Five More Japanese Ships Sunk by American Guns
The United States Navy reports heavy Japanese losses in a three day sea battle with 28 ships destroyed and 10 damaged. Allied bombers sank a cruiser and destroyer near New Guinea. Guadalcanal action added to Japanese setbacks, with battleships cruisers and destroyers reported sunk or damaged.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States Navy
New Guinea
Solomons
Guadalcana
United States
Navy
Pacific
40 Foot Lots Held Too Narrow Here
The Adrian city planning commission, meeting since September, unanimously decided that subdivision building lots must be at least 50 feet wide in the future. They rejected Toledo builder F W Mergens 36 lot Vine Street plan with 40 foot lots, deeming them too narrow. Mil ton Nicolai, chairman, led the vote and noted the change as a policy shift alongside commission members Ed Baker Harold Sherman J E Smith Alice Richard Walter Frazier Adelbert Vedder John G Ott and Mayor H W Lundahl.
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City Planning Commission
Jis
Adrian
Planning Commission
F. W. ‘Mergens
Toledo
Vine Street
Milton Nicolai
Ed Baker
Harold Sherman
J. E. Smith
Alice Richard
Walter Frazier
Adelbert Vedder
John G. Ott
H. W. Lundahl
State Supreme Court blocks certification in McLeod race
Lansing bulletin reports the Michigan Supreme Court barred the state board of canvassers from certifying George D. O'Brien as the winner of the United States Congress race currently held by Rep. Clarence J. McLeod. A hearing on McLeod's challenge to the November 3 election results is set for November 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
State Supreme Court
State Board of Canvassers
George D. O'Brien
Stat
Congress
Clarence J. McLeod
McLeod
Michigan
State Department of Labor and Industry
Department
Adrian
Wel Hawley
Burke
Aurtton
Olivet
Frank Waltz
How Coffee Rationing Rules Reach Merchants
Retailers Bulletin No 5 of the OPA explains coffee rationing for grocers and stores. Beginning at midnight Saturday all retail coffee sales are forbidden to stock up for the plan. Stamp No 27 covers the first five weeks and yields one pound per person except children 14 and under. Decaffeinated coffee and blends with other materials are rationed by the pound. extracts and substitutes not mixed with coffee are not rationed. Green coffee sales to consumers are prohibited.
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OPA
Guy 2. Nemire
Fr Sullivan Named Pastor of St Marys Church
Fr John Sullivan, eight years pastor at St Catharine’s Algonac, will lead St Mary’s Catholic Church. He succeeds Fr J W Cotter, transferred to Detroit. Born in Grand Rapids, he served in WWI as an Army aviator and studied at Notre Dame, Michigan, Harvard Law, then St Mary’s Seminary. Ordained December 1923. His first pastorate was St Joseph’s Dexter 1929-34.
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John €. Sullivan
St. Catherine’s
Algonac
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Chancery Office
Michigan Catholic
Sullivan
J. W. Cotter
Detroit
Fr. Sullivan
Grand Rapids
Renewed Japanese Air Activity at Attu Island
Reports from Defense Command in Alaska confirm renewed Japanese presence near the abandoned Attu village and surrounding headlands. Observations describe Japanese float planes on the beach and subsequent air raids, with American aircraft returning fire and damaging several targets. The activity follows late-summer occupation and recent sightings by Lt. H. McWilliams and others.
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Alaska Defense Command
Attu Island
Attu Village
H. McWilliams
Memphis
Tenn
McWilliams
Heliz Bay
Lieut
N. H. Drake
New York City
R. E. Spear
Eugene
Ore
Attu
Francis J. C. Pope
Oakland
Calif
James Z. Stevens
Fayetteville
Arthur P. Husteada
Los Angeles
Ralph D. Matthews
Cando
Stevens
Kiska
Plan to double plane output in coming year
Washington reports plans to double wartime aircraft production within a year as Charles E. Wilson arrives as administrator of a massive program. WPB chief Donald M. Nelson outlines goals shifting from the earlier 60 000 and 125 000 planes yearly blueprint to emphasize faster output and better fighting aircraft. Wilson says monthly production could double and a new aircraft production board will oversee army and navy orders.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric Company
War Production Board
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Roosevelt
Wilson
Army
Navy
Nelson
Txel Army
Chaterisn
OneShip Boise Wows Navy After Guadalcanal Battle
Philadelphia dispatch recounts the USS Boise epic during the Oct 26 27 night action near Guadalcanal. Outgunned and ablaze the light cruiser helped sink six Japanese ships in 27 minutes, then, despite heavy damage, returned to port. Navy awards honor 19 officers and men including Lt(jg) Mick Evarts and others who risked their lives in the rescue and firefighting effort.
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Boise
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Solomon Islands
Philadelphia
Salamon Islands
Fourth Naval District
Guadalcanal
L. S
Navy
Mick Evarts
Minneapolis
Edward C. Kenney
Bucyrus
Vint Elliott Eden
Arccoville
W. Va
Submarine Threat Declines Yet War Information Cautions
Washington reports submarines largely driven from American shores but warns against over optimism. Director Elmer Davis, in a radio address, says logs of ships sunk are released while avoiding specific ship names to prevent aiding the enemy. He defends withholding certain military details and rebukes rumor-mongers, noting Americans seek courage and truth in wartime.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Expe Ted
Elmer Davis
Davis
North Africa
Japanese pinned in narrow corridor on Papuan peninsula
General MacArthur reports Allied jungle troops trap Japanese along Buna and Gona on the Papuan coast after air and sea attacks sink a cruiser and destroyer. Allied planes press a stand on Buna and Gona as forces press toward expulsion from the sector near Port Moresby.
