Japanese Naval Force Roaming Bay of Bengal Report
A British spokesman in London said at least three Japanese battleships five aircraft carriers and numerous cruisers and destroyers operate in the Bay of Bengal threatening Allied sea lanes between India and Australia. He noted losses of the British cruisers Dorsetshire Cornwall and the Hermes and said Japanese forces observed entering the Indian Ocean on April four including a modernized 16 inch gun Nagato type.
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London
Bay of Bengal
India
Australia
Dorsetshire
Cornwall
Hermes
James Somerville
Indian Ocean
Ceylon
Notilias
Colombo
Trincomalee
Waldrong Physician Dies After Car Crash Near North Adams
Dr J L Yeagley a Waldron physician aged 68 died at 3 am in Hillsdale hospital from injuries suffered when his car collided with one driven by Stanley Gibbs of Manitou Beach near North Adams. Mrs Yeagley and daughter Kathryn suffered injuries. Gibbs and Preston minor injuries. Funeral Wednesday at his home with burial in Waldron cemetery.
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Epeyiss
Waldron
J. L. Yeagley
Hillsdale Hospital
North Adams
Yeagley
Stanley Gibbs
Manitou Beach
Lena Yeagiey
Berburs
Hudson High School
Phyllis
Michigan State Normal College
Ypsilanti
Kathryn
Robert
Detroit
Clyde
Arthur M
John
South Bend
Ola
Weston
Ohio
A. D. Wright
Hillsdale
Waldron Cemetery
College Receives First Kresge Grant Funds
African College qualified for a 40000 Kresge Foundation conditional grant with 22500 pledged and 8526.80 received from the foundation as the first payment. The grant funds will remodel Science Hall into the college library and support a new library, equipment, and a new physics laboratory in North Hall. The administration will move to the former library rooms, with 7000 set aside for that change, and delays due to war priorities may extend completion.
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Afiican College
Kresge Foundation
Samuel J
Science Hall
North Hall
Harrison
War Production Board halts civilian truck output
The War Production Board ordered all civilian truck production stopped after current quotas. Rubber blowout shoes are banned as uneconomical tire repair. Sale or use of used electrical generating equipment and boilers requires government authorization. Medium trucks close down by April 30 and Seyjou Mae Sherrish by May 31.
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Washington
War Production Board
Associated Press
Advo
WPB
Comm War
Auction notices list regional sales and auctioneers
Multiple items detail auctions north of Hudson and Riga Michigan and northwest of Adrian. Victor Sharp and Fred C Greenwald serve as auctioneers with notices directing readers to the Market Page. Other dates include April 25 and April 17 with location cues and adv references.
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Hudson
Victor Sharp
Riga
Mich
Fred C. Greenwald
Adrian
al Linehan Jr
Mussolini Reported In State Of Collapse
A Daily Mail correspondent from London reports Premier Mussolini on the Italian frontier was found in a state of complete prostration during an interview. The dispatch states Mussolini sobbed, then hysterically laughed, with a specialist noting he had lost control and could no longer govern Italy amid chaotic affairs.
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London
Daily Mail
Mussolini
I Duce
Italy
Kickoff dinner opens 1942 Community Fund drive
More than 150 solicitors gather at the Methodist Church for a kickoff dinner as the drive targets a $15,000 goal. Judge G Arthur Rathbun to give the keynote, with Russell B McAfee Claude E B Porter and Fr Edward LaMore providing music. Campaign progress will be tracked by a red bullet on a cannon to a plane.
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Methodist Church
Llewellyn Garrison
G. Arthur Rathbun
Russell B. McAfee
Claude EB. Porter
Edward LaMore
P. John
Tom
Nixon
Industrial Battalion
Park Rogers
Harry Hungerford
Girls Training School
Supreme Court rules libel on public official charge
The Supreme Court, in a 84 to 4 decision, upholds a circuit court ruling that it is libelous to claim a public official harbors anti semitic views. The libel suit was filed by Representative Martin Sweeney of Ohio against Union Publishing Company over claims he opposed appointing Emerich Burt Freed as a federal district judge in Cleveland because Freed is Jewish.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Martin ZL. Sweeney
Ohio
Seknectady
Union Publishing Company
Sweeney
Schenectady Union Star
Emerich Burt Freed
Cleveland
Freed
Corregidor gunners sink small Japanese boats at harbor
War Department says Corregidor gunners sank several small Japanese boats in Mariveles harbor and kept air raids to minor damage. Communication with Cebu cut off, delaying report on efforts to beat invasion. Navy lists fatalities from two crashouts, with one survivor.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Department
Corregidor
Philippine Island
Damaage
Mariveles
Cebu
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Liberty
Meigs
Southwest Pacific
Bali
Grooms
Soerabaja
Becangie
U. Graf Re Dial
Ad Livermore
Calif
S. Waters
Darwin
Austtalia
U. S. Navy
F. S Link
Caribbean
Canada
Livermore Hills
South America
Forgy
Navy
Alalmisssng
Media Naval Air Station
Norfolk
12Th Naval District
San Francisco
Frank S. Fernald
Edward F. Denney
James M. Wagner
Aviation
Henry T. Morgan
Roscoe Ey Rambo
Robert A. Frank
Chiff P. Flynt
Loren A. Morris
Charles J. Herriott
Algie Belcher
Robert W. Hastings
Benjamin F. Johnson
Earl P. .Patrick
Naval Hospital
Mare Island
Patrick
Former Social Security Chief Charged With Embezzlement
Dr. Philip A. Callahan, former Social Security director, is charged with embezzling about $6,000 in postage stamps from the bureau. Attorney General Herbert J. Rushton announced a nine count warrant and said Callahan, a Detroit dentist and former Detroit councilman, would surrender as soon as bond could be arranged. The probe also notes a federal audit revealing $13,000 in stamps disappeared. Authorities seek the suspect, last known in Detroit, as they pursue additional leads.
