78th Congress Opens in Solemn Mood
Washington observers describe the first day of the 78th Congress as a moment of united resolve to win the war and assert independence in domestic policy. Speaker Rayburn narrowly retained leadership 217 to 206 as Republicans and Democrats praised his 61st birthday.
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Washington
White House
Rayburn
House
Sam Rayburn
Rep
Martin
Massachusetts
Roosevelt
Senate
Rum Licenses Up Before Council
Butte city council met in a brief session with Mayor Barry O Leary presiding and fourteen of sixteen aldermen present. The license committee will investigate liquor and beer licenses for the current year and a local business said to have sold bottled beer without a license. The council also authorized up to 700 to remove 13 trees at Mountain View cemetery and replace them with small Colorado spruce at the same cost. A letter from the Silver Bow Trades and Labor council urged against restricting saloon hours.
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Butte
Barry O'Leary
Mountain View Cemetery
National Aeronautical
Washington, D. C
Carroll Fabian
Mountain View
President Roosevelt to Address Joint Session in Morning
President Roosevelt will speak before a joint session of Congress at 10 30 a m Thursday. The annual address will be broadcast and is expected to cover Russia's stance against the Nazis the wartime shift of American industry to war production and its record pace of war material output.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Russia
Pleasure Driving Forbidden in Eastern States
The Office of Price Administration announced a noon Thursday ban on pleasure driving in 17 Eastern states and the District of Columbia to conserve gasoline. Violators risk loss of all or part of their ration. The rule affects A, B and C cardholders and could curb racing and amusements at venues like Hialeah Park.
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Washington
East
Office of Price Administration
OPA
District of Columbia
John C. Clark
Miami
Fla
Jockey Club
Hialeah Park
Herbert Bayard Swope
New York State Racing Commission
OPA Slashes Fuel Oil Rations in Eastern States
The Office of Price Administration ordered a 25 percent cut in fuel oil rations for non residential users in 17 eastern states and the District of Columbia. The reduction drops commercial, industrial and institutional uses to about 45 percent of normal, affecting theaters, stores, offices, factories, schools, and government buildings. Officials warned the cut may curtail performances, shorten hours, or close operations one or two days weekly.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
District of Columbia
OPA
Seventy-One Prospective Jurors Serve for State Court Term
Deputies under Sheriff Al McLeod completed the 71st of 100 juror summonses for the upcoming state district court term before Judge T E Downey. The 36 case docket centers on police court appeals. two criminal cases brought by the state will be tried, including traffic violations and alleged drunken and reckless driving. Edward J. Foley is expected to prosecute.
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al McLeod
State District Court
T .E. Downey
Tom Nowlin
Marvin Ash
Edward J. Foley
British Troops Capture Jebel Azzaq Amid North Africa Operations
Allied reports say veteran British First Army units captured Jebel Azzaq and surrounding high ground west of Mateur, after a Tuesday assault aimed at breaking Axis control in northern Tunisia. Air and submarine actions along the Mediterranean followed, with Fortress bombers striking a cruiser and enemy ports as Allied forces press the campaign.
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North Africa
First Army
Jebel Azzaq
Mateur
Tunisia
Allied
Sfax
Mediterranean
Admiralty
London
Allied Planes Bomb Lae In New Guinea Action
Allied air forces bombed and strafed the Lae airfield and supply installations in New Guinea. A Japanese twin engine bomber was set afire on the ground and four anti aircraft positions were destroyed. No change reported in ground positions around Sanananda as Allied forces press Buna area.
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MacArthur
Australia
U.P
New Guinea
Lae
Sanananda
Buna
Douglas MacArthur
Gasmata
New Britain Island
Fire After Explosions Injures Six At Heil Plant
Six workers were injured Wednesday when trapped in a fire following a series of explosions at the Heil company's repair plant in Chicago.
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Chicago
Heil Company
Rotary International President visits Butte club event
Fernando Carbajal of Lima Peru Rotary International president paid an official visit to the Butte Rotary club at the Finlen hotel. About 300 Rotarians and guests attended a dinner and program marking four club milestones including Ladies night and anniversaries. Carbajal spoke on Rotary serves in war and in peace stressing ideals of freedom truth and human rights.
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Fernando Carbajal
Lima
Peru
Rotary International
Butte Rotary Club
Finlen Hotel
Silver Bow
Butte Rotary
Tom J. Davis
Rotary
Carbajal
Butte
International
Youths Face Early Call From Silver Bow County Draft Boards
The first 18 and 19 year olds from Silver Bow County are set for early draft notices as boards 1 2 and 3 anticipate calls in coming months. Five delinquents with missing addresses were named and readers with current addresses urged to contact the boards.
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Silver Bow County
Wilcox
Richard Glenn Lee
William J. Manning
Jose Maria Ortiz
Frank Knight, Jr
Arthur O. Garrett
Helen Novak
Board No. 3
James McCashin
Weather Forecast Quiet temperature change for Thursday
Little change in temperatures for Thursday and Thursday evening. Wednesday shows a high of 28 and a low of minus 1 with cool conditions continuing.
Montana House Passes Three Bills in Tight Session
Associated Press notes HB 1 appropriates 1000 dollars for regimental colors for Montana soldiers in the South Pacific. HB 2 cuts Senate employees from 50 to 40. HB 3 allocates 155000 dollars for expenses of the twenty eighth legislative assembly. All passed 89 to 0.
