Unidentified object sighted off Southern California coast
Unidentified object moved slowly down the coast from Santa Monica toward Signal Hill as anti aircraft guns fired repeatedly and tracer rounds illuminated the sky. Officials differed on pursuit and no bombing reports followed. Lights along the coast were dimmed in a wide blackout.
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Signal Hill
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San Joaquin Valley
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Battle of Bataan Stalemate Reported by General MacArthur
On the Bataan Peninsula February 23 the battle is described as a definite stalemate with Japan abandoning costly efforts to crack General Douglas MacArthur's lines. Japanese plans, reinforcements, or further attacks from new directions are unclear, while artillery duels intensify around Manila Bay and Corregidor. Desultory infantry activity continues on the front as the enemy shells Corregidor and fortified islands. Auctions weathered in the page indicate market notices and auction listings nearby.
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MacArthur
Bataan
Douglas Macy Arthur
Isand
Corregidor
Manila Bay
License plates sale nears March deadline in county
Almost half of the 1942 automobile license plates for Sen awee county motorists remain to be sold as lines of buyers crowded the office of Budd Goodwin, county distributor. With four days to the March 1 deadline, 7 029 full year and 1 905 half year plates had been sold. Half-year plates for farm and commercial vehicles caused confusion as buyers dropped plates into a chute. old plates must be kept until renewal in August. A salvaging crew has recovered about three tons of old plates, with 14 tons collected in this manner.
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Sen‘awee
Budd Goodwin
Goodwin
Detroit
Michigan Gets 8 289 Cars Under 1942 Ration Plan
Washington reports Michigan receives a quota of 8 289 new passenger cars for eligible buyers under the March May rationing schedule. A reserve of 917 is set for county adjustments as part of the national 120 000 allocation, with California Washington and New York ahead. Rationing begins March 2 with the rest of the allocation and a 25 500 reserve.
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Michigan
Office of Price Administration
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New York
Reconstruct the Cabinet by Walter Lipmanns
The piece argues for swift reform of Roosevelt’s administration to mobilize war powers. It critiques inertia in Hawaii Alaska and the Pacific, calls for civilian and military coordination, and urges detaching leaders not fit for battle to free focused effort for defense. Turn to Lipman on page four.
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Cision
Donald Nelson
Rassha
Botjan
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Home Guard
Arly
Erea
Lippman
Three Japanese Ships Sunk in Allied Air Attacks
Allied bombing planes sank three large Japanese transports off Macassar in southwest Celebes as part of a possible spring massing for an attack on Java. Japanese raids on western Java and Batavia targets continued, with Tokyo claiming Allied losses and hits on ships.
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Associated Press
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Batavia
Tandjong
Palembang
Jaganeke
Sumatra
Bali
Next Draft Gall Set For March 10
Lenawee county draft board announces the next group of draftees will report at Fort Custer on Tuesday March 10. The Adrian Armory will host the meeting and they will travel by bus at 8 a.m. Names of those called will not be known for several days. Local boards resume blood testing as part of pre induction exams under a new speed up. Col. Rosecrans and Dr. Heffron note changes to testing, but Lenawee officials have not yet received notice of the change.
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Fort Custer
Adrian Armory
Harry Cole
Col. E. M. Rosecrans
Selective Service
Michigan
Army
Draft Board
Col. Rosecrans
H. H. Heffron
Lenawee County Examination Board
Hitler Too Busy To Leave Front
War news items report the Norwegian freighter Blink torpedoed off the Atlantic coast with no details released. In Burma thirty Japanese fighter planes claimed destroyed. Roosevelt challenges farm price bills as harming war effort. Survivors recount rescue at St Lawrence after the storm wrecks near Newfoundland. Hitler warned of a spring struggle, with casualty figures cited and a stirring, perilous scene of villagers aiding sailors.
