Dairy men press for higher Detroit milk price
More than 150 dairy farmers from Van Camp local of the Michigan Milk Producers Association met in the circuit court room last night to demand a higher price for milk. They backed their demand with a resolution calling for diverting milk away from retail fluid sale on the Detroit market until $4 a hundredweight for 35 milk at the farm is received.
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van Camp
Michigan Milk Producers’ Association
Circuit ‘Court Room
Detroit
Clay Croll
Britton
Lisle
Adrian
van Camp Packing Company
Pontiac
OPA
Suspension Stayed in West OPA Hearing Related Violations
Sixteen Michigan retailers wholesalers and individuals charged by the Office of Price Administration with violating price and rationing regulations in processed meats lands shoes and gasoline received suspension orders Monday from Dennis F. Duniavy Cleveland regional OPA hearing commissioner at hearings in Detroit. A 60 day suspension was staged against Walter C West of Adrian charged with selling one to five cents above the ceiling on canned vegetables and baby foods. Seven other cases were held over for hearings later.
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Michigan
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Dennis F. Duniavy
Cleveland
Detroit
Walter C. West
Adrian
Prisoner Lt Clifford M Spencer now held as German prisoner
Prisoner Lt Clifford M Spencer co-pilot of the Flying Fortress Wicked Wack reported missing over Europe October 8 is now a German prisoner according to information received by his relatives. His parents Mr and Mrs A B Spencer of Detroit, former residents of this vicinity, and his grandparents Mr and Mrs TM ML Morris of Sand Creek are cited. Spencer's wife is living in Detroit.
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Clifford M. Spencer
Wicked Wack
Europe
B. Spencer
Detroit
ML Morris
Sand Creek
St Spencer
Sofia Defenses Questioned by German Protest
In Adrian Michigan the National War Fund totals 35767 with 15000 to the Sun-Fund and 516000 to the Community Fund, amid German protests over alleged Bulgarian anti-aircraft weaknesses after a Sofia attack. Allied Cairo bulletin says 24 German fighters failed to break the strike on Sofia railway yards, hoped to disrupt Balkan rail traffic.
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Istanbul
Sofia
Balkans
Bulgaria
Cairo
Balkan
War Fund Drive Nears County Quota Reach
Three from one cause with a $34,000 total still needed to offset war worker pledges in townships. H. A. Fer urges continued effort until the territory is fully covered. Adrian and county villages likely to exceed quotas. County National War Fund goal is $1,000,000. Adrian teachers and AFL workers show strong support with full participation and solid sums from various local unions and businesses.
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League
Adrian
National War Fund
Fee
Fi Sdrien
Frank Hazen
Adrian Teachers ‘Club
Public
Edward Roberts
AFL
Hard Lock & Manufacturing Company
Paul Stafford
Michigan Producers Dairy Company
J. A. Constable
Carpenters
No Grand Opening Planned for Christmas Shopping Season
Adrian merchants decided at Chamber of Commerce meeting there will be no grand opening for the Christmas shopping season. Stores will stay open two evenings before Christmas on December 22 and 23 until 9 p.m., and on December 24 until 6 p.m. Clerks and employers may celebrate Christmas Eve with their families. The group will discuss Thursday afternoon hours under the 45 hour law later, but most stores are expected to remain open Thursday afternoons.
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Adrian Merchants
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Holstein Bull Sells for 26000 at National Blue Ribbon Sale
WAUKESHA Wis Nov 16 A Holstein bull aged 16 months, sired by a champion and former world junior butter champion, topped the sale at 26000 dollars. The yearling Carnation Madcap Supreme was bought by Curtiss Candy Company for Libertyville Illinois. The consignor Carnation milk farm near Seattle notes the bull’s high pedigree, with connections to Carnation Imperial and the Ormsby Madcap Fayne line.
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Waukesha
Wis
Curtiss Candy Company
Libertyville
Allied Air Blows Sinking Tide on Japanese Warships
Allied bombers in the northern Solomons have sunk or damaged over 40 Japanese warships since Oct. 12, including three cruisers and multiple destroyers. A Catalina night bomb hit a Japanese cruiser near Rabaul, while MacArthur’s spokesman notes Japan’s lack of repair facilities in the Rabaul Kavieng area. Patrol clashes continue at Empress Augusta Bay as Tarawa and Mille Atoll raids are announced from Pearl Harbor.
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Associated Press
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Aunki
Solomons
Rabaul
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Navy
Knox
Japan
Bougainville
Catalina
MacArthur
Rabaul- Kavieng
Army
Seventh Air Force
Tarawa
Hull to Speak to Congress on Moscow Pact Submissions
Secretary Cordell Hull travels from the State Department to Capitol Hill for a historic joint session. He outlines a unified foreign policy and an Allied commission to guide liberated nations toward plebiscites, stressing free elections and end to isolationism amid debates over Baltic futures and Polish borders.
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Moscow
State Department
Capitol Hill
Hull
Congress
House
Senate
Estonia
Latvia
California
Soviet Union
Germany
Russia
European Advisory Council
London
London Council
London Commission
Chinese Breakthroughs North of Ichang and Tangyang
KING, NOV. 16. Chinese forces on the Yangtze Valley front breached Japanese lines at many points south of the river and pressed toward Ichang and Tangyang. Severe fighting reported near Ichang the port deepest in Japanese penetration. similar actions at Tangyang. Chinese claim recapture of Hokan and Shihmei outskirts. North of Hankow, near Sinyang on the Peiping Hankow line, attack on rail town. recapture of Sintien and other strongpoints claimed. Japanese communications near Singyang said dislocated.
