National service fight looms in Congress this year
Washington January 12 President Roosevelt seeks national service legislation forcing men 18 to 45 and women 18 to 50 into government service. Congress is split with strong opposition and few will commit ahead of hearings. committee leaders weigh reopen hearings or draft a bill while lawmakers debate costs, curbing profits, and broader reform. Senator Reynolds opposes the plan as Congress weighs its next move.
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Roosevelt
Congress
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House
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R-Ny
CIO
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Bob Murray
AFT
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Reynolds
Nci
Senate Military Committee
National Service Legislung
Supervisors Reject Hunters Petition
Lenawee county board rejects Sunday duck hunting petition as a motion to refer failed. The board preserves current Sunday hunting ban and appoints new Adrian township library trustee while planning photostat machine installation at the courthouse under public buildings committee. Estimated cost around 2500 dollars with work including electric plumbing and darkroom setup.
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Lenawee County
County Board of Supervisors
Boards of Supervisors
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the Register of Deeds
Fireman Dies After Fall At Jackson Restaurant
Fireman Kenneth Harding aged 41 died today after falling from a second story porch while battling a blaze at the State Lunch restaurant in Jackson. He struck his head on concrete. Damage to the eatery topped ten thousand dollars. water damaged stock in the basement as well.
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Fall Jackson
Kenneth Harding
Cadet Arnith Strong Killed In Plane Crash
Naval aviation cadet Arnith Strong aged 21 died in a crash near Pensacola Florida as details awaited. Believed employed at A and P Super Market for two years he enlisted in the Naval Air Corps in 1947 and trained across Natchez Louisiana Florida Minnesota and Pensacola born Metamora July 25 1922 Survived by parents two sisters a brother and grandmother. body being sent north for arrangements.
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Strong
Naval Aviation
Pensacola
Fla
War Department
E. J. Strong
Bent Oak Avenue
A&p
Naval Air Corps
Hel
Natchez
University of Loti
Ana
Lowa
Minnesota
Pensa
Ola
Metamora
Bohn Mant
Thas
June Granatal
Toledo
Nina Smith
Jackson
Yalda Bugbee
Aftian
Nancy Strong
Industrial Bond Quotas Set For Fourth War Loan
Industrial quotas for the Fourth War Loan are being arranged with a schedule for solicitation next week. B F Beach of Michigan Producers Dairy Company chairs the industrial campaign, aided by Herman Matthes of Acme Preserve. CIO and AFL leaders and plant management helped devise a quota formula. A meeting of plant committee men and industrial representatives is set for Monday at the Junior Projects building at the fair grounds to announce county plant quotas. The drive aims to finish in not more than ten days with posters placed in each plant to track daily progress. Reardon Peirsol, deputy state war finance manager, expects to name Lenawee county war bond chair soon after securing county headquarters funds.
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B. F. Beach
Michigan Producers Dairy Company
cam_paign
Beach
Wel Herman Matthes
Acme Preserve Company
CIO
AFL
Industrial Committee
Mr. Beach
Reardon Peirsol
Ann Arbor
Lenawee
Lenawee County Conservation League Banquet Feb 10
The Lenawee County Conservation League will hold its annual banquet on February 10 in two downtown Adrian churches with Ben East providing speaking and film, followed by a chicken dinner in the Methodist and Episcopal churches. Leon Pierce coordinates arrangements, Ernest Kuster directs ticket sales, and new officers Tom Munger, Homer Harkness, Don Darling, and Earl Hughes were elected. The group, now 730 members, expects about 500 attendees and endorsed state action to buy the Paci or Pine Mountain area as a state park and game refuge, plus purchasing semi productive Lenawee land for a recreation and hunting area.
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Lenawee County Conservation League
Ben East
Civic
Adrian College
Leon Pierce
Ernest Kuster
Tom Munger
Homer Harkness
Don Darling
Earl Hughes
Paorcupine Mountain
Upper Peninsula
Lenawee
Roosevelt asks Congress for 34000 miles of highways plan
President Roosevelt sent to Congress a proposal for a national highways system totaling about 34 000 miles with an annual cost of 750 million dollars. The plan aims to connect rural and urban areas across regions, using existing routes where possible and sharing costs between federal and state governments. A national inter regional highway report recommends designation and upgrade to high standards of the network.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Farm Bureau Hears C. L. Brody Speak
Clark L. Brody of Lansing former executive secretary opposes food subsidies citing high cost of administration inflation and price controls He supports limited subsidies for copper soybeans resonates with wartime needs He names National Grange Farm Bureau and National Council of Farm Cooperatives as united groups urging farmers to back them Lenawee County Farm Bureau votes to become a non profit group with new directors and officers in Adrian Tipton Riga and other towns Plans include a school of instruction for members and a roll call worker dinner next Monday at the First Methodist Church.
