Adrian Cadet Dies in Plane Crash Near Corpus Christi
Cadet Melvin Lieberman 23 son of Mr and Mrs Lemuel Lieberman of 620 North Main Street was killed when his plane crashed in Baffin Bay 40 miles south of Corpus Christi during Marine aviation training. He enlisted after Miami University graduation in 1941 and was set to complete advanced carrier flight training in Corpus Christi with plans to return home on furlough. He also attended Atua High School and Tennessee Military Academy and played a campus sports columnist role at Miami University. Survived by his parents and a brother Raymond, 18, a University of Iowa student.
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Melvin Lieberman
Lemuel Lieberman
North Main Street
Corpus Christi
Texas
Marine Aviation
Associated Press
Lieberman
Baffin Bay
Tion
U. S Marine Corps
U. S. Marine Corps
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
Grosselle
Jacksonville
Fla
Marine Air Base
Atua High School
Tennessee Military Academy
Sweetwater
Tenn
Miami
Raymond
University of Iowa
County music festival invites 11 schools this week
The 12th annual county music festival will be held in Adrian high school gymnasium with 11 county schools participating. Over 1000 pupils are expected on the programs as vocalists perform Tuesday at 7 pm and band and orchestra Thursday at the same time. Critics will comment and university instructors Van Dursen and Graham Overgard will provide assessments. Public attendance is welcomed. Participating schools include Blissfield Addison Marenci Sand Creek Hudson Clinton Tecumseh Onsted Clayton and Adrian junior and senior high schools.
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Adrian High School
van Dursen
University of Michigan School of Music
Graham Overgard
Wayne University
Blissfield
Addison
Marenci
Sand Creek
Hudson
Clinton
Tecumseh
Onsted
Clayton
Adcian
U S Observes Army Day Across Nation
Army Day marks 25th anniversary of WWI pledge and U S unity in a new global war. Secretary Stimson urged Americans to resist enemy plots to sow distrust. Paul V McNutt called civilians to support war production and end armchair meddling.
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Washington
United States
United Nations
Stimson
U.S
Western Pacific
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security
Allied Airmen Destroy 20 Planes in Weekend Air War
Australian and American airmen destroyed at least 20 Japanese planes and damaged 18 others in weekend operations over Darwin Port Moresby and New Guinea. Army Minister Francis Forde stressed vigilance while praising joint help from Britain the United States and Australia as defense tightens.
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Australia
New Guinea
U. & Army
Army
Francis H. Forde
Britain
United States
Dominion
Commonwealth
Darwin
Port Morestry
Port Moresby
Dangin
A. S. Drakeford
Air U
Francis Forde
Sydney
Pacific
Government Supply Department
Canberra
Battle of Toungoo Sees 3700 Japanese Dead
New Delhi reports 3700 Japanese killed in a 12 day battle near Toungoo, eastern Burma. Chinese communique notes six mortars, one mountain gun, one field gun, 70 horses and bicycles captured. Japanese reinforcements, air raids destroy a truck, and patrols advance toward Nyaung Binzeik as Irrawaddy front shows no strategic change.
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New Delhi
Toungoo
United Nations
Burma
Nyaung-Binzeik
Prome
Irrawaddy
Sader
German raider Kormoran seen in Atlantic with heavy forces
Berlin based war reporter Fritz List claimed the German raider Kormoran, once reported lost, was on a raiding mission in the Atlantic alongside submarines and possibly the Tirpitz or another heavy battleship. The report cited a rendezvous and referenced the Sydney engagement near November 19 and Australia’s earlier reception of sinking rumors.
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Naz
Associated Press
Kormoran
Indian Ocean
Atlantic
Berlin
Fritz List
Tirpitz
Australia
Gennan
Sydney
Eath
Trondheim
Russia
American Chain to Build Addition at East Michigan Street Plant
The American Chain and Cable Company awards a contract to add to its plant on East Michigan Street. General manager William Wisner says the new wing will extend east over current parking lot space. Construction begins soon and should finish within 60 to 90 days.
