Nine Japanese Prisoners Surrender to MacArthur on Bataan
A group of nine Japanese prisoners surrendered to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces on the Bataan peninsula rather than die in battle. They walked to a Filipino scout position, handed over personal items, and initially questioned surrender claims. After favorable treatment, they grew evasive, denying surrender and saying they were captured while sleeping. American officers note most officers chose suicide. some orders urged escape to the China Sea, then were canceled.
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MacArthur
Bataan
Douglas MacArthur
Pbatilefield
Yasukuni
Filipino Scout Corps Heroism in Bataan Death Scene
Corporal Pablo Bayangas of the 57th Philippine Scouts died after bravely engaging Japanese forces in western Bataan. He killed 13 enemies with 20 shots before being shot in the head by a Japanese officer. Fellow Filipinos finished off the officer, whose pistol bullet ended Bayangas’s valiant stand.
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Clark Lee
Philippine Scouts
Bataan
Pablo Bayangas
Bayangas
Vandals slashed tires of two Pennsy cars in Williamsport
Police seek vandals believed to be boys who slashed tires on a Pennsylvania motorist’s car and battered off a door handle on Harvey Volkar’s vehicle. Both cars were parked near a Cleveland avenue tavern. A heavy wrench appeared used on Volkar’s car, hinting at attempted looting. A penknife cut the Pennsy tires.
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Pennsylvania
Harvey Volkar
Williamsport
Pennsy
Volkar
Cleveland Avenue
MacArthur Pounded By Enemy Artillery
Washington report states heavy enemy artillery fire and intermittent infantry fighting ongoing on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines. A War Department communique adds that Japanese war planes are active along the fighting front.
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MacArthur
Washington
Bataan Peninsula
Philippines
War Department
General's Namesake And Father Register
Waltham Massachusetts February 16. Douglas MacArthur has registered for the draft. He is a 20 year old accountant in town. Reporting with him yesterday was his father William aged 44.
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Waltham
Mass
Douglas MacArthur
William
Wheat and Fruit Report Good After Winter
J A Miller government weather observer at Kee dysville said winter wheat and fruit are in fine shape. He toured the county and found wheat in excellent condition. Sub zero cold did not harm buds. fruit buds fail only if temperatures fall to 15 below. Yesterday's high reached 58 and this morning was 36.
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J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Mr. Miller
No Certificates For Truck Or Bus Tires This Week
F M Thomas chairman of the local ration board announced no certificates for truck or bus tires will be issued until February 21. He said the monthly quota, based on weeks, is exhausted and issuance will resume with the new period. Tractors for farm use bypass the truck quota, while road work tractors draw from it.
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F. M. Thomas
Thomas
Rome Claims Nine Convoy Ships Sunk
Italian high command said Axis air and naval forces sunk a British destroyer, a patrol boat, and seven merchantmen from a convoy from Alexandria to Malta after a three day assault. It reported eight more cargo vessels, five cruisers, and two destroyers damaged, with other ships turned back and two planes destroyed.
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Rome
Alexandria
Malta
Mediterranean
Sub Shells Hit Aruba Refinery in Western Hemisphere Attack
The Aneta news agency reports an enemy submarine attacked Aruba and torpedoed three tankers while shelling the Standard Oil refinery at Willemstad. One tanker badly damaged near Willemstad harbor. no land casualties. American troops arrived in Aruba to guard oil facilities as U S and Dutch authorities bolster defense. Aruba and Curacao host major refineries. British marines aided protection in 1940. Aruba area about 70 sq miles. Curacao harbor a key shipping center for Venezuelan oil.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Dutch West Indies
Aneta
Aruba
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Venezuela
Willemstad Harbor
Panama Canal
Bonaire Islands
Puerto Rico
United States State Department
United States
Court Rules for Profits at Bethlehem Shipyard
The Supreme Court reversed Justice Department claims and ruled Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp entitled to profits on World War I ship contracts. Justice Black wrote the 5 to 1 decision, saying Congress nor the President limited Fleet Corporation’s policy to seek profits. Justice Frankfurter dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Department
United States
Justice Black
Justice Frankfurter
Black
Congress
Fleet Corporation
County Roads Faring Well Despite Subzero Winter
County Road Engineer C William Hetzer reports road damage this winter has been exceptionally light despite subzero weather He hopes mild conditions persist into spring to save repair costs Last year snow removal cost about $5200 and this year about $2500 with ongoing expenses for snow fences and sand stockpiles.
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C. William Hetzer
Aliens Cleared From Key Areas in California
Federal authorities cleared hundreds of enemy aliens from 69 restricted zones in California over the weekend as evacuation deadlines expired. The operation, conducted without incident, will lead to internment for any remaining aliens through the war. Washington guidance awaited for broader removals by February 24 as Tom C. Clark departed for the capital.
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San Francisco
California
Washington
Tom C. Clark
Butler Seized as Enemy Alien in Paoli Household
Philadelphia FBI reports an unnamed butler in John D. M. Hamilton's household was arrested as an enemy alien. Hamilton, former Republican National chairman, said he helped the seizure after reporting an employed, naturalized German-sounding worker. Hamilton notes his wife, the cook, was not detained and that Hoover recently visited the Paoli farm.
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Philadelphia
John D. M. Hamilton
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hamilton
Arthur Kalb
Paoli
Herbert Hoover
Valuation in WV rail line tax cut rejected
Circuit Court Judge John F. Brown ruled the West Virginia Board of Public Works erred in fixing the Western Maryland Railway 1941 tax valuation at 11,074,200 dollars. The judge said the correct valuation was 8,504,200 dollars.
