Prisoners Escape Lenawee Jail Two Captured Tecumseh
Two men escaped Lenawee county jail by prying open a steel door and slipping through a wall. Ezra Bertram 23 and John Harsh 30, both Adrian residents, fled toward Tecumseh. Bertram was captured near the Tecumseh airport at 10 am. Harsh remained at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenawee County
Telcumseh
Ezra Bertram
John Harsh
Adrian
Bertram
Laura Hi
Tecumseh
Harsh
Stores Close on Good Friday Observance and Fire Safety Provisions
Mayor Lundahl urged Adrian residents to close businesses from 12 to 3 PM on Good Friday mass for Christ’s sufferings. Jail break used heavy slabs and tools. Sheriff offers 25 dollar reward for info leading to arrests. sand distribution program launched for fire safety with magnesium foundry aid.
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Harry W. Lundahl
Adrian
Christian World
Lenawee Jail Touted Obsolete by State Inspector in 1938
State jail inspector T A Bogle labeled the Lenawee County jail obsolete after inspecting in 1933 1938 detailing poor natural light old plumbing non tool proof steel work and outdated equipment He urged modernizing or replacing the 1873 1876 facility highlighting cost concerns and the need to provide decent confinement for inmates while noting many jailed are innocent and deserve a proper facility.
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Lenawee
T. A
Department of Corrections
Michigan
Bogle
Sant Y
Jail Escapes Plague Lenawee County Jail in 1942 Chronology
A chronicle notes five prison escapes from Lenawee County Jail since October. It details April 1 1942 when John Harsh and Extra Bertram pried a door opened a wall and used bed pipes and bricks to escape, and March 25 1942 when Everett Jacobs Hood fled after breaking and entering and leaping the banister then running from the jail. Jacobs was recaptured within 12 hours. The article also mentions prior 1935 damage and a foiled 1939 attempt. Air raid wardens prepare for immediate action in case of a fire bomb raid with local residents needing safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lowe
Roscoe W. Scott
Lenawee County
John Harsh
Exta Bertram
Cncus
Harsh
Bertram
Michigan
Everett
Jacobs
Hood
Jackson
Air Raid Wardens Compile Safety Details
Air raid defense progress centers on wardens gathering information on vulnerable residents including children under nine the aged infirm deaf blind and lame to speed rescue. It urges pre misplaced wardens to rush to homes with hoses ladders and cleared attics to combat fires and save lives while awaiting official instructions.
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Chidren
State Policemen Called to Boys' Vocational School
State police were summoned to the Boys' Vocational School in Lansing after two escape attempts by 11 inmates were thwarted. Guards were replaced after resignations, and six inmates fled last night but were recaptured by Lansing police. The incident occurred as Garrett Heyns served as temporary head pending a new superintendent after Maj. Robert E. Marsh resigned.
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Lansing
L. H. Sears
Sears
Hoth
Garrett Heyns
Maj
Robert E. Marsh
Woman Held After Hammer Attack Kills Infant in Owosso
Frances Pelikan, 23, wife of farmer Prank Pelikan of Caledonia township, is jailed in Shiawassee County awaiting transfer to Pontiac State Hospital after she fatally injured her nine week old baby in a crib attack. Sheriff says she had shown abnormal behavior for ten days prior to the incident. The motive given by the mother was a fear that her children would become devils.
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Owosso
Mich
Frances Pelikan
Deville
Organizers Prep for Adrian Fund Campaign Drive
Organizers push to reach a $15,000 goal for the 1942 Adrian Community Fund with a two week prelude. Campaign director Claude E. Porter outlines early solicitations, division heads, and teams of 25 per group including major chairs for Boy Scouts and YMCA among others. Per capita donations in 1941 rose from 69 to 32 cents, still trailing several Michigan cities.
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Adrion Community Fund
Claude FE. Porter
E. E. Tobias
Leon F. Pierce
Park Rogers
Delbert P. Nims
Commercial
Herbert B. Knowles
H. J Daley
George H. Little
Adrian College
W. A. Rush
Herbert Knowles
Ruth Gmeiner
Milton A. Nicolai
Allan C. Graybiel
Ramus T. Davis
Associated Charities
Salvation Army
Adrian
Puorter
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Lansing
Ypsilanti
Sturgis
Jackson
Allied airmen press attacks on Japanese bases in Pacific
Allied air crews continue near nonstop strikes against Japanese bases in the Pacific theater. In New Guinea raids focused on Salamaua and airfield targets, with reports from Canberra of extensive enemy losses and growing Allied optimism about halting Japanese advances in New Guinea.
Indian Leaders Expected to Reject Dominion Offer
Sikh All-Parties committee rejects Britain's post war dominion status terms as Congress leaders draft a working committee reply led by Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Defense control remains the decisive issue amid Japanese threat in Burma and the Bay of Bengal.
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New Delhi
India
Sikh All-Parties Committee
Britain
Associated Press
All-India Congress Party
Congress Party
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress
Burma
Bay of Bengal
British Indian forces hold Shwe Daung road junction
April 1 report says Japanese thrusts trapped British and Indian units south of Shwe Daung were fought back to main positions. The road to Prome was cleared late March 30 as Gloucesters West Yorkshires Cameronians and Duke of Wellington units, aided by Indian battalions, pushed along the rail line north of Paunede amid heavy air attacks. Our river patrols prospered then withdrew to protect the right flank. Shwe Daung remains in enemy hands and air superiority persists. two small Burma landings were damaged with negligible losses.
