Lenawee County Debates War Time Clocks Action Likely in March
Lenawee County and Adrian city officials align with Detroit Eastern War Time as Lake Michigan region weighs switching clocks back to Central War Time. Supervisors to decide in March whether to keep the current Eastern War Time in county offices and courthouse while rural areas may revert individually.
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Detroit
Lenawee County
Michigan
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Hudson
Huuson
Fred Stewart
Clinton
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Clinton Arms
J. R. Foreman
Detroit Council
Princen
Vromucton
H. W. Lundahl
Jackson County
Jackson City
Dacvovd Moore O
Weerueid
Midwest
East Coast
Board of Supervisors
Camp Fire Girls Lead Adrian Scrap Drive for War Cans
Over 400 Camp Fire Girls and younger Bluebird associates organize a city wide salvage campaign in Adrian to collect cans for war industries. Miss Margaret Smith outlines pamphlets and collection steps with a March 28 curb pickup. Aimed at 45 tons by March 25, the effort emphasizes household participation and proper can preparation. Allan Graybiel of the Junior Chamber of Commerce to speak at the Garfield school salvage event.
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Adrian
Allan Graybiel
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Garfield
Miss Smith
Chamber of Corn
Tokyo says Japan loses seven warships in Pacific fighting
Tokyo radio via AP reports seven Japanese warships sunk and six damaged since Aug 7 1942 in engagements off Solomons and New Guinea. Allied losses total eight sunk and eight damaged. figures include several destroyers submarines and patrol craft, with aerial losses cited for both sides.
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Solomons
New Guinea
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Ibase
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Berlin
UK Associated Press
London
America
Pacific
Ration Board Plans Registration Across Lenawee County
Registration for war ration book No 2 will occur the week of February 22 at 20 sites across Lenawee County. Guy E Nemire secretary announces final instructions will be issued locally. Registration places include town halls grange buildings and schools with at least five workers per site, more where needed.
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Guy E
Nemire
County War Price and Rationing Board
Detroit
Ration Board
Nermire
RAF BOMB HITS HITLER ARSENAL IN WEST GERMANY
RAF struck Hitler s arsenal area in western Germany in an overnight raid as daylight dawned. British formations crossed the channel before breakfast, while German radio acknowledged damage. The raid followed a prior night attack on Wilhelms haven naval yards. American planes may have taken part in daylight strikes across northern France Belgium and the Netherlands with one Mustang not returning.
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Red Net Tightens Around Pocketed Axis Troops in Caucasus
Soviet dispatches report Russian forces tightening the noose around Axis units pocketed north of Novorossisk as they advance from Krasnoarmeisk and Voroshilovsk. Drives threaten Rostov, the Donets basin, and the Crimean approach, with a railway corridor to Stalina and strategic towns rebuked from the German positions. The Donets pocket and Rostov garrison are estimated at about 500000 Axis troops, while Kharkov encirclement progresses and the Kyamatorsk wedge widens amid heavy counterattacks.
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Shakaty
Moscow
Novocherkassk
Novotitarevsk
Timoshevsk
Black Sea
Sea of Azov
Akhtari
Taman
Kerch Strait
Crimea
London
Donets Basin
Rastov
Kharkov
Kyamatorsk
United Allied Command Urged in World War II Debate
Washington reports urge a unified United Nations global command to direct strategy across all fronts after Eisenhower’s elevation. Senators Gillette and Bridges press for a single commander worldwide while preserving American military identity. Concerns rise about British control of ground, air, sea, and intelligence commands.
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Washington
Eisenhower
North Africa
Gillette Clownn
Foreign’ Delations Committee
Marshal Foch
Bridges
R.N.H
United Nations
LaFollette
All is Peaceful On Guadalcanal tour of victory
A wartime dispatch from Guadalcanal reports remarkably calm conditions as U S troops move toward Esperance rest areas. Soldiers rest in tents and on cots while field kitchens operate and supplies are unpacked. Cleanup crews bury Japanese dead and test anti aircraft fire. The mood is relieved and hopeful amid lingering air raid alerts.
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Cape Esperance
Guadalcanal
Oahu
Hawaiian Islands
Esperance
Gary bus struck by train injuring at least 30
Police Sgt William McGinn reported a westbound Pennsylvania passenger train struck a loaded city bus in Gary. At least 30 persons were taken to Mercy Hospital, with all available ambulances sent to the scene.
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Via
Pennsylvania
Gary
William McGinn
McGinn
Mercy Hospital
Hoffman Declares U S Public Deceived On War
Grand Rapids February address by Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michigan claims the public was misled about Pearl Harbor and warns no administration lacking public confidence can win the war. He criticizes emergency powers as captured by ambitious politicians and opposes a postwar world federation while urging a return to traditional independence.
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Clare Hoffman
Miegan
Michigan
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Honsty
Hoffman
Pearl Harbor
Applications Mailed For New Gas Book Renewals
Renewal applications for B and C gasoline coupon books were mailed to about 6 000 Lenawee county motorists and truckers. Books expire February 28. Include inspection records and sign applications. Old books should be mailed with new ones to avoid office jams. A separate item notes a four motored Army bomber Spirit of Bataan will honor New Mexico soldiers with a drive to name the aircraft, and the drive raised 540 000 in war bonds and stamps.
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War Price and Rationing Board
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War Review Prompts Coalition Attack on Bureaucracy
The Associated Press reports Roosevelt pledges broad war strategy shifting from island hopping to a two front effort against Japan and Germany. Lincoln Days speakers including Alf Landon and John Bricker attack bureaucracy, urging GOP Democrat coalition to prevent a drift toward dictatorship amid wartime demands.
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Japanese Withdraw Toward Salamaua From Wau Front
In Australia on February 13 Allied communiqué reports Japanese forces suffering a sharp defeat near the Allied airport at Wau New Guinea continuing to withdraw toward Salamaua 35 miles northeast. The main Japanese force was said to be sailing back toward Mubo 12 miles from Salamaua after losing nearly 1000 men. Allied patrols mop up the Kumusi River area where Japanese reinforcements landed last December to bolster Buna. 135 more Japanese stragglers were killed in Kumusi and 90 were found dead of starvation and other causes.
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RAF Planes Pound Japanese in Burma
RAF planes bombed and strafed Japanese targets across Burma destroying railway trucks river steamers and factory buildings in a coordinated assault. Allied fighter patrols damaged railways engines and vessels near Sagaing and the lower Phindwin region while a single Allied plane was reported lost.
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Roosevelt vows invasions of Europe after Tunisia drive
President Roosevelt in a radio address at the White House Corres pondents' dinner declares actual invasions of Europe will follow Tunisia and promises decisive actions against Japan in China and Japan itself. He pledges that the United Nations will fight until Nazi Fascist and Japanese regimes are toppled, and calls for postwar self determination. He notes exaggerated home reports on labor and rationing and defends soldiers and sailors from such claims while stressing unity and vigilance in a world he says is one neighborhood. He terms the Tunisia struggle a major war effort and says Axis supply lines will be cut, with ongoing pressure on Germany and Italy and continued Russian advances in the east matched by western actions.
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United Nations
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White House
Hitler
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Italy
Axis Attack in Tunisia Beat Off
Allied forces repelled an Axis assault east of Ousseltia in Tunisia. Rommel’s forces evacuated southern Tunisia positions despite heavy tank protection. Aerial activity was light except for bombers near Sened and a reported Axis bomber shot down off the Sigerian coast on Thursday night.
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Ousseltia
Tunisia
Algiers
Erwin Rommel
Sened
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