Roosevelt to Send State of Union Message by Broadcast
President Roosevelt will transmit the annual message to Congress at noon tomorrow due to illness and will broadcast a half hour summary at 8 p.m. Roosevelt met with congressional leaders and prepared budget talks with Harold Smith and Wayne Coy. The opening session of the 78th Congress featured a brief prayer and low attendance as major issues loom for the new term.
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Roosevelt
Congress
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Rayburn
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Barkley
House
McCormack
White House
Ross T. McIntire
State of the Union
Harold Smith
Wayne Coy
Talk of Universal Service
Early
There's No Farm Bloc in Congress Says Solon
Rep Barrris Ellsworth of Oregon challenges the existence of a farm bloc in Congress. He says the bloc, formed in 1921 by agricultural state members, is a myth found only in writers and commentators. He sought to identify it and could not.
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Emanuim M. Lemay
Washington
Rep
Barris Ellsworth
R-Ore
Congress
Ellsworth
United States
United States Congress
Yankees Press Forward In Italy Cassino Front
Allied forces push deeper into the Cassino defense belt as American doughboys advance two miles and climb Mount Chain and Mount Porchia while British troops secure a Peccia river bridgehead. Heavy bombardment targets Pola naval base.
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Algiers
Fifth Army
Peccia River
Mount Maio
Catena Vecchio
Fallen San Vittore
Peccia
Mount Maggiore
Mark W. Clark
5Th Army
Sovet Forces Close in on Bug River Line
Soviet 1st Ukrainian Army under Gen. Vatutin pushes within 15 miles of the Bug River and near Vinnitsa, threatening the main Odessa-Warsaw rail line. Units advance south toward a junction with Gen. Koven's 2nd Ukrainian Army, while other elements press toward Sarny and positions east of Vinitsa.
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Nikolai Vatutin
Bug River
Vinnitsa
Bug
Dnieper
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Smela Gap
Dnieper River
Ivan S. Koven
2Nd
Alexandrovka
Kirovograd
Sarny
Old Poland
Zhornishche
Odessa
Ochakov
Fifth Bomber Raid Strikes Sofia for Second Month
A heavy force of American Flying Fortresses bombed Sofia the capital of Bulgaria in a noon raid, the fifth heavy bomber attack in two months. The operation followed a prior strike on Pola, a northern Adriatic naval and port facility. Sofia serves rail links for German troop movements toward Yugoslavia Romania and Bulgaria. Further details were not released.
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Pola
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Romania
15Th Air Force
Youthful Abductors Remain Defiant in Lineup
Two youths from Norfolk Virginia David Keith 24 and John R King 23 were arrested after allegedly kidnapping a Washington cab driver and a female passenger forcing them into their car taking them to New York where they were dumped after a robbery They are charged with commandeering a Brooklyn cab taking the driver on a round trip to New Jersey and robbing him at gunpoint and reportedly admitted statements to the district attorney during police questioning.
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David Keith
John R. King
Norfolk
Edward Dillon
Washington
Brooklyn
New Jersey
Solons Ineligible For Military Duty
President Roosevelt ordered that members of Congress may not serve in active armed forces. Attorney General Biddle advised the constitutional ban, with the president stressing duties to the nation and the need for a strong congress during total war. Two representatives were affected: Albert Gore of Tennessee, furloughed to report January 19 at Camp Shelby, and Jackson of Washington, a private in a tank destroyer unit at Fort McClellan.
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D-Tenn
Camp Shelby
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Tennessee
Rep
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D-Wash
Fort McClellan
Ala
Japs Stiffen Fight Against Allied Forces
Allied reports from the Pacific describe renewed Japanese resistance at New Britain and New Guinea as American and Australian forces push inland. Air battles intensified with significant Allied bombings and Japanese countermeasures, while MacArthur and staff note ongoing campaigns across Bougainville, Rabaul, and Tarawa.
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Southwest Pacific
New Britain
New Guinea
Drastic Nazi Plans For Warsaw Reported
The Polish underground radio said German plans for Warsaw include destroying the city’s industries and communications and deporting to Germany all Poles fit to work. It also claimed leaders and their families would be executed.
