Weekly News Analysis of Allied Fronts in WWII
Soviet offensive stalls westward push as Allied officers assess gains in Europe. French North Africa cooperation strengthens forthcoming combined campaign. Buna battle intensifies in the Pacific as forces clash for strategic advantage. Editorial note from Western Newspaper Union outlines the analysis as not representing this paper's stance.
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North Africa
Western Newspaper Union
Weslern Newspaper Union
Africa cooperation grows under allied North Africa leadership
Gen. Alphonse Juin is named commander in chief of French forces in Africa, with Gen. Henri Giraud's leadership facing mixed loyalties. Reports note Allied gains in Tunisia and Rommel's retreat, while a plot against Giraud is foiled. U.S. rationing and a February start for point systems discussed as hoarding declines. Draft plans foresee 34 percent of men aged 18 to 37 called in 1943 at 250 to 300 thousand monthly.
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Henri Giraud
North and West Africa
Darlan
Adm
Dean Darlan
North Africa
Alphonse Juin
Africa
Juin
Giraud
Darian
Charles de Gaulle
Tunisia
Medjez-el-Bab
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Rommel
Eighth Army
Wadi Bei el Chebir
Sirte
Tripoli
Middle Hisptera
Robert Murphy
Roosevelt
French Africa
Al-giers
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Russian winter lessons and Caucasus campaign peril
The article notes Soviet gains near Rostov and Kotelnikovo as German forces retreat toward Stalingrad, signaling a major eastern front campaign. It highlights the peril to Adolf Hitler's Sixth Army and the tightening Allied stance in the Caucasus while reporting China’s mission head Hsiung Shih fei being ordered home amid shifts in Allied strategy and the Burma Road context.
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Adolf Hitler
Russia
East Eastern Front
Rostov
Kotelnikovski
Hitler
Stalingrad
Hermann von Hoth
Caucasus
Adolf
Hsiung Shih-fei
Chiang Kai-shek
Washington
U. S
Joint Staff
United Nations
China Front
Chungking
China
Hsiung
Japan
Burms
Advance in Buna and Allied Bombing Opns
Allied forces pressed the Buna front in New Guinea overcoming Japanese resistance at a coastal bunker triangle near the coast and advancing toward the Buna government station. Air strikes hit Lae Kavieng and Gasmata as bombers targeted Lae and New Britain air fields, starting fires and softening defenses. In Chicago, J Edgar Hoover described the Roger Touhy gang as the nation’s toughest mob and led a FBI roundup that captured five escapees with two deaths during the trap.
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Buna
New Guinea
Buna Government Station
Lae
Kavieng
New Ireland
Gasmata
New Britain
Action
Chicago
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Roger Touhy
Kinois Stateville
Hoover
Taxes Record Year in Early Congress Agenda
The new congress debated pay as you go tax plans with Beardsley Ruml’s proposal gaining attention. One option would apply this year’s 1943 taxes against 1943 income, while the 1942 tax bill would be paid later. Rising income tax rates and the 6 percent Victory Tax signal heavier levies as the treasury warns of greater wartime costs. Yet citizens accept the strain as necessary to win the modern war.
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Congress
Beardsley Rumi
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Treasury Department
Northwestern Receives 20 Million Gift For Tech Institute
Walter P. Murphy head of Standard Railway Equipment left Northwestern University a bequest exceeding 20 million dollars to develop maintain and operate a technological institute on the Evanston campus. The will announced after his death December 16 1942 sets no use restrictions guiding the endowment which elevates Northwestern to fifth in university endowments nationwide behind Harvard Yale Chicago and Rochester.
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Walter P. Murphy
Standard Railway Equipment Company
Northwestern University
Technological Institute
Evanston, Ill
Walter Murphy
Northwestern
Harvard
Yale
University of Chicago
University of Rochester
Army camps deemed orderly with 3.2 beer policy
The Office of War Information reports that drinking conditions around army camps are not a serious problem. A coast-to-coast study found rumors unfounded and states that no army has been so orderly in U S history. The 3.2 beer sale is described as healthy and sensible, contributing to lower wartime drinking than in World War I.
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Office of War Information
U. S
OWI
Record of Shipbuilders Produce 750 Vessels In 1942
American shipyards built a record 750 merchant ships totaling about 6 million tons in 1942, per the National Council of Shipbuilders. War strikes reduced man-days by November to 91,925, the lowest since Pearl Harbor. An 11,000-ton U S dry dock refloated and repaired after scuttling at Port Marivales, Bataan. Hitler reportedly nears completion of a new Siegfried line along France's Atlantic coast. Finland’s Information Center in New York ordered to stop issuing releases. American legation in Helsinki halted bulletins after Finnish officials toasted Pearl Harbor.
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National Council of Shipbuilders
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Port Marivales
Bataan
Adolf Hitler
Atlantic Seaboard
France
Finnish Information Center
New York
State Department
Legation
Helsingfors
Doyle the betting commissioner recounts famed Jeffries Corbett fight
The dying days of Jack Doyle reveal reflections on the 1898 Jeffries versus Corbett bout. He cites George Siler's post 20 round decision prediction and Corbett's belief he led early, while praising Jeffries as champion and later as a refined fighter. Doyle also recalls Jimmy Austin and Ed Walsh anecdotes and notes Doyle’s betting acumen in 1942 season context.
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Jack Doyle
Broadway
Jim Jeffries
Jim Corbett
Jeffries
Corbett
Big Jeff
George Siler
Jack
Siler
Pit
Tito
Jeff
Jack Johnson
Jack Dempsey
Jimmy Austin
Yankee
Ed Walsh
White Sox
Austin
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