Stone Gives Oath (Crider) – 2-3
President’s Address – 2
Franklin D. Roosevelt Taking Presidential Oath for Fourth Time (page 1 photo) – 3
Perkins to Remain Labor Secretary (by Joseph A. Loftus, first-time contributor) – 4
Wounded Veterans Watch the Ceremony (photo) – 4
12 Leaders Named in Red Cross Drive – 4
Tilsit is Captured – 5-6
Ice-Cream-Making Barges Will Serve Men in Pacific – 6 *
Rhine Push Begun (Daniel) – 7-8
Rail Hubs Bombed from West, South – 9
War News Summarized – 9
Sixth Army Splits Japanese on Luzon (Parrott) – 9-10
An American Patrol on the Alert in Luzon (photo) – 10
‘Lost’ Battalion Beats Luzon Foe (Jones) – 11-12
Escort Carriers Pass Battle Test – 12
New Road from India to China is Opened by Trucks and Jeeps (Durdin) – 13
Orphans’ Yule Fete Touches GI’s Heart – 14
Veterans’ Intelligence (by Charles Hurd) – 14
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 15-17
Sheriff Puts Posse on Japanese Farm – 17
A Treat for Wounded American Soldiers (photo) – 17
The News of the Week in Review
Fifteen News Questions – 18
Two-Front Winter War (cartoons) – 18
Russian Drive Alters Strategic Aspects of War (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 19-20
“The Vise” (cartoon) – 20
Contest on West Front Again a Race for Time (Daniel) – 21-22
Five Weeks of War on the West Front (map) – 21
“Doesn’t Believe in Signs?” (cartoon) – 22
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 22
Five Focal Areas in the War with Japan (map) – 23
Manila Ports, Airfields Chief Goal of M’Arthur (by Robert Trumbull) – 24
* “The War Department announced today the construction of a new type of large refrigerator barges equipped with machinery capable of turning out ten gallons of ice cream every seven minutes . . .”
It’s hard to believe the Japanese actually thought they could defeat us.
