Lenawee to add 2500 workers by year's end
Adrian and Lenawee county war plants must reach peak production to fill 2500 new positions plus other workers for lines left by servicemen. Officials see imports of 1500 workers as likely and anticipate housing 4500 people, with women potential core of expansion as 30 percent of local industrial staff already female. A survey will test night four hour shifts and split shifts for white collar workers to meet the goal by January 1, 1944.
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Adrian
Lenawee County
Armed Services
U. S. Employment Service
Wat Indust
Tounty
Tse
Clifford J. Rice
Ralph L. Cars
Employment Service
Adrlan
Rics
Mr. Rice
Mfr
Rice
OPA Blamed For Black Markets In Food Circulation
Washington April 9 Congress set to hear key officials about steps to stamp out illicit food traffic with the Office of Price Administration directly accused of responsibility for black markets. Chester C. Davis new administrator of food production and distribution and Price Administrator Prentiss M Brown test ify before the House small business committee amid charges of illegal slaughtering and selling of meat.
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Washington
Tyy
Price Administration
Congress
Chester C. Davis
Prentiss M. Brown
House
Small Business Committee
Lenawee to Name Six Queens of the Skies for War Bond Drive
Lenawee county may name six Boeing Flying Fortresses dubbed Queens of the Skies if the county meets its April war bond quota of 1 990 000. Each fortress costs about 300 000 and carries four Wright Cyclone engines delivering 1 500 horsepower. The bomb load reaches 10 000 pounds with speed above 330 mph, ceiling over 35 000 feet and a 4 000 mile range. The plan highlights local wartime contributions and potential future Lenawee pilots and crew serving on the bombers.
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Lenawee
Tin can salvage drive urges homeowners to prepare cans
Committeemen call for residents to join a county wide tin can salvage effort with two days left before Adrian’s Sunday collection. Cans must be cleaned labeled removed ends cut out and flattened. Pupils in rural schools join today with cans picked up Saturday morning by Lenawee county road commission trucks.
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Adrian
Lenawee County
Money on Deposit 55 Years Gathers Dust at City Bank
City Clerk E A Baltenberger opened a safety deposit box and found $100 in old currency untouched since 1912. The funds, part of a bond for gas mains work, included 320 and 16 and 5 dollar bills plus a gold certificate with 1880s series marks. The money will be replaced and no longer stored, saving city box rental.
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E. A. Baltenberger
Commercial iSavings Bank
Walter Blanchard
Citizens Gas Fuel Co
Lenawee County Gas & Electric Co
Ar. Ballenberger
Ballender, Jr
Purple Heart Awarded Posthumously to Soldier in New Guinea
Sgt Harold Huyck, son of Mrs Emma Righman of Palmyra, was killed in action in New Guinea on December 23 as a member of the 32nd Division. He received the Purple Heart posthumously with medal and certificate from the War Department to his family.
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32Nd Division
New Guinea
Harold Huyck
Emma Righman
Palmyra
Washington mobilizes to speed inflation order compliance
The Roosevelt administration mobilizes a broad set of agencies to curb rising prices and wages. War Labor Board orders freezes on wage increases beyond 15 percent under the Little Steel formula while price controls target live stock and key agricultural goods. Manpower and utility agencies are urged to limit job shifts and gate rates to curb cost of living. The president appeals for tax measures and savings, saying further price or wage rises threaten the economy.
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War Labor Board
Privé
Manpower Commission
Congress
Roosevelt
RAF raids Ruhr Targets in heavy night attack
London April 9. RAF resumed Allied offensives against western Europe with a heavy raid on Ruhr targets last night. More than 21 bombers failed to return and weather hindered full observation. Specific Ruhr targets not disclosed. Essen and Duisburg previously cited among major factories. RAF also laid mines in enemy waters. Berlin radio reported British bombers attacked western Germany with several losses.
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London
RAF
Europe
Ruhr
Air Ministry
Britain
Germany
Essen
Duisburg
Berlin
Western
Tecumseh Man Hurt In Accident On M-50
Walter Dunbar of Tecumseh was injured in a morning automobile crash on M-50 two miles west of Tecumseh. The car left the road, struck a tree, and was badly wrecked. Dunbar, who was alone, suffered knee lacerations but was not in serious condition. Clinton post state police investigated.
