New Drive On Luzon Mapped By Japanese
War Department reports intensive patrolling and artillery duels on Luzon as heavy enemy reinforcements move up for a renewed Japanese offensive. Off Mindanao a flotilla of enemy vessels signals possible further landings while air activity remains limited to observation flights. Retreated U S forces hold Batan and surrounding Pampanga and Zambales areas as MacArthur withdraws to a new defense line.
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Netherlands
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Central Pacific
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Zambales
Berlin claims sinking of 4000-ton Soviet transport
Berlin reports German warplanes sank a 4000-ton Soviet transport and damaged three merchant ships and a light cruiser in the Black Sea. Fighting narrowed to Crimea and southern front sectors with continued high violence on the Russian front. The transport and cruiser were said to have been hit during attacks on Sevastopol and Feodosiya near Crimea’s Werch peninsula.
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Feodosiya
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Guerrilla Attacks Reported Along Warsaw Lublin Line
CBS quoted German broadcasts as saying Polish guerrillas have halted traffic along the Warsaw Lublin Railway and clashed with police and gendarmes. Three German officers were shot at Lublin, and German wounded are being moved by hospital trains. The report cites mass deportations and killings in Macedonia and mass starvation驱bes, with Bulgarians blamed for massacres and forced labor.
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Czechoslovakia
Opium Seized From unnamed ship at Hoboken
Treasury agents seized 900 ounces of opium valued near 60 000 dollars after an unnamed American steamship docked at Hoboken New Jersey Longshoreman and a Chinese laundryman were detained for questioning. Officials noted the seizure as unusually large under current shipping conditions and described the opium in tins tubes slabs and bottles.
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Wilson Man Killed in Auto Crash Near Kenly
Wilson resident Jack Ballance was killed and his Raleigh-born son seriously injured in an early morning automobile accident near Kenly. Details of the wreck were not immediately available.
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Kenly
Jack Ballance
Raleigh
Giant Grain Elevator Fire in Superior Wis
A massive blaze destroyed the Great Northern Railroad grain elevator in Superior Wisconsin with two explosions and seven injuries in subzero temps. Loss estimated at 2.25 million dollars. elevator housed 1.5 million bushels and the pool of elevators nearby held about 12 million bushels. Firefighters, including two from Moose Lake and others from Superior, fought the blaze as winds spread flames toward docks and oil storage. Authorities planned a Federal investigation.
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Carl Peterson
Leslie Moon
Moose Lake
Minn
Elmer Mack
Ben Olson
Edward Nelson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States
Nelson
Finland Says Peace Rumors False Amid Red Army Push
Helsinki reports deny peace rumors and say Finland will win through combat. Red Army pressure remains along the Onega front with heavy Finnish resistance. A Russian air offensive yields four bombers and a fighter shot down without Finnish losses, while the Leningrad front area is quiet.
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Uusi. Suomi
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Red Army
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Leningrad
Duff Cooper's Mission Ends in Churchill Announcement
London January reports say Alfred Duff Cooper, cabinet coordinator for Far Eastern affairs in Singapore, was ordered to wind up his mission. His role ended with General Archibald Wavell's appointment to the southwest Pacific command, and Cooper will return to Britain after serving as minister of information and later Lord Chancellor of Lancaster.
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Alfred Duff Cooper
Singapore
Churchill
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Archibald P. Wavell
Southwest Pacific Command
Britain
Ministry of Information
Far Eastern
Lord Hankey
Duchy of Lancaster
United States
Far East
General Wavell
Price Control Bill Changes Are Urged in Senate
Senator O Mahoney urged tying farm prices to the urban wage rate as part of a broad price control bill. He proposed a complex amendment to raise farm parity and allow increases before wartime price ceilings, backed by McCarran. The farm bloc fought for prior approval by the secretary of agriculture before ceilings on basic commodities can be set.
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Mahoney
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Kentucky
Roosevelt
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Farm Bloc
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Ala
Brown
Mich
Price
British Britons Struggle to Repel Fast Axis Retreat in North Africa
Jan 10 Cairo report says Axis withdrawal from Eastern Cyrenaica has outpaced British pursuit with only minor ground clashes as vanguards meet rear guards. Farther east, Free French air units and Royal Navy ships bombard Axis positions around Halfaya, about 300 miles from the main British force.
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Cirenaica
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Libya
Agedabia
el Aghedla
Halfaya Arta
Nazis Admit Soviet Fight Is Critical
Adolf Hitler's press chief stated Nazi military operations have reached a serious and critical phase as Russians advance with new victories. Berlin denied reports of German turmoil, blaming British and American sources for rumors. Soviet front reports claim heavy German casualties and German forces under pressure near Mozhaisk and Vyazma, with advances by Red Army across wintry fronts.
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Orel
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Volkhov
Finnish peace hopes persist amid Berlin denial
Reports from Finnish and Swedish sources circulated that conferences with Swedish officials aimed to start a peace move via Swedish intermediaries with Soviet Russia. The rumors persisted despite an official Berlin denial as of January 10. Also, Mutual Broadcasting and six affiliates sue NBC and RCA for 310.275 million alleging Sherman Act violations. In New York, the USGA canceled all 1912 national championships including Open, amateur, women’s title, and public links event.
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Chicago
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New York
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Nippon Fliers Lash At Dutch In Tarakan Raid
Japanese raiders struck Tarakan oil center for the second straight day shelling a Dutch warship off North Borneo. About eight planes took part and some bombs wounded five crewmen aboard a nearby merchant ship, but no hits were recorded on the warship or merchant vessel, the Dutch command reported.
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Netherlands East Indies
Tarakan
North Borneo
Royal Netherlands Navy
Dramatic Sea Story of Galatea's Sinking and Rescue
American correspondent Larry Allen in Alexandria recounts the British light cruiser Galatea being torpedoed by an Axis submarine off the Egyptian coast just after midnight on December 16. The ship sank within minutes after three torpedoes struck, while a journalist and crew member clung to a rail and endured a 45 minute swim before rescue.
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Larry Allen
Alexandria
Egypt
Mediterranean
Battles in Western Malaya Near Kuala Lumpur
British Far Eastern command reported withdrawal southward as fierce fighting continued in the Slim River area. Japanese air attacks hit Singora Sungei Patani and Ipoh while bombings caused fires at Singapore and Ipoh airdrome. Air defenses claimed a downed Japanese aircraft near Johore.
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Kuala Lumpur
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Tokyo
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Perak
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London
Mrs Roosevelt to Attend Chapel Hill Conference
Franklin D Roosevelt and other leaders will attend a postwar problems conference at the University of North Carolina January 30 31 with theme the students stake in war aims and peace plans. Sponsored by the Carolina Political Union and International Student Service delegates from Carolinas and Virginia will attend. A test of emergency manning of air guard observation posts will be held Monday in the Wilmington information region from 10 30 a m to 4 p m
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