California Oil Plant Shelled By Japanese Submarine
Goleta near Santa Barbara was shelled at 7:10 p.m. by a large submarine firing about 25 shells at oil facilities, damaging a pumping unit but not starting fires. No deaths occurred. The attack prompted a coast blackout and a later hunt by U.S. forces along the California coast.
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California
Santa Barbara
Calif
Roosevelt
Goleta
Here
Guyuscu
United States
Pacific
Atlantic
Orleans
Mass
Carpenteria
Ventura
U. S
Army
Arthur Bushman
Pomona
Montecito
Santa Barbara Channel
Los Angeles District
11Th Naval District
S. W. Borden
Bankline Oil Company
Elwood
War Department
Tee Ab Ot
Washington
Navy
Bankline
Ellwood
Department
Philippines
Philippine
Chiang’s India Visit Ends. Chiang Kai-shek Returns Home
Chiang Kai-shek ends India visit and returns to Chungking as official announcements confirm his departure from India. The generalissimo’s return follows recent diplomatic engagements during the stay in India.
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Chiang
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
India
Bomber fund grows for Bataan defenders on peninsula
Gen. MacArthur area news reports a spontaneous drive by American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula to raise funds for a bomber from the United States. The campaign seeks one bomber, plus funds for a supporting ship, crew bonuses, fuel, and ordnance, with soldiers willing to contribute up to a month's pay. Aviators are available to fly the bomber once obtained.
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MacArthur
Bataan
Corregidor
Manila Bay Islands
United States
Ford
Nurse To Leave For Foreign Service In 159th Unit
Miss Pauline Hildebrand, R N, with a Second Lieutenant rating, has been at the U S Army Air base in Charlotte North Carolina since June and is spending several days leave at her home. She has signed with the 159th Station Hospital unit mobilized at Fort Story Virginia Beach for foreign service. The unit will include 90 graduate nurses 49 medical officers and 300 enlisted medical men. Hildebrand will be the first Frederick county nurse to go foreign. The unit's destination is not disclosed.
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Pauline Hildebrand
R. N
Army Air Base
Charlotte
N.C
West Patrick Street
159Th Station
Fort Story
Virginia Beach
Hildebrand
Frederick County
Nazis Torpedo U.S. Tanker Off The Coast
The Republic, a 5,287-ton tanker owned by Petroleum Navigation Company and based in Houston, Texas, was torpedoed by an enemy submarine off the Atlantic coast with an apparent loss of five lives. Twenty-eight survivors, two slightly injured, were brought ashore as the Navy confirmed the attack.
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Washington
Navy
Republic
Atlantic
Navy Department
Petroleum Naviation Company
West Palm Beach
Fla
Houston
Texas
Java Ready For Battle To Hold Last Bastion
Allied defenders of Java brace for a decisive stand as Dutch forces under Governor-General Stachowwer urge faith and iron will. Air attacks on Bandung and Malang trigger heavy anti aircraft fire. bombers suffer losses while machine gunning towns. Dutch leadership vows reinforcements and continued offensive operations with a strong army, air force, and fleet in the Orient.
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Batavia
N. E
Dutch East Indies
Java
United Nations
Indian Ocean
Sumatra
Bali
Brief
Indies High Command
Bandoeng
Malang
A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
Stachouwer
Wilhelmina
Orient
East Indies
Principig
Petition Filed To End Bus Service In Frederick
Potomac Motor Lines formally filed a petition with the Public Service Commission to discontinue bus service in Frederick. Action was expected soon if there are no objections. President F H Urner said the trial has been a costly, money losing venture for the company.
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Potomac Motor Lines
Public Service Commission
Frederick
F. H. Urner
Lines
Early recovery push lifts New York market brief
In New York on February 24, hopes for steadier war news sparked an early stock market rise with steel and specialities leading gains. Demand faded and activity and prices pulled back from the peak by the fourth hour. In Charles Town West Virginia, a 103 year old former slave known as Aunt Sarah French died at her home. she was born in 1839 in Virginia during Andrew Jackson’s presidency.
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New York
Marget
Steele Motors
Charles Town
W. Va
Sarah French
Rappahannock County
Virginia
Andrew Jackson
Japan in Control of Air in Southwest Pacific Area
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that Japan rules the air and holds a waning sea command in the ABDA area, with about 26 divisions and up to 490,000 troops. He warned of heavy shipping losses and a prolonged war, possibly to 1943 or 1944, but expected final victory for the Allies. He noted Chiang Kai-shek will join the Pacific War Council and praised recent government reshuffles to meet new dangers.
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Japan
Southwest Pacific
Churchill
London
House of Commons
Abda
Britain
United Nations
Germany
Berlin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Pacific War Council
Netherlands East Indies
New Zealand
Australia
Singapore
Chiefs of Staff
Far East
War Cabinet
Stafford Cripps
James Grigg
Saber Duel Fights Argentina Leaders
In Buenos Aires on February 24 Paul Damonte Taborda 32 chairman of Argentina's Dies com committee was wounded twice in his right arm in a saber duel with Enrique Rottjer 51 a retired army officer and former acting governor of Buenos Aires province. The duel followed Damonte Taborda's criticism of Rottjer and despite Argentina's laws against dueling the pair met at dawn. Taborda had lobbied for pistols but the Colonel claimed the aggrieved party right to choose weapons.
