OPA Warns Lenawee Dealers on Tire and Car Prices
A Lenawee County meeting at the courthouse announced strict OPA enforcement of tire and car price rules starting today. F Willand Kime cited investigations finding lax knowledge and several violations, including inflated tire prices and potential mileage tampering, with cases possibly forwarded to Justice for prosecution.
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Lenawee County
Court House
OPA
F. Willand Kime
State Office
Kime
Lansing
Department of Justice
Washington
Expect Failure in Effort to Revise Parity Price Formulas Upward
Washington September 18 Congressional farm leaders concede likely defeat in efforts to raise parity price formulas. Sen Bankhead warns Senate Banking Committee will reject amendments altering parity basis. President opposition, Wickard, Henderson, and Steagall resist change, fearing higher living costs. House members favor redefining parity to include wages, but the President’s letter blocks broad reform.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congressional
Roosevelt
Senator Bankhead
D-Ala
Senate Banking Committee
Wagner
Senate
Steagall
House
Wickard
Leon Henderson
House Committee
Pyean Ides
Victory Auction Merchandise Display at Adrian Stores
Lenawee residents may view a selection of donated merchandise today and tomorrow in three Adrian store windows ahead of the Victory Auction, a war stamps fundraiser tied to the Hob by Lobby program. Four auctions are planned for fall week with items representing war equipment and priced as a war bond pledge, including clothing, candy, luggage, canned goods, glassware and more from county merchants.
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Lenawee
Adrian
Dave Elman
County Retail Committee
No Kid Gloves Ferguson Pledges Campaign Pace
Circuit Judge Homer Ferguson the Republican nominee for U S Senator pledged a no kid gloves campaign against incumbent Prentiss M Brown. He planned a state wide tour with faster travel by trains and buses and promised to denounce wartime tax exemptions sought by national lawmakers.
Trapped Yorktown crew play acey-dacy during wait
Coxswain Howard Sites of Austin Texas, a Yorktown survivor, recalls two carpenters mates trapped five decks below the flight deck. Water surrounds them and rescue seems hopeless. The telephones work as they exchange grim banter about their fate and a final acey-dacy game. They joke about torpedoes as the ship sinks.
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San Francisco
Howard Sites
Austin
Texas
Yorktown
Smashing Blow At Jap Supply Base At Buna
Allied raids hit the Buna supply base as Australian forces press Japanese positions near Port Moresby. About 35,000 rounds were fired and 35 landing barges damaged or destroyed, with fires visible 25 miles away. Aircraft swept Buna for 45 minutes, pilots reporting flames reaching 2,000 feet. The operation aimed to ease pressure on Australian troops at Ioribaiwa in the Owen Stanley range as fighting continued in New Guinea.
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Ort
Bune
Buna
Ioribaiwa
Owen Stanley
Australia
Grew calls Japanese tougher than Nazis at luncheon
Former Ambassador Joseph C. Grew described Japan as our most formidable foe, tougher than Germany, saying Germans cracked in 1918 and will crack again, but the Japanese will fight until utterly crushed. He noted his roles in Berlin in 1917 and Tokyo in 1941 and warned against optimistic talk of German victory followed by sweeping up the Japanese.
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Syracuse
Japan
Germany
Joseph C. Grew
Grew
Berlin
Tokyo
NBC
Wilson Named Head of Production Group
Washington September 18 a newly created production committee headed by Charles E Wilson president of General Electric was named to assemble the wartime production picture for three week scrutiny of armed services needs. The WPB created body will survey the entire war production picture and meet twice weekly with military regencies the Maritime Commission and WPB to check programs and schedules with extra sessions as needed.
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Associated Press
Washington
Armed Services
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric Company
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
Army
Air Force
Navy
Maritime Commission
Wilson
Four More Japanese Ships Reported Destroyed
Washington reports U S submarines have sunk or damaged a total of 107 Japanese ships since the war began. Four more enemy vessels were destroyed and additional torpedo hits included a large tanker, a large freighter and other ships. The navy notes these actions were separate from Solomon and Aleutian campaigns and the timing of the latest actions remains unclear.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Western Pacific
Navy
Pacific
Solomon
Aleutian Islands
Philippines
Malaya
Thousands of U S Soldiers Arrive in Britain
Thousands of American troops landed at British ports in a convoy of large passenger liners as the U S Army expands for a new front. They were moved quickly by special trains to camps in the countryside amid bombing danger, with crews reporting swift Atlantic crossing and no submarine sighting.
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London
Britain
Atlantic
Mer
Fly
Thiil
Petrillo Music Ruling Seen Ending 40 Percent of Radio
Washington Sept 18 Chairman James L Fly warned before the Interstate Commerce sub committee that James Petrillo s ban on music recordings could dry up more than forty percent of the nation s radio programs. He said listeners may be left with no stations to tune in as broadcasters face personnel shortages and material scarcities while the industry battles wartime constraints and seeks full investigation of the ban.
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Washington
James Lawrence Fly
Federal Communications Commission
James Sc. Petrillo
Fly
Interstate Commerce Sub-Committee
Clark
DiIdaho
Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
Shooting at Roff Melon Patch Prompts Court Testimony
Witness Lois Covell recounts a September 6 raid on Herbert Roff's watermelon patch by five boys who offered a ride, pulled melons, then a gunshot wounded her and cousin Joyce Covell. Prosecutors detail charges of felonious assault and reckless firearm use as further witnesses are called.
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Justice Court
Herbert Rolf
Raisin Township
Franklin J. Russell
Roff
Lois Covell
Tecumseh
Lawrence J. Hammond
Joyce Covell
Adrian Street
Lois
Roff Farm
Thomas Gittus
Britton
Tecumseh Amig
Russians Halt German Push At Stalingrad In Last Stand
Nazi forces were driven back from Stalingrad as defenders held the Volga city with a counterattack that repelled two German wedges. Russian troops also pressed the Voronezh front, seizing several positions and continuing the push toward Moscow, despite heavy losses for elite units.
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Moscow
Volga
Stalingrad
Red Army
Voronezh Arma
Red Star
Voronezh
Don
Greater Germany
Russia
War at a Glance: Global Fronts Shuffle as Axis Foes Pay Toll
War at a Glance reports a dramatic late hour Russian rally at Stalingrad driving back German forces, new Voronezh sector attacks, and Stalin ordering fronts offensive. Air raids skim Sofia, British raids target Bordeaux, and a Gibraltar steamship hit. Port Moresby fights intensify as Japanese push. Madagascar and Jaland coast see renewed British moves.
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Associated Press
Russia
Stalingrad
Voronezh
Stalin
Europe
Sofia
Britain
RAF
Boordeaux
Germany
Gibraltar
Port Moresby
Fananarive
Madagascar
Jaland
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Brooklyn
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Farmer Breckel
August H. Breckel
U. S
Breckel
Lenawee County Road Commission
Albert
Richard Goff
County Salvage
Detroit
Stockholm
Prague
New Order
Bohemia- Boravia
Dieppe
Ottawa
Defense
J. L. Ralston
English Channel
Roff Melon Patch
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