Lenawee County Traffic Death Toll Reaches Eleven
Lenawee county reported two motorist and a pedestrian killed in two yesterday accidents, raising 1942 traffic toll to eleven. Robert O'Brien, 50, of Milan died in a head on collision on M-52 near Tecumseh. O'Brien's wife Lynn and niece Alice Bell were injured. their son was uninjured. The truck driver Laslie Beach fled the scene and was later jailed. Orrin L. Jonas, 21, of Adrian died after being struck on MS-2 near Birdsall. George N. Brown of Adrian was driving. Coroner and police await inquest decisions.
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Lenawee County
Robert O'Brien
Milan
Tecumseh
O'Brien
Lynn
Alice Bell
Hillsdale
Tecumseh Hospite
Robert
O Brien
Laslie Beach
Adrian
John Glisson
Beach
Frank
Tecumse
Covéner
Ed ML Braun
S Tate
Mr. O'Brien
Stevens & Bush Funeral Home
Orrin L. Jonas
Bixby
MS2
Birdsall
Sheriffs Force
Johns
George N. Brown
Brown
Paul Mott
Floyd
Glissfield
Claude Becker
Ellsworth
Davis
Cassius
Unidas
Detroit
First Adrian Blackout Date Set Tentatively
August 7 was tentatively set for Adrian’s first practice blackout. Karl B Hoch, civilian defense coordinator, said army approval in Chicago is needed. The plan: extinguish all lights except factories on war production during the blackout, with Adrian residents joining first. countywide trials already held in nearby communities.
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Adrian
Karl B. Hoch
Chicago
Adrian Defense
Hoch
Eugene F. Olsen
County Defense Council
Pitcher Rejected For Army Service
DETROIT, July 27 yy Hal Newhouser, Detroit Tigers pitcher, 21, was rejected for Army service by examining physicians when he reported for induction. Grounds not disclosed. He has four wins and eight defeats this season and was a member of the American League All Star squad. He registered for selective service last year when youths 20 were enrolled. He was 21 last May.
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Detroit
Hal Newhouser
Detroit Tigers
Newhouser
Detroit Sanitors
Sesson
Fighter Pilots In Action In France
United States Army fighters joined RAF operations over northwestern France as nine German Focke Wulf 190s engaged a mixed force of Canadian British and American pilots. Five Americans saw action in a major aerial clash with one American lost and two RAF pilots missing. Spitfires later arrived to bolster the formation and drive off German fighters.
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London
United States
Northwern
France
U. S
Germany
Facker Wutt
Prediction of Allied invasion sparks French resistance fears
Professor Antre Phil in London warned an allied invasion would provoke immediate revolt across occupied France but an unsuccessful strike could trigger German slaughter. He said BBC broadcasts fueled early resistance, noted a fragile anarchic state in parts of France, and described Petain as powerless while Laval sought a personal Gestapo.
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London
Antre Phil
French_underground
France
Philip
Britain
Charles de Gaulle
Gestapo
St Nazaire
BBC
Marshal Petain
Laval
Petain
Hamburg Pounded For First Time By RAF Bombers
Hamburg, Germanys second largest city and major shipbuilding center, was hit by the RAF in its heaviest attack since Bremen. About 600 bombers reportedly took part, with 28 not returning. The target included shipyards and oil refineries. Meanwhile German raiders bombed England, hitting 23 areas as London warned inland towns and cities endured daylight alerts. Casualties were reported as rescuers worked amid wreckage. Allied actions in the Pacific continued with skirmishes at Mubo Salamaua and air assaults around Gona Buna, Bougainville, Kieta, Buka and Soenghe Islands.
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London
Hamburg
Germany
Royal Air Force
Reich
Bremen
Brotum and Voss
England
Black Cross
Midlands
East Anglia
MacArthur
Avwala
Duisburg
Bena
Mubo
Salamaua
Buna
Gona
Kieta
Bougainville Island
Solomon Group
Buka
Sochane Islands
Buka Paswaga
Bougainville
Atroils Skirmish on New Guinea Invasion Theater
Allied patrols clashed with Japanese on the Papuan Peninsula in the first land action of the new New Guinea invasion theater. Allied air units continued bombing enemy bases on occupied islands north of Australia while Japanese forces mounted raids into northern Australia, including a raid on Darwi and a strike near Fawnsville.
