Strict Tire Ration Plan Sets Jan 5 Start Date
United Press reports the office of price administration will begin tire rationing on January 5 for nonessential motorists. Doctors nurses veterinarians and school bus operators may buy new tires while most private motorists cannot. Emergency and essential vehicles including ambulances police and fire units qualify for replacements, with farm tractors and certain trucks also eligible. Henderson urged reduced driving and proper tire care to conserve scarce supplies amid a 98 percent reliance on foreign crude rubber.
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Office of Price Administration
Leon Henderson
Henderson
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Red forces storm Kerch as Axis aids Libya race
German high commands report Soviet attempts to break the Kerch straits failed as four troop transports were sunk and five damaged. Heavy losses claimed for the Russians, while Sevastopol siege fighting continues. Far north, reports say Rommel’s Afrika corps seeks relief from Rom by Axis reinforcements moving from Tripoli toward Cyrenaica.
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Crimean
Kerch
Sevastopol
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Black Sea
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Tunisia
Tripoli
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Four Prisoners Escape Jail In Early Evening Break
Four inmates confined in the east dormitory of the county jail escaped between 6 40 and 7 30 p m Friday using a metal piece to widen a brick wall hole and lowering themselves to the ground on a knotted bed sheet rope. Emery Hall 18 of 3008 16th St SW returned voluntarily after a call to his home. The three still at large are Oscar Roach 22 of Slate W Va John Scardenie 28 and William Haberman 23 of 1400 Gibbs NE. Hall faces a six month term for domestic relations charges. The others are serving municipal court sentences for adultery a suspicious person and contributing to delinquency respectively.
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Oscar Roach
Slate
W. Va
John Scardenie
William Haberman
Gibbs
Allied envoys get report on war strategy
President Roosevelt set eight major war strategy conferences and invited Winston Churchill to six. The meetings included American army chiefs and representatives from the western hemisphere and allied nations, with aims to inform anti Axis groups of progress and set broad strategy for 1943. Churchill attended with plans to discuss invasion threats to Britain and global operations.
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Belgium
Denmark
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Western Hemisphere
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George C. Marshall
Army
Henry H. Arnold
White House
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Maxim Litvinov
Harry L. Hopkins
Churchill
United States
Britain
Congress
Japan Loses Merchant Fleet At Alarm Rate In War
Japan is losing ships at more than one a day, threatening to reduce its merchant marine drastically within two years if unchecked. US and Dutch reports cover three weeks of combat in Philippine, Borneo, and Malayan waters, listing 26 Japanese vessels sunk or damaged by submarines or air strikes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Japan
Pacific
Philippine
Borneo
Malayan
Britain
United States
America
Parts Of Metropolis Burn Fiercely In Manila Raid
Japanese air force bombed Manila as Gen. MacArthur’s open city policy stood. American and British refugees sheltered near the bay as bombers struck the walled city, hitting churches, a treasury, a college, a hospital and coastguard cutters. The raid lasted over three hours with ships sunk and fires raging through six blocks.
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Associated Press
Manila
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Manila Bulletin
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Paniqui
Baguio
Commonwealth
Lingayen Gulf
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Treasury Building
Manila Hotel
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Canton Plants Lose 49 Jobs in Week Ended December 19
Canton Chamber of Commerce reports 33 190 production workers on the payroll for the week ended December 19, a drop of 49 from the prior week. The figure shows an 8 045 gain versus 25 145 employed in the same week last year, excluding office staff.
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Canton
Canton Chamber of Commerce
Abandoned Crooksville Coal Mine Becomes Bomb Shelter
In Crooksville Ohio an idle coal mine at the head of Main Street has been drained renovated and converted into a bomb shelter. The shelter is large enough to accommodate the entire population of Crooksville, reflecting a local emergency preparedness effort.
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Ohio
Crooksville
Dutch Bombers Sink Another Enemy Ship
Dutch army bombers sank the largest Japanese ship in a concentration off Kuching Sarawak on Borneo after six to seven bombs caused a blaze. A lighter was sunk and an Airdrome raid left one civilian dead and six wounded. Japan losses tallied at 16 ships sunk and five damaged since the Pacific war began.
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Netherlands East Indies
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Sarawak
Borneo
Aneta
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Pacific
Pownall Named Singapore Chief In Far East Command
Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Pownall, 53, artillery expert and former vice chief of Britain's general staff, takes over the Far East HQ at Singapore from Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Broke-Popham. His first task is to monitor the Malayan invasion.
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Brooke - Popham
Explosion at powder plant blows roof off building
An explosion at the Austin Powder Co plant in Glenwillow blew the roof off a small mixing building late last night. No workers were injured. A foreman attributed the blast to a wheel sticking on a paddlewheel mixer and the friction igniting a 30 pound batch of black powder.
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Austin Powder Co
Glenwillow
Coast Planes Drive Submarines Away
San Francisco December 27 The navy announced no enemy activity against Pacific coast waters for four days yet ignored speculation that its bombers may have accounted for all Japanese submarines that attacked nine ships in the previous five days. It admitted sinking one submarine but was known to have heavily attacked three others and likely damaged them.
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San Francisco
Navy
Pacific
Hull calls bombing of Manila fiendish
Secretary of State Hull denounces Japan for bombing Manila calling it fiendish and barbaric. He cites Japan’s conduct in China since 1937 and compares it to Hitler’s cruelty in Europe, asserting Manila remains an open city but Japan ignores it.
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Manila
Washington
Japan
Philippines
China
Hitler
Europe
Private dining rooms for New Year’s Eve available
Two private dining rooms offered for exclusive groups only one seats 16 the other 35 dial 40249 for details.
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U S to Treat Japanese POWs Under Geneva Pact
The United States informed Japan that all captured Japanese POWs will be treated under the 1929 Geneva convention. Aims include an American led prisoner of war office with Red Cross liaison to handle inquiries. Japan’s possible ratification remains uncertain while Axis powers follow the pact. Internment camps are planned for POWs until exchange or war end.
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Washington
United States
Geneva
Japan
Germany
Italy
International Red Cross
Marc Peter
Peiping
Tientsin
Shanghai
Wake Island
Guam
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Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
War Department
Nimitz Arrives in Honolulu to Lead Pacific Fleet
The Navy announced Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz has arrived in the Hawaiian area to assume command of the Pacific fleet, relieving Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. Nimitz declined to make a statement.
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Honolulu
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Chester W. Nimitz
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Husband E. Kimmel
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