Japanese Losses in Solomon Sea Fight Revealed
The navy reports ten Japanese ships including destroyers sunk or damaged and two American ships, including the heavy cruiser Chicago, lost in a week of intense sea-air combat in the Solomon Islands area starting January 29. Japan lost about 60 to 61 planes. American planes numbered 22 in the engagements. The Chicago was sunk after air attacks on January 9 while covering American transport movements.
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Washington
Chicago
Solomon Iands
Guadalcanal
Heavy Allied Blows Hit Japanese Across Pacific Front
Allied air and submarine forces push against Japan from Burma to the South Seas. U S submarines report 123 ships sunk and 22 damaged, while Gen MacArthur says B 29s bombed Rabaul for a second night. RAF bombers also hit Heho airfield and Akyab base.
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Associated Press
Far Pacific
Burma
South Seas
Navy
Frank Knox
Washington
UU. S
Southwest Pacific
Knox
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
Rabaul
New Britain
Perrel
Pacific
Heho
Akyab Island
Reds Enter Kharkov Suburbs Amid Stubborn Front
The Red army pushed toward Kharkov as German forces admit setbacks around the Kharkov area. Soviet claims placed advances along the Donets basin with several towns recaptured west of Shakhty and a push toward the Likhaia–Debeltseva rail line as fighting rages near Kharkov.
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Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Orel
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Taganrog
Donets
Ukraine
Kiev
Red Army
Chuguev
Lozovaya
Kramatorsk
N. F. Vatutin
Rostov
Shakhty
Likhaya
Voroshievsk
Donets Basin
Debeltseva
Move To Curtail Executive Order Gains In Senate
Strong Democratic support formed in the Senate for a bipartisan House push to repeal Roosevelt's executive order capping salaries at 25000 dollars after tax. Senator Byrd and Senator Clark said they would back a repealer attached to a debt limit increase from 110 to 210 billion dollars, aiming to end government by decree and restore congressional control.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Byrd
D-Va
Cark
D-Mo
Finance Committee
House Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Shipping Losses To North Africa Held At Minimum
Allied HQ in North Africa reports American and British shipping losses under 2 percent in moving 780 ships totaling 6.5 million tons to North Africa since Nov 8. Admiral Cunningham refused to speculate on Axis ability to evacuate Rommel and Von Arnim, saying he wouldn’t like to say what would happen to them.
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North Africa
Andrew B. Cunningham
Rommel
von Arnim
Aunningham
Taxpayer Group Proposes Broad Iowa Budget Cuts
The Iowa Taxpayers Association urges a sweeping state government economy to Governor Hickenlooper. It calls for merging the Toledo and Davenport juvenile homes, trimming the supreme court bench, and reducing the highway patrol. The group notes 1941 42 inmate counts and suggests savings from personnel cuts and attrition along with wage offsets.
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Des Moines
Iowa Taxpayers Assn
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
State Supreme Court
Iowa Highway Patrol
State Tax Commission
Board of Control and Educational Institutions
Toledo
Iowa Taxpayers Association Proposes Broad State Cutbacks
The group adds recommendations beyond economics in state expenses including trimming the official Iowa register and agriculture year book, curtailing travel, equalizing salaries, eliminating an assistant attorney general, leaving auditor vacancies, cutting draftsmen, bringing commerce expenditures under budget control, consolidating agriculture divisions, downsizing education and motor vehicle spending, reviewing state guard costs, suspending coal advertising, reassessing National Guard appropriations, conditioning state fair board funding on US contracts, halting aid to agricultural societies, selling the custodial farm at Clive, and sharply cutting other items in the Iowa budget.
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State Auditor’s Office
Board of Control
State Commerce Commission
State Department of Agriculture
Office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Motor Vehicle Department
Iowa State Guard
Iowa Coal
National Guard
State Guard
State Fair Board
United States
The
Fair Board
Clive
Iowa
Italian envoy Ciano meets Papal secretary at Vatican
London reports Count Galeazzo Ciano new Italian ambassador to the Holy See was received by Luigi Cardinal Maglione Papal secretary of state on his first official Vatican visit.
