bungling charged in surplus foods delivery at onsted
Rep Michener denounces surplus food distribution as wasteful after Onsted school received a large, mostly unused load from the Adrian surplus program. Lenawee welfare officials say deliveries were made without specific school needs or orders, prompting returns and questions about rationing and aid aims.
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Onsted
Barl C. Michener
Claudeb. Wickard
Michener
Rey G. Turner
Board of Education
Surplus Foods Administration
Adrian
Willam Ruesink
Lenawee Social Welfare Commission
Lenawee Welfare Commission
Cecil Hood
WPA
Ruesink
Lenawee
Monroe
Henry Street
North Main Street
Hood
Frank Benedict
Tais
Bombardment of Munda Air Base Reported In Solomons
U S navy dispatches say American air forces in the South Pacific continue heavy raids against the new Japanese air base at Munda on New Georgia Island in the Central Solomons. Rayburn announces 78th Congress to convene Jan 6 with Roosevelt delivering the State of the Union in person on Jan 7. the 77th Congress to adjourn by Thursday.
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Washington
South Pacific
Navy
Munda
New Georgia Island
Solomons
Rayburn
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Rent Ceilings Filing Deadline Set for Lenawee County
Lenawee County landlords must file maximum rent ceiling forms with the Office of Price Administration by 9 pm Tuesday. Forms can be filed at the Adrian Masonic Temple office or mailed to the Toledo area OPA. Landlords risk fines up to 5900 or a year in jail. about 3000 forms have already been filed in Adrian, with more expected.
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Lenawee County
Price Administration
Masonic Temple
Adrian
Toledo
OPA
Malcolm J. Linehan
Lenawee Rent Control
Linehan
Detroit
Me Linehan
Edwin L. Baker
Adrian Altor- Rey
Fred Wolf
OPA Areca
Oil burner explosion rattles apartment building
An oil burner in the basement of 216 East Maumee Street owned by Gerald Fidler exploded at 11:45 last night but the blaze was snuffed by the heater vent, preventing a serious fire. Fire crews also battled a small basement fire at 140 East Hunt Street with rubbish near the furnace and responded to a chimney blaze at Tid Michigan Avenue.
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East Maumee Street
Gerald Fidler
Adrian
East Mawmee Street
Hervey E. Bowerman
East Hunt Street
George Dess
Tid Michigan Avenue
Blissfield Pilot Commissioned as Second Lieutenant
Glenn H. Staup of Blissfield completed pilot training at Brooks Field Texas and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Forces. He trained as a twin motor bomber pilot as part of a large class graduating from seven Air Corps training schools on the Texas gulf coast.
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Brooks Field
Texas
Glenn H. Staup
Blissfield
U.S Air Forces
Aircorps
Texas Gulf Coast
Lieut. Staup
Powdered meat eyed for wartime diet in Britain
Lord Woolton, Britain’s fond minister, said powdered meat would join the national wartime diet. In a Cambridge speech he compared it to dried eggs and powdered milk and predicted women would hear more about powdered meats before the war ends.
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London
Britain
Lord Woolton
Cambridge
Roosevelt Opposes Parity Price Formula Change
President Roosevelt reportedly stands against altering farm parity price formulas. A House approved plan to raise parity by counting all farm labor costs may be dropped as Congress adjourns. Farm parity aims to balance farmer income with manufacturing costs amid rising living costs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House-s
Senate Calenidar
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Board of Economic Warfare
Wallace
Banking Committee
Thal
RFC
BEW
House
Senate
United States
Canal Zono
Panama
War At A Glance: Axis retreat in Libya and global fronts
Axis troops fall back west of El Agheila as British Eighth Army advances, with Allied gains described as slight. Allies strike Axis supply lines across the Mediterranean from Palermo to Tunis and Tunis harbor areas blaze. Soviet offensives claim heavy Nazi losses while pushing toward Moscow and Stalingrad. In the Pacific, Japanese destroyers suffer losses near Guadalcanal as Allied raids and air bombardments hit Buna and Munda.
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Senate
Elvi
Africa
Palermo
Sicily
Tunis
Sousse
Tunisia
Bizerte
Flames Run Through St John’s Barracks Dance Hall Disaster
A Knights of Columbus hostel for service members in St John’s suffered a catastrophic fire during an old-time barn dance. About 100 people died and 102 were injured as panic and trampling filled the four exits. Eyewitnesses described rapid flames, with many victims unidentifiable. Authorities pursued causes, while Mayor Tobin offered medical aid and blood plasma, and Boston burns expert Dr. Lund assisted.
