New Congress Convenes as Roosevelt Faces Domestic Reform
The Seventy-Eighth Congress convenes with a mandate to slow New Deal reforms and retrench federal bureaucracy. The party signals a push to limit expansion while war demands loom, awaiting President Roosevelt's proposals. The outcome hinges on executive action versus legislative battles as the president speaks Thursday.
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Telegraph
Washington
78Th Congress
Executive Department
Thurstpy
78th Congress Convenes at Capital Today
The 78th Congress opened in Washington as Rayburn was reelected speaker with 417 votes to 206 for Martin. The session began amid a wartime mood with promises to reassert Congress and curb bureaucracy. Roosevelt to address the joint session tomorrow on the state of the union.
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Washington
Rayburn
Berlin
Rome
House
Joseph Martin
Muass
Rep McCormaack
Bay State
Pune
Dematrytic
Barly
Martin
D - Tex
Congress
Noosevelt
Senate
Tommorrow
Union
Pleasure trips halted for A B C gasoline cards
The Office of Price Administration bans all pleasure driving by holders of A B and C ration cards on the Atlantic seaboard effective noon tomorrow war time January 7. Violations advised to be reported to ration boards or local OPA offices. The ban covers social as well as sporting trips and will cut fuel oil heating rations in many buildings.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Atlantic Seaboard
District of Columbia
OPA
Petroleum Administrator For War
GPA
Prosecutor Brown Moves to Hope Resident takes office in Ninth Judicial District
Brown a former Arkadelphia resident and new Hope citizen has assumed the prosecuting attorney role for the Eighth Judicial District. He occupies the law offices and EB Dr. Meladdin library in the First National Bank and lives on Bonner street. He chose Hope for central access to county seats and court travel. A stray historical aside mentions Louis XV gifting a clockwork bird egg and Rome life expectancy figures, unrelated to the case.
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Lyle Brown
Brown
Eighth Judicial District
Arkadelphia
Hope
U S Navy Task Force Bombards Jap Munda Base
The United States task force bombarded the Japanese airfield at Munda on New Georgia Island in the Solomons, repelling a Japanese bomber attack with four Wildcats shooting down four and likely destroying two more. Marauders later attacked installations while Flying Fortresses escorted by Lightning Fighters engaged an enemy cruiser at Buin. Fliers faced twenty-five Zero attacks. three enemy planes were shot down and two possibly destroyed. 84 Japanese were killed in Mount Austen mop‑up on Guadalcanal.
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Washington
Jan. &P
Navy
Munda
New Georgal Island
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Grumman
South Pacific
United States
New Georgia Island
Buin
Bougainville
Shortland
Mount Austen
Guauleanal Island
Sims Urges Spending Limit To Guard State Surplus
Little Rock Jan 6 7 Sims urges a constitutional limit on future expenditures to current income to protect the largest state surplus in history. He notes cash in treasury at 22 257 024 and securities 8 914 650 totaling 81 172 074, with revenues rising from 6 500 000 in 1933 34 to 23 500 000 in 1941 42.
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Little Rock
J. Bryan Sims
Sims
General Assembly
French Ships Still to Aid Against Axis
Algiers report says the death of Admiral Jean Darlan did not alter the pledge to use the French fleet at Dakar with the United States and Britain. French morale remains strong, ready to sail when ordered, with de Gaulle and Giraud seeking unity of pro Allied forces despite Petain shadows and ongoing North African tensions.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
Algeria
Jan
Jean Darlon
Dakar
United States
Henri Giraud
Giraud
de Gaulle
Petain
North Africa
Britain
Harold MacMillan
Allied Headquarters
Robert Murphy
United State
France
Arkansan Aids in Rescue of Ship Survivors
A combined Army Navy and Coast Guard rescue saved 31 survivors from a ship sunk in a storm off the west coast. Lieut Norman E. Purdy spotted the lifeboat from an air patrol and prompted援 aid as planes from the Army Navy and Coast Guard assisted with food, water, clothing, and guidance until the freighter diverted to the scene. The operation involved air support and a Coast Guard bomber locating and recovering all aboard without mishap.
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New Youk
Jan. G
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Norman E. Purdy
Hamilton
Purdy
Ford A. Tratier, Jr
Laverne
Ala
Catalina
Com. Delos BE. Wait
USN
el Dorado
Ark
Couaty
Wait
Edwin B. Ing
Elizabeth
N. d
Eastern Sea Frontier
Lieut
Ing
Payoutt
Six Die in Chicago Bowling Alley Fire and Blast
Chicago police report six killed and over 100 hurt when a fire and blast tore through a bowling alley at 9354 South Ashland Avenue in Gresham. Fire Marshal Mullaney estimated damage at 150000, with 35 treated at Mary Hospital and several in critical condition.
