Coal piles shrink in Adrian as shortage grows
Adrian coal dealers report less than a week’s supply in city yards and about the same countywide. With under 2,000 tons in Adrian and similar totals countywide, residents risk empty bins and cold homes unless relief arrives. Some dealers warn against panic while others limit sales to stretch available coal.
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Adrian
Adrian Garden
Pocahonmtas
Toadie Seid
Jukes
Michigan
Detroit
Theodore Matthes
Adrian Coal Dealers Association
Washington
Coal crisis sparks new wage dispute across mines
The Associated Press reports a new coal crisis as operators clash over contracts. UMW strikers resist without contracts while Alabama miners begin to return to work. WLB ends government control as Illinois plan is opposed as a hidden wage hike. Ickes orders 300 000 to 400 000 tons redirected to retailers to ease shortages.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Labor Board
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United Mine Workers
Alabama
UMW
Ohme L.lewis
WLB
Illinois
I Illinois Salt Coal Producers Association
Sitwaneus
Appalachian
Pennsylvania
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Hell
Mississippi
All-Reil
Production Normal at Bohn War Plant
Conditions at Bohn Aluminum & Brass No 24 were normal as 160 workers attended the day shift, with a near normal night crew and a full staff today after a three day strike by CLO workers. An Air Corps procurement official urged immediate return to work while a 10:30 a.m. meeting with company officials, Air Corps, and the union was planned, followed by a 4 p.m. union meeting to hear results and decide on next steps.
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Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation
CLO
Air Corps Procurement Division
Bohn
Gordon Howard
House Group 10 Works On New TAK Plan
Washington details show the House Ways and Means Committee ending public hearings on tax proposals and moving to craft a revised revenue plan in closed session. Lawmakers dismissed the administration’s push for 10 to 15 billion in new taxes, with uncertain support for higher personal and corporate levies and excises.
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HOUSE
Washington
Ways and Means
Roosevelt to meet labor leaders on wages talks
President Roosevelt summoned labor leaders to a conference on Thursday to discuss workers demands for higher wages and to explore ways to head off a threatened nationwide strike by railroad workers. The government also faced Republican resistance to new broad tax increases as Congress weighed the administration’s 10.5 billion dollar tax program. A third lend lease agreement with the Soviet Union was signed in London and Washington, expanding armaments and food relief with Canada now a signatory. reverse lend-lease from Russia to the Allies was also noted.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Bombers Strike Deep Into Yugoslavia Rail Center
Allied forces based in Algiers report Mitchell bombers and Lightnings have penetrated Yugoslavia to strike the Skoplje rail yards at the Vardar Valley. Tracks, a rail bridge southeast of the yards, and several locomotives were destroyed while rail switching facilities suffered heavy damage. No enemy fighters were encountered.
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Skapije
RAF
Rhodes
Crete
Skoplje
Bing
Dependents Of Servicemen To Get More Money
The Senate and House approved higher service family allowances for servicemen's dependents. Monthly payments rise to $50 for a wife, $30 for the first child, and $20 for each additional child, totaling $100 for a wife and no children. The bill keeps the serviceman's own $22 monthly contribution. The measure returns to the Senate for concurrence before presidential signing.
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Senate
House
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Threepower talks open in Moscow on war aims and second front
The United States Secretary of State Cowell Hull British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Moscow for the first full dress tri partite conference of the war The three nations plan to discuss war time and postwar military political and economic issues The Pravda article claimed a second front would be broached but Russia is not seeking postwar frontiers at this time The Washington view sees the meeting focused on postwar peace and Europe's future, with Stettinius noting its potential impact.
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Anthony Edens
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Jim
Communist Party
Pravda
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North Sea
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California
Washington
Edward R. Stettinius
Royal Air Force Attacks Germany In Heavy Night Raids
London reports the Royal Air Force struck Germany with strong night raids led on Hannover while Mosquito bombers hit Berlin and western Germany. Seventeen bombers were lost as clouds obscured targets. raids mark continued large scale operations, with Berlin and London hit by German raiders nearby.
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Abesquita Barders
East Anglia
England
Russians press Melitopol drive as Germany rushes reinforcements
Soviet reports say Red Army spearheads battered into Melitopol amid heavy street fighting and fortifications. Russian units advanced four miles into the Dnieper bend toward Tolbukhin and linked with Malinovsky’s main thrust, while Berlin acknowledged 300,000 German troops in retreat south of Zaporizhzhia. Moscow claimed 231 towns liberated, thousands of Germans killed, and counterattacks crushed.
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London
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Ukraine
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Brent Peninsula
Red Army
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Feodor Tolbukhin
Berlin
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Russia
Rural districts to host county scrap drive on Thursday
The county scrap drive focuses on rural areas with US troops assisting. Towns Adrian Bills Field Hudson Morenci Tecumseh excluded. Farmers to place scrap near roads for easy pickup and zone chairmen named. Lenawee county aims for success through rural schools and a high school gym dance for 72 soldiers, with invitations and rules for attendees.
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Lyle K. Jonson
Salvage Committee
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G. W. Greene
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James Dillon F
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Bhissfied
Fay Weelan
Tecumsen
John K. McGillis
WPB
NM. W. Osborn
Detroit
Lenawee County
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Johnson
IAP Thrust at Finschhafen Fails
Allied headquarters reported a failed Japanese landing near Finschhafen New Guinea. Allied troops and airmen destroyed 21 of 35 planes intended to raid shipping. Three troop barges reached the beach before dawn but were driven back as Australians tightened control of the former base. General MacArthur’s communiqué said enemy troops were largely destroyed.
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Associated Press
Southwest Pacific
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Canktivn
MacArthur
Pacific
Submarines Sunk or Damaged 460 Japanese Vessels Since 1941
Washington reports American submarines have sunk or damaged 460 Japanese ships since December 7, 1941, including 148 newly listed as struck by torpedoes. Navy Secretary Knox said 1 329 ships total have been affected, many sunk or damaged, with patrols across the Pacific in the enemy’s closest home waters.
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Washington
Japan
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Listee
Jach
Pacific
Enid
United War Fund Drive Proclaimed for October November
Governor Harry F. Kelly declares October and early November as United War Fund weeks in Michigan. The state quota is 5,749,423 for national and allied war relief agencies including USO United Seamen's Service and War Prisoners Aid, with communities organizing drives and combined social work efforts to support service members and war victims.
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Kelly
United War Fund
Michigan
National War Fund
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United Seamen's
War Fund
Joes
Harry F. Kelly
State of
American troops take five villages on Volturno line
In the Volturno campaign the Fifth Army and British forces crossed the river and captured five villages on the eastern sector, advancing three to five miles. Montgomery’s Eighth Army seized Santo Stefano and Montecilfone as German resistance at the east bank weakened. Luftwaffe and Allied air operations continued across the theater, including rail yard strikes at Skoplje and airfield attacks in Rhodes, Crete, and the Aegean.
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Eighth Army
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Montecilfone
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Bressa
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Germans Withdraw After Heavy Fighting On Volturno River
Following fierce combat the German lines along the lower Volturno are reported to be retreating as the Fifth Army pushes across the stream. Fire activity in enemy rear areas suggests German destruction of supplies in anticipation of broader withdrawal.
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Fifth Army
Gunnadar
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