Will Faces German Fire on Christmas Hill Rescue
Corporal Walter John Will of West Winfield New York describes driving a jeep up and down a six mile round trip under artillery and machine gun fire to rescue wounded soldiers after Germans surrounded Stop Hill near Medjez El Bab. He made five trips Christmas night and ten the following night.
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Tunisia
Walter John Will
West Winfield
N. Y
Will
As Stop” Hill
Medjez-El
Ralph Waffle
New Berlin
Claude E. Webster
Waffle
North and South Carolina Weather Outlook
North Carolina remains mild with slightly higher tonight then colder in the mountains late tonight or early Sunday. Occasional light rain possible. South Carolina stays mild with colder northwest areas early Sunday and a chance of showers.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Northwest
Labor and manpower moves in wartime policy shifts
McNutt and Hershey agree to lower agricultural worker production thresholds. The War Manpower Commission reports thousands of handicapped workers employed by federal agencies and urges private employers to follow. WPB cautions against avoiding war contracts in labor short areas. Senate panel may probe Flynn appointment. Economic Warfare says 20,000 truck tires arrived from Brazil to cover transportation needs.
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Paul V. McNutt
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Eintignen
War Manpower Commission
War and Navy Departments
WMC
Harmful Houlder Hudgins
War Production Board
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Edward J. Flynn
Australia
Flynn
Wheeler
Red Army advances deepen push into Lower Don and Caucasus
Soviet forces recaptured a string of towns along the Don and in the North Caucasus as the Manych canal system shapes irrigation and transport. Front reports named Glubokaya Litvinoka Diadin Kurenny Blagodarnoye Alexandrovskoye Nogutskoye Bekeshevskaya among the gains backed by Vatutin Yeremenko troops and Rokossovsky’s columns.
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Manych
Northern
Caucasus
Kalmyck
Elista
Salsk
Don
Rostov
Glubokaya
Rostov- Moscow
Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
Litvinoka
Kalitva
Diadin
Litvinovka
Donets
Kurenny
Zimovniki
Stalingrad- Tikhovsetsk
Blagodarnoye
Alexandrovskoye
Mineralyne Vody
Nogutskoye
Mineralnye Vody
Bekeshevskaya
Baku-Rostov
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Yeremenko
Stalingrad
Vatutin
Constantin Rokossovsky
War Bulletin
Flerce
Lower
Red Army
North Caucasus
Velikie Luki
Leningrad
Diplomatic trap alarms general on Japan peace bid
Grew warns that Japan could stage a jujitsu peace offensive with a retired liberal statesman in a puppet cabinet to gain a favorable settlement. He urges the United Nations to demand decisive military goals and full withdrawal before any peace moves, to prevent treachery and keep victory complete.
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Grew
Japan
United Nations
Congress
Germany
Soviet advance on 25 miles front recovers villages near Kamensk
The Soviet information bureau announced gains along a 25 mile front recapturing Borodinov and Potseluiev on the east bank of the river that loops north past Kamensk. Other units moved along the Moscow Rostov line toward Millerovo and Kamensk. Southeast of Rostov Soviet troops reached the ridge of the Sal Manych range and face the lowlands with many lakes.
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Soviet Information Bureau
Borodinov
Potseluiev
Kamensk
Moscow-Rostov
Millerovo
Rostov
Information Bureau
Sal- Manych
Manych
Aerial combat report as Rommel supply flight attacked
Total aircraft destroyed and eight missing after daylight raids on air fields. Algiers saw night alerts and light gun activity with no damage. La Fayette Escadrille claimed first campaign enemy planes as P-40s downed two Messerschmitt 109s. In 48 hours 11 more were damaged. B-25s and P-28s intercepted a fighter escorted transport flight. five transports burned in first attack, two transports and two fighters shot down in second.
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Algiers
LaFayette Escadrille
Rommel
Three Destroyers Downed After Guadalcanal Patrol Encounter
On Friday morning an American patrol over Guadalcanal shot down three Japanese Zeros. In the Shortland Island area near Munda, Army Flying Fortresses with escort attacked five enemy destroyers 37 miles southeast of Fasi Island, 300 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. None of the destroyers was hit, while 12 enemy float biplanes tried to intercept the assault.
