Canned Goods Rationing Set To Start March 1
The office of price administration orders rationing of canned fruits vegetables frozen and dried goods with point values from March. One thousand five hundred thousand registrations to be handled by churches schools and other places. Housewives must plan month ahead as points allocated per person rise to 48 for March, with special diets on medical certificates.
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Associated Press
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Europe
Milk price raised to 14 cents a quart in Adrian
Milk for retail delivery in quarts only rises to 14 cents per quart effective today, up two cents, following Lenawee county OPA approval this week. Adrian milk distributors met at Hotel Lenawee with near unanimous support for the increase citing dairy shortages and cattle slaughter. Delivery changes to every other day are expected within ten days to two weeks to conserve fuel and tires while preserving staff.
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Adrian
Lenawee County
Office of Price Administration
Lenawee
Jess Han
OPA
Office of Defense Transportation
Yale
Work Stabilization Plans Under Way in Lenawee County
Plans for employment stabilization in Adrian and Lenawee County move forward with meetings set for February 10. Pp. Verner of Detroit, US Employment Service, meets Clifford Rice and local leaders to form a four by four labor management stabilization committee. The plan aims to promote orderly worker transfers, reduce turnover, and optimize manpower for war needs, including registration of qualified workers and use of women and minority groups.
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Adrian
Lenawee County
Detroit
U. S. Employment Service
Clifford Rice
John L. Thurston
War Manpower Commission
Sharon
Akron
Vérner
Verner
Red Cross War Fund drive set at 129 million
President Roosevelt calls for a 129 million Red Cross War Fund with 80 million for army camps and hospitals and 45 million for U S local chapters. Lenawee County quota is 25 thousand, up from 10 thousand in 1941. Frederick Wood chairs county drive starting March 1 with Roy McPhail as local Red Cross chairman.
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Roosevelt
American Red Cross
Red Cross
United States
Roy McPhail
Lenawee
Frederick P. Wood
Simplex Powel Corporation
War Fund
Russel McAfee
Edwin Baker
North Broad Street
Lansing
Masonic ‘Temple
Wood
McPhail
Safeguards Aimed at Drafting Fathers With Children
Washington Feb 3 War Manpower Commission announced that heads of families in non essential jobs will be drafted unless they shift to essential work. The House Military Committee moved to safeguard married men with children by extending draft quotas from local boards to a state basis and creating deferment priority by family status. The plan would draft all single men first, then married men without children, then those with one child, and so on, to prevent inequities where a father could be chosen over eligible single men. Congress and McNutt officials sparred over army size and efficiency while Bankhead warned of food shortages as questions about manpower and farm labor were raised.
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Associated Press
Washinton
War Manpower Commission
House Military Committee
Kilday
D-Tex
Paul V. McNutt
Army
Navy
Thomas
Mangower
McNutt
Senator Bankhead
D-Ala
Appropriations
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Bankhead
Polio Drive Reports Mixed County Totals
Lenawee county's infantile paralysis fund committee reports a total of 450 dollars raised so far with contributions from Adrian Khwanis Club and other towns. Tecumseh Products Co adds 50 dollars while Adrian public schools contribute 30 dollars. The drive runs through February 12 with planned film theater campaigns February 18 to 24.
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Lenawee County Infantile Paralysis Fund Committee
Executlive Committee
Adrian
Khwanis Club
Carl Minster
Annis Fiat Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Clarke W. Baldwin
Mr. Baldwin
Blissfield
Minster
Tecumseh
Tecumseh Products Company
Adrian Public Schools
Croswell J
Family Theaters
Baldwin
Navy secretary disputes major sea battle off Solomon Islands
Secretary of the Navy Knox said reports of a large sea battle off the Solomon Islands are incorrect describing the operation as preliminary moves and a fishing expedition. He asserted Guadalcanal remains in U S control and warned of a long, tough fight ahead as both sides suffer losses in ongoing air sea actions.
