U S Navy Victory in Solomons Reported
United States forces scored a naval victory in the Solomons with probable sinking of six Japanese ships and damage to four others in the Kula Gulf near New Georgia. The action, fought July 5–6, ended with U S forces holding Rendova and southern New Georgia as ground mopping up continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yates McDaniel
Australia
United States
Solomons
Pacific
Kula Gulf
New Georgia Island
Douglas MacAmhor
Washington
Kula
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Kwa Gulf
Rendoval Island
New Georgia
Navy
Frank Knox
Bremerick
Wash
Rendova Island
New Guinea
Munda
Bairokoe
U. S
Strong
Rendova
Viru Harbor
Holiday Traffic Falls 30 Percent Across Michigan
Lenaivee county and statewide data show Fourth of July traffic down sharply. Gas dealers report 30 percent drop with few tourist cars, many motorists not fully refueling. State ferries and auto counts reveal significant declines, especially in northern regions, while southern industrial areas show comparatively heavier traffic.
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Lenaivee
Lake
Detroit
Toledo
Ohio
OPA
Adrian
AAA
Michigan Lake
Lansing
State Highway Department
Straits of Mackinac
Thre Straits
Michigan
Ateas
Typhoid Cases Reported Across Counties Near Monroe
Monroe and surrounding counties report ten typhoid cases with six in Milan and three in Washtenaw linked to a single source. Dr. Albert Heustis urges contact persons and shallow-well water users to seek immunization. Dr. Otto Engelke notes possible healthy carriers and surrounding cases in Monroe city and near areas south and west. Water and milk supplies in Milan are not contaminated.
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Monroe
Albert Heustis
Monroe County
Milan
Washtenaw County
Heustis
Otto Engelke
Washtenaw
Alt
Malan
Moaror
County Draft Group to Leave Friday for Fort Custer
Twenty five Lenawee county men accepted for service in Detroit Suns 2 will meet at the Armory on West Maumee Street at 6 30 a m Friday morning for final instructions before departing for Fort Custer by bus at 7 20 a m The next group to go to Detroit for physical examinations will leave July 14.
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Lenawee County
Detroit
Suns
West Maumee Street
Fort. Custer
Addison Manufacturing Co Brings War Industry Home
Addison Manufacturing Co started in January under FE L Williams to build automotive supplies for war use. The plant, driven by 52 workers on a 24 seven schedule, produces end connectors for tank treads with high precision drills and gears. Detroit contract satisfaction has boosted output to over 500 000 pieces. leadership includes John Hickory as president and Vernon Eversole as superintendent.
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Addison, Company
L. Williams
Round Lake
Lorne Clemes
Addison Manufacturing Co
Mr.Williams
Atfi
Ordnance Department
Detroit
John Hickory
Addison
Vernon Eversole
Jackson
Planning Group Approves Adrian Future Improvement Report
Adrian planning commission accepted J Martin Frissell East Lansing consultant's report outlining a ten to fifteen year city growth plan. Survey and maps forecast rapid expansion and guidance for future improvements. Commission chair Millon A Nicolai praised the consultant for putting the group on the right track.
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Adrian Planning Commission
J. Martin Frissel
East Lansing
Town Mistakes Bomb Range in Oklahoma Panic
Boise City Oklahoma residents mistook a bombing run for a bombing range when a Dalhart Texas air base crew misdirected a flight from Conlon Texas. Five small bombs fell during a July 4 celebration, causing a church hole and garage damage with no injuries after the town lights were shut off.
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Boise City
Dalhart
Conlon
Tex
WPB report warns of strain as May war output stalls
The War Production Board chief Donald Nelson reports May production virtually flat with gains only in aircraft and naval vessels. He warns of major trials ahead and urges all-out effort to avoid a slackening pace. Shipyard work rose but overall effort lagged, forcing use of stockpiled metals to meet schedules.
