
The Admiralty asserted today that several Italian submarines had paid the ultimate penalty after being sent to aid the German submarine campaign in the Atlantic.
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Admiralty
London
Atlantic
Descendent Of Key Dies In Baltimore
Mrs. Thom as Harrison Lloyd Oliver, great granddaughter of Francis Scott Key and Gen. John Eager Howard, died at her Baltimore home aged 87. Widow of Thomas Harrison Oliver, she was daughter of Col. Edward Lloyd of a Maryland family that produced two governors. Funeral services at 3 p.m. at the Protestant Episcopal Pro Cathedral with burial at the Lloyd family cemetery at Wye House.
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Baltimore
Thomas Harrison Lloyd Oliver
Francis Scott Key
John Eager Howard
Col
Edward Lloyd
Maryland
Talbot County
Wye House
Oliver
Thomas Harrison Oliver
Protestant Episcopal Pro-Cathedral
Lloyd
Stamps Drive Auto Tax Sales At Frederick Post Office
The Frederick post office reports strong demand for motor vehicle use tax stamps as a rush to meet the new federal tax law continues. A 1,000 extra stamps shipment arrived midweek, with 200 sold by Saturday. total stock reached 6,500 after earlier shipments. Officials fear supplies may not last until late month though March reorders are expected.
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Frederick
Uncle Sam
Post Office
Hawaii Near Normal Again
Honolulu reports a return to normal routines yet war and defense remain top concerns. Curfew tightened to 7 p.m. lights out began, gas masks common, and blackout rules persistent. Evacuation plans for all women and children from an 18 square mile waterfront danger zone were outlined by Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons. Families should prepare a four day kit. women and children may be moved to the hills within an hour, private cars provided, while men stay ready to fight fires at home.
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Honolulu
Territorial
Hawaii
Womn
Delos C. Emmons
Japanese Raid on Hospital Ship Described by Wounded Americans
Nurses and wounded men from the Philippines, who reached an Australian port, recount how Japanese forces raided their hospital ship nine times on January 8. The wounded, all Americans, said fighters and bombers attacked like swarms of flies. One nurse described butterfly stomachitis from bombing as she tried to grin and carry on. The ship carried wounded from Manila, sailed within 50 hours after charter by the American Red Cross. The U S Army later announced the hospital ship Mactan arrived safely at Darwin with more wounded from the Philippines.
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Melbourne
Philippines
Manila
Red Crags
Army Planes Reach Java Down Two Jap Bombers
Washington Feb 5 P U S Army pursuit planes attacked a much larger Japanese force in Java. They shot down one enemy bomber and one pursuit plane. one American plane is missing. The commando noted only minor patrol actions on Batan Peninsula and no other notable activity beyond Java.
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Washington
U. S
Java
War Department
Netherlands East Indies
Batan
Philippines
Department
Philippine
Akira Nara
Naoki Kimura
Netherlands Indies
Grand K T Commander Visits Here Tonight
Right Eminent Grand Commander Edward Rhode of Maryland and staff visit Jacques DeMolay Commandery No 4 Knights Templar for dinner at 6 30 p m on the fourth floor of the Masonic Temple. Eminent Commander Raymond I Ford will preside as local Knights Templar expect a large turnout and possible attendance from District of Columbia officers and from Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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Edward Rhode
Maryland
Staf
Jacques DeMolay
Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Raymond I. Ford
Nazis May Carry Oil Refining Sets Feasibility Discussed
Army engineers at Fort Custer Michigan say a report that German pilots carry portable oil refining sets to refine fuel from captured fields is entirely feasible. The claim stems from Private Elmore Leppert a 28 year old Muskegon man who taught English at a Baghdad private school last spring.
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Fort Custer
Mich
Army
Elmore Leppert
Muskegon
Baghdad
Tawes To Distribute Defense Equipment
Annapolis Md Feb 5 State Comptroller J Millard Tawes was named by Governor O Conor to distribute defense equipment and clothing in Maryland for the protection of citizens and property from bombing attacks. Tawes will handle auxiliary firefighting equipment medical supplies protective clothing and other articles to be sent to Maryland by the national Civilian Defense headquarters O Conor said.
