Current Events January 2, 1943: RUSSIAS GAIN ON 7 FRONTS / WAKE ISLAND BOMBED / KISKA ISLE BLASTED BY YANKS / SUPPLY SHIPS HIT ON NEW GUINEA / PORTLAND OR. HIT BY FLOOD:

 

Winnipeg Free Press

WINNIPEG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1943

RUSSIANS GAIN ON SEVEN FRONTS

Greatest OFFENSIVE

Of War Now RAGING

WAKE ISLAND FIERCELY

POUNDED BY U.S. FLIERS

By OLEN W. CLEMENTS

Correspondent representing all press associations on this special assignment. Clements rode in the lead plane

Aboard a Bomber Over Wake Island, Dec. 24. (AP)—Huge United States bombers plunged

from the heavens today on unsuspecting Wake Island and plastered the Japs with 76,000 pounds Of bombs, in the biggest. raid of the Pacific war

Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 1943

Kiska Japs Again Blasted;

Russians Gain on 7 Fronts

Red Flag Flies

Over Rail City

'

Fall of Vtlikie Luki Breaches Center

Of Axis Line, Menaces Armies From Baltic

To Caucasus; Kalmyck City Captured

U.S. Airmen Believed Out to Knock Enemy

off Aleutian Isles; Heavy New Air Attack

Also Made on Foe's Bases in Solomons

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.-(U.P.)—U.S. p!anes. apparently

engaged in sustained operations to blast the Japanese off

Kiska Island, raided that Aleutian outpost yesterday for the

third successive day, and again encountered considerable

fighter plane opposition, the Navy announced today.

3 JAP SUPPLY SHIPS HIT OFF NEW GUINEA

San Mateo Times

SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1943

PORTLAND PERILED BY LOG JAM;

FLOODS DO $5,000,000 DAMAGE

SURGING RIVER HURLS

BIG TIMBERS TOWARD

SHIPYARDS AND BRIDGES

PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 2.—UJ.R)—A fleet of tugboats, hwttily

mobilized by the coast guard, today strung booms across th*

flood-swollen Willamette river in an effort to halt a' million-feet

of logs bearing down on Portland's industry-filled harbor.

The logs, released by the collapse of a wjng damVat the

Oregon City falls 14 miles upstream and driven by the nearing

crest of the state's worst flood in 50'years, already were threatening

houseboats and bridge piers.

Six persons were dead in valley communities where the

Willamette, seven feet out of its banks, had inundated thousands

of farm acres and flooded suburban

parts of Albany, Salem and. Cor-

vallis. The river was reported

falling at Eugene, scene of at least

$5,000,000 .damage, as the crest

rolled toward Portland;

Subs Sink 7 Jap Ships:

Russ Move on 7 Fronts

MACARTHUR FLIERS HIT

DIVER, 3 SUPPLY SHIPS

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Jan.

2,—(U.P)—American array bombers celebrated the New "Year by

turning three big Japanese supply ships into roaring furnaces

U. S. Divers

Get Transport

Cargo Vessels

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—

(U.P)—The navy reported today

the damaging of an enemy destroyer,-

and the sinking of seven

enemy cargo and transport

ships by U. S. submarines in the

Pacific and Far East waters.

Reds on March

From Moscow

To Caucasus

MOSCOW, Jan. 2.—(U.P)—

The Bed army made new gains

on seven separate fronts during

the night after one of its most

glorious days of the war

From the central front west of

Moscow,' where they captured

the fortress city of Ve-

like Luki, killed every German

in it except straggling prisoners

and the wounded, to the Caucasus

mountains 1100 miles to the south,

the Russians were on what had become

their greatest offensive of the

war.

Near Border

U.S. RAIDS KISKA FOR

THIRD SUCCESSIVE DAY

WASHINGTON, Jan..2.—(U.P)—U. S. planes/apparently en-

gaged in sustained operations lo blast thc Japanese off Kska"

island, raided that Aleutian outpost .yesterday for the third

succcssive day and again encountered

considerable fighter plane

opposition, the navy announced

today.