Adrian to survey River Raisin pollution and add chlorination
Lansing reports state stream control commission ordered Adrian to within 90 days survey how much industrial waste can be eliminated from sewage and to install chlorination devices to cut bacterial pollution. City officials said the plant is overloaded, by-passing raw sewage, and may cost about 1000 dollars for chlorination. They plan factory surveys and possible federal aid, while noting storm sewers mix with sanitary sewers. The commission warned against dumping into sewers and stressed abatement. Later, Mrs Leahy wife of the U S ambassador to France died in occupied France after a major operation.
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Lansing
Adrian
State Stream Control Commission
Raisin
Blissfield
Commission
Adelbert Vedder
L. LeVern Snedeker
Milton P. Adams
Vedder
Adams
U. S
W. F. Shepherd
State Health Department
Snedeker
Stream Control Commission
Air Force prepares to join British attack against Nazis
London reports United States air units to fly with the RAF as American bombers load to Britain. General Marshall reaffirmed U S decision to join Europe offensive. Planes expected include heavy long-range bombers, medium bombers, and dive bombers, with American crews and mechanics.
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London
United States
RAF
Churchill
Roosevelt
George C Marshall
U.S. Army
Britain
Europe
Atlantic
London Daily Sketch
United
Lenawee County Draft Contingent Heads to Detroit for Army Induction
Lenawee county men depart by train tonight at 8 56 for Detroit where they will be inducted tomorrow. The large initial contingent will report at the Armory at 7 15 with time to reach the Wabash depot before departure. No transport is provided by the draft board and men are to arrange their own travel. They will spend the night in Detroit and appear at the induction station early next morning.
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Lenawee County
Detroit
Armory
Wabash
School Officials Learn Sugar Rationing Details in Lenaweek County
Fourteen high school superintendents from Lenaweek County met with the county rationing board at the courthouse to receive instructions and supplies for next week's sugar registration. Registration targets wholesalers retailers industries and institutions such as hospitals restaurants and church groups. Consumer registration runs May 4 5 6 and 7. Registrations will be conducted at school buildings with locations and full details to be announced later this week.
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Lenaweek
County Rationing Board
Court House
Bel
Su| Sips
Fierce Battle Around Yenangyaung Rages in Burma
London April 21 a furious battle rages around Yenangyaung in the center of Burman oil fields. British flanks and infantry and a Chinese regiment press isolated Japanese troops, with reports uncertain on Yenangyaung’s capture. British tanks and Chinese from the north seek to smash the Japanese, potentially relieve the western Burma front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Yenangyaune
Burjman
Chungking
Yenanguyaung
Burma
Fire destroys Hass family frame house near Adrian
A small frame house owned by Albert W. Hass, located about a mile west and two miles south of Adrian, burned yesterday afternoon at 4. Sparks from the chimney started the blaze. The Hesses escaped with little furniture. The house was insured and no other buildings were endangered. CAPTAIN MISSING LONDON reports Hermes commander Richard Onslow missing and presumed killed after Hermes was shot down April 9 in the Bay of Bengal. The officer was a former Osborne Naval College classmate of King George VI.
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Albert W. Hass
Adrian
Hey
Hess
London
Richard Onslow
Hermes
Bay of Bengal
King George VI
Osborne Naval College
Norfolk
Aris
Atlantic
Naval,District
Morehead City
N. Y
Navy
Examinations Taken for Officer Training in Lenawee County
The first group of 14 Lenawee county men applied for volunteer officer training to earn commissions as 2nd Lieutenants in the Army. They underwent physical examinations at Bixby hospital today as part of a program to supply 75,000 new officers for landing forces. If accepted, training lasts six to nine months, after which they may be commissioned or revert to draft status. Passers will be listed with state selective service at Lansing and may be sent to Detroit for further exams before reporting to qualification centers and induction. The Lenawee draft board has not been notified of time or place for the volunteer officers’ exams. the group includes Harry F. Lewis, Lester Belcher, Homer Webster, Alton Gardner, Edgar Gibson, Norman Prada, Clifford Rice, Donald Shutes, Norman Mountain, Claude Mohr, Thomas Elkington, all of Adrian. Bernard Collins of Ann Arbor. LaVern Engel of Jackson. and Hubert Winder of Clinton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenawee County
Army
Bixby Hospital
State Selective Service
Lan- Sing
Detroit
Harry F. Lewis
Lester
Harrison Belcher
Homer Leo Webster
Alton I. Gardner
Edgar A. Gibson
Norman ‘Prada
Clifford J. Rice
Donald J. Shutes
Norman C. Mountain
Claude C Mohr
Thomas Edward Elkington
Adrian
Bernard P. Collins
Ann Arbor
LaVern George Engel
Jackson
Hubert Winder
I | Clinton
Bill to Provide for Service Men Dependents Before Congress
A wartime bill aims to extend monthly allowances for all enlisted men in the army navy and marines with two classes of dependents. Class A covers wives and children while class B includes parents grandparents and siblings. Draftees called into service after Oct 17 1940 would receive monthly aid from the government for dependents with a structure pegged to rank and family size. The measure would also protect indebted service members from foreclosure in certain cases.
