Current Events January 7, 1943; PRODUCTION MIRIACLE, JAPAMESE SHIPPING STRENGTH DECLINES / NAZIS CAPTURE CROSSROADS AT MATEUR / NAZIS FLEE ROSTOV / ALLIES AND ENEMY SEEK WEAKSPOTS IN NEW GUINEA / U' S. PLEASURE DRIVING STOPPED:

                Raleigh Register

                   BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1943

FDR CITES PRODUCTION MIRACLE IN SPEECH

Reds Now Within 75 Miles of Rostov Says United

Says United Nations Are on the Move

Roosevelt Says 1943 Will Net Advances On Roads to Berlin, Rome and Tokyo;

Cites 'Mathematical Basis'-of Whipping Japs As Their Shipping Strength Declines.

By Associated Press

President Roosevelt told a victory pledged

congress today the cause of United Nations was

moving forward at last in Europe, Asia, and Africa, back-

ed by a "miracle of production" in the United States, and

said 1943 carried the promise of a very substantial advance

the roads that lead lo Berlin and Rome and

Tokyo."

NAZIS CAPTURE CROSSROAD IN MATEUR SECTION

Germans Announce U. S. Paratroops Wiped Out Behind African Lines

by The Associated Press

LONDON -- Reuters reported from Allied headquarters in North

Africa today (hat the Germans had recaptured positions on both

sides of an. important crossroads West of Mateur.

The heights, 15 miles west of Mateur. which itself is 20 miles

southwest of Bizerte, had been captured the day before yesterday

by a British infantry brigade and commando troops In a dawnassault.

KEY VILLAGES CAPTURED FROM FLEEING NAZIS

Fall of Rostov Would Cut Off Whole German Army Of The Caucasus

By The Associated Press

MOSCOW—The Red army of the lower Don has broken through

German lines on a 20-mile front on both sides of the river and has

d r i v e n within 75 miles of Rostov, key to the whole Nazi salient into

the Caucasus, the Russians announced today.

Dispatches from the front said the Russian forces, commanded

by Lieut. Gen. Constantin Rokossovsky, veteran of last Winters battle of Moscow, had pushed forward 50 miles since capturing fhe Don River bridgehead 
of Tsimlyansk two days ago.

New Guinea Foes Seek Weak Spots

Several Japs Killed In Patrol Actions Near Tarnkena

B.v The Associaed Press

Somewhere in New Guinea

Allied and Japanese patrols were probing in swamp mud today for

weak spots in opposite lines as the allies regrouped their land

forces for an attack on the enemy stronghold at Sanananda.

American troops pushed back one Japanese patrol in the vicinity of

Tarakena, a village midway between the recently won Buna station

and Sanananda Point. They killed one Japanese and wounded another.

Pleasure Driving Stopped by O.P.A.

Visiting Friends And Roadhouses Will be Taboo.

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.

Current Events January 5, 1943; DARING RESCUE IN SOLOMONS / RUSSIANS DRIVE AHEAD / TUNIS SCENE OF MAJOR CONFLICT/ BUNA MOP-UP BEGINS/ LARGE JAPANESE ARMADA IN SOLOMONS:

THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES

RACINE, WIS., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 5, 1943.

U.S. Sub Saves 29

From Jap-Held Isle

Daring Venture

Succeeds Under

Noses of Enemy

17 White Women

And Three Children

Taken From Solomons

WITH S O U T H P A C I F IC

FLEET, Jan. 5.—(AP)—A daring

submarine operation under the

cover of darkness has r e s u l t e d in

t h e rescue of 29 men, women and

children from a J a p a n e s e h e l d island

in t h e Solomon group. Admiral

William F . Halsey disclosed

today.

The commander of t h e south

Pacific force said 17 of those

rescued were white women known

to have been in imminent danger

of ill t r e a t m e n t and death. Three

were children.

The operation involved t h e detaching

of a fleet submarine from

t h e t a s k of sinking Japanese ship

ping and sending her to shallow

waters to effect t h e evacuation.

In Danger of Capture.

Reds Drive Ahead

On 5 Key Fronts

(By The Associated Press) |

Heavy battles raged on five

fronts in the Russian campaign

today, imperiling the

Germans on a 1,000-mile line,

with the red armies of Col.-

Gen. Nikolai F. V a t u t in

threatening to spring a fresh

trap around nazi garrisons in

the Don bend 100 miles west

of Stalingrad.

Soviet dispatches said two

Russian forces lacked only 30

miles of forging the final link

in a new ring around the Germans

following the capture of

Chernishkov and the nazi air

base at Chernishkovskaya 40

miles to the north.

Supplies Captured.

Axis Ring of Steel Ready to Smash

Allied Attack on Tunis and Bizerte

By WES GALLAGHER

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 5.—(AP)—

Adolf Hitler's attempt to k e e p the

Mediterranean Blocked to Allied

shipping h a s t u r n e d t h e Tunisian"

war into a major effort with

thousands of German and I t a l i an

troops deployed from Bizerte to

t h e Tripolitanian border along

with p a r t of t h e first line strength

of t h e German air force.

