Five Hour Los Angeles Blackout Amid Unidentified Aircraft
Unidentified planes prompted heavy anti-aircraft fire across Los Angeles and several southern California coastal cities. No bombs fell and no planes were shot down. Two deaths reported and multiple injuries as blackout lasted from 2:25 a.m. to 7:21 a.m. authorities held suspects including Japanese and Italian residents for blackout violations.
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Los Angeles
U.P
California
Long Beach
Huntington Park
Inglewood
Los Angeles County
Orange County
Fourth Army
San Francisco
United States Army
Henry B. Ayer
California State Guard
Engebret Larson
William Spokey
Hollywood
Clyde Lane
Georgia Street Emergency Hospital
Giovanni Chigo
Walter Ernest Vander Linden
Norwalk
Ray Allen Ellwanger
Beverly Hills
Firestone
Bell Gardens
Hugh G. Landis
Landis
Bess
Blanche Sedgwick
Josie Duffy
Java Invasion Near as Australian Jap Airmen Clash
Allied headquarters in Java reports Java is completely encircled as Japanese occupy Bali and Timor, cutting communications with Australia. Dutch officials warn Java needs substantial reinforcements to defend against an imminent invasion and sustain key forces there.
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Java
Bali
Timor
Australia
Japanese Air Attacks on Java Area Amid Allied Raids
Allied bombers sunk three large Japanese transports off Macassar as Japan pressed air offensives to soften Java defenses. Raids targeted Batavia Tandjong Priok and Palembang airfields while Tokyo claimed Allied losses and damage to ships.
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Bandoeng
Java
Macassar
Celebes
Dutch East Indies High Command
Tokyo
Batavia
Tandjong Priok
Palembang
Sumatra
Bali
Air clashes erupt as forces push toward Australia rim
Canberra reports exchanges between Australian and Japanese airmen along the islands guarding Australia’s approaches. Indications point to enemy strength building in air and naval forces within about 400 miles of the coast as war coverage continues.
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Canberra
Australia
Survivors Landed From U S Ship Near Puerto Rico
Twenty five survivors of a U S freighter sunk by a submarine were landed at Guanica Puerto Rico at 1 p m. after two attacks the previous night and early today. Others were believed adrift in lifeboats.
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Ponce
Puerto Rico
U. S
Guanica
Mexico orders Japanese to move inland from Pacific coast
Japanese residents in Mexico's Pacific coast area are ordered to relocate at least 100 miles inland immediately as a precaution against sabotage and fifth column activities, according to federal authorities.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Pacific Coast
War Front Victories and Draft Work Or Fight Legislation
MacArthur reports uniformly successful attacks on the Bataan front and air victories over Java boosting to fifty Japanese planes destroyed. Congress may pass drastic work or fight legislation to ensure uninterrupted arms production with possible draft of striking workers and blacklist provisions for defectors.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Philippines
War Department
Java
U. S. Army Air Force
Dutch East Indies
MacArthur
Batan
War Labor Board
Congress
Roosevelt
Rescue at St Lawrence Saves Destruction Survivors
Forty three sailors from the destroyer Truxton and the supply ship Pollux were saved by St Lawrence villagers who rigged a bosuns chair and hauled men up a 200 foot cliff as a storm wrecked two U S ships off Newfoundland. Several died and bodies were taken to Argentia while a third ship rode the storm and reached harbor.
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ST. John’s
Newfoundland
Truxton
U. S
Pollux
St. Lawrence
Argentia
Washington
Opponents of Secrets Bill Challenge Censorship Powers
Senate opponents of the official secrets bill warned it would bar reporters government officials and private citizens from public interest information. Critics said any agency head could declare something an official secret and suppress disclosure. Attorney General Francis Biddle acknowledged possible use of censorship powers to dodge criticism and proposed a super censorship panel.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Justice Department
Francis Biddle
Senate Judiciary
Congress
Soviet Crushes Big Nazi Army In One Sector
Soviet forces claim to have crushed the German 16th field army in the Staraya Russa area 140 miles south of Leningrad. They say three divisions were shattered and about 12 000 German soldiers killed as part of a new offensive to clear lines near Lake Ilmen and threaten Leningrad. A communique notes units trapped the Germans on February 15 and operations concluded a few days earlier.
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Soviet
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Germany
Staraya Russa
Leningrad
Red Army
Kurochkin
Second Army
13Th
10Th Army Corps
Smolensk
Lake Ilmen
Roosevelt letter protests farm price bill in senate session
President Roosevelt opened the senate session with a letter calling the farm price bill a reflection of selfish interests. He warned that restricting sales of government held stocks would do irreparable damage to the war effort and to farmers nationwide.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Scorched Earth Policy and Labor Shortages Reported
Max Harrelson reports from Bern that Russia's scorched earth tactics and large labor withdrawals cripple Germany's war economy in occupied Russian regions. German sources describe mass departures, loss of horses and machinery, and widespread conscription and forced labor across the Baltic states and Ukraine.
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Max Harrelson
Bern
Switzerland
Russia
Germany
Reich
Dnieperopetrovsk
Baltic States
Estonia
Ukraine
Deutsche Ukraine Zeitung
Bessarabia
British Yield Added Ground In Burma War
American volunteer group fliers and RAF pilots struck Burma's front, destroying 30 enemy planes along the Sittang river. The action marked one of their heaviest blows against Japanese air strength today amid sweeps over enemy positions.
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Rangoon
Burma
Sittang
Japanese push on Rangoon flank near Sittang River
Japanese armored thrust attacks the Rangoon defense from the Sittang front with 170000 troops and fresh reinforcements. British forces abandon the eastern bridgehead after fierce fighting and destroy the bridge as they withdraw to the west bank seventy two miles from Rangoon. Americans support British ground troops with air units.
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Mandalay
Burma
Sittang
Rangoon
Three Axis Submarines Sunk by U S in Atlantic Action
Secretary Knox announced January February 56 attacks on enemy subs in the Atlantic resulted in three ships sunk and four damaged. He cited 114 UN registry ships attacked west of longitude 30 degrees W. The report also noted heavy Japanese losses in the Pacific with 53 ships sunk or damaged and several carriers believed sunk.
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Washington
Knox
Atlantic
United Nations
Pacific
Navy
Subs Add Two More Tankers To Large Toll
In Atlantic coastal waters enemy submarines have added two more American owned tankers to their toll of shipping attacks. The Cities Service Empire of New York and the Republic of Houston were torpedoed with 16 crewmen dead or missing and 57 rescued.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
United States
Atlantic
Navy
Cities Service Empire
New York
Republic
Houston
Texas
Dutch West Indies
MacArthur The Magnificent Part of a Military Line
Bob Considine profiles General Douglas MacArthur tracing his ascent through his father Arthur MacArthur’s military legacy. The piece links boyhood lessons, charisma, and a warlike yet healing role in the Philippines, noting family roots from Glasgow to New York and a signaling of future page seven.
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Douglas MacArthur
Bob Considine
MacArthur
International News Service
Arthur MacArthur
Philippines
William Howard Taft
Little Brown Brothers
Douglas
Glasgow
Wesleyan College
Connecticut
New York City
Springfield
Mass
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