Carole Lombard Dies In Plane Crash In Nevada Mountain Wreck
Carole Lombard and 21 others including 15 army air fliers perished when a Trans continental & Western Air plane crashed on Table Mountain near Las Vegas Nevada after a stop at Las Vegas the crash site reported by pilot Art Cheney and witnesses. The army ferry command said the fliers were en route to the Pacific coast for new assignments. Lombard had volunteered for defense bond work and aided the treasury drive nationwide.
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Los Angeles
Carole Lombard
Clarke Gable
Army
Las Vegas
Nev
Army Air Corps Ferry Command
Long Beach
Calif
Pacific Coast
TWA
Albuqueque
Douglas Sky Club
Blue Diamond
Mountain
Art Cheney
Western Air Lines
Table Mountain
Cheney
Charleston Range
Eliza K. Peters
Otto Winkler
Metro-Golden-Mayer
Gable
Actors Committee
United States Treasury
Lombard
Fort Wayne
Ind
Japanese invasion chances loom near Singapore threat
A Tokyo broadcast claimed Japanese forces broke through Australian lines in Batu Pahat, 50 miles northwest of Singapore, risking Britain's 400 million dollar stronghold. Another report said Japanese forces advanced on Bataan and Luzon as U S troops retreated toward Manila Bay and Corregidor Island.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Batu Pahat
Singapore
Britain
Batan
Luzon Island
Philippines
Manila Bay
Corregidor Island
Domei
Johore
Malacca Straits Settlement
Acros
Manila
Malacca
Tanjong
Gemas
Burma
British
China
Rangoon
Delegates To Rio Meeting Seek Unity Against Axis
Delegates at the third consultative conference of foreign ministers from 21 American republics gather in hotel rooms to discuss resolutions. A key proposal calls for universal rupture with the Axis, needing unanimous action, with Argentina and Chile key to its fate.
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Joh P. McKnight
DE Janerio
Brazil
Consultative Conference
Americas
Uncle Sam
Axis
Gabriel Turbay
Washington
Columbia
Mexico
Venezuela
United States
Argentina
H.owever
Chile
Pacific
Churchill Returns from Atlantic Flight to Plymouth
Prime Minister Churchill arrives in Plymouth aboard the Berwick flying boat after an 18 hour plus flight from Bermuda, Washington, and Canada covering 3 287 miles with four engines. He notes a comfortable trip and faces cabinet questions tied to Far East tensions.
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Berwick
British Airways
J. C. Kelly Rogers
Plymouth
Washington
Roosevelt
London
Far East
Read the Rules for Air Raid Preparedness
MA Winchester urges residents to study and clip air raid rules for family safety. He cautions that while raids may be unlikely, preparedness depends on observance and avoiding an ostrich attitude.
Carol Lombard’s Mother Visitor Here Last Fall
Mrs Elizabeth K Peters mother of Carole Lombard and her Allen Hamilton visited an antique shop at 216 West Pall Mall where Peters bought a Civil War poster bed used by a Confederate officer The bed was to be shipped to her daughter in Los Angeles Peters described plans to gift the bed and place a post under her Christmas tree with a red bow and to include Winchester in her plans
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Elizabeth K. Peters
Carole Lombard
Allen Hamilton
E. Koontz
West Pall Mall
Peters
Los Angeles
Winchester
Eleven Victims In Mass Killings Near Ellsworth Wisconsin
Ellsworth Wisconsin January 17 Eleven bodies found in Pierce county two family killings within hours. Thomas Seipel 31 farmer and highway patrolman killed his wife Lucille and their five children Joanne Cleo Jean Garry a two month old, and himself. In the second case Mrs Arthur Petan 29 and her three children George Neil and Sylvia were shot stabbed and house set afire. One other man not at home survived. District Attorney Theodore A Waller said something snapped.
