Giraud Named Temporary Leader Over French Africa
Gen Henri Giraud assumed temporary authority in French Africa succeeding Adm Jean Darlan who was slain. Eisenhower hurried back to confer on a successor as Darlan’s death triggered a leadership transition amid Allied efforts in Algeria Morocco and West Africa.
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Algiers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Admi
Jean Darlan
Henri Honore Giraud
Axis
Noland Norgaard
Henri Giraud
French Africa
Vichy
Algeria
French Morocco
West Africa
United States
Giraud
Imperial Council
Darlan
Pierre Laval
London
Charles DeGaulle
Gil
North Africa
French
Morocco
General Giraud
Darlan Death Complicates African Moves
Washington faces new questions after the assassination of Admiral Jean Darlan in Algiers. Officials weigh the act's impact on American power in Africa and the risk to Allied supply lines as Eisenhower assesses the Tunisian front and the cooperation of French collaborators.
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Washington
Jean Darlan
Algiers
Africa
Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Darlan
Axis
Hitler
Vichy
Wehrmacht
Eisenhower
Tunisia
Tunisian
Montana Standard Goes to Press Early on Christmas Night
The Montana Standard prints early on Christmas night to allow staff to celebrate with the community. Coverage remains comprehensive yet abbreviated as usual.
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Montana Standard
Assassin of Adm. Darlan Sentenced to Death
A French court martial in Algiers sentenced the young gunman who killed Admiral Jean Darlan to death after a full confession. The execution is set for Saturday morning.
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London
Adm
Jean Darlan
Reuters
Algiers
Darlan
Darlan Death Reverberates Across French North Africa
Reports from Rabat and Algiers describe tributes to 61 year old Darlan who shifted from Vichy ties to head a Allied backed French African government. Masses and Christmas events closed theater venues reflect national mourning. Imperial council in North Africa weighs future politics after his sudden elimination.
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Rabath
French Morocco
Algiers
Darlan
Imperial Council
French North Africa
United States
Giraud
Free China Notes Three Anniversaries
Free China Friday marked three anniversaries including the 1912 revolution at Kumming and the rise of the republic, the 1936 release of Chiang Kai-shek by kidnappers, and the birth of Jesus Christ. Gen Shang Chen hosted a dinner-dance for Anglo American personnel, the first since 1938. Lt Gen Stillwell invited Chinese military leaders to a Christmas party.
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Chungkin
Free China
Kumming
New Republic
Chiang Kai-shek
Jesus Christ
Shang Chen
National Military Council
Joseph Stillwell
China
Ho Ying Chin
Soldiers and Sailors Delighted by A W V S Gift Service in Butte
In Butte Montana soldiers arriving at rail depots were greeted by 30 local A W V S volunteers who handed each uniformed man a gift. The event drew praise from troops including east coast travelers and a captain who had passed through Butte before. Billy Hamilton Frankie Heffern and Elmer Hauskama provided music at the Northern Pacific depot.
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Montana
Butte
East
Australia
Billy Hamilton
Frankie Heffern
Elmer Hauskama
Northern Pacific
Africa France Eager to Beat Axis in North Africa
Gen. Henri Giraud states the pro Allied French government plans to cooperate with the Fighting French and to deploy all French warships under Allied control. He expresses full confidence in American arms and seeks rapid U S assistance to hasten victory.
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Allied
North Africa
U.P
Henri Honore Giraud
Charles DeGaulle
United Press
France
Alexandria
Dakar
Giraud
Admir
Jean Darlan
Darlan
U. S
America
Darlan Death Shocks Dakar Amid Christmas Joy
News of Adm. Jean Darlan's assassination in Algiers reached Dakar on Christmas Eve. His death shocks the city where American troops arrived peacefully and he had been warmly welcomed during a recent visit. Soldiers and sailors recall his leadership as their naval commander. Elsewhere in Newark, William Hamilton Osborne, 69, noted copyright law authority, died after a long illness.
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Dakar
French West Africa
Algiers
Adm
Jean Darlan
Darlan
U. S
Russians Drive Nazis Back Near Stalingrad in New Offensive
Soviet forces report a resurgent SW push from Stalingrad with 1214 to 15% miles gained and heavy German losses. The Red army claims 18,000 killed and 7,500 captured, as more than 105,700 Nazis fall in the Don region.
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Moscow
U.P
Stalingrad
Red Army
Volga
Middle Don
Central
Caucasus
Nalchik
Iron Wall
Army Nurses on Duty in Africa
United States nurses arrive in Allied North Africa just before Christmas. Commissioned officers, they adapt to barracks life and military discipline while preparing for work in a new 250 bed military hospital. They miss home Christmas comforts but hope for more Christmastime in Africa.
