Van Wagoner Seeks Reelect Amid War Effort Push
Michigan Governor Muray Van Wagoner urges voters to choose who can most contribute to the war effort as he campaigns for reelection. Speaking at Adrian and Hillsdale, he touts civilian defense gains, Michigan production shares, and labor-management confidence, touring war plants with aides including Eugene F. Olsen and John Babcock.
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Murray
van Wagoner
Adrian
Lenawee
Hillsdale
Jackson
Eugene F. Olsen
von Wagoner Sais
Michigan
United States Army
Sixth Corps
West Coal Plane
Washington
Prsce
John Babcock
U. S
Maurice Eveland
Five Year Old Brings 25 Pound Crow Bar to School Scrap Drive
David Kilby, five, son of Kenneth Kilby, persuades his mother to add a 25 pound crow bar from the Armstrong family to Lincoln grade mer and Red salvage team scrap. The bar, owned for about 150 years, is loaded with other items at the Shull yard on College Avenue before transport to school.
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Merle
Crow
George W. Armstrong
Armstrong
David Kilby
Kenneth Kilby
College Avenue
David
Lincoln
Mietary
House
Senate
Brown
L. G. Shull
Shull
Little Hands Lead School Scrap Drive to Boost Town Piles
In Lenawee county a school scrap drive grows across Adrian as Lincoln and other schools organize teams Reds Blues and Whites to gather metal for classroom use. Students tackle obstacles while salvage officials back the effort to stock steel plants and keep workers busy. The opening day shows high spirit and organized collection across neighborhoods.
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Lenawee County
Lincoln
Adrian
Antiinflation Bill May Be Sent To President Tonight
Senate and House conferees pressed to finalize directives for Roosevelt price and wage controls to curb inflation. A Senate substitute would adjust farm price protections and introduce a 90 percent parity float, aligning farm labor costs with price ceilings as House leaders consider accepting the change.
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Washington
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Roosevelt
White House
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Senate
Governor reports Lenawee drivers observe 35 mph limit
Governor Van Wagoner said most Lenawee motorists followed the 35 mile per hour limit yesterday while Clinton and Blissfield deputies warned violators and prepared to issue summonses if needed. Sheriff Roscoe Scott noted patrols would arrest overage drivers, though observers saw general compliance. The governor announced the 35 mph limit as part of wartime measures and said he traveled from Adrian to Detroit at that speed.
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van Adrian
Detroit
Lenawee County
Adrian
Michigan
Clinton
Blissfield
Roscoe Scott
L. J. Hammond
Michigan Cifthet
Lansing
Halsey
Supremes
Anncourt
Arbor
Battle Creek
Bay City
Offi
Benton Harbor
Flint
Grand
Ypsilanti
Joseph
Capitol Building
Scrap collection begins in city and on farms
Lenawee county launches scrap drives for October with a 1200 ton quota as Adrian and rural routes mobilize. Six county trucks canvass farms aided by local volunteers and farmers lending scales. Residents are urged to save tin cans and tin-plated containers and wash cans before submission.
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County Road Commission
Adrian
Theavorke
Richard H. Goff
Goif
Peoples Coal Col
Homer Marsh
Cooper’s Grotery
Lenawee County
Scrap Met
Goff
Lenawee
Goft
Meat ration cut nearly twenty percent nationwide
Washington October 2 The government ordered a near 20 percent reduction in civilian meat. packers must limit beef, veal, pork, lamb and mutton deliveries through December 31 to ensure supplies for armed forces. Large and small slaughterers face specific cuts and per period baselines, with veal and other items constrained to 1941 delivery levels where not otherwise stated. Lard liver and other offal remain unrestricted. canned meats and related products will be affected by the ongoing quotas.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Army
Navy
Agriculture Department
22 Persons Killed in Porto Rico Plane Crash
Saw Juan Porto Rico Oct 2 1944 A United States army transport plane crashed on the mountainous backbone northwest of Coamo shortly after takeoff from Ponce. All 22 aboard including several civilians were killed. Searchers worked across rough terrain. names withheld pending notification of relatives. investigation underway.
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Porto Rico
United States Army
Coamo
Ponce
Greater Antilles
United States
Bombers Hit German Shipping At Pyros In North Africa
Cairo October 2 American heavy bombers scored direct hits on a German ship and damaged others in a raid on Pyros the Greek port used to supply Axis forces in North Africa. General Montgomery announced British Eighth Army is preparing for the next round in the Egypt front, with New Zealand troops highlighted.
