Rommel Retreats West As Allies Push In Libya Tunisia
British and French forces press the Libyan campaign as Rommel withdraws east of Wadi Bei el Chevir and prepares to regroup westward. Allied air and ground actions target Axis supply lines while Leclerc’s French force advances northward from southern Libya.
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Libya
Rommel
Wadi Bei el
Cairo
Eighth Army
Tripoli
Tripolitania
Tunisia
North
Africa
Morocco Radio Today
Don Whitehead
Associated Press
Wadi Bei el Chebir
Jacques Leclerc
Bone
Algeria
More Meat Is Required To Supply Needs in City
Wilbur Pine operator of a gro cery store and meat market at Twelfth and Pennsylvania street today urged action to increase meat supply in Lawrence. He said the meat situation is worsening weekly and that residents are not getting enough meat. Pine noted he is doing nearly twice the business of a year ago but has only 50 to 60 percent as much meat to pull Beeted then. He observed people returning from Roanoke and other Virginia towns report ample meat in supply. Pine advised citizens to express their needs to officials by petitions or letters.
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Wilbur Pine
Pennsylvania Street
Lawrence
Pine
Roanoke
Virginia
Hercules Powder Company
US Planes Hit Jap Invasion Forces From Kiska to Solomons
Allied air strikes from Kiska in the Aleutians to Guadalcanal and the Solomons report heavy blows on Japanese invasion forces. Curtin urged stronger Pacific support as MacArthur reports savage fighting in New Guinea and New Britain with air raids mounting on Rabaul and Bougainville.
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Kiska
Solomons
Japan
Kiska Island
Aleutians
John Curtin
Navy Department
Kiska Harbor
Kokumbono
Guadalcanal
Munda
New Georgia Island
U.S
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Buna
New Guinea
MacArthur
Giropa Point
Buna Government Station
Sanananda
New Britain
Widebay
Rabaul
Gasmata
Buin
Bougainville Island
Flood Toll High as Ohio River Rages Through Portsmouth
The Ohio river flood hits Portsmouth driving 30,000 from homes, threatening $3.5 million in damage. Army engineers lay 20,000 sandbags to defend a 62-foot wall as crews prepare for crest near 61 feet. Upstream towns evacuate workers, many left homeless, and Point Pleasant reports 15 feet above flood level.
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Portsmouth
Ohio River
East Liverpool
Evansville
Ind
New Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Point Pleasant
W.a
Wellsville
Steubenville
Martins, Ferry
Bridgeport
Bellaire
Marietta
Weirton
Wellsburg
Wheeling
Moundsville
New Martinsville
Parkersburg
W. Va
Here
Huntington
C Ration Car Counts Noted At Cotton Bowl Game
State OPA investigators counted 682 cars with C ration stickers and 495 without at the Cotton Bowl on Friday. Director Mark McGee said a full check will identify owners and addresses to curb improper use of mileage allowances, noting drivers from outside Dallas may have exhausted their monthly 90 mile allotment.
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Fort Worth
Jan
OPA
Mark McGee
Dallas County
McGee
Third Group of Sailors Leaves the K U Campus
Division three from the Naval Machinists Mates training school at K U arrived Thursday and left Lawrence Wednesday for new positions in the navy. A seventh division from the Great Lakes training school replaces them, having completed screening and mathematics tests and set to begin classes Monday.
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Naval Machinists’ Mates
K. U
Lawrence
Navy
Great Lakes
Machinists’ Mates
Milk price ceilings raised as subsidies end in three metros
Washington reports fluid milk prices allowed to rise by a half to two cents a quart until April 1 in Chicago New York metro area and Duluth Superior to prevent shortages after subsidy elimination. Similar increases expected in 11 other cities as Byrnes orders subsidy removal and Wickard maps future economies in milk marketing and delivery.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Chicago
New York
Duluth-Superior
James F. Byrnes
OPA
Claude R. Wickard
Kansas City
Boston
Denver
St. Louis
Toledo
Memphis
Louisville
Fall River
Lowell-Lawrence
Mass
Fort Wayne
la Porte County
Ind
Kellogg Foundation Funds Boost KU Medical Loans
The University of Kansas received another 5000 from the W K Kellogg Foundation, bringing the total grant to 15000 for the accelerated medical program. Four KU students were recently lent 450 from the revolving Kellogg fund, with 67 students benefiting this semester.
