Drive Against Japanese Is Stepped Up
General MacArthur's headquarters report says Allied and Australian troops are slowly increasing pressure on Buna area Japanese strongholds in New Guinea. Allied bombers downed nine more planes, bringing December air losses to 84 in the sector. Timor raids added 21 destroyed or damaged, totaling 105.
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MacArthur
Australia
U.S
Buna
New Guinea
New Britain
Timor
Geo
Huon Gulf
Gasmata
Port Moresby
Butte Ice Carnival dates set for January 23 and 24
Butte city council approved the 24th annual ice carnival to be held at Clark park with hundreds of skaters from 27 schools. Parks and playgrounds chair John Lindquist announced the dates January 23 and 24 and the event remains a community favorite among parochial and public grade schools in the area.
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Butte
John Lindquist
Parks Andlaygrounds
Clark Park
Parks and Playgrounds Committee
Lindquist
Peter J. Sodja
Joh E. O'Neill
C. 8. Renouard
Ed Gerry
Ways Not Means
Arry O'Leary
Mater
Lawlor and Rowe
Callahan and Company
H. S. Dotson Company
Helena
Graham Insurance Company
Ed Dolan Company
Five Man Power Divisions Are Established
Washington Dec 16. The War Manpower Commission is reorganized into five divisions to meet Roosevelt era goals. New structure includes Selective Service under Maj. Gen Hershey, Bureau of Training, Bureau of Placement, Bureau of Labor Utilization, and Bureau of Program Planning and Review led by Haber. Executive staff added with Barnett Mitchell and Flemming guiding administration and field management.
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Washington
U.P
Paul V. McNutt
War Man- Power Commission
Roosevelt
McNutt
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Bureau of
W. W. Chambers
Glen E
Flemming
Leonard O’hearn
Harold S. Dotterer
Barnard C. Gavit
Edward F. Shattuck
Philip 8. Broughton
Fowler W. Harper
Management Labor Committee
William C. Rose
Manning Table
Bureau of Labor Utilization
Bureau of Selective Service
Brown May Be Price Administrator Report
Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan, defeated in November, was said at a White House meeting to be willing to become price administrator if Leon Henderson resigns due to ill health. Brown would need Senate confirmation. farm bloc opponents could fight him. Brown indicated the remarks came via White House sources and declined further comment.
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Sen
Prentiss Brown
Washington
Michigan
Leon Henderson
Henderson
White House
Price
Brown
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
OPA
Farm Bloc
Congressional Record
Senate
David Ginsberg
House
Homer Ferguson
Volunteers for Navy and Marines Placed Before Draft Boards
Volunteers aged 18 to 38 may apply through local draft boards for induction into the Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard a temporary system until February 1 when a centralized process will assign inductees. The executive order ends volunteer enlistments and requires services to obtain manpower via selective service, with exceptions allowed at services discretion for outside age limits.
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Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Butte Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Army
Montana Industry Faces New War Materials Controls
A Montana WPB meeting at Hotel Finlen reported 90 percent of industry will be affected after April 1 by the new controlled materials system. Oscar Baarson introduced Dr. Thomas Adams who outlined copper aluminum and steel controls and the effort to coordinate production. Sessions were to move next to Great Falls and Billings for further explanations.
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Montana
War Production Board
Hotel
Finlen
Oscar A. Baarson
Helena
WPB
Thomas Adams
Denver
Colo
Baarson
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Adams
Mr. Baarson
Great Falls
Billings
Mikado Orders Japs to Fight to Last
Allied sources in Australia report that the Japanese in New Guinea were ordered to fight to the last man. The note cites the fall of Buna and Gona where few prisoners were taken, with many Japanese killed, indicating fierce resistance.
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Allied
Australia
New Guinea
Gona
Buna
Associated Press
Marlin Spencer
Allies close on Rommel as Tunisian front falters
Allied pincers in Africa tighten with Rommel retreating past El Agheila and Tunisian Axis positions withdrawn. RAF and US bombers hit Tunis and Bizerte while patrols probe front lines as ground forces close within about 600 miles of each other.
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London
U.P
Africa
Edwin Rommel
el Agheila
Libya
Tunisia
Rommel
Afrika Korps
Zautw En Nafilia
Agheila Line
Cairo
Eighth Army
Morocco
Medjez-El-Bab
Sicilian Narrows
Tunis
Bizerte
Two U S Merchant Vessels Lost in Atlantic Sinking
The Navy reported two medium US merchant ships lost within weeks. One may have carried Lieut. Carl F Zeidler, former mayor of Milwaukee, who was aboard a gun crew vessel overdue in the South Atlantic with no survivors. The second ship torpedoed in the North Atlantic with 86 aboard rescued. The AP tally of Allied and neutral merchant ship losses reaches 561 since December 7, 1941.