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Chicago
R. Bingham
Anthony Mullaney
Thomas Podzimek
Carl Peter Deddo
Anthony Erris
Phillip Gradner
William Gutrich
Ferdinand Gutrich
Gresham
Ashland Avenue
Gresham District
Little Company of Mary
Ray Schalk
Schalk
Ree
30 Percent Butter To Armed Services
Washington aims to allocate 30 percent of monthly creamery butter production to the armed services and almost all canned citrus juices. The government order effective February 1 will earmark about 610 million pounds for the military and allied needs.
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Washington
Jan. Gay
America
Effensive
Nazis Forced to Retreat West of Mateur
Allied and Axis forces clash on the Tunisian front as British troops push west of Mateur, driving the enemy from strategic hills. RAF support, bombings on Sfax and Kairouan target ports and airfields. U.S. bombers strike Sousse area and Fondouk, with French and British forces coordinating in Tunisia. General Clark takes command of the U.S. Fifth Army as Canadians reinforce, while Rommel’s pursuit proceeds with no major air action reported.
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Mateur
Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Bizerte
U. S
Sfax
Kairouan
Sousse
United States
Cairo
Soussee
Rommel
Libya
Mark W. Clark
U. S.S
Fifth Army
Tunisia
Clark
Dwight D. Eisenhower
First Army
K. A. N. Anderson
England
Fondouk
U.S
Eas
Fire damages Hope Stucart Store in Hope
Fire started in wiring of a refrigerator in the meat department at about 3 a m damaged the Stucart Grocer company store. Building damage estimated at 1000 dollars with hundreds more in stock loss. Most stock saved but vegetables and fruits largely ruined by smoke and heat. Firemen confined flames to ceiling and northeast corner. four large plate glass windows cracked. walls burned. Henry Stueart praised the Hope Fire Department for swift work. Store to reopen after repairs and stock replacement.
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Stucart Grocer Company
Henry Stueart
Hope Fire Department
Stueart
Legislator Proposes Return to Prohibition in Arkansas
White County legislator Rep Elbert A Leasure, 24, announced plans to introduce a bill restoring strict prohibition in the coming session. He cited the damage of whiskey to youth and noted possible Governor Adkins shares the sentiment though liquor revenue would need replacement after 1942 totals of 1 074 095 dollars.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Elbert A. Leasure
White County
Leas
Adkins
Lun
Jyithout
Liberty Ship Named After Joe Robinson
In Houston Texas a liberty ship honoring the late U S Senate leader from Arkansas Joseph T Robinson will be launched at the Houston shipbuilding yards Miss Emily Robinson Miller a niece of the senator will sponsor the ship and three Arkansas salvage prize winning school children Dayle Shoiner John Goff and Dean Duncan will participate The children were escorted by Elbert L Mitchell Hamilton Moses Arkansas Power and Light president and Robinsons law partner will speak Senator Robinsons widow and brother Wilam T Robinson attend
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Houston
Texas
U. S. Senate
Arkansas
Joseph T. Robinson
Houston Shipbuilding Corporation
Emily Robinson Miller
Dayle Shoiner
Wesley
John Goff
Hot Springs
Dean Duncan
Brinkley
Famed Harvard Educator Lowell Dies in Boston
A Lawrence Lowell 86 longtime Harvard president died today at his Boston home after a brief illness. He led Harvard from 1909 to 1933, doubling enrollment and expanding endowment, and oversaw the editorial plan and dormitory “houses.” Funeral services set for Harvard Memorial Church in Cambridge Saturday.
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Boston
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
University
Harvard Memorial Churcch
Cambridge
Lowell
Harvard College
Back Bay
Full Flight Is Reported Before Advancing Reds
Moscow dispatch reports German forces retreating in the Caucasus as Russians drive forward along a broad front. Red Star says key towns including Prokhladnenski, Nalchik, and Tsymlyansk have been stormed or recovered, with German losses over 11,000 men between Dec 24 and Jan 4. Soviet cavalry and Cossack units reportedly raid and outmaneuver tanks, while new Russian advances threaten Rostov and the Grozny oilfields.
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Moscow
Caucasus
Red Star
Thichik
Prokhladnenski
Kotlyarskaya
Maiskoye
Tsimlyansk
Rostov
Kamensk
Donmouth
Reuters
London
Hitler
Andie
Emnend
Nalchik
Toshi
Re Star
Frok Jandneski
Naltchik
Bakyn Fields
Ordzhonikidze
Izvestia
Treal
Tavestia
Don
Red Banner
Tsims Jyansk
Morozovskaya
Nal?chik
Prokhladmnenski
Katlyarevskay
Masikoye
Grozny
Stalingrad
War Bulletin
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