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University of Kansas
W. K.kelloge Foundation
Battle Creek
Mich
Kellogg
Kellogg Foundation
K. U
Interneship
Henry Werner
Kellogg Loan Fund
Enemy merchant vessel scuttled after blockade interception
The admiralty announced that an enemy merchant vessel of about 10,000 tons was intercepted in the Atlantic by naval patrols. After being overhauled the crew scuttled the ship and were taken as prisoners of war.
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London
Admiralty
Atlantic
Coffeyville Army Air Field Receives New Name
Coffeyville Kansas January 3 1942 the army air forces basic flying school here is renamed Coffeyville army air field Adjutant General’s Department in Washington notified Col C I Ferris commander of the change The field will continue operations under the new designation with the same staff and mission
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Coffeyville, Kan
Army Air Forces
Adjutant General’s Department
Washington
C. I. Ferris
Coffeyville Army Air Field
Russians Break German Hold on Velikie Luki in Central Front
Soviet forces captured Velikie Luki after a siege, wiping out a German garrison. The victory gives the Red army a key position near Moscow Riga and Leningrad Vitebsk rail lines with a major airport nearby. Allied fronts report continued Soviet pressure as they advance in the central and Stalingrad sectors.
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Moscow
Velikie Luki
Baltic Sea
Caucasus
Leningrad
Smolensk
Red Army
Vélikie Luki
Elista
Kalmyck
Stalingrad
Peneans
Central Front
Zhey
Snow Moves This Way Across Northern Kansas
A cold front brings probable snow to northern Kansas as a brief warm spell ends. Weather official S D Flora warns of a hard freeze tonight with winds 25 to 30 mph and rain or drizzle in southern counties Sunday.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Flora
Dodge City
Ellis
Goodland
Average stock figures in midweek market report
The report records an average of 60 stocks with a 41.7 reading, noting Wednesday’s figure at 41.5 as a midweek market snapshot.
No War Fund Drives Till Early April
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau announced there will be no more special drives for war funds until early April after December borrowing reached 12.906 billion dollars. The December goal was 9 billion, boosted by 2.7 billion from taxes and other collections. He praised banks for lending and guiding depositors to buy treasury securities.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
German Navy conducts convoy raid near Bear Island
The German high command reports a first northern naval venture against Allied convoys to Russia since August, claiming minor success with one Allied destroyer sunk and losses of a German destroyer. They state hits on cruisers, destroyers, and merchant ships, but no sinks observed.
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London
Russia
Bear Island
Norway
Spitzbergen
Admiralty
Atlantis
Devonshire
South Atlantic
Allied Air Raids Fail at Bone Algerian Port
Allied headquarters reports three enemy air raids on Bone on New Year’s Day were repelled before reaching the port. Six Allied planes are missing. Allied fighters shot down four enemy planes and damaged others while bombers attacked Tunis harbors and railroad yards.
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North Africa
Bone
Tunis
Freight traffic climbs for railroads in 1942
The Association of American Railroads reports 42,818,739 freight cars loaded in 1942, up 528,975 from 1941. Actual traffic is about 83 percent higher due to heavier loading and longer hauls.
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Washington, Jan
Association of American Railroads
Army Casualty List Names 407 Killed In Action
The War department announced 407 U S soldiers killed in action across the southwest and south Pacific, Africa, Europe, and at sea. 66 officers among the dead. next of kin notified. Included are Kansas residents Lt Charles F Burket Osawatomie Sgt Harold T Koster Hoxie Lewis E Knight Lawrence and Frank L Arnold Elkhart.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Southwest Pacific
South Pacific
Kansas
Charles F. Burket
Elkhart
Frank L. Arnold
Amelia Arnold
Osawatomie
Harold T. Koster
Nick
Question on Food Stamp Plan Leaves County Unclear
Mrs. Mildred D. Watson says no direct information on discontinuing the food stamp plan and whether the office in the courthouse basement will close or run on a limited basis. Roy M. Roberts is the stamp office manager, a welfare department employee.
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Mildred D. Watson
Food Stamp Office
Roy M. Roberts
Stamp Office
Zamperini Finds Bomb Run Easier Than Races
Lou Zamperini, 25, former USC distance star, bomber on the Wake Island raid December 25, says anti-aircraft fire is easier than racing against Cunningham, Venzke, or Fenske. He explains the crew’s careful work, one pursuing Jap plane, and compares raid energy to a mile race.
