RAF Joins Nazi Anniversary Party Maikop Recaptured by Russians
Navy reports six Japanese ships sunk or damaged by U S submarines in waters of the Pacific and Far East. One destroyer and one large tanker were sunk, four medium cargo ships sunk, one medium cargo ship damaged. A force of B 17 bombers attacked Kahili near Bougainville.
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Maikop
Washington
Jal
Navy
Pacific
Far East
U. S
South Pacific
Kahili
Shortland Sea
United States
Roosevelt Stops In Trinidad On Way Home From Casablanca
President Roosevelt halted briefly at Port of Spain Trinidad and received a warm welcome as he inspected American defense installations with Admiral Leahy who was sidelined by influenza. Leahy stayed in Trinidad while Roosevelt continued to Brazil and Liberia on the Casablanca tour.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Trinidad
British West Indies
Panama Canal
Caribbean
Port Au Spain
William D. Leahy
Waller Field
Casablanca
United States
France
Monrovia
Liberia
Barclay
Natal
Brazil
Vital Railway Junction Is Also Seized
Maikop in the Caucasus has been recaptured by the Red Army. The Russians also seized the strategic Tikhoretsk rail junction near Rostov and advanced toward Krasnodar. The moves threaten entrapment of Nazi forces and push toward Voronezh and Belgorod fronts while reporting heavy fighting on Lake Ladoga.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Maikop
Adolf Hitler
Caucasus
Red Army
Tikhoretsk
Rostov
London
Krasnodar
Kerch Straits
Ladojskaya
Kropotkin
Archangelskaya
Stalingrad-Novorossisk
Rassiev
Voronezh
Belgorod
Kursk
Leningrad
Lake Ladoga
Eisenhower Denies Rift With British-North Africa Officials
Allied Headquarters in North Africa reports Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower refutes rumors of a split with Britain and United States advisors Harold Macmillan Harold Murphy and William Mack over political or military matters. He says no purely national divergences occurred and notes joint approval of decisions like Marcel Peyrouton’s appointment.
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Allied
Eisenhower
Marcel Peyrouton
Algeria
Murphy
MacMillan
Mack
North Africa
Senator McKellar Opposes Flynn’s Australia Nomination
Senator McKellar of Tennessee announced opposition to President Roosevelt’s nomination of Edward J. Flynn as U S minister to Australia. He cited the record of testimony and differences of opinion, predicting Senate rejection if not withdrawn.
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Washington
McKellar
Dtenn
Roosevelt
Edward J. Flynn
Australia
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Flynn
Barkley
Kentucky
Senator Stewart
D.-Tenn
Stewart
Ed Crump
Tennessee
Min
Nelson Order settles dispute of rubber plant priorities
Washington January 30 The War Production Board chairmans directive gives top priority to 43.6 percent of the synthetic rubber program setting annual production at 452000 tons of a total 1037000 tons recommended by the Baruch committee Most production will use Buna S the rubber type needed for military and civilian transportation Rubber Administrator William Jeffers had pressed for 65 70 percent of the program then 55 percent and finally 49 1 2 percent The decision aligns with Army Navy aviation gasoline and escort vessel needs and affects about 55 percent of butadiene capacity and 63 percent of styrene capacity as principal components
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
Baruch Committee
Buna
Jeffers
Army
Navy
James F. Burn
250 Japanese Are Killed In New Guinea
General Douglas MacArthur reports 250 Japanese killed in the Mubo area near Salamaua New Guinea. The tally follows an earlier Allied raid and pursuit of retreating Japanese forces. Allied air forces continue raids on Rabaul and surrounding areas in New Britain.
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New Guinea
Australia
Mubo
Salamaua
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
Survivors Reach Shores on Two Continents After Submarine Attack
Survivors from a British merchantman sunk by a German submarine in mid December land on both sides of the South Atlantic. Of 160 crewmen, many Indians are in South America with at least 14 in Africa. Thirty Europeans found haven. One lifeboat crewed by two torpedoes tied to the U-boat as Third Officer Ralph Cooper was questioned aboard.
