Battle of Stalingrad Drives Axis Toward Desperation
In a war today column by Glenn Babb filed from Africa, Dewitt Mackenzie notes the 99th day of the Stalingrad siege. Despite heavy pressure from German forces around the city, Soviet resistance and a striking counteroffensive by Stalin keep the defense alive while Nazi command shows signs of strain and misgivings about their fateful decisions.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Glenn Babb
Stalingrad
Verdun
Stalinrad
Moscow
Hitler
Volga
Stalin
Hiter
Hadie
Alendgy
Fuehrer
Ukraine
Pos
Allied advance in Tunisia widens two wedge drives
Allied columns across Tunisia push two thrusts toward Bizerte and Tunis to sever last land routes to Tripoli as air power rises. French forces reach Pont Du Fahs near Tunis while Darlan and Boisson meet, signaling unified North African posture. Axis air strength drops as raids against Sicily continue and Pantelleria targets are struck.
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Associated Press
London
Tunisia
Tunis
Bizerte
Tripoli
North Africa
Pont du Fahs
Pierre Boisson
French Equatorial Africa
Jean Darlan
Boisson
Dakar
United Nations
Auguste Nogues
Morocco
Michelier
Darlan
Algiers
Mediterranean
Sicily
Pantelleria
Rome
Giant Victory Budget Shaping for U S in Forty Four
Washington dispatch reports a $100 billion war budget for fiscal 1944 with tentative 1943–44 figures exceeding $90 billion. Officials say required spending aims to maximize weapons and mobilization, with flexibility to cancel if the war ends sooner. 1943 total spending stands at about $70 billion.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Penalties For Farmers Who Fail In Quotas
The Agriculture Department announced strict penalties for farmers missing 1943 production allotments. Substantial deductions from federal crop subsidies apply if at least 90 percent of allotments for corn cotton peanuts rice tobacco and wheat aren’t planted. Overplanting cotton tobacco and wheat incurs tenfold penalties. Satellite rules allow substituting certain war crops while preserving compliance. State and county war boards will set and distribute regional goals.
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Associated Press
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
AAA
Denver
Chicago
Memphis
New York
War Powers Bill Move Fueled By House Committee
Washington December 1 A House Ways and Means sub committee voted unanimously to send a modified war powers bill to the full committee. The plan would grant President Roosevelt discretionary power to suspend tariff laws and regulations. The key change removes authority to suspend immigration regulations and restrictions for wartime prosecution.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Roosevelt
White House
Pay Bill Signed By Roosevelt For Navy And Marine Officers
President Roosevelt signed a bill allowing enlisted men in the Navy or Marine Corps who are appointed to commissioned rank for temporary service not to suffer a pay cut. The measure aims to preserve pay levels during transition to higher rank.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Navy
Marine Corps
Fire kills over 400 at Boston Cocoanut Grove nightclub
16 year old busboy Stanley Tomaszewski allegedly started the blaze by striking a match to see in a bulb replacement. Flames engulfed inflammable decorations, killing hundreds and wounding about 200 in the tragedy. In Washington, Rep Jerry Voorhis urged a unified war mobilization office to end policy confusion and coordinate manpower with production and procurement. He warned that contractor control has delayed production and hoarded resources, urging stronger central authority.
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Stanley F. Tomaszewski
Cocoanut Grove
Boston
Associated Press
Washington
Jerry Voorhis
D-Calif
Senate
Voorhiss
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Department of Labor
Voorhis
Office of War Mobilization
War Production Board
Army
Navy
WPB
Donald Nelson
America
Sub Sinks Eight Japanese Cargo Ships in Ferrying War Zone
A US submarine stalked near Japanese cities and sank eight enemy cargo ships totaling 70 000 tons, damaged four others, and reported four big ships sunk in one hour. Commander Kinkring earned the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. In New Guinea, Gen. MacArthur reported fierce fighting on Buna Gona’s left flank as American P 40s and Flying Fortress aircraft downed enemy zeros and bombers. American air units in China hit Campho Port destroying a power house docks and warehouses and sinking a ferryboat.