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Ellsworth
Wis
Pierce —_ mortuarés
Theodore A. Waller
Thomas Seipel
Lucille
Joanne
Cleo
Jean
Garry
Arthur Petan
George
Neil
Sylvia
Seipel
Waller
Free French Deny Seizing Ships
Free French headquarters in London denied reports of a coup by Free French destroyers at Santa Isabel. Naval authorities called the claims unfounded and said the reports from De Gaulle loyalist sources were categorically false.
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London
Free
Santa Isabel
Net
Budget hearings to be sped in Virginia legislature
In Richmond on January 17 plans were announced to accelerate the $217,000,000 budget bill. Joint hearings by the house and senate committees are scheduled to begin Tuesday at 3 p.m. to push the measure toward Senate approval by mid year.
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Richmond
Senate
Wee
Senate Finance
House
632 New Vesses Are Ordered
The Maritime Commission announced contracts for 632 additional liberty ships, lifting the program to 8,000,000 dead weight tons next year. Captain Howard L. Vickery said the ships will cost about 1.1 billion dollars and be completed by the end of 1943.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
Roosevelt
Howard L. Vickery
Vickery
Idatory
United States
Has Full Accord On War Policy
The White House said President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill reached a complete understanding on joint planning for current and future military and naval operations during Churchill's visit to the United States. The agreement was announced as the British leader had spent a little over three weeks in the country.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Churchill
Carroll Barber Shop Services at Piccadilly Street
Barber shop at 206 E Piccadilly St offers children hair cuts for 25 cents. OCR notes show date codes (1-16-16-21) and (1-16-20) accompanying the listing.
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Carroll Barber Shop
E. Piccadilly St
Five Die in Perth Arkansas Train Wreck
Missouri Pacific opened an investigation into last night's Perth Arkansas train wreck. Five men were killed and 27 injured, including four soldiers and 21 railroad workers. A passenger train and a switch engine collided head on as the switch engine moved onto the main line after the first section passed. Both locomotives wrecked and two cars derailed. The dead include Otis Thacker Patsey Ky James L. Stewart Newport Ky Alfred Tackett Sandville W Va James S. Stevenson Louisville Ky and C S Edgerle Little Rock division road foreman for engines.
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Little Rock
Ark
Missouri Pacific
Perth
Otis Thacker
Patsey
James L. Stewart
Newport
Alfred Tackett
Sandville
W. Va
James S. Stevenson
Louisville
C. S. Edgerle
Little Rock Division
Names of Selectees Are Released By Local Boards
Nineteen city youths and twelve from Frederick county will leave within ten days to be inducted into the army at Roanoke. Winchester quota departures and selectees are listed with names and addresses for January 22 and January 26. Stanley T. Elliott, colored, or inducted from the county on January 14.
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Frederick County
Roanoke
United States
Winchester
Norval Miller
Robert Denzler
John E. Bays
Garland Baptist
Robert W. Lowery
John W. Jones
William L. Harris
Albert B. Pingley
Rt. 3
Ray Bailey
Stephensee
Harry Pershing Holliday
Angers
Edward Jackson
Edsel Ford Undergoes Ulcer Operation
Detroit Jan 17 Edsel Ford president of the Ford Motor Company was reported in satisfactory condition following an operation for a stomach ulcer this morning as Henry Ford hos placeholder text continues in the paragraph about the Ford family and company activities.
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Detroit
Edsel Ford
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
Red Parachute Troops Support Russian Front Breakthrough
London reports Red Army parachute detachments moved behind German lines in the Mozhaisk sector to join guerrilla bands and conduct rear guard assaults. Soviet bureau notes bitter German counter-attacks on the central front were repulsed at great cost as Red Army aims to erase the Mozhaisk salient along the Moscow Smolensk highway.
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London
Red Army
Mozhaisk
Mozhaisk Salient
Soviet Information Bureau
Moscow-Smolensk
Red Star
Mos
Young Husband Held For Inquiry Into Wife Death
Cecil A. Smith about 23 of near Narrows faces warrants in Montgomery and Giles counties over the death of his wife Charlotte Blankinship Smith 21. Dr. A M Showalter coroner said the death stemmed from a brain injury and not from the Shawsville area automobile crash Smith described. Bond set for felonious killing in Giles county and $1,000 bond in Montgomery county for manslaughter.