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Washington
Security Administration
Navy
Marines
War Department
Budget Bureau
Senate
Johnson
D-Cole
Lee
George Islation
D-Ga
Senate Finance
Fomparttas
Two Detroit suspects held in Nazi prisoner aid case
Federal agents arrested Max Stephan a 49 year old naturalized American and a German descent woman as alleged accessories in aiding German airman Lieutenant Peter Krug to flee from Bowmanville Canada. Krug reached Detroit via a stolen rowboat and was aided with money from Stephan’s cafe. Krug sought Mexico then Germany while another escapee Lieutenant Erich Behle was captured at Niagara Falls. Stephan pleaded not guilty and faces bond and possible interment, while the woman’s identity was withheld. The case ties Stephan’s restaurant once named German Restaurant to wartime German contact networks.
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Associated Frese
Detroit
FBI
Max Stephan
Peter Krug
John S. Bugas
FEE
Krug
Bowmanville
Bugas
Stephan
Mexico
Germany
Erich Behle
Behle
Niagara Falls
Uunt Stephan
Ontario
Prisé
United States
Bund
Air raid alarms sweep central western Japan
AP late bulletins report prolonged alerts in central and western Japan targeting vital naval bases ports and industrial cities. Axis sources claim Japanese broadcasts downplay effects of Saturday raids while cabinet reports minor impacts and swift postal service recovery.
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Associated Press
Japan
Heavy Enemy Attacks Force Panay Defenders To Retire
American Filipino forces withdraw from two positions in Antique Panay as heavy enemy assaults press the defense. Manila Bay forts endure 240 millimeter bombardment while Forts Hughes Drum suffer indirect fire near Corregidor. Panay counterattacks halt Japanese near Lambanao as landings continue near San Jose.
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Washington
Antique
Panay
War Department
Issand
Manila Bay
Fort Hughes
Corregidor
Fort Drum
Cavite
Bataan
Lambanao
San Jose
President to send message on rising living costs
The Senate Labor Committee chairman Thomas proposes expanding the labor no strike pact in war industries to include a flexible wage ceiling. He favors voluntary wage stabilization with periodic reviews and adjustments for low pay groups. Roosevelt will address the cost of living in a message to Congress and a radio talk next Monday.
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Associated Press
Washington
Thomas
Utah
Senare Labor Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
Air Force Enlistment Drive Targets College Students
The Army air forces launch a drive to enroll college students in a new enlisted reserve for future aviation cadet training. More than 150 institutions including Wayne University Michigan and Michigan State College are focal points with recruitment to start around April 27.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Wayne University
University of Michigan
Michigan State College
Henry HH. Arnold
Army Air Commander
United States
War Department
Air Force
Morton H. MacKinnon
Selfridge Field
Michigan
Wisconsin
Mexican youth reenacts fatal Chicago holdup
An 18 year old Mexican suspect Ralph Elias confessed to robbing and killing John F. Denvir 72 whose body was found in an alley February 13. Acting Captain Louis Capparelli said Elias reenacted the crime for police last night unaware the victim had died. Elias, formerly of Los Angeles, had been released two days earlier after a 12 month sentence for auto tampering and admitted 50 to 100 robberies since February 13.
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Chicago
Louis Capparelli
Ralph Elias
John F. Denvir
Elias
Denvir
Capparelli
Los Angeles
Muddy stalemate on Russia front holds positions steady
In Kuibyshev April 21 mud slows operations as German and Russian forces engage in local actions. A captured German major notes doubts about a spring offensive, while reports of mobilized reservists and ongoing cavalry raids surface. Further fighting near Kalinin includes Red Army mounted attacks and village captures along a key highway.
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Kuibyshev
Russia
Bittner
900Th
Hitler
Eugene Varga
International Institute of Economics and Politics
Pravda
Kalinin
Moscow
Red Army
Desert Training Center Trials Mobile Peep Vehicles
In California on April 21 the desert training center tested bantamweight peep combat vehicles and other mobile gear for Patton's tank corps. The exercise showed peeps maneuvering through rough desert terrain, using compass navigation and star sightings, with crews living on canned rations and sleeping in slit trenches two feet deep for protection.
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Desert Training Center
California
George 5. Patton, Jr
France
Tank Corps
Patton
Libya
Laval calls war declaration crime and backs rapprochement
Laval denounces France’s 1939 declaration of war as a crime in a radio address. He urges support for a government seeking reconciliation with Germany, blaming the old regime for France’s fate and warning that only friendship with Germany keeps civilization from disappearing. He denounces Allied interference and links Bolshevism to a German defeat, citing ongoing occupation and prior British aggression.
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FRESS
VICHY
Pierre Laval
France
Europe
Germany
Laval
Jon 2
America
Japan
Great Britain
Henri Philippe Petain
Adolf Hitler
Montoire
Fire roars through Pisgah Forest in 15 mile front
Brevard NC April 21 about 300 men battled a vicious fire in East Fork of Pisgah National Forest. Winds pushed flames along a 15 mile front as crews from Brevard College WPA and industrial plants joined volunteers. The Pink Beds area suffered heavy damage though many structures remained safe. Approximately 2,000 acres burned with small game likely killed and cinders fell on local streets.
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Brevard
Big East Fork
Pisgah National Forest
Brevard College
WPA
Cherry Cove
Bear Pen
Pink Beds
J. B. Fortin
Fortin
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Temple Shrine
House of Lords
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Newark
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New York
United States Navy
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Brewater Aeronautical Company
George C.westervelt
U.S. Navy
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Pennsylvania
Harry F. Byrd
DVO
Fetain
Rouen
Avril
A. Winter Street
Fred Greenwould
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