Bomber Planes Delivered to Government at Willow Run
Detroit December 4. Giant Consolidated B 24E bomber planes are being delivered to the government at Ford Willow Run bomber factory. Production is expected to peak in the latter half of 1943. News writers viewed assembly lines and tooling that cut weeks into operations. Ford's Charles Sorenson said production bugs are licked and emphasized training workers to professional levels. The plant began groundbreaking in 1941 with machinery arriving that year for the bomber program.
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Detroit
Ford Willow Run
Phils
Charles E. Sorenson
Ford Motor Company
Sorenson
Pratt & Whitney
Food conference opens with junior vegetable growers
The eighth annual National Junior Vegetable Growers Association convention opened with 150 youth experts from 30 states. Delegates included 4-H and Future Farmers of America members and more than 20 extension and vocational leaders. News notes ice cream policy amid milk shortages from Washington.
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National Junior Vegetable Growers Association
Farmers of America
Washington
Uncle Sam
Office of Price Administration
Agriculture Department
Agriculture
Witkard
Ice Cream Production Cut As War Shortages Persist
The production board's food requirements committee urged limiting next year's ice cream output to about 75 percent of 1942 levels due to manpower constraints and a dairy shortage. A spokesman noted shortages trigger domestic surpluses in flavors, with vanilla favored when others run short. Weather crews reported severe storm damage across Somerset County and Bay Shore areas with widespread flooding. Rescue efforts saved residents from rising waters and a gas incident left several injured. a boy was found frozen in rural Clarion.
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Somerset County
Evie
Bay Shore
Willian Moeller
Edgewater
Lake Erie
Geo. Steble
Parity and wage law debated in farm policy notes
Under the anti inflation law the executive power over wages salaries and prices is linked to a parity scheme. A 90 percent parity floor applies to six basic commodities wheat cotton corn rice tobacco and peanuts with ceilings possible below parity or the highest price since January 1. Farm leaders say the legislation could pass the Senate and might override a presidential veto if Roosevelt disapproves.
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Senate
Roosevelt
Navy recruit Lingar Earnts joins Great Lakes training
Charles Huston Lingar, 20, son of Mr and Mrs C H Lingar, has enlisted in the U S Navy. He reported to the Great Lakes Training Station for recruit training and will undergo drill, seamanship, physical conditioning and aptitude testing to determine further technical schooling or fleet duty.
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Lingar
Great Lakes
Charles Huston Lingar
Mire
He Lingar
Huff
U.S. Navy
U. S. Navy
Navy
Uva
U. S. Fleet
Navy seeks women supply officers in waves program
In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh offices officers plan publicity drives across western Pennsylvania to recruit women with college degrees in business fields for Navy Supply Officer commissions. Applicants aged 24 to 35 need strong financial experience and leadership. Emphasis on telephone applications and local branch intake.
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Navy
Office of Naval Officer Procurement
Widener Building
Philadelphia
Naval Reserve Commissions
Imithe Supply Corps
Western Pennsylvania
Keystone
Pittsburgh
Guadalcanal and Tunisian Front Ledger of War News
World War II dispatches report a Japanese effort to reinforce Guadalcanal failing with no successful landing. U S Navy confirms sinking of a cruiser and damage to others. In Tunisia, Allied forces counter German and Italian assaults near Bizerta Tunis with tank battles and recaptured towns Jebourba and Malaria are cited amid heavy fighting. Reports from the Don river bend outline Soviet advances against Axis strongholds before Stalingrad. In New Guinea MacArthur’s theater notes 450 Japanese killed around Gona as Allied forces press inland. A Manila Bay-styled eyewitness recount from Guadalcanal details rescue missions for 10 Marines from a wrecked plane and combat with Japanese forces. Private Barney K K Ross earns praise for heroism under fire on Guadalcanal. General MacNider wounded in Buna fighting. he is hospitalized in Australia.
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Guadalcanal
U. S
Bizerta- Tunis
Jebourba
Maleur
Anis
Djedeida
Tunis
Tebourba
Tis
Berlin
Tunisia
Bernard L. Montgomery
8Th Army
el Agheila
Mediterranean
Red Star
Don River
Stalingrad
New Guinea
Douglas Mar-Arthurs
Gona
Buns
United Nations
Perry
Francis Shaffer
Fort Smith
Ark
Bob Brusca
Rainier
Ore
Porter
Greenville
N. C
R. D. Petit
G. Shesa C
BE. Wright
L. L. Tador
M. J. Ziegler
Tokyo
Guadalcanal Marine Front Lines
Barney
Ross
Hever Etter
Defignee
QO. K. Leblanc
Abbeville
Leblanc
Barney KK. Ross
Chicago
M. L. Guarnett
Arkansas
Leod
Washville
New Jersey
Bhigo
Hanfore MatNider
Buna
Unes
Douglas MacArthur
Alliedeadquarters
Australia
MacNider
C. M. Beaver
MacNicer
MacNidter
American Legion
Mason City
Play Ball code phrase signals attack in battle scene
A naval officer on leave explains that Play Ball meant attack while Batter Up signified France as hostile. He notes signals were sent by tactic as battleships and cruisers opened fire behind them during the engagement.