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Buenos Aires
Paul Damonte Taborda
Argentina
Enrique Rottjer
Rottjer
Damonte Taborda
Taborda
Congressional
United States
Burma Battle Deepens as Japan Presses Burma
Britain places India’s commander in chief in charge of Burma operations as Japanese forces push toward Rangoon and the Burma Road. British withdraw to the Bilin Sittang line while air sorties claim four enemy planes destroyed with no losses. Rangoon lies about 70 miles from the advancing front as Chiang Kai-shek’s visit coincides with the shift in command. Dense military movements and logistics dominate the day’s reports from London and New Delhi.
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London
Britain
India
Burma
New Delhi
Alan Fleming Hartley
Rangoon
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Sittani
Rangoon-Lashio
Singapore
Bilin
Sittang
Pegu
Gulf of Martaban
all-India Radio
RAF
Sittang River
Former Hood Nurse To See Foreign Service
Miss Marion Whitfield former assistant nurse at Hood College from 1939 to 1941 is stationed at Fort Meade as a second lieutenant in the Army Navy Corps awaiting foreign service orders. She has been at Fort Meade since February 15 and serves with the Second General Hospital staff drawn largely from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center New York. She and the unit mobilize for general duty at the Meade hospital attend lectures and expect orders within weeks.
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Marion Whitfield
Hood College
Fort George G. Meade
Army Navzy Corps
Miss Whitfield
Frederick
Fort Meade
Second General Hospital
Nur
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
New York City
Fort Meade Hospital
Catoctin
Britain backs India's political freedom says Cranborne
In the House of Lords Colonial Secretary Lord Cranborne declared His Majesty's government favors India's political freedom. He welcomed Chiang Kai-Shek's message to the Indian government and urged closer understanding between the Indian and Chinese peoples.
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Doda Pee
India
Lord Cranborne
House of Lords
Cranborne
House of Lor
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nere
Lord Cranbourne
Russians Launch Central Front Offensive Near Smolensk
Soviet forces pushed from Dorogobuzh toward Smolensk with massed infantry and tanks after heavy artillery prep. Reports say 14,000 Germans were killed recently as Red Army troops recaptured settlements and seized a railway terminus 15 miles from the Moscow Smolensk line. Large fighting also raged around Leningrad with gunfire from army and navy positions.
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Moscow
Red Army
Dorogobuzh
Dnieper
Smolensk
Mozhaisk
Soviet
Kharkov
Army Navy To Get All Goose Duck Feathers
Washington reports a War Production Board order restricting goose and duck feathers to war needs. Manufacturers and dealers with such feathers on hand may not use them for civilian goods or to fill existing civilian orders, as Army and Navy demand far exceeds civilian production.
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Army Navy
Washington
War Production Board
Army
Navy
More Taxes On Wavy To Pay War's Cost
Washington reports republic tax experts favor drastic increases in corporation, individual income, and excise taxes to raise seven billion dollars in additional revenue for war costs. A four alarm Baltimore fire at Davison Chemical Curtis Bay plant damaged a metal storage shed and threatened nearby structures before containment.
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Washington
Treasury
Congressional
Baltimore
Davison Chemical Corporation
Curtis Bay
Ships dashed to pieces off coast of Newfoundland
Navy reports a United States destroyer the Truxtun and stores ship Pollux were wrecked in a Newfoundland gale near Lawrence harbor. At least 189 officers and men were lost, including Lt Cmdr Ralph Hickox and other crew aboard the Truxtun. Surviving crews were rescued with aid from Lawrence residents amid oil slicks and raging seas.
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Newfoundland
Navy Dept
Washington
United States
Navy
Ralph Hickox
Washington, D. C
Lawrence Harbor
Lawrence
North Atlantic
Iceland
Pollux
Coast Guard
Alexander Hamilton
Truxtun
Atlantic
Ireless
Japanese Navy Sheds Losses in Pacific War Claims
Domei reports the Japanese Navy has lost four destroyers since war began, with four additional damaged and two submarines sunk or missing. Transport losses are deemed small given extensive landing operations. One destroyer was damaged near Lombok island east of Java in a night sea battle.
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Tokyo
Domei
Lombok
Java
Battle off Bali Report Claims Japanese Fleet Sunk or Damaged
Dutch and U S communiques say on Saturday one Japanese cruiser was blown up two cruisers and two destroyers were damaged. Monday a Dutch statement claimed the entire invasion fleet off Bali was sunk or heavily damaged except for one ship that escaped.
Standard Blackout Flags To Halt Traffic
A white triangular flag marked with red letters CD is adopted as a signal to halt traffic during blackouts in air raid warnings. Baltimore and five nearby counties will test the flag Friday night in a mass blackout, marking its Maryland debut.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Baltimore City
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Leningrad
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