Allied Fifth Army Activated Under Clark in Tunisian Campaign
Allied headquarters announced the U S Fifth Army was activated with Lieut Gen Mark W Clark in command as part of preparations for attacks on Tunis and Bizerte. The move follows Clark's noted North Africa mission and positions him alongside the British First Army in Tunisia.
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Allied
North Africa
Tunis
Bizerte
United States
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Clark
Dwight D Eisenhower
Demos Jubilant Over Harmony After Caucus
Washington dispatch reports Democrats nominate Sam Rayburn for speaker and reelect John McCormack as floor leader while Republicans name Joseph Martin for speaker. Roosevelt delays budget and plans State of the Union as war policy clashes loom. Moscow and London fronts detail Red Army advances and heavy German losses in the Caucasus and Don River regions with near Rostov scenarios.
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Sam Rayburn
Texas
House
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
Ask Holiday
House Republican Conference
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Rayburn
Roosevelt
State of the Union
Senate
Robert Sherwood
Office of War Information
White House
Capitol Hill
Congress
America
Wallace
South Trimble
Barkley
Kentucky
McNary
Oregon
London
Don River
Caucasus
Rostov
Russia
Tsimlyansk
Moroboyskaya
Don Bend
Ford Workers Back on Jobs After Unauthorized Walkout
Striking maintenance workers at Ford Rouge Plant return to duties after union leaders ordered the end of an unauthorized walkout that idled 9,000 war workers and disrupted armor plate production. UAW CIO Local 600 chief Paul Ste-Marie calls the resumption an obligation to service members in Guadalcanal and North Africa. Company tally shows 4,088 absent at shift end with ~113,000 man-hours lost. full production expected within 24 hours.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Paul Ste-Marie
Uaw-Cio
Guadalcanal
North African
Tragic Trailer Fire Kills Two Children Near Amarillo
D W Sellers from Carlsbad loses wife and two sons Daniel Webster Jr aged 3 and Larry Lee aged 11 months in a morning blaze on River Road. Mrs Sellers and neighbors fought to save them as flames consumed the two stoves filled trailer. Justice Carder rules accidental. bodies placed at Griggs chapel.
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Evelyn Boyd
River Road
Amarillo
Daniel Webster Sellers, Jr
Larry Lee
Carlsbad
D. W. Sellers
N. M
Daniel Webster, Jr
J. H. Johnson
Charlie Carder
Johnson
Carlsband
Johnson Young Sellers
Sellers
Alexandria
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Ordnance Plant
Griggs Chapel
Yanks Capture Key Guadalcanal Heights in Campaign Move
American forces seized the Mount Austen area on Guadalcanal highlighting a possible start of a campaign to push the Japanese beyond artillery range of the airfield. Japanese counterattacks were repulsed with about 150 dead, while patrols in other sectors killed 20 and captured mortars and light weapons.
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Washington
U.S
Guadalcanal
Navy
Solomons Island
Mount Austen
U. S
Solomons
Secre
Fulton Lewis Jr to Visit Amarillo During Fat Stock Show
News commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. of Mutual Broadcasting will come to Amarillo for at least one day likely March 8 during the Fat Stock Show. He previously indicated interest in visiting Amarillo on a Coast to Pacific Northwest trip and a contract for his appearance has been sent to his New York base.
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Fulton Lewis, Jr
Mutual Broadcasting Company
Amarillo
Washington, D. C
Coast
Pacific Northwest
New York
Naval Officer Staffing Shift Aids WAVES Applications
The Naval Officer Procurement offices relocate to the Herring Hotel mezzanine from the navy recruiting station to support Ensign Minor and Lieut. Edward C. Lawson on a Panhandle tour. The move speeds WAVES and officer candidate application processing.
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Ensign Minor
Edward C. Lawson
Panhandle
Pampa
Naval
Herring Hotel
Navy Recruiting Station
Rabaul bombing sinks/Japanese ships hit in harbor
Allied reports say at least nine and probably ten Japanese ships destroyed at Rabaul New Guinea today. Heavy bombers delivered 1 000 pound bombs, hitting a destroyer tender and several ships, with six enemy fighters shot down and one bomber missing. Allied ground forces press in on Sanananda Peninsula.
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K. A. N. Anderson
Tunisia
Eighth Army
Libya
Fondouk
Sousse
U. S
Kairouan
Cherichera
United States
Africa
Bernard L. Montgomery
Middle East
Pichon
Adolf Hitler
Mediterranean
Tunisian
Bigerte
Tripolitania
Axis
Australia
Rabaul
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Ramaul
Melbourne
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Sanananda
Papua
More Rationing Due Next Month
Washington reports tentative plans for food rationing to begin in late February and meat rationing to follow around mid March. Officials caution no official start date has been set and March 1 remains an unofficial target.
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Washington
OPA
Pullets for sale canceled want ad in Globe-News
A Globe-News Want Ad offering 200 White Leghorn pullets six months old was cancelled after Mr. Norman said the seller could have moved as many as 5,000. The ad urged readers to place their own ads by dialing 6263 and listing a telephone number.
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Norman
Globe-News
Wickard Orders Cream Cut For War Needs
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard directed butter makers to reserve 30 percent of monthly creamery butter production for direct war needs including military and lend-lease starting February 1. The order targets supplying essential wartime needs and related programs.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard
War Briefs: Russian advances and Allied air strikes in 1943
On January 5 1943 Russian troops push German defenders back across the Cau casus and toward Moscow while British RAF bombers attack Germany's Ruhr region for the second night. US planes strike in Southern Tunisia. An Australian official warns of a Japanese invasion armada and subs near the coast. Navy reports repulsed Japanese destroyers as US forces seize key hills on Guadalcanal. A German merchant ship sunk en route to Britain. Roosevelt notes shipping total reached 8 million tons in 1942.
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Moscow
Middle Don
Caucasus
Red Army
Mozdok
Middle
Don
Stalingrad
Volga
Prokhiadnenski
Nalchik
Northern
London
Black Sea
Velikie Luki
WPB Backs Eastman Program Amid Travel Curtail Moves
The War Production Board today affirmed efforts led by defense director Joseph Eastman to reduce travel by manufacturers and related industrial, sales, and trade events as part of broader defense support measures.
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Washington
War Production Board
Joseph Eastman
Defense
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