Current Events January 6, 1943; NAZI ARMY IN FULL RETREAT IN CAUCASUS / NINE JAPANESE INVASION SHIPS SUNK / GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER DIES:

THE LIMA NEWS

LIMA, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1943

NAZI ARMY IN FULL RETREAT

SOVIET FORCES

DRIVING HARD

THRU CAUCASUS

Fleeing Germans Wreck Bridges, Mine Roads To

Slow Advancing Reds

RUSSIANS SEIZE NALCHIK Enemy Fortifications At Eastern

End Of Front Are Shattered

MOSCOW, Jan. 6—(AP) — The German army was reported in full

retreat. In the Caucasus today, blowing up bridges and mining

rails in a desperate effort to check the' surging advance of Russian forces

driving hard at its heels.Red Star, organ of the Soviet

army, said Russian forces, which literally bad stormed and won the

i m p o r t a n t towns of Mozdok, Nalchuk, Prokhiailnetiski. Kotlyarcvskaya

and Maiskoye, continued.

LONDON. Jan. 6, _ ( UP )_Soviet troops have capturedthe crest of Mamayev Kurgan,

the most vital defense point of the German troops encircled in

the Stalingrad region, Radio Moscow said today.

ALLIED PLANES

SINK NINE JAP

INVASION SHIPS

Fleet Concentration At Rabaul In New Britain Attacked

In Two Waves

AUSTRALIAN FEARS EASED

MacArthur Troops Prepare For Final Action At Sanananda Point

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Jan. 6—

(UP)—Allied planes, in a shattering blow at a new Japanese invasion

fleet, have sunk nine and probably 10 ships, totaling more

than 50,000 tons, at Rabaul, in New Britain Island, it was announced today.

Striking at a moment when Australia was fearful of a major Japanese offensive, possibly even, against this continent. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's giant Consolidated

Liberator and Boeing Flying Fortress bombers attacked the

Japanese fleet concentration in two waves. They planted 1.000 pound bombs.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 —

(INS)—The Navy reported today that a U. S. task force of

warships had '"successfully bombarded" the Japanese air

feld at Munda on New Georgia island yesterday while American planes carried out a series of daring raids which may have sunk or damaged a Jap cruiser and transport.

FAMOUS NEGRO

SCIENTIST DIES

Dr. G. W. Carver Developed 400 Uses For Peanuts And Sweet Potatoes

TUSKEGEE, Ala., Jan. 6—

President Roosevelt, Henry Ford and noted scientists were informed

of Dr. Carver's death at Tuskegee institute last night. He had been

in ill health for several months. Born in slavery at Diamond

Grove. Mo.. Dr. Carver himself did not know his exact age- All available

records indicate be was born in 1861.