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Gunfiwe
MacArthur
Australia
New Guinea
Darwie
Fawnsville
Notie
American Bombers Hit Mark in Egypt and Tobruk Raid
United States heavy bombers based in Egypt return after a raid on Tobruk, Libya, with seventy American crew reporting a successful operation and explosions believed to be a munitions dump or gasoline storage. The mission follows clouds and anti aircraft fire that prevented earlier recoveries. President Roosevelt signs an $1.8 billion federal war agency appropriations bill for the current fiscal year, including $1.1 billion for the War Shipping Administration and $120 million for the Office of Price Administration.
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Egypt
United States
Tobruk
Libya
Washington
Roosevelt
War Shipping Administration
Office of Price Administration
30-TON FISHING SCHOONER SUNK BY AXIS SUBMARINE
The 30 ton Canadian fishing schooner Lucille M from Lockeport Nova Scotia was shelled and machinegunned by a submarine off the Nova Scotia coast. Eleven crew members survived a 100 mile row to an Eastern Canadian port. Three crew were injured and this was the first Canadian fishing vessel lost to enemy action in the Western Atlantic.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Lucille M
Lockeport
N.S
Imprisonment Tale From Tokyo by AP Writer Back From Japan
AP writer Max Hill recalls his wartime detention after Pearl Harbor. He describes being arrested in Tokyo, held in solitary confinement at Sugamo prison, and later moved to a prison proper as Japan declared war. He notes cold, poor food, and cautious, sometimes helpful staff during the fifteen days of confinement.
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Japan
Max Hill
Associated Press
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Portuguese East Africa
Lourenco
Five Navy Officers Reach Australia From Philippines
Five United States Navy officers arrived in Australia from the Philippines after a hazardous voyage that began in mid May. The group included Lieut. Commander Alexander Slimmons Lieut. Carl Faries Lieut. Els P. Skeffield Lieut. William F. Lipsett and Lieut. Daniel P. Dorsey They started in a native outrigger canoe and were later picked up by a slip.
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Australia
Philippines
United States Navy
Alexander Slimmons
Carl Faries
Els P. Skeffield
William F. Lipsett
Daniel P. Dorsey
Jages Income Tax Exemptions Removed Debate in Senate Panel
A New York Board of Trade representative urged the Senate Finance Committee to remove personal income tax exemptions to raise about 5.5 billion dollars, proposing a flat 10 percent war tax on net income. The panel split on a sales tax as an alternative, with several senators favoring it only as a last resort. The discussion covered broader revenue goals and the impact of payroll tax withholding proposals. Chungking also reported its first air raid alarm in eleven months as U.S. warplanes engaged the Japanese.
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Washington
New York Board of Trade
Senate Finance Committee
L. Seidman
New York Board
Seidman
House
Senate
Vandenberg
Mich
Taft
Ohio
Byrd
Radcliffe
Herring
Town
The
Treasury
Barkley
George, Connally
Dtex
Smathers
D-Nj
Brown
D-' Mich
Guffey
Davis
R-Pa
LaFollette
Clark
D-Mo
Johnson
D-Cole
Gerry
R-Aid
Danaher
R-Conn
Walsh
D- Mess
Bailey
D-Nc
Capper
Bkan
Lodge
R- “Brass
Chungking
United States
Gandhi's Push for Indian Independence Faces UN Pressure
London reports Britain says the United Nations cannot let Gandhi’s campaign derail the drive for victory in the East. Sir Stafford Cripps urges US cooperation, noting Allied forces defend India and Japan threat. Gandhi asserts immediate independence to aid Allies, while aiming to avoid embarrassing the UN. The all-India Congress may formalize civil disobedience after August 7.
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London
Gandhi
India
Britain
United Nations
East
United States
Stafford Cripps
Eest
Stafford
House of Commons
all-India Congress
Harijan
Japan
Truce Halts Jackson Labor Holiday Averts Citywide Shutdown
In Jackson a truce ends a planned citywide labor holiday. Four municipal departments will return to regular shifts today after AFL CIO locals, the AFL and mediators pressed for a wage dispute settlement. A permanent agreement is to be pursued next Friday by the state labor mediation board. Mayor Hackett and the city commission met with mediators and union officials to avert disruptions in war production plants.
