Thirteen More Towns Recaptured in Russians Southern Offensive
The Russian winter offensive pushes 13 towns in the Caucasus under Red Army control, threatening German lines and oil targets. British observers note possible German strategic retreat toward the Kuban while checks against Grozny oil fields persist. Simultaneous North African and Pacific actions show Allied pressure on Axis forces across multiple theaters.
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Adolf Hitler
Russia
Don
Kalmyck
North Caucasus
Kuban
Grozny
Caucasus
Maikopol
Red Army
Terek
Red
Rzhev
Moscow
North Africa
Apz Ters
Tunisia
Horn
Tunis-Bizone
Pont- Du-Fahs
Tunis
Ising
Gulf of Thes
Tripolitania
China Dissatisfied With Allied Aid Returns Home
A Chinese military mission in the United States is ordered to return home due to dissatisfaction with Allied assistance. A spokesman said the decision was ordered by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
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Washington
China
United States
Chiang Kai-Shek
Fierce fighting in Hupeh and Anhwei provinces
Report from Chungking says fierce fighting rages in the Ta pieh Mountains of Hupeh and Anhwei as two Japanese columns press toward the strategically important town of Ying-Yoast AIG Ticow, Ticow area.
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Chungking
Tapieh
Hupeh
Anhwei
China
Ying- 0
Aig Ticow
Nazis Dutch Spy Executed in London
Johannes Marinus Dronkers, a Dutch subject brought to England after being rescued from the Channel, was executed as a German secret agent. He confessed the Germans sent him to locate American and Canadian troop encampments in Britain and gauge their strength, after scrutiny by British and Dutch officials.
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London
Johannes Marinus Dronkers
England
Dronkers
Britain
20 397 Yank dead wounded or missing in war
The nation's dead wounded and missing in the Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard total 20 397. The Navy announced 1 590 names covering casualties reported to next of kin from Dec 1 to Dec 15 inclusive. The Army figures cited total 56 075 casualties overall with 2 099 dead 3 332 wounded 30 119 missing 112 prisoners and 106 interned.
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Washington
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Pearl Harbor
Army
Hitler's Appearance Is Greatly Changed
London reports that Adolf Hitler’s jowls and apparent fatness stirred talk after newspapers published photos claimed from the Munich beer hall on November 8. A source who knew Hitler initially doubted authenticity but later agreed the images show a marked physical degeneration making the man hardly recognizable.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Munich Beer Hall
The
Daily Mail
Hitler
Increase in Revenue For Schools Proposed
The Ohio Education Association backs a three point program to raise public school revenue by 8 million dollars annually. Delegates approved an amendment to the school foundation fund law raising state guarantees per elementary student from 45 to 52 dollars, shift funding to net rather than average attendance, and urged a state building and rehabilitation fund for weaker districts.
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Columbus
Ohio Education Association
OEA
School Foundation
Share Ride Survey Planned in Ohio
Civilian defense workers will cooperate with the State Highway Department in a house-to-house campaign to enlist Ohioans in a share-the-ride program in each neighborhood, Highway Director Hal G. Sours announced. The survey will begin Jan. 18.
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Columbus
State Highway Department
Hal G. Sours
Germans Surrender After Italians Mistakenly Engage Near El Alamein
British held documents show an Italian unit clashed with Germans near El Alamein, Egypt by mistake and forced a German surrender before the error was found. The papers indicate the Italians won the engagement prior to the misidentification.
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Cairo
Erwin Rommel
el Alamein
Egypt
Ohio Gas Tax Income Drops Four Million in 1942
Ohio gas tax receipts for the first ten months of 1942 totaled 32.09 million dollars, down 4.11 million from 1941. Highway Director Hal G. Sours warned the decline, about 11.33 percent, will affect highway operations across counties cities and villages.
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Ohio
Columbus
Hal G. Sours
Louis
Souis
Probe of War Expense Urged By Taft
Senator Taft urged a thorough probe of war appropriations and the wartime agencies. He argued the War Production Board with 19,000 employees could operate with about 5,000 fewer staff and the Office of Price Administration with 40,000 workers could be streamlined.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Roosevelt
Congress
Byrd
D-Va
Tydings
D-Md
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
Flood Period Helps To Recharge Soil Supply
Columbus engineer David N. Harker of the water supply board notes floods bring some benefits. He says high water recharges groundwater as streams overflow and backwaters reach valley recharge areas.
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Columbus
David N. Harker
Water Supply Board
Harker
Axis Supply Problems Grow More Serious
Brig. Gen. Victor H. Strahm said American heavy bombers and RAF forces in North Africa have concentrated for a month against Axis supplies. He stated the objective to hinder the enemy from getting supplies in and later out, signaling intensified strikes.
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Cairo
Victor H. Strahm
Ninth U. S. Army Air Force
RAF
North Africa
Fight Forecast Over President's Powers
Reports say President Roosevelt will ask Congress to renew authority to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements. Republicans predict a bitter 78th Congress fight, with Rep Gearhart calling trade agreements a sum total of the New Deal run wild.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Gearhart
R.-Calif
The
Ways and Means Committee
Bakers Seek Permission To Raise Prices
Spokesmen for organized bakers urged higher retail bread and bakery product prices after a government order allowed a flour price rise. President Jack Koenig Jr of ARBA asked Food Administrator Wickard to permit lifting price ceilings to prevent casualities in retail bakeries. Ralph D. Ward of Brooklyn, ABA president, protested to Price Administrator Henderson that higher flour costs justify price increases.