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Miami
Fla
South Atlantic
South America
Africa
Haven
Ralph Cooper
Cooper
J. A. Whyte
Earl
Margaret Gordon
Melbourne
Australia
Whyte
Rubber Plant Begins Work In Louisiana
The first petroleum butadiene plant for the government's synthetic rubber program started operations in Baton Rouge Louisiana. It will produce raw materials for rubber enough for about 1 800 000 tires annually with a capacity of 6600 to 9000 tons per year depending on petroleum fractions used.
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Baton Rouge
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana
Advance Units Of Eighth Army Cross Tunisian Border
Allied dispatches report Montgomery's Eighth Army crossing into Tunisia from the north as they advance to trap Rommel's forces. Allied air strikes target Axis supply lines and a flotilla at Bizerte while British patrols push into central Tunisian front.
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Tripolitania
Tunisia
North Africa
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Tunisian
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Tunis
Rommel
Middle East
Bizerte
Montgomery
Mareth Line
Cairo
Zuara
Soviet Aid Flows Grow As War Continues
The Casablanca conference stresses drawing Russia and China closer to the Anglo American bloc. Stalin’s absence and aloof stance raise questions while lend lease figures show Soviet and Slav support rising toward two billion dollars in a current eight billion total. As production rises and fronts widen, more planes tanks and artillery reach Leningrad Stalingrad and Rostov with Burma Road reopening guiding Chiang Kai shek’s forces.
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Casablanca
Russia
China
United Nations
Stalin
Hitler
Japan
Chungking
Lendlease
Kremlin
Red Army
Leningrad
Stalingrad
Rosto
Burma Road
Chiang Kai
Roosevelt
Treasury Favours Robertson Compromise On Pay-As-You-Go Plan
Treasury officials reportedly favor a compromise to the Ruml pay-as-you-go proposal tying 1942 tax relief to current collection. The plan would erase 1942 obligations in lower brackets and impose a 20 percent withholding levy on net taxable income, with hearings by the House Ways and Means Committee to consider the changes for about 40 million taxpayers.
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Treasury
Robertson
Francis M. Lemay
Washington
Rep
D-Vaz
Treasury Omiclals
House Ways and Means
Beardsley Rum
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Carlson
Arans
Ways and Means Committee
Fabric Maker Pays $410 219 on OPA Price Violation
New York dated report states A. D. Juillard and Co. agreed to pay 410219.31 dollars and sign a consent decree to stop violations of OPA price ceilings on woolen and worsted civilian fabrics. Regional OPA administrator Sylvan L. Joseph called the settlement a significant legal victory and three times the overcharges of 136739.77 cited in the suit filed November 19.
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New York
OPA
Sylvan L. Joseph
A. D. Juillard and Co., Inc
Joseph
U. S. District Court
Lester C. Dunigan
District Opa
Guadalcanal Native Receives Silver Star Courage Award
Sergeant Major Vouza of Guadalcanal, a former savage tribe member, receives the Silver Star for enduring brutal torture to withhold Marine positions. Captured on Aug 27 near Japanese lines, he was lashed to a tree and bayoneted, then escaped and returned with vital enemy information. Vouza had already earned a British Victoria Cross for valor from King George VI.
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Washington
Guadalcanal
United States
Vouza
British Constabulary
George VI
Youza
Daylight Raid On Berlin Disrupts Nazi Anniversary Coverage
British Mosquito aircraft struck Berlin in daylight at 11 a.m. and again at 4 p.m. during the Reichs party anniversary, delaying Goering and Goebbels speeches as explosions echoed through the city. No British losses were reported.
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Associated Press
London
Berlin
Hitler
Reichsmarshal Goering
Goebbels
Russia
RAF
Goering
Air Ministry
Mareshal Goering
Doenitz Named Commander of German Navy
Admiral Karl Doenitz, head of Germanys submarine fleet, was elevated to supreme command of the German navy. He replaces Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and will also oversee submarine warfare, signaling reliance on U boats as a wartime main hope.
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London
Karl Doenitz
Germany
Doenitz
Erich Raeder
Lifeboat Survival Tale After Sinking by Submarine
Manchester born officer J A Whyte and Mrs Margaret Gordon survived 51 days at sea after a torpedo sank their ship off Africa. The lifeboat carried 10 lascar sailors, six Europeans and Mrs Gordon. eight days of island search failed, rudder and sail failures compounded hardship, two ounces of water per share kept a few alive.
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Whyte
Gorddén
South America
Atlantic
Mrs. Gordon
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