Censors Code for Details on War Announced
The Associated Press reports that Ton Price, director of censorship, issued a wartime code for withholding information that could aid the enemy. Aimed at newspapers and magazines, the code applies to all published material and bans details on troop movements, fortifications, war production, and map content. J H Sorrells will oversee administration with a small editorial board and publishing advisory council.
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Associated Press
Washington
Mr. Price
J. H. Sorrells
Price
Office of Censorship
Richardson
New York
Tags For Children In Newton War Precautions
Newton Massachusetts January 15 public school children wear sewed on identification tags under a voluntary war precautions program.
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Newton
Mass
Goebbels Arithmetic Splits British Fleet in Axis Claims
New York January 15. Axis arithmetic from a British radio broadcast analyzed by the BBC counts minus 29 capital ships minus 13 aircraft carriers minus 96 cruisers and minus 37 submarines in German Italian naval successes since the war began. Two British destroyers remain afloat amid phantom navy claims.
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International News Service
New York
Joe Goebbels
CBS
BBC
Asiatic Fleet Safe and Leaving Manila Bay
United Press reports the Asiatic fleet is intact and cooperating with Allies in the Far East. Admiral Hart’s force moved from Manila bay before Japanese forces occupied Manila, transferring the combat ships and fleet train with only the loss of the 23 year old minesweeper Penguin. Naval experts call the maneuver a remarkable feat given Japanese control of the China sea.
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United Press
Washington
United States Asiatic Fleet
Far East
Thomas C. Hart
Manila Bay
Philippine
Penguin
China Sea
Rare book gift to Colgate University features Kelmscott Chaucer
James C. Colgate of New York City donated thirty three rare volumes to Colgate University in Hamilton New York on January 15. The collection includes 18 first editions of Robert Louis Stevenson and a Kelmscott Chaucer valued up to 16000 dollars.
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Colgate Hamilton
N. Y
Robert Louis Stevenson
Colgate University
James C. Colgate
New York City
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