Roosevelt proposes 7 point plan to curb cost of living
President Roosevelt outlined a seven point program in a message to Congress to stabilize wages and salaries, curb rising costs, and gear the economy for emergency war conditions. He urged heavy taxes, farm price stabilization, rationing of essentials, and promotion of war bonds, warning that failure could trigger new legislation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Calais
Dunkirk
Rostock
Great Britain
Skoda
Pilsen
Senate
House
Brisk Lenawee Draft Registration SurgesPast Expectations
Registration of men aged 45 to 63 for wartime service began at 7 am in Lenawee County with a staff of 43 at Adrian Armory. Veterans from 1917 to 1948 were prominent as local offices dispatched for supplies. The county board reevaluated needs after early turnout, and additional registrations followed, reaching 63 on Saturday and 112 the previous day.
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Lenawee County
Adrian Armory
Addison
Ogden Center
County Board
County Draft Board
State Selective Service
Ann Arbor Objector Harold Gray Refuses Fourth Draft
Harold Gray a 47 year old former conscientious objector from Ann Arbor says he will not register for the fourth draft. He sent a letter to Attorney General Biddle declaring his stance on conscription calling war unjust and morally wrong. Gray, Harvard educated with deep local roots, previously served at Camp Custer and was court martialed for disobedience. He argues one man’s example may not change world thought but a start must be made. His family partially disagrees, including his wife and three children.
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Harold 5. Gray
Szline Valley
United States
Biddle
Regisster
Camp Custer
Gray
Universal Brotherhood
Harvard University
Ford Motor Company
William S. Studley
Philip H. “Gray
Detroit Y. M,c, A
Roosevelt Era German Resentment Grows As Hitler Solidifies Control
British records describe RAF raids on Rostock and Dunkirk with fires at the Heinkel factory and dock targets. In Russia, Kuibyshev notes German and Red Army forces clash along a thawing front as Hitler’s regime signals Russia as the decisive battlefield.
Subway Wreck Kills Four, Injures 262 in Tunnel
In Jersey City at Exchange Place a heavily loaded Hudson River tube train jumped the track 75 feet underground at 10:40 p.m. causing four deaths and 262 injuries. Motorman Louis Vierbuchen, 48, Newark, faced manslaughter charges as investigators probed power-line failure and wreck conditions. Fire, fumes, and shattered windows followed as passengers endured a chaotic, panic-filled scene in the deep tunnel.
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Jersey City
Hudson River
Exchange Place
Daniel Casey
Matorman
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad
Louis A. Vierbuchen
Barbara Street
Newark
Casey
President's War Time Aims Outlined To Congress
Roosevelt outlined seven aims to prevent spiraling living costs during war. They include price ceilings, tax measures, wage and grower price stabilization, war bond purchases, rationing of scarce essentials, discouraging credit, and encouraging debt repayment to fund the war effort. 12 allied vessels sunk in the Atlantic last week as Axis submarines attacked U.S. east coast and Caribbean shipping, with several ships salvaged and crews rescued.
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Congress
Roosevelt
New York
Axis
Tle
Atlantic
Helly
Helio
Pearl Harbor
U. S. East Coast
Canada
Caribbean
South America
Norfolk
Lawrence J. Earle
Earle
Pensylvania
Portland
Maine
Navy confirms sinking of destroyer Sturtevant near Florida
Washington reports the destroyer Sturtevant was sunk by an underwater explosion off the Florida coast within the past 24 hours. Loss of life was small, with most of the crew reaching port safely, suggesting a slow descent. Also, Chinese forces recaptured Hopong southeast of Mandalay, tightening their hold on the region. In the Philippines, Corregidor’s siege fire disrupted a Japanese troop concentration on the Bataan Peninsula, triggering its 250th air raid alarm.
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Navy
Sturtevant
Florida
Chunghing
Joseph W. Stillwell
Hopong
Mandalay
Taunggyi
Man
Galay
War Department
Corregidor Fortress
Bataan
Philippines
Corregidor
Hitler's Titles Read In Reichstag By Goering
London reports Goering recited a string of Hitler titles before the Reichstag, naming him as leader of the nation supreme commander of the armed forces chief of government supreme holder of executive power supreme lord of justice and leader of the national socialist party.
