Nazi Warships Race North Toward Trondheim
London reports three German capital ships Tirpitz Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper speeding from their bases to Trondheim Norway with plans to raid convoys to Murmansk. A second group Scharnhorst Gneisenau Prince Eugen expected to follow after repairs. Germans fortify coast from Trondheim to Narvik with new base shelters to withstand RAF attacks.
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London
INS
Trondhelm
Norway
North Sea
Stockholm
London Daily Express
Tirpitz
Admiral Scheer
Admiral Hipper
Norwegian
Trondheim
Murmansk
Russia
Express
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Brest
Straits of Dover
Helgoland
Tirplitz
Scheer
Hipper
Jury weighs guilt in Ewing rape case from Utah
Washington jurors deliberate on Orman W. Ewing 53 former Democratic national committeeman accused of raping a 20 year old government stenographer. Defense argues lack of force evidence while the government seeks the death penalty. The stenographer’s mother testified from Provo as the trial neared verdict.
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Ewing
Washington
Orman W. Ewing
Utah
Homer L. McCormick
Hester
Landis Weighs Next Step After Mrs Roosevelt Resigns
Washington February 21 UP Director James M. Landis of the Office of Civilian Defense is undecided on appointing a successor to Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt as head of the voluntary participation division. Mrs Roosevelt resigned yesterday and OCD may be reorganized with her post eliminated. Landis will shift units to other agencies and emphasize civilian participation while civilian protection remains well organized.
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Washington
James M. Landis
Office of Civilian Defense
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Landis
OCD
Judge Rules Communism Charge Vague in New Jersey Case
Federal Judge Guy L. Fake dismissed the indictment of William B. Hautau a former WPA worker accused of falsely denying he was a Communist. The court held the word Communist too vague to inform Hautau of the accusation.
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Newark
N. J
INS
Guy L. Fake
Fake
William B. Hautau
WPA
Navy recruit buys $2900 in defense bonds
Navy recruit Robert E. Faust of Hayti Mo sold his crops and mules to invest 2900 in defense bonds. The San Diego report notes his plan to ensure ammunition and training support for the Naval Air Force as he aims to be rated an aerial gunner.
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Navy
San ‘Diego
Calif
Robert E. Faust
Hayti Mo
Naval“Air Force
Rescue of Olinda Crew After Nazi Torpedo Attack
The Brazilian merchant ship Olinda was torpedoed and sunk off the Atlantic coast. Captain Jacob Bellemond and 45 crew members were rescued with 18 taken to a naval hospital for exposure treatment after their harrowing encounter with a pocket-size U-boat that fired on the ship and boarded the lifeboats.
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Francisco Nogueira
Norfolk
Atlantic
Brazil
INS
Olinda
Naval Hospital
Jacob Bellemond
Rio de Janeirro
Bellemond
Riom Trial Foreshadows Political Battle Over France Defeat
In Riom France Feb 21 former Prime Minister Blum led a defense chronology arguing the trial targets prewar reforms and parliamentary system. He faulted June 1936 defense timing while noting Hitler's rise and Rhineland actions. Witnesses include Reynaud Bonnet Herriot Weygand as verdict hoped by Aug 1.
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Riom
France
Germany
Special Tribunal of
Leon Blum
Blum
French Republic
Adolf Hitler
Popullar Front
Hitler
League of Nations
Rhineland
Marshal Petain
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Edouard Daladier
Air
Guy la Chambre
Daladier
Maurice Ribet
Paul Reynaud
Georges Bonnet
Edouard Herriot
Chamber of Deputies
Maxime Weygand
Gamelin
Laura Ingalls faces eight months to two years prison term
Laura Ingalls, convicted of failing to register as a German agent, faces eight months to two years in prison. She said she acted on conscience and showed no plans to appeal. The sentence followed her February 13 conviction. In a separate item, Albany reports Governor Lehman appointed Dr George Gonyea of Plattsburg as Clinton County coroner to replace Dr Hubert Stiles.
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Laura Ingalls
Washington
Germany
Miss Ingally
Federal District Court
Clinton
Albany
Lehman
George H. Gonyea
Plattsburg
Clinton County
Hubert R. Stiles
Flight from Fallen City to Sumatra Describes Escape Scene
An escape narrative follows a crew and Malayan staff up Sumatra through river travel to Dutch-held territory. They reach northwest Sumatra and receive aid from a Dutch woman before learning a possible evacuation by warship. A British destroyer arrives and collects 176 evacuees including British, American, and Dutch personnel and civilians.
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Singapore
Sumatra
Malaya
Battle weary voyage ends as ship reaches Batavia
The author describes a grueling embarkation on a destroyer, joking with an officer about efficiency, and recounts rescuing the Army from Norway to Tobruk. After seven and a half days from Singapore, the crew disembarks at Batavia, exhausted but relieved to reach Java and sleep in a bed after 11 days at sea.
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Abel
Norway
Tobruk
Java
Singapore
Friendly Batavia
Woman Repudiates Spy Statements At FBI Aid Trial
Helen Pauline Mayer, a Long Island housewife and first defendant to testify, denies FBI statements accusing her of Nazi spying. She says she suspected mastermind Kurt Ludwig but cannot accept he was a German agent. Mayer rejects remarks about Lucy Boehmler and warns against misreading testimonies.
