Congress Opens Amid Debate On Aid To Britain And Taxes
The seventy seventh Congress convenes with oath of office and officer elections. President Roosevelt will speak from the House rostrum outlining aid to England and the lease lend plan. Debates focus on new tax bills and non-defense spending to raise 2 to 3.5 billion dollars, plus funding for defense.
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Roosevelt
Congress
England
Britain
America
United States
Great Britain
Walter-Logan
Wilsons Court
Labor Board
Securities
Dies Committee
Dies
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Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Arthur B. Purvis
British Purchasing Commission
White House
Purvis
Capt Dougherty to Attend Officers' School at Fort Meade
Capt Dougherty of Ryville commander of Head Company 91st Brigade will attend an officers' school opening about May 6 at Fort George Meade Brig Gen Waller announced First Lieutenant George Miller of Company I will join later this week Miller had not yet received official orders but were expected soon
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Ryville
Fort George Meade
S&s
Ner Waller
George Miller
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Miller
Rites Today For Mrs Grady at Sacred Heart Church
Funeral services were held at 10 o clock this morning at Sacred Heart Catholic Church for Mrs Catherine Grady. She died at the home of her sister Mrs 8 A Smith West Strasburg at age 89 from bronchial pneumonia. Burial followed in the Catholic Cemetery. She was the widow of Rhode Grady and daughter of Francis and Mart Cahagan Horan both natives of Ireland.
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Catherine Grady
A. Smith
West Strasburg
Grady
Rhode Grady
Francis
Mart Cahagan Horan
Ireland
Garner Confers With President In White House Visit
Retiring Vice President John N Garner returned to Washington with a grey fedora described as a "dude hat" and met with President Roosevelt to discuss post term plans. He plans to leave office January 20 and has not disclosed major future steps.
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Washington
John N. Garner
Roose
White House
Garner
White to resign as head of defense aid committee
William Allen White, 72, publisher of the Emporia Gazette, said he will resign as chairman of the committee to defend America by aiding the Allies but will stay until a successor is chosen. He urged naming a younger man to take on the full-time role.
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William Allen White
America
White
Emporia Gazette
Meca
Installation of Officers Changed
The Woodmen of the World local camp postponed its officer installation from tomorrow to Friday evening January 17, with special arrangements and a social hour planned. State manager T. G. Smoak from Lee is expected to attend.
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Dorsey Hottle
T. G. Smoak
Lee
Bolt Removed From Child’s Lung in Pittsburgh Clinic
Physicians at the Chevalier Jackson Bronchoscopic Clinic removed a small bolt from the right lung of five year old Patricia Norberg who was flown from Lima Peru for the operation. The clinic called the operation successful and the child’s condition satisfactory. The girl swallowed the bolt from a toy electric set the day after Christmas while visiting her father who works for a copper company.
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Philadelphia
Chevalier Jackson
Patricia Norberg
Lima
Peru
Man Walking Along Highway Fatally Hurt
Oliver Franklin Cosner 18 of near Aurora West Virginia was killed early today while walking along U S Route 219 on the Maryland side of the boundary Corp Thomas Curry of the state police said Cosner suffered a fractured skull and a broken neck Three other youths walking with Cosner escaped injury Curry said a man identified as Edison M Lewis 25 of Crellin Md had been taken into custody but no charges had been preferred against him.
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Oliver Franklin Cosner
Aurora
W. Va
Maryland
West Virginia
Corp
Thomas Curry
Cosner
Curry
Edison M. Lewis
Crellin
Bremen Bombing Campaign Reported In British Raids
British air raids struck German occupied territory including invasion ports and submarine bases. Berlin stated three factories and many houses were hit in the night, with Bremen named as the main target and no military damage admitted by the German agency.
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Bremen
DNB
German Air Force Records Bomb Totals in Britain War Review
Berlin reports the Luftwaffe dropped 25 pounds of bombs on targets in Britain. The semi annual military review cites 92,400,000 pounds of high explosive and 3,520,000 pounds of incendiaries since August. Midlands targeted most, with 2,000 attacks on England since August.
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Britain
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London
Sheffield
Harwich
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Tal
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Midlands
England
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