Singapore Siege Begins as Japanese Reach Johor Strait
Reporting from Singapore and surrounding areas, the siege begins as Japanese forces press from the Johor Strait. Allied defenses scramble amid secrecy while Churchill says fresh troops and supplies have arrived in Malaya. Lieutenant General Percival urges Singapore’s 750000 residents to hold the fortress with resolve, as air raids inflict casualties and ships are sunk or set ablaze in the broader Sumatra campaign.
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Johor Strait
Malay Peninsula
Singapore
Hong Kong
Percival
Singapore Island
Janan Imperial
Imperial
Tokyo
Noted Mystic Shot To Death In Seance Room
In Los Angeles on January 31 Madame Lorraine a noted mystic was shot dead by her blonde assistant and adopted daughter Charlotte Jean Le Nord 25 who claimed the shooting was accidental but was held on suspicion of murder after admitting a quarrel over parking. A skull with a crystal rested on a table and an urn held the late husband’s ashes. Lorraine real name Cathde Frank once led a spiritualist temple at the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair.
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Charlotte Jean le Nord
Lorraine Residence
Mme
Lorraine
Robert M. Frank
Salt Lake City
Wee Cathde Frank
San Francisco World's Fair
Miss le Nord
Belgians Drafted for Work in Reich, 50,000 Sent to Germany
British radio reported that more than 50,000 Belgians have departed for forced labor in Germany in recent weeks under a “work or starve” threat. The BBC broadcast cited that Germany has halted Belgian food imports, pressuring unemployed Belgians to work in the Reich.
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Reich
New York
INS
Germany
NBC
BBC
Belgium
Little Trouble Worries Batan Tax Collector
A Batan Province official notes in his annual report that there is a little trouble in Batan causing difficulties in tax collection during wartime. General MacArthur remains a backdrop as the Batan Peninsula in Luzon hosts the ongoing conflict.
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Batan
Macarthur
Batan Penisula
Luzon
Batan Province
Battles Expand Inland Near Sambas and Singapore Front
Invaders pushed inland and occupied Sambas area. British reports placed battle lines from Pontian Besar near the Strait of Johore through Kulai to Sedil River north of Singapore, spanning swamps jungles and hills as fighting continued.
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Sambas
Pontian Besar
Strait of Johore
Kulai
Sedil River
Singapore
New Cars Released After Government Freeze Ends
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration will release new cars purchased but not delivered before January 1 after February 12. Automobile rationing is postponed to February 26, with about 130000 units held back as a government stockpile and dealerships holding roughly 524000 cars plus reserves subject to rationing. Henderson notes stockpiled cars and pending eligibility determinations delay the plan.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Niagara Frontier Farmers Oppose Daylight Saving
Niagara Frontier farmers at the fourth annual Incachagala donker Cooperative Milk Producers' Bargaining Agency meeting urged keeping farming hours by sunrise rather than clocks. The group backed daylight saving law start Feb 9 and reelected President Hugh A. Scott of East Concord.
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Niagara Frontier
Buffalo
Incachagala Donker Cooperative Milk Producers
Hugh A. Scott
East Concord
Tire Ration Board Members Arrive By Bicycle
South Gate California January 31 UP members of the tire rationing board arrive on bicycles and discuss rubber availability including a remark about making bike tires from auto tire rubber. Bruce Wheeler noted as writer and lecturer and chairman Ernest Neiler commented to Mrs Frances Toelle on practicing what is preached.
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South Gate
Calif
Bbicycles
Bruce Wheeler
Ernest Neiler
Frances Toelle
Toelle
Japanese leaflets urge surrender as MacArthur defends Pacific
British and American reports detail a Japanese air raid leaflet campaign urging surrender to General MacArthur while Filipino and Allied forces resist. Simultaneously Allied naval rates drop for shipments to Southern Australia as MacArthur adjusts defense to repel varied Japanese blows.