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Jackson
UPI
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
AFL
Thomas J. Donahue
State Labor Mediation Board
Donahue
D. J. Hackett
City Commission
Hackett
CIO
Lawmakers urged to earmark postwar building funds
Lansing July 27 The governor outlined methods to meet postwar unemployment and said he may ask the 1943 legislature to earmark five to six million dollars for a state institutional building program after the war He also ordered the State Planning Commission to assume all public postwar planning work including the Public Works Reserve which was discontinued by the Federal Works Agency to save funds He said they want projects ready to go to avoid leaf-raking in a possible depression after the war.
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Lansing
Gry
Her van Wagoner
State Planning Commission
Public Work Reserve
Federal Works Agency
van ‘Wagoner
Jap Intrigue In Thailand Disclosed
AP correspondents freed from Japanese detention describe a vast web of oriental intrigue used by Japan to pave conquests and suffering of Americans and others. Liner Gripsholm prepares to sail to New York as claims of air raid wreckage are debunked. Thai co-operation with Japan and prewar moves into Malaya and Burma are outlined by Relman Morin.
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Associated Press
Japan
Lotretico
Marques
Gripsholm
L’athers
New York
Morrow
Max Hill
Tokyo
U.S
Jap Unbique
Relman Morin
Southeast Asia
Malaya
Burma
Thailand
Gulf of Siam
Obruck Hit Again By Allied Bombers Over Tobruk
Cairo dispatch reports a heavy Allied bomber sweep struck Tobruk last night, setting fires and explosions and hitting an enemy ship. RAF long range fighters hit Axis barges off Sidi Barrani as Germans and Italians brace for renewed desert fighting near El Alamein amid dust storms and limited ops.
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Cairo
Tobruk
RAF
Sidi Barrani
el Alamein
Ernest Duckworth
Pro-vidence
R. 1
Pipe-Tne
War At A Glance. Allied fronts and Axis push in game changing battles
War updates report massive engagements across Europe and the Middle East. German forces penetrate near Rostov while Luftwaffe and Axis fleets renew pressure on shipping in the Sidi Barrani area. RAF and U boat centers, Duisberg shelling, and U.S. pilots entering European combat mark a broad war effort. Allied air and sea actions intensify as Japan presses in New Guinea and India urges swift withdrawal of British rule amid United Nations aims.
Germans Drive Reinforcements At Rostov On Don Front
German forces press a multi pronged assault to widen footholds near the Don south of Tsimlyansk and cross toward Rostov as Russian air power pounds moving columns with bombers aiding the push. Rostov battles intensify with heavy losses reported on both sides.
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Moscow
North Caucasus
Stalingrad
Volge
Don River
Tsimlyansk
United States
Stalingrad-Tikhoretsk
Causcasus
Don
Tsimlytans
Kotelnikovo
Sal
Zimovniki
Pikhoretsk
Caucasis
Bataisk
Rostov
Baku
Mutiqué
Russia
Independents Plan Third Labor Union
Chicago leaders of more than a dozen independent unions announced plans to form a new third international labor federation. Donald F. Cameron said the group represents over a million workers dissatisfied with both the AFL and CIO. A national founding convention is set for October 2 to 4 in Chicago.
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Chicago
Jay
International Labor Federation
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Donald F. Cameron
Milwaukee
AFL
CIO
Cameron
Associated Unions of America
Alert for three Nazi saboteurs in the United States
New York July 27 reports say millions are on alert for three Nazi saboteurs possibly in the country. FBI chief J Edgar Hoover asks nationwide search for Walter Kappe Reinhold Barth and Joseph Schmidt. No arrests made and broadcasts urged law enforcement and public vigilance.
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New York
America
FBI
Walter Kappe
Reinhold Rudolf Barth
Joseph Schmidt
J. Edgar Hoover
United States
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Sidi Barrant
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U-boat Center
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Independents Plan Third Labor Union
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