Harsh and Bertram Sentences Grow in Jail Break Case
John Harsh, 30, Adrian factory worker who escaped Lenawee jail, remains free as a statewide search continues. Ezra Bertram, 23, Harsh's accomplice, received consecutive sentences totaling seven to twenty years after pleading guilty to escape and auto larceny. Bertram admitted stealing cars with Harsh after the breakout, including one owned by Waldo James of Adrian, while tires recovered from relatives’ homes link to the hijinks. Mrs. Laura Hill collected the $25 reward for information leading to arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Harsh
Adrian
Lenawee County
Harsh
Meanwhie Ezra Bertram
Lenawee
G. Arthur Rathbun
Bertram
Waldo James
Tecumseh
Laura Hill
Roscoe W. Scott
Elvin Stoneburner
Jackson
Indians Oppose British Independence Proposals
From London a2informed report shows leaders of India s untouchables back opposition to British settlement plans. Ambedkar and Raja warn the proposals harm the low castes and threaten Hindu rule. The All India States Peoples Conference backs resistance, with Nehru presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
India
Untouchables
Newnone
Bhimrao Ambhedkar
M. C. Raja
Brown Fence & Wire Plans Addition At East Michigan Street Plant
Brown Fence and Wire Company will begin constructing an addition to the tubing mill at its East Michigan Street plant to house new machinery. Samuel King, the manager, announced a new defense contract bringing total to three. The addition is expected to be finished in 60 days and should lead to more jobs as over 200 workers currently employed at the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown Fence & Wire ComPany
East Michigan Street
Samuel King
King
Christians Mourning as Pomona Grange Mulls Union Talks
Adrian citizens joined Good Friday observances across Catholic and Protestant churches with the Tre Ore service at Christ Church, while Lenawee Grange discussed proposed unionization of milk truck drivers. Speakers urged public education on union impacts. Red Cross and Farm Security talks followed, with future Pomona and Tecumseh meetings announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrian
A. C. Schneider
St Joseph's’ Church
J. W. Cotter
Leo Healy
St. Mary's Church
Milton Coleman
J. M. H. Coers
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church
A. H. Baer
E. F. Manske
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Cr. Rosborough
Lenawee Brotherhood Tabernacle
Lenawee County
Germen Grange
Grange
Home Economics Committee
Fred E. Morse
George D. Prentice
Home Service Department
Red Cross
Prentice
Ruth Barradalle
Lenawee County Nutrition Defense Committee
Tecumseh
Masters and Lecturers Club
Tel ‘Madison Grange
La Follette seeks oppressive labor practices bill
Senator La Follette proposes a measure to criminalize oppressive labor practices including strike-breaking, armed guards, firearms or tear gas at labor disputes, and interference with peaceful picketing with penalties up to a $10,000 fine or six months' imprisonment. The act extends to criminalizing interstate shipment of goods by offending employers and follows a four year probe into anti union activity.
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Washington
LaFollette
Prog-Wis
Senate
House Labor Committee
LA Follete
Japanese hold pockets after Bataan advance
April 3 Washington report says American front line troops repel a third Japanese assault in two days. U S forces mopped up units that broke through yesterday but found Japanese platoons encircled by counter attacks. War Department notes a sizable number of Japanese troops in pockets with grenade throwers and machine guns. Details compare Japanese and Allied grenade types and tactics as the story leads to continuation on page 2.
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Associated Press
Washington
U.S
War Department
Bataan
British Indicate Prome Abandoned As Japanese Advance Near India
British headquarters reported Prome on the Irrawaddy had been abandoned after a heavy Japanese attack. A Chungking release said Japanese forces, covered by cruisers and destroyers, landed at Akyab, near the India frontier, while British troops claimed covering positions north of Prome and new areas after a night of fighting.
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New Delhi
India
Prome
Irawaddy River
Burma
Akyab
Calcutta
Perih
Sittangares
Burme
Toungon
Mandalay
Germans Report 25000 Killed on Fronts Near Moscow
Moscow April 3 United States and Allied reports say more than 25 000 German troops have been killed and large stockpiles captured by Red Army on the Leningrad and Kalinin fronts in 13 days of heavy fighting. Casualty totals range from 75 000 to 125 000 killed wounded or captured. Russian officers signal renewed northern offensives to pin Nazi reserves southward.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Red Army
Leningrad
Kalinin
Hitler
Staraya Russa
Fort Dix riot leaves three dead five wounded
At Fort Dix New Jersey a 15 minute clash between white and Negro soldiers left three dead and five wounded. Major Ange Woldike stated it was the first sign of ill feeling between races at the post and order was restored by police and officers. The disturbance began in Waldron Sports Palace after a dispute over a telephone line. A Negro soldier attempted to seize an MP pistol. shots were fired as the crowd dispersed. The report notes civilian use of copper and bicycle restrictions issued by the War Production Board amid metal shortages.