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Pacific
Marine
United States
Pacific Coast
Puget Sound
Panama Canal
Cape Spencer
Alaska
Seward
Atlantic
Rochester
Wats
Snake Port
Batan Peninsula
Destroyer Barton launched at Fore River plant
The US Navy destroyer Barton was launched at Bethlehem Steel Fore River in Quincy Mass after about eight months of construction. Sponsored by Miss Barbara Dean Barton, the ship named for the late Rear Admiral John Kennedy Barton, is a sister ship to the Bancroft launched a month earlier.
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Quincy
Mass
United States
Barton
Bethlehem Steel Company
Fore River
Barbara Dean Barton
John Kennedy Barton
Bancroft
Army Inquiry Board Lifts Cause of Armory Fire
A three man Army board reports on the Springfield Armory fire that caused $200000 damage to a new building. Brig Gen Gilbert C Stewart says preliminary findings point to a Workman's carelessness, though rifle production continued.
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Army Inquiry Board
Springfield
Mass
Army Board of
Iel
United States Armory
Gilbert C. Stewart
Wilson Quits Post As Prison Warden In Transfer Looms
Albany January 31 Joseph N Wilson retirement as warden of Great Meadow prison Comstock was announced with a Feb 15 post exchange planned with Dr Walter B Martin of Clinton Prison Dannemora Correction Commissioner John A Lyons cited health as the reason and said Dr Martin will remain at Clinton A successor will be chosen from the civil service list led by Vernon A Morhous principal keeper at Auburn Prison
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Albany
Joseph N. Wilson
Great Meadow
Comstock
Walter B. Martin
Clinston
Dannemora
John A. Lyons
Lyons
Martin
Clintor
Civil Service
Vernon A. Morhous
Auburn Prison
Sidney Fire Depot To Be Built by U S
The Federal Works Agency said President Roosevelt approved nine defense public works projects totaling 930 516 for fire fighting facilities. The Sidney village fire station in New York received a 42000 federal construction grant. A fisherman Wesley Kimberley 31 drowned during an ice fishing trip near Buffalo and four companions were rescued after their boat sank.
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U.S. Washington
Federal Works Agency
Roosevelt
Defense Public
New York
Buffalo
Wesley Kimberley
Buffalo Harbor
Soviets Halt German Advance With Flanking Push
The Soviet forces threatened to turn the southern German campaign into a fiasco. A major flanking move near the Dnieper was forecast, with frontal attacks planned toward the river after capturing Lozovaya and Barvenkovo, placing them within about 60 miles of Dnepropetrovsk and the great dam.
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Dnieper River
Lozovaya
Kharkov
Barvenkovo
Dnepropetrovsk
Nazis Claim Repulse of Russian Attacks
German High Command reported heavy losses inflicted on Soviet forces on the Eastern Front. They said nineteen enemy tanks were destroyed and several fighting positions eliminated. A counterattack near Norsk led to a decisive German victory as armored units defeated an advancing enemy force.
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Lommunique
Royal Air Force
Britis
High Command
Mediterranean
Malta
Bern
Norsk
Sloscow
Breith
Donets
Lozovaysa
Last Day To Buy Automobile Use Tax Stickers
Washington Ja 31 GP notes today is the deadline to purchase auto use tax stickers. The Treasury admits weak enforcement and declined to specify penalties for delinquent owners though the law allows up to a $25 fine and 30 days in jail. The $2.09 sticker price reflects remaining fiscal year time.
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Washington
Tressury
Congress
Treasury
LaGuardia Auto Receives Blackout Paint for City Cars
Mayor LaGuardia's car is coated with luminous blackout paint on bumpers fenders and running boards. City officials say other official cars will likely follow suit.
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LaGuardia
New York
F. H
Russians Mount Artillery on Skis to Rout Germans
Russians mount field guns on skis as winter warfare to harass German forces on the Kalinin front. The Red Star reports artillery run ners tearing through deep snow to disrupt roads and aid recent advances in a violent battle for two unnamed towns.
