Ex-governor Ford urges economy and postwar public works
Helena January 5 A plea for economy and a vast postwar public works program dominated Governor Sam C Ford biennial message to the Montana legislature He urged that no new taxes be levied and stressed economy as the watchword for the session House leaders supported the plan noting it would preserve efficiency and prepare for postwar issues
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Helena
Sam C. Ford
Mont
House
O'Connor
R.carbon
Dillavou
R.yellowstone
Red Army captures key Caucasus rail hubs and Don stronghold
Moscow reports a swift Soviet offensive across the Caucasus and lower Don valley. The Red Army seized Prokhladnenski Nalchik and Tsimlyanskaya, advancing toward Rostov and Stalingrad. Over 11 000 German troops killed as 150 tanks 109 guns 268 machine guns and other matériel were captured or destroyed in 12 days.
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U.P
Red Army
Prokhladnenski
Nalchik
Caucasus
Don River
Tsimlyanskaya
Rostov
Stalingrad
Russia
High Command
Don Valley
Grozny
Special
Mozdok
Elkhotovo
Don
Morozovskaya
Don Bend
Caspian
Janu
Ford's Message to Legislature Urges Postwar Jobs and Fiscal Prudence
Montana Governor Ford outlines aims for rapid wartime victory and a strong postwar economy. He calls for a separate labor department, efficient finances, and a $4 million General Fund balance projected by June 30 1943 while promising no new taxes.
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Helena
Ford
Montana
Department of Labor
Legislators Urged to Speed Work in 1943 Session
Helena dispatch reports Republican leaders in the 1943 Montana Legislature urging faster action. House majority leader Dillavoy pressed members to move proposed bills up early. Senate majority leader Keeley promised to push the appropriations committee to finish all appropriation measures by day 30. The speaker anticipated quick appointment of House committees and rapid start to work.
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Helena
Senate
House
Dillavoy
Yellowstone
Keeley
R.powell
O'Connor
R.carbon
Appropriations Committee
President of International Rotary to Speak in Butte Tonight
Fernando Carbajal of Lima Peru president of Rotary International will be the principal speaker at the anniversary dinner of the Butte club tonight at the Finlen hotel. Butte Rotarians will mark the 28th anniversary of the founding of their club and the 38th anniversary of Rotary International. Reservations total about 300 with Rotarians and guests. Tom J Davis of Butte immediate past president will serve as master of ceremonies. This is the first time an international president and an immediate past international president attend a Rotary meeting as honored guest and MC. He will arrive in Butte Wednesday from the West.
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Fernando Carbajal
Lima
Peru
Rotary International
Butte Club
Finlen Hotel
Tom J. Davis
Butte
Rotary
Carbajal
Americans Take Guadalcanal Heights in New Push
U S forces wrested key heights flanking the Guadalcanal airfield as a possible start to a broader push beyond artillery range. Japanese counterattacks were repulsed with about 150 dead. patrols killed 20 more and captured mortars and light machine guns.
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Washington
U. S
Guadalcanal
Navy
Solomons Island
Mount Austen
Solomons
Knox
Allied forces activate Fifth Army under Clark in North Africa
Allied headquarters announced the United States Fifth Army was activated with Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark in command, forming a large force alongside the British First Army for the Tunis and Bizerte operations. In Fondouk area, German tanks were repelled by American and French units, with 12 to 15 tanks lost and the French holding a key hill south of Fondouk.
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Clark
United States Fifth Army
Africa
Mark W. Clark
Tunis
Bizerte
Allied
North Africa
General Clark
K. A. N. Anderson
Tunisia
Eighth Army
Libya
Fondouk
Sousse
U. S
Rayburn Warns Democrats Break With Bureaucrats
Speaker Sam Rayburn told House Democrats in executive session that Congress must reassert itself and not bow to bureaucrats. He warned department heads are not elected and urged cooperation with leadership and key committees to avoid friction over administration policies.
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Washington
Rayburn
Texas
House Democrats
Congress
House Democratic
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Capitol Hill
Democratic Choices By Francis M. Lemay War Congress Opens
The Seventy-eighth Congress convenes amid unity on war aims but divisions on domestic policy. Democrats nominate Sam Rayburn for speaker and re elect John W. McCormack as floor leader, while Republicans back Joseph W. Martin Jr. for speaker. Both sides urge a politics pause to focus on wartime needs with Rayburn's reelection seen as certain.
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Washington
Sam Rayburn
Texas
House
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
House Republican Conference
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Rayburn
Martin
Republican National Committee
Congress
Allied air force all but sinks or fires 9 to 10 vessels at Rabaul
Gen. MacArthur’s bombers attacked a Japanese naval concentration at Rabaul, New Britain, sinking or setting afire nine to ten ships totaling over 50,000 tons. Fortresses and Liberators hit eight merchantmen and a destroyer tender, while fighters downed numerous enemy planes. Lae bombed. Beaufighters felled one fighter. ground forces pressed into the Sanananda corridor.
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Owen Stanley Mountains
MacArthur
Buna
Sanananda
Allied
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain Island
Southwest
Pacific
Melbourne
Southwest Pacific
Lae
Fudoro
Portuguese Timor
Salamaua
Madang
Butter for War and Citrus Juice War Orders Issued
Secretary Wickard directed 30 percent of monthly butter production be set aside for direct war needs starting February 1. He also extended a War Production Board order restricting unconcentrated grapefruit juice while allowing continued sale of citrus juices to civilians. The citrus move aims to conserve tin and ensure government supplies amid low fresh fruit stocks.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard
War Production Board
Theeason
WPB
U S Shipyards Hit Roosevelt's 1942 Shipping Goal
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land announced that American shipyards reached 38 000 000 deadweight tons in 1942 and can deliver 20 000 000 tons more this year if materials are available. He noted air transport will aid but cannot replace ships in wartime.
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Washington
Emory S. Land
Amercan
Roosevelt
Navy
Maritime Commission
War Shipping Administration
Howard L. Vickery
War Production Board
Noted Negro Scientist George Washington Carver Dies
Dr. George Washington Carver, renowned Negro scientist, died at his Tuskegee home after months of illness. Born to slave parents in Diamond Grove Missouri, he joined the Tuskegee Institute faculty in 1894 and became a leading agricultural researcher creating uses for sweet potatoes peanuts and clay.
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Tuskegee
Ala
George Washington Carver
Carver
Diamond Grove
Tuskegee Institute
First Class in Volunteer Nurses Aid to Be Held Friday Night
The Butte Y M C A hosts the first session of a 35 hour course for volunteer nurses aid announced by Mrs. Glenn A. Carmichael of the Butte Red Cross chapter. Twenty seven women signed up with instructor Mrs. Remo Rochelle to train to assist hospital nurses as part of the National Red Cross war emergency program.
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Butte Y. M. C. A
Glenn A. Carmichael
Volunteers Nurses’ Aid Committee
Butte
American Red Cross
Carmichael
Remo Rochelle
Red Cross
National American Red Cross
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Isanananda
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Francis M. Lemay
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J. W. Martin, Jr
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