Tojo Declares Jap Gains Amid Pacific Blitz
Hideki Tojo in Tokyo boasted of Japan's bases and resources as war fronts across Guadalcanal New Guinea and New Britain press the Allied forces. General MacArthur reported heavy Allied losses in the Papuan campaign with a Japanese army of 15 000 wiped out and Allied troops suffering fever in swamps and jungles.
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New
Tokyo
Japan
Douglas Macone
New Guinea
MacArthur
South Seas
Lae
Salamaua
Finschhafen
Gasmata
New Britain
Kai
Aroe Islands
Guadalcanal
Gui- Hideki Tojo
Pre-Induction Courses Urged in Schools
Columbus reports state education director Kenneth C. Ray urged high schools to promote pre-induction studies for students entering the armed services. He called for emphasis on pre flight aeronautics radio and electricity in the next semester.
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Columbus
Kenneth C. Ray
Hog Prices Surge to 20-Year Peak in Cincinnati Market
Hogs climbed to a 20 year record price of 15.80 dollars per hundredweight on the Cincinnati market today. A load of 170 pound averages reached that figure with a practical top of 15.75 dollars for 160 to 250 pound weights.
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Cincinnati
Civil War veteran James E. Rutherford dies at 103
James E. Rutherford, a Civil War veteran and longtime friend of John D. Rockefeller, dies at age 103 in Akron. His obituary notes his association with the oil magnate during Rockefeller's early Pennsylvania ventures.
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Akron
James E. Rutherford
John D. Rockefeller
Aoe
Pennsylvania
Sentencing for Charleston river workers murder duo
In Charleston Kanawha County Judge Cyrus Hall sentenced William H. Shamblin and Theodore Webb, both of Charleston, to life imprisonment after they admitted administering an overdose of knockout drops to John L. Arthur and involved in the deaths of Arthur and Harry L. Stevens near a suburban country club last July. The two men, part of a group charged in the killings and robberies, faced life for the confessed murder.
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Charleston
W. Va
William H. Shamblin
Theodore Webb
Charleson
Kanawha
Cyrus Hall
John L. Arthur
Marmet
Arthur
Harry L. Stevens
Gallipolis
Shamblin
Webb
Canton to mark McKinley centennial with flag-raising
In Public Square this afternoon Canton observes President William McKinley’s centennial with a flag-raising ceremony and high school band music.
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Canton
William McKinley
House Opens Hunt To Find Tax Revenue
The new Congress begins a drive to raise sixteen billion dollars in taxes and loans, with the House Ways and Means Committee to push a pay as you go plan while seeking current income tax collection by March. A bipartisan liaison with the White House is demanded as Congress clashes with President Roosevelt over confidence and process. Senate panels consider separating loyal Japanese from detention colonies with advice from former ambassador Joseph Crew.
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Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
White House
Capitol
Senate
Joseph C. Crew
Japan
Representative Doughton
Jap Attack Reported In Aleutian Islands
The Navy announced that two Japanese float planes attacked U S ships west of American positions in the Aleutian Islands. No damage occurred and this was the first such attack in months, according to a navy spokesman.
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Washington
United Sates
Aleutian Islands
Navy
Revenue Downgrade Reports Week End Jan 16
Columbus report shows prepaid sales tax receipts of 830 776 54 for the week ended Jan 16, down 111 949 from the same 1942 week. State Treasurer Don H. Ebright noted the decline.
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Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Ohio Moves to Return to Normal Time Statewide
The Ohio Legislature plans to vote next week on reverting to Eastern Standard Time from Eastern War Time. Gov Bricker and a Senate Judiciary Panel support the change arguing benefits for farmers and factories. some concerns on energy use persist. The bill would set clocks back one hour at 3 a.m. on the first Sunday after enactment.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
John W. Bricker
Farmers
House
Congress
War Production Board
Negro Cook Is Held in Murder Of Navy Bride
Albany Oregon reports District Attorney Harlow Weirick filed a first degree murder charge against Robert Folkes a 20 year old Los Angeles man and dining car cook on the Southern Pacific West Coast Limited. Folkes allegedly confessed to stabbing Navy bride Martha Virginia James 21 of Norfolk Virginia aboard the California bound train after a man on the train offered him 1000 to remove her as the case develops.
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Albany
Ore
Harlow Weinrick
Justice Court
Robert Folkes
Los Angeles
Southern Pacific
West Coast Limited
Weirick
Folkes
Martha Virginia James
Norfolk
Verne Rasmussen
Rental of Equipment Is Urged on Ohio Farms
Ohio farmers were urged to rent power equipment to neighbors to boost crop goals this year. C. B. Richey of Ohio State University Agricultural Engineering announced a bulletin with fair rental charges for cooperative machine use during Farmers Week in Columbus.
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Ohio Farms
Columbus
Ohio
C. B. Richey
Ohio State University
Department of Agricultural Engineering
Baby Chick Shipments Start Early This Year
Springfield dispatch notes baby chicks rushing the season to ease meat shortages. Army claims cod liver oil is largely allocated while Post Office clerks sort mail as thousands of chicks move in perforated carton boxes to farms, ahead of schedule.
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Springfield
Sandusky Masons Lose Home in Morning Fire
Fire sweeps the Masonic Temple in Sandusky early today causing about 75000 dollars in damage. The temple housed Masonic lodges the Chamber of Commerce and business offices. Soon after a Rye Beach fire destroys several cottages in the summer resort area.
