Army captain in the South Pacific spurs reading amid censorship changes
The column lampoons tropical isolation while noting wartime press limits. It cites Captain Charles Nissen of the Army in the South Pacific and urges readers to avoid publishing military unit or ship locations. The Office of Censorship bans revealing troop identifications, asking editors, parents, and relatives to refrain from such details.
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Army
South Sea
Oklahoma City
Charles Nissen
South Pacific
OPA
Office of Censorship
Pvt
John Jones
Australia
Bearman
Tom Brown
Atlantic
Company C
600Th Infantry
Wisconsin
Too Late and Too Slow Insiders Favor Legislation On War Manpower
Insiders concede legislation would help solve war industry manpower problems but resist discussing it now. They argue voluntary sacrifice may hold if universal conscription is avoided, yet fear delays if the burden remains on volunteers. The piece notes wartime planning and references President Roosevelt. continued discussion is promised on Page Three.
OWI Report Finds No Excessive Drinking Among Troops
Washington reports the Office of War Information surveyed army camps over 12,000 miles to assess drinking conditions. It concluded there is not excessive drinking, beer 3.2% sale in camps aids discipline, and pay-night incidents are far below wartime norms. Fort Lewis and Crowder showed high soft drink use with many troops abstaining from stronger drinks.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Uiuche
USO
Camp Crowder
Signal Corps
Joplin
Mey Alout
Oet
Crowder
Biloxi
Miss
Keester Field
Dspy
Owi
Postoffice to Close Friday for New Year's Holiday
Postmaster Robert M. Wilson announced the post office will be closed all day Friday January 1 in observance of New Year’s holiday. There will be no window service and no city or rural delivery, but mail will be dispatched and placed in post office boxes as usual.
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Hope Postoffice
Robert MM. Wilson
Red River Rises to 19 Feet Overnight
Flood level at Fulton reaches 19 feet with no immediate danger as rivers rise overnight. Reported in river town dispatches noting surrounding areas and partial farm loss near Washington D C, with no large-scale impact observed.
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Red River
Fulton
Pittsburgh Flood Closes War Plants and Halts Rail Traffic
Pittsburgh era floods inundate hillsides and riverbanks as Allegheny and Ohio rivers rose. Firefighters Red Cross and relief volunteers assist marooned families while plants like American Bridge Co and Labelle works halt operations. High waters threaten power and yards across Pittsburgh and nearby steeltowns. crests reach record levels with ongoing closures and evacuations.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburgh
Allegheny River
Ohio River
Ohio
Virginia
Golden Trine
Sense
Red Cross
American Bridge Company
Lersdale
Niay
Ohig Tiger
Labelle Works
Crucible Steel Company
Jones and Laughlin Seet Clorp
Wesstinghouse Electric and Manufacturing, Company
Bravo Corp
Pittburgh
Pittsburgh Coal Co
Mahoning
Republic Steel Co
Mingo
Youngstown
Carnegie
American French Troops Drive to Cut Off Rommel From Tunisia
Allied forces push toward Gabes as American and French units advance to within 40 miles of the crucial Tunisian port. Reports say a three pronged drive targets the coastal road linking Tunisia to Tripolitania while Rommel tests Allied lines near Medjez el Bab and Sousse amid raids and clashes.
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Rommel
Tunisia
London
United States
Reuters
Gabes
Tunisian
Tripoli
Tunis
Dusy
Maknassy
Tripolitania
Pont du Fahs
North Africa
Plehon
Hairovan
Sousse
Wasi Be i Chebir
Tipioli
Cairo
Pantellaria Island
Bixerts
Libya
Eighth Army
Bradcast
Rome
U.S
Gafsa
Makmassy
Medjez-el-Bab
Two Jap Ships Sunk Off Guadalcanal by U S Air Strikes
American aircraft from Henderson Field strafed and bombed enemy cargo ships off Wickham Anchorage on Wangunu Island in the New Georgia group. Two Japanese vessels were sunk and further fighting Marines destroyed a mortar and a machine gun position. United States forces reported over 150 Japanese killed with four Americans dead and one wounded.
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Washington
Henderson Feild
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Navy Department
Navy
Wickham Anchorage
Vangunu Island
South Pacific
Army
Marine Corps
U. S
UV. 5
Wickham
Wangunu Island
New Georgia
County Boy Shot to Death While Hunting
Charles L. Saunders twenty fifteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. H J Saunders of Washington was accidentally shot to death while rabbit hunting with two other boys near Washington. Coroner's report said the youths were sitting on a stump when Saunders gun apparently fell and discharged, the shot striking him in the neck. He died almost instantly. Survived by four brothers and sisters plus two brothers in the Navy and one missing in the Philippines. Funeral set for Thursday at 3 p.m. at the Washington Baptist Church with two pastors officiating.
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Charles L. Saunders
H.J. Saunders
Washington
Saunders
William T
Philippines
George W
U. S. Navy
Pearl Harbor
Earl Ray Saunders
England
Joe Paul Saunders
Vesta Jean
Betty Ruth
Washington Baptist Church
McDonald
J. C. Williams
Local Flyer Bags Jap Plane Over Burma
Lt. Joseph Hinton, son of Mr and Mrs L C Vinton of near Hope, credited with shooting down an enemy plane during a U S air attack on a Burmese airfield. AP dispatch dated December 27 by J Reilly O Sullivan recalls the raid from China with details of ground destruction and air combat.
