Signs of turbulence seen in Congress end is near for Nazis
British shock troops reportedly swept Tripoli as the climactic Libya battle raged Friday while on the Soviet front the German high command indicated the end was near for Nazi divisions trapped before Stalingrad. A Hitler bulletin said Russians broke through German lines and that the Stalingrad group, originally numbering 220000, now faced encirclement with heavy fighting. The German defense reeled back several kilometers in bitter hand to hand combat. Continued on page five.
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Tripoli
Libya
Stalingrad
Adolf Hitler
Don- Volga
Bernard L
Man Of The Month Honored In Hocking War Bond Drive
James L. Young named Hocking County Man Of The Month for December in the county wide War Bond campaign announced at state headquarters in Cleveland. He will receive a Minute Man citation from Standard Oil of Ohio. Ohio Highway Map 1943 will be a reprint with limited supply of 50 000 due to paper shortages.
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James L. Young
Hocking County
Cleveland
Young
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
Ohio Department of Highways
Hal G. Sours
Sours
Hocking Parks District
Greatest pig crop foreseen this year in Ohio
Ohio's Crop Reporting Service reports 551,000 sows expected to farrow from December 1, 1942 to June 1, 1943, beating the previous spring record of 459,000. The Federal State Crop Reporting Service adds that 2,929,000 pigs were saved in fall 1942, up 18 percent from last fall and 16 percent above fall 1941.
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Ohio Crop Reporting Service
Federal
State
Mass Funeral for London School Victims
London reports mass funeral services will be held next Wednesday for 47 children and teachers killed when German bombers struck a London school in a daylight raid the day before yesterday.
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London
Showdowns Rise as New Congress Demands Action
Turbulence grows in the new Congress with calls for prompt action on farm prices agency relations the synthetic rubber program and aviation regulation. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee resumes its probe into Edward J. Flynn former Democratic chair and potential minister to Australia amid questions about a Bronx grand jury's handling of charges against him.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Edward J. Flynn
Democratic National Committee
Australia
Flynn
Bronx
New York
George H. Coburn
Business to Get Say in OPA Brown
Washington January 22 The new price administrator Prentiss M Brown plans to enlarge business input in drafting OPA rules by reviving industry advisory committees He aims to skeletonize enforcement and shift enforcement of price and ration orders to United States attorneys nationwide believing this would curb perceived unfairness and impracticality during and after the election period
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Opa—Brown
Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
OPA
United States
Pilot Killed In Army Fighter Crash Near Circleville
An army fighter plane crashed during a routine training flight in a wooded area near Circleville. The pilot died and the name remains withheld pending next of kin notification by officers at Lockbourne air base.
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Columbus
Circleville
Lockbourne Air Base
Toledo Civil War veteran Dr Marks dies at 100
Dr Albert J Marks, a Civil War veteran and long time physician who practiced medicine until he was 92, died yesterday at age 100 in Toledo. The city now has only one surviving Civil War veteran.
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Toledo
Albert J. Marks
35 Lose Lives In Plane Crash
Washington reports 35 men died when a large American transport plane crashed off the coast of Dutch Guiana on a mission to Africa. It was the worst U.S. aviation disaster, with victims including Eric Knight author RP. E. Foxworth welfare figure William Hodson and 17 Army officers among others aboard the flight.
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Washington
Africa
Dutch Guiana
South America
War Department
Eric Knight
RP. E. Foxworth
Oil flows into Norris City as Texas to Illinois line opens
A stream of oil from East Texas fields flows through the world’s longest pipe line toward Norris City. The final link of the $35 million Texas to Illinois section was slipped into place, six months after construction began to ease the eastern oil shortage, with the line to eventually reach Philadelphia and New York.
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Norris City
East Texas
Texas
Illinois
Philadelphia
New York
Suspect in Chest Slaying Sought Near Circleville
Circleville Jan 22 Sheriff Radcliff doubts Mrs Norma Bates Fowler 26 is hiding near her former home after the shotgun slaying of her husband Guy B Fowler 47 in Columbus A search with Sheriff Sandusky and seven deputies failed to locate her on a tip she fled after threatening Mrs Minnie Buckingham 28 a deaf mute for bread and coffee Police identified a shotgun found near the couple’s cedar chest as the one she loaned before Christmas
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Circleville
Charles Radcliff
Norma Bates Fowler
Guy B. Fowler
Columbus
Radcliff
Jacob Sandusky
Franklin County
Mrs. Fowler
Here
Daugherty Secretary Dies in Columbus
Funeral services will be held Saturday for Katherine Marie Carroll personal secretary of the late U S Attorney General Harry M Daugherty in Columbus Ohio.
