Red Pincers Tighten on Lower Don
The Associated Press reports the Red Army widening the trap around the Nazis near Stalingrad with 600 German deaths in night battles on the Don and in the middle Don offensive as Allied forces near Tripoli and Tunis press the Axis on multiple fronts.
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Red Army
Stalingrad
Tsimlyansk
Don
Rostov
Don Bend
Biriukov
Solonetzky
Moscow
Lower
Red
Ukraine
Hitler
North Africa
Tripoli
Rommel
Wadi Bei el Chebir
Sirte
Pont-Du-Fahs
Tunis
Buna
New Guinea
United States
China
Yunnan
Kunming
Teng-Yueh
Tokyo Radio
Bangkok
Thailand
Prices Rise at Ohio Papers Amid Costs
Columbus AP reports The Cincinnati Enquirer will raise Sunday edition prices from 10 to 12 cents within 100 miles of Cincinnati and to 15 cents beyond. The Lancaster Eagle Gazette will hike from 3 to 4 cents per copy with weekly carrier rate rising from 18 to 22 cents.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cincinnati Enquirer
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Famed Minstrel Singer To Be Buried Tuesday
Columbus AP reports Billy Church 50 a former Al G Fields minstrel singer will be buried Tuesday after dying of a heart attack Saturday. The funeral follows his Christmas observance and his 50th birthday.
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Columbus
Billy Church
al G. Fields Minstrels
Naples raid toll tops six hundred killed in port blast
A Reuters dispatch from Zurich reports at least 600 people killed and 400 injured in the December 4 raid on Naples by Consolidated Bombers from four motors. The attack struck the port area causing extensive damage.
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Naples
London
Reuters
Zurich
Switzerland
Lian
Tojo Says War Just Beginning as Japan Warns Allies
Prime Minister Tojo told the Diet that the real war is starting and Japan is ready for air raids and future war moves. Naval Minister Shimada boasted Allied losses in tonnage and ships, claiming massive sinkings and many aircraft destroyed. He warned of possible counterattacks by the United Nations in the Solomons, Aleutians, India, and China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
United Nations
Hideki Tojo
Diet
Tojo
Solomons
Aleutians
India
China
Japan
South Pacific
Nippon
Shigetaro Shimada
Russia
Burma
New Guinea
Ohio gets more first grade tires as OPA adjusts quotas
The regional Office of Price Administration announced Ohio will receive 8,321 new grade one tires for passengers traveling over 1,000 miles monthly in January, up from 6,570 in December. Ohio's grade two and three tire quotas were cut, recaps and tubes increased, and January auto quotas set with an emergency reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Ohio
Lima Paper Plant Gutted by Six-Hour Fire
A four story brick building housing the Federick Paper and Twine Company in Lima burned for six hours, causing unofficial losses over 200000 dollars. Fire departments from Kenton and Wapakoneta aided the effort, with the origin undetermined. The blaze began at 2 a.m.
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Lima Paper Company
Lima
Federick Paper and Twine Company
Kenton
Wapakoneta
Soldier killed in fall near Camp Edwards on leave
Cpl. George W. Roscoe age 44 of Lorain Ohio was killed in a fall between railroad cars as he left the post on leave the day after Christmas at Camp Edwards Massachusetts.
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Camp Edwards
Mass
George W. Roscoe
Lorain
Prosecutor in Army Loses Suit for Back Salary
Alfred R. Clinger, Adams County prosecutor until his Army enlistment in 1941, lost in the fourth district appellate court his mandamus action to compel county commissioners to pay his January to April 1942 salary. The court ruled payment would be wholly against the public good.
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Chillicothe
Alfred R. Clinger
Adams County
Fourth District
Holiday Death Toll Rises Across U S During War Christmas
The nation logged at least 413 deaths over the long Christmas weekend as wartime limits cut travel but traffic fatalities climbed to 255 in four days from Christmas Eve to early today. California led with 55 deaths, 40 from traffic. Illinois followed with 37.
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Associated Press
United States
California
Illinois
Mud Slide Destroys Train Car Injures Eight in Cascade Mountains
A 500 foot mud and snow slide struck a Southern Pacific passenger train 180 miles south of Portland in the Cascade Mountains. One car slid down a 30 foot incline and a tree pierced another car, injuring eight passengers, one seriously, all in the dining car.
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Portland
Southern Pacific
Here
Cascade Mountains
Ex-Convict Held in Death Of 10 Year Old
Cincinnati police continued questioning a 57 year old ex convict in the death of Helen Sellers a 10 year old girl found under a warehouse the night before Christmas. He denies the attack and beatings saying he was born near Elkhart Indiana and later farmed there before moving to Cincinnati in 1918. He is employed as a paint sprayer and has a prior record including a six year term for molesting his 13 year old sister in law and a year in jail after a six year old girl was found with him near a circus grounds two years ago.
