Admiral Hart Relieved as Western Pacific Chief in War
Washington reports Admiral Thomas C Hart has been relieved as Chief of Allied Naval Forces in the Western Pacific due to illness. Vice Admiral Helfrich of the Netherlands Navy designated as acting commander ABDA area. Hart's removal follows a major reorganization in early February.
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Washington
Navy
Thomas C. Hart
Western Pacific
C. £. L. Heffrien
Royal Netherlands Navy
Hart
Naval Command
United States Asiatic Fleet
United States
William A. Glassford, Jr
Southwest Pacific
Herbert F. Leary
Helfrich
Macassar
Admiral Hart
Macassar Strait
Indies
Glassford
Open For Enlistments In The 29th Division
Maryland men can enlist in the Army for assignment to the Twenty Ninth Division under a new policy allowing recruits to request the unit. Vacancies are limited and expected to close within a week or two as recruiting targets the division that includes former Maryland National Guard members and thousands of selectees.
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Baltimore
Army Recruiting Office
Maryland
Army
Twenty-Ninth
Marrlanders
Maryland National Guard
Knock In Auto Due To Lower Octane Content
Cincinnati area reports motorists hear a knock as oil companies lower octane gasoline. Premium grades fall from about 80 to 78 or 76 octane while regular drops from 75 to 72 or 70 to support 100 octane aviation fuel amid lead shortages. An oil official says firms avoided public warning to prevent a rush to higher octane gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Federal Petroleum Coordinator
Ohio Oil Company
Maryland to receive emergency fire equipment for towns
Officials of the Maryland Council of Defense said they expected to secure emergency fire fighting equipment for nearly every city and town in the state and gas masks for target areas from the pending 190,200,000 appropriation for the Office of Civilian Defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balimore
Maryland Council of Defense
Office of
Leaving Now AP Man Wires From War Torn Singapore
War correspondent C Y McDaniel reports from Singapore as fires rage and bombs shake the city. He chronicles RAF pilots in peril and the barrage of Japanese aircraft while preparing to evacuate via the Straits of Malacca.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
Doesn't Want Judgeship Doesn't Want Judgeship
D Princeton Buckey, a prominent attorney, said he is not a candidate for the Sixth Judicial Circuit judgeship created by Judge Arthur D Willard's upcoming retirement. He noted endorsements but declined any pursuit of appointment or election, preferring to continue serving his clients after 40 years of practice.
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D. Princeton Buckey
Sixth Judicial Circuit
Arthur D. Willard
Buckey
O'Conor
Willard
Jews In France Ordered Indoors By German Occupation
Vichy Feb 11 The German authorities impose a sharp anti Semitic rule forbidding all Jews in occupied France to go outside or leave their homes between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. across the region. The order represents one of the harshest measures yet against Jewish residents.
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Vichy
France
RAF Attacks Japanese Positions in Burma and Thailand
British bombers with fighter escorts hit Japanese positions in the Martaban sector north of the Salween River and raided concentrations at Chengrai in extreme northern Thailand. Reconnaissance flights were flown over enemy territory. One Japanese attack was reported on Thaton, about 40 miles north of Martaban. No casualty details were released. Press noted a Rangoon air raid alarm but no sightings of Japanese planes. land operations reports were unavailable.
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Rangoon
Burma
Martaban
Salween River
Chengrai
Thailand
Thaton
RAF
Mass Assault By Japs On MacArthur's Men Due Soon
Washington reports indicate an early resumption of a large Japanese attack on General MacArthur's forces in the Philippines. Intermittent artillery duels occur at Manila Bay entrances with Cavite batteries, and American fighters claim six of seven enemy planes shot down over Cavite province. Roosevelt framed the broader Allied strategy while warning of the perilous Bataan stand and the war's urgent timetable.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
War Department
Bataan
Manila Bay
Cavite
Department
Philippine
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Singapore
MacArthur
Roosevelt
United Nations
Dutch Planes Break Up Jap Formation Over Indies
Neth Indies fighter planes intercepted and broke up a Japanese bombing formation before it reached Soerebaja naval base. Communique notes landings near Macassar Balanganipa and Ejeneponto with Dutch claim of complete destruction of planned operations. Casualties include four Dutch airmen killed and several wounded. other action reported near Fak Fak and Batavia.
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Batavia
N. E
Netherlands Indies
Soerebaja
the Indies High Command
Aneta
Macassar
Celebes
Balangaipa
Ejeneponto
Maro
Macassir
Indies
Fak Fak
New Guinea
Axis In Africa Got Great Help From Vichy
London reports supplies from France to German forces in Libya during December and January totaled 5 500 tons of aviation fuel and baseline. A Ministry of Economic Warfare official noted that in 1941 about 2 000 trucks and private cars were sent from France to Axis forces and Rommel's troops received 12 000 tons of wheat in a single three month period, enough to feed ten divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
France
Libya
Erwin Rommel
Ex-Police Chief Of Tokyo Posed As Priest
Salinas California February 11 federal agents raided a Buddhist temple and seized three priests along with a truckload of contraband. One priest Rev Koyo Tamanaka was described as a former Tokyo police chief and Yaichi Takalayashi, a Salinas laundry proprietor, identified as a former high Japanese police official and a close friend of Emperor Hirohito's brother. The three priests and Takalayashi had arrived in the United States in recent months.