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Guadalcanal
Fasi Island
Shortland Island
Munda
Awards Given To Crew Head Of Destroyer
On a South Pacific destroyer deck Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman awarded the Navy Cross to Lieut Commander Randolph Burton Boyer 93 and Silver Star medals to enlisted men. Sherman lauded destroyers as unsung heroes in Pacific warfare while Boyer’s ship had steamed over 10 000 miles in the past year rescuing survivors and aiding fires aboard a stricken carrier.
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South Seas
Frederick C. Sherman
Randolph Burton Boyer
Boyer
South Pacific
Sherman
Pacific
Battle of
Coral Sea
Midway
Lexington
Mistrial Requested in Flynn Rape Case by Prosecutor
Los Angeles January 16. Prosecutors asked for a mistrial in the Errol Flynn statutory rape case citing alleged prejudicial remarks by two jurors. Affidavits from three venirewomen claim remarks favored conviction or Flynn. Hearing set for next Monday. defense to resist. Witness Lynne Boyer testified about a party at a Bel Air home and Flynn and Betty Hansen being apart from guests.
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Los Angeles
Errol Flynn
Venire
Jerry Giesler
Flynn
Harriet R. Ponder
Elaine Forbis
Lorene Boehm
Lynne Boyer
Bel Air
Betty Hansen
Sirocco
Peggy la Ru
Satterlee
Hollywood
Miss Boyer
Miss Hansen
Mr. Flynn
New York Stocks Early Jan Roundup
New York stocks show mixed activity as traders react to early 1940s market movements. Radio and steel shares lead gains while oil and hardware fall behind, with Rand and Rem Rand among notable movers in midday trading.
It Takes Both War Bonds and Taxes for Victory
The notice urges citizens to buy War Bonds and pay Victory Tax and income tax to fund the war effort. It frames both as essential, with ten percent income guidance, and colors the tax as an alternative to an Occupation Tax for Hitler. Treasury Department issued.
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Hitler
Treasury Department
Legion Chief Warns Troops On War Optimism At Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg January 16 Commander Roane Waring of the American Legion urged troops to resist premature peace talk and optimism. He stressed no major strategic victory has yet been won, praised Solomon Islands, New Guinea and Africa, and urged sustained war production to keep the fighting force supplied with guns planes tanks ships and ammunition.
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Fort Bragg
Roane Waring
American Legion
Solomons
New Guinea
Africa
Hitler
Europe
Sandwich Island
Opening With Psychic Bid Sparks Army Championship Run
Pvt. Simon Rossant recently enlisted in the Army and was granted leave to travel to Syracuse for the national tournament to defend his title. Sam and his teammates battled hard to bring the cup back to the Headquarters Company of the 30th Infantry Division, a memory many veterans will recall from the last war.
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Simon Rossant
Syracuse
Sam
30Th Infantry Division
Sam’s defensive play fuels six spades in bridge blowout
A World War I reference frames a bridge duel where Sam, with South hand, sees North’s three spades as a gateway to a slam. He sacrifices by bidding four clubs to hide diamonds, then advances to six spades, anticipating West’s potential club lead and neutralizing the defense.
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Sam
North
West
Sam Nee
Priest Sees Keeping Japs on Kiska as Strategy
Dr Bernard Hubbard the glacier priest from Santa Clara University argues after his Alaska Aleutian tour that forcing the Japanese off Kiska now would be premature He says the island should serve as a rat trap to exhaust enemy vessels and equipment while delivering blows at the enemy, not as a quick evacuation.
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Kiska
Aleutian Islands
GIN RUMMY QUIZ: WHO DECLARES VOID DEAL
Non-dealer takes the up card and knocks. Dealer discovers that he dealt him only nine cards and claims the hand is void and must be redealt. He is wrong. the opponent may let the deal stand and collect the points on the nine cards.
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