Allies Close In On Rommel In North Africa Advance
Allied forces push toward Tripoli from east and south with Fighting French units from Equatorial Africa joining the British 8th Army. Communique from Brigadier General Jacques Leclerc reports French troops operating with the British on the 8th Army flank. The maneuver tightens the noose on Rommel’s Africa corps, signaling a likely end to his eastern counteroffensive.
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ONDON
C.P
Tripoli
Equatorial Africa
Rommel
Tunisia
Jacques Leclerc
8th Army
Africa corps
Mediterranean
North
Africa
15 Dead In B C Sinking
Two seamen were rescued at Port Alice hospital as the 150 foot coastal steamer Northolm sank off Vancouver Island last Saturday with 15 crew lost. Police said heavy list and strong rip tides likely caused the disaster near Port Alice, inland port about 63 miles from the island’s northern tip. First Officer Ray Perry and A Henry Gerbrandt survived after reaching shore in the lifeboat.
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VANCOUVER
C. P
Port Alice
Northolm
Vancouver Island
British Columbia
Ray Perry
A.Henry Gerbrandt
Perry
Gerbrandt
Prospectors eye Klondike riches after war ends
Joseph LeBeau of Skagway says mining logging and trapping are rich in the Klondike country with several copper deposits found this summer. He plans to return in spring. He brought an old Klondike News issue from 1898 detailing Dalrymple dates and prices in Dawson, with goods from soup at $1 to whisky at $40 to $100 a gallon, a cabin rental of $75 monthly and candles at $1 apiece.
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Klondike
Joseph LeBeau
Skagway
LeBeau
Vancouver
Klondike News
Dyea Trail
Klondike trail
Dawson
British Troops Push Toward Tripoli as Warfront Advances
Dispatches from Cairo say British forces near Tripoli within 35 miles with one column along the coast and another inland. Berlin radio claims Tripoli ablaze from air raids as allied airmen harry retreating enemy lines. A 50 mile coastal road between Tripoli and Zugara is littered with wrecked trucks. Central Tunisia sees heavy fighting with German troops pressing French positions southwest of Pont Du Fahs to sever overland links to Tripolitania. British troops occupy the villages of Homs and Tarhuna while pursuing Rommel's retreat.
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TRIPOLI
Cairo
Berlin
Zugara
Tunisia
Pont Du Fahs
Tripolitania
Homs
Tarhuna
Rommel
Girl Found Alive In School After Bombing Rescue
London report says a rescue worker reached the top floor of a shattered school hit by a German bombing raid. He found three children, two dead and a girl about five with an injured arm alive after more than 24 hours. She told him she could walk and then reunited with her mother in the crowd.
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LONDON
Four Dead In St. John's Club Fire
Four girls believed to be waitresses died when the Old Colony Club dining and dancing venue burned near St. John's. Manager Jack Windsor, his wife and two children escaped unharmed as the two-storey wooden building was destroyed. The fire marks the second entertainment venue blaze in six weeks in the city following a December hostel fire that killed 99 servicemen.
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BT. JOHN'S
C.P. Cable
old Colony Club
Jack Windsor
St. John’s
Columbus
New Raids On Burma
New Delhi January 21 RAF bombers continued around the clock assaults on Japanese bases in central and western Burma. They blasted Toungoo airdrome and attacked off Akyub island while daylight strikes hit targets in Magwe, Schwebe and Heho airdromes with railway targets. Two of four enemy bombers attacking Calcutta were shot down by RAF fighters. one British plane fell but the pilot is safe.
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RAF
Burma
Toungoo
Akyub island
Magwe
Schwebe
Wellington
Heho
Myingyan
Calcutta
R.AP
12-Year-Old Girl Slain In West Side Flat Mystery
The body of 12-year-old Martha Punt was found in a west side flat with evidence of rape, blunt force trauma, and throat slashing. Police sought Ellis Ruiz Baez, a 45-year-old hotel waiter missing since Tuesday, identified as the person last seen with the victim.
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NEW YORK
west side
Martha Punt
Ellis Ruiz Baez
Ellis Ruiz
Nazis Lose 750000 Marines in Six Weeks
Moscow radio quoted by Reuters said German casualties on the Soviet front in six weeks total 750000 men with 250000 killed. The report, issued in London on January 21, cites Soviet losses amid the war on the eastern front.
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LONDON
Reuters news
Moscow
Steelworkers reject seven point plan in Ottawa
C M Millard national director of the United Steelworkers of America told Prime Minister Mackenzie King the union rejects the plan for settling Canada's steel strike. He said the government door remains open for a potential solution and urged quick resumption of negotiations to end the strike.
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OTTAWA
C.P
C. M. Millard
United Steelworkers of America
Mackenzie King
Canada
Barlow (steel) commission
fallec
evidt
67 Below At Bellevue
Bellevue correspondent reports record cold as Hillcrest Mohawk mine camp school area registered 67 below zero while Bellevue town polled 46 above minus. Gas bed coal area suffered fuel shortage due to delivery shortfalls.
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BELLEVUE
Hillcrest-Mohawk
Lone Destroyer Scatters Convoy
The British destroyer sank one merchantman and badly damaged another during a four hour midnight attack on an enemy convoy on October 31, 1941. Three merchantmen were present, escorted by an armed coaster and two fast torpedo boats. The admiralty noted heavy confusion among escorts and only a shell hole in the furmer.