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Salinas
Calif
Toby
Koyo Tamanaka
Tokyo
Yaichi Takalayashi
Japan
Hirohito
Takatagi
Rationing Of Retreads And Recaps Soon
Washington announces that rationing of retreaded and recapped tires will start February 19. Only a small number of new tires and tubes will be available. camelback rubber may be limited. War Production Board will set monthly crude rubber allocations to support retreading. OPA rules allow rationing at wholesale and retail levels.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Henderson
War Production Board
OPA
Menderson
Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Two Named As Co-Trustees In Winebrewer Estate
The Circuit Court named Charles McC Mathias and Parsons Newman co trustees with William M. Storm for the Reverdy J. Winebrewer estate of Walkersville valued around 520,000. The decision followed withdrawn petitions asserting Orphans Court jurisdiction and added petitioners including Miss Grace Neidig Mrs Mary Briscoe Miss Phoebe Getzendanner Ralph Border Margaret Holinger Anse Bonhag and Philip Winebrener representing heirs and surviving executor. Bond remains the same as in the prior case.
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Circuit Court
Charles McC. Mathias
Parsons Newman
William M. Storm
Reverdy J. Winebrewer
Walkersville
Grace Neidig
Mary G. Briscoe
Phoebe Getzendanner
Jefferson County
W. Va
Orphans Court
Neidig
Briscoe
Miss Getzendanner
Ralph W. Border
Margaret May B. Holinger
Philadelphia
Anse G. Bonhag
Montgomery County
Philip R. Winebrener
D. Charles Winebrener
Storm
Mathias
Newman
Winebrewer
Counter Attacks and Fall of Singapore Foretold
Reports from Tokyo and London describe Japanese forces entering the Singapore city area and heavy fighting continuing as British counter-attacks attempt to slow the invasion. British officials warn the fall of the island fortress may be inevitable without air reinforcements while evacuations proceed under bombardment.
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Washington
Singapore
Dutch East Indies
United Nations
Australia
Hawaii
India
East Indies
Malay Peninsula
Burma Road
China
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Indies
Malacca Strait
Sumatra
Borneo
Celebes
London
Singapore Radio
Landis As OCD Chief Plans Fast Reorg Under Roosevelt
James M. Landis, new OCD head, announces a thorough reorganization of the agency. He says Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will lead the community and volunteer participation division through the overhaul and hopes she remains in her post until completion. Landis also notes Melvyn Douglas heads the arts council without salary, Miss Masris Chaney earns 4600 a year overseeing children’s activities, and debates continue on the placement of the physical fitness section with McNutt’s health and welfare division.
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Landis
Harvard Law School
Roosevelt
Fiorello H.laguardia
New York
Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
OCD
Budget Bureau
Federal Security
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Mayris
Masris Chaney
New Guinea Town Bombed by Japs
Canberra reports Japanese planes bombed Samarai on the southeast tip of Australian New Guinea today and conducted daylight reconnaissance flights over the island's southeast, according to an air force communique.
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Canberra
Australia
Samarai
Australian New Guinea
Air Force
Rationing Boards Of 4 Counties To Meet Here
Rationing boards from Frederick Carroll Montgomery and Howard counties plus possibly Washington will convene in Frederick at 7 pm to discuss a state wide tire and tube inventory survey. J Alison Ballinger of the Office of Price Administration will represent the agency and a local meeting will address tire rationing and rubber freezings violations. Stocks yielded marginally today as the market steadied after last weeks declines in New York.
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Maryland
Frederick
J. Alison Ballinger
Office of Price Administration
Carroll
Montgomery
Howard
Washington County
Patrick Court
OPA
New York
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U.S. Pacific
William J. Stoner
Thurmont
Marshall Fritz
Western Maryland
Rocky Ridge
Fritz
Edgar M. Freeze
W. W Corbin
Niewerapter Arg
McDaniel
C. Yates McDaniel
Empire
Eric Davis
Malayan Broadcasting Corporation
Sir Shenton Thomas
Davis
Straits of Malacca
Nanking
Ministry of Information
Henry Steel
Henry
F. Y. Tong
Canton
BBC
Just
Malayan Broadcasting
R.A. F
Domci
Salween
Brighton
Eng
iPi
Felix Powell
Home Guard
Paris
Social Revolutionary
DNB
Lincoin
Axis
Africa
R. J. Winebrener Estate
Imperial
Berlin
Malaya Broadcasting Corporation
James M. Landis
Office of Civilian Defense
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