Knox Says Solomons Naval Action Is Not Major Battle
Navy Secretary Frank Knox described reported Solomons sea activity as preliminary and not a pitched battle. He said both sides suffered losses, but there is no major engagement yet. He noted Guadalcanal remains under U S control and that a larger fight may lie ahead.
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Knox
Guadalcanal
ASHINGTON
Navy
Frank Knox
Solomon islands
Solomons
United States
Henderson airfield
Aluminum Shortage Spurs New Ore and Clay Routes
The article notes a looming bauxite shortage with most domestic ore coming from Arkansas and imports from Surinam. It reports experiments to yield aluminum from clay and minerals like leucite and andalusite. Sweden and Norway test aluminum from alum shale, labradorite, and aluminiferous rocks. Japan explores alum shales and aluminous minerals, while the U S conducts alunite work for potash and sulfuric acid alongside aluminum.
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Frederick H. Pough
Natural History Magazine
Surinam
Dutch Guiana
Mississippi
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
Sweden
Duff Bill Extends Chief Justice Duff Term
Ottawa reports the bill to extend Chief Justice Sir Lyman Duff's term by one year from January 7 passed third reading in the House of Commons and moved to the Senate. Prime Minister Mackenzie King sought unanimous consent for priority. Gordon Graydon noted the expedition shows no extra approval beyond yesterday. Graydon and 39 opposition MPs voted against the bill on second reading yesterday.
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OTTAWA
Lyman Duff
house of commons
senate
Mackenzie King
house
Gordon Graydon
Graydon
French Canadian Guard Guards Victoria Open Legislative Ceremony
In Victoria on February 3 a French-Canadian regiment provided the guard of honor for the opening of the legislature. It marked the first time a French-speaking unit stood watch there, a rarity outside Quebec. Meantime in Washington the Office of Price Administration announced rationing for canned and frozen fruits and vegetables and dried fruits would begin March 1, with sales stopping February 20 and not resuming until the ration date.
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VICTORIA
Quebec
U.S
WASHINGTON
office of price administration
Oil Pipeline For N W T
Ottawa reports a new highway from Nolikewin to Fort Norman in the Northwest Territories is being rushed to support a pipeline linking Fort Norman oil fields with the Alaska highway at Whitehorse. The route and road specifications are not disclosed. Traffic now reaches Hay River via newly connected northern Alberta links, aiding northern project supplies.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Nolikewin
Fort Norman
Northwest Territories
Whitehorse
house of commons
J. M. MacNicol
Toronto Davenport
United States
Canada
Mackenzie river
Alaska
Alberta
British Columbia
Yukon Territory
YUKON
EDMONTON
Hay River
N.W.T
Great Slave Lake
North West Territories
Parliament promises gasoline rationing plan soon
In Ottawa on Feb 3 Munitions Minister Howe said he would state the forthcoming year's gasoline rationing policy as soon as the supply situation clarifies. Gordon Graydon pressed for details as the house awaited guidance on wartime fuel controls.
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EWS
OTTAWA
C.P
Howe
house of commons
Gordon Graydon
GERSHAW
F. W. Gershaw
Medicine Hat
Canada
The Day In Parliament Debates Continue In Canada Senate and Commons
The Canadian Senate and House of Commons will keep debating addresses in reply to the throne speech. On yesterday's session Sen. P. R. Du Tremblay and Sen. W. Rupert Davies stressed post war Canada problems. The Commons passed a one year extension of Chief Justice Duff's term while Hon. R. B. Hanson reviewed potential Supreme Court strengthening and John Blackmore proposed Social Credit goods distribution as an alternative to social security pending Dominion study.
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senate
House of Commons
P. R. Du Tremblay
W. Rupert Davies
Canada
Lyman Duff
R. B. Hanson
York&Sunbury
supreme court of Canada
new Democracy
John Blackmore
Dominion
RAF Blenheim Bombers Hit Japanese Positions in Burma
British communique says RAF Blenheim bombers struck Japanese positions at Rathedaung and three other western Burma villages. Escorts followed with low level machine gun fire. Attacks also targeted Akyab area, including anti aircraft batteries at Fakir Point. No Allied aircraft reported missing.
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NEW DELHI
India
Rathedaung
Burma
Fakir Point
Riel Rebellion Nurse Dies at 79
Winnipeg reports the death of Phoebe Howard 79, the last surviving nurse who aided Northwest Rebellion soldiers on Saskatchewan battlefields. In April 1885 she became one of three nurses and helped care for wounded at Batoche and Fish Creek with two doctors and four dressers, later returning to Winnipeg. For her service she received a silver medal inscribed Northwest 1885 Canada and Phoebe Parsons Field Hospital Corps.
