Lenawee bond drive starts as county votes seek chair
Lenawee County launches a $3,435,000 war bonds drive with Adrian allocated most of the quota and countywide drives organized by industrial and war workers led by B. F. Beach. City and county chairmen named at a luncheon as Mayor Balawitz offers city hall space for headquarters and lists of district leaders are announced.
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Adrian
B. F. Beach
Reardon Peirsol
Ann Arbor
War Finance Committee
Michigan
First Presbyterian Church
Arthur A. Pahner
Clarke W.W. Balawitz
Oity Hall
Palmer
Tecumseh
W. J. Berkel
Adtison
F. B. Cleaveland
Clayton
W. Cooke
Blissfield
Mulder Brivou
Ben F. Beagle
Clinton
Marion J. Pardee
Riga
Theatre
Haser
Morenci
Bond Buyer No 1 Bibbed by Congressional Delay
Gen Douglas MacArthur gains a new rank amid wartime coverage while the Bond Buyer No 1 title is claimed by a leading financial district team. The House military committee voted to shelve national service legislation indefinitely, delaying the fourth War Loan drive as hearings loom and discussions continue on possible future action.
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New York
Douglas MacArthur
Washington
Percy H. Johnson
Roosevelt
Attee
White House
May
Senate Military Committee
House
House Committee
Tito Reported Wounded In Montenegro
Cairo radio broadcast a rumor that Marshal Tito of the Yugoslav Partisans was wounded in Montenegro. The Partisan communiqué gave no confirmation. The report described Tito as a stocky leader over 50, directing guerrilla forces against the Germans amid heavy fighting.
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London
Tito
Cairo
Josijp Broz
Committee For National Defense
Bae
Peter Ila Cairo
Conservation group organized here for resource savings
A conservation of driven resources committee formed at city hall as part of a government program to cut waste and save across seven industries through local cooperation. War Production Board rep CL Clayman outlined the purpose to Mayor Baldwin and eight industrial leaders. H. E. Smith was elected to head the committee with members from Consumers Power, gas, coal, fuel, railroad, and trucking sectors.
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CL. Clayman
Lansing
War Production Board
Clarke W. Baldwin
Clayman
H. E. Smith
Meter Board
Roy McPhail
Consumers Power Company
Elmer Smei Iner
Gas Company
Theodore Matthes
Tt. C. Williams
T. V. Coughlin
Henry Callahan
Otl
Roland Rumpt
Study Commission Weighs County Agent Reform With Kelly
The legislative study commission backed giving the State Association of County Supervisors a voice in county agent programs. A proposed state board of certification would include two probate judges, one supervisor, and welfare and agency reps to set qualifications. Delegates urged softer worker youth rules and questioned the 24 and half year work school balance.
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Yan
Governors Legislative Study Commission
State Association of County Supervisors
countyHoards of Supervisors
Welfare Department
State Department of Pur Instruction
Harold Wechsler
Michigan Welfare League
Kelly
Aneta Truman
Lansing
Cruman
Maurice Tripp
Rex B. Fornster
Champion Letter Writer in England Sparks Censor Debate
In a Los Angeles report a man named Rasmoenk Nieto is described as a nationent figure in England, with a fiancé Helen Lilly. She claims in fifteen months she has sent 1 554 letters for him in a single day, and none of the letters have been censored.
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uPj
Pyil
Rasmoenk Nieto
England
Helen
Lilly
Monroe Work Lansing Contract Approval At Sterling State Park
The state administrative board approved contracts for land ware architectural work at Sterling State Park Monroe. It authorized JL G Linnard Wilcox and Laird and A E Munson to charge 3.35 percent of the estimated 900 000 dollar cost for this phase of the project.
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State Administrative Board
Sterling State Park
Monroe
JL. G. Linnard, Wilcox and Laird
A. E. Munson
Detroi
WPB Restrictions Lifted on Many Consumer Items
The War Production Board on January 12 ended rationing on most plumbing heating and cooking equipment allowing consumers to buy bathroom fixtures sinks showers and related items without authorization. Some items remain restricted including commercial cooking gear and heating equipment and certain large appliances still require WEB approval.
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War Production Board
CPA
WPS
Jury 1s Selected for $2 Traffic Case
The May term criminal calendar was rearranged to hear the People v Albert Harbaugh on a trial on a charge from Addison. Harbaugh was fined $2 for running a stop sign in Adrian township. The defense will be represented by L F Hammond and the prosecutor by F R Eaton. Jurors chosen include Wichelas Gillon Ogder township Harry Pennington Clinton township Mrs George Crafts Adrian township Dasha Davis Palmyra township Gerald Emmons Riga township Alive Sloan Adrian City Frey Evhart Raisin township Chelle Brown Blissfield Leon Knox Marines City Fred Shelton Tecumseh township Alice Palpant Gover township.
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Albert Harbaugh
Justice Court
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Addison
Arslison
Leland FL
L. FP. Hammond
Bitrars
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Ogder
Harry Pennington
Clinton Township
George Crafts
Adrian
Dasha Davis
Palmyra
Gerald Emmons
Riga
Ursia Goolman
Seneca
Sloan
Adrian Ci Frey Evhart
Rais
Chelle Brown
Blissfield
Leon Knox
Marenei City
Sweden Breaks Cultural Ties With Germany
STOCKHOLM Jan 184P Sweden ends cultural and scientific relations with Germany after Norwegian student deportations. Foreign Minister E Guenther told the Riksdag that German scholars and cultural representatives are no longer welcome and visas are cut.