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Allied
North Africa
United States
Britain
Oran
Army Nurses’ Corps
Violent Deaths Drop in Number During Holiday
The nation reports 94 fatalities this December holiday, far below last year’s 394. Traffic deaths fall to 52 from 301 in 1941. Illinois trains claim two lives. Kansas City homicide over a $9 turkey. a man falls from a porch in upstate New York. a New York girl dies from an electric heater accident.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Kansas City
Upstate
New York
New York State
Senator Opposed to Granada School Unit
Senator Johnson of Colorado plans to protest a $308000 Granada Colorado school unit for the Japanese relocation center. He will send a letter to the Senate appropriations committee after the new Congress convenes, following a long explanation from Dillon Myer and letters from Granada residents.
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Washington
Granada
Colo
Senate Appropriations Committee
Johnson
D-Colo
Congress
Coloradan
Dillon
Myer
War Relocation Authority
Japanese spies held in Manaos after plantation fire
Police reported that an unrevealed number of Japanese spies connected with the Amazon Industrial Co have been brought to Manaos from Villa Amazonia, the former headquarters, in connection with a rubber plantation fire in the Parintins district.
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Manaos
Brazil
Parintins
Villa Amazonia
Amazon Industrial Co
Quiet Christmas in Mining City Amid War Remembrance
Butte observes a solemn Christmas with heavy religious feeling and patriotic resolve. Churches overflowed as worship and prayers for victory and safe return filled the day while many households faced empty chairs. Weather turned cold and traffic was down though theaters and clubs stay busy.
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Butte
Fire destroys St Monica Seminary in Wisconsin blaze
A 40 room society showplace of the gay nineties era, now a seminary run by the Augustinian Fathers of Chicago, burned Friday in OWONOMOWOC Wisconsin. Fire Chief Henry W Wessel estimated the loss at $100000. The house was bought in 1941 and named St Monica Seminary, built by the late John Dupee.
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Owonomowoc
Wis
Augustinian Fathers of
Chicago
Henry W. Wessel
St. Monica Seminary
John Dupee
Youthful Harlem Student Faces Slaying Charge
16 year old Lealie Sciefers of Harlem Blaine county faces first degree murder charges in the December death of 15 year old Elaine Allen. County Attorney D J Sias says the boy was sane and did not confess to officials, while Harlem residents note his calm behavior in jail over Christmas.
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Lealie Sciefers
Blaine County
Harlem
Mont
D. J. Sias
Sciefers
Elaine Allen
Sias
C. B. Reser
Harlem High School
L. N. Sanford
Young Sciefers
Sanford
Charles Sciefers
Reser
Bias
North Africa Receives 12,000 Tons Of Food Supplies
Arrival in French North Africa ports of 12,000 tons of food and materials for civilians was announced on Christmas day. The shipment includes British merchandise and large quantities of flour milk sugar and potatoes. Goods will be apportioned to merchants for sale to civilians.
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Algiers
Woman Dies After Horse Fall at Patton Ranch
Big Horn county coroner reports Josephine Herring 22 bled to death from a punctured leg vein after a fall from a horse at the Patton ranch Wednesday. No inquest planned.
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Death Basin
Wyo
Josephine Herring
Patton Ranch
Big Horn County
Axis Opposition Broken by American Guard on Tunis Road
Allied forward guards led by tanks broke Axis resistance and advanced nine miles toward Tunis on the Tunis road northeast of Medjez el Bab, with rain hindering further actions though reports say the push neared Bizerte and Tunis.
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Edward W. Beattie
United Press
London
U.P
Tunis Road
Medjez el Bab
Tunisia
Bizerte
Tunnis
Tebourba
Tunis
Allied Force
Ground Troops Near Buna List Advance
Allied ground forces on the Buna front in northeast New Guinea made a slight advance on Christmas Day as others rested and attended divine services. A push toward the coast widened a bridgehead and positioned troops to strike a 1,500 yard inland pocket as Allied and American units encircle Buna.
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Australia
Buna
New Guinea
Allied Headquarters
Pacific Air Front
Douglas MacArthur
Convoy Delivers Supplies to Malta Amid Allied Steadying Advance
Alexandria report details a large convoy reaching Malta under strong naval and air support. The mission unloaded cargo by moonlight, marking a safer eastern Mediterranean passage after Allied grip on the African north coast improved defenses and planes. US Navy gun crews aided in repelling enemy attacks en route.
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Alexandria
Malta
Mediterranean
Grand Harbor
United States Navy
Yuletide at Home and War Fronts in WWII
War news mixes with holiday scenes as American and Allied forces push on in New Guinea Munda Guadalcanal and Tunisia while home fronts pause for traditional Christmas cheer. American flyers claim air actions in the Pacific and Axis repulses in Africa as Britain hosts soldiers and families.
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Associated Press
New Guinea
Guadalcanal
Munda
New Georgia Island
Tunisia
England
Ireland
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By Walter Logan
Lunga Point
Henderson Field
U. S. Navy
Chinook
Montevideo
Uruguay
Alberto Guani
Buna List
South Pacific
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