Entire British Singapore Army Feared Lost
News from London reports the Empire garrison in Singapore, about 60 000 troops including British Australian Indian Malayan and Sarawak troops, may have surrendered to Japan after heavy losses and shortages. Churchill announced Singapore has fallen as Britons demand drastic wartime changes.
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London
U.P
Empire
Singapore
A. E. Percival
Archibald Wavell
United Nations
Malaya
France
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Dover
Netherlands East Indies
Hong Kong
Kut el Amara
Lord Cornwallis
Aruba and Curacao Shelling Marks First Axis Ocean Attack
U S guards Aruba as Nazi submarine shells oil refineries on the Curacao Aruba island group in the western hemisphere. Three tankers are torpedoed and badly damaged near Willemstad with no immediate U S casualties reported.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Dutch West Indies
United States
Aruba
Panama Canal
Aneta
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Venezuela
Bonaire Islands
Puerto Rico
Raiding Parties Sweep Japanese Residents In Sacramento Vicinity
Twenty five raiding parties comprising federal state and local officers descended on Japanese residents near Sacramento air fields. Over 200 warrants were served. Nat Pieper led the FBI San Francisco operation with H L Van Pelt promising continued raids through day and night following Monterey Bay actions where forty Japanese were arrested.
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Sacramento
Calif
FBI
California
Nat Pieper
San Francisco
H. L. van Pelt
Pieper
Monterey Bay Area
Vocational Data Questionnaires Delayed for Registrants
Washington February 16 selective service headquarters announced detailed questionnaires on vocational experience will be sent to every registrant not yet drafted. About 25 million men including those registering today are to be surveyed. The spokesman said the program details are under study and the final form and tabulation handler may be decided by late this week or early next week.
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Washington
Up— Selective Service
Churchill Warns UN Faces Woe After Singapore Fall
Winston Churchill told Britons the United Nations will find it capable of squaring accounts as Singapore’s fall and Malay peninsula loss loom large. He warned of greater dangers abroad while urging faith in his leadership amid dismal war news.
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Associated Press
London
Winston Churchill
United Nations
Britain
United States
Dunkerque
Singapore
Malay Peninsula
Japan
Churchill
Indian Ocean
Dutch East Indies
Australia
Ain
Burma
Libya
Lord
Taking Over Of Industry Is Approved
The Supreme Court upheld government contracts with Bethlehem Shipbuilding for World War I ship construction. Justice Black declared Congress can draft business organizations to support military needs and warned future measures may curb profiteering. The ruling also supported commandeering shipyards.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Justice Black
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Justice Department
Shipbuilding Company
Black
Industry
U S Focused On French Fleet Power Shift
Washington reports new Nazi push toward immediate control of the French fleet as Congress assesses implications. Germany may press Vichy for surrender of battleships and carriers, altering global naval balance amid Allied reverses.
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Washington
Congress
Germany
Walsh
D-Mass
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Reich
United Nations
Hitler
Dover Straits
Vichy
France
United States
Petain
Great Britain
Singapore
Palembang Falls as Japanese Capture Sumatra Oil Center
Japanese troops seized Palembang in southern Sumatra after crushing Dutch resistance as Allied planes struck back, inflicting great devastation on the invaders. In the Philippines, heavy artillery and air attacks pounded Bataan as American and Filipino forces fought intermittent battles along the front.
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Everett R. Holles
Washington
U.P
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan Peninsula
Singapore
MacArthur
War Department
Bataan
Japan
Masaharu Homma
Philippines
Batavia
N.E.S
Palembang
Sumatra
Japs Land in Eastern Java Amid Invasion Push
Radio Saigon claimed Japanese troops landed in eastern Java as forces struck inland. Allied air and naval units attacked Japanese ships along the Musi river and in the Bangka Straits. Dutch, British, and American planes bombed targets, with Java’s oil fields and Palembang threatened as strategic objectives.
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Radio Saigon
Java
Bangka Straits
United Nations
Musi
East Indies
London
UPR
Axis
Supreme Headquarters
Soerabaja
Bali
Borneo
Singapore
Sumatra
Pelambang
Court Upholds Pima Liquor License Plea
The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed a Pima Superior Court order granting Roy C. Mack of Tucson a liquor license after the Pima county board of supervisors denied it saying it would not serve a public necessity. The liquor department had upheld the denial.
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Phoenix
State Supreme Court
Pima
Roy C. Mack
Tucson
Pima County Board of Supervisors
Mack
State Department of Liquor Licenses and Control
Supreme Court
A. Duncan
State Liquor Department
Yavapai County
Dixon Fagerberg
State Tax Commission
Fagerberg
COURT
Full Scale Drive Opened For Sumatra Java Bases
Japanese forces press a full scale drive for Sumatra and Java as Burma battles intensify. The article warns the Indies hold is pivotal to Allied war effort and port Darwin would become the next base if Singapore and Java fall.
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Sumatra
Java
Louis F. Keemle
United Press War Desk
Singapore
Burma
Pacific
United Nations
Indies
Soerabaja
Australia
Darwin
Timor
New Guinea
Sydney
Melbourne
Japan
Strait of Malacca
Bay of Bengal
221 Millions Appropriation Bill Approved
The house appropriations committee approved a 221 169 700 dollar bill for state commerce and justice and the judiciary with a 36 million fund to expand civilian pilot training. It cites 70 000 trained pilots and 21 000 in the armed services to date, aiming to widen air power with thousands more pilots. The budget bureau suggested 20 million for training, projecting 49 500 pilots.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
State, Commerce and Justice Departments
Judiciary
Armed Services
House
Hamilton Butler Arrested by FBI
The FBI in Philadelphia reports the butler in John D. M. Hamilton's home has been arrested as an enemy alien. Hamilton says he provided information leading to the arrest of Arthur Kalb. his wife, a citizen and cook, was not detained. Hamilton, former Republican national chairman, lives near Paoli and has hosted notable guests including Herbert Hoover.
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Philadelphia
John D. M. Hamilton
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hamilton
Arthur Kalb
Paoli
Herbert Hoover
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