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Blink
Atlantic
Munich
Argentia
U. S
jSgainst
Adolf
Hitler
Fuehrer
St Lawrences
Russia
Win-Sun
Pension measure meets quick death in House Senate
Washington February 25 Congress has washed its hands of pensions for congressmen law signed January 26 The House vote was 385 to 7 The Senate amendment repealed the congressional pensions Critics warn campaigns will hinge on this repeal as incumbents face charged voters back home Only a handful voted no including House Majority Leader John W McCormack The next page reports pensions details
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Congress
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Senate
Michigan
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
Farm price parity row taxes markets in Senate clash
Washington February 25 Administration leaders offered the Senate farm bloc a compromise and then urged a showdown vote on legislation to restrict sales of government stocks of corn wheat cotton and other commodities. Senator Brown proposed amending to keep market prices near present levels by deducting farm benefit payments from parity calculations. Wheat at 82 percent cotton 94 and corn 78 percent parity noted.
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Barkley
Brown
Senate Agriculture Committee
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Japanese Advance And Burma War News From London Front
British observers in London report heavy Japanese losses and a fierce Burma battle as 140,000 Japanese troops attack along the Sittang River toward Rangoon. Analysts consider Rangoon a likely target while predicting difficult crossings and continued aerial pressure from RAF and American volunteer groups.
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Rangoon
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Burma
Singapore
Sittang
Johore Strait
Irrawaddy
Upper Burma
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Navy Secretary Knox pledges reinforcements for US fighters
New York February 2 Navy Secretary Frank Knox told a Naval Relief Society audience that American fighting forces would receive reinforcements on a not far distant day. He commended naval personnel for fighting against numerically superior foes and vowed the day would come when they would not be outnumbered.
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Associated Press
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Navy
Frank Knox
Naval Service
Naval Relief Society
High School Girl Murder Case Shocks City
Chicago February 25 A male friend confessed to fatally shooting Dorothy Broz 17 in the Palace Theater balcony. Suspect Clar McDonald 17 Berwyn was identified by a friend as the killer after investigators traced the scene and the victim’s body. Police describe the case amid wartime rhetoric and public safety concerns.
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Dorothy Broz
Brodie
McDonald
al Berwyn
All America
Ahger
Dorothy Majesty
Dorothy
Waycate
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Naval War
First Japanese attack on U S soil shocks Pacific coast residents
In Santa Barbara and across Southern California residents react to the first reported enemy strike on the continental United States. Damage totals about 500 dollars as a submarine-launched shelling hits oil fields. Authorities praise calm compliance with blackout rules and military orders, while some locals note wartime vigilance.
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Associated Press
Santa Barbara
Calis
Sheriffs Office
Cambridge School Sells Track Load of Waste Paper
Children from Cambridge township school No. 1 donated a full truck load of salvaged waste paper to the national defense effort in Adrian. Guided by teacher Clifford Tripp they collected the paper themselves and sold it for 6.25 dollars, buying defense stamps with the proceeds. The truck arrived in Adrian decorated to honor their cause.
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Cambridge Township
National Defense
Adrian
Clifford Tripp
Russians claim first stage of new drive near Staraya Russa
Moscow reports credit Russian forces with crushing Germany's 16th Army, dispersing three divisions and killing about 12,000 in a bold operation in the Staraya Russa sector south of Leningrad. Dispatches say forces recaptured Staraya Russa area while advancing through terrain strewn with German dead and abandoned equipment.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Germany
Staraya Russa
Leningrad
DE Staraya Russa
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Kurochkin
Strand of Wire Disrupts Adrian Telephone System
A stray wire fragment caused a 30 minute outage in Adrian yesterday afternoon affecting 3,500 Tri-County Telephone subscribers. LL Frey, Adrian branch manager, explained a small piece of wire dislodged, shorting the ringing circuit after maintenance with a vacuum cleaner may have loosened it.
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Adrian
Tri-County Telephone
LL. Frey
Frey
Bomb Hurled At Von Papen In Ankara
An attack on February 25 in Ankara near Boulevard Ataturk injured two girls and lightly shocked Franz von Papen and his wife as a bomb exploded close by. An official said the blast suggested an assassination attempt. police and officials investigated. Joseph Satterthwaite of the U.S. embassy was nearby but unharmed.
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Joseph Satterthwaite
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