Submarine Attacks and Air Strikes Mark Pacific Campaign
Navy reports American submarines sunk seven Japanese merchant ships and damaged a destroyer, bringing total Nipponese ships sunk by subs to 112. Air forces pounded Japanese HQs and troops from Kiska to Guadalcanal, with Curtin urging broader Allied help. raids tested by weather and enemy air resistance.
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Associated Press
Pacific
Navy
Japan
Kiska Island
Aleutians
Solomons
John Curtin
Navy Department
U. S. Air Force
Kiska Harbor
Kokumbono
Guadalcanal
Munda
New Georgia Island
Dollar Day Hype Promises Savings Across Amarillo
The Amarillo Sunday News Globe promotes Dollar Day tomorrow as a mass savings event across local merchants. Shoppers are urged to read ads now, prepare a shopping list, and spend wisely to save money and time. An earlier note mentions the Aleutian Islands air action with a Zero fighter downed.
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Amarillo
No Coffee No Meat No Gas No Eat Sign Appears
A boarded window at a Kansas City drive in displays No Coffee No Meat No Gas No Eat Closed for the duration. Russell J. D Anna, one of the operators, notes gasoline rationing adds to the basic difficulties in obtaining food supplies.
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Kansas City
Russell J. D'Anna
Quick View of Situation War Report January 2 1942
Russian troops announce further gains and capture of German material. Rommel retreats as Allies strike Tunisian supply lines. Hitler reshuffles Axis representatives. German reports note minor northern sea actions on the convoy route. American planes press the war from the Aleutians to the Solomons with no losses. U.S. announces protection for new gas war types by Axis.
Amarillo Approves Enlarged Water Works Plan
President Roosevelt approved Amarillo's plan to enlarge water supply and distribution at a cost of 422252 dollars with a 102000 dollar federal grant. The project adds a 30 inch line, six miles of pipe, new wells, and an overhead steel tank to serve 175000 residents plus Amarillo Army Air Field, with bids to rush completion.
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Amarillo
Roosevelt
Amarillo Army Air Field
Joe Jenkins
Federal Works Agency
McDonald Water
Canyon Highway
Bush
Freese & Nichols
Palo Duro
Word Ranch
Postmen Slower Than Christmas
Mildred Hawkins civilian employee at the South Plains Army Flying School received a letter mailed November 24 in Amarillo, 120 miles away, highlighting postal delays around Christmas.
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Lubbook
Mildred Hawkins
South Plains Army Flying School
Amarillo
Allied Bombers Increase Blows In North Africa
Allied air forces pound Tunisian docks and rail yards as Rommel retreats from Egypt. Axis losses mount with Sfax and Sousse damaged. British Eighth Army advances toward Tripoli while regiments such as the Coldstream Guards and Grenadier Guards reinforce Tunisian front.
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North Africa
Cairo
Wadi Bei el Chebir
Tripoli
Wadi Zem-Zem
Bei el Chebir
BBC
CBS
Tunis
Berlin
Rommel
Egypt
Tunisia
Bizerte
Sousse
Sfax
Gabes
Middle East
Malta
Reuters
Bone
Libya
Eighth Army
Wadi Bet el Chebir
Misurata
Algeria
Britain
Coldstream Guards
Grenadier Guards
Northamptonshire Regiment
East Surrey
Hampshire
Lancashire Fusiliers
Nazi Blockade Runner Scuttled in Atlantic
A 10,000-ton German blockade runner was scuttled when overhauled by British naval patrols in the Atlantic. Her crew were taken prisoner, and Berlin claimed several Allied ships were torpedoed or damaged in the same action near Bear Island. The Atlantis was said sunk off Ascension after a pursuit by the Devonshire.
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London
Atlantic
Admiralty
Sea Lords
Norway
Berlin
Arctic
Murmansk
North
Russia
Atlantis
South Atlantic
Devonshire
Bear Island
Spitzenbergen
Ascension
Brazil
Africa
Hans Reinhardt
Atlan
Boston Officials Face Action Over Night Club Fire
Gov. Levett Saltonstall expected to act today after a grand jury charged city officials with laxity and incompetence surrounding the Cocoanut Grove Night Club fire. He has authority over Boston licensing and police commissions.