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TUE
Associated Press
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Solome Islands
Navy
Solomons
United States
Hye
Guadalcanal
Henderson Airfieui
Pearl Habor
South Pacific
Owever
Cologne Bombed By British Planes In Night Raid
London reports the Royal Air Force bombed Cologne with 100 heavy four thousand pound bombs in under 20 minutes. Thousands of incendiaries ignited fires in the ruins as five bombers were missing. The raid followed earlier efforts to repair war damage and disrupt submarine related factories.
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London
Royal Air Force
Cologne
RAF
Rhineland
Speeders Must Surrender Their Gasoline Books
Lenawee county motorists who exceed the 35 mph limit face fines and jail terms in addition to surrendering their gasoline ration books. Orders from the war price and rationing board cited widespread violations, with local justice courts required to confiscate offenders ration books as part of penalties.
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Lenawee County
Justice Court
War, Price and Rationing Board
Guy E. Nemire
Nemire
Jocal Board
Americans Repulsed In Attack On Faid Pass
From the central Tunisian theater Allied forces report a fierce drive against Faid Pass repulsed with U S armor temporarily breaking off the engagement. German artillery outrange American guns as Sened Maknassy and Sfax were targets with planes destroyed and fires visible for miles. Lt William B Campbell of Blissfield nicknamed Lucky Campbell survives landing on a mine field after his plane was damaged.
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Associater
London
United States
Faid Pass
Sened
Maknassy
Gulf of Gabes
Fald Pass
Sfax
Rommel
Mediterranean
Tunisia
Sicily
Cairo
Eighth Army
Montgomery
Zelten
Pisida
Libya
Malta
Narrons
Ousseltia
Sousse
Africa
William B. Campbell
Blissfield
Campbell
Marshal Rommel
Africa Corps
Merchant marines losses total 3200 in first year of war
Washington reports that American merchant marine losses in dead and missing during the first year of World War II totaled more than 3,200, about 3.8 percent of the merchant fleet, with armed services at roughly 0.75 percent. Elmer Davis highlighted seamen delivering goods with patriotism, and Rear Admiral Emory Land cited loyalties, frontline service, pay of about $57 weekly, and improvements to reduce future losses.
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Washington
Armed Services
Elmer Davis
Theuttice of War Information
Davis
America
Emory S. Land
War Shipping Administration
WSA
Nation sees tax plans spark debate in Congress
Treasury general counsel Randolph Paul warned the House Ways and Means Committee that full 1942 income tax forgiveness could trigger inflation and wage demands. He favored a pay as you go plan with about 19 percent withholding to curb inflation and aid wartime wage stability, noting the President's budget aims to raise fiscal year 1944 tax collections by 16.9 billion through taxes and compulsory loans.
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Washington
Randolph Paul
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
America
Treasury Department
Warfront Updates From Solomons To Stalingrad
AP dispatches report Pacific naval clashes and a harsh Solomons struggle with both sides suffering losses, while Stalin hails Stalingrad victory and Russians push toward Rostov and Voronezh. German air raids strike southeast England, hitting towns, shops, churches, and a bank as rescuers search the ruins.
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Associated Press
Pacific
Solomons
U. S
Southeast Isles
Navy
Tokyo
End of Stalingrad siege signals major Russian victory
The Associated Press reports the 162 day Stalingrad siege ends with over 503,000 German and Axis dead or captured and 91,000 prisoners taken since Jan 10. The Reds push to reinforce offensives against Kursk Kharkov Rostov and Krasnodar as German losses mount.
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Associated Press
London
Stalingrad
Kursk
Kharkhov
Rostov
Krasnodar
Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Red Army
Volga
Verdun
United Nations
Ohio Aims to Return to Eastern Time in May
Ohio lawmakers moved toward standard time as the Senate passed a measure 22 to 3 to back the clocks an hour 90 days after Bricker signs the bill. The House speedily sent the measure to judiciary for swift approval with an emergency clause dropped. Proponents argue the change aids agriculture and industry while opponents question war-time impact and Washington claims.
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Ohio
Columbus
State Senate
Bricker
Senate
House
House Judiciary Committee
Washington
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