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FBI
New York
Long Island
Kurt Frederick Ludwig
Helen Pauline Mayer
Ludwig
Fritz
Germany
United States
Three-man panel to judge Esposito sanity at Sing Sing
Governor Lehman appoints a three man commission to determine the sanity of William and Anthony Esposito, convicted killers, at Sing Sing Prison. The Espositos contend insanity as their defense for the Jan 14 1941 payroll messenger slaying. The panel includes Dr D Swen Cameron of Albany Dr Irving J Sands of Brooklyn and Dr Howard Potter of New York.
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Albany
Lehman
William and
Anthony Esposito
New York City
Espositos
Sing Sing
D. Swen Cameron
Irving J. Sands
Brooklyn
Howard Potter
New York
Keep 'Em Flying Cadet Writes Home
Mrs. Joseph Evans in Bishee Arizona sends her son Jack a batch of doughnuts and asks him to hire another cadet at the naval air base. His reply is brief and cheerful Keep em frying.
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Bishee
Ariz
Joseph Evans
Jack
Naval Air Base
Bali and Sumatra clash widen as Dutch U N proves Tokyo drive
Allied air and sea forces clash with Japanese in Bali to Bangka Strait operations. Dutch and American bombers claim hits on transports and warships while Tokyo asserts destroyer torpedo blows and Bali battles grow fiercer. Java defense eyes crucial hour as invasion forces push to isolate the island.
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Bali
Bangka Strait
Sumatra
United Nations Command
Denpasar
Yava
Koapang
Musi River
Japan
Ava
Imperial Tokyo
Batavia
Kalidjatic Field
Java
Banjoewang
West Java
United Nations
Southwest
Pacific
Ball
Ball Strait
Aneta
Netherlands Indies
Netherlands Indies Army
Palembang
United Nations Air Force
Java Defenses and Population Details Compiled
The report notes Java’s coastal defenses could delay the first Japanese blows and allow interior troops to reach danger points. It warns against leaving small boats exposed to Japanese capture and indicates Java’s 1930 population was 41,719,524, including Madura. The island is highly volcanic, with over 40 percent cultivated and the rest mountainous or forested.
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Java
Madura
Soviet Coup Seen in Town Of Crimea
Soviet war notes describe heavy fighting on the Leningrad front and in Sevastopol Crimean defense with artillery, air, and infantry actions. Reports claim German losses include tanks trucks field guns and railway materiel while Soviet forces claim multiple enemy battalions eliminated and new Hero of the Soviet Union awarded posthumously to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya for guerrilla exploits.
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Soviet Information Bureau
Leningrad Front
London
Sevastopol
Crimean
Tass
Soviet Union
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Petrishchevo
Mozhaisk
Moscow
Russians Suffer 26,000 Killed Near Rzhev Claim
German broadcasts report Adolf Hitler's troops killed 26,000 Russian soldiers and captured 4,800 near Rzhev, 125 miles northwest of Moscow, in a major encirclement. They claim extensive Soviet material destroyed or captured as the long struggle continued.
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Rzhev
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Moscow
Rigald
Fence kills infant in curious fence accident
Infant Albert Pape aged 19 months died in Los Angeles after his head became caught between two pickets while examining a fence. His mother Mrs. Raymond Page was unable to reach him in time.
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Los Angeles
Albert Pape
Raymond Page
Arms Supply Held Up by Lack of Ships
War materials sit idle on American wharves as a huge cargo ship shortage slows deliveries to the Pacific front. Officials say production remains strong but ship losses and labor disputes hinder vessel output, with a congress panel poised to vote a large Army Navy appropriations bill.
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Washington
Pacific
Senate
Robert P. Patterson
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
Land
Russia
London
Norwegian
Tirpitz
Admiral Scheer
Admiral Hipper
Congress
Biddle
United States
Jap Troops March 48 Hours Without Sleep, Officer Says
Washington notes Maj. Harold Doud, former Tokyo language student, testified in the Infantry Journal that Japanese infantrymen sometimes marched more than two days and nights without sleep. He described a company covering 56 miles in a 23 mile hike and a double time trot near their barracks to prove endurance.
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Washington
Harold Doud
Tokyo
Infantry Journal
Doud
Southwest
Pacific
Ethiopian Police Remember Allman With Christmas Card
Chicago February 21 Police Commissioner John P Allman displayed a Christmas card from the Ethiopian Police in Addis Ababa dated December 1 1941. When asked if he would return the gesture next Christmas he said I never send Christmas cards.
Plans for USO Center in Capitol District
Albany plans to complete a United Service Organization center in the Capitol District. Edward Schelberling, the general chairman, announced that $40,000 has been raised in a recent campaign for USO purposes.
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Albany
USO
Soldiers’ Club
United Service Organization
Capitol District
Edward Schelberling
Schelberling
Darwin Evacuation Ordered After Japanese Raids
Darwin civilians evacuated as military authorities seal off the northern Australian port after a Japanese air raid. Women except nurses to be removed. Curtin says no martial law. Hospital ship attacked. casualties reported. Lights banned near coast. men aged 18 to 35 called up. Several raiders seen over Bathurst Island.
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Canberra
Australia
Darwin
John Curtin
London
Melbourne
Victoria
New South Wales
Curtin
Tokyo Radio
Port Darwin
Hich
Bathurst Island
Palmer Kimball Celebrates 100th Birthday in Silver Springs
W Palmer Kimball a retired farmer marks his 100th birthday in Silver Springs on Feb 21 citing good habits and outdoor living as the key to longevity. The event celebrates a long life and community tribute.
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Silver Springs
W.‘Palmer Kimball
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Alibi
Fallen City
U.S
China
Bose
Joseph
W. Stillwell
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U. S
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