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Lansing
State
Philip A. Callahan
Bureau of Social Security
Rushton
Detroit
Social Seventh
Letivity Post
Frank D.fitzgerald
Herbert J. Rushton
Callahan
Dr. Callahar
Arinaas
Social Security Bureau
Aix
Denistry
University of Michigan
Colorado College of Dental Surgery
Las Vegas
N. M
Weepee Lueane
Louis
President Roosevelts inflation plan work starts in Washington
President Roosevelt began detailed planning on inflation control today as he aims to send a special message to Congress within forty eight hours. White House officials described behind the scenes meetings to build a unified plan, including potential wage limits tax changes and currency controls.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Stephen Early
A Mother Dies at Sea Off Level Delaware
A young mother and her three year old child drifted at sea for 13 days aboard an open Ute boat with 11 other survivors seeking shelter from wind and rain. The child cried as the mother, exhausted, died aboard the drifting craft.
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Del
New Board Meets Tuesday In Lenaiwee County
Lenaiwee county's new board of supervisors, unchanged from last year, will meet Tuesday afternoon at 1 in the courthouse supervisors room for the annual April session. The main business is reorganizing for the coming year, including electing a new chairman to succeed Merrill Taylor. If tradition holds, A. O. Howard will be named chairman with a new vice chairman to follow, and committees likely by Thursday.
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Lenaiwee County
Board of Supervisors
Court House
Merrill Taylor
Woodstock Township
A. O. Howard
Tecumseh
Italians British prisoners exchanged in Egypt return home
In Cairo on April 13 Italian and British prisoners exchanged after months in enemy camps rested at a Nile hospital terrace. Troops recalled the swap as the war’s first prisoner exchange. Many had been captives since the Nazi push in Libya last year. One sergeant compared the shipboard scene to a Christmas party with books cigars beer and food.
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Cairo
Egypt
The
Nile
Libya
Llandovery Castle
Moscow
Russians Flood Germans in Village Triumphs
Russian sappers altered floodwaters to wash Germans from a fortified village. Front dispatches say the rains aided Soviet forces as they claimed another success this week. Optimism grows in Moscow for a spring offensive, with three reasons cited for confidence.
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Associated Press
Kutbyshev
Russia
Soviet Union
General Motors ordered to reimburse executives
Federal Judge Vincent L. Leibelt ordered eight General Motors executives including Alfred P. Sloan Jr. to repay 4,348,044 plus about 2,000,000 in interest for improper management, wasted assets, and unauthorized stock distribution. The ruling stemmed from a suit by three New York minority stockholders.
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New York
Vincent L. Leibelt
General Motors
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
Furius S. Morgan
George Whitney
Donaldson Brown
Augusta Winkelman
Daniel Hirschman
Auxiliary firemen get actual work on training drills
City auxiliary firemen completing classroom work join civilian defense practice this week. About 100 volunteers report to the engine house for sessions led by Chief Jack Hawley in old clothes. They practice attaching hose to hydrants and directing streams into the River Raisin with the 750 gallon pumper. Outdoor drills on ladders and additional tactics are planned this spring to be ready for emergencies. Nearby earthquake readings from Fordhei University seismograph noted slight shocks at 3:57 and 4:06 a m. with center about 4600 miles distant from New York.
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Jack Hawley
Water Street
Hawey
New York
Fordhei University
Bases Are Laid Waste by Allied Bombs in Pacific
Allied air offensive intensifies with raids across Timor to the Solomons striking Rabaul New Britain and Koepang Timor. US bombers and Australian fighters pound targets at Lae and Faisi while claims surface of ships burning and aircraft destruction. Australian Army Minister Francis Forde warns of urgent wartime mobilization and production to face invasion threats.
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Melbourne
Timor
Solomon Islands
Rabaul
New Britain
Koepang
Dutch Timor
Port Moresby
New Guinea
United States
Francis Forde
Sam
Australia
War Department seizes 25 percent of U S commercial planes
The War Department took over about 25 percent of U S commercial airliners to support war needs. About 85 aircraft, from 340 transports, will be used to carry military supplies and personnel to necessary locations under Air Service Command. Airlines urged to keep key personnel at posts as long as possible. Separately, two air raid warnings were sounded in Bern, Switzerland, per Vichy radio reports.
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Washington
War Department
Department
Gve
London
Bern
Switzerland
Vichy
Reuters
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Duce
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Jack Verian
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