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LONDON
admiralty
Demand for New Election in Boiler Union
Shop stewards of the Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Union in Vancouver called for Pat Conroy and J E McGuire of the Canadian Congress of Labor to declare an immediate new election of officers. They appointed a committee to present the demand to investigators and another to probe the union’s affiliation with the congress for possible drastic action.
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VANCOUVER
Ihon Shipbuilders' Union
Pat Conroy
J. E. McGuire
Canadian Congress of Labor
congress
Conroy
McCaie
C.CL
Reid pleads guilty to threat against Roosevelt in federal case
In Shreveport Louisiana on January 21 a jury found oilman William Thomas Reid guilty as charged of threatening to kill President Roosevelt. He faces up to five years in prison or a $1000 fine or both. He also faces an indictment on seditious utterances. A separate report notes a large fire at Camp Carson Colorado destroying 23 barracks with no injuries reported.
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SHREVEPORT
William Thomas Reid
Roosevelt
Reid
COLOGRADO SPRINGS
Colo
Camp Carson
Army
Major Break In German Lines Along the Manych
Soviet shock troops push westward across the Manych toward Salsk as German efforts to hold a line fail. Red Star reports Germans blow bridges and mineways while Soviets advance toward Rostov Kharkov and the Donets basin with deep Ukraine penetrations and new snatches toward Voroshilovgrad and Maikop oil fields.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
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Manych river
Salsk
Caucasus
Rostov
Manych
Don
Red Star
Kharkov
Donets
Voroshilovgrad
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Frances Farmer to Rest Up in Sanitarium
Frances Farmer, the screen actress, will be placed in a sanitarium for treatment and rest under Judge Dudley S. Valentine's order. She has a six month county jail sentence for probation violation in a drunk driving case and faced further legal actions after a Santa Monica arrest.
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Frances Farmer
Santa Monica
Califel
Jal
jyail
Aussies To Bomb Japs In Final War Effort
Air Minister Arthur S. Drakeford predicted Australian airmen would drop Australian made bombs on Tokyo before 1943 ends. He warned the RAAF would not stay home after threats to shores but would strike back for Pearl Harbor and Broome brutality. The war would continue in the Pacific until Japan is defeated.
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MELBOURNE
AA.P
Arthur S. Drakeford
southepst
Japan
Australia
Tokyo
Fat steer sells for 682.50 at National Western Show
Denver January 22 Fifteen carloads of fat Hereford and Aberdeen Angus cattle were sold for 337038 in the National Western Stock Show auction ring yesterday. Columbian Hell’s pepper, the grand champion fat steer, brought 682.50.
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DENVER
Columbian Hellspapper
Ross Munro Watches British Gunners Smash Nazi Tanks
Canadian Press war correspondent Ross Munro describes watching the Bou Arada battle on Jan. 18, detailing British 1st Army gunnery smashing Nazi tanks and defending a vital road from German attempts to cut northward. He recounts the forward observation post experience, shelling, and mud as he along with a British cameraman witnessed tanks driven off and German advances halted. The piece honors the soldiers and notes the intense frontline conditions throughout the day.
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Ross Munro
Munro
ROSS MUNRD
Canadian Press
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Goubellat
Metijez El Bab
Baya Arada
35 Killed In Plane Crash Near Dutch Guiana Coast
Washington reports a transport plane under Army contract crashed near the Dutch Guiana coast in South America. Twenty six passengers and nine crew members were killed with partial identifications of names and affiliations including FBI, State Department, Army Transport Command, and California Arabian Oil Company personnel.
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WASHINGTON
United States Army
Dutch Guana
South America
Harold K. George
Ai Transport Command
Eric M. Waight
Pleasant Valley
William Hodson
New
Russell A. Boughmain
Robert M. Scotlet
Ellis M. Roberts, Jr
Call A. Matteo
Charlies
Shively
Max Solomon
Charles 5. Roberts
Heyward O. Write
Oscar Spann
Basil D. Gallagher
Donald C. Martini Laeut
Peter D. Barnhart
Maraig Lewis
Charles H. Browrt
California-Arabian Oil Company
Hiding twenty dollar wallet in heater leads to loss
Edmonton report notes Roy Robins replaced an old heater with a new one and his son later confessed to concealing a wallet containing twenty dollars in the old heater. A search of the heater at the store where the new unit was purchased found the wallet missing and police are investigating.
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EDMONTON
Roy Robins
polle
RAF Drives Over Naziland Invasion Patrol
A strong RAF force crossed the English Channel toward Dieppe this afternoon. Medium bombers moved toward the German occupied coast with a swarm of fighters overhead protecting the mission.
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LONDON
English Channel
Dieppe
goard
Five Axis Submarines Sunk in South Atlantic
Rio de Janeiro January 21 reports Rear Admiral Jonas Ha. Ingram commander of U.S. naval forces in the South Atlantic announced that five Axis submarines have been sunk in the last month in the South Atlantic.
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RIO DE JANEIRO
Admirs
Jonas Ha. Ingram
United States
South Atlantic
Victory Gardens Call to All U.S. Families
Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard urged every U S family with open ground to join a victory garden program this year. He asked cities suburbs and communities to plant gardens to boost food production as part of wartime effort.
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WASHINGTON
Ph- Agriculture
Claude Wickard
United States
Cold disrupts 37 Lethbridge district schools new closure
All 37 Lethbridge School Division No. 7 schools closed due to cold with operations resuming when temperatures rise above zero. Superintendent Owen Williams announced. Division drivers asked to return pupils home at noon. St Aloysius School also not operating Friday.
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Owen Williams
Aloysius
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