Darlan’s Assassination Spurs Power Succession Talk in Algiers
The piece lists possible Darlan successors including General Bergeret, Auguste Nogues, Pierre Boison, and Chatel as tensions rise in Algiers after the admiral is shot. Eisenhower tours Tunis front lines while Hourcade is wounded and the assassin surrenders after surrendering with an empty pistol.
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Darlan
Algiers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Giraud
General Ergeret
Aviation
Auguste Nogues
French Morocco
Pierre Boison
French Westfrica
Vuichard
Yuletide raids in Solomons knock out 24 Japanese planes
American airmen from Guadalcanal raided Munda and land targets on New Georgia and nearby islands. In two raids before Christmas 24 enemy planes were shot down or destroyed on the ground, while American losses were two aircraft. Navy notes weak anti aircraft fire but says it was silenced by strafing as barges and airfield targets were hit from high altitude during returns.
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Douglas MacArthur
Solomons
Yuletide
Junda
Kavy
Uadalcanal
En Jap
Munda
New Eorgia
Russians claim gains near Stalingrad and Nalchik push
Soviet war bulletin reports heavy German losses in battles southwest of Stalingrad with 600 killed and tanks and guns captured. Another village southeast of Nalchik fell after a nightlong fight as guardsmen outflanked the defense center and killed about 300 Germans while seizing tanks and weapons. Counterattacks near Velikie Luki yielded 200 German deaths and captures of arms.
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Secor
Anther
Nalchik
Caucasus
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Ront
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Poe
Allied air raid reports and Mediterranean patrols
Weather disrupted Medjez El Bab flights while air patrols strafed targets. French units in the Tunisian sector repelled Axis ground attacks west of Kairouan and advanced toward Sousse. Skirmishing limited near Pont Du Fah, about 25 miles from Tunis, as Allied forces push toward Tebourba and Bizerte. The Allies held notable positions overlooking routes to Tunis and Tebourba, after losing Debourba three weeks earlier.
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Taranto
Medjez-El-Bab
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Sousse
Pont-Du-Fah
Tunis
Bizerte
Tebourba
Ebourba
Mysterious Death Strikes Red Cagle Football Star
Christian Kiener Cagle, famed football All-America pick at West Point in 1928 and 1929, died in a Queens hospital from a skull fracture and pneumonia after being found wounded in his apartment lobby. Police have not determined how the injury occurred.
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Christian Kiener
Red) Cagle
Queens
New York
Cagle
Merryville
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
Graysons Scoreboard by Harry Grayson
New York report on ex jockeys in wartime roles and sports figures. Johnny Nolan, a former jockey, is commissioned as a lieutenant at Fort Benning, with others like Basil James Silvio Coucci and Mike Corona noted for service or post racing roles. Joe Lapchick comments on smaller players and Hymie Gotkin, while Lester Patrick contemplates Rangers goal records amid shortages.
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Johnny Nolan
Army
Fort Benning
Nolan
Basil James
Silvio Coucci
Sturges
Dadagascar
Charles Curtis
United States
Joe Lapchick
Celtic
St. John’s
Brooklyn
Lapchick
Hymie Gotkin
Gotkin
New York Rangers
Lester Patrick
Phone book reform eyed to trim newsprint use
Washington reports that a paper shortage could push streamlined phone books. Newsprint savings drive WPB study of British practice, which adds supplements instead of new full editions. American service expectations may hinder shifting to two-part telephony references.
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New York final stock results list abbreviations and figures
New York stocks close with packed abbreviations for Packard, Param, Pix Penny, J GC Penn, Dix Penn, RR, Pepsi Cola, Phillips, Pet, Pit, Scr & HB, Pub Sve N J, Pullman, Pure OW, R Radio j, Rem Rand, Rep Stl, Reynolds B, Sears, Shell, Un Socony Vac, Sou Pac, Sou Rr. Sperry Ltd, Brands Sud Ol Cal Ltd, OW Ind Ltd, OLN J Stewart Warner, Studebaker, Swift with various figures such as 21% 1675 1365 2234 4555 1142 26351 1114 435 1235 142% 2444 623% 163 10 1534 1455 a 29 2843 47 535.
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Ring Magazine Ratings Crown Ray Robinson Boxer of the Year
Ring Magazine calls 1942 bleak for boxing with more than 2,000 fighters in service and 50 percent of clubs closed. It names Ray Robinson boxer of the year and honors Corporal Barney Ross for heroism. Louis, Bivins, Zale, Angott, Pep, Ortiz, and Kane top their divisions.
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Weather forecast for the Carolinas tonight and Sunday
North Carolina sees drizzle and light showers tonight and early Sunday with mild temperatures and slightly warmer conditions in the mountains. South Carolina reports interior drizzle and light showers tonight and early Sunday with continued mild weather and slightly higher temperatures in the southern portion tonight.
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