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Seventh Airforce
Lou Zamperini
Cunningham
Fenske
Venzke
Zamperini
Torrance
Cal
Army Air Force
Wake Island
Lou
Army Air Corps
Wake
Randolph and Kelly
Midland
Tex
Navy
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Colin Kelley
Merchant Vessels Lost to Submarines Near South America
The navy reports two British merchant ships torpedoed and sunk by enemy submarines in the Atlantic off the northern coast of South America last month. Survivors landed at an east coast U S port. One ship went down in early December and the other in mid December.
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Washington
Jan
Navy
Atlantic
South America
United States
Lawmakers Prepare for 1943 Session in Kansas
Gov elect Schoeppel met with legislative leaders to map the 1943 session. Sen Albert Cole and Reps Paul Wunsch and Frank Hagaman discussed reviewing the education council’s proposals on the new school code. Wunsch expects to be speaker. caucus plans set for January 11.
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Topeka
Albert Cole
Holton
Paul Wunsch
Kingman
Frank Hagaman
Kansas City
Kan
Cole
Senate
Wunsch
House
Schoeppel
Unseasonal Willamette Flood Hits Oregon Cities
A January flood along the Willamette River caused six deaths and extensive damage. Eugene area losses reach 5 million dollars as the crest nears Corvallis Albany Salem Oregon City and Portland with evacuations of hundreds and several drownings including a mother and infant near Albany and a mud slide death at Wendling.
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Portland
Ore
Willamette River
Eugene
Corvallis
Albany
Salem
Oregon City
Willamette
West Springfield
Cottage Grove
Wendling
Sprinfeld
Willkie calls for a working United Nations common council
Wendell Willkie urged creation of a working common council of the United Nations to plan war and postwar economic strategy. Speaking at a Metropolitan Opera rally, he urged turning the UN into a fact, not a phrase, to ensure postwar welfare and lasting cooperation among nations.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
United Nations
Metropolitan Opera Company
Willkie
Woodrow Wilson
Resources of Two Lawrence Banks Rise Significantly
End of year statements for Lawrence National Bank and First National Bank show combined resources of 10,789,306 dollars, up about 3.5 million from January 1, 1942. The Lawrence National Bank reports 5,646,416 dollars and the First National Bank 5,142,890 dollars.
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Lawrence
Lawrence National Bank
First National Bank
Journal-World
Army Plane Crashes Near Granite City
In Granite City Illinois a large military airplane crashed and burned in a field six miles east of town. R W Randle chief clerk of the Illinois state highway patrol at French Village said several men parachuted to safety and there were many bodies inside the plane along with injured personnel. Fourteen state troopers were dispatched to the scene.
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Granite City
Ill
Here
R. W. Randle
Illinois State
Bigaway Patrol
French Village
Ratner Radio Talk Topeka January 2
Governor Ratner will delivered the final monthly radio address on state government affairs from WIBW Topeka Sunday at 5 p.m. The program continues his series outlining state issues and policies to the public.
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Ratner
Topeka
WIBW
Postal Receipts See 1942 Rise Reflect City Growth
The Lawrence post office reports 1942 postal receipts of 192 662 30 up from 138 767 46 in 1941 with the last quarter nearly doubling 1941 figures. December 1942 receipts reached 29 998 36, stamps and war savings bonds surged, and postal savings deposits rose from 548 902 to 622 052.
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Lawrence
War Savings
Jurors May Secure Extra Gas for Cars in Kansas
Marysville Kansas January 2 Judge Edgar C Bennett was advised by federal authorities that additional gasoline would be allowed to jurors on petit and grand juries. The approval came from James S Byrnes director of economic stabilization. The matter affects juries statewide scheduled to be called next week.
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Marysville
Kan
Edgar C. Bennett
Bennett
Theansas Judicial Council
James S. Byrnes
Kansas
US Bombs Hit Japanese Rail Lines in North Burma
US Tenth Air Force fighter planes dropped bombs two days ago on Japanese rail lines and installations around Myitkina and along the rail route toward Mandalay. The strikes targeted trains and rail facilities near the Leipyet hills, within 50 miles of the China border.
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New Delhi
India
United States
Tenth Air Force
Burma
Air Force
Myitkina
China
Leipyet Hills
Mandalay
Weather outlook for Kangas area tonight to Sunday
Light rain or drizzle is expected in the west and north tonight turning to snow or sleet by Sunday forenoon. Southeast areas may see rain or drizzle Sunday forenoon. Temperatures will drop tonight and Sunday morning making it noticeably colder.
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Kangas
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