Desperate Allied Drive Sinks Japanese Destroyer at Buna
Allied airmen and ground forces struck the Buna area in northeastern New Guinea. They sank a Japanese destroyer, destroyed 19 enemy planes, and damaged landing craft while strafing coastal positions. Americans and Australians pushed toward Buna and Gona as Japanese defenses stiffened.
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Associated Press
MacArthur
Australia
Buna
New Guinea
Gona
Gone
Ladt
Salamaua
Air Command
U. S
New
Guinea
Sala
DERSHAM DIES IN MORGENCI HOME AT 60
Abraham O. Dersham, 60, died at 128 North Street Morenci at 7 48 this morning after a short illness. Born January 1 1882 in Wellsville Michigan, he lived eight years in Morenci and previously owned drug stores in Seneca Blissfield Hillsdale Laramie Wy and Adrian. He married Blanche V Miles February 25 1907 in Adrian and survives with son Miles C Dersham of Adrian. brother E Dersham of Morenci. two sisters Mrs E W Sister of North Adrian. Funeral Wednesday at 3 PM at Stockwell Funeral Home with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Morenci
Abraham O. Dersham
North Street
Clark
Mr. Dersham
Wellsville
Mich
Lenawee Junction School
Adrian High School
Ferris Institute
Big Rapids
Hat & Shaw
Adrian
Tater
Seneca
Blissfield
Hillsdale
Laramie
Dersham
Masonic Indge
Blisfield
Kiwanis Club
Blanche V. Miles
Miles C Dersham
E. Dersham
E. W
North Adrian
Stockwell Funeral Home
Oak Grove Cemetery
Fourth Great Lakes submarine launched by Manitowoc firm
The fourth submarine built on the Great Lakes in World War II was launched yesterday by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co. The Puffer, named by Mrs. Ruth R. Lyons of Ottawa, Ontario, is a fleet-type submarine akin to her sister ship the Pato, and was accepted by the Navy on Saturday.
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Great Lakes
Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co
Cee
Ruth R. Lyons
Ottawa
Navy
Fire hazards found in Adrian apartment buildings
An inspection of six Adrian apartment buildings found four serious fire hazards and two only fair. Most are large frame structures packed with families. Officials will report to the state fire marshal and seek rapid action. The President of Ecuador planned a Washington visit arriving in Atlanta by plane.
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Adrian
Jast
Jack Hawley
Louis F. Germond
Commissioner of Public Safety
Germond
Hawley
Washington
Carlos Arroyo de Rio
Ecuador
Roosevelt
United States
de Rio
Atlanta
Americas
Italy on the brink of nationwide panic amid war setbacks
Reports from multiple European cities warn of a looming crisis for Mussolini's regime as Italy loses ground in Africa and Libya. Bombed Genoa, Milan, and Turin areas show damage while refugees flood northern cities. Rome’s evacuation talk circulates with fear of a collapsing Axis position.
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Associated Press
Mussolini
Africa
Temparale
Genoa
Milan
Vittorio Emanuele
Switzerland
Ankara
East
Libya
Russia
Tunis
Rome
Turkey
London
Italy
Europe
America
Corsica
Nice
Savoy
France
Vichy Zone
Sir Stafford Cripps Drops From Cabinet To Aircraft Post
London reports Sir Stafford Cripps, once seen as Britain's number two, left the war cabinet to become minister of aircraft production at Churchill's urging. The reshuffle elevates Herbert Morrison to the war cabinet, with Eden gaining extra duties and Cranborne and Stanley receiving new posts as Cripps departs. Cripps had previously failed to secure settlement on India and India’s role in the war, diminishing his influence and popularity.
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London
Sir Stafford Cripps
Churchill
Stafford
House of Commons
Chucehill
Sir Stafford
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Shire
Herbert Morrison
Anthony Eden
Viscount Cranborne
Oliver Stanley
Transport
Board of Education
Board of Trade and War
Cal
J. J. Liewerlin
Washington
Russia
Iine
India
Britain
Intensive Use Of Existing Housing Urged In Defense Council Bulletin
The Michigan Council of Defense housing committee urges local cooperation in Adrian and 17 other areas to solve war manpower housing. It designates Adrian as a critical housing center and promotes intensive use of existing housing to house more workers, including sharing homes, converting larger houses to rentals, opening vacant rentals, and winterizing cottages for year round occupancy. War production hinges on adequate housing, linking manpower and materials constraints in a bid to meet wartime needs.
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Defense Council
Michigan Council of Defense al
Lansing
Adrian
Michigan
Housing Committee
Bulletin
Lehman to Become Rehabilitation and Relief Director
Governor Herbert H. Lehman plans to leave Albany for Washington to assume the job of U S director of foreign relief and rehabilitation. Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti will govern in his absence for about a month. Lehman expects to depart Albany by December 3 and will oversee a relief effort envisioned to extend well beyond the war, matching the scope of Hoover's postwar work.
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Albany
Vpi
Herbert H. Lehman
Washington
U. S
Charles Poletti
Lehman
Louis
Lepke Buchalter
Emanuel Weiss
Louis Capone
Sing Sing
Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Allied forces attack Bizerte and Tunis defenses
London reports the British First Army with American and French aid launched a major assault on German Italian positions around Bizerte and Tunis. Radio Morocca said prisoners are already arriving as Rommel may have moved his HQ and Libya forces to Tunisia.