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Washington
United States
Jack Koenig, Jr
Associated Retail Bakers of America
Wickard
Ralph D. Ward
Brooklyn
American Bakers Association
Leon Henderson
Four Negroes Convicted of Sedition in Federal Case
Four members of the Ethiopian-Pacific Movement were convicted of sedition and conspiracy in New York federal court. Leonard Jordan known as the Black Hitler founded the group, with Lester Holness James Thornhill and Rev Ralph Best among the defendants. The jury recommended leniency for Best.
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NEW York
Roosevelt
Japan
Leonard Robert Jordan
Hitler
Lester Eugene Holness
James Henry Thornhill
Ralph Green Best
Postage Free Papers For Services Proposed
Representative Clarence J. Brown proposes free postage for newspapers and periodicals sent to servicemen. He plans to introduce a wartime bill to exempt publishers from postage during the war and six months after.
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Washington
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Congress
Allied air blasts hit Axis docks in North Africa
Allied airmen blasted Axis docks rail yards transports and troops in North Africa. Two groups of Flying Fortresses escorted by P 38 fighters attacked harbor works and freight yards at Sfax an eastern Tunisian port.
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North Africa
United States
Sfax
Tunisian
New Cars Released From Rationing Restrictions
The Office of Price Administration removes car rationing limits on a limited number of new 1942 autos priced at $2,500 or more and all earlier model years, allowing purchase without a rationing certificate.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Army Rushes Aid as Point Pleasant Plants Shutdown
Floods from the Ohio River stretch 250 miles from Pittsburgh to Pomeroy Ohio as the Army and Red Cross coordinate relief for about 1,500 homeless. In Marietta, army officers oversee displaced workers. Cincinnati braces for a 60 foot crest while western Ohio cities face shutdowns and damaged gas mains.
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Army
Point Pleasant
Ohio River
Pittsburgh
Pomeroy
Red Cross
Citizens’ Defense
Cambridge
Marietta
State Highway Department
U. S. Coast Guard
East Liverpool
Ohio
Steubenville
Wheeling Steel Co
Carnegie-Illinois
Mingo Junction
Highway Department
War plant absences double normal rate in Cleveland
The Associated Industries of Cleveland said today that absenteeism in local war plants was more than twice the rate deemed normal by the War Manpower Commission. The claim highlights labor shortages affecting wartime production in the city.
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Cleveland
The _ Associated Industries of
War Manpower Commission
Giraud Announces Arrests Over Assassination Plot
In Algiers General Henri Giraud says 12 people were arrested including four police officers in connection with a suspected plot to kill Robert Murphy Roosevelt's personal representative and other high French officials. He did not name the arrestees and suggested his life may also be in danger. He noted some detainees helped the Americans land in North Africa last month.
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Robert Murphy
Roosevelt
French Africa
Giraud
Darlan
Algiers
Henri Honore Giraud
Jean Darlan
North Africa
Africans Need Food Clothing for North Africa Supply
Milton S. Eisenhower reports hunger and cold threaten civilians in North Africa and may impede Allied operations unless substantial food and clothing shipments reach the area by February 1. He notes improved news transmission soon and mentions a new 40 kilowatt radio station with OWI use planned.
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Washington
North Africa
Milton S. Eisenhower
Office of War Information
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
OWI
New York Times Square Dimout Fails to Dim New Year Cheer
Wartime blackout and restrictions shape New Year Eve 1943 as crowds gather in Times Square and west coast cities. Venues expect full houses despite limits, with clubs and bars rushing to close at 12 after midnight and glasses emptied to the drain.
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New York
Times Square
Rockefeller Center
San Francisco
West Coast
San Diego
Los Angeles
Portland
Ohio River Flood Threat Rises Across Meigs and Mason Counties
Flood waters of the Ohio River advance through Meigs and Gallia Counties in Ohio and Mason County in West Virginia. The surge threatens to exceed the 1937 high water mark. Industry in the flooded area stalls as workers lose access to plants including West Virginia Ordnance Works and Marietta Manufacturing Co. Production halts as routes to the facilities are blocked.
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William C. Hunt
Red Cross
State Defense Council
Columbus
Ohio
Army
Fifth Service Command
Cincinnati
Portsmouth
Ironton
Hope Natural Gas Co
West Virginia
East Ohio Gas Co
Scioto
Chillicothe
Messenger
Ohilo
Meigs
Gallia
Mason County
Point Pleasant
West Virginia Ordnance Works
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Pittsburgh Flood Reaches Peak Levels Across Ohio River Confluence
The flood surge soared to 36.6 feet at the Ohio Monongahela Allegheny junction, the highest since 1936, triggering evacuations in Point Pleasant and Pomeroy. Roads closed from Marietta to Proc torville, with river stages around 50 to 55 feet and widespread evacuation of 100 families in Point Pleasant.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio
Monongahela
Allegheny
Gas Card Service Is Limited by Sckes Order
WASHINGTON The Petroleum Administration for War announces that from Jan 1 gasoline firms may not issue motorists credit or identification cards unless limited to a single station. Large firms had issued general use cards. Ickes says the move cuts bookkeeping and personnel costs for marketers.
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Sckes
Washington
Petroleum Administration For War
Ickes
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