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Detroit
Michigan State Fair Grounds
Ford
Fourth
Adn
The
Fair Board
Fort DIX
N. J
Baracks
Ange Woldike
Woldike
Post
Waldron
Pointville
Natin Er Wesene
M. P
M. Ps
War Production Board
M. J. Moore
WPS Bicycle I
Morgenthau Tax Proposals Nears House Rejection
Washington April 3 members of the Ways and Means Committee predicted many of Secretary Morgenthau's revenue proposals would be rejected as the panel drafts a new 1 610 000 000 tax bill. They expect a sales tax instead of higher individual and corporate levies, with close votes on increases in personal and corporate taxes, excises, and tax security provisions. Withholding at source and joint returns draw opposition, while major gains hinge on new excises and spirits, gasoline, and cigarette levies. Elimination of depletion allowances faces strong opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vrouse
Ways and Means
Morgenthau
Treasury Department
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Price freeze debated by OPA and WPB officials in Washington
In Washington on April 3, high officials from the Office of Price Administration and War Production Board discussed a blanket price freeze for consumer goods not yet capped. A definite decision was not reached, though talks press on, aiming to restore prices to earlier levels after curtailments and production stoppages raise costs, triggering buying spikes and recent bicycle sales freezes.
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OPA
War Production Board
Associated Press
Washington
Ander
Office of Price Administration
Government freezes bicycle industry to curb buying rush
Washington reports a ban on sale shipment and delivery of new bicycles for adults to slow a buying surge. A rationing system will be established soon prioritizing defense workers.
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Washington
Barracks Fire Sparks Barracks Firing Across Road
A fire from the barracks triggered a fusillade from the barracks across the road near the amusement center. Negro troops had been on a firing range in the afternoon pond while regulations required searches on leaving. Some reportedly salvaged ammunition and took it with them, Major Woldike said, tying the incident to RIOT.
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Woldike
Telegram carriers exceed 100000 stamp goal in March drive
Adrian Telegram carrier boys surpassed the 100000 stamp target with 109928 ten cent U S savings stamps sold in the first quarter of 1942. The drive, part of a nationwide effort, saw monthly totals of 43003 in January 29969 in February and 31956 in March, raising 10482 80 for defense needs.
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Telegram Carrier Boys
U. S
Lewis F. Mottice
Telegram
Adrian Newspaper Boys
Adrian Boys
Sam
Frank N.isbey
Detroit
Defense Savings Committee
Michigan
Defense Savings Program
Carier Boys
Adrian Telegram
Carrier Boys
Adrian
IAPS Treating U S War Prisoners Well
The 366 United States prisoners of war held by Japan on Gil bert Wake and Guam islands are reported well treated by the International Red Cross. They seek more entertainment, better food, and mail from home, with Idaho Oregon and Washington civilians among those captured involved in construction on the islands.
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Washington
United States
Gilbert
Wake
Guam
Zent+ suji
Shikoku
International Red Cross
Rep. White
Didaho
Rep
White
Idaho
Oregon
Navy Department
Public urged to see bombing pictures at Masonic Temple
Adrian residents will watch official moving pictures of the London bombing and civil defense lessons at the Masonic Temple Monday. The free showing runs noon to 5 pm with an evening session at 7 30 pm for wardens, volunteer firemen and other Civil Air Patrol and Red Cross first aid participants. The films illustrate extinguishing magnesium fires and first aid, and depict the Heythrop destroyer sinking and air raid effects in London.
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London
U. S Bureau of Mines
Adrian
Masonic Temple
Karl B. Hoch
Hoch
L. B. Kaney
Civil Air Patrol
Red Cross
Temple
Mirally
Heythrop
Killer of 3 Men Returns to Jail in Life Sentence
Dominick Piccone, 20, killer of three men, was rearrested and returned to the State Prison of Southern Michigan for life at hard labor and solitary confinement. He arrived with Sheriff Spencer J. Howarth and two deputies after being released briefly for felonious assault on a woman. Record clerk Ronald Wilkins logged him in as prisoner No. 53043.
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Southern Michigan
Dominick Piccone
Romaine C. Potter
Cassius E. Barber
Oakland County
Piccone
Carl MacKenzie
Jackson County
Harry Jackson
Jackson
Dominick
Michigan
Spencer JC. Howarth
Pontiac
Ronald Wilkins
Air duel over France and English coast rocks region
RAF and German forces renewed heavy air raids last night with RAF bombers targeting the Matford truck plant near Paris and Le Havre docks while fighters swept Nazi airfields. German raids struck Dover and Portland as coastal observers noted low level approaches and quick climbs.
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Associated Press
London
Matford
Paris
le Havre
Air Ministry
Ministry
Dover
Portland
Navy reports torpedoed ships and sunk tug off Atlantic
The Navy announced torpedo attacks on U S merchant vessels in the Caribbean occurred weeks ago and that a small tug was shelled and sunk off the Atlantic coast. In Chicago, a draft regulation would cut gas station hours to two daily, not over 41 hours weekly, pending Ickes approval. Berle said Standard Oil delayed halting aviation gasoline sales to German and Italian airlines in South America until its Brazilian unit joined the blacklist.
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Washington
United States
Caribbean Sea
Atantic
Navy
Merichant
Chicago
Marketing Committee of District 2
Office of Petroleum Co-ordinator
Midwest States
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Adolf A. Berle, Jr
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Staniards Company
New Jersey
South America
Berle
Standard Oil
State Department
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Mrs. Hill
Pomona Grange
Rome
McIarcan
Kiledeaue GhouNds
U.S. Army
Ials
Bayonne
WN. J
Reading
Thomas Masterson
Hudson County
East 41St Street
Publig
Clayton, Voorhees
Pama
RAF
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