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Lansing
Michigan State Farm Bureau
Lenawee County Farm Bureau
First Methodist Church
Brody
Broly
National Grange
The
Farm Bureau
National Council of Farm Co-opratives
Harold Strayer
George Kunze
J the
Ivan Hunt
Methodist Church
Thousands to Take Draft Physical Tests in State This Month
Michigan men face a new preinduction physical examination to assess availability for army or navy service. Brig. Gen. LeRoy Pearson says the program will replace the screening and be conducted by the army. After February 1 registrants will receive orders to report for induction within 21 days of qualification. Local boards will classify registrants and select volunteers first, then proceed by order numbers.
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Lansing
Army
Navy
LeRoy Pearson
Selective Service
Michigan
al Cal Draft Board
Pearson
Allied Bombers Hit Piraeus and Cassino Fronts In War Update
Allied bombers blasted Piraeus and Athens port areas with a heavy day and night strike, while Fifth Army forces pressed to seize high ground near Cervaro as fighting raged along the Cassino road. Fortress crews claimed multiple enemy fighters downed as RAF and British ships targeted coastal positions.
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Balsans
Piraeus
Athens
Greece
Fifth Army
Lab
Cervaro
Cassino
Rome
Adriatic
San Benedetto
Toledo Fireman Dies in $300000 Fire
January 12 Toledo reports a devastating suburban blaze at a waterfront bowling alley complex destroying ML 14 retail stores. Fireman James P. Fakelhany dies after entering a basement collapse. Fire Lt. Frank L. Martin falls with him but is rescued. Two police injured in gas explosions. cause tied to cleaning fluid usage. Fire under control in six hours. injured firefighters and trapped rescues noted.
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Toledo
James P. “Wkehany
Frank L. Martin
Schlort
al Py
Central Warlimet
Howling Alley
Fekehany
Lieut
Martin
Harlin
Officers Re-Elected At Two Adrian Banks
Officers of Adrian State Savings Bank and Allied banks were re-elected. Fred S Parkin named president. S W Raymond vice president. L A Walker cashier. T McKendry and others named assistant cashiers. Budgeted officers for the Adrian State Bank include E E Tabiantieave and E R King as secretaries and cashiers respectively.
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Ieee
Mark Clark
Bond
Fanaa 2
Sub- Fisher
Atfele
Fisher
Ett Sleving
Dee Army
Charles
Hart
L. W. Smith
Renee Male
Joseph P. Libs
Doy Ter
Zussell B. McAfee
L. A. Walker
T. McKendry
Adrian State
Beni Bane
Whater- i
Icles
C. King
Leslie W. Pierce
E. E. Tabiantieave
Will Dena
Ceal
Russian Push In Ukraine Presses German Fronts Near Sarny
Moscow reports describe Red Army advances from the Pripet marshes toward Sarny and mid Ukraine, despite German counterattacks. Russians cut a north south rail line near Sarny, closing the corridor to Berdichev and Kirovograd as heavy losses for German and Hungarian forces are noted.
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Konevy
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Vatutin
Bessarabia
Germans Claim 136 Planes Shot Down In Great Air Battle
London report cites German claims of 136 American planes shot down in a daylight raid on western Germany, with analysts noting 25 percent loss estimates and noting new long-range fighters. Objectives included Magdeburg and Halberstadt near Berlin, while U S forces reported strong fighter opposition and a three hour air clash.
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Londott
J. S Eighth Air Force
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Eighth Air Force
Stid
Scandinavian ‘Telegraph
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Berlin
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Magdeburg
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Halberstadt
Teader
Robert F. Travis
Poland Russia border dispute stalls as London cabinet meets
In London the Polish cabinet in exile holds its third meeting in 24 hours while reacting to the Moscow suggested Curzon line for a border with Poland. Moscow’s stance aims to keep Ukrainian and White Russian territories, with a Baltic outlet, and Polish cooperation likely needed for settlement. The Associated Press poll also finds Dewey and Willkie leading GOP sentiment in the United States.
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Poland
Soviet Union
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Anthony Eden
Lendon
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Ini
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Allied forces push in New Guinea and Rabaul area gains
Allied air and ground operations report fresh successes in northern New Guinea and around Rabaul New Britain. American Marines press Cape Gloucester front while Australian troops breach a rear guard near the Huon Peninsula. A Catalina hits a Japanese destroyer during convoy action off Kavieng. Formosa raid and Takao vicinity bombings noted by Tokyo.
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Associated Press
Theapanese
Rabaul
New Britain
New Guinea
South Pacific Air Force
Solomons
New Zealand
Tobera
Cape Gloucester
Witiaz Strait
Buri
Huon
U. S. Sixth Army
Saidor
Madang
Catalina
Kavieng
New Ireland
I Radio Tokyo
Takao
Formosa
China
Naval Officer Warns Strikes Hurt Morale at Sea
A naval lieutenant reports strikes harming crew morale aboard ships in the Pacific. He says sailors endure combat, endure hardships, and fear neglect from American society while leaders plan to curb morale losses amid railroad and steel strike pressures. He laments the loss of mail privileges and recalls a sailor killed clutching a Esquire magazine Varga girl, pleading that American workers invest in those at sea.
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Pacific
America
Compton
Compton (R-Conn
Railroad and Steel
House
Au Compton
Esquire Magazine
Sec
Walker
Ting
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