Allies close in on Sanananda as ships ablaze
Allied reports say Japanese destroyers were spotted off Guadalcanal and attacked by motor torpedo boats with one vessel hit and three possible hits on others. Separate messages claim jungle fighters near Buna close on Sanananda, with MacArthur HQ declaring the enemy position hopeless as air strikes target Lae and Madang.
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Washington
Guadalcanal
Navy
Tassafaronga
Lavero Pens
Coughlan Harbor
Associated Press
Buns
New Guinea
Sanenanda Arca
MacArthur
Lae
Madang
Westbrook Pegler Attacks Liberty Postwar Plans
Westbrook Pegler discusses fears that wartime liberty may erode. criticizes Henry Wallace for proposing postwar Soviet oversight of enemy school systems and questions Stalinist commitment. Pegler warns of continued Soviet interference despite treaties and US experience.
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Henry Wallace
United States
Hitler
Wallace
Russia
Stalin
Europe
Soviet Russia
New Deal
Communist Party
New Chapter in Grim Navy War Story
Washington, Jan 4. A navy report on a battleship’s success against Japanese air attacks in two late 1943 battles opens a new chapter in naval warfare. The ship, under Captain Leigh Gatch, credited with shooting down 32 enemy planes at Santa Cruz on October 8 and aiding a night strike near Guadalcanal on November 11, signals stronger U S sea power under darkness and long-range action.
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Washington
Navy
Pacific
West
Leigh Gatch
Annapolis
Santa Cruz
Gatch
Jones
Linding
Draft classification cards required for 18 to 45 year olds
Washington January 4 All men aged 18 to 45 who registered for selective service must carry draft classification cards starting February, part of vigorous action against delinquents. Penalties include up to five years in prison and a 16900 fine for failing to carry classification and registration cards. Local boards to notify delinquents and federal district attorneys of noncompliance.
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Washington
Air Selective Service
Selective Service
Flood Drenched Willamette River Localities
The Willamette River flood, worst in years, submerged hundreds of square miles from Salem to Portland. Ten people died or were missing as floodwaters forced evacuations, damaged farms, and halted rail lines near Oregon City. Health officials warned of typhoid risk and began vaccine distribution to McMinnville Corvallis and Eugene.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
McMinnville
Corvallis
Eugene
Frederick D. Stricker
State Health Offier
West Salem
Coquille
Bandon
Salem
Willamette
Oregon City
Southern Pacific Railroad
Highest Deposits Shown By Banks In 1942
New Orleans finance report shows local clearing house banks posting a record end year deposits total of 460,729,560, up from 354,643,585 in 1941. Most gains occurred in late 1942 as government securities and bank holdings rose from 95,614,000 to 214,912,007, while loans and discounts declined by over 14,000,000.
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New Orleans
Tough job awaits 18th Congress in wartime duties
Washington dispatch notes the 78th Congress faces historic tasks to marshal manpower money and materials for victory and peace. The session opens amid a near even Senate House split and anticipated battles over economy federal powers and wartime controls. Congress already allocated 220 billion dollars with Roosevelt seeking about 100 billion more as rationing and resource management loom.
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Washington
Jan
78Th Congress
Ita
Congress
Greater Centrol
United Nations
Roosevelt
Meat shelves bare in San Francisco
San Francisco faced severe shortages with meat nearly vanished since New Year’s Eve and no stock expected until Tuesday. Grocers report scant butter and eggs while fresh vegetables bakery goods and packaged items remain the only well supplied foods. W D Hadeler executive secretary of the California Retail Grocers association filed a request for higher food quotas with the Senate Small Business Committee and urged California’s delegation to seek federal aid.
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San Francisco
W. D. Hadeler
California Retail Grocers’ Association
Office of Price Administration
San Francisco Bay
California
Senate Small Business Committee
Hadeler
Seven Army Airmen Dead in B-25 Crash Near Monroe
Seven of eight crew members aboard a B-25 vanished over Louisiana during a flight from Barksdale Field to Walterboro North Carolina were recovered from La Fourche Swamp near Monroe. The bodies were found by hunter Tillie Morgan after the crash, with local officials arranging for transport to Dixie Funeral Home. One body remains missing. The crew included Second Lieutenant Charles F. Raymond and Captain Fred M. Hampton, among others.
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Walterboro
N. C
la Fourche Swamp
Highway M
Monroe
Selman Field
Tillie Morgan
A. A. Thoman
Joe Combs
W. O. Smith
R. A. F. Navigation School
Selmanfield
Dixie Funeral Home
South Carolina
Highway 8
Charles F. Raymond
Barksdale
Glenbrook
Conn
Fred M. Hampton
Lou Ella Hampton
Sheffield
Delph Frantz Joins Houston Press Editorial Staff
Shreveport La January 4 Delph Frantz former managing editor of the Shreveport Journal has joined the editorial staff of the Houston Press. Frantz led the Journal for nearly 25 years and formerly worked as a Journey reporter. He ran for mayor in the last municipal election but lost narrowly.
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Shreveport
Delph Frantz
Shreveport Journal
The
Houston Press
Houston
Texas
Frantz
Journal
Journey
Fuel Shortage Slows Nazi Russian Campaign in Mezdok Loss
Stockholm reports informed sources say Nazi failure to seize Grozny oil fields after a drive to Mezdok has created their worst fuel bottleneck since the war began. Germans may convert farm machinery to generators and rely on synthetic fuel while windfalls from occupied areas dry up. To sustain grand-scale war, Germany would need 20 million tons of gasoline yearly, with stockpiles and Maikop gone and Grozny at risk.