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Moscow
Red Army
Red Star
Kalinin Front
Wickard Opposes Farm Price Change and Parody Parity
Wickard told reporters he would oppose any price change and predicted defeat. He argued the 10 percent latitude was needed to assure parity for farmers production. Roosevelt signed the bill warning it does not end the inflation fight and urged strict enforcement despite political costs.
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Wrintened
Avt Andon Nvinestioning
Agriculture Committee
Leon Henderson
Wickard
Roosevelt
Radio and Phonograph Prices Are Frozen
The Office of Price Control issued a freezing order on prices for electric phonographs radios and televisions sets and radio tubes and parts effective Feb. 9. Maximum prices use October 15 1931 levels or three months prior. Exemptions include radios for commercial police or military use and jukeboxes. New models need price approval before marketing. The order expires December 31 1942.
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Washington
INS
Office of Price Control
Leon Henderson
CPQ
Son
Rio Action Has Axis Worked Says Swiss Newspaper
The Tribune de Geneve says the rupture of relations with the Axis by 19 of 21 American republics causes anxiety for dictators. It cites Berlin correspondents warning of economic blockades and notes Europe would welcome postwar food and materials from such a source. The Rio conference and fallout highlight Washington fears about the good neighbor policy.
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Berne
INS
Tribune de Geneve
Berlin
Europe
Tribune de ‘Geneve
Rio de Janeiro
Comales
Washington
Frisco Residents To Get Gas Masks
San Francisco plans to equip every civilian, about 700000 people, with gas masks. Police Chief Charles Dull ea, civilian defense coordinator, requested the list from Washington headquarters. He said the move is a precautionary measure to dress up civilians for potential air war.
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San Francisco
Charles Dullea
Dullea
Hae
Washington,d. C
Caoure
Vullea
Polite Nazis Sunk Tanker Off Virginia Coast
The tanker Belier Avenue from Socony-Vacuum Oil was torpedoed off Virginia by a German U boat. Two lifeboats were lowered within six to seven minutes. a second torpedo hit the port side. The sub surfaced and shelled, then waved the crew away, shouting to "Get out of the way." Three men died among the crew. two were injured and the ship capsized, sinking about an hour and a half later.
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Davidson
Clark
Neve
Atlantic
Fifth Naval District Public Relations Office
Joseph Sutherland
San Francisco
Calif
Arthur
Boston Boy Survives Knife Blade Heart Operation
William Stanley, 15, of South Boston, had a knife blade removed from his heart after a scuffle. Surgeons Dr John Strieder and Dr William Garlick performed a 45 minute operation at City Hospital sewing the wound with four silk stitches and credited saving his life.
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Boston
Boy’s Heart
City Hospital
Wiliam Stanley
South
Stanley
John Strieder
William Garlick
Avalanche Blocks Gotthard Line in Switzerland
An avalanche on the Gotthard line blocked the main rail route from Switzerland to Italy derailing at least four freight cars. One track was to be cleared by tomorrow morning. Rome dispatches indicated sharp restrictions on passenger train service in Italy forthcoming, signaling troop movement concerns.
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Bern
Switzerland
Italy
Exchange Telegraph
Zurich
Rome
Defense Bond January Sets Billion Dollar Sales Milestone
Washington reports January defense bond sales topped 1 billion dollars, roughly doubling December figures after the Pearl Harbor attack. Officials foresee 1942 sales near 7 billion, while campaigns push small-unit securities and payroll deductions to broaden participation.
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Washington
Defense
Bath
Treasury
Pearl Harbor
War reflections on Singapore and Mafeking siege echoes
The piece links the Singapore defense under Lieut. Gen. Percival to a broader war narrative. It recalls MacArthur preparing for a sixth Japanese assault while drawing a parallel to the Mafeking siege led by Baden-Powell. It notes American and British resolve to hold out until help arrives, citing historical resilience.
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Macassar
MacArthur
Singapore
A. E. Percival
Gallan
Peninsula of
Batan
Mafeking
Bechuanaland
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