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London
Hitler
Reichstag
Reichmar-rshal Goering
National Socialist Party
Sugar rationing registration limited to retailers and institutions
Registration this week targets retailers wholesalers and institutions including lodges and boarding houses with an estimated 600 sugar suppliers to register. Individual consumers will register next week as quotas for trade are set, with store allocations based on ration stamps and specific site plans across Adrian and surrounding districts.
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Guy Nemire
Lenawee Rationing Board
Adrian City
Adrian Township
Adrian High School
Adrian Consumers Register
McKinley
East Maumee Street
Washington School
Broad Street
Lincoln
Garfield
Jefferson
New McKinley
Washington
Adrian Bands and Orchestra Rated Superior at Festival
Adrian junior and senior high school musicians earned top ratings at the Ann Arbor instrumental festival. The senior high band swept superior honors, the junior high band and orchestra also rated superior, with the senior high orchestra an excellent. Soloists and ensembles from Adrian earned high marks and the showings were praised by Paul L Rainier, supervisor of music and president of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association. Clinton and Onsted bands also fared well in Class B and C divisions.
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Ann Arbor
Andorchestra
Mary Jane Derby
Esther Alexander
Joyce Keebler
Viola Byrd
Dorothy Keebler
Billy Brice
Barbara Lewis
Jo Anne Burr
Gordon Tester
Cornet
Robert Krueger
Jo Ann Bury
Joyce Olt
Alan Twiss
Dorthy Bliss
Forrest Bastian
Betty Cunningham
Paul L. Rainier
Rainier
Michigan School Band & Orchestra Association
Francis Peterson
Mr. Rainier
Gardner Huff
Chicago
Clifford Lillya
David Mattern
University of Michigan
Leonard Meretta
Onsted
Frank Benedict
Showdown Looms in Pacific Allied Drive Stepped Up
Allied air raids intensified against Japanese bases at Lae in New Guinea and Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. Four Japanese planes were destroyed in the Lae raid, as Allied bombers and fighters pressed a broader offensive. Australian leaders warned of a possible direct attack as Tokyo seeks to threaten Australia. Canberra notes improved defences but risk remains. A 24 bomber squadron with escorts raided Darwin for the first time in three weeks.
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le Touquet
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Hat ‘Dyck
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Shangar
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Rostock
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London
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RAF
Leningrad
Red Star
Red Army
Kalinin
Moscow
Barents Sea
Australia
Lae
New Guinea
Bougainville
Solomon Islands
New, Guinea
Francis Forde
Canberra
Ford
Darwin
Roosevelt Registers With Nation For War Manpower
President Roosevelt and about 13 million other Americans aged 45 to 65 were called to register to replenish manpower for war duties. The registration aimed to minimize work disruption as the second largest enrollment since the war began began in some areas over the weekend and would continue where needed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Retail sugar sales cease at midnight
Washington reports a one week sugar freeze ending at midnight with rationing to resume May 5. The Office of Price Administration warns retailers to stock May quotas as stamps allow limited purchases across four periods through June. Industrial and institutional buyers will receive 70 percent of May 1941 levels. others about 80 percent. Consumers register next week. individuals register later.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Note of Anxiety Heard in His Talk to the Reichstag
London April 27 Adolf Hitler cemented his absolute rule over Germany with supreme power above Nazi law after addressing the Reichstag. He blended bombast with warnings of trouble, predicting Russia as the battlefield and Nazi victory, while conceding the army faced a threatening catastrophe from a bitter Russian winter.
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Reichstag
Associated Press
London
Adalf Hitler
Germany
Hitler
Russia
U S Troops Landed On French Isle In New Caledonia
The United States announced that troops landed in New Caledonia to aid Free French defense of the strategic island near the Australia route. The action, approved by local authorities, marks the first American troop entry into French territory. The size of the force was not disclosed.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
New Caledonia
Australia
War Department
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Brazzaville
Free French Equatorial Africa
Laval
Willian D. Leahy
State Department
United Nations
Pan-American Airways
Noumea
San Francisco
Auckland
New Zealand
Japan
Java
New Britain
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