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Sandusky Masons
Sandusky
Masonic Temple
Temple
Masonic Lodges
Chamber of Commerce
Rye Beach
Flying Fortress pilots credited with hits on Japanese ship
TM Capt James DeWolf of Kearney Nebraska joined the growing list of Flying Fortress pilots whose planes are credited with direct hits on Japanese vessels in Rabaul Harbor New Britain.
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New Guinea
James DeWolf
Kearney
Neb
Rabaul Harbor
New Britain
Vital Centers Under Fire in Fourth Allied Air Assault
London AP reports the RAF dropped hundreds of tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs on Düsseldorf last night as part of the fourth Allied air offensive over the German war machine in two days and a night.
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London
RAF
Duesseldorf
Rhineland
Air Ministry
United States Air Force
Reich
Copenhagen
Germany
Wilhelmshaven Naval Base
Emden
United States
High Command
Berlin
Helgoland Bay
England
Australia Faces New Jap Attack Plans
Australian government informants say Japan is amassing troops and ships for a major operation against Northern Australia. Reports also note Allied air raids on the Rhineland, Duesseldorf, and Copenhagen as part of a widening campaign with RAF and US Air Forces bombing targets in Germany and occupied Europe.
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Canberra
Australia
Japan
Britain
Rhineland
Sir Arthur Harris
RAF Bomber Command
Germany
Roosevelt
Churchill
Casablanca
Berlin
RAF
Wilhelmshaven
Emden
Copenhagen
Ohio Scrap Goal Set at 1.43 Million Tons for 1942
The War Production Board assigns the Fifth Region scrap metal salvage quota for the first half of 1942 at 2,757,054 tons. Ohio's portion is 1,430,000 tons, with Kentucky West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania sharing the rest.
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Cleveland
War Production Board
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Jeffers Plans to Speak Freely on Rubber Production
Washington says William Jeffers will speak his mind on rubber program issues despite a warning from OWI Director Elmer Davis that officials must not air disputes publicly. Jeffers defends his remarks blaming delays on plants and pledges to push for faster synthetic rubber output.
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Jeffers
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Roosevelt
OWI
Davis
Pearl Harbor
Soviet Butter Shipments to Russia Defended
Secretary Wickard defended butter shipments to the Soviet Union noting 1942 exports reached 17 million pounds, about one tenth of Army needs and under one percent of total supply. He urged no criticism of aiding an ally fighting Hitler.
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Chicago
Russia
Wickard
United States
Hitler
Allied leaders hold secret war council in Africa
A 48 hour Allied war council at Eisenhower's Casablanca headquarters foreshadows a major North Africa offensive.US casualties in Tunisia total 1,258 with 226 missing, 211 killed, 582 wounded and 289 missing. Berlin claimed Eisenhower's forces plan a large offensive as Rommel and Von Arnim converge.
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North Africa
Europe
United States
Great Britain
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
CMN
Tunisia
War Stimson
United States Army
Stimson
Berlin
Eisenhower
Tunis
Erwin Rommel
Jurgen von Arnim
Roosevelt
Churchill
Casablanca
French Morocco
Roosevelt Churchill
Allied and Axis Forces Engage Across North Africa and Russia
Allied troops advance toward Tripoli in North Africa as American units relieve French forces near a mountain pass in the Ousseltia Valley. Simultaneously Soviet dispatches claim heavy Axis attrition near Rostov, Maikop, and Stalingrad with thousands captured and a broader Red Army push along a 1200 mile front.
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Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Sabratha
Tripoli
Tunisia
Ousseltia
Gulf of Gabes
Pont du Fahs
Axis
Russia
Tass
Geneva
Italy
Sicilian
London
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Caucasus
Rostov
Radio
Kursk
Kharkov
Dnieperopetrovsk
Crimea
Sevastopol
Maikop
Stalingrad
Adolf Hitler
Red Army
Salsk
Ataman
Jenkins Foresees Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Passage
Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins of Ohio predicts Congress will pass a pay-as-you-go tax plan by March 15, with debate over whether to tax salaries only or all incomes. He notes the Ways and Means Committee faces a tough task to choose plan scope and possible use of the Rum Plan to forgive 1942 taxes for some earners.
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Washington
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ohio
Ironton
Jenkins
Ways and Means Committee
Meat Dealers Forced To Call on Reserves
CHICAGO meat processors report shipment of cattle and hogs to plants running below year earlier levels. Producers may withdraw from reserves and still ship about 70 percent of beef and pork to retail outlets, matching civilian quotas set by the Office of Price Administration.
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Chicago
Office of Price Administration
Youth Fatally Shot After Store Window Crash
An 18 year old, Jack Hairston, fled an East Side grocery store after its plate glass window was smashed and was shot in the back by Roy Cheatham, 38. Police say Cheatham was not held.
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Youngstown
Jack Hairston
Roy Cheatham
Hairston
Cheatham
Wage Stabilization Booklet Promotes Worker Pay Policy
Washington reports the government distributed vest pocket pamphlets titled Your War and Your Wages to argue wage stabilization benefits workers and the nation. The pamphlet links a 10 cent hourly raise to increased buying power and cautions prices could erase gains if inflation occurs.
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Washington
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