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Annapolis
J. Millard Tawes
O'Conor
Maryland
Tawes
National Civilian Defense Headquarters
Unarmed Ship Attempts Ram on German U Boat
An American passenger liner, unsung by the Navy, escaped three Axis submarines after attempting to ram a U-boat as a patrol plane appeared. Crew reports say the subs surfaced last Sunday near Indies port and crashed diving when the plane showed up, one passing under the ship.
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New York
Navy
Jeff O
Axis Forces Pass Derna Near Tobruk Headline
Axis troops passed Derna Libya and continued eastward toward Tobruk within striking distance of the Libyan stronghold held by British and Australian forces. The communique also said Axis planes attacked Malta bases while British bombers hit a train near Palermo, killing four staff members.
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Rome
Salian High Command
Derna
Libya
Tobruk
High Command
Malta
Palermo
CCC Denies Raids as Labor War Effort Aids Farms
Washington reports deny CCC raids on farm labor. Charles H. Taylor, assistant director, says the agency is aiding wartime agricultural production and not loitering youths on farms. An investigation into charges in Charles County Maryland is promised.
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Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
Charles H. Taylor
CCC
Charles County
Maryland
Taylor
Aid To China Bill Clears Senate For White House
The Senate passed and sent to the White House a measure authorizing 500 million dollars in financial aid to China. The fund will be administered by the Treasury Secretary under presidential direction.
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Washington
Senate
White House
China
Secretary of the Treasury
Churchill To Define Beaverbrook Duties In Commons
London feb 5 an official spokesman said the prime minister would define the duties of the new minister of war production lord beaverbrook at the next house of commons meeting also to address service pay and allowances with a secret shipping debate planned for the end filling day
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Lord Beaverbrook
Red Army Retains Initiative Says Kalinin in Message
President Kalinin declares the hour near for all occupied republics to rejoin the Soviet Union and says the Red Army is closing on borders of White Russia Latvia Estonia and Lithuania. He notes German losses and plans for a counter thrust while praising Stalin's call to the army and people. Guerrilla detachments behind German lines create panic as Soviet raids damage railway networks and positions on the central front recapture five localities in the Kalinin area.
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Moscow
Michael Kalinin
Russia
Soviet Union
Red Army
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Ukraine
Kalinin
Josef Stalin
Hitler
Fuehrer
Smolensk
Upswing In Stock Market Levels Off in New York
The three session stock market recovery stalled today as gains became rarer and declines edged ahead near mid session. Trading remained slow with buying fading at the start, yet several issues still advanced while weakness was uncommon.
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New York
Pamphlet Drops In France Signal U S War Push
Washington reports mass leaflet raids by American bombers dropping millions of pamphlets in occupied France. Brittany sees intensity as pamphlets urge conquering peoples to seize opportunity to aid Allied cause. Early says over 1.4 million leaflets in latest raids, part of a broad campaign to spur resistance and undermine German occupation.
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Washington
France
America
Stephen Early
Brittany
United Nations
Ahn
Brittany J
Roosevelt
United States
Reich
Tolal
MacArthur In Manila During Insurrection
Kansas City Kas Feb 5 The Philippine insurrection was barely 24 hours old 43 years ago William B Trembley recalled MacArthur was there in Manila when the insurrection began It was his first glimpse of actual war and some action took place on the ground where the present campaign started His father the late General Ar ao Bal Lyoka commanded forces in the islands and Mrs MacArthur and Douglas were visiting him
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Kansas City
Kas
William B. Trembley
Douglas MacArthur
Manila
Arao Bal Lyoka
Jap Patrols Cross Salween Bomb Rangoon
British officials acknowledged Japanese patrols crossed the lower Salween at multiple points after Moulmein seizure. Rangoon bombed and radio silence reported as Berlin cites Japanese gains threatening Salween shipping and the Burma Road route to China.