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Warsaw
Germany
Cork substitute from farm waste developed
The agriculture department announced a new cork substitute made from pith and fibers of sugarcane cornstalks peanut hulls and similar materials. It is formed with glues sugars and other additives and mirrors the cork discs used in bottling foods and beverages. The product was developed by the northern regional research laboratory at Peoria Illinois in cooperation with food and beverage industries.
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Agriculture Department
Peoria
Food and Beverage Industries
Vierieck conviction affirmed on foreign agents act
The U S court of appeals affirmed the conviction of George Sylvester Vierieck who was sentenced last July to serve from one to five years for violation of the foreign agents registration act.
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Washington
George Sylvester Viereck
United States Court of Appeals
Labor Union Official From Superior Missing
Superior police seek help from Wisconsin officers to locate William Craddick a prominent labor union official and vice president of an International Association of Machinists local who vanished after leaving Superior by automobile for Milwaukee on December 28 his family says he was ill when he departed and associates in Milwaukee say he did not arrive.
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Wis
Wisconsin
William Craddick
Milwaukee
Craddick
International Association of Machinist
Partisans Battle To Halt Nazi Offensive
Yugoslav Partisan forces under Marshal Tito fight a heavy clash in western and central Bosnia as they try to foil a five-pronged German advance into Partisan territory. A Chetnik brigade was decisively defeated in Serbia with significant war material seized.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Bosnia
Serbia
Seven Men Perish In Dormitory Fire
A dormitory at a Richmond shipyard housing workers burned, killing at least seven men and injuring seven others. Fire damage was estimated at $25,000.
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Calif
Gen Paget Arrives to Lead Middle East Command
Gen Sir Bernard Paget arrives in Cairo to assume Allied commander-in-chief duties in the Middle East. The former head of home forces and Norway withdrawal operations was officially announced as the new Middle East commander.
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London
Bernard Paget
Middle East
Cairo
Paget
Norway
Russians Reach Sarny Rail Hub on Poland Front
Berlin radio reported Russian units reached Sarny rail station about 350 miles inside former Poland on the Warsaw Odessa and Warsaw Minsk rail link. Earlier Moscow dispatches placed Red Army five miles east of the town, whose fall would push Nazis to use the Brest Litovsk line 135 miles farther west as main lateral supply route.
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Berlin
Sarny
Old Poland
Warsaw
Fast-Talking Doughboy Captures 19 Germans
Pvt Billy Miller 21 a Peoria Ill doughboy tricked a German lieutenant and 18 enlisted men into believing they were surrounded then led them single handed across 600 yards of no mans land to captivity. He did this during a hill assault in the San Vittore area on the Italian front. Miller later turned over seven Germans nine binoculars and a machine pistol to American troops. He asked that his girlfriend Peggy Mitchem of Macon Ga be told he was safe.
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San Vittore
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Roy Miller
Peggy Mitchem
Macon
Order Refugees Off Bessarabian Roads
Premier Ion Antonescu of Romania reportedly ordered the governor of Bessarabia to clear refugees from all roads and railways into the interior to aid troop movement. The action followed a complaint by German Minister Baron Manfred von Killinger about refugees from the Russian advance clogging transport lines.
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Ion Antonescu
Rumania
Bessarabia
Antonescu
Baron Manfred von Killinger
Railway Mishaps Arouse Concern
Washington reports a surge in interstate railway accidents for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1943. The ICC urges carriers to enforce safety rules and install protections, noting a wartime emphasis on safety as accidents rose sharply in the first half of 1943.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Congress
Hopkins In Hospital With Influenza Sickness
President Roosevelt adviser Harry L. Hopkins is in naval hospital with influenza after a severe cold. White House officials say he developed a fever and chills and will remain hospitalized for some time.
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Harry L. Hopkins
President Roosevelt
Naval Hospital
White House
Death of Dr. Harry H. Ainsworth Former Health Board President
Word arrived Monday of the death of Dr. Harry H. Ainsworth 71 of Birchwood a former president of the state board of health Funeral services are planned in Madison at his home until Wednesday afternoon the date uncertain.