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American Chain and Cable Company
East Michigan Street
William Wisner
Civilian Defense Workers to View Informational Pictures
Adrian civilian defense personnel including volunteer firemen policemen and Civilian Air Patrol members will gather at the Masonic Temple at 7 30 tonight to view official moving pictures. Karl B Hoch chairman of the Adrian civilian defense council arranged the program. The film lasting about an hour and a quarter shows London bombing firefighting and Red Cross first aid units in action.
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Adrian
Red Cross
Masonic Temple
Karl B. Hoch
Cottage Stripped of Furnishings at Devils Lake Resort
Mr and Mrs Alpheus Wadsworth of Detroit own a cottage near Sandy Beach Devils Lake which was stripped of furnishings after the resort season. Returning last August they found three beds springs mattresses living room furniture dishes an ice box two staves a deer head and various articles missing. Neighbors recalled a truck loading items before cold weather but assumed a sale sign meant a change of ownership.
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Alpheus Wadsworth
Detroit
Sandy Beach
Devils Lake
Russians claim 102 German planes destroyed in weekend battle
Moscow reports heavy clashes as Russians say 102 German aircraft were shot down or destroyed on the ground last Saturday and 40,000 enemy troops killed on the central front between March 23 and April 4. Red Star notes Soviet forces crossed a river. German raids on Leningrad were repelled with AA fire. The German high command says Baltic fleet remnants were bombed at Kronstadt and Leningrad.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Red Army
Red Star
Leningrad
Red
Leninngrad
Kronstadt
Heroic tales of Bataan aomong fragments and danger
Editor Clair Lee reports fresh stories from Bataan including Captain Arthur Wermuth's close encounter with a Japanese patrol on a night scouting mission. Wermuth signaled quietly to avoid detection and used a grenade to bluff the enemy as he slipped away into the darkness.
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Clark Tee
Melbourne
Bataan Peninsula
Arthur _Wermuth
Wermuth
Lee
Fort Custer Hosts Civilians for Army Day Open House
Fort Custer welcomed thousands of visitors for Army Day as civilians entered the reservation for the first time since the war declaration. Governor Van Wagoner planned to arrive by plane to view a mock infantry attack supported by artillery.
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Fort Custer
van Wagoner
Detroit
Battle Creek-Kellogg Municipal
George T. Shank
J. G. Slevin
Post Hospital
Bombs explode after Belfast cinema screening
Three time bombs exploded harmlessly at a Belfast cinema late Saturday night after the audience had left. Other bombs were found hidden throughout the building. No injuries were reported among U S and British soldiers or any civilians.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
United States
Easter Gaiety Of Peacetime Is Gone
Easter in wartime America showed subdued crowds and a nation at war. New York paraded half a million while defense units held a nationwide anti sabotage vigil. President Roosevelt missed church due to illness, and coastal towns restricted gatherings as factories kept output steady for war.
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Associated Press
America
Fifth Avenue
Army
Navy
New York Guard
New York
Washington
Roosevelt
Miami
Detroit
William Dudley Pelley Remains in Jail in Indiana
William Dudley Pelley, chief of the Silver Shirts, remained jailed in Indianapolis after failing to post a $13 bond. U S Marshals brought him from Darien Connecticut as District Attorney B Howard Callaghan weighs presenting the case to a grand jury under the 1937 espionage act. Pelley, whose Roll Call and Galilean magazines ceased publication, claimed he had published nothing beyond widely repeated claims and argued Hitler’s program was acceptable for Germany.
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Indianapolis
Ind
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirts
the Galilean
Pelley
U. S
Julius Wichser
Indiana
B. Howard Callaghran
Dies
Galilean
Noblesville
Two Adrian Boys Admit Petty Thefts in County Jail
Two boys aged 25 and 16 from Adrian confess to a string of petty thefts in Adrian residences. They admit taking small sums from three homes and were chased from a fourth. They face arraignment before Probate Judge Maurice L. Tripp. One boy claimed the other boasted of breaking into the Adrian Bottling Works.
