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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1941
Page
5
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt wife of the U S president met four young Japanese leaders in the Japanese American Citizens Defense Committee in Tacoma Washington. She urged keeping the same tolerant attitude toward Japanese residents as shown before the war.
The Burlington Iowa ordnance plant blast on December 12 killed five of six identified victims. Teal Keosauqua Stateville Chariton Cummings Bunch Wehrle Rome Pettit Lansing are named victims. A sixth head E Schiller strom Agency remains identified. A military board of inquiry by Col. Adamson investigates the explosion with seven others unaccounted for.
British and Japanese statements diverge over Hong Kong encirclement as aircraft and sea forces press in. The crown colony spans about 30 square miles with two million residents mainly along the island coast, Victoria in the foreground and Kowloon nearby. The Pan American Clipper terminal appears in the background.
A U S navy communique reports Japanese ships bombarding Johnston Island, 717 miles southwest of Honolulu, with Maui also attacked. Johnston Island hosts a naval air station commissioned last August, a half mile long on a coral reef eight miles long, funded by a 1.23 million dollar congress appropriation.
The western part of the former Russian empire earned the name White Russia from inhabitants who wore white smocks and leggings, a traditional regional dress.
Advice on preserving paint by filling uncovered cans with water after thorough stirring, then carefully pouring off the water when needed.
Botany professor William J. Bonisteel, immune to ivy, reserved his favorite chair by ringing it with a poison ivy patch to ward off others from using it.
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