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Wis
Harry H. Ainsworth
Birchwood
State Board of Health
Von Mannstein Out As Nazi Commander Rumor Surfaces
Aftontidningen quotes a private informant stating Fritz von Mannstein was seen in civilian clothes in Vienna on January 2, suggesting he no longer commands German forces on the southern Russian front. Rumors of his relief after a dispute with Hitler circulated recently, but no confirmation has been made.
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Aftontidningen
Fritz von Mannstein
Vienna
Russia
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Adolf Hitler
Execution Of Ciano Is Ordered
London reports by a German news agency say Count Galeazzo Ciano and 18 other fascist grand council members who voted to depose Mussolini were condemned to death in a treason trial. Some defendants were in Nazi custody. others had escaped, with no detailed evidence released.
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Young Slayer Advised To Make A Fresh Start
Fifteen year old Leonard Marcus pleaded guilty to second degree murder for the strangling of his step grandmother Mrs Jennie Flicker in the Bronx He was sent to a guardians home in Hawthorne N Y and counseled to forget the crime and start anew Judge Lester W Patterson said the court felt he lacked guidance and urged a fresh start Sylvester Ryan ADA said prison would not serve a good purpose and recommended institutional care
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Jennie Flicker
Sylvester Ryan
Milwaukee Hold Up Suspect Captured After Slugging Bartenders
Police report CAPTURE MAN WANTED IN HOLDUP. August Pintaro 29, in custody after being sought since early last Thursday for assault and robbery in a bowling alley holdup that injured Eugene Reichman 27 and William Het rick 30. Pintaro is brother-in-law of Anthony Scaffidi 29 killed fleeing the scene. Co‑suspects Lawrence Quartana 24 is in custody and Pasquale Rosetti 29 is still sought.
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Pintaro
Eugene Reichman
William Hetrick
Anthony Scaffidi
Lawrence Quartana
Pasquale Rosetti
Quartana
Rosetti
Bulgaria Gearing Up For War Against Turkey Says Stockholm Paper
The Social Demokraten reports signs that Bulgaria plans an attack on Turkey and may not stay neutral through winter. It notes Sofia patrols on the streets, guards at the radio station war ministry and government palace, and an overall impression of a country preparing for war.
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Stockholm
Social Demokraten
OWI
Bulgaria
Turkey
Sofia
War Ministry
Attack Announcement Acknowledged by Sofia Officials
In a noon briefing the capital Sofia confirmed an air attack with a two line special communique declaring the strike. Officials did not provide further details on targets or casualties.
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Capital
Twoline Special Air
Allied air activity eases with limited forays over weekend
British bases report small scale raids over the continent with no immediate attacks last night. RAF Mosquito bombers struck the western Reich on Saturday night, with Berlin claiming Aachen as the target. More than 250000 acres in Britain are now devoted to airfields for RAF and US forces as the field network expands. Stockholm notes Berlin’s war production hit by bombings with 45000 workers missing and 420000 unemployed, 100000 moved to other cities.
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Vichy
Germany
Western Reich
Berlin
Aachen
Britain
RAF
U. S
Stockholm
Gaeteborg
Handels- Ochs-Sjoerartstidning
Metal Baby Carriages Soon To Be On Market
Washington announced that prewar quality metal baby carriages will replace wooden victory models within six weeks. All metal-use restrictions on baby carriages, push carts, strollers and walkers are removed, as WPB notes improvements in the steel supply and related adjustments.
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War Production Board
Senator Proposes Suspension of Meat Rationing
Washington action aims to pause all meat rationing due to a pork surplus clogging trade channels. Senator Thomas of Idaho urges a temporary halt to ensure market flow and prevent further price disruption.
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Thomas
Idaho
Hogs Flood National Stockyards Surpass 1915 Record
A massive run at National Stockyards drew an estimated 33,000 hogs on Monday, nearly matching a 1915 commercial receipt record. The surge highlights ongoing demand and supply pressures in the swine market.
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