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London
Galeazzo Ciano
Holy See
Luigi Cardinal Maglione
Vatican
Berlin
Associated Press
Sai
Wickard presses for 100 million farm incentive funds
Secretary Wickard, after a subcommittee vote, remains hopeful for a 100 million dollar farm incentive program to boost food production. He faces Senate inquiry on production and distribution and urges farmers to meet higher quotas despite uncertainties.
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Washington
House Appropriations
Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard
Subs Committee
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
Senate
Agriculture Department
Deterioration In Gandhi Seen In Poona Fast
Five doctors examined Mohandas K Gandhi as he entered the seventh day of a fast in Poona and conferred at the Aga Khan palace where he is detained. A New Delhi communique said his condition has further deteriorated in the past 24 hours. He began the fast last Wednesday to protest Lord Linlithgow's refusal to grant unconditional release. He is drinking only citrus juice and water.
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Poona
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
the Aga Khan
Gandhi
New Delhi
Lord Linlithgow
Murphy put off flight to San Francisco after medical scare
Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy was removed from a plane in Dallas and hospitalized on an emergency flight to visit his injured brother. Dr. E O Rushing said he was in nervous collapse but not in critical condition.
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Dallas
Tex
Supreme Court
Frank Murphy
San Francisco
E. O. Rushing
Murphy
Nelson asks resignation of Eberstadt in WPB shakeup
Washington dispatch reports War Production Board head Nelson asking Ferdinand Eberstadt to resign and naming Charles E. Wilson as executive vice chair. The move follows a likely clash with armed services over production control and hints at Nelson’s own possible removal.
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Washington
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Ferdinand E. Eberstadt
War Production Board
Charles E. Wilson
Nelson
Armed Services
Eberstadt
Army
Navy
White House
Bernard Baruch
Roosevelt
Wilson
General Electric Co
Robert P. Patterson
Ralph A. Bard
Chamber Proposes Pay as You Go Tax Deferment Plan
The United States Chamber of Commerce unveils a new deferment plan shifting 1942 tax liabilities to postwar dates. Ellsworth C. Alvord tells the Ways and Means Committee about a 20 percent withholding starting as soon as July 1 with March 15 and June 15 payments still due for 1943 liabilities. No interest would accrue on deferred taxes under the plan.
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Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce Today
Ellsworth C. Alvord
Chamber
Federal Finance Committee
House
Ways and Means Committee
Alvord
Alvara
Alverd
Germans Driven Back in Central Tunisia Fight
Allied tanks and air power push Rommel’s troops back six miles in the Faid area as American and French forces abandon Gafsa after a Rommel offensive. American aircraft shoot down 11 enemy planes amid heavy casualties on both sides and Rommel reinforces with about 100 to 150 tanks in a bid to protect his flank.
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North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Faid
Tunisia
Faid Pass
Gafsa
Gulf of Gabes
Rommel
Sidi Bouzid
Sfax
U. S
27 Dead as Cold Wave Grips East
The cold wave caused at least 27 deaths and widespread disruption across the east with sub zero and 50 below readings. New England reported 11 deaths as frostbite cases soared and school closures increased.
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New England
Boston
New Bedford
Mass
Warrensburg
Mount Washington
N. H
Mercury
Syracuse
N. Y
Hartford
Conn
Red Cross
Westport
Florida Everglades
Horticultural Protective Service
Explosion injures 17 in Grundy Center Iowa cleaning plant
An explosion at the Sanders cleaning plant during firefighting injuries 17 persons, including Glen Sanders 48 proprietor and town council member, Fireman James Hasbrouck 48, and Pearl Vogt 38. Sanders and Hasbrouck were taken to Veterans hospital Des Moines with leg injuries. Vogt treated for back injuries. Several others hit by bricks and glass. Fire department crews were extinguishing flames when bricks and debris struck.
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Grundy Center
Sanders
Glen Sanders
James Hasbrouck
Hasbrouck
Pearl Vogt
Veterans
Openan
Billy Myers
Oran Brasted
H. C. Fred- Trice
John Leffler
Waylord
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Africa
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