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Adrian
Louis F. Germond
Maurice £. Tripp
Germond
Mary Wyatt
West Maumee Street
Carston A. Nissen
Chandler Street
W. Herman Matthes
College Avenue
US must fight an aggressive war, Lear tells club
Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear, commanding the Second Army, told the Economic Club in Detroit that the United States must engage in an aggressive war. He urged vast air and sea armadas to prepare land forces for assaults, warning that defeat and misery would follow any retreat from the enemy.
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Detroit
Ben Lear
Second Army
The
Economic Club
United States
Lear
Monary backs plan to limit profits in military bill
Senator McNary of Oregon, the minority leader, rallied strong Republican backing today for a plan to insert drastic limits on war profits into a 19? military appropriations bill. The move aims to curb excess profits amid wartime spending pressures.
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Monary
Washington
McNary
Oregon
New Delhi
Bay of Bengal
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Hogs reach 1926 peak as prices surge in Chicago market
A wave of price enthusiasm pushes hogs to fresh highs not seen since October 1926 with tops at 14.20 per hundredweight. Hogs gain 15 to 20 cents, swine up about 25 cents, while cattle also post new 1937-era highs amid strong demand.
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Chicago
Japanese Raid On Ceylon Smashed 27 Planes Downed
Chicago, April 6. Lynn Stambaugh quoted Navy Secretary Knox asserting the Pacific fleet remains stronger today than before December 7. The American Legion leader urged 100 percent Americanism and civilian wartime leadership, warning against Axis propaganda and unity disruption.
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Ceylon
Chicago
Lynn Stambaugh
The
American Legion
Knox
Navy
Legion
Ed Hayes
Navy Department
Pearl Harbor
Axis
Stambaugh
Bataan Defenders Repulse Another Japanese Attack
The fifth Japanese assault in a fortnight on Bataan was repulsed with heavy enemy losses. Troop barges with 25 mm cannons failed at night as General Wainwright's artillery wrecked several crafts. Land and sea attacks continued with fierce fighting along the right center. Corregidor remained free of air attack, while harbor guns exchanged fire with Manila Bay batteries.
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Associated Press
Washington
Bataan
Wainwright
War Department
Batran
Corregidor
Manila Bay
RAF Bombers Hit German War Plants Near Paris
More than 300 RAF bombers attacked Cologne, Paris area, and the Gnome-Rhone works at Gennevilliers in a raid stretching from Le Havre to the Rhineland. The operat ion, one of Britain’s largest, released about 3 000 tons of explosives with five bombers lost.
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London
Rhineland
Paris
Cologne
RAF
Genne- Nilliers
le Havre
French
Berlin
Britain
Japs Suffer One of Sharpest War Defeats Yet
In Colombo Ceylon on April 6 Japan mounted a sudden death air raid against Colombo and Ratmalana. British defenses repelled the attack with 27 planes shot down or damaged, 25 of them British fighters credited with destruction. Admiral Layton praised civilian and defense performance. The raid underscored Japanese focus on India and nearby waters as U S bombers hit Rangoon.
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Associated Press
Colombo
Ceylon
Japan
India
Bay of Bengal
Geoffrey Layton
Ratmalana
Layton
Britain
Supreme Court sides with mutiny statute in seamen case
The Supreme Court ruled that the federal mutiny statute outlaws rebellion by seamen against officers on any vessel within U S maritime jurisdiction. Justice Byrnes delivered a 5 to 4 opinion that set aside a labor board order requiring Southern Steamship Company of Philadelphia to reinstate seamen who struck on July 13, 1833 aboard the City of Fort Worth at Houston Texas.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Abellion
United States
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Clair Lee
General MacArthur
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Australis
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Adrian Boys
Bert Pocklington
East Hunt Street
Tripp
Ailo
Western Hemisphere
Ruhr
Rangoon
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