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Tecumseh
Walter Dunbar
Tecumseh Hospital
Dunbar
Clinton Post
Axis retreat pressed as Allies push in Tunisia
Allied forces press the Tunisian front as Axis units abandon Mahares and Mezzouna near Sfax. British Eighth Army and U.S. Second Army Corps report hundreds of prisoners taken and significant matériel destruction amid ongoing withdrawal and air assaults.
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FRESS
North Africa
Mahares
Sfax
Mezzouna
Tunisian
Eighth Army
Rommel
Mezzoura
Western Desert Air Force
Rommiel
Wadi el Akarit
U.S. Second Army
Eiiguetar
Patton
Alexander
Berlin
Associated Press
Groops
Hiteter
Ana B
Ford plants hit by spontaneous work stoppages in Detroit
Detroit reports widespread stoppages at Ford Motor Company plants affecting nearly 5,000 workers after a dispute rooted in a lavatory dice game and a wage dispute in Rouge. Some resumed by day, but amphibian jeep production also slowed as 300 workers were sent home for missing parts deliveries.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Highland Park
Ford
Rouge
Worl
Congressional Absenteeism Assailed
Washington reports detail Senate criticism of absenteeism as Senator Barkley challenges focus while Chandler plans a military sub committee tour to North Africa and Treman backs an independent inspection amid stalled joint delegation talks in the wake of over time pay bill objections.
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Washington
Barkley
Congress
North Africa
Chandler
D-Ky
War Department
Treman
D-Mo
Senate’ War Investigating Committee
Kentucky
United States
Senate
Senate of
Front quiet on Russian German War Front with sharp local thrusts
Moscow April 9 The Russian German front was generally quiet with isolated attacks. South of Bataklya between Chuguey and Izyum on the Donets, German forces again tried to assault Red Army positions but suffered around 200 killed and gained no ground. The Donets bridgehead area saw German efforts to clear the western bank fail. In 24 hours Germans lost over 500 men in the sector. South of Izyum weak attacks were repulsed and Soviet troops regrouped after German incursions.
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Moscow
Batakleya
Chuguey
Izyutm
Donets
Lkely
Izyum
State to Operate on Slow Time in Lansing
Governor Kelly announced that state government will observe slow time despite the city adopting daylight saving. State offices will stay open an extra hour daily, affecting about 2500 workers as clocks diverge from restaurants, homes, theaters, and city hall. Dr. Eugene B. Elliott criticized the move calling it not sensible and plans to argue for Lansing time.
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Lansing
Kelly
Eugene B. Elliott
Capitol
President Roosevelt imposes hold the line price controls
President Roosevelt announced a hold the line order to place ceiling prices on all commodities affecting living costs and to ban further wage increases. He directed Paul V. McNutt to prevent job switches for higher pay unless needed for the war effort, and said adjustments may occur only as required by law. The move tightens wage and price controls nationwide.
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Oam
Roosevelt
Agriculture
Senate
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
MacArthur prays for Philippines redemption amid Bataan anniversary
In Australia General MacArthur marks the first anniversary of the fall of Bataan. He laments the Philippines under Japanese rule and prays that a merciful God may grant redemption. The article recalls the siege, starvation, and the surrender of American and Filipino forces on the Bataan peninsula. It notes 16,000,000 souls under slavery and references the Corregidor holdout and Wainwright’s surrender. A separate item reports an exchange of wounded prisoners at Smyrna next Wednesday, with 1,200 British wounded to be traded for 1,200 Axis wounded.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Banan
Bataan Peninsual
Corregidor Island
Jonathan Wainwright
War Department
Ankara
Turkey
Smyrna
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Wrabieane
Bankhead Farm
Rurr
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Rommelt
Medjez-el-Bab
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Ka- Hill
Shortland Island
Solomons
Guiadalcanas
Iast Mionth
Corvatte-Aronit
Harvester
Admiralty
Gaye
Quee
James F. Byrnes
Office of Price Administration
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