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Associated Press
London
First Army
Bizerte
Tunis
Rommel
Africa Corps
Morocca
Berlin
Tunisia
North Africa
Sicilian
Morocco
Asis
Mediterranean
Sky Dragons Sink Big Japanese Ship at Haiphong
Sky Dragons of the China command sank a large Japanese vessel at Haiphong in French Indo China in a weekend raid. The carrier or transport was destroyed in a dockside assault leaving huge fires. the action followed raids from Burma to the Yangtze basin as Allied air power mounts in strength.
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Chungking
Sky Dragons
China Command
Haiphong
Indo-China
Burma
Yangtze
China
Gulf of Tongkin
Claire L. Chennault
China Air Task Force
Yunnan Province
Draft group leaves for Detroit tonight
Lenawee county men who pass final physicals in Detroit tomorrow will be inducted into the Army. They are to meet at the Atrian armory on West Maumee Street at 7 45 this evening for roll call and final instructions, reassemble at the Wabash station, and depart for Detroit at 9 08. A list of those accepted for tomorrow will be published later in the week. A group bound for Fort Custer also left Adrian early today, consisting of men who were inducted in Detroit.
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Lenawee County
Detroit
Army
Atrian Armory
West Maumee Street
Wabash Station
Fort Custer
Adrian
Rickenbacker Relieved, Survives Pacific Rescue Tale
Pearl Harbor November 23 071 Captain Eddie Rickenbacker survivor of many brushes with death never doubted rescue during three weeks on a rubber raft in the South Pacific. The ace recalled his faith and golden rule guiding him through hunger rain and peril as companions were saved or lost at sea. Six of seven crew members endured hunger and exposure until one by one they were found until only one remained buried at sea. Official reports say hospitalized survivors recover though a month may pass before Colonel Hans C Adamson can travel. The eight men rode three rafts after the plane went down October 23 and were separated until Lieutenant William Eadle spotted a raft on November 11. The three rafts separated on November 9 when Sgt Alexander Kaczmarczyk died. Captain William T Cherry the plane’s pilot and sole occupant of one raft was first rescued and flown to a base.
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Pearl Harbor
Eddie Rickenbacker
South Pacific
Rickenbacker
Rickenpacker
Hans C. Adamson
Washington, D. C
Wiliam ¥. Eadle
Alexander Kaczmarczyk
Torrington
Conn
William T. Cherry
Abi- Tene
Tex
Eadie
aEen
Rationing office processes B and C book applications
The Lenawee county rationing board faced a flood of B and C book applications as about 7000 motorists filled forms last week. Adrian and several villages delivered forms while officers collected blanks from rural schools. Assistants from civilian defense volunteers help at city hall and in villages. Eight workers worked 9 am to 3 pm and 7 pm to 9 pm. The board fears meeting December 2 rationing start. Volunteers may join, with preference for qualified workers.
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Lenawee
Adrian
J. M. Stange
Bissfield
Seeger's
Clinton
J. R. Foreman
Tecumseh
Wade L. Jones
Harry A. Bradley
L. A. Kauffman
George Baker
Victor L. Keip
Hudson
Bradley
County Civilian Defense Council
British Bombers Hit Stuttgart in Night Raid
A strong force of British bombers attacked Stuttgart, a key manufacturing center in southwest Germany, with ten planes missing on the raid. The Berlin radio quoted a DNB dispatch noting slight damage to a southern German town from incendiaries, while no target was specified.
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London
Stuttgart
Germany
Berlin
DNB
Wuerttemberg P
Dover
RAF
Hamburg
Reich
Italy
Switzerland
Uniform swap misadventure lands two draftees in mix up
At Fort Custer Major Rosecrans investigates a tale of role confusion. Seaman Clarence Leroy Braden says he woke as a sailor in the army guardhouse while Jack Hottenfeller, a Philadelphia man, claims the opposite and is held at Great Lakes.
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Fort Custer
Vincent J. Rosecrans
Detroit
Gceac Lakes
Ill
Gyo
Clarence Leroy Braden
Great Lakes
Rosecrans
Jack Hottenfeiler
West Philadelphia
Camp Edwards
Mass
Hottenfeller
Braden
Anti hoarding regulations predicted amid panic buying
Washington reports officials foresee possible federal action as shoppers hoard food and other scarce goods. The Office of Price Administration weighs anti hoarding rules requiring declarations of current stocks, but enforcement challenges loom. In Atlanta, violinist Heifetz recovers from a mild influenza attack forcing cancellation of two engagements this week as a precaution.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Allanta
Dascha Heifetz
Marvin A. McDonald
Atlanta
Heifetz
McDonald
Birmingham
Ala
Cleveland
Ohio
Encirclement Foes Facing Germans Near Stalingrad
Red Army counteroffensive from northwest and south of Stalingrad routs thousands of Germans and threatens encirclement. Soviet reports place German forces besieging Stalingrad in peril, with 28 000 Nazis killed or captured recently and 15 000 killed and 13 000 captured since the drive began.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Volga
Caucasus
Steppes
U S Reaches Satisfactory Caribbean Agreement Leaders Say
Washington reports Secretary Hull announced a satisfactory pact with Martinique, reducing need for American occupation and covering western hemisphere possessions including French Guiana. The accord modifies a 1940 agreement with Admiral Robert, French high commissioner on Martinique, and adds important changes. Senate later shelved a bill to ban poll taxes for federal voting after filibuster limits failed.
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Washington
Pio
United States
Martinique
Hull
Senate
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Coral Sea
Sir Stafford Grips
Cabinc
Lyons
Linehan & Linehan
Kalach
Abganerovo
Nakchik
Leningrad
Nalchik
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