Japanese Drop Supplies in New Guinea
Japanese forces attempted to relieve their Buna Gona garrison in northeastern New Guinea by parachute dropping about 100 bundles of supplies on Friday. Eight large pusher planes escorted by Zero fighters attacked the area as Australian and American troops pressed the enemy into a shrinking pocket. The communique reported 400 Japanese killed in the Gona area with about 40 drowned when barges sank.
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Brydon Taves
M’arthur
Australia
U.P
Buna-Gona
New Guinea
Buna
Sanananda
Douglas MacArthur
Gona
Morocco
Berlin
Diedleida
Mateur
Change in Train Times Listed
Rail officials warn travelers to check Sunday departures as schedules for all trains entering and leaving Butte are adjusted under a government order to extend travel times for war emergency needs. Changes take effect Sunday December 6 with new arrival and departure times.
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Butte
North
Montanan predicts war to last four more years
Robert T. Merill of Havre Mont predicted the war would continue four years or more at a Veterans of Foreign Wars Founders Day banquet. He cited pay for service personnel for six months after hostilities end as a prime goal of the VFW program. Traveling salesmen to gain gasoline rations for occupational driving was announced by Rubber Director William M. Jeffers, with no immediate details.
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Denver
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Robert T. Merill
Havre
Mont
Washington
William M. Jeffers
President orders WPA to be disbanded and liquidated
President Roosevelt ordered the Works Progress Administration disbanded, citing wartime private employment gains. Remaining staff to be handled by states and locals, with uncompleted projects transferred to other federal agencies. Liquidation to finish by June 30. WPA spent over 10 billion dollars aiding about 38 million people.
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Washington
Works Projects Administration
Congress
Roosevelt
Philip B. Fleming
Federal Works Administrator
WPA
Petain in Vichy Crisis as Laval Backs Nazi Move
Paris dispatches report Petain's regime collapsing as Laval works to form a pro Nazi government. Edouard Herriot and Jean Borotra arrested in Rome and Geneva reports note Petain kept in ignorance while Germans surround him in local hotels. A cabinet member says Petain warned on November 26 that individuals must rely on themselves.
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London
Marshal Petain
Pierre Laval
Associated Press
Rome Radio
Dispatches
Switzerland
Edouard Herriot
Republic of France
Jean Borotra
Rome
Leon Jouhaux
General Confederation of Labor
Francois de Tesson
Petain
Vichy
Laval
Munich
Paris
Senate Approves Property Transfer With Panama Pact
The Senate approved a measure transferring several United States properties to Panama in a 40 to 9 vote. Critics said the move bypasses Senate constitutional control on treaties, since the bill is structured to pass with a simple majority in both chambers, unlike a treaty that would require two thirds.
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Washington
Senate
Panama
House
Women's Clubs Step Up For Butte Anti-Tuberculosis Drive
Butte civic groups prepare Christmas seal booths as plans near completion. Mrs J H Rahilly, drive chairman, urges club volunteers for booth maintenance. Henrietta Crockett promotes the seal sale at civic meetings and schools while noting Montana groups endorse the 1942 sale including the American Legion auxiliary, Montana Federation of Women's Clubs, and Montana Congress of Parents and Teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
J. H. Rahilly
Silver Pe Tuberculosis Society
Torheatront
Henrietta Crockett
Germ
Montana
American Legion Auxiliary
Montana Federation of Women's Clubs
Montana Congress of Parents and Teachers
Holsey Johnson
Parent
Torpedo Boats Prove Worth in Solomons
Navy torpedo boat base at Solomon Islands praises a small squadron that sunk one Japanese destroyer and damaged four others while disrupting enemy ships during Guadalcanal days. The pilots and crew earned high Marine regard for night harrying actions that kept warships away from the airfield.
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Navy Torpedo Boat Base
Solomon Islands
United States
Solomon
Navy
Guadalcanal
Japs Believed Running Short on Guadalcanal
Secretary of the Navy Knox said Japan’s latest effort to deliver troops and supplies to Guadalcanal failed, indicating enemy material shortage. He noted Six warships, two transports, and a cargo vessel were sunk and predicted renewed, larger attempts with reinforcements as long as they could be mounted. Maj. Gen. Mitchell discussed plans for a new airfield as territory expands amid impending heavy rains.
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Washington
Japan
Guadalcanal Island
Knox
Solomons
Ralph J. Mitchell
Marine Aviation
Guadalcanal
Mitchell
Tebourba Battles Shape Tunisia Campaign
Allied forces led by French American British troops pressed in Tunisia as Tebourba’s fate remained contested. Axis counterattacks devastated tanks while German forces reportedly held Mateur and Tebourba areas as Allied troops consolidated rear positions amid heavy combat.
Jeffers Warns of Rubber Crisis Threat to 1943
William M. Jeffers rubber director warned that materials for synthetic rubber plants are being diverted to other war uses. He told a joint Senate and House committee that urgent equipment like forgings valves and heat exchangers is needed now to avoid a serious rubber shortage in 1943 and possible military disaster. He expressed little hope of solving priorities in time and criticized conflict with Roosevelt's September 17 executive order.
