Adrian Bears Heaviest Rainstorm In City History
Adrian experienced a mid afternoon storm at 4 15 with sheets of rain and strong winds. Government instruments logged 2 05 inches of rainfall in 65 minutes, flooding streets and basements while power lines and poles were damaged. Cars stalled and traffic lights failed briefly as linemen rerouted traffic and restored service by early evening.
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Afrian
Adrian
Adelbert Vedder
Consumers Power Company
West Maumee Street
Wolverton Avenue
Roy McPhail
Aerian
Ebixby Hospital
Power Company
Tipton Road
O. C. Bradish
M-34
Henry Bourns
Cadmus Ako
Bourns
Garfield Bourns
Holloway
Clinton
Jasper
Weather Bureau
Seeks Speedy Cargo Plane Action
Senator Josh Lee pushes a rapid plan to build a fleet of giant flying boats to move cargo and troops overseas. Hearings timed for tomorrow, with major aviation leaders invited, arguing air transport as the war’s fastest path to victory and urging diversion of shipbuilding capacity to aviation.
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Washington
Josh Lee
D-Okla
Senate
Lee
Hitler
Henry Kaiser
Eddie Rickenbacker
Eastern Air Lines
Glenn
L. Martin
Baltimore
Martin
Alexander de Seversky
Aviation Authority
Bormbsight
Theodore P. Wright
WPB
Roscoe Turner
Indianapolis Aeronautical Company
Robert Thach
Pan-American Airways, Inc
Grover Loening
N .Pioneer
St Joseph Mayor Pleads Guilty on Wartime Priority Charge
Grand Rapids July 233 FW Mayor Waldo V Tiscornia of St Joseph Mich a businessman pleaded guilty yesterday to violating wartime priority regulations. He may face up to a year in prison a 10000 fine or both Bond was set at 1000 by Judge Fred M Raymond sentence will be passed August 6 U S Attorney Joseph F Deed said Tiscornia obtained plumbing and heating equipment for private dwelling by claiming it was for his company and essential there.
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Grand Rapids
Waldo V. Tiscornia
St. Joseph
Mich
Fife
Tiscornia
Auto Specialties Company of
Fred M. Raymond
U. S
Joseph F. Deed
First Hand News From Japan China Dispatches
Associated Press reporters return from Tokyo and visit to Hongkong and Singapore as exchanges of nationals surface. The telegraph recounts first hand details from these regions and notes ongoing exchanges shaping regional ties.
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Japan
China
Associated Press
Tokyo
Hongkong
Singapore
Supreme Court to Rule on Nazi Saboteurs Habeas Petitions
The Supreme Court, assembling from vacation, will hear whether eight alleged Nazi saboteurs held by a military commission may seek habeas corpus relief. Seven petitions likely, case could move to federal court. Court to decide if it may hear petitions before addressing jurisdiction.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States Supreme Court
Harlan F. Stone
Imilitary Commission
George John Dash
High Court
Pearl Harbor
Brennero
Tate
Justice Murphy
North Carolina
South Carolina
City Finances Show Year End Balance Of 552 297
City Treasurer Fred L Johnson reported the 1941 1942 fiscal year closed with a cash balance of 552 297 and an overall book balance of 531 964 from eight sources. Overdrafts totaled 57 194 across eight funds, with the bond and interest fund 52 300 and water fund 51 362 the largest overdrafts. Receipts totaled 5294 764 including 5204 002 from contingent tax and 517 from delinquent tax. disbursements included bond maturities 251 500 and salaries 571 498. The report shows 520 701 in delinquent or unpaid taxes dating back to 1930 1941 and lists fund balances for contingent, fire, sewer, police, parks, sidewalks, public building, water, public lighting, and other accounts.
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City’ Commission
Fred L. Johnson
Justice Franklin
Russ Sell
Mbitary Fund
Bixby
Civic Auditorium
German Bombers Hit Birmingham in Midlands Raid
British intelligence reports a July 28 raid on Birmingham and surrounding Midlands targets by German bombers. Eight of 50 to 70 raiders were shot down or failed to return, with fires and damage in the Birmingham area and several casualties. One German bomber reportedly shot down off the southwest coast.
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London
Birmingham
Midlands
Toll of U Boat Sinkings Tops 400 in Atlantic War
AP figures show Allied and neutral ships destroyed in waters off the Americas reach 401 with at least 1,620 crew and passengers missing. Mexican freighter Oaxaca sinks in Gulf of Mexico, marking the fifth Mexican victim. Allies rapidly expand ship production and convoy measures as raids continue.
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Associated Prines
Americas
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
Associated Press
Havana
Ingham
Gulf of Mexico
Oaxaca
Navy union pact ends New York naval strike threat
The signing of a Navy union agreement ends a strike threat by 22 000 AFL building trades workers on 100 000 000 of naval projects in the New York metropolitan area. Under the pