Red Army advances threaten Georgievsk rail junction
Soviet forces seize 13 settlements in the North Caucasus as Georgievsk and Georgievskaya near capture. The Lower Don drive continues toward Rostov despite fierce German resistance. A central front wedge was pushed in but repelled by heavy Red Army counterattacks.
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Henry
Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
North Caucasus
Georgievsk
Lower
Don
Rostov
Russia
Temry
Rommel Retreat Line Hammered By Allies
Allied bombers struck at key junctions as Rommel’s Libyan and Tunisian forces retreated. Maj. Phillip Cochran led a one man bombing raid on Kairouan headquarters, destroying the German site before fending off a Luftwaffe hunt. Multiple raids on Gabes Kebili Hammamet targeted rail yards oil storage and camps with heavy anti aircraft fire reported.
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North Africa
Marshal Rommel
Tunisia
Gabes
Kebili
Kairouan
African Air Force
Tripoli
Rommel
Eighth Army
Mediterranean
Geman
Salt Lake
Hammamet
Tunis
Tripolitania
William J. Hoelle
San Mateo
Calif
Lieut
W. J. Sloan
Richmond
Axis Nerve Cen
Roosevelt outlines vast wartime budget and tax plan
President Roosevelt tells Congress the new budget tops 109 billion dollars for the year beginning July 1 and calls for 16 billion dollars in extra taxes and compulsory savings to fuel the total war effort. He notes the program dwarfs other nations' wartime spending and stresses maximum wartime mobilization.
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Irving
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Germany
America
Pear Harbor
George Washingtoas
U S Nearing Full Capacity Of Production
President Roosevelt submits a wartime budget showing the United States nearing maximum output for guns ships and planes in 1944. The plan totals 100 billion across munitions pay construction and other items with shifts from industrial to military needs and a projected decrease in some construction.
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John M. Hightower Ashington
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Army
Navy
Armed Services and War Production Board
Roosevelt Names Rutledge to Supreme Court and Brown to Henderson Post
President Roosevelt sent nominations to the Senate for Wiley B. Rutledge to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court and Pren tiss M. Brown to be price administrator. Edward J. Flynn was named minister to Australia and Patrick Hurley noted for other duties. Flynn will resign as DNC chair and serve as a roving ambassador in the Southwest Pacific.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Wiley B. Rutledge
United States Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
Prentiss M. Brown
Michigan
Price
Rutledge
Law
University of Iowa
James F. Byrnes
Brown
Leon Henderson
Henderson
House
Peg
Flynn
Australia
Southwest Pacific
Democratic National Committee
Walker
White House
Eddie
Patrick J. Hurley
New Zealand
Hurley
Moscow
Cairo
New York
Stephen Early
Hitler Moves To Halt Unrest In Romania
Ankara dispatch reports unrest in Romania near the government of Antonescu led to four new internal security divisions from gendarmerie and police. Each unit likely about 10 000 men, to counter mistrust after reverses in Russia. German plans to support Bulgaria in event of Allied landings and reinforcements to Crete were also discussed by Berlin and Ankara sources.
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Ankara
Turkey
Rumania
Antonescu
Russia
Michov
Berlin
Crete
Bulgaria
Aegeas
Miners Return to Work Amid Ongoing Coal Walkout
About 5,000 miners resumed production in Pennsylvania's anthracite fields while an estimated 19,000 remained on the government condemned walkout. At Glen Alden and Lehigh Valley collieries, 2,000 and 3,000 workers returned respectively. Main dispute centers a 50 cent monthly dues increase and a $2 daily wage rise disputed by United Mine Workers.
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Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
Ickes
War Department
Glen Alden Coal Company
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Charles W. Kerwood
United Mine Workers
Cincinnati
Major Andrew Rowan Dies at Letterman Hospital
San Francisco reports Major Andrew Rowan, famed for the Garcia message during the Spanish American War, died yesterday. The Army announced his death, noting his service with distinction at Letterman Hospital.