T h i s p u r e l y personal conclusion

is based on a 2,100-mile t r i p to

t h e war front in a jeep, topped

w i t h another 700 miles of travel

i n a Flying Fortress, much of it

l^on a bombing mission over Tunis.

Seven Opinions Listed.

got i n traveling over t h e front:

1. Rain and t h e constant threat

of rain make Allied tank warf

a r e impossible in n o r t h e r n T u nisia

until late February.

2. The Germans, with short

lines of communication, a perimeter

defense of t h e t w o p o r t s , a nd

a great concentration of artillery

a n d aerial protection from Sardinia

and Sicily, could halt any

i n f a n t r y assault with murderous

losses.

3. In t h e n o i t h land warfare

has stagnated with neither side

able t o t a k e a definite initiative.

4. Despite the advantage of

established bases in Sicily and

Sardinia within easy reach of t he

front, t h e G e r m a n air force i s losing

i t s punch in t h e face of Allied

opposition and is only a shadow

of t h e t e r r i b l e weapon i t was i n

Greece and France.

5. The lack of airfields is

handicapping t h e Allied a i r effort,

but t h e m i l i t a r y punishment being

dealt out by Flying Fortresses,

Lockheed Lightning fighters a nd

RAF attacks is 10 t i m e s , a s effect

i v e militarily as t h e blows of t he

German air force.

6. French troops a r e fighting

with great gallantry, particularly

a t Pont De F a h s a n d i n t h e s o u th

along a winding irregular line

through the mountains toward

Gafsa.

7. The Germans are making

great preparations for t h e defense

of their positions i n Tunisia.

Country Is Rough.

One hindrance to t h e Allied

d r i v e is t h e t e r r a i n , which, next

to the weather, is the key to

t h e situation. It resembles that

of Arizona in appearance, with

fewer trees a n d w i t h great mount-

ains of rock cut b y n a r r ow twisting

roads.

50 Japs Killed

In Final Smash

AT Buna Pocket

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,

Australia, Jan. 5.—

(U.P.)—United States a n d Australian

troops have wiped out t h e last

Japanese resistance in t h e Buna

a r e a of n o r t h e r n New Guinea by

smashing a small enemy pocket

inland from the captured area,

r e p o r t s from t h e front said today.

About 50 J a p a n e s e bodies were

found i n t h e pocket area.

Mopping up p a r t i e s combed t he

coconut groves for possible s t r a g glers

isolated from t h e force which

defended t h e pocket to t h e death.

Both American and Australian

troops were moving toward S a n -

ananda Point, 2% miles from

Buna village, to attack the last

remaining organized enemy troops

in the Papuan area of New

Guinea.

Australia Hears

Of Large Armada

Massed by Japs

MELBOURNE, Jan. 5. — ( - AP) -

Melbourne newspapers displayed

prominently today a statement by

a government official that the

Japanese were reported massing

t h e largest armada they have yet

sent into the southwest Pacific

and that Japanese aircraft apparently

operating from submarines

had been scouting the Australian

northeast coast.

( I n Washington, Navy Secretary

Knox said that there were always

enemy ships a t Rabaul, New B r i t -

tain, but t h a t "to t h e best of my

knowledge there is no unusual

concentration at t h e moment." He

h a d been asked at a press conference

whether t h e navy had i n formation

of a concentration of

Japanese shipping at Rabaul p r e sumably

for a n attack on Guadalcanal

or t h e Allied-held part of

New Guinea).

GERMANS STOPPED, CAUCASUS OIL SAVED / R. A. F. FIGHTERS HIT BURMA/ MacARTHUR'S MEN HIT SANANDA / U. S. WAS WARNED BEFORE P. H

REDS TAKE TWO KEY CITIES

             The Bakersfield Californian

BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1943

Caucasus Oil

Saved In Push

Pinccr Movement

Stops German

Drive on Rich 'Area

LONDON*. .Ian, 4. (AP)—The Moscow

radio announced in a special

communique tonight the capture

of the big German air base of

Chernishkoskov and the rail

way station of Chernishkoskov, an

action which apparently drove

closer together the jaws of a second

pincers closing about the remnants

of 2*J trapped German divisions

at Stalingrad.

LONDON. Jan. 4. (UP)—The

Moscow radio broadcast a special

communique tonight announcing

tlie capture of Cbernishkoskov

and the railway station of C'hernakso-

kov, approximately 100 miles

southwest of Stalingrad. The

Soviet monitor recorded the broad*

cast.

(Insert Photo)

R. A. F. Fighters

Hit Burma Foe

Trucks, Supplies

Strafed From Air

NEW DELHI, Jan. 4. (AP)-- R. A. F.

fighter planes, continuing their

daily assaults on Japanese bases in

Burma, yesterday raided several

enemy occupied villages in the Rathedaung

area, strafed a column of

trucks n

at Meiktila and set fire to

buildings and railway cars near

Monywa, a British communique announced

today.

The raids were carried out without

the loss of a plane, the announcement

said.