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Joseph Hinton
L. C. Vinton
Near Hope
Burma
Associated Press
J. Reilly O'Sullivan
Harmos
Hinton
U. S. al Force
Kelly Field
Murfreeshora
Magnolia A & M College
Hempstead County
China
Lashio
United States
Yunnan
Tokia Jo
Gupt
Everett Hollstrom
Tacoma
Wash
Robert Davis
Atlanta, Ga
Allies Press On Near Buna In New Guinea Front
Allied headquarters report slight gains on both flanks of the Buna front in New Guinea. On the left, ground forces reduced a 13-bunker coastal fortification and repelled a counter attack as they map captured positions. To the right, four troops widened a western wedge toward the Buna area. Farther offshore, B-24s bombed Lae airfield and Liberators hit targets in New Ireland while returning despite heavy anti aircraft fire.
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Australia
New Guinea
MacArihw
Furlher
Buna Government Station
Lae
Kavieng
New Ireland
Vamunualyye
Injuries Fatal to Midway Oil Field Worker
C. W. Downs aged 26 a Stamps oil field worker died in a local hospital from a fractured skull after an accident at the Midway field in Lafayette county Details are not yet known He was brought to Julia Chester hospital around 2 a m in critical condition and died shortly after It is believed he was not a permanent Stamps resident having moved there recently for work in the Midway field.
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C. W. Downs
Stamps
Midway Field
Lafayette County
Julia Chester Hospital
OPA Confident Food Ration Start Date Expected
Office of Price Administration officials said the point rationing plan for canned dried and frozen foods should begin in February with only tight printing schedules risking a March delay. Households will use ration points and pocketbooks on purchases while 60 million pamphlets explain the system. Strong nationwide patriotism shown as communities embrace the new program.
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Washington
Office of Price Administrator
OPA
Vile Yoins
Claude Wickard
Three Chemical Workers Die of Disease at Two Hudson Plants
Westchester county health officials report three wartime workers died and 11 were stricken by a liver degeneration and 500 with a skin disease from chemicals used at Anaconda Wire and Habirshaw Cable plants in Hastings and Yonkers. Health Commissioner William A. Holla notes the disease, caused by a toxic compound, has two forms and may take months to prove serious. plants conduct tests on exposed employees.
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Hudson River
Westchester County
William A. Holla
Anaconda Wire and Cable Company
Hastings
Habirshaw Cable and Wire Corporation
Yonkers
Wv. F. Dilastro
Anaconda
Fay
Holla
Missing Plane Found All Occupants Dead in Crash near Bakersfield
An army plane missing since Christmas day crashed on a mountainside near Bakersfield California killing four occupants. The crew included Lt Col Charles M Harootunian executive officer at Douglas Base Lt Halbert E Bing the pilot Lt Edgar T Harder from Taft and Staff Sgt Robert L Jack from DeQueen Arkansas. Wreckage found yesterday during a routine training flight.
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Douglas
Ariz
Alice
Bakersfield
Calif
Douglas Air Base Puble
Charles M. Harootunian
Los Angeles
Douglas Base
Halbert E. Bing Douglas
Edgar T. Harder
Taft
Cali
Robert Lee Jack
DeQueen
Ark
North Africa Wounding Report For Bryan Monroe
Private Bryan Monroe, a Spring Hill High School graduate and Armored Force trainee from Fort Knox, Kentucky, was slightly wounded December 6 while serving with his tank unit in northwest Africa. The War Department telegram informed his father W. E. Monroe. He was part of the convoy of 850 ships that landed to establish the second front against the Axis.
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Fovl
Bryan Monroe
Northwest Africa
War Department
W. E. Monroe
Spring Hill
Monroe
Spring Hill High School
Army
Fort Knox
Kentucky
North Africa
Henderson Dies, British Envoy to Berlin
Sir Nevile Henderson, former British ambassador to Berlin during the Munich crisis and early war, died in his sleep at his West End home. He was 60 and had been ill for some time, later serving as a Home Guard group commander. He authored Failure of a Mission (1940) and was known for his efforts to foster Britain Germany friendship before the war.
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London
Nevile Henderson
Berlin
West End
Henderson
Munich
Germany
Home Guard
Hitler
Britain
Europe
Foreign Service
Chamberlain
Salzburg
Chamberlan
Hales
Head
Flashes of Life from Associated Press Update
The report describes police promotion fitness exams in Hartford at Wichita Police Chief Hallissey’s request, noting the chain to the original recommender. Other items include Bruster’s 82nd birthday crash in Los Angeles after a 47 year sales record, a California comeback note tied to Steck’s car deal, and a Portland draft board V-Mail Christmas greeting from Sgt Sheridan detailing a wartime Christmas.
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Associated Press
Hartford, Conn
Wichita
Kansas
Charles J. Hallissey
Hartford Police
Hallissey
Hartfrd
Charles H. Taylor
Wichita Police
Los Angeles
Quo Bruster
Portland
Qre
PFC
Anthony P. Sheridan
Russians seize Kotelnikovski in major eastern drive
Soviet forces captured Kotelnikovski, a key rail hub used by Germans, as Col. Gen. Vatutin's units pressed toward Rostov. Reports say fighting raged in the Middle Don area with heavy enemy reinforcements and counterattacks while Russians repaired gains and pushed on from the captured city toward Zimovnik and nearby routes.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Kotelnikovski
Don
Rostov
F. Vatutin
Zimovnik
An Tikhoretska
Red Army
Middle- Ton
Middle
Red
Millerove
Rosto
Millerve
Kamensk
Donets
Belre
Don River
Stalingrad
Stalin
The
Texarkana Man Admits Auto Thefts
Texarkana Ark. Dec. 4 Sheriff W B Davis announced Floyd Johnson 42 a former railroad switchman has signed a confession admitting he stole 17 automobiles, 4 in Texarkana, to obtain tires for Jack Rachel who is jailed on a receiving stolen property charge.
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Tesarkana
Ark
W. B. Davis
Floyd Johnson
Texarkana
Davis
Johnson
Jack Rachel
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California
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