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Tnese High
Knight
Yangtze Valley
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Tangyang
Xangtze
Hokan
Shihmei
Hankow
Peiping-Hankow
Hunan
Sinyang
Sintien
Singyang
Hunters Face OPA Action Over Gas Use On Opening Day
The opening day of the deer hunting season saw a body found six miles south of Prudenville Roscommon County Frank Reetz Jr 21 Laginas with two bullets in the back. Meanwhile two hunters missing near Morristown northwest of Houghton Lake and in the area between Houghton Lake and West Branch. OPA enforced gasoline rationing rules with about 40 summonses issued. Hearings for similar violations begin today at Cheboygan as OPA gauges hunter gasoline usage amid wartime absenteeism in plants and factory shifts.
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Associated Press
Frank Reetz, Jr
Laginas
Prudenvile
Roscommon County
Houghton Lake
Fred Bunn
Romulus
West Branch
Forest Clark
Morristown
Office of Price Administration
Upper Peninsula
Saginaw
OPA
Edward C. MacRae
Jack Zaremba
Grand Rapids
Mackinaw City
Cheboygan
Flint
Pontiac
General’ Motors Corporation
Pontiac Motor Division
Grand Haven
Whisky conspiracy charged by senators
Five senators led by Chairman Van Nuys announce an inquiry into a nationwide whisky scheme. They warn government warehouses could see whisky withdrawals before Christmas, boosting tax revenue and curbing bootleg prices. Senators Kilgore Murdoch Danaher and Ferguson join hearings to expose distillers swapping bonded stock for new blends to dodge price ceilings and taxes. The Justice Department also opened an informal probe into small distiller stocks sold to larger firms.
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Washington
van Nuys
D.-Ind
Judiciary
Congressions
Indianan
Kilgore
D.-W. Va
Murdock
Utah
Danaher
Rconn
Ferguson
R.-Mich
Bis
OPA
Justice Department
Americans Forced To Yield In Italy
Allied headquarters report two German counter-attacks driven Fifth Army from hilltop north of Venafro while Eighth Army gained high ground near Atessa. US bombers with UK fighters hit Eleusis and Kakimaki airfields and destroyers near Leros. Cairo dispatch notes air activity across Aegean as fighting continues along the Italian front and Adriatic coast.
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Venafro
Eighth Army
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Italy
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Monte Sarita Croce
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15Th Air Force
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Athens
Kakimaki
Montgomery
Atessa
Adriatic
Sangro
Aegean
Eros
Cairo
Ileros
Threat to OPA existence stirs House subsidy clash
Washington Nov 16 The House Banking Committee led by Chairman Steagall threatened to attack the existence of the OPA if President Roosevelt maintains demands for authority to pay out government funds to curb retail food prices The plan hinges on extending the Commodity Credit Corporation and barring consumer subsidy payments after this year The Senate debate drew more than 200 witnesses including state agriculture heads and dairy spokesmen who argued subsidies are wasteful and inflationary and shift taxes to taxpayers.
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House
OPA
Roosevelt
Steagall D-Ala
House Banking Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Steagalt
Charles W. Holman
National Co-operative Producers' Federation
Americans Strike at Norway Targets
American bombers attacked targets in Norway today after hitting Athens airfields, the second heavy raid on Norway this year. Nazis harbor warships in Norway fjords, with prior strikes including Trondheim and Heroya. Berlin reported Plymouth raid. heavy damage and casualties occurred, with 15 to 20 believed trapped in collapsed homes.
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Hiller
Norway
Athens
Trondheim
Heroya
England
Berlin
Plymouth
Deport All Japanese In U S to Japan Urged by Orange Advocates
In Grand Rapids on November 16 the national Orange convention pressed for a record calling for deportation of all Japanese in the United States after the war. California Grange master George Sedmger pushed this ration alongside a bid to shift Japanese relocation camps from the War Relocation Authority to the Army. Critics from Albert S. Goss and others warned against making the issue public. California farmers argued loyalty to Japan and opposed releasing relocated Japanese for farm or other work.
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Grand Rapids
National
Orange Convention
California
United States
Japan
George Sedmger
Grange
War Relocation Authority
WRA
Albert S. Goss
State Department
American Red Cross
Lehrmeyer
US discusses Lebanon tension with French National Liberation committee
Secretary of State Hull announced Washington has taken up the tense Lebanon situation with the French Committee for National Liberation but did not confirm reports of a strong protest by the United States. The dispute stems from French difficulties at the eastern Mediterranean end after Lebanese officials were jailed following proclamations of independence.
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Washington
Hull
United States
Lebanon
French Committee For ‘National Liberation
Mediterranean
Ee Iftie
Red Gains Defensive Successes Reported On Soviet Front
Soviet and German dispatches describe heavy fighting from Smolensk to the Dnieper bend. Russian forces penetrate near Dnepropetrovsk and Cherkassy while other reports cite gains around Zhitomir Kiev Rechitsa and Gomel as the Red Army drives north along the Pripet edge cutting Gomel Kalinkavichi rail and isolating Gomel amid renewed offensives.
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London
Berlin
Transocean Agency
Dnieper
Dnepropetrovsk
Krivoi Rog
Cherkassy
Zhitomir
Kiev
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Gomel
Smolensk
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Moscow
Orsha
Moscon
Red Army
Pripet Marshes
White Russia
Mialinkovichi
Red Anny
Kaganovich
Bazar
Korosten
Lenin
Turn To
Russia
Allied Talks in London Forecast 1944 Victory Drive
In London officials anticipate further allied talks after Moscow meetings. A Roosevelt Stalin Churchill conference may be arranged to advance a coordinated 1944 offensive and secure postwar power sharing among the United States, Soviet Union, and Britain.
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London
Moscow
Europe
Aldler
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