Britain Seeks Soviet Aid to Fight Typhus Spread
Health Minister Ernest Brown said Britain consulted Soviet specialists in London to curb typhus spread to British and allied areas. Preparations for large scale inoculation in port towns and readiness to immunize troops were announced as typhus spreads across eastern Europe and North Africa.
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London
Ernest Brown
Europe
North
Asia
Brown
Heath
The
Daily Mail
House of Commons
Exrane
Spain
Middle East
United Press
Vichy Disputch
North Africa
Algeria
France
London Radio
U. S. Forces Have Best Clothing, Says Wool Growers' Head
C. B. Wardlaw president of the National Wool Growers' Association told the Tenth annual convention that U S armed forces are the best dressed, warmest and healthiest troops in history. He praised wool growers for supplying the equipment and comfort for soldiers and sailors nationwide.
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U. S
Wool Growers
C. B. Wardlaw
del Rio
Tex
National
Wool Growers’ Association
Wardlaw
Navy Heroes Hailed After Bold Night Boat Raid
The report praises a small torpedo boat crew under Lieutenant Bulkeley for slipping into Binanga Bay near Luzon and firing while under machine gun and shore battery fire. The raid, possibly harassing Japanese forces or aiding U.S. Army operations, underscores iron courage and system-wide use of fast motorboats in wartime action.
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John D. Bulkeley
Bulkeley
Binanga Bay
Joan Isabel
Elizabeth Bulkeley
of Heer
New York City
Dian Day
Subic Bay
Luzon Island
Far East
John Barry
Delaware River
Stephen Decatur
Tripoli
Barry
Decatur
Bay Fies
Batan Peninsula
Binghamton Sailor Advanced in Rating For Heroic Conduct
Washington reports Joseph M. Pastor of Binghamton New York promoted from machinist mate second class to first class for meritorious conduct during an engagement. He and Hugh Campbell of Lafayette Georgia aided in destroying an enemy torpedo plane four minutes after the attack began. Campbell suffered a broken finger and Pastor a ruptured eardrum during the action. The four sailors were recognized along with Andrew J. Geiser Lamar Colorado and Leslie V Short Plains Kansas.
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Washington
Navy
Joseph Matthew Pastor
Binghamton
N.Y
Pastor
Hugh Lester Campbell
Lafayette
Campbell
Johnson City
Grant A M. Pastor
Andrew J. Geiser
Lamar
Col
Leslie V
Short
Plains
Kan
Peril Trails These Pilots In Malaya
Singapore dispatch details the Malayan Volunteer Air Force in World War II. Rubber planters and civil servants trained as pilots flew with Royal Air Force support, delivering gelignite loads, engaging Japanese fighters, and performing liaison and target towing roles across Penang Kuala Lumpur Ipoh and Singapore.
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George Weller
Chicago Daily News, Inc
Singapore
Malayan
Malayan Volunteer Air Force
Malaya
Penang
Kuala Lumpur
Ipo
Royal Air Force
War time wrecks and field conditions on Malayan coast
Report describes engine room casualties ashore at Port Swettenham and a freighter departing the harbor before enemy arrival. It notes at Kuantan a Bleinheim saved by delivering an extra engine, while Penang airfields faced tidal floods, blown floodgates, and destroyed seapumps.
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Port Swettenham
M.V.A.P. Low
Kuantan
M.V.A.F
Penang
Muhlenberg Acquitted by Ayumou Court Martial
Col H C Kress Muhlenberg was found not guilty by a General Court Martial in Columbus Ohio on charges tied to a Dec 17 public speech. After 49 minutes deliberation, Court President Sol Edgar A Fry announced the not guilty verdict. The 55 year old retiring Air Corps officer faces transfer to review by Maj Gen Daniel Van Voorhis and War Department confirmation.
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Columbus
H. C. Kress
Muhlenberg
United States
Air Corps
Sol. Edgar A. Fry
Daniel van Voorhis
Fifth Corps
War Department
Washington
Navy Crew Promises Tokyo Strike After Pearl Harbor
Aboard a U S warship in the Pacific officers and men, long based in Hawaii, express strong resolve to strike Tokyo in retaliation for Pearl Harbor. Morale runs high as crews train, repair, and drill, with grim humor about wives named on gun banners and a vow to avenge the attack.
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U. S
Pacific
Navy
San Francisco
Tokyo
Roosevelt
Congress
Japan
Pearl Harbor
United States
Hawaiian
Screw
Emmy Lou
Sallie
Fannie
Spinway Stakes nominations reach 191 for 51st run
New York Jan 21 1942 The Spinway Stakes at Saratoga for two year old fillies drew 191 nominations for its 51st running next August. The 1941 event had 176 nominees.
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New York
Death verdict for Alice de Trafford on Kenya farm
A Nairobi court ruled the death was by own action with no insanity. Alice de Trafford formerly Alice Silverthorne of Buffalo, shot dead on her Kenya farm last September 30 after a turbulent life including marriage to Count Frederic de Janze and later Raymond Vincent de Trafford and a 1937 divorce for adultery.
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Alice de Trafford
Kenya
Nairobi
Alice Silverthorne de Trafford
Alice Silverthorne
Buffalo
N. Y
de Trafford
Ogden Armour
Chicago
Frederic de Janze
Raymond Vincent de 'Trafford
de ‘Trafford
Episcopal Bishop Endorses War as Righteous Cause
Bishop Lewis Whittemore of Western Michigan told the 68th diocese convention in Traverse City that the United Nations fight on God’s side and the church must be ready to send clergy and lay personnel to bear arms. He stressed human dignity is at stake and that the faithful fight on God’s side.
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Episcopal
Traverse City
Mich
Lewis Bliss Whittemore
Western Michigan
United Nations
Whittemore
Honor Roll of Dead in TWA Crash Highlighted
Army officials praised the 15 killed in the Las Vegas mountains crash as the command’s cream of the crop. Second Lt. Frederick J. Dittman of Oakland was identified among the dead after a clerical quirk led to an initial mislisting. First Lt. Burton K. Voorhees reportedly surrendered his seat to Dittman at Albuquerque.
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Long Beach
Calif
INS
Las Vegas
Army Air Corps Ferry Command
Britain
Ferry
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