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Montana
South Pacific
Senate
Twenty-Eighth Legislative Assembly
Americans Shell Japa nese Base at Munda in Solomons
In a dawn strike, American surface ships bombarded the Munda air field on New Georgia Island and damaged installations. A separate air attack hit a heavy Japanese cruiser near Buin and bombers struck a transport 300 miles north of Guadalcanal, with several Japanese planes shot down and four American planes lost.
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Washington
Middle Solomons
Munda
New Georgia Island
Navy
Guadalcanal Island
Mount Austen
Guadalcanal
United States
Marine Corps
Buin
Bougainville Island
Shortland Island
Rabaul
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
First public mention of RAF slow bomb in raids on Germany
London reports censors allow the first mention of a new 2,000 pound slow bomb used by the RAF in recent raids on Germany. The weapon carries a secret braking device to slow its fall and spreads destruction on impact rather than dispersing power downward.
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London
Germany
Labor Department Sought by Bill in Montana House
The Montana House introduced a bill to create a constitutional amendment for a separate state department of labor to be voted on in November 1944. Governor Ford urged economy and reorganizing agencies, with two proposed departments labor and industry, and agriculture. The measure mirrors a 1941 plan previously killed by the Senate.
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Helena
Sam C. Ford
Montana
House of Representatives
Cannon
D.-Silver Bow
Dunn
R.gallatin
State Department of Labor
State Department of Agriculture, Labor and Industry
Cannon-Dunne
Senate
State Department of Labor and Industry
State Department of Agriculture
Ford
Rep. Horrigan
R. Granite
House Appropriations Committee
Montana House Appropriations Plan Economy and Speed
Helena Jan 6. The House appropriations committee chairman Rep Horrigan R Granite says economy and speed will guide actions this session. The panel aims to draft all appropriation bills within 30 days and hold daily 9 am meetings while hearing requests from departments and institutions.
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Helena
House
Appropriations Committee
Horrigan
R - Granite
Sam C. Ford
Assembly
Montana
Ford
House Appropriations Committee
Solons Call For Economic General Staff In War Production
A Senate labor subcommittee urged creation of an economic general staff headed by a civilian director with full power over production manpower mobilization and economic stabilization. The report backed civilian control and consolidation of war agencies to form one unified war production machine. The proposal cites Pearl Harbor and seeks a $20,000-a-year director under a bill introduced by Rep. John H. Tolan and Sens. Pepper and Kilgore.
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Washington
Senate
Claude Pepper
D.-La
Robert M. la Follette
Wis
Harry H. Schwartz
D.-Wyo
Pearl Harbor
Donald M. Nelson
Army- Navy High Command
Nelson
Capitol
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Armed Services
John H. Tolan
Calif
Sens
Pepper
Harley M. Kilgore
D.W. V
Germans Declared in Flight Up Caucasus Railroad
Soviet forces report a rapid retreat of German units along the Rostov to Caspian railroad with heavy losses. The daily communique cites 6,500 Germans captured and 20,000 killed or missing in five days, plus multiple villages and rail junctions taken.
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Caucasus
Moscow
U.P
Rostov
Middle Don
North Caucasus
Red Army
Prokhladnenski
Soldatskaya
Don
Marinskaya
Kamyeshevy Kaya
Mariinskaya
The
Tsimlyanskaya
Kamisovoskaya
Stalingrad
Volga
Rostov-Caspian
US Public Roads Administration Opens Alberta District Offices
United States Public Roads Administration opens district head offices in Edmonton Alberta to oversee Alaska highway work under Col. Theodore Wyman, US divisional engineer, with immediate effect announced Wednesday.
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Edmonton
Alta
United States Public Roads Administration
Theodore Wyman
United States
Japanese Cargo Ship Is Sunk In Aleutian Waters
The U S Navy said American bombers sank a Japanese cargo ship 110 miles northeast of Kiska and scored a direct hit on another vessel 185 miles southwest of Kiska. The report notes a B 25 raid January 5 and a B 24 strike January 6. Marine underwriters cut war risk rates 25 percent for Hawaii to U S west coast cargoes.
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Cairo
Sousse
Mateur
Bizerte
Reuters
Washington
Navy
Aleutian
North Pacific
Kiska
New York
U.P
Hawaii
United States
Canada
J P Moore Installed as President of Butte Pioneers Club
J P Moore was formally installed as president of the Butte Pioneers' club at a ceremony in the Butte Miners union hall. Frank L. Riley presided. new officers included Fred Schuerer as vice president and Anna M. Quinn as secretary. A dance committee was named to plan the annual club dance with its first meeting scheduled for Friday in the Phoenix building offices.
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J. P. Moore
Butte
Butte Pioneers
Butte Miners’ Union
Frank L. Riley
Fred Schuerer
Anna M. Quinn
J. W. Scott
M. G. Nidelcheff
William O. Gilbert
Pioneers’ Club
Lioyd Birmingham
Gus Heimbach
Alec Meagher
John McMillan
W. J. Sullivan
William Reome
Henry Pissot
Larry Hamilton
W. H. Campbell
Bart Riley
Emmett Sullivan
al McLeod
al LaForest
Anna Quinn
Ruby Thurston
Susie Edwards
Pred Schaerer
Phoenix Building
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Richard L. Turner
Henderson
Price
Leon Henderson
Sheriff's
Don Caswell
Rotarians
Associated Press
State Labor Department
Appropriations Group
Adolf Galland
Luftwaffe
Solons
By Henry Shapiro
Aleutians
J.P. Moore
Butte Pioneer Club
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