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Associated
Fress
Japan
Thomas Burton Kinkring
Kiskring
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Buna-Gona
U. S
China
Campho-Port
Indo-China
Emergency blood banks set up in 23 hospitals
North Carolina hospitals now host emergency blood banks, with 23 facilities established and more being added. Plasma has already been used in Raleigh for injured airmen, 30 pints aiding victims of a crash, while Morehead City treated torpedoed vessel survivors.
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Raleigh
Ben E. Douglas
Civilian Defense
North Carolina
Morehead City
Plan to curb aircraft piracy locks workers in place
Washington plan devised by major aircraft companies with Army Navy and Selective Service to deter tech talent loss. A West Coast shipyard, losing almost a thousand technicians in October, faces a sixty day cooling off period if workers quit or enlist. The semi compulsory scheme aims to keep workers in their best fit engines wings or ailerons with government labor management and the armed services backing the agreement.
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Ray Tucker
Army
Navy
Selective Service
Washington
Uncle Sam
Knox Has No Official Word On Destruction Of Fleet
Secretary of the Navy Knox said no official confirmation of the destruction of the French fleet last week exists though he noted if untrue the facts would have surfaced. He discussed reports four submarines may have escaped Tulon and predicted only those craft might have gotten away.
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Washington
T-P
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Tulon
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Office of War Information
Attu
Aleutian
Air battle damage hits Bizerte airfield in Tunisia
Allied dispatch reports Bizerte airfield nearly unusable after heavy Allied bombardments. Signs point to German air force withdrawing from Tunisia toward Sicily as the war's air fronts shift.
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London
Bizerte
Tunisia
Sicily
Reuters
North Africa
Laval Cabinet Narrowly Voted Against War on Allies
A French diplomat in Vichy said Laval’s government came within two votes of declaring war on the Allies after Allied landings in North Africa. The vote was 8 to 6 in a 48 hour session prompted by a German request to join Axis against the Allies.
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Pierre Laval
Africa
Associated Press
Vichy
North
France
Europe
Toulon
Casablanca
Algiers
le Glorieux
Barcelona
Laval
Munich
North Africa
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Nice
Corsica
Ribbentrop
Adolf Hitler
Ton- Ton
Marshal Petain
Petain
Vieirv
Germany
Italy
Probe Begins In Censorship For War Time
Washington December 1 Senate Judiciary Committee announced a probe into wartime censorship. Chairman Van Nuys said Byron Price director of the Office of Censorship will be questioned next week over organization methods and the Seattle office in Alaska mail checks. Governor Gruening criticized the censorship as applied. Norris said Seattle staff sent excerpts to listed recipients.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Ernest ‘Gruening
Alaska
van Nuys
D-Ind
Byron Price
Office of Censorship
Gruening
Seattle
Wild Scramble Ends As Nationwide Gasoline Rationing Begins
Rationing takes effect nationwide stirring a mad rush to store fuel and liquor. Motorists used abandon stations and makeshift containers, fires erupting from improvised storage as authorities seek to curb shortages and bootleg activity.
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Oklahoma
Germans Fail To Stem Reds
Soviet and Allied dispatches report Hitler urging a desperate Nazi effort to retake rail lines south of Rzhev and near Velikie Lake west of Moscow. German thrusts were repelled as Red Army counterattacks maintained pressure around Rzhev and Stalingrad, with Soviet losses near 125,000 on the two fronts.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Rzhev
Velikie Lake
Red Star
Hitler
Berlin
BBC
New York
CBS
London Evening - News- Dispatch
Stockholm
Stalingrad
Red Army
FDR Plans Income Limit Extension to Investments
President Roosevelt intends to ask Congress to extend the $25,000 net salary limit to include investment income starting in 1943. An unnamed official said all earnings should be limited for the duration, but investment income was excluded due to lack of authority in the wage stabilization act. Critics in Congress call the move unwise. supporters expect resistance.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
James F. Byrnes
George
Senate Finance Committee
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Senater Vandenberg
R.mich
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