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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1942
Page
1
A Canton defense appeal urges thousands of volunteers to join Civilian Defense amid warnings that inland cities could be bombed. As of Saturday only 1,675 have enlisted. 7,500 volunteers are needed including 2,400 wardens and fire watchers.
The FBI plus local officers arrested over 200 aliens, including Japanese Italians and Germans, in California Arizona and beyond. By mid afternoon 278 had been booked for immigration. 150 arrests were in Northern California with 96 Japanese 46 Italians and eight Germans. Some seized items included guns cameras radios and dynamite. The raids target suspected enemy links and activities.
E O Kuendig of the war production board in Canton stresses rapid plant conversion from civilian to military production. He notes the nation aims for massive war material output and outlines weekly procurement bulletins and the need to mobilize machines and workers across 11 counties to run 68 hours weekly on war orders.
Overlapping communiques today report significant Allied air and sea action off eastern Java. Japanese losses include multiple cruisers and destroyers sunk or damaged, with several transports hit while Allied forces suffer minimal naval losses and some aircraft casualties.
Washington reports growing civilian resistance against Japanese in the Philippines. Gen. Douglas MacArthur notes use of four inch naval guns for defense of the Bataan peninsula. The War Department cites increased civilian courage and an emergent secret society Fighters for Freedom. Proclamations altered to punish Filipinos instead of Japanese killings. The resistance is fueled by confidence in eventual victory.
American and Dutch forces unleash a powerful joint attack against Japanese invasion fleets off eastern and western Java. Reports say a cruiser was blown up two destroyers sunk and several ships damaged as air and sea blows overwhelm the island front in the ongoing struggle.
The Diebold Safe and Lock Co has purchased the Canton plant of the Dayton Malleable Iron Co south of Waynesburg road SE. The 17.05 acre site comprises multiple factory structures and is tied to Diebold’s war production plans. Original investment was about 7 million dollars. details on use and price were not disclosed.
Local temperatures reported by the Stark County Division of the State Highway Department show highs near 25 degrees and a low around 19. The date records list a high of 74 in 1930 and a low around 13 set at 1930. Tomorrow's almanac notes sunrise at 6 13 a.m. and sunset at 7 09 p.m with moonrise at 12 52 p.m.
The President urges every listener to keep a world map during Monday night’s fireside chat to follow his review of the war and its implications. The Repository Monday will publish a map to accompany his word tour of global battle fronts.
The Associated Press reports that defense workers, farmers with no other transport, taxi operators, and essential traveling salesmen may buy new cars under rationing starting March 2. The list also covers physicians, visiting nurses, fire and police, and others vital to safety and health, pending proof the current car is inadequate. Local boards assess need, with only 340,000 new cars available this year and many eligible persons unlikely to obtain a purchase.
C Yates McDaniel, AP correspondent, describes escaping Singapore aboard the last ship leaving the burning fortress. He endures a seven and a half day journey across a bombed ship, uninhabited island, and Sumatra by boat, launch, truck, rail, pony cart, and destroyer. The voyage, amid air raids, ends in Batavia with a wounded ship and a battered journal.
American and British fliers launched a fierce aerial counter attack along the eastern Burmese front from dawn to dusk, strafing Japanese troops and transport columns and causing fires. RAF and Chinese air force cooperation helped stem the push toward Rangoon while Japanese bombers raided west toward Bassein. American volunteers and RAF pilots shot down three more enemy fighters with no loss to their own forces.
Thirty-nine crew members were lost or presumed dead after the Norwegian tanker Kongaggard was torpedoed off western Curacao, with seven survivors reporting flames and oil igniting as the ship burned. Survivors described the sea turning into a burning hell while the attack unfolded.
Allied air forces heavily damaged at least 21,000 tons of enemy shipping along the Moesi river in southern Sumatra. Japanese were believed gathering an invasion fleet for a possible Java attack, according to a report.
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