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Germany
Whdow
Reich
E. Guenther
Riksdag
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Churchill Returns to London After Pneumonia Recovery
London January 18 Prime Minister Churchill arrived back in London after convalescing in the Middle East from a pneumonia attack. He told the House of Commons he would prepare a careful wartime summary before detailing plans for Western invasion. Churchill, appearing well, answered questions on health and policy amid laughter.
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Bernard L. Montgomery
Rome
Britain
Rosevelt
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Leberan
North Africa
House of Campions
Uto
Ceeirchill
Argentina Mourns For Quake Victims In San Juan
Argentina observes a national day of mourning after a weekend quake that devastated San Juan. Death toll rises with hundreds dead and 13 000 injured. thousands evacuated as rescue squads search debris. International aid arrives including from the United States and Britain. Rescue workers find survivors in a church where a wedding party was struck by the disaster.
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Alres
Argentina
San Juan
Germany
Gert
Cordell Hull
U.S
Norman = Armany
American Red Cross
Concepcion
Cairo Rumor of Peace Provokes British Press Outcry
London reports mock the Pravda claim of a separate peace with Germany as false. The British press denounces the Moscow tale, and the foreign office denies any such talks. AP notes Spanish and Portuguese sources disclaim Ribbentrop meetings. Daily Mail accuses Pravda of ignorance of British standards.
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Spain
Cairo
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Var Ribbentrop
Portugal
Xcuse
Britain
Alphabet Soup Triggers AFL Strikes Call for Unified Labor Policy
MLAML Fla Jan 18 The AFL executive council will hear a plea for labor unity among Washington agencies. John F Frey president of the AFL metal trades department argues 25 federal labor bodies hinder operations. He cites wartime strikes as intolerable and links them to conflicting federal labor policies and morale problems.
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American Federation of Labor Executive Council
Labor Unity
Washington
CIO
Department of Labor
John F. Frey
AFL Metal Trades Department
Miami
Fabor
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U. S. Conciliator
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Pork Point System Expands Farm Pork Purchases
Washington January 18 The Office of Price Administration authorizes additional meat points for on the farm pork purchases. Remaining brown points and red stamps across books are validated to allow the public to buy larger amounts from farm slaughterers. The move aims to ease storage pressures and spur farmers to slaughter their own hogs, reducing hogs in terminal markets.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Battle of Walls Ridge is Augmented by Marine Defiance at Cape Gloucester
At Cape Gloucester on New Britain the Marines repelled five Japanese charges at Walls Ridge in the fiercest fighting yet seen there. Lt. Col. Lewis Walt led the assault across rain soaked jungle, with Major Robert Dillard aiding, as supplies dwindled and darkness fell before dawn on January 9. The ridge, key to Hill 660, held firm despite heavy casualties and exhausted troops.
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Welavert
Pipare
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Wall's Ridge
New Britain
Lewis Walt
Colorado Aggie
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Cote
Walt
Borgen
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Three Fordson High students die in Dearborn bus crash
In Dearborn Michigan on Ford Road an overloaded Dearborn Coach Company bus sideswiped a car and struck a tree killing Robert Drake Betty Krause and Wilmer Ford all 17 17 and 16 from Garden City who attended Fordson High School. The bus was packed with students and war workers from Ford plants. Driver Alvin Roy Sweet 34 of Detroit was injured as was the car driver Silas T Maxey and eleven ambulances ferried victims to hospitals.
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Ford Road
Dearborn
Robert Drake
Betty Krause
Wilmer Ford
Garden City
Fordson High School
Dearborn Coach Company
Ford Motor Car
Alvin Roy Sweet
Sheriff's
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Japanese Losses Mount in Pacific Air and Sea War
Allied air and sea actions in the Southwest Pacific and central Pacific intensified as American P-40 fighters claimed multiple enemy planes. Liberators and Mitchells bombed Japanese defenses behind the Atawe line. Bombers hit targets near Rabaul, and a convoy off Kavieng suffered ships sunk and fires. Nimitz praised U S forces as a fused fighting team while warning Japan remains entrenched in island chains.
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Awaited Reply To U S Aid Offer In Border Dispute
SHINGTON Jan 18 Russia's reaction to this country's offer of aid to mend the diplomatic breach between Moscow and the Polish government in exile was awaited today as a possible way out of the most difficult predicament in which the leading United Nations have yet found themselves. The issue: how to get two members back on speaking terms.
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Hussia
Moscow
United Nations
Canadian police hunt four escaped prisoners
London Ont January 18 The quest to recover four German prisoners of war who escaped from a lumber camp continues as police monitor the border tensions. Details of the breakout near Freya and Heniloim remain scarce while diplomacy edges toward possible settlement terms.
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State Hall
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Heniloimment
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Russians threaten rail hub used by Germans in Ukraine
Soviet reports say Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army closes on Rovno and Revno junctions, threatening key German communications hub 110 miles south of Pinsk. Leningrad front advances seize towns near Novosokolniki while Vy Russian forces push north of Vitebsk and toward Pinsk amid heavy combat and rail-line disruption.
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Alkhimovo
Sloboda
Red Army
White Russia
Konstantin Rokostovsky
Sarny
Haren
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Uman
Yaravatka
Smela-Khristinovka
Dnieper
Union
Vinnitsa
Finds Possessions Of 5 Missionaries In Hut of Savages
A Santa Cruz dispatch reports that evidence suggests five American missionaries missing in the Bolivian jungle may have been killed by Yana savages. Jorge Height of New Tribes Mission said a searching party found missionary belongings in a hut, including ponchos, knives, lenses, a Bible. He recounted an ambush where arrows struck but none harmed him.
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Bolivia
Santa Cruz
Jorge Height
New Tribes
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