MacArthur's Men Close

In on Japs At Sanananda

Navy Boats

Block Nip

Supply Aim

Enemy's Position

Reported to Be

“Hopeless"

By Associated Press

AMERICAN and Australian

jungle fighters who wiped

out the last pockets of Japanese

in the Buna area of New

Guinea over the week end

were closing in today on the

invaders* defenses in the

swampy Sanananda area to

the north, where, a communique

from General MacArtliur's

headquarters said, "the

enemy's position is now hopeless."

In Washington, the navy announced

that United States motor

torpedo boats scored a hit on one

and three possible hits on two other

of eight Japanese destroyers sighted

Saturday off the northwestern end

of Guadalcanal island in the Solomon

White Book

State Department Tells

of Japanese Warning

WASHINGTON, Jim. 1. (AP)

“Japan warned The United States

14 months before Pearl Harbor

that the Imposition of an embargo

on iron and steel scrap exports to

Japan might be considered an "unfriendly

act" and was promptly re-

buked by Secretary of State Hull for

presuming to question this country's

right to impose such an embargo,

Current Events January 3, 1943; SOVIETS RETAKING CAUCASAS / BRITISH PLAN ATTACK AGAINS ROMMEL / U. S. WARNED OF POSSIBLE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK:

       The Charleston Gazette

    Charleston, West Virginia. Sunday Morning, January 3, 1943.

Reds Peril 2 Key Railways;

Rzhev Salient Held Doomed;

Berlin Hints Rommel Battle

(Insert Photo)

Riga Thrust May

Isolate Leningrad

Great Smolensk-Vyazma

Bulge Threatened

With Pocket

Caucasus Onslaught

Retakes Remontnaya

Nazis Admit Losing Elista;

Soviets Gain Approach

Of Novosokolniki

MOSCOW, Jan. 2.—(INS)—

Victorious Soviet legions, close

on the heels of Nazi forces retreating

hastily along a 1,100-

mile front, tonight thundered

ever nearer to two of the most

vital German supply arteries in

Russia —the Leningrad-Vitebsk

and Salsk-Rostov railways.

Major Clash Seen

At Wadi Zem-Zem

British Radio Indicates

Germans Digging In

For 8th Army

Six Allied Bombers

Missing in Tunisia

British Units Make Daring

Sortie 20 Miles Inside

Enemy's Lines.

LONDON. Jan. 2.—'(AP)—Britain's

8th army in Libya "obvi-

iously intends to make a fairly

large attack on positions of

Marshal Rommel's German-

Italian tank army in the next

few days," the Berlin radio said

tonight.

Grew Warned

Pearl Harbor

Blow Planned

New American White Book

Discloses Ambassador

Predicted Assault

In Jan. '41

Secretary Hull Also

Warned of Surprise

President Advised Nomura

Of Hitler's Intention

For Domination

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—(AP)—

An American white book issued

by the State Department to night

disclosed that Ambassador

Joseph C. Grew cabled from

Tokyo on Jan. 27,1941, that the

Japanese had plans for a "sur

prise mass attack at Pearl Harbor

In case of trouble' with the

United States."

The Grew cablegram was one of

a series of warnings dating back

to 1932 and growing progressively

urgent in the subsequent years

until Nov. 29. 1941, Secretary of

State Hull told the British ambassador

that "the diplomatic part of

our relations with Japan was virtually

over, and that the matter

will now go to the officials of the

army and navy."

Hull Warns Of Surprise

Moreover, the white book reported,

Hull said that it would be

a "serious mistake for our country

and other countries interested

in the Pacific-situation to make

plans to resistance without including

the possibility that Japan may

move suddenly and with every

possible element of surprise, and

spread out over considerable areas

and capture certain positions and

posts before the peaceful countries

interacted in the Pacific would have

time to confer and formulate

plans”.

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.

Current Events January 1, 1943; SIEGE LIFTED AT STALINGRAD / MAJOR NAVAL BATTLE IN NORTH SEA:

HEADLINES

CURRENT EVENTS

1943

SOVIETS ROUTE NAZIS

IN GIANT OFFENSIVE

LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT

       Long Beach, California, Friday, January 1, 1943

BRITISH AND NAZIS IN SEA FIGHT

Siege of Stalingrad Lifted as 22 Axis

Divisions Wiped Out by Advancing Reds

MOSCOW, Dec. 31 —(UP) —The Soviet government announced

new gains on the Stalingrad front tonight, while the

Red army was making new advances on the Rzev front west

of Moscow.

A survey of the recent campaign

revealed that the Nazi army

in Stalingrad was virtually liquidated,

having lost 95,000 men

killed and 72,000 taken prisoners

in the last six weeks.

Simultaneously it was announced

that The Red army had just taken

the town and railroad station of

Oblinskaya, 70 miles southwest of

Stalingrad on the west bank of

the Don. Four smaller Towns

known as regional centers were

captured in the same area.

Major Naval Action Reported in North

By British Admiralty; Sink Axis Craft

LONDON, Dec. 31—(UP)—Some sort of a major naval battle

between units of the British and German fleets appeared tonight

to be in progress in northern waters, probably off Norway.

An official British admiralty

announcement said that an enemy

cruiser and a destroyer had been

put out of action. The destroyer

was reported in sinking condition

when last seen.