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Associated Press
United States
Carl Frederick Zeidler
Milwaukee
Navy
Zeidler
Naval Reserve
South Atlantic
North Atlantic
Atlantic
First Skirmish in Business Drive Reports Gulf of Funds
In Butte the wartime Chamber of Commerce drive reports $3,141.50 from seven of about 100 soldiers. The goal is $25,000 by Friday noon with field reports led by J. H. Rowe and A. F. Rice alongside other division leaders. A Friday noon update is promised at Chequamegon cafe as mop up operations begin.
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Butte
Business Defense Army
Chamber of Commerce
J. H. Rowe
A. F. Rice
Tank
W. 8. Thompson
Lowell W. Johnson
E. L. Samsel
N. L. Richmond
Floyd E. Logee
Kenneth Christie
Charles H. Gallagher
Rowe
Rice
Chequamegon
Philanthropist Walter P. Murphy Dies in Chicago Hotel
Walter P. Murphy 69 a leading philanthropist and among the nation’s wealthiest men died Wednesday of a heart ailment at a Chicago hotel where he had been under treatment for several days He was president of the Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company of Chicago Associates estimated his fortune in the neighborhood of
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Los Angeles
Walter P. Murphy
Ambassador
Murphy
Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company of
Chicago
War news analysis on Rommel and Tunisian fight
Interpreting war dispatches, William T. Peacock notes signals from Tunisia of a hard German defense and possible sheltering withdrawal for Rommel remnants. He recalls El Alamein and Allied landings and weighs options for Africa corps facing capture, destruction, or movement toward Italy.
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William T. Peacock
Tunisia
Rommel
el Alamein
R. A. N. Anderson
West
Africa
Axis
Africa Corps
Italy
Seventy-First Congress Adjourns After Historic Session
The wartime Seventy-seventh Congress adjourned with about 120 members in the House and the Senate quickly finishing routine business. Speaker Rayburn praised departing members and pledged to defend the House’s honor in the Seventy-eighth Congress opening January 6.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rayburn
Texas
Barkley
Solon
Investigators Probe Cause of Western Air Transport Crash
Investigators pursued the crash cause after a Western Airlines transport plunged into sagebrush desert killing 17 of 19 aboard. Survivor Robert V. Mallett was severely injured, while U. S. Marine Lieut. A P Gardner sustained a fractured leg. Both patients remain in Lehi hospital as Civil Aeronautics Authority prepares an official report.
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Fairfield
Utah
Sage Brush Desert
Robert V. Mallett
Springfield
Ark
U. S
A. P. Gardner
Alexander
N. Y
Lehi
Civili Aeronautics Authority
Weather outlook with mild Thursday conditions
Continued mild Thursday and Thursday evening. Wednesday’s maximum 53 and minimum 28.
Hoover Proposes Two Phases in Peace-Making
Herbert Hoover on December 16 urged a two stage postwar peace process with an instant conditional peace followed by a cool off period to address separate problems. He called for separate commissions of dominant nations to negotiate issues, United States allied cooperation, and a conditional peace with disarmament provisional boundaries and repatriation machinery.
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Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Versailles
Executives’ Club
United States
Hoover
United Nations
Reed warns Wickard on price subsidies and flour squeeze
Senator Reed of Kansas told Secretary Wickard at a conference that the next Congress will go after him if the Agriculture Department begins price subsidization of farm products. He pressed for action to ease a wheat flour price squeeze and warned of a flour and bread shortage within about 60 days unless Wheat to flour relations are changed.
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Washington
Reed
R-Kan
Wickard
Agriculture Department
Soviet Troops Take Western Point Near Stalingrad in Two Day Battle
Russian forces seized an inhabited point more than 80 miles west of the Stalingrad siege area, destroying 50 Nazi tanks and a regiment of motorized infantry. The operation, part of the Don bend drive, also yielded 305 enemy guns and 1,500 motor vehicles. The Germans suffered heavy losses as counterattacks continued along multiple fronts.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Volga River
Surovikino
Verkhne Kunsky
Caucasus
Don River
Red Army
Don
Volga
Likhaya
Don Bend
Serafimovich
Kotelnikovski
Americans Bomb Japanese Bases in Solomons Blitz
The Navy reported two unopposed American bombing raids on Japanese air bases in the northern Solomons, targeting Munda on New Georgia and Buin on Bougainville. Patrols on Guadalcanal wiped out two Japanese machine gun nests. No enemy aircraft or anti aircraft opposition were encountered.
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Washington
Solomons
Navy
Pacific
New Munda
New Georgia Island
Buin
Bougainville
162 Grade School Prospective Graduates Named
Miss Stella Sekovich lists 162 eighth graders from 15 Butte public grade schools slated for mid year graduation January 22. The event ends the eight year practice and all grade school graduations will occur at year end thereafter. Grant and Webster lead with 20 each, Sherman 5, and additional names are provided by each school.
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Butte
Stella Sekovich
Lowell W. Johnson
Grant and Webster
Sherman
Tewest
Mames
Blaine
Eileen Beavis
Beverly J. Prophet
Eric J. Hill
Jack Hocking
Jack P. Kelly
Teddy H. Rundle
Emerson
Robert Brown
Norma Jane Cuthill
Rose Marie
Goi
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