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Cincinnati
Helen Sellers
Elkhart
Ind
Ohio Penitentiary
Hamilton County
Elliott Roosevelt Receives Distinguished Flying Cross
Lieutenant Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, commander of a 12th Air Force photorgraphic unit in North Africa, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism and extraordinary achievement. Major General James H. Doolittle pinned the medal on the President's son, citing voluntary flights with complete disregard for personal safety on the Tunisian front.
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Allied
North Africa
Elliott Roosevelt
12Th Air Force
James H. Doolittle
Tunisian
Marion Blacksmith Nathan Spratt Dies at 91
Nathan W. Spratt, once the nation’s oldest active blacksmith, will be buried in Richwood tomorrow. He would have turned 92 on New Year’s Day.
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Marion
Nathan W. Spratt
Richwood
Peak munitions output reached in November reports AP
Donald M. Nelson announced November munitions production rose 12 percent from October, the largest monthly gain since rearmament began in 1940. Total output of planes tanks guns ships and other munitions rose sharply with notable increases in ordnance vessels and other categories. He forecast production doubling over the next year and war spending exceeding 90 billion dollars in 1943.
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Washington
United States
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
North Africa
Army
Navy
Train Wreck at Almonte Kills 28, Wounds 119
A Canadian Pacific troop train plowed into a local passenger train at Almonte station, killing 28 and injuring 119, many critically. Most casualties occurred in three rear coaches crowded with soldiers and civilians from Pembroke to Ottawa. The troop train sustained minor damage while the local train bore the main impact.
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Almonte
Ont
Canadian Pacific Railway
Pembroke
Ottawa
Petawawa
Teen Age Inductees Expected in 1943 Draft
Draft officials estimate 3.5 million men will enter the armed forces in 1943. About 250,000 to 300,000 are expected to be drafted each month, with 1,750,000 coming from the teen age 18 and 19 group. The remainder will be mostly married men 20 to 37.
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Washington
Higher Flour Ceiling Needed
Senator Reed predicts the Office of Price Administration will raise flour price ceilings to prevent a bread shortage. He notes 90 percent of mills quit taking orders weeks ago as wheat values rise from 1.22 to 1.31 dollars per bushel, arguing mills cannot sell flour at old ceilings.
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Washington
Senator Reed
OPA
Fireman Hero Stops Worse Wreck Toll
Investigators credit Fireman Harry R. Beisel of Melrose Park with preventing more deaths after a collision of two Chicago and Northwestern trains in Dixon. Beisel closed a live steam valve before being thrown clear, saving others from scalding as two people died and about 30 were injured.
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Dixon
Chicago
Northwestern
Harry R. Beisel
Melrose Park
De Gaulle Plans French Government Setup and Talks with Roosevelt
London reports Gen. Charles De Gaulle intends to visit Washington to present a blueprint for a new French government likely centered in Algiers and to mobilize fighting French forces in North Africa. He seeks unity of French factions and may pursue a military post, with Lebrun’s Swiss escape denied by Vichy sources.
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London
Charles de Gaulle
Washington
Roosevelt
North Africa
Henri Giraud
Jean Darlan
Algiers
Germany
Vichy
de Gaulle
North
Africa
French Empire
Albert Lebrun
Switzerland
Ohio Auto Quota Set at 2239 In January
The regional office of price administration announced Ohio will receive 2239 new automobiles in January with a reserve of 317 for emergency distribution. The four state region log for tire recap certificates rose to 368200 from 149520, with state totals not yet available.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Office of Price Administration
Correspondent Boni Injured in New Guinea Jeep Crash
Associated Press correspondent William F. Boni suffered fractures of two vertebrae when he was thrown from a jeep the day before Christmas during a reporting trip in New Guinea.
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New Guinea
Associated Press
William F. Boni
Washington Officials Wonder What Has Become of Japanese Air Force
Washington officials debate why the Japanese air force has appeared impotent in Pacific communiques for over a month. Explanations include concentrated Japanese defenses in South China and Burma, inferior pilots and planes, inflexible tactics, and potential retooling delays after Midway.
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Washington
China
Burma
India
Yunnan
Munda
Rabaul
New Britain
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Japan
Midway
Rationing Planned for Canned and Dried Foods
Food Administrator Claude R. Wickard outlined plans to ration all canned dried and frozen fruits and vegetables and their juices beginning next year. The program aims to ensure fair home distribution and meet military needs while warning against hoarding and requiring a war ration book.
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Washington
Claude R. Wickard
Wickard
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Elmer Davis
War Ine Formation
Donald E. Montgomery
Consumers’ Counsel
Agriculture Department
Ohioan Honored for Aerial Flight in New Guinea
Sergeant Doyt R. Larimore of Sparta Ohio was awarded for extraordinary achievement in aerial flight in the New Guinea area. He participated in 50 missions from April to November 1942.
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Australia
Doyt R. Larimore
Sparta
New Guinea
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THE
Wavell
Bay of Bengal
Hake
Mandalay
IR Mea
Bassen
Chungking
Maymyo
Lashio
RAF
U. S
Gulf of Martaban
Akyab
R.A.F.U.S
Cient
New Georgia Island
Pacific
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