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Elkins
W. Va
John F. Brown
West Virginia Board of Public Works
Western Maryland Railway
Allied Fliers Price Hour of Singapore Fall
Japan proclaims conquest of Singapore as a key to India and Australia and vital supply routes. Domei reports 60,000 British forces under surrender, with 1,000 to stay as auxiliary police as Japanese enter Singapore at 8 am. Singapore’s population exceeds one million including 100,000 British.
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Tokyo
Japan
Singapore
India
Australia
China
Pacific
Domei
Civilian Defense ambulance crews begin training in city
Crews under Park W. T. Loy organize to train this week. Seventy privately owned trucks enrolled for Hagerstown and ten for the Maugansville sector with about forty more available if needed. One hundred seventy volunteers will take the three week course, followed by monthly practice. Classes meet at 7 p.m. at named schools with designated leaders each day.
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Park W. T. Loy
Hagerstown
Maugansville
Woodland Way
C. Merritt
Hagerstown Senior High
Fred C. Wright, Jr
South Potomac Junior High School
Irwin F. Hoffman
Franklin Court
Adrian H. Rowland
Washington Street
Melvin Robinson
Maugansville School
Ralph Keadle
Not Pouting Boys Visit of Tom McGrath in 1940 Race
Tom McGrath Republican candidate for county commissioner in 1940 is sociable but busy. He is tending his ranch due to a sheep herder shortage and watering 100 acres of farmland, making his town visit brief.
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Santa Rosa
N. M
Tom McGrath
Assault on Australia Deepens War Mobilization
Sydney, Feb. 16. Prime Minister John Curtin declared that all resources must be mobilized for Australia’s battle after Singapore fell. Government views a large scale Japanese air and sea attack as inevitable, with secret troop and aircraft movements already under way. Curtin warned no time remains to rely on prior assumptions as the nation faces a bloody test.
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Sydney
Australia
John Curtin
Singapore
Commonwealth
Reliance
Blackouts Await Sirens in Hagerstown City Plan
Hagerstown prepares for a second blackout to be timed with new fire sirens. Few residents failed to extinguish lights during the first blackout, and some complained about not hearing the fire siren. Cumberland has purchased five air raid warning signals and expects them this week.
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Hagerstown
Western Enterprise Fire Hall
Cumberland
Italian seizure of Western Electric and major film firms
Rome dispatches report Italy has confiscated the properties of Western Electric Warner Brothers and First National Pictures in Bern Switzerland. The move targets assets of the American firms amid wartime measures.
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Bern
Switzerland
Western Electric Company
Warner Brothers
First National Pictures
Rome
Newsies Keep Em Flying Defense Stamp Drive
Philadelphia reports boys delivering papers have helped sell 108,635,997 10 cent Defense Savings Stamps in five months. Carriers from 762 newspapers in 47 states and DC average one stamp per family weekly. Pennsylvania leads with 20,001,975 stamps sold. New York 16,767,699. Ohio 12,480,371. Delaware not participating. The drive began last September via the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
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Philadelphia
Defense Savings
States
District of Columbia
Howard W. Stodghill
Treasury Defense Savings Staff
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
Delaware
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Stodghill
U S Seizes Control of Chemical Concern
Washington February 16 Treasury Secretary Morgenthau announced he had taken over 97 percent of the stock of General Aniline and Film Corporation of Delaware, a large American chemical and photographic supply concern with 8,000 employees and about $60 million in yearly business, some products labeled essentials for the war effort, to protect bondholders' investment.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
General Aniline and Film Corporation of Delaware
American Chemical and
General Aniline and Film Corporation
Lindbergh Registers for Selective Service in Washington
Charles A Lindbergh registered for Selective Service in Washington on February 16. The famed aviator, who left the Air Corps Reserve last summer amid speeches criticizing the President's foreign policies, is currently unaligned but said to be engaged in a civilian research assignment for the War Department.
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Washington
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Air Corps Reserves
War Department
Japanese Invasion Presses Across Sumatra Oil Center
Allied air forces struck Japanese ships in the Bangka straits while bombers and fighters hammered invasion forces on Sumatra. Japanese cruisers and transports were hit, one cruiser set afire, as paras landed in force. Dutch scorched oil fields on Sumatra to deny oil to the invaders, with a smoky skyline over petroleum plants and docks.
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Sumatra
Dutch East Indies
Standard Oil
Ae"paieinbang
Batavia
N.el
Palembang
Bangka Straits
United Nations
Musi
East Indies
U K Fund To Train Pilots In War Effort
The House Appropriations Committee approved a 221 million dollars appropriations bill for State Justice and Commerce, with a 36 million fund to expand civilian pilot training. It notes 70 thousand pilots trained, over 21 thousand joined armed services, and projects scores of thousands more pilots to meet wartime needs. The panel estimates training would reach about 49.5 thousand pilots, higher than the Budget Bureau forecast of 31.9 thousand.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
State, Commerce and Justice Departments
Judiciary
Armed Services
House
London Sees No Hope Of Forces Escaping
A British military commentator stated no large British forces could be evacuated from Singapore and that the policy was to fight it out. The only evacuees known were women, children, and wounded, many brought out before the city surrendered yesterday.
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London
Singapore
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Sub Shells Oil Refinery
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Butler
W. M. Valuation
Newsies
U.S
Borneo
U. K
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