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San Francisco
Andrew Rowan
Garcia
Army
Letterman
Roosevelt’s midterm address shifts to war themes
President Roosevelt’s message to the Seventy-Eighth Congress avoided domestic fights, bowing to leaders’ wishes to stress wartime gains over social security and taxes. He aimed to placate Capitol Hill, signaling caution toward the new Senate and House while previewing postwar governance training at the University of Virginia.
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Ray Tucker
Roosevelt
Seventy-Eighth Congress
Sam Rayburn
Ways and Means
Bob Coughton
Steagall
White House
F.d.r.sn
Senate
House
Capitol Hill
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Congress
Costly Chungking Mirrors China's War Struggles
As wartime China endures rising living costs Chungking, perched on a mountain above the Yangtze and Chialing rivers, shows scarce housing and transport. Wages rise enough to keep workers from hunger, but white collar salaries and the poor suffer most amid drought and regional shortages.
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Chungking
China
Yangtze
Chialing
Honan
It’s Patriotic To Keep Well Series Starts Today
Registered Nurse Wilda Camery opens an 18 part series in this newspaper urging civilians to keep fit amid a doctor shortage. The first article appears on page 2 and outlines how families can reach peak health despite rationing pressures.
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America
Wilda Camery
Thomasville Chair Company President T. A. Finch Dies
T. Austin Finch 52 prominent Thomasville furniture maker and civic figure died at Baptist Hospital Winston Salem after a heart attack. Born April 2 1890 he led multiple businesses and survived by wife Ernestine Lambeth and son Thomas Austin Finch Jr with brothers Doak and George Finch. He served as president of the Thomasville Chair Company.
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T. Austin Finch
Thomasville
Winston-Salem Hospital
Baptistst
Winston, Salem
Mr. Finch
Thomas Jefferson Finch
Hannah Brown Finch
Randolph County
Trinity College
Duke University
Daisy Ernestine Lambeth
Ernestine Lambeth
Thomas Austin Finch, Jr
Princeton University
Doak Finch
George Finch
Finch
Four Day Plane Toll For Japs Climbs To 138 At New Guinea
Allied airmen raised Japanese losses to 138 planes in four days of combat around New Guinea. The tally followed pursuit of a battered convoy, hits on two ships, and the missing Brig. Gen. Kenneth N. Walker after a Rabaul air attack.
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New Guinea
Australia
General MacArthurs
Kenneth N. Walker
Glendale
Calif
Rabaul
New Britain
MacArthur
Walker
War Program Criticized By House Committee
The special House committee on national defense migration charges general mal administration of the war production program and haphazard manpower handling. It warns that without better management the near term and postwar periods will bring many difficult days.
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Washington
Jan
Congress
Special House Committee On National Defense
A Tiny Speck In The Vast Pacific Revealing Decisive Air Power
New York January 11 battle worn Guadalcanal emerges as a daily diary of decisive air power in the global war. Planes torpedo bombers dive bombers and Flying Fortresses supported the island’s seizure and guard UN lifelines from Canada to Australia. Guadalcanal’s Henderson Field became a spearhead and target guiding Marine Army and Navy fliers in the struggle. The excerpted Navy Department communiques outline early actions including the Aug 7 surprise invasion and Aug 8 defense against torpedo planes with heavy fighter action and enemy losses.
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Pacific
New York
Guadalcanal
United Nations
Canada
United States
Australia
South Pacific
Japan
Henderson Field
William F. Halsey
Marine
Army
Navy
Guadaclanal
Navy Department
Essen Smoking After Mighty Bombing Raid
London reports Essen, center of Krupp armaments, lay smoking after a major RAF raid Saturday night the fifth Ruhr attack in seven nights. Bombs including two ton blockbusters caused vast fires seen from 100 miles as up to 150 aircraft participated. German night fighters and heavy anti aircraft fire met the raiders. casualties included losses of seven planes.
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London
Essen
Krupp
RAF
Ruhr
Britain
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