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WINNIPEG
Phoebe Howard
Saskatchewan
Howard
Phoebe Parsons
democrat
Saskatoon
Batoche
Fish Creek
Canada
Field Hospital Corps
Hartford guard pleads guilty in wife’s bed shooting
Howard W. Smith, 48, a Hartford factory guard and First World War veteran, admitted shooting James A. Thompson, 35, of Meriden, after finding him under his wife's bed last month. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a suspended one year jail term with two years of probation.
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HARTFORD
Conn
Howard W. Smith
Charles McLaughan
James A. Thompson
Meriden
Canuck Army Awaits Fight in Ottawa Debate
Canuck Army Awaits Fight as Col S Booth says overseas morale is high yet must enter action soon. Booth, on leave from England staff duties, urged urgency while addressing the address in reply to the throne speech. The session also saw a division over extending Chief Justice Duff’s term, with cross-party votes amid broader debates on wartime policy.
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OTTAWA
England
S. Booth
Winnipeg North
horse of commons
Booth
Canada
Lyman Duff
R. B. Hanson
house
Gordon Graydon
C.c.F
New Democracy
Col. Booth
Dieppe
Calgarian Among Five Decorated
OTTAWA February 3 Five awards to Canadian fliers serving overseas were listed in a deck of decorations announced Tuesday night by RC AF headquarters. The honors include DFC for FO Charles Stanley Wright Proctor of Toronto DF C for WO William Donald Ross of Calgary DFC for Fit Lt John Harvey Curry of Dallas Texas DPC for Acting Fit Lt William Lawrence Chisholm of Kentville Nova Scotia and DFC for PO Lorne Edward Kropf of Kitchener Ontario.
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OTTAWA
R.C.AF
Charles Stanley Wright Proctor
Toronto
William Donald Ross
Calgary
Alta
Fit
John Harvey Curry
Dallas
Tex
Wiliam Lawrence Chisholm
Kentville
N.S. D
Americans in Tunisia Gain Occupied Posts West of Maknassy
Allied forces report holding newly fortified positions in the Sened area west of Maknassy, possibly controlling the village itself. The operation may have evolved from a raid into occupation along the Gabes-Sfax rail line near the Axis supply corridor to Rommel and Arnheim.
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DANIEL DELUCE
Associated Press
ALLIED
North Africa
United States
Sened
Maknassy
Tuntsiga
Gabes-Sfax
Rommel
Gen. Von Arnhim
Seed
SFAX
Pi—Allied bomberg
Tunisia
commuunique
atmounerd
More Canadians In North Africa
Canadian Press war correspondent reports a second detachment of Canadian army officers and NCOs has arrived in North Africa to join British 1st Army units for frontline experience. The group includes infantry, artillery, armor, machine-gunners and service personnel and will operate with forward regiments along the Mateur to Bab Ang Robaa sector.
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ROSS MUNRO
ALLIED FORCE HEADQUARTERS
Nort Africa
C.P. Cable
Britain
North Africa
1st Army
Mateur
Madres
ang Robaa
Kington
France
Terrible Voyage Survivor Found At Port Of Spain
Willam Colben, an American seaman, survived 76 days drifting in a lifeboat after his ship sank off South Africa. He was rescued exhausted near death in the south Atlantic and could recall only that the lifeboat started with 20 men and the remaining five died, leaving him as the sole survivor. He landed in Port of Spain with memory largely blank and no clear age or nationality known.
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PORT OF SPAIN
Trinidad
C.P. Cable
Lane
South Africa
south Atlantic
Willam Colben
Rostov Front Battles Gloom and Gains Reported
Rostov fronts see heavy fighting as German garrison near the city endures shelling from Red Army forces. Soviet reports claim 22 towns captured overall, with advances toward Rostov from the south and new seizures on multiple fronts. Stalingrad victory praised as the siege ends and Axis forces suffer massive losses.
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Stalin
Red Army
Stalingrad
YORK
BBC
CBS
ONDON
Voronezh
north Caucasus
Voroshiloy
EDDY GILMORE
Associated Press
MOSCOW
Hitler
Germany
Soviet information bureau
Volga Verdun
Kursk
N. V. Voronov
supreme command
Constantin Roxossovsky
Don front
Stalinared
KRASNODAR
Pavlovskaya
Sosyla
Raid on Cologne Loses Five Bombers in Night Assault
London dispatch reports a heavy RAF and BCAP bombing raid on Cologne Germany with about 100 two ton bombs and extensive incendiaries. One Canadian squadron participated as German defenses proved more active than in past Cologne raids. Five bombers were missing. the attack targeted diesel engine and submarine weapon plants.
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RAF
B.C.AP
Cologne
Germany
cio
R.CA.P
Humboldt Deutz Motor Works
Mauser
possibin
Allied Headquaters report 158 Japs slain in Papua action
Allied headquarters in Australia reports 158 Japanese soldiers killed or surrendered in the New Guinea Papua peninsula where Allied forces defeated a 15,000 strong Jap army. The announcement, dated February 3, confirms losses and ongoing operations in the area.
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ALLIED
AUSTRALIA
Papua
New Guinea
Aies
high command
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