Reds Press Attack in Donets Basin and Pacific War Updates
Army and naval actions dominate the report with U S bombers sinking three Japanese destroyers near Guadalcanal and air forces hitting remaining enemy ships. Guadalcanal fighting continues as Japanese evacuate troops. MacArthur reports a decisive victory on New Guinea as Australians and Allies press toward Mubo and Buna.
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Guadalcanal
Prize Island
U. S
New Georgia Island
Cape Esperance
Alexander A. Vandergrift
Philadelphia
Allied North Africa command unifies for Tunisian offensive
Unification of the Allied command in North Africa clears the path for a major offensive to drive the Axis from Tunisia. Bad weather and rain delay large scale action, with hints of renewed advances in the Mateur sector and continued pressure from the British Eighth Army into southern Tunisia.
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Daniel DE Luce
North Africa
Tunisia
Cairo
Sened
Maknassy
Sicily
Reuters
Mateur
CBS
Eighth Army
Rommel
Bizerte
High Command
Rome
Rhodes
Crete
Bougie
Algeria
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Middle East
War Production Head Warns On 80 Billion Munitions Shortfall
Congress heard from War Production Board chairman Donald Nelson that 80 billion dollars of guns planes tanks and ships cannot be built this year without broad non essential industry casualties and further rationing. He said 1.8 million extra civilian workers are needed and civilian goods will be cut. Nelson warned civilian needs must not be overlooked as the armed forces rise toward 10 750 000 men, predicting strains in every direction.
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Jack Bell Washington
Congress
Donald M. Nelson
War Proton Board
Nelson
Senate
Manger
Elsen
Prentiss M. Brown
Nel
Millions of Tons Meat Hoarded in United States
Chicago report cites John A. Kotal saying millions of tons of meat are stored in refrigerated lockers across the nation. He notes lockers hold 200 to 500 vaults each and warns of spoilage risk if electric power is disrupted.
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United States
Chicago
John A. Kotal
National Retail Meat Dealers Association
Kotal
Famed 19th Bomb Group Receives Unique Honor
The 19th Bomb Group is saluted as the nation’s greatest air fighting unit after 12 months of combat against Japan. Maj. Gen. Robert Olds will present four battle streamers and blue bars bordered in gold with oak leaf clusters to each member, marking a unique decoration in U.S. military history for battles in the Philippines, Java, Australia, the Coral Sea, Milne Bay, New Guinea, and Guadalcanal.
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J. B. Krueger
Philippines
Java
Australia
Coral Sea
Milne Bay
New Guinea
Guadalcanal
Robert Olds
Second Air Force
Spokane
Washington
Married Men Will Be Called Before Summer
North Carolina draft officials report rapid depletion of teenage youths and say many married men will wear the military uniform likely before mid summer. Local boards are drawing from young and married groups as deferments go to those vital for food production and shipbuilding.
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Raleigh
Selective Service
North Carolina
Wilmington
Welles Urges Agreement on Postwar Plan to Avert Rivalries
Sumner Welles urged the United Nations to agree now on a postwar program to prevent competing economic policies from causing disaster. He warned that rivals within the UN would endanger global stability and urged collaboration toward economic security and well being. The speech at Rockefeller Plaza noted Soviet absence and backed the Atlantic Charter as containing essential aims.
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Welles
New York
Sumner Welles
United Nations
Russia
Rockefeller Plaza
Office of War
British Commonwealth
China
Mexico
Soviet Union
Clare Booth Luce
R-Conn
Congress
Joseph Stalin
New York Tax Expert Endorses Rums Plan in Testimony
Brad Riggs of the New York City Bar Association urged the House Ways and Means Committee to adopt the Rum plan to defer 1942 tax liabilities and move 44 million Americans to pay as you go. He resisted applying 1941 rates to 1942 and warned such a shift would make the tax system too progressive. Chairman Coughton pressed about extending 1942 obligations over years.
