U S troop transport sinks after mine hit in Pacific
Navy reports the 21,996 ton U S Army transport President Lincoln with 4,000 aboard struck a mine and sank in the south Pacific, with only four survivors. Other dispatches note Japanese airfield construction near Guadalcanal and bombers attacking enemy positions as Army aircraft engaged near Savo and New Georgia.
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Washington
Ldge
Pacific
Navy
South Pacific
Saloons Islands
Alemons
Sohope
Guadalcanal
Fasi Harbor
Army
Themy
Sbhorland Island
Asi Harbor
Rean
Guadalas
Manda Hay
New Georgia
Guadala
Allies face North African campaign and air power tasks
The report notes tens of thousands of French troops joining Allied forces in North Africa. Secretary of War Stim outlines three objectives: destroy or expel Axis forces in the region, attack Tripoli, and strike at General Rommel with coordinated British cooperation.
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Ashington
United Na
Eanwhile
Stim
Tula
Stroy
Isi
Tripoli
Rommel
Irleans firm to launch 28th ship
Irleans firm announces plan to launch its 28th ship as new naval construction continues. Details on ship class and launch date remain forthcoming from the company and port authorities.
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Irleans
Train Derailment Near Tallulah Injures Eight
Eleven cars of an Illinois Central passenger train derailed five miles west of Tallulah in Quebec yesterday. Nine Monroe ambulances plus others assisted. eight people reported slightly hurt and treated for minor wounds. Wreckers cleared the line and service resumed by yesterday afternoon.
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Monroe
Rayville
Winnsboro
Quebec
Tallulah
Illinois Central
Wlinois Central
Vicksburg
Miss
Plan for Payment of Victory Tax in Louisiana
Baton Rouge officials prepare for a five percent payroll tax named the victory tax. Governor Jones aides instruct state agencies and local governments to contact the New Orleans collector of internal revenue for forms and instructions.
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Baton Rouge
James I. Smith
Sam Jones
Collector of
Internal’ Revenue
New Orleans
Internal Revenue
Smith
Collector of Internal Revenue
Collector of Revenue
Washington
Answers on the draft questions from the Office of War Information
Washington authorities publish Q A on selective service and recruiting practices. The official statements note that voluntary enlistment ceases and entry remains possible through selective service, with limited exceptions for women in WAAC WAVES SPARS nurses corps and a few men who may be commissioned.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Army
Navy
Waacs
WAVES
SPARS
Army and Navy
Cotton Farmers Approve Quotas in War Crop Vote
Washington December 12 14 percent the nations cotton farmers approved federal marketing quotas for next year in an agriculture department referendum. Incomplete returns from 14 of 19 states showed 396 920 for and 58 821 against the control program a large 87 percent margin. Georgia stood as the main opposition led by Tom Linder the state agricultural commissioner who campaigned against production restrictions for the war.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Georgia
Tom Linder
Louisiana Farmers Approve Market Quotas
Louisiana cotton farmers again approved cotton marketing quotas. The vote was held in Baton Rouge with approval reiterated as part of federal price support programs.
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Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Stamp 10 Good For Three Pounds Sugar
Baton Rouge LA December 12 State OPA Director A S Goodman announced that stamp number 10 becomes effective December 1 and expires at midnight January 31 1943. Stamp 1 and stamp 9 also provide three pounds of sugar with different expiry dates.
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Baton Rouge
OPA
A. S. Goodman
Ship Commander Wins Congressional Medal of Honor on San Francisco
Bruce McCandless then commander of the flagship San Francisco received the nation’s highest military honor from Admiral Ernest J. King onboard the ship. He earned the medal for leading through heavy shellfire off Savo Island in the Solomons on November 13 after his senior officers were killed and he was wounded. President Roosevelt’s citation was read as hundreds of sailors watched.
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San Francisco
Bruce McCandless
Ernest J. King
McCandless
Admiral King
United States Fleet
Roosevelt
Allied air offensives hit Rouen and Naples as raids continue
Allied forces reported heavy bomber attacks on Rouen and Naples with 18 German fighters destroyed while two bombers and four Allied fighters went missing. American Liberators damaged Naples and Allied fleets targeted Turin as weekend raids extended across Europe amid bad weather and ongoing combat.
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London
Rouen
France
Holland
Amash
Reuven
Turin
le Havre
Europe
Calais
Lyon
Italy
Naples
Hitler Shifts Air Power From Russia to Africa
Allied air power grows in French Africa aiding the Sicily channel drive while Hitler redeploys planes from Russia. Tunis and Bizerte see British-American pressure as Arnold and British authorities warn that Axis air superiority there may be broken, impacting Eastern Front logistics and winter defenses.