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Christiansburg
Cecil A. Smith
Narows
Montgomery
Giles
Charlotte Blankinship Smith
A. M. Showalter
Showalter
Shawsville
Smith
Pearlsburg
Giles County
Bean
Montgomery County
Narrows
Army court martial ordered for Col H C Kress Muhlenberg
Fort Hayes officials ordered a court martial for Col H C Kress Muhlenberg retiring fifth corps air officer and former Hickam Field commandant. Col J M Eager said Muhlenberg faces charges of violating articles of war over speeches on pre war policies. He has been confined to residence since Dec 19 during a military investigation.
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Columbus
Fort Hayes
H. C. Kress Muhlenberg
Fifth Corps
Hickam Field
Hawaii
J. M. Eager
Muhlenberg
Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau Dies at 57
Berlin bulletin reports Field Marshal General Walter von Reichenau died of apoplexy. An official announcement states he was 57 years old.
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Berlin
A. P
Walter von Reichenau
British minesweeper reported east of Danzig by high command
Official dispatch notes a British minesweeper sighted to the east of Danzig in the zone reported by the high command. The AP record from Berlin on January 17 provides the brief wartime update on naval movements.
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Berlin
A. P
High Command
Domini W
British destroyer seizes Italian ship and two German destroyers
Berlin reports an Italian merchant ship and two German destroyers were seized by a British destroyer in Fernando Poo waters at midnight January 14. Advices from Madrid confirm the operation and timing.
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Berlin
A. P
Fernando Poo
Madrid
Legislative counsel shifts from state to Life Insurance of Virginia
William R. Shands, after ten years drafting bills for the General Assembly as head of the state division of statutory research and drafting, registered today with the secretary of the Commonwealth as a legislative counsel for the Life Insurance Company of Virginia.
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Richmond
William R. Shands
General Assembly
State Division of Statutory Research and Drafting
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Life Insurance Company of Virginia
Police fatally shoot dogs to reach woodsman Blair Woodruff
In Avenel New Jersey on January 17 police shot 11 of 13 howling starving dogs to enter the shack of 72 year old handyman William Blair Woodruff and found him dead near verse he had dedicated to his pets.
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Avenel
N. J
Willliam Blair Woodruff
Verse
Fire Department Aide Dies Directing Southland Hotel Fire
Deputy Fire Chief Frank C. Petty aged 53 died of a heart attack while directing the fifth floor blaze at the Southland Hotel. Four fires hit Norfolk between 3 and 6 am with one room burned. Victim had answered alarms for three fires in three hours. Radio operator Elmars Viksma, occupant in the hotel, died later. Police probe the incidents as trolley service remained disrupted on Granby Street.
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Norfolk
Frank C. Petty
Southland
Petty
Elmars Viksma
Granby Street
Rules And Regulations For Air Raids Adopted
At a meeting at Grover Cooper residence Winchester citizens adopt protections for air raid emergencies. Presented by E P Browning rules urge reading saving a copy for reference until understood. Continued on Page 6 Col 4.
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Grover Cooper
Winchester
E. P. Browning
Japanese push spirals across Malaya and Burma fronts
Tokyo radio reports American and Filipino artillerymen retreating toward Manila Bay as Japanese forces push into Malacca and Johore and advance along the west coast of Batuanam. In Burma, Japanese invaders strike toward Rangoon amid Allied resistance and logistics disruption.
Red Cross War Chest Fund Reaches $6589.54 Total
It was announced today that the Red Cross War Chest Fund has reached six thousand five hundred eighty nine dollars and fifty four cents. The Handley Assembly event emphasized the campaign and contributed the final amount.
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Red Cross War Chest
Handley Assembly
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Nevada
Rio
Canada
Atlantic
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Star
Wisconsin
Winchester Evening Star
Russia
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Shands
Batan Peninsula
Muar
Johore Strait
Singapore Island
Malayan
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