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Daugherty
Columbus, O
Katherine Marie Carroll
U. S
Harry M. Daugherty
Trustees urged to aid traffic seed in Ohioroads
Hal G. Sours state highway director urged Ohio township officials to maintain transportation despite expected revenue loss. He stressed highways are vital for moving materials and workers to war plants and farm to market routes require upkeep even with gasoline tax cuts. Joe R. Thomas outlined feeding cities from farms as trustees’ immediate challenge.
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Columbus
Hal G. Sours
Ohio
Souis
Ohio States Association of Township Trustees
Sours
Joe R. Thomas
Hayesville
Association
Stork Deliveries Hit Record 2.8 Million in 1942
New York report notes the nation's busiest year for births with at least 2,800,000 babies born in 1942. No specific cities or organizations named.
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New York
Auto kills 60 year old man in Washington Court House
An automobile struck and killed George Boggess, 60, in Washington Court House last night. The accident report lists the victim’s age and name, with authorities continuing the inquiry into the fatal incident.
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Washington Court House
George Boggess
Union Rules At Guadalcanal Delay Marines Load
Akron dispatch reports Navy investigating claims that Marines had to unload supplies after a merchant ship offshore refused Sunday work due to National Maritime Union rules. Six Guadalcanal veterans, three Marines, two sailors, and a Navy pilot provide accounts alleging crews worked Saturday, rested Sunday, and Marines took over Monday.
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Beacon Journal
Navy
Guadalcanal
Akron
National Maritime Union
Washington
Junction With von Arnim Is Rommel Hope
Tripoli may not fall Friday or Saturday but Rommel fights for days to unite with von Arnim in Tunisia. Axis forces aim to connect tattered columns, rearguard a bloody retreat under air attack. Tunisian coast defense, Sicilian and Italian air power, and a looming African Dunkirk frame the doomed stand.
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Rommel
Africa
Tunisia
Mussolini
Hitler
von Arnim
Gulf of Gabes
Tunisian
Sfax
Pont du Fahs
Giraud
Axis
Sicily
Italy
Stalingrad
Mediterranean
Timken Employees Get Wage Increase Across Ohio Plants
Wayne L Morris of the War Labor Board said the board did not rule on Timken Roller Bearing Company Ohio plants basic steel industry status while granting a retroactive five cent per hour raise for 17 000 workers. The decision includes maintenance of union membership and a dues deduction checkoff at plants in Canton Gambrinus Columbus and Wooster.
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Washington
Wayne L. Morris
War Labor Board
Timken Roller Bearing Company
Ohio
Canton
Gambrinus
Columbus
Wooster
Hunt Missng Family In Ohio And Kentucky
Health official Dr. Doresey W. Fellers reports a quarantined Attica home left by a family, likely traveling toward a former Kentucky residence with a child ill from diphtheria. Search launches today in Ohio and Kentucky for the missing family and to locate the child and prevent spread.
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Tiffin
Ohio
Kentucky
Doresey W. Fellers
Seneca
Attica
First Draftees Named, Yet Hard to Distinguish The First
Washington reports that the first Navy draftee may not be identifiable as such. Selective Service and Navy say many men will be drafted simultaneously at many places, making it impossible to name a single first. February quotas have been issued detailing total service needs without breakdown by branch.
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Washington
Navy
Marine
Coast Guard
Selective Service Headquarters
Hoover Calls Agriculture A Wartime Munitions Industry
Former President Hoover told the National Industrial Conference Board that U S meat exports are under half of what they were in the previous war while civilian shortages are greater now. He urged treating agriculture as a munitions sector to back military operations and combat global unrest.
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New York
Hoover
National Industrial Conference Board
United States
Coaster Killed Cleveland Child in Sled Crash
Clarence Geiger Jr aged 4 was riding a coaster sled when it rolled into a street in front of an oncoming truck and he was killed yesterday.
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Cleveland
Clarence Geiger, Jr
Flynn case nears end as flier named as witness
Los Angeles January 22 The state nears the close of its case in actor Errol Flynn statutory rape trial with Capt Owen Cathcart-Jones a listed witness. Peggy la Rue Satterlee 16 testified to his age and to gifts trips and rent payments while the suspect was a frequent visitor to her apartment in Hollywood.
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Los Angeles
Errol Flynn
Owen Cathcart-Jones
Uc Er
Rde
Peggy la Rue Satterlee
Peggy
Cathcart-Jones
En Satterlee
Ie June Norris
Wood
Ters
Hollywood
Wis
Canada
Nelson orders hire in farm machinery production rise
Washington report states War Production Board chairman Donald M. Nelson has authorized a 30 percent increase in farm machinery output. He defends the move against a Senate committee's criticism of prior production policies in an explanatory statement.
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Washington, Jan
Donald M. Nelson
The
War Production Board
Senate
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