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Pyros
North Africa
B. L.montgomery
Eighth Army
Egypt
Pylos
Greek Peloponnesus
Montgomery
E Alamein Front
Munassib
Rommél
Alexandria
the Nile
El-Hameinat
New Zealand
North African
Alamein
High Command
Initiation Held for Five Dozen Grange Candidates at Rome Meet
Lenawee County Pomona Grange held an all day October session at Rome Grange. Exempli fication of the fifth degree was conferred on a class of 51 candidates in preparation for the state convention in Adrian the week of October 26. Aims included support for war measures, agriculture, and a universal draft.
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Lenawee County
Pomona Grange
Rome Grange
State Grange
Adrian
Morenci
Madison
South Dover
Rollin
Onsted
Woodstock
Rome
Tecumseh
Mté
Sapinaw
War Materials Inc Drives National Scrap Drive for War Munitions
New York October report details War Materials Inc as a $500 million federal subsidiary mobilizing scrap from households farmers and factories coast to coast. The program partnered with the press to ease wartime metal shortages by requisitioning or purchasing old metal to feed mills producing ships guns and tanks for the Axis battle. The operation, part of the Metals Reserve Company under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, aimed to gather scrap for steel mills while postponing full settlements until peacetime.
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New York
War Materials, Inc
Mississippi
No Decision Reached In Stalingrad Fight
Moscow dispatch reports Stalingrad resists with counter attacks inside and outside the city as German gains are limited to 200 or 300 yards in the northwestern suburbs. Russian claims of house to house fighting and renewed German assaults sit against reports of German tanks advancing and Russian reinforcements retaking ground. Izvestia and Investia detail shifting battle positions and heavy tank losses on both sides.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Stalingrad
Malestrom
Stillere
Volga
Red Army Guard
Investia
Izvestia
Editorial Comment on Roosevelt Tour Secrecy Critique
The ASSntered Press presents an editorial on President Roosevelt's two week tour of war and military plants in 24 states. It cites New York Times and New York Herald Tribune critiques, urging transparency and questioning the secrecy surrounding the president's travels as the war escalates.
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New York Times
Washington
New York Herald Tribune
United
Five More Japanese Ships Sunk by U S Submarines
The Navy announced that U S submarines in the Western Pacific sunk five more Japanese ships, probably two more sunk, and one damaged. Communiqué No 136 lists a large seaplane tender, a large cargo passenger ship, a large freighter sunk, two medium cargo ships damaged and probably sunk, and a large tanker damaged. Total now stands at 74 sunk, 19 probably sunk, and 22 damaged.
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Washington
Jaffamese
Aleutian Islands
Aleutian
United States
Navy
Western Pacific
Far East
Far Eastern
S Department
Australians pursue retreating Japanese in New Guinea fight
General MacArthur reports Japanese forces balked their advance toward Port Moresby and withdrew into Owen Stanley terrain. Australians continue cautious pursuit near Menari, while no contact reported yesterday. In Mt Pleasant, regular classes resume after two week suspension to aid sugar beet harvest.
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Associated Press
MacArthur
Australia
Port Miorosky
New Guinea
Owen Stanley
MssArthur
Menari
Port Moresby
Mensh
MT. Pleasant
Mid
Nauro
Joribai-pended
Roosevelt completes secret war tour across 24 states
President Roosevelt’s surprise swing through 24 states covered private war plants and military bases as he toured 754 miles in two weeks. He reported 94 to 95 percent efficiency, aims to raise production goals, and noted broad wartime morale despite lower spirits in Washington. He hinted at more tours next spring to assess contributions to the war effort.
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Associated Fress
Washington
Roosevelt
America
Air Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Marine
New Horse Enjoys Short Stay Until Tankage Arrives
Blissfield Oct 2 A farm tragedy unfolds when Tim Brubaker buys a horse and hires a tankage firm to euthanize the aged animal. While away, he returns to find the worker had killed the horse and was disposing of it, marking a harsh stroke of bad luck.
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Blissfield
Tim Brubaker
Visualizing a U S Attack on Truk Pacific Base
Clark Lee explains a hypothetical U S assault on Truk Japan s main southwest Pacific base. He outlines fleet composition, air power needs, carrier risks from Japanese long range bombers, and the strategic challenge of reaching and neutralizing Truk from bases in the Solomons and New Guinea.
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Philippines
Southwest Pacific
United States
Japan
Honolulu
Pacific
Truk
Pearl Harbor
Henderson Field
Gued' ‘Alcanal
Solomons
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Rabaul
Fruk
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