Toehold Held Despite Heavy Defense Blows
The Japanese have landed fresh reinforcements on Guadalcanal, despite American torpedo plane and dive bomber attacks that sank one destroyer damaged another and a Kako class cruiser. A Navy communique notes seven planes and a small launch were lost in two actions as Japan preps for a major assault on the American air base on Guadalcanal.
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Washington
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
Solomons
Navy
Marine Corps
Record Breaking Tax Bill Passes Senate 77 to 0
Senatorial vote records a unanimous 77 to 0 passage of a sweeping tax measure. It imposes a 19 percent tax on each citizen’s first dollar, a 5 percent victory tax on income over 624 yearly, and steep rates for higher incomes. Corporations face tiered rates and a 90 percent excess profits tax, aimed at financing wartime needs and curbing inflationary purchasing power.
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Washington
Senate
Treasury
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Big Artillery Guns Dueling With Thunder
Soviet and German forces staged heavy fighting around Stalingrad with a shift toward artillery duels as the mid night communique reported unchanged lines inside the city and renewed attacks northwest of Stalingrad.
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Stalingrad
Caucasus
Communiqque
Saliingrad
Moscow
Plan to provide tires for all drivers amid war controls
Vice Administrator Leon Anderson announced a government plan to supply tires to keep every passenger car rolling for essential mileage during the war. The program imposes strict mileage, speed, rubber, gasoline, tire area and car sharing controls as the Office of Price Administration interprets the Baruch committee report as urging tires for everybody. Deputy OPA head Robert W. Horton confirmed the link, saying the plan aims to give tires to all drivers. Rubber Director William M. Jeffers announced related actions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Leon Anderson
Lrst
Baruch Comittee
Robert W. Horton
OPA
Sayng
Baruch Committee
Verybody
William M. Jeffers
Allied Offensive In Pacific Fueled By Air Raids By M Ar thurs Men
Allied air raids in the Pacific intensified as heavy bombers attacked Rabaul New Guinea for the second night in succession dropping forty tons of bombs and setting large fires. Earlier a 76 ton nighttime attack followed an incendiary raid to illuminate targets. No Allied planes were lost and fires blossomed along the harbor. Australian troops in Owen Stanley mountains reported contact with retreating Japanese forces.
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MacArthur
Australia
Rabaul
New Guinea
Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox
Pacific
Owen Stanley
Ten Million Fighting Men In 44 Seen as U. S. Army Limit
Senate leaders assess manpower as the war effort strains to balance armed forces, agriculture, and industry. Estimates place the ultimate U S manpower ceiling around ten million, with current army strength about 4.5 million and projected rises to roughly 7.6 million by year’s end 1943. Navy and Marines figures add to the debate over mobilization and production limits.
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U. S. Army
Richard G. Maslock
Washington
United States
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Navy, Marine and
MacArthur Tours Front In Jeep Car
Gen Douglas MacArthur toured the New Guinea front in a jeep, inspecting outposts and artillery on Loribaiwa Ridge. His mud-splattered uniform and presence drew cheers from Australian troops and native carriers along the rugged Owen Stanley trail.
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Dean Schedler
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea Battle Front
Southwest Pacific
Loribaiwa
Owen Stanley
MacaArthur
MacArthur
O. K
Harnett Leads in Salvage After Raleigh Report
Harnett County tops the statewide scrap salvage drive in total and per capita poundage, with 3,240,077 pounds collected at an average of 73.5 per person. Durham ranks second with 2,378,144 pounds, as Frank Daniels notes the new county totals.
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Raleigh
Harnett County
Frank Daniels
Hittle County
Harnett
Durham
Snow in Caucasus Hinders Front Operations
Berlin dispatch reports snowstorms in the Caucasus hamper eastern front operations with three foot snow blankets noted in parts of the region. Central and northern areas face heavy autumn rainfall restricting military actions as German sappers tunnel under a Stalingrad skyscraper and destroy it after it was used to shelter Russian troops.
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Berlin
Caucasus
Transocean
Stalingrad
Capitol rebellion of Democratic leaders over Roosevelt policies
Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill have mounted a minor rebellion against President Roosevelt, going through the motions of orders but offering only lip service. Speaker Rayburn, Senator Barkley, and Senator Bankhead are cited as angered or sidetracked as Congress resents White House direction amid debate over the anti inflation bill and price control deadlines.
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Ray Tucker
Capitol Hill
Executive Mansion
Roosevelt
Rayburn
D. Tomas
White House
Senate
Mr. Barkley
Prentiss M. Brown
Michigan
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Senator Bankhead
Alabama
Congress
F.D.R
Thousands More Americans Arrive in Britain for Training
Thousands of United States soldiers arrived in Great Britain for intensive battle training ahead of a second front. Equipped with bucket helmets and field gear, the troops joined the already deployed American Expeditionary Force on the island base. They traveled by train to brick barracks after a crossing marked by light alarms, while a British band and local girls offered sandwiches and tea.
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Great Britain
British Isles
United States
AEF
Europe
Georgia
Brick Barracks
U S Fortresses Clear Luftwaffe Skies In Lille Raid
In a daylight raid on Lille, United States four motored Fortress and Liberator bombers drew Hitler’s best fighters into a trap. The air force reported 110 German planes destroyed damaged or probably destroyed with 48 shot down in dogfights and 38 probably downed plus 19 damaged. The assault involved 115 big bombers and cited heavy enemy aerial losses amid escort opposition.
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Associated Press
London
America
Adolf Hitler
U. S. Army
Lille
France
U. S
U Boats Stalk Prey At Sea From Africa
A United Nations base in West Africa reports small German Uboats are active off the coast. The dispatch notes U boats, once stalled in the North Atlantic, are now striking ships off West Africa with help from technically neutral pro Nazi nations. Details on sunk ships and numbers are censored, but the fact of increased U boat activity is clear.
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United Nations
West Africa
North Atlantic
Tor
Jap Submarine Sinks Tanker In Pacific
A West Coast port report says a Japanese submarine attacked a coastwise tanker, killing the chief engineer and the third mate while four Navy gun crewmen died. Thirty-eight aboard were rescued, including the captain Olaf Breiland, as a lumber schooner located and picked up survivors amid flames and freezing conditions.
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Navy
Olaf Breiland
Long Beach
Breiland
Heavy Blows Landed on Axis Warplanes on African Front
United States air forces and the RAF stunned Axis air bases in Egypt and Libya yesterday and last night. They destroyed or damaged 34 enemy planes and hit ground targets including motor vehicles gun emplacements and an ammunition dump. The raid extended from Crete to Alamein with crews returning safely from Crete after seven tanker hits and eight on installations.
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Harry Crockett
Cairo
United States
RAF
Bengasi
Libya
Suda Bay
Crete
U. S
Alamein Front
Alexandria
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