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Hitler
Russia
Africa
Pacific
New Guinea
French Africa
Sicilian
Mediterranean
Tunisia
Bizerte
Tunis
Arnold
Europe
Dan
Gumbo Ball Darling of LSU Crowned Miss Beverly Young
Miss Beverly Young of Abbeville is named Darling of LSU for the 1942 43 term at the Gumbo ball. She is a Little Colonel in ROTC, Pi Beta Phi, and will have her picture in the Gumbo yearbook. Other campus belles named include Virginia Bell Dotty Ruth Christopher Linwood Gisclard and Monica Liles.
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Baton Rouge
Dee
Beverly Young
Abbeville
Young
Pi Beta Phimi
Axis War Prisoners Freed Of Shackles In Canada And Britain
Axis prisoners in Canada and Britain were unshackled three days early as announced by defense headquarters in Ottawa and an authoritative London source. Berlin remains silent and says the issue still sits in diplomatic negotiations, with Italy and some German prisoners released in Canada.
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Ottawa
Berlin
Canada
Defense Headquarters
Switzerland
London
Britain
Foreign Office
Transocean
Wilhelm Strasse
Russians Claim 169000 Killed 74500 Captured in Stalingrad Front
Soviet information bureau says since winter offensives began on the Stalingrad and central fronts Russia has killed 169000 and captured 74500 enemy troops. German forces reportedly mount a desperate counteroffensive to break the encirclement northwest of Stalingrad as a large-scale bid to reopen the Don bend.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Central
Soviet Information Bureau
Volga
Don River
Don
Japanese at Buna Holdouts Trapped by Allied Fire
Allied forces annihilate two Japanese garrisons at Buna and Buna mission in southern New Guinea. Australian and American troops trap the units, cut off their escape, and pound cocoanut groves with 25 pounders and 105 millimeter guns while planes harry positions.
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Melbourne
Buna
Buna Mission
New Guinea
Liberty ship Abraham Lincoln christened at New Orleans
Miss Frances Cagle a 17 year old Kentucky student christened the Liberty ship Abraham Lincoln in New Orleans. She called it the most wonderful thrill of her life as Kentucky students and teachers participated in the ceremony at Delta shipyards. The group toured the city before returning to Kentucky with plans ranging from defense work to the army.
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New Orleans
Frances Cagle
Kentucky
Mias Cagle
Hickman High School
Jalen
Miss Cagle
Massie Capps Dies From Pollock Fire Burns
Mrs. Massie Capps, 34, died at Pineville Charity hospital from burns after her Pollock home burned. Survived by three sons and three daughters.
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Alexandria
Massie Capps
Pineville Charity Hospital
Pollock
Germans Admit Allied Troops Scoring Gains In Tunisia Front
Berlin radio reported the Eighth Army's Libya offensive against axis lines at El Agheila with advances far south. Rome said Montgomery and Rommel conferred in Tunisia on coordinating operations while Allied forces in Tunisia formed a straighter Medjez El Bab line and repelled new German tank and infantry attacks. French forces reportedly seized fortified positions east of Djanet near the Algiers Libyan frontier.
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London
Eighth Army
Libya
Fl Agheila
Berlin
Bernard L. Montgomery
Erwin Rommel
Ft Alamein
Egypt
K. A. N. Anderson
Tunisia
Rome
Mateur
Tebourba
Diedeida
Med
Morocco
Tunis-Bizerte
Djanet
Algiers
DNB
Will Honor Its Men Quachita Parish P T A Tribute Meeting
Quachita parish school P T A will honor alumni serving in the armed forces at a 3 o clock meeting in the school auditorium. A service flag will be unveiled. The school lists more than 750 former students in the war with hundreds more believed to have served.
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Quachita Parish
P.T. A
Soldiers to wear gas proof clothes in olive drab
Major Robert L. Dillon announced at a New Orleans conference that all U S soldiers overseas will wear olive drab gas proof garments from underwear to handkerchiefs. He showed an olive drab gas proof shirt with hood and adjustable tail to seal against gas seepage. Colonel Thomas W. Jones noted the south still dominates cotton uniform cloth production.
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New Orleans
United States
Robert L. Dillon
Philadelphia Army Depot
Dillon
Thomas W. Jones
Philadelphia
South
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