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Salween
Rangoon
Burma
Moulmein
Paan
RAF
China
Salween Front
Martaban
Maulmein
Berlin
Biluggwan
War Will Be Costly To Automobile Dealers
Maryland dealers heard a grim warning that civilians in the war will pay a heavy price. Jo Roberts of the Office of Price Administration spoke to about 400 dealers to urge adaptation to wartime controls. Kenneth E Whitney of WPB warned there are no miracles to ease the transition and that 95 percent of existing machinery is unsuitable for defense production.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Jo Roberts
Used Car Dealer Relations
Office of Price Administration
Kenneth E Whitney
WPB
Japanese Flying Boats Raid Port Moresby
Japanese four engine flying boats attacked Port Moresby on the south coast of New Guinea before dawn today dropping 30 bombs and blazing away with cannon and machinegun fire in the second raid there in three days. A communique said some damage was caused but there were no known casualties in the raid on the city, capital of Papua on south eastern New Guinea 300 miles northeast of Cape York, Australia. GOERING BACK IN GERMANY Berlin Goering left Rome by special train to return to Germany after an eight day visit in Italy during which he conferred with Mussolini and inspected German air units operating from Italian territory.
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Melbourne
Australia
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Papua
Cape York
Goering
Berlin
Reichsmarshal
Herman Walhelm Goering
Rome
Germany
Italy
Mussolini
Japan Starts New Fires In Soerabaja Raid
Japanese bombers struck Soerabaja naval base in a second raid in three days. Reports cited no new details on Amboina or Kendari fighting. Dutch losses at Soerabaja and Malang airports claimed by Japan. Balikpapan garrison reportedly broke through to safety.
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Associated Press
Batavia
Soerabaja
Amboina
Kendari
Celebes
Java
Malang
Balik Papan
Borneo
Reifsnider Appointed to Lead Episcopal War Work in Asia
In Jacksonville Florida on February 5 the House of Bishops declared a policy of continuing Episcopal church work in the Philippines and Japan through the war. The Rt Rev Charles S Reifsnider formerly President of St Pauls University Tokyo and Bishop of North Kwanto was designated to administer the work with former missionaries in Japan and to represent the American Episcopal church in dealings with the Japanese Episcopal church during the conflict.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Philippines
Japan
Episcopal Church
House of Bishops
Charles S. Reifsnider
St. Paul's University
Tokyo
Episcopal Diocese of
North Kwanto
American Episcopal Church
Japanese Episcopal Church
Railroads Set for Time Change to War Time
Chicago Feb 5 American railroads are ready to switch from standard to war time in the small hours of Monday. The change requires every clock in stations and watches of train crews to move forward one hour at 2 a.m. to maintain safety amid heavy wartime traffic while extraordinary precautions aim to prevent accidents on the busiest lines.
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Chicago
Labor Leaders To Meet F. D. R. Friday
President Roosevelt postponed the first heart to heart conference with CIO and AFL leaders until tomorrow. Six leaders from rival unions were invited to discuss labor's role in the war, with John L. Lewis notably absent from the guest list.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
CIO
AFL
John L. Lewis
Singapore Artillery Foils Jap Assault In Straits
Singapore reports heavy artillery exchanges as British and Singaporean forces blast Japanese observation posts and enemy transport across the Johore Strait. RAF Hurricanes claim victories over a large Japanese formation while Singapore endures civilian casualties amid ongoing air raids and bombardment.
Shortage of Housing Units in Defense Areas
Washington reports a critical housing shortage in nearly all major defense regions. Of 287 defense areas surveyed by the Works Progress Administration, only 25 had vacancy rates at or above normal, with many areas showing less than half of dwellings habitable. In 111 areas the vacancy rate fell below 2 percent, signaling severe shortage. The summary lists 1941 survey months and rates for Maryland locales such as Baltimore 1.7 and Hagerstown 1.4, with Dub? 1.6.
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Washington
Works Projects Administration
Maryland
Baltimore
Hagerstown
Dune
Germans Claim Six Additional Sinkings
German broadcast reports six more merchant ships sunk off the North American east coast totaling 47 000 tons including a 15 000 ton ore ship.
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Berlin
North America
High Command
Former Congressman Covington Dies in Wyoming Home
J Harry Covington aged 71 former Chief Justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court and former Maryland congressman died yesterday at his Wyoming home. The early death closes a notable career that included service in the House of Representatives and high court leadership.
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Washington
J. Harry Covington
District of Columbia Supreme Court
House of Representatives
Maryland
Wyoming
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U. S. Army
Darwin
K. T
Bill
Beaverbrook
MacArthur
Radio
Bangkok
Prince of Orange
Tarakan
Rev
Reifsnider
Singapore
R. A. OF
Johore Strait
Sig
Johore State
Singapore Island
Johore Bahru
Strait
Singspore
British Far East Command
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