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Washington
William M. Jeffers
House
Jeffers
Roosevelt
Asuncion under martial law reported in Paraguay
Buenos Aires dispatch says Asuncion has been under martial rule since Sunday after the government ordered the arrest of several army and navy officers and leaders of the National Republican party who opposed extending President Hirginio Morenigo's presidency. The report notes the action was carried out to quell opposition to the term extension.
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Buenos Aires
U.P
Paraguay
Asuncion
National Republican Party
Hirginio Morenigo
War News Analysis on Axis War Fatigue and Pacific Fight
Kirke L. Simpson discusses the potential effect if Europe falls to Allied power and Japan fights alone in the Pacific. Churchill casts the scenario, Grew’s views gain traction, and New Guinea Guadalcanal actions support the sense of a protracted, desperate struggle in the Gona Buna coast.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Europe
Japan
Pacific
Churchill
Italy
Africa
Mussolini
Lunes
French Submarine Casabianca Silent on Corsair Escape
The captain of the 1379 ton submarine Casabianca said in a North African port that fuel shortages prevented French ships from fleeing. He noted the crew wished to join the Allies but lacked gasoline and oil to sail, and claimed some ships scuttled to avoid capture.
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Toulon
Roosevelt to issue executive orders on food and manpower
President Roosevelt prepared to name Wickard as food administrator with broad wartime powers to set rationing and production priorities. He planned to transfer selective service policy to the War Manpower Commission headed by Paul V. McNutt, consolidating federal employment services under McNutt.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard
War Man Power Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Roosevelt
Herbert L. Lange Named Master of Silver Bow Lodge
Herbert L. Lange was elected master of Silver Bow lodge No. 48 A F and A M at the annual election held at the Masonic temple. Other officers named for 1943 include Clarence J. Riegger as senior warden Walter H. Pease as junior deacon Colin L. Christie as treasurer Isaac D. Hadzor as secretary and H. H. James as temple trustee. Installation will occur December 19 at a joint meeting with Blue lodges of Silver Bow county at the Masonic temple.
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Herbert L. Lange
Silver Bow Lodge
A. F P
A. M
Masonic Temple
Clarence J. Riegger
Walter H. Pease
Colin L. Christie
Isaac D. Hadzor
H. H. James
Silver Bow County
Slight Warmth Ahead With Snow Flurries Expected
A weather forecast indicates a slightly warmer Saturday with scattered snow flurries in the Saturday afternoon period. Friday's outlook lists a high of 18 and a low of minus 111 degrees.
Nelson Sees Third Stage of War Mobilization
Nelson told the National Association of Manufacturers that the United States has entered a third stage of total mobilization with centralized direction. He described it as a stage with one war policy and one goal, arguing it frees the nation rather than binds it. The address followed debates on free enterprise versus government control amid war production pressures.
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New York
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
National Association of Manufacturers
U. S
Nelson
Pearl Harbor
Reds seize 11 villages near Stalingrad and attack Velikie Luki
Soviet forces claimed 11 villages captured in the Stalin grad region and advances inside Stalingrad. The communique reported gains near Velikie Luki and heavy German losses as reserves struggled to stem the central front collapse. Hundreds of Nazis were said dead as the push threatened encircled siege forces.
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Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Don River
Velikie Luki
Volga River
Rzhev-Velikie Luki-Vyazma
Rzhev
Don
Volga
Argentine Judge Substantiates Welles Espionage Charges
Argentine federal judge Miguel Jantus stated that Sumner Welles espionage accusations against Axis agents in Argentina were part of a German embassy directed plot. Six spies were ordered to be sent to the supreme court for possible trial, with diplomacy and immunity issues pending Berlin’s reaction.
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Buenos Aires
Sumner Welles
Argentina
Miguel Jantus
Supreme Court
Berlin
Germany
Butte Elks to Hold Memorial Services Sunday Evening
Butte lodge No. 240 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will hold memorial services Sunday at 8 p.m. honoring 19 deceased members over the past year. Kendrick Smith will deliver the address with the Butte Mines band and four vocalists providing music. The public is invited.
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Butte Lodge No. 240
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Kendrick Smith
Butte
Butte Mines
Sam H. Treloar
Elks
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Allied Force
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First Army
Tunis
Bizerte
Reuters
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Harl Pease
Plymouth
N. H
Harl Pease, Jr
Rabaul
New Britain
the War News
Joseph Grew
Tokyo
Orient
MacArthur
Gona-Buna
F. R
McNutt
Hile
Harley Lutz
Princeton University
By Eddy Gilmore
Tion
James T. Finien, Jr
Hiram R. Binney
Adolphus J. Welch
Patrick J. Reardon
George Jones
Chester A. Kennedy
Louis R. Kilberer
Robert E. Dussault
T. Harold Fstlick
Max Apostel
Fred E. Pilling
Charles E. Foye
Russell Whindom
James J. Argus
QO. Zinn
Frank
N. T. Trethewey
Harry L.man
Lawrence Weir
William D. Gardner
Brush
F. A. Lienemann
Frank Glasser
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