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Washington
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
WPB
Iji
Robert Patterson
Senate Still Pulls for Crop Insurance
Washington July news notes a Senate effort to revive the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation hinges on a House vote on an amendment to a large deficiency bill. The measure would extend FCIC insurance for wheat and cotton for another year, challenging a farm bill provision allowing FCIC self-liquidation. Senate-House conferees also cut housing and war agency funding and debated control over appointments to the War Manpower Commission and 38 other war-created agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
House
FCIC
White’ House
Russell
Dga
National Housing Agency
War Housing Land
Federal Works Agency
War Manpower’ Commission
Seaman Faces Charge of Felonious Assault
Roy Feller of Onsted suffered severe head bruises and lac erations Monday night after being struck with a stock by Francis Fackler of the U S Navy following a visit to Houghton Iske with Fackler's wife. Assistant prosecuting attorney Rex B. Martin said the case may be heard here, with the warrant charging felonious assault to be signed.
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Roy Feller
Onsted
Francis Fackler
U. S. Navy
Houghton Iske
Fackler
Asault
Rex B.martins
S Backiggs
Help Needed On Gas Ration Books Shortage
SOS petition from Lenawee County ration office reports only 500 basic baseline coupon books processed due to staff shortages. About 118,000 motorists in the county are eligible. many will lose basic rations after the upcoming expiry unless volunteers step in. Mrs. Clifford Hood, a community service member, urges public help to prevent gaps in food aid.
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Lenawee
Clifford 5
Hood
Taxing war income eyed by Treasury and Congress
Washington July 7 Treasury experts and the House Ways and Means Committee discussed a new tax formula to tax higher war incomes. The plan would apply excess profits principles to individuals, with no retroactive levies before January 1, 1944. The committee also planned non partisan consideration of a general tax measure with higher levies and possible sales or spending taxes.
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Washington
Congressional
Treasury
House, Ways and Means
Congress
Senate Votes To Ban Subsidy Rollback In Food Prices
In Washington July 7 the Senate split over plans to roll back retail food prices via subsidies to processors. Michigan Senators Vandenberg opposed while Ferguson supported banning subsidy payments in a conference-driven bill extending the Commodity Credit Corporation to 1944, with a raised lending cap and no six month rollback. The measure would nullify the current subsidy to back down meat and butter prices.
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San
A. Widden
Senate
Michigan
Washington
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Homer Ferguson Y
Commodity Credit Corporation
Vandenberg
Ferguson
Commodity Credit’ Corporation
House
Roosevelt
CCC
Allied Air Pummels Sicily Airdromes Near Complete Destruction
Allied air forces from North Africa and the Middle East unleashed a massive strike on Gerbini and four satellite fields in southern Sicily, dropping over 285000 pounds of bombs. Reports say 41 Axis fighters were shot down and several damaged, with one more Axis aircraft downed yesterday. The operation, near its 36th hour, produced extensive fires and destruction across runways and hangars, while Allied losses remained low.
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North Africa
Middle East
Gerbini
Sicily
Ger
Gerbint
Flying Fortress
Northwest African Command
Baron von Richthofen
Italy
Russia
Pantelleria
Northwest Africa
Fire damages attic near Tipton. loss insured
A fire yesterday afternoon at a house two miles west and two miles south of Tipton damaged the attic and dining room ceiling of Mr and Mrs Harvey Warner after the family kept it under control with a garden hose until Adrian rural fire truck arrived. Firemen extinguished the blaze without chemicals. Cause undetermined. loss insured.
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Tipton
Harvey Warner
Adrian
House blocks crop insurance program amid deflationary budget clash
The House voted 123 to 52 against a Senate amendment to the deficiency bill, opposing a government crop insurance program and demanding changes or a delay. Meanwhile a Navy communique said a task force bombarded a Japanese base on Kiska Island and cited coordinated efforts with U S offensive operations in the South Pacific as American ships encountered Japanese defenses in the North Pacific.
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House
Senate
Washington
Kiska Island
Navy
United States
South
Pacific
North Pacific
Cruisar
Kursk Front Battles Amid Heavy Soviet Defense
German claims of breakthroughs around Kursk are offset by Red Army reports of heavy losses for Germany in the Orel Kursk Belgorod front. Moscow says Soviet artillery destroyed hundreds of tanks and numerous planes across two days of fighting.
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Associated Press
Beflix
Kursk
Moscow
Orel-Kursk-Belgorod
Belgorod
Red Army
Red Star
Russian Army Organ
Soviet Information Bureau
Orel-Kursk
Commuuniqué
Berlin
London
Exchange Telegraph
Yugoslavia
Muri
Russia
Laneau
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