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Associated Press
MacArthur
Australia
Buna
Gona
Aled
Port Moresby
New Guinesz
Geners
Owen Stanley
Poison death list rises after asylum tragedy
In Salem Oregon Governor Sprague called the incident mass murder after 47 inmates at the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane died from a poison mixed into eggs. The toxin sodium fluoride, used in insecticides, contaminating canned frozen eggs, may have been added during meal prep.
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Salem
Ore
Charles A. Sprague
Oreigan State Hospital
Agricultural Marketing Administration
Sprague
J. C. Evans
Frank Menne
University of Oregon
Bendix Fights Anti Trust Suit Called Tragic
Bendix Aviation Corporation denounces the government suit as nothing short of tragic and vows to defend itself to the limit. President E R Breech says the DOJ coerced a decree beyond legal requirements and fights to protect wartime leadership. Filed in Newark, N J, the action accuses Bendix and 25 co conspirators of illegal international agreements to fix prices divvy sales and restrain trade. Breech notes wartime needs make ongoing defense burdensome for overworked executives. Interned Berlin report: British and American pilots forced down in Spanish Morocco are to be interned in Spain.
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Detroit
Bendix Aviation Corporation
South Bend
Ind
Goverment
Department of Justices
E. R. Breech
Department of Jusice
Bendix
New York
Department of Justice
Berlin
Spanish Morocco
Spain
Coffee Rationing Officially Hits United States
Washington reports coffee rationing official now as the War Production Board delegates authority to the Office of Price Administration to impose the measure starting at midnight November 28. The OPA also places Mexican chickpeas, used as a coffee blend, under price control with maximums set near March levels.
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Washington
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration Authority
Coffe
WPB
OPA
Holiday Turkey Prices Rise Amid Slow Holiday Movement
Chicago November market reports show higher turkey prices due to slow farm to market movement. Labor shortages and transport issues cited, with price ceilings affecting dressed birds and live market quotes. Goose and duck prices edged up, broiler chickens higher too, while normal production remains strong.
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Chicago
Son of Lenawee sanatorium workers killed in New Guinea
Pic. Stanley Davis, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Davis of Lenawee county, was killed in action on November 5 in New Guinea. He enlisted two years ago, was home on furlough a year ago, and later transferred to Australia in April. He attended Sand Creek High School and worked for Jim Brown Fence Company before enlisting. He leaves six sisters and his parents.
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Claude Davis
Lenawee County
War Department
Pic
Stanley Davis
New Guinea
Pic. Davis
Australia
Sand Creek High School
Jim Brown Fence Company
Stephen Stortz
Beulah Shoemaker
Adrian
Thomas Stone
Beatrice Davis
Detroit
H. H. Holmes
Hudson
Earl Ford
Russians Claim Decisive Victory in Caucasus Battle
The Associated Press reports Russia achieved a decisive victory in a several day battle near the northern end of the Georgian highway to Tiflis. Germans supposedly left 5,000 dead and vast stores captured, with Russia claiming rout of the 13th German tank division and major trophies including 140 tanks, 70 guns, 95 mortars, 2,350 trucks, and large ammunition dumps.
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Associated
Moscow
Russia
Caucasus
Tiflis
Ordzhonikidze
Stalin, Grad
Greatcost
A Gas Registration Ends Tonight Across County
Automobile owners have one last chance to obtain their A ration card for gasoline this afternoon and evening in county school buildings including Attican Elementary. The rationing board reports smooth progress and says registration will be virtually complete tonight. After registration closes, owners must apply at the rationing board for permits. Ration books for Band C will be issued to motorists next week.
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Attican
Allied forces push toward Bizerte in Tunisia drive
Heavy fighting across Tunisia with British and American units advancing on Bizerte and Tunis. Third of a Nazi Panzer column destroyed as two other columns are repulsed. Rommel’s forces retreat from Benghazi to near Tripoli as Allies pressure Tunisian coast.
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Associated Press
London
Tunisia
Bizerte
Tunis
North Africa
Patzer
Libya
Rommel
Tripoli
Attis
Clath
Coluzona
North African
Aly
Rome
Europe
Italy
Germany
Anderson
Eoas
al- Sed
Fretch
Morocco
Germain
Mediterranean
War At A Glance
Allied mechanized forces drive from Algeria toward Bizerte after smashing German tanks while British Eighth Army presses Rommel from Bengasi. Turkey shifts divisions to defend Balkans as Italy boasts. Reds rout 45,000 in Caucasus, hold gains at Leningrad and Stalingrad. Navy claims major Japanese losses in Solomons. MacArthur cuts inland along Papua coast after sinking ships and air defenses.
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Associated Press
Africa
Algeria
Bizerte
Rommel
Bengasi
Turkey
Hitler
Russia
Balkans
Italy
America
Europe
Ordzhonikidze
Caucasus
Leningrad
Stalingrad
Solomons
New Guinea
Papua
Buna Base
Gona
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U. S
Tere
ST. Mary's
Pori
Papuan Peninsula
Mares
Guinea
Mozdok
mid-Caucasus
Perth
Tuapse
Bengal
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