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Stockholm
Grozny
Russian Caucasus
Mezdok
Russia
Germany
Romania
Alfred Jodl
Hitler
Maikop
Hardy Sworn as Appeals Member in Louisiana
George W. Hardy, former Shreveport mayor, took an oath as a member of the court of appeal second circuit in the new Rapides parish courthouse. Appointed by Governor Sam Jones, he succeeds Justice Joe B. Hamiter who moved to the state supreme court. He sits with Presiding Judge H. C. Drew and Judge R. M. Taliaferro. Judge H. H. White welcomed him. A. E. Ewing of Shreveport is clerk of the court.
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Alexandria
George W. Hardy
Shreveport
Court of Appeal, Second Circuit
Rapides Parish
Hardy
Sam Jones
Joe B. Hamiter
State Supreme Court
H. C. Drew
Minden
R. M. Taliaferro
Harrisonburg
Reds Advance on Both Banks of Terek River
The Red army in the Caucasus pushed along both banks of the Terek river driving Germans back northwest and west from Mozdok and Malgobek. They recaptured Mozdok and Malgobek, with several villages reported taken. Prokhladnenski, a railroad junction 35 miles west of Mozdok, becomes the next target as winter rains turn the terrain.
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Moscow
Red Army
The
Caucasus
Terek River
Mozdok
Gromy
Malgobek
Stalingrad
Velikie Luki
Red
Phokhiadnenski
Nalchik
Dies committee loses standing as dissent grows
Washington Jan 4 The Dies committee lost its official standing yesterday and faces a possible request to continue the group formed in 1938 to root out un American activities On the eve of that move Representative Voorhis Democrat California voiced minority views with the committee’s annual report praising actions against fascist Nazi communist and Japanese elements while criticizing agencies for not dismissing workers deemed un American He charged the majority with failing to unite democracy and voiced dissatisfaction with the report’s conclusions
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Washington
Dies Committee
House
Voorhis
California
Office of Price Administration
Federal Communications Commission
Department of Agriculture
Tire inspections enforced for motorists in wartime
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration requires all car owners to have their first tire inspection by the end of January and warns that neither gasoline ration books nor tires will be issued to those who fail to be inspected by January 3. The policy applies to motorists with any rationing book.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Hull Contends Pearl Harbor Plans Nearly Smashed Nation
The White Book by Secretary Hull reveals Japan planned a surprise mass attack at Pearl Harbor and sought to pressure Roosevelt into a Japanese navy dominated outcome. Ambassador Grew warned in January 1941 that Japan planned the strike if tensions rose, while Tokyo pressed Washington on a peace process.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Secreary
State Hull
Roosevelt
Pacific
Joseph C. Grew
State Department
Japan
United States
Agents of 15 Parishes Meet for Northeast Louisiana Program
County and home demonstration agents from 15 northeast Louisiana parishes join LSU extension and experiment station specialists to outline the coming year's work. The 8:30 a.m. Tuesday start in West Monroe marks a two day program, with women’s conferences at Northeast Junior College and poultry program talks tied to Wickard’s national production goal of 200 million chicks.
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Northeast Louisiana
Louisiana State University
West Monroe
Northeast Junior College
H. C. Sanders
L. S. A. Extension Division
Ouachita
Union
Morehouse
Lincoln
Caldwell
Jackson
Richland
Madison
East Carroll
West Carroll
Franklin
Tensas
Catahoula
Concordia
LaSalle
Louisiana
Claude R. Wickard
United States
Wickard
Death Edict for Negro Soldier in Britain
Private Sammie Mickles a 23 year old from Citronelle Alabama was sentenced by a general court martial in Glasgow on December 30 to be hanged for killing Polish seaman Jan Ciapeiak. The case marked the first death sentence for an American soldier in Britain since the war began and faces presidential review.
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London
Sammie Mickles
Citromelle
Ala
Glasgow
Jan Ciapeiak
United States Army
Mickles
Britain
Roosevelt
Ciapciak
Allied air power shown in Tunisian action over weekend
Allied planes shot down 28 enemy aircraft and damaged 34 base facilities in Tunisia over the weekend as French forces advanced toward the Tunis Tripoli highway and deeper into southern Libya. US pilots claimed 23 Axis planes, including 17 by Fortresses and 2 by P-38 escorts, with Allied losses minimal.
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London
Tunisia
Tunis- Tripoli
Libya
Lake Chad
Actio
North Africa
Tunis
Sousse
Sfax
Tacks
Bone
Foudouk
Pinchon
No Chance For More Oil Seen
Petroleum Administrator Ickes told a Senate committee that eastern gasoline and fuel supplies were on a hand to mouth basis and would stay that way for months. He said rationing would continue with only slight easing possible, noting a new East Texas to Illinois pipeline starting February 1 would help, though demands for American forces in North Africa were rising. He emphasized continuing dependence on limited fuel stocks and longer sea-haul routes.
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Washington
Ickes
Senate
Eastern Seaboard
East Texas
Ilinois
North Africa
Texas Gulf Ports
Will Rogers Jr. Arrives to Join Congress
Will Rogers Jr. arrived in Washington to join Congress representing California’s 16th district. The 31-year-old representative, son of the humorist, comes from Camp Texas where he served as a lieutenant in a tank destroyer unit. He notes his father’s joke tradition and reflects on life in Congress and the Army’s role in his early career.
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Washington
Will Rogers, Jr
Congress
California
Rogers
Texas
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