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Associated Press
ST. John's
Newfoundland
St. John's Main Street
Boston
Knights of Columbus
Air Force
Easton
Tobin
SL John's
Charles Co
Morenci Bank Elects R W Moine President
Morenci December 19 Ralph W Moine of Hudson was elected to the board and named president of the First State Savings Bank. He succeeds his brother A C Maine who died in October. Moine studied at Notre Dame and worked with American Trust Company and Hudson State Savings Bank before taking the Morenci post. He and his wife and two daughters will relocate to Morenci.
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Spechel de de Teterrass Morenci
First State Savings Bank
Ralph W. Moine
Hudson
Moine
4A. C. Maine
Notre Dame University
South Bend
American Trust Company
Hudson State Savings Bank
Morench
Germans Slow Red Advance At Stalingrad Front
Moscow dispatch reports a grinding stalemate in the Stalingrad and central fronts as German forces, though unable to mount a sustained counteroffensive, counterattack frequently. Russians consolidate gains around Stalingrad, with winter weather aiding mobility and continued heavy artillery fire. casualties run high on both sides as the Red army presses to widen the setback to German defenses near the Don and Volga.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Central
Red Army
Don
Volga
Rzhev
Dor
Central Front
Velikie Luki
Don River
Destroyer Losses Reported After Pacific Blows
Washington reports heavy Allied strikes across the Pacific. At least one Japanese destroyer of a task force attacking Guadalcanal is sunk and several others damaged. whether the group reached the Solomon Islands with supplies remains unclear. Allied artillery and air offensives hit Buna and northern Pacific targets as forces push the winter campaign.
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Washington
Fale
Japan
Guadalcanal
Pacific
Solomons
Navy
North Pacific
Buna
New Guinea
Michigan retailers sell 25 million in bonds in five months
War savings bond and stamps sales through Michigan retail stores total more than 25 million from July 1 to November 30, with November incomplete. G Norman Walper notes the state quota is 43 million for the year, predicting over 30 million by December and the quota by May 1, while retailers urge customers to invest spare change.
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Michiganr
G. Norman Walper
Lenawee County
Mr. Walper
Michigan
Slant
Fears Tool and Die Workers Will Quit Across Nation
Detroit reports war labor board limits cut wages for tool and die workers to 1.75 dollars per hour in jobbing shops and 1.60 in manufacturing plants. Jay Griffin, president of the Society of Tool and Die Craftsmen of America, warned of a nationwide work stoppage unless the order is revised. He said delegates condemned the WLB order and predicted a complete stoppage unless postwar contracts are frozen to prewar levels.
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Detroit
War Labor Board
Fa Ind
Jay J. Griffin
Society of ‘Tool and Die Craftsmen of America
WLB
Griffin Sid'he
STDCA
President Orders Montgomery Ward To Sign CIO Pact
President Roosevelt directs Montgomery Ward & Co to comply without further delay with the War Labor Board directive to sign a CIO contract containing a union membership clause. This is the second time the President has ordered compliance, after the company resisted the clause and sought to insert a duress provision. The order to Sewell Avery was delivered by telegram signed by Stephen Early, noting the President acts as commander in chief in time of war.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Montgomery Ward & Co
Angh
War Labor Board
Ihea
Sewell Avery
Chicago
Stephen Early
National ‘War Labor Board
Franklin D. Ropseyder
Rommel’s forces retreat as Allies press across North Africa
British and American air forces pound Rommel’s Afrika Korps in Libya and Tunisia. Montgomery’s Eighth Army pursues from El Agheila toward Tripoli while 300 fighter bombers blaze a path, with a hardened Axis line collapsing east of Tripoli and planned rear guard actions expected toward Misurata.
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Associated Press
London
Rommel
Libya
Eighth Army
Tunisia
Middle East
Cairo
Bernard L. Montgomery
el Agheila
Tripoli
el Aghella
el Alamein
Egypt
Montgomery
Nroon
Africa Corps
el Aghedla
Esenry
RAF
Rommell
North Africa
Africa Cours
Acme
Sirte
el Brega
Bel A -Jalal
ElAgheila
Marada
Misurata
Fan
el Agreila
Bengasi
Tobruk
Navy
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Toulon
U. S
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Netherlands
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Anton Mussert
Puehrer
Axis
France
Marshal Petain
Germany
Petain
Quisling
Mussert
Arthur Seysz-Inquart
Muissert
Lafayette Escadrille
Dwight D. Eisenhower
THE
Russia
Stalin
Grad
Kiske
Service Men's Recreation Center
Blaze
Morenci Bank
R. W. Mowne
Pacific Battlefront
Iretail
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Pilew al Kanghan
Tool and Die
Montgomery Ward
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