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Washington
Brad Riggs
New York City Association of the Bar
House
Ways and Means
Riggs
Randolph Paul
Treasury
Coughton
D-Nc
New York State
Doughton
New Yorker
Secret treaty blocked rubber plant plans says Dow chemist
William J. Hale of Dow Chemical Co alleges an unpublicized reciprocal trade treaty with South American nations would destroy U S rubber plants after the war. He claims the State Department delays chemical development and that oilmen control the synthetic rubber fund. He warns Japan would target rubber plantations after Malaya and the Dutch East Indies fall, making domestic synthetic rubber vital.
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Minneapolis
William J. Hale
Dow Chemical Co
Midland
Mich
United States
Minnesota
Bankers
Hale
State Department
Washington
South America
Russia
America
Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Four Waves Of Bombers Strike Burma In Anniversary Play
The U.S. Army's Tenth Air Force launched four bomber formations against Japanese rail and anti aircraft targets in Burma to mark its first anniversary. Rangoon rail lines, the Mytinge bridge, and anti aircraft positions were hit as crews celebrated with food after a year of formation at Patterson Field. The force, dubbed a melting pot for units from many theaters, boasts a high shipping losses inflicted and low aircraft losses.
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Burma
Preston Grover
New Delhi
United States Army
Tenth Air Force
Rangoon
Mytinge
Mandalay
Clayton L. Bissel
Patterson Field
Ohio
Philippines
Borneo
Java
Australia
Libya
China
ASNE President Says Press Ready To Aid War Effort
W S Gilmore of the Detroit News told the 21st annual ASNE meeting that the free press will actively support the war effort while guarding against any attempts to muzzle it. He cited the September scrap drive as proof of the press’s power to mobilize nationwide opinion and urged editors to uphold a free untrammeled press. He noted tensions over government influence and emphasized editors must carry the flag for press liberty.
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Washington
Nation’s Free Press
American Society of Newspaper Editors
ASNE
W. S. Gilmore
Detroit News
New York
Gilmore
Soviet Hint Keeps Bessarabia Baltic States Postwar Status Unchanged
Washington report notes Moscow editorial implying postwar planners should keep Bessarabia and the Baltic republics as integral parts of the USSR. Pravda piece rebukes foreign speculation that these areas might be open to discussion, framing them as intrinsic Soviet territory.
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Washington
Moscow
Bessarabia
Loveit
Russia
Hitler
Lowlands
France
Britain
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Finland
Stalin
Europe
Pravda
Information Bulletin
Constantine Brown
Germany
Iran
Persian Gulf
Baltic Republics
California
Alaska
United States
Soviet Union
Baltic
Ussr
Union
Red Army
Kharkov Drive Extended In New Assaults
Soviet forces pushed toward Kharkov as two arms reached across the Donets Basin threading toward Rostov and the Dnieper region. Advancing through Lozovaya and Melikhovsk, they cut the Kharkov Donets railway and threatened the city from multiple axes.
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Kharkov
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Donets
Russia
Ukraine
Kamensk
Lozovaya
Kharkov- Crimea
Melikhovsk
Don River
Novocherkassk
N. F. Vatutin
Rostov
Bogus Rayev
Mechetny
Bogurayev
Zaitsevka
Kerchik
Likhaya-Stalingrad
Shakhty
Red
Great
Dneiper
Crimea
Dneiperopetrovsk Elec
Japanese Pacific Positions Raided By U S Bombers
The U S Navy reported attacks on Mund and Kolombangara in the South Pacific on February 11 with Marauder bombers escorted by Airacobas and Lightnings starting fires in the targets and one enemy plane shot down at Kolombangara. Mund is a principal air base on New Georgia Island and Kolombangara lies nearby east of Munda.
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Washington
Navy
Mund
Kilombangra
South Pacific
Airacoba
Enterprise To Publish Details On New Rationing System
The publication announces forthcoming point rationing information to aid the public in High Point. Readers are urged to clip and study the article on page 16 as it explains an essential defense order.
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High Point
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