Slashing Drive Nets 312 650 Nazi Troops
Henry C. Cassidy reports from Moscow that the Red Army long pursued a bold winter offensive driving toward the Caucasus. About 312,650 German troops were killed or captured as the Soviets trapped 22 divisions at Stalingrad and surged toward a frozen Great Lake near Elista.
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Elista
Red
Great Lake
Salsk
Caucasus
Stalingrad
Priyutnoe
Remontnoe
Don
Rostov
Ukraine
Air War Totals 1,286 Japanese Planes Lost in Pacific Year
Allied headquarters in Australia report American P-38s struck Lae New Guinea, shooting down nine Zeros and damaging two while four Japanese airfields were bombed. The year’s air tally shows 723 Japanese planes destroyed, 250 probably destroyed, and 313 damaged, with U S Fortresses noted for air superiority.
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Pacific
Australia
Yesteday
Lae
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Air Force
Southwest Pacific
Buna
Sanananda
Airforce
U. S
Congress May Write Tax Bill To Finance War This Year
Washington report says Congress may draft its own tax bill around 90 billion dollars to fund the war this year. James Byrnes signals support for Congress setting its own fiscal path without heavy executive prompting. Treasury estimates show 26 billion from current taxes and 6 billion more needed, with the rest to come from borrowings and war bonds. The December victory loan drive raised about 12 billion in 28 days.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Bombers Hit Wake Island in 76000-Pound Pacific Raid
U S bombers struck Wake Island in a major Pacific raid dumping 76000 pounds of bombs with no American casualties reported. The squadron led by Colonel William A Matheny aimed at Pea Point as anti-aircraft fire remained quiet after the initial attack. The blast inflicted heavy fires on Wake and Pearl Islands with Japanese defenders said to be largely killed.
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Wake Island
Wake
Pearl Islands
William A. Matheny
Carrington
N. C
United States Marines
Pea Point
Lieut
BE. H. Carey
Gridley
Calif
Colonel Matheny
Matheny
Expansion urged for Social Security by board head
Washington article outlines Arthur J. Altmeyer calling for immediate expansion of Social Security. He proposes coverage for all workers, higher benefits, and new protection types including permanent disability and dependent benefits regardless of age. The piece notes these ideas appear in the Social Security Board monthly publication.
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Washington
Arthur J. Altmeyer
So- Security Board
Altmeyer
World War II Update from AP on Allied Axis Standoff
Soviet President Kalinin cites German army losses in 1942 draining offensive power, while Russians claim 11000 Nazis killed or captured in six weeks of Red Army comeback. Hitler vows winter will be no tougher than the last and Germany will fight on. RAF bombs western Germany and northern France. British subs sink Axis ships near Tunis and likely destroy a destroyer off Bizerte. Cairo says naval air force hits kill a German mortman off Sicily. Allied air forces claim 1286 Japanese planes destroyed or damaged in SW Pacific since war began. Allied losses are comparatively light. Brit observers forecast a possible Tunisia clash as air activity intensifies over Sfax Gabes and Tripolitania fronts.
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Kalinin
Germany
Red Army
Tunisia
Sfax and
Gabes
Tripolitania
Year 1943 Forecast as Wartime Struggles Loom
Washington forecasts a year of extremes with victories and defeats. The nation braces for continuous war effort, higher production, and economic challenges while civilians face fewer goods and floods provoke hardship. Projections warn of reversals and hardship ahead as 1943 opens amid wartime resolve.
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Pennsylvania
New York
West Virginia
Ohio
Oregon
Milo Perkins
Board of Economic War
Post-war Peace Plan Essential Says President
President Roosevelt said at a New Year press conference that planning for postwar peace is supreme. He said United Nations must remain united after the war as they are now, to prevent another world catastrophe and translate wartime unity into peace and common effort. The original 26 UN members, later joined by three others, sought continued unity at war’s end.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Nations
MAIDS nowa tehind and battleship comeback on seas
AU Tw ADVANTAGE The derided battleship may come into its own again on the seven seas. Recent Pacific and Mediterranean developments cast doubt on aerial expansion eliminating the dread as a fighting unit. Pearl Harbor support showed wagons useless without land or boat planes. United States turns out a capital ship with cruiser speed, shore fort firepower, and strong air cover. In a late encounter one such ship was badly hit yet held in combat despite slowing. Leading nations lose aircraft carriers, rely on surface squadrons. great fleets retain advantage when conflict widens. Households The next Congress will advance numerous measures.
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Seven Seas
Pacific
Mediterranean
Singapore
Pearl Harbor
United States
Important Jobs Awaiting FDR's Appointments
President Roosevelt faces filling nearly a score of vacant federal posts as he enters the new year. Top targets include associate justice of the Supreme Court and a federal price administrator to succeed Henderson. Names tied to vacancies include Wiley Rutledge and senators Brown Lee Schwartz plus other nominations pending Senate action.
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D. Harold Oliver Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
James F. Byrnes
Leon Henderson
Senate
Prestiss M. Brown
Michigan
Henderson
Washington
Wiley Rutledge
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
University of Iowa Law School
Brown
Josh Lee
Oklahoma
Civil Aeronautics Board
Harry H. Schwartz
Wyoming
National Labor Relations Board
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
United States Tariff Commission
Department of Labor
Allied Submarines Sink Three Ships In Mediterranean
Allied submarines and planes score new successes in the Tunisian supply battle as patrols test lines. Two more Axis supply ships and perhaps a destroyer were sunk by British submarines off the Gulf of Tunis and Bizerte, with aerial assaults on Sfax and a P-38 thrust into Tripolitania.
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Mediterranean
Axis
Tunis
Associated
Gulf of Tunis
Bizerte
Admiralty
Cairo
Sfax
Nazi British Sea Battle Rumors Reach London
London reports a sharp clash between British and German fleets in northern waters with a terse admiralty communique claiming damage to a German cruiser and a foe possibly sunk. British papers speculated Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen may have attempted to break into the Atlantic.
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London
Tirpitz
Prinz Eugen
Atlantic
Daily Mirror
Admiralty
Norway
Norwegian
North Carolina to Open Wartime Legislature With Big Surplus
Raleigh January 1 The first regular wartime legislature since 1865 opens January 6 with a record general fund surplus around 31 million dollars and highway surplus about 13 million dollars. The session will decide postwar use of funds including a proposed 20 million rainy day reserve while topics range from school funding and teacher pay to tax policy and liquor issues. The governor urges efficiency and a brief session, with travel easing noted as a priority.
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Ralph L. Howland
Raleigh
Highway Department
General Assembly
Broughton
Highway and Public Works Department
L. Y. Ballentine
Wake County
Japs Win In Air Fight Over Aleutians
The Navy reported four Japanese Zero float planes shot down two American Lightning fighters and a bomber at Kiska Harbor in the Aleutians, with one Japanese plane lost. Communique 235 details December 30 31 actions including Mitchell bombers escorted by Lightnings engaging ships and land airfield actions on New Georgia Island and Guadalcanal patrols.
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Lae
Gasmata
Wewak
New Guinea
Solomons
Buka
Bougainville Island
Washington
Pime
Navy
Kiska
Aleutian Islands
North Pacific
Ferce
Kiska Harbor
South Pacific
Bom
Ning
Munda
New Georgia Island
United States
Guadalcanal
Su Yanese
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Nowa Tehind
Ray Tucker
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Medez-El-Daba
Walther Nehring
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Aleutians
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