Monday, January 31, 2011

Current Events January 31, 1943; NAZI'S 10th ANIVERSARY CELEBRATION DISRUPTED BY R.A.F. BOMBS / RUSSIANS CAPTURE MAJOR RAIL JUNCTION /JAPANESE SHIPPING TAKES TOLL FROM U. S. SUBMARINES / CELABRATION OF PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY BENEFITS FIGHT ON INFANTILE PARALYSIS:

         The Salt Lake City Tribune
        Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday Morning, January 31, 1943

R A F Bombers Rout Berlin Celebrants
Daring Daylight Assaults Delay
Talks by Goering and Goebbels
Reich Must Stem Red Tide or Die,
Say Gloomy German Orators;
Hitler Sends Message Assailing Jews
By Joe Alex Morris
United Press Foreign Editor
LONDON, Jan. 30—British planes sent bombs hurtling
down on Berlin Saturday, interrupting the nazi party's celebration
of its tenth anniversary and overshadowing Adolf Hitler's
pledge to continue his war "to save Europe from bolshevism."
Royal air force Mosquito planes, the world's fastest bombers, raided
Berlin twice. They struck precisely at 11 a. m., when Marshal Herman
Wilhelm Goering had been scheduled to open the celebration
of Hitler's first decade til power with an address at the ban of
honor of the German air force.
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Russians Tighten Nutcracker
On Rostov, Capture Maikop
Southern Drive on Caucasus Gate
City Sweeps Nazis From Big
Rail Center; Oil Fields Fall to Reds
Russian — (Official) By United Press
MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (Sunday)— Russian forces, tightening the
southern clamp of their pincer aimed at Rostov, have captured
Tikhoretsk, major rail junction less than 100 miles southeast of
the Caucasus gateway city, a special soviet communique disclosed
Sunday.
Another red army unit, sweeping
across the Caucasus, captured Maikop, center of the rich
oil fields which were the only source of fuel gained by Adolf
Hitler's armies in their Caucasus drive. Maikop is. 62 miles southwest
of Armavir, which had been taken previously by the soviets.

U. S. Subs Sink
Six More
Japanese Ships
Destroyer, Five
Other Vessels
Lost by Nipponese
U.. S.—(Official)
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. so (UP)—
A m e r i c a n submarines have punched another hole in Japan's
diminishing shipping strength, by sinking a destroyer and five other
ships, the navy revealed Saturday night. .
In addition, the far-ranging undersea craft damaged a medium sized
cargo vessel. Thus far U. S. submarines have sunk 123 Japanese
ships, probably sunk 22 others and damaged 32.
The same communique reported that American airmen struck at
Kahili, Japanese air base on the south coast of Bougainville island
in the Solomons. Results of the bombing were not reported. Kahili
is believed to be the base for Japanese bomber squadrons that have
sought unsuccessfully to attack Guadalcanal during the last week
Nation's Chief
Thanks U. S.
For Polio Aid
Word Comes That
President Has
Visited Trinidad
WASHINGTON, Jan.30 (UP)—
President Roosevelt, 61 Saturday was unable to observe the occasion
at home but, he told the nation at night, the tens of thousands of persons
attending parties in his honor "are giving me once again a truly
happy birthday."
In a broadcast message read by Mrs. Roosevelt, the president said
his trips to north Africa and Brazil prevented his return to the capital
in time for the parties In behalf of his favorite cause—the
fight against infantile paralysis.

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