Shipbuilding staff all through the Northeast have been informed they have been as essential to the warfare effort as troopers on the entrance. Shattuck Co. solely fifty-four % of its staff confirmed up; on the George A. Gilchrist yard solely forty-five% did; at Freeport Shipbuilding solely forty-three %; at Groton Iron Works, forty-one p.c. In Luce County, Michigan, a pair and three kids have been all sick collectively; however, a Purple Cross worker reported, “Not