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Delhi
Ishwedaung
Prome
Burma
Oll Felds
Irrawaddy
Shwedaung
Indian Frontier Force
Paunede
Argentina Cut Off From U S Aid Policy Change
Washington reports the United States has cut Argentina off from Latin American allied economic military and naval aid until Argentina joins the hemisphere’s anti Axis effort. An authoritative source says the policy favors nations at war or with Axis break relations, leaving other Latin American countries without aid options.
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Washington
United States
Argentina
Axis
kTurn
Russian spring push reshapes eastern front in Crimea era
London reports Sevastopol veterans counter attacking as 11 million Red Army prepare for a vast spring offensive involving about 4 500 German and 7 900 000 Russians. Kharkov and Donets basin thrusts, German losses, and Stalin era strategic moves fill the dispatches as Berlin and Vichy radio talk of fresh divisions and wrecked rail lines.
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Associated Press
London
Red Army
Sevastopol
Kharkov
Donets
Bucharest
Vichy
Tass
Sea Naval Base
Hitler
Russia
Crimea
Yilrich Caucasus
Orel
Taganrog
Persia
Iran
Indian Ocean
Warsaw
Germany
Karelian
Berlin
Baron von Wangenheim
Frankfurter Zeitung
Stockholm
War Board reveals tin saving by tube trade in April order
Washington reports the War Production Board bans selling toothpaste and shaving cream in metal tubes without trading in an old tube first. Retailers must enforce the retrofit, while tubes may be reprocessed and reassigned to manufacturers. The move slashes tube tin use from 5000 to 578 tons annually as wartime material conservation tightens.
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Washington
Sam
War Production Board
Straits Settlements
WPB
WAINWRIGHT STOPS JAPANESE OFFENSIVE
Washington reports a heavy Japanese attack on Lt General Jonathan M. Wainwright's line in Bataan was halted in fierce hand to hand combat before reaching the main American Filipino line. Minor air raids on Corregidor were noted, with anti aircraft guns shooting down two heavy bombers.
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Washington
War Department
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Bataan
Pacific War Council Formed For Allied Strategy
The Associated Press reports in Washington that the Pacific War Council, formed by President Roosevelt, will coordinate United Nations planning against Japan. Attending are Viscount Halifax, Dr Herbert Evatt, Walter Nash, T V Soong, Alexander Loudon, and Hume Wrong, with initial session at the White House to streamline command and strategy in the western Pacific.
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Associated Press
Washington
Pacific War Council
United Nations
Japan
Japanese Imperial High
Philippines
Bataan
Pacific
Singapore
Indies
Roosevelt
Council
White House
Western Pacific
Viscount Halifax
Herbert V. Evatt
Walter Nash
New Zealand
United States
T. V
Prevent Labor Pact Collapse In Fall River Mills
Labor mediators struggled to avert a full collapse of a textile labor agreement in Fall River Massachusetts as Berkshire Fine Spinning faced walkouts. The AFTO and NLRB clash intensified over a craft-based organizing petition while Rudolph Simonin’s knot tying job sparked dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River
Mass
Jacob Minkin
American Federation of Textile Operatives
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
AFTC
Worl
Minkin
Berkshire Fine Spinning Company
Berkshire
Rudolph Simonin
AFTO
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Simontn
British Indian forces break Japanese wedge near Prome
Two day fighting left enemy forward units badly mauled as British and Indian detachments fought back to the main line east of Prome. The action unfolded south of Prome along the Rangoon Prome rail corridor. Australian air forces claimed six Japanese planes destroyed on Timor with six more damaged in Koepang raid.
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Associated Press
Melbourne
Australis
United States
Japan
Australia
Salamala
New Guinea
John Curetica
Keepang
Dutch Timor
United Nations
Markham Valie
Francis M. Forde
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Forde
MacArthur
Sirj ‘Thomas Blatley
Win Brothers
Curtin
Koepang
Darlwin
New Delhi
Prome
Shwedanng
Rangoon-Prome
Timor
Merits of the Reuther plan clash with auto leaders
Detroit April 1 management and labor in the auto industry differ on the Reuther plan to speed aircraft production during the war emergency. Charles E. Wilson of General Motors and Walter Reuther debated publicly before about 200 people including news writers. Wilson called the plan a publicity and political trick while Reuther said industry aimed to keep peacetime output and failed to meet defense needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David J. Wilete
Detroit
Reuther
Charles E. Wilson
General Motors
Walter F. Reuther
George W. Denny
Radio
Wilson
America
Mass evacuation begins as 500 Japs head to Manzanar
Five hundred Japanese boarded a special train for the government internment center at Manzanar. The evacuation aims to relocate about 13,000 Pacific coast Japanese inland within six weeks as bombs hit Hawaii. evacuees appeared hopeful and carried modern luggage while families including the Hori department store clan led the first group.
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Los Angeles
Manzanar
Hori
Mike ‘Hori
Theophane
Maryknoll School
Manzaner
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