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Boston
U.P
Leverett Saltonstall
Cocoanut Grove
Boston Licensing Commission
Boston Police Commission
Weather Summary For Amarillo Area And New Mexico
Colder Sunday morning with freezing drizzle in many zones. New Mexico expects windy colder conditions with freezing drizzle across the northeast and east portions by Sunday evening, plus a windy northwest section. Panhandle snow and colder in the morning with South Plains turning chilly by afternoon. mild elsewhere. Record temperatures listed for yesterday and notes on sunrise and sunset. Circulation figure 24,506.
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Amarillo
New Mexico
West Texas
Victory in 43 Is Sparkling Halsey Forecast
Admiral William Halsey predicts 1943 will yield total Allied victory and the defeat of the Axis, including Japan, with a harsh message to the war leaders and a commitment to liberate Allied troops. He foresees widespread offensives and air power as key alongside ground and sea forces.
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J. Norman Lodge
United States
South Pacific
United Nations
William Halsey
Pacific
Japan
Hirohito
Tojo
Yamamoto
White House
Miles Browning
Admiral Halsey
Hitler
Mussolini
Solomons
Halsey
Tokyo
De Gaulle and Giraud Plan Immediate Talks for Unification
Gen Charles de Gaulle proposes meeting Gen Henri Giraud on French soil to fuse anti Axis French forces under a temporary government based on the Third Republic. A Fighting French spokesman said negotiations are underway but would not be quick, with holdsovers from Vichy to be eliminated.
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London
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Honore Giraud
French Africa
Vichy
de Gaulle
Giraud
Africa
Atlantic
Roosevelt
Flood Tide Presses Up Ohio Dykes Toward Crest
In Portsmouth Ohio the Ohio River flood wall holds back rising waters as 40,400 residents shelter behind the barrier. Officials estimate the crest near 61 to 62 feet, with sandbags and troops reinforcing the wall. The flood has driven 560,000 from their homes citywide and threatens Cincinnati where Lunken Airport is evacuated.
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Portsmouth
Ohio Valley
Ohio
U. S. Army
Coast
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
Broad River
John Hagan
Cincinnati
Huntington
W. Va
Lunken
Western Hills
Olton Bond Rally Draws Large Crowd and $15000
Olton residents packed a bond rally praised as among the community’s largest crowds. The event netted 15000 dollars after an address by Buck Jones of the 90th Air Squadron. Speakers included Pat Boone, John Price, Rev. Baker, and Rev. Griffiths, with band music and a dress rehearsal featuring men in women’s clothes and vice versa.
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Olton
Corp. 8
Buck) Jones
90Th Air Squadron
Corporal Jones
131St Field Artillery
Java
Australia
Pat Boone
Littlefield
County Bond
John Price
Two American Airmen Die in Chinese Fight
A formation of U S bomber and fighter planes over the base honored two American airmen killed in action. Lieut Robert H Mooney of Kansas City Missouri and Lieut Rowland Hill of Margaretteville New York were buried in a new brick mausoleum in a centuries-old Chinese cemetery.
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China
U. S
Robert H. Mooney
Kansas City
Rowland Hill
Margaretteville
N. Y
Hill
Mooney
Velikie Lukis Bold Bid Deepens Soviet Push on Front
Soviet forces breach the main German defense from the Baltic to the Caucasus and seize Velikie Luki as they advance toward Rostov and Smolensk. German losses include Elista with thousands of prisoners and supplies abandoned. Velikie Luki’s capture blocks major rail links and signals a renewed, bloody battle for control of the front.
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Velikie Luki
Baltic Sea
Caucasus
Moscow
Caucasus Mountains
Conster
Red Army
Stalingrad
Kalmyck Steppes
Veliki¢ Luki
Elista
Rzhev
Don
Lake Simen
Red
Rostov
Volga
Salsk
Veliki Luki
Latvia
Gerevan
Riga
Leningrad
Smolensk
Vitevsk-Leningrad
Urals
Pravda
Lovat
Scherer
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Hit Jap Headquarters
Edward C. Lawson
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Floy C. Minor
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Herring Hotel
Post Office
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Axis
Mediterranean
Amarillo Daily News
Russell Stationery Company
Gen. Giraud
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