Japan Pledges Humane Treatment of Prisoners
Washington reports Japan pledged to treat captured Americans under the prisoner ofwar convention. A Geneva based Red Cross bureau will share casualty lists with the United States and Japan. Prisoner information and aid will be centralized in Geneva and handled by Peter, the Red Cross liaison, once lists arrive. gegevens indicate prisoners include Marines, Navy personnel, and civilians from Wake, Guam, Shanghai, and the Philippines.
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Washington
Japan
United States
Pearl Harbor
Marc Peter
International Red Cross Committee
Hull
Tokyo
Aller Guilion
International Red Grass Committee
Geneva
Peter
Red Cross
Ō‘mientsin
Wake
Guam
Shanghai
Philippines
War Department
Internatonal Committee
Dan
Corfiela
Gilbert Islands
Slikaku
United States Navy
Hawaii
Aus-talla
Mrs F D M To See New Grandchild In Fort Worth
Fort Worth news reports Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt will visit Dutch Branch on January 25 to meet her new grandchild David Boynton Roosevelt born January 3. She will broadcast her Pan American program from KGKO studios from 1:46 to 6 p m. second broadcast planned for January 26. Roosevelt family includes Elliott Roosevelt and wife at Dutch Branch with two older children.
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Fort Worth
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dutch Branch
Elliott Roosevelt
KGKO
David Boynton Roosevelt
David Boynton Roosevelt, Was Born Januairy
ElMolt Boonevelta
Kull, Chandiey
Hitott Roosevelt
Stix
Atlantic Flier Faces Charge in Smuggling Case
James A. Levine, first Atlantic flier, and two others face federal conspiracy charges for allegedly smuggling a German alien into the United States from Mexico. Levine was arrested in New York City after a grand jury indictment naming Edward Siegel alias Edgar Schinek, with a Los Angeles businessman’s birth certificate used to support the false identity. Levine is to be brought to trial. he allegedly wrote a letter furthering the fake identity.
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James
Charles A. Levine
Posible
Mexico
As- Ene
U. S
Russell Tam
Levine
Federal Grand Jury
Leving
New York City
Edgar Schinek
Laredo
Edward Siegel
Los Angeles
Schinek
Funeral Racket Haunts City Woman and Police Seek Elderly Man
An elderly Mexican man sought aid for a burial near Sherman Street eliciting help from several housewives who wired him funds after he claimed a son’s body awaited burial at a local funeral home. Mrs Marle Guzman and others report the man asked to go to Mexico for payment. Police search for the man continues as the incident unfolds amid distrust of his appeal. Also, Cleo R Long of Stark City Mo was killed in California when struck by a Southern Pacific train near San Fernando.
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Peter
Marle Guzman
Joseph Walter
Sherman Street
Carl George Walter
Mexico
Jfor
Train Hills
San Fernando
Calif
Cleo. R. Long
Stark City
Wake Island hero Jack Hearne held as Japanese prisoner
San Antonio Marine Private Jack D Hearne, a Wake Island defender, is reported a Japanese prisoner though not listed as a casualty. The 1940 recruit from San Antonio enlisted June 24 1940 and is among Marines hailed as heroes. His father Doyle Hearne of 300 Mary Street confirmed via Washington corps dispatch.
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Jack D. Hearne
San Antonio
Marine Corps
Wake Island
Doyle Hearne
Mary Street
Corps Personnel Department
Washington
Wake
Lama
Young
Hearne
Morale Officer to Go to Washington
Col. Thomas J. Moroney, morale officer with the Third army, leaves San Antonio Friday for Washington D C to attend a meeting of army morale officers about current activities. He will return in January.
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Thomas J. Moroney
Third Army
San Antonio
Washington, D. C
Optometrists Plan Seminar in Texas at Ganter Hotel
The annual graduate seminar in analytical optometry for Texas optometrists will be hosted at the Ganter Hotel over Sunday and Monday. Dr. A.M. Skeffington of St. Louis, director of the Foundation for Research in Optometry, will lead seminars on new techniques relevant to defense industries. Local arrangements are led by Dr. R. C. Schumann of New Braunfels.
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optom+etrists
Texas
Ganter Hotel
A.M. Skeffington
St. Louis
Foundation For Research In Optometry
Skeffington
R. C. Schumann
New Urfels
Fire Chiefs Attend Class at San Antonio Station
Fire chiefs from 13 counties within the San Antonio defense district attended the first class of the emergency school at No 2 Fire Station St Marys and Market streets Battalion Chief G W Fulbright instructor spoke on chemical leak warfare and incendiary bombs Fire Chief C A Hart named coordinator for the district Binary classes are being held across the country to train firemen against sabotage or incendiary bomb fires
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San Antonio Defense District
No. 2
St. Mary’s
Market Streets
G. W. Fulbright
A. Hart
Rabbi Returns From Tour South on South Flier Fireboat
Rabbi Frisch returns from a six month absence spent traveling as part of an observation group in South America. He will occupy Temple Heth Pulpit Friday evening speaking on The Role of Religion in the Present Crisis. The fireboat, which had fought a Hudson River pier fire last Thursday, returned to berth Sunday after 116 hours at sea.
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New York
Sparam Frisch
Antonio
James Nuane
South America
Funday
Hudson River
British Push Forward on Halfaya Line Amid Libyan Campaign
British and Allied forces report advancing along the Halfaya front in Libya near El Agheila, with coordinated artillery and air bombardments targeting German and Italian defenses. The communique notes destruction of an ammunition dump and hits on gun emplacements as Axis positions retreat into Libya. Reports from London mention German use of Italian two man tanks around El Agheila, some discarded post Libyan campaign.
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el Aghella
Tripoli
EL Agheila
Conmuunique
London
el Aghidla
Ital
Ians
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