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John Knight
Harrisburg
Hanrahan
Byrnes as Assistant President in Manpower Moves
Circulated Washington talk proposed making James F. Byrnes the central figure over civilian manpower and the Selective Service. Plans to shift Ickes Perkins and McNutt were shelved, but consolidation of manpower authority under Byrnes remained under consideration as a path to broader war mobilization and economic control.
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Congress
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Interior Ickes
Selective Service
My. Roosevelt
Asis
Ickes
Frances Perkins
FSA
Paul V. McNutt
Interior
Senate
Byrnes
Civiian
Ominipower
Peppey
D-Fla
Mackenzie King Visits White House for Postwar Talks
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King met President Roosevelt at the White House on December 4. They planned a quiet weekend of discussions on humanity and postwar questions, with Roosevelt explaining his late arrival as greeting the visitor.
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Washington
Mackenzie King
Canada
Roosevelt
White House
Dimaggio Wife Dissolution Report Emerges in Reno
Mrs Jove Dimaggio refused to discuss rumors she came to Reno to dissolve her three year marriage to New York Yankee outfielder Joe Dimaggio. Joe Dimaggio, at his San Francisco home, called it his own business. Dorothy Arnoldine Olson of Duluth Minn, once Dorothy Arnold, married Dimaggio in San Francisco on November 19, 1949. They have a son, Jog, Jo, 14 months old.
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Reno
New
Jove Dimaggio
New York Yankee
Joe
San Francisco
Dimaggio
Dorothy Arnoldine Olson
Duluth Minn
Garger
Dorothy Arnold
Obituary of a Welder Surviving Family in Indiana
A welder by profession, he is survived by his pacers, a brother Arnold Seger of Indiana, and two sisters Mrs Marian Cribbs of Dellray Ole and Mrs Dale of Belt Indiana.
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Broiser
Arnold Seger
Indiana
Marian Cribbs
Republican State Committee Spent $402,981 in Gubernatorial Campaign
Harrisburg report shows the Republican State Committee raised $428,781 and spent $402,081 in the campaign to elect Edward Martin as governor. The filing lists $4,000 contributions from multiple Pew family members and others, with various small gifts and expenses. Other reports show secretary William Livengood had $56 expenses and no receipts, while Democrat Michel A. Muamanna defended candidate for superior court had no receipts and $16 expenses.
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Harrisburg
Republican State Committee
Edward Martin
Joseph R. Grundy
G. Mason Owlett
J. Howard Pew
Mabel Pew
Myrin
J. N. Pew
G. Albert Stewart
M. Harvey Taylor
John C. Bell, Jr
Banking
William S. Livengood
Affinity
Michasl A. Muamanna
Pittsburgh
Superior Court
Obituary notices from a 1940s rural newspaper
Multiple death notices from various families in Indiana, Pennsylvania area. Elizabeth Gobesky dies after short illness. services planned in Muncie and burial in Greenwood. Serena Gibson Willey dies while visiting in Gowanda. services at Robinson Funeral Home and Greenwood Cemetery. Mary Swigart, wife of D. G. Swigart, dies in Indiana Hospital. services pending. Amanda Nolf, Mahoning township resident, dies after stroke. Mahoning Baptist church service and church cemetery burial. Ray Waldon McIntire dies at home in Dayton. services at home then Glade Run Cemetery. survivors listed, including several children and siblings.
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Elizabeth Gobesky
Luceyngmines
Indiana
Lithuania
St. Louis Catholic Church
M. Rosenthal
St.Bernard's Cemetery
Anthony Gobesky
Andrew Oswald
Josephine
Della Gobesky
Serena (Gibson) Willey
Price A. Willet
Gowanda
N. Y
J. H. Gibson
North Seventh Street
Hirjan
Catherine (White) Gibson
Pahe
Robinson Funeral Home
Greenwood Cemetery
MHS
Mary
Swigart
D. G. Swigart
North Fourth Street
Indiana Hospital
A. G
Russ (Houston) Hoover
Aumanda (Welch) Noli
South Mahoning Township
Louis A
Ansuie (Spargo) Welch
Mahoning
Creekside
R. D
Lynne Bowser
Smicksburg
Myrtie Rowland
Dayton
George Su. Welch
E. J. Welch
Mahoning Baptist Church
Robert F. McLaughlin
Ray Waldon McIntire
Glade Rute
R. C. String
Eda (Sehrecengast) McIntire
Roy Wilber McIntire
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Herman Shapiro
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Noel Toy
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Franklin
Latrobe
Anthony Pricer
Ra Ilway
Michael
Virginia
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George Bayles
Clarion
Pia
Fisher
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Clement Hastiger
George Cast
Lawrences O'Hara
Thomas Lymph
Defense Pictures
Steele Clark
Wilbur Black
Floyd. Rakin
Dixonville
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William Clokey
Naval Procurement
Fourth Naval District
U. S., Naval Reserve
Pennsylvania
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Davie
Cal. Evans
Joe Tevy
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Batle
Solomon Islands
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Hubert
Patches) Perry
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Arizona
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Guinea
Imackenzie King
Joe Dimaggio
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Harold Li J Loveless
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