Non-war workers and women must fill factory gaps
Adrian officials say war production needs demand strict manpower budgeting or fast housing fixes to house new workers. Most gaps come from nonessential workers shifting to plants and from women entering industrial jobs. Labor sources include registered men stressing new roles and unemployed nonmanufacturing workers urged to move into factory work.
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Adrian
U. S. Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Congress
FP. P. Verner
The
Employment Service
John Lovell
Michigan Manufacturers Association
Lenawee Manufacturers
Clifford J. Rice
NYA
Toledo
Christmas Club Fund total nears one hundred thousand dollars
Hundreds of community members receive Christmas Savings Club checks totaling 104 912.35 from Adrian banks this year, a bit below last year’s 109 009. The 1940 and 1939 totals were 86 000 and 574 000 respectively. Checks ship earlier to aid holiday shopping. Members use the fund for taxes insurance and household purchases.
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Adrian
Motorists Register for Gas Rationing in Lenawee County
Motorists in Lenawee County begin registering for gasoline rationing to take effect December 1 in Michigan. Adrian hosts registration in five elementary schools from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. today through Friday, with rural schools aiding. Dealers and distributors must register December 1 to 3 with inventory details, using auto registration cards tire serial numbers and use tax stamps.
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Lenawee
Michigan
Adrian
J. M. Stange
State Office
OPA
Kenneth A. A. Carlisle
National Bank of Adrian Pays First Liquidating Dividend
The National Bank of Adrian declares a first liquidating dividend of 35 per share on 3,200 shares totaling 112000. Checks for stockholders were to be placed tonight by liquidating agent Russell B. McAfee. The bank has discharged known liabilities and retains the building at 115 East Maumee Street and a few assets. future dividends depend on asset disposal. The payment was approved by the National Banking Department after the bank sold assets to Lenawee County Savings Bank in September.
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National Bank of Adrian
Russell B. McAfee
East Maumee Street
National Banking Department
National Hark of
Adrian
Lenawee Oun Savings Bank
Septemer
Michener seeks delay in nationwide gasoline rationing
Representative Michener of Michigan demands immediate congressional action to postpone gas rationing for three months from December 1. He argues that proof is needed that rationing is necessary to conserve rubber and suggests voluntary measures and reduced driving speeds as alternatives. He warns rushed rationing could harm small business, traveling salesmen, farmers, and national defense transport.
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Michener
Washington
House
R-Mich
Michigan
Congress
Office of Price Administration
East
Coffee rationing to begin Sunday in Michigan
Detroit dates the start of coffee rationing for Michigan institutions. Institutional users register for purchase certificates next Monday through Wednesday at their local rationing boards. First allotment covers November 22, 1942 to January 31, 1943, based on September and October 1944 usage. inventories must exclude substitutes and must record on hand coffee at midnight Saturday.
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Detroit
Michigan
Arthur H. Sarvis
Office of Price Adminstration
Sarvis
Liquor Profit Rise Shown By Michigan Audit
An auditor's report released in Lansing shows the state liquor control commission earned a net profit of 20.18 percent for the fiscal year ended June 30, with operating expenses rising only 2.56 percent. The increase in profit over the prior year totaled 53,371,379 while expenses rose 57,327, among which 7,971 related to the state store system.
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Lansing
State Liquor Control Commission
Thel Iudit
James Co. Finney & Co
Detroit
Japs can't stop U S offensive plans says AP dispatch
Pearl Harbor report notes Japan cannot halt American plans in the Pacific campaign. MacArthur’s New Guinea push gains ground as Guadalcanal shows allied air sea and land dominance. Admiral Nimitz and Niel listas warn of a long fight ahead. Japan’s carrier strength damaged but not crippled. Fire losses nationwide fall in October to 22.6 million versus 30.8 million a year ago. Fall River crude rubber blaze cited.
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Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
T. H
Japan
South Pacific
MacArthur
New Guinea
Guadalcanal
Greater
Asia
Nielliz
Pacific Fleet
Eurly
Guadalcanally
Nimitz
Gonduri
Coral Sea
Midway
Southwest Pacific
Pacific
New York
National Board of Fire Underwriters
United States
Fall River
Mass
Turning point of war marked by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt in a radio speech described recent Pacific battles as a turning point yet warned of a long uphill fight. He called the clash between Japanese and U.S. ships one of the great battles in history and noted losses of 23 Japanese vessels against two U.S. light cruisers and several destroyers. He urged focus on fighting and working to win while criticizing politically motivated remarks and urging patience as forces push from Kiska to Murmansk and from Tunisia to Guadalcanal.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Batte
New York Herald Tribune
America
Pacific Theater
Basie
Kiska
Murroansk
Tunisia
Guadalana
Pacific
Congress
Toyo
Daniel J. Callaghan
Callaghan
San Francisco
President seeks broad wartime powers sparks major battle
The Roosevelt push for powers to suspend tariffs immigration rules and other controls to aid the war effort ignites a fierce fight in Congress. House Ways and Means summoned top officials including War Production Chief Nelson and Attorney General Biddle as Republicans rally to block the measure amid election aftermath.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Exouse Ways and Means
Donald Nelson
Francis Biddle
Robert P. Patterson
Navy
James] V. Forrestal
Emory] S. Land
War Shipping Administration
Mil Perkins
Board of Economic Warfare
Japanese admit battleship sunk in Solomons battle
A Tokyo radio communiqué acknowledged Japan lost a battleship in the Solomons engagement, the first Japanese loss announced in the war. The report also listed a cruiser and three destroyers sunk or damaged and seven transports damaged. The enterprise framed the losses to minimize the reverse while contrasting U.S. claims of heavier Allied losses.
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Associated Press
New York
Japan
Solomons
United States Navy
Tokyo
U. S
Tokyo Radio
United States
U.S. Navy
Imperial Headquarters
U. S. Navy
Imperial “Headquarters
Axis
Guadalcanal
Vrurn
SAPS
Japs Fall Back Toward Buna As Allies Press Front
Allied ground forces advancing from Iwala near Buna push toward the coast, with MacArthur directing operations in New Guinea. Japanese reappear to harass columns as 18 aircraft strike Buna area. Allied air units retaliate, destroying seven Japanese bombers and seven fighters on the Lae airfield. Heavy bombers hit Japanese bases in the Solomons, burning a merchant ship at Rabaul and destroying aircraft on Timor airstrips. The Economic Warfare Ministry reports Allies have captured 200,000 to 300,000 tons of merchant shipping after entering North Africa.
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MacArthur
Australia
Buna
Pipuan
New Guinea
Lae
Southwest Pacific Command
Solomons
Rabaul
New Britain
Frepway
Buin-Faisi
Maabisse
Borbonara
Timor
Lunuon
Ministry of Economic Warfare
North Africa
Registration Periods Set For Youth Draft Numbers
President Roosevelt issued a proclamation fixing three separate registration periods for youths turning 18 in the last half of this year. The plan divides registrations by birth months from July through December, with continuous registration on birthdays starting January 1. Local boards are told to reclassify certain deferments and pursue waivers for meritorious cases, while new measures address essential workers, including physicists, and farm laborers seeking to leave jobs. Turn to DRAFT Page QY.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Selective Service Headquarters
Army
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service
Fue
Lewis B. Hershey
Germans boast readiness to fight in North Africa
London reported Hitler massing more than 1,000 planes in southern Italy Crete Sardinia and Sicily to defend Axis bases in North Africa as Paris radio claimed German troops captured Bizerte Tunisia. It said Tunis radio went off to save power hinting at paratroop operations near Tunis. Franco authorized partial mobilization as Spain weighs its stance. Allied parachutists landed in Tunisia and Algeria while French authorities in Algeria Morocco cooperated with Eisenhower command.
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Associated Press
London
Hitler
Italy
Crete
Sardinia
Sicily
North
Africa
Paris
Bizerte
Tunisia
Germany
Tunis
Spain
Gibraltar Strait
Francisco Franco
New York
Reuters
Met
Oran
Algeria
Morocco
Eisenhower
Mediterranean
War At A Glance in Tunisia and North Africa
Allied paratroopers strike key Tunisian points while Germany claims Bizerte fell and Axis units hold there. Rome reports massed air forces in the Mediterranean. Spain expands army. British push toward Benghazi in Libya as Rommel’s lines bend at El Agheila. In the Pacific, Solomons action lists ships sunk or damaged. Japs retreat near Buna New Guinea. In the Caucasus, Red gains near Nalchik but Stalingrad costs rise. West Africa reports a Vichy mission possibly heading to North Africa to negotiate a naval base.
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Pacific
Solomons
U. S
New Guinea
Bana
Lae
Russia
Nalchik
Caucasus
Stalingrad
Leningrad
West Africa
Liberia
Vichy
Dakar
North Africa
French West Afries
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Kokoda
Gona
ABAU
New. Guinea
Goodenough
Fergusson
Adrian Employment Office
Christmas Club Fund
National Bank
Adrial
Linehan
Mich
Fred
Greenwald
Udt
Helloway
Loway
MONON
RAF
Pate Plier
France
Belgium
Air Ministry
U.S
Say
Kellogg
Idaho
Harbert
AACK
Bale Uneen
Chick Herbert
Army Corps Reserve Corps
Wil c Spore
Kalamazoo
Coughton
N.C
Rep
Knutson
R.-Minn
Libya
Rommel
Alexander
Egypt
el Agheila
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