State Reels From Cold Wave With Slight Relief Predicted
Michigan endures a fourth straight day of sub zero temperatures with Jackson at fifteen below and Detroit at four below. The U S Weather Bureau forecasts only a small improvement tonight in southern Michigan while many residents cope with frozen cars and closed schools.
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U. S
Adrian
Associated Press
Michigan
United States Weather Bureau
Jackson
Peninsula
Escanaba
Sault Ste. Marie
Houghton
Kalamezoo
Battle Creek
Grand Rapids
Owosso
Lansing
Pontiac
Flint
Alpena
Ann Arbor
Bay City
Detroit
Weather Bureau
Muskegon
Wrather
Board votes $50 bonus for Adrian public school staff
The Adrian Board of Education approved a $50 bonus for 113 public school employees, including 103 teachers, to be paid in equal installments on January 30 and February 27. The move follows a cost of living request from the Adrian Teachers Club, which urged a $100 boost for teachers. A teachers committee urged action citing rising living costs and static teacher salaries, arguing boosts help prevent turnover and maintain school quality.
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Adrian Teachers Cra
May Green
Russel Nelson
Edna Kelly
Department of
Inent
Adrian
Lenawee County Inductees Head to Fort Custer
Fifty five Lenawee men leave the county by two armory buses at eight this morning for Fort Custer to be inducted on arrival. The January call was for ninety, but only fifty five were available in class 1-A. A second group of backers will go to Detroit tonight for pre induction medical exams.
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Lenawee
Custer
Armory
Fort
Army
Lenawee County
Detroit
Army Board of Doctora
Says Every Man Fit to Fight Faces Eventual Service
CHICAGO January 8 4 Every man fit to fight no matter his current job must face eventual service with the armed forces after Pearl Harbor Lieut Col Joseph F Battley chief of the Vial Koon Division urged draft occupational advisers from 71 states to prepare for war production with women and men not acceptable to the Army and Navy Replacements must be trained then 2B deferments will be scrutinized It is no exaggeration when I tell you you are to forget everything you ever knew about peacetime service and start anew America is at war
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Chicago
Axis 15
Joseph F. Battley
Vial- Koon
Pearl Harbor
Army
Navy
Battley
America
Spokesmen Deny Finn Peace Rumors In Helsinki
In Helsinki Russia war rumors denied by official spokesmen who said no recent offensive operations had begun. The Red Army continued a winter drive with casualties over 1,100 on yesterday’s battles. Finns reportedly counterattacked north of the Svir River, gaining ground as Russians left over 400 dead.
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Russia
Stockholm
Helsinki
Moscow
Sweden
Red Army
Svir
Fires Raised Four Times Amid Freezing Temperatures
Fire department answered four alarms yesterday and today as record lows drove residents to heat harder. A shed fire at 1076 Naomi Avenue damaged by overheated stove caused minor damage. a rural truck responded. At Stanley Heebler farm in Dover township a chimney fire was put out with little damage after bucket brigade. At 158 Bud Hong Street an oil basement stove fire was extinguished with a chemical, causing no further damage.
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Te Aman
Edith Ostrander
Naomi Avenue
Stanley Heebler
Dover Township
Florence Davis
Bud Hong Street
Navy
Poriod
Army
Navy Aviation Services
Donald H. Connolly
Civil Aeronautics
C P. T
C P Airmen Urged to Join U S Air Forces
Washington January 3 Thousands of young Americans who learned to join the Civilian Pilot Training program were called upon today to join the Army Air Forces. The piece stresses the need for immediate and ongoing changes in daily life to support the President's program and preserve the American way of life.
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U.S. Air Forces
Washington
Army
Walter Arra
Armed Services
Automobile Industry Regulated for War Effort
The piece argues the automobile industry must pivot to arm production as part of a national wartime conversion. It says facilities across durable goods sectors must shift, workers may change jobs and homes, and living patterns will adjust as in enlistment. It cites President and Congress as drivers of this vast economic realignment.
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Congress
Lippman
Labor Proposal Rejected by OPM in War Production Role
The two day old joint committee of management labor and an OPM official failed to agree on authority to direct the auto industry war production program. A new three management three labor and one OPM official panel will issue recommendations only. Edsel Ford C C Carlton and E Wilson named as likely members. Wilson warned the proposal would amount to socialization undermining American industry.
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OPM
Edsel Ford
C. C. Carlton
The
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America
New thrust at MacArthur's expected
War Department reports lightening of bombing on Luzon front near Batan Peninsula while Japan readies a new general assault toward Corregidor. General MacArthur directs allied forces north and west of Manila Bay with high morale and resolves to continue resistance.
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Washington
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Luzon
War Department
Corregidor
Douglas MacArthur
Far East
Manila Bay
United States
Tokyo
Special Service Section in Japanese War Exploitation
War correspondent Lloyd Lehrbas describes the Japanese army elite Special Service Section, noted for looting and fund accumulation with no accounting. The unit operates under a Samurai veneer while officers direct smuggling and plunder, aided by ronin and Korean camp-followers.
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Lord Lehrbas
Washington
Special Service Section
Philippines
SSS
Manila
China
King Carol Proclaims Free Romania Leadership From Mexico City
Exiled Romanian king Carol announces he has placed himself at the head of a Free Romania opposing the German-aligned government. He says his son Mihai is king in exile, declared to be a prisoner of the Axis, while Carol claims he did not abdicate and only delegated royal authority to avoid bloodshed. He and Mme Elena Lupescu are living in a Mexico City suburb.
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Shuik
Germany
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Hihai
Italy
Ion Antonescu
Hitler
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Portugal
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Cabatas
Mexico
Mme
Elena Lupescu
Sand Storm Shields Axis Withdrawal From Agedabia
Axis forces withdraw from Agedabia under a sand storm as British Middle East command reports pursuit by mobile columns. Germans and Italians had clung to Ilaliya Selum positions for days while British forces aim to draw them into battle amid minefields and weather challenges.
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Agedabia
Middle East
Thelaxis
Ilaliya-Selum
Libya
Fire in CIO office at Maumee and Main Streets
A blaze started in a waste paper basket in the CIO local office on the building's second floor at Maumee and Main Streets. The alarm rang at 3:38 pm yesterday. the chief's truck responded but firemen found the fire already extinguished. Damage described as slight.
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Main Streets
Reds Hurl New Troops At Enem y
London reports a reliable informant says the Red Army has poured fresh troops into the westward drive south of Moscow. They supplement captured German weapons as reserves are tapped. New advances reach Karelia and Crimea while Meshchovsk is recaptured. a Moscow region spearhead expands toward Mozhaisk and the Vyazma Bryansk line.
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Red Wing
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Smolensk
Red Army
Karelia
Crimea
Meshchovsk
Vyazma-Bryansk
British lose airfields as Malaya war drives toward Kuala Lumpur
British forces in Malaya withdraw toward Kuala Lumpur after losing 15 airfields to Japanese pressure. An official spokesman said airfields were abandoned due to limited resources and not due to parachute attacks. Singapore reports intensified Japanese frontal assault with Fifth Division spearheading toward Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur as fighters and bombers swarm the area.
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Singapore
Far East
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Selangor
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China
Kulala Lumpur
Ipoh
Attlee Says Britain Lacks Resources for Far East War
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Attlee warned Britain cannot match Japan's fleet in the Pacific and must concentrate resources. He said the United States entry helps but cannot offset initial Japanese advantages, while Wavell will take command in a vast Far East theater including Malaya and the Philippines.
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Apeekil
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Far East
Libya
Erwin Rommel
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Malaya
Zia
Archibald P. Wavell
Netherlands East Indies
Philippines
Australia
India
Red Cross Drive Nears Half Way Point in Lenawee County
Red Cross War Relief Drive in Lenawee County reaches the halfway mark toward a $50 million goal. Adrian headquarters report $9,300 cash raised, Tecumseh contributes $1,200 toward its quota, and localities report progress including Clinton Township nearing its $600 target. Ferry Hayden of Tecumseh expresses confidence the quota will be oversubscribed.
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Red Cross War Relief Fund
Red Cross
Chamber of Commerce
Adrian
Tecumseh
Ferry Hayden
Tecumseh Products Company
F. W. Prentice Company
Oliver Instrument Company
S. F. Rost
Clinton Township
Clinton Village
Clinton
Royal Air Force Bomb Bangkok Amid War Headlines
The Royal Air Force attacked targets in Bangkok yesterday causing large fires, with Tokyo and Domei reports noting casualties and light damage. The raid marked the first on Bangkok since the Pacific war began, with all forces returning safely. Rangoon lies 475 miles away as Japanese forces move through Thailand.
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Rangoon
Burma
Pan
Royal Air Force
Bangkok
Thailand
Comei
Tokyo Radio
Domei
Pacific
Roosevelt letter counters farm bloc price veto demand
President Roosevelt intervened in a Senate dispute by sending administration leaders a letter opposing the farm bloc demand for the secretary of agriculture to have veto power over farm price setting. The letter was to be presented later by Democratic Leader Barkley or Brown, floor manager for the bill.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
Karksey
Brown
D.-Mich
Soldier Uses Army Rifle to Get Rides
A Michigan state police report says Private Willis Robertson, 15, used an Army rifle to demand rides from motorists on US-12 near Fort Custer. He was captured in an Army truck owned by the U S Transportation Co after being driven by an accomplice in Battle Creek. No charges filed yet.
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Harold E. Haun
Ann Arbor
Willis Robertson
Arn Arbor
Psilanti
Robertson
U. S. Transportation Company
Battle Creek
Marshall
Fort
Pace
LeRoy Wager
Owosso
Wager
Chunghing
Chase
Thut
War Department fights waste in drive for wartime planes
Washington lawmakers moved to fund Roosevelt’s plan for 60 000 combat planes this year while Truman urged the Senate Defense Investigating Committee to curb extravagance. Cannon said hearings on the main appropriations would begin Saturday with a brief skeleton testimony from Lt Gen Henry H. Arnold. Other panels pressed ahead on Treasury and Post Office supply bills and tax measures guiding a $57 billion revenue plan and $2 billion social security levies.
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Washington
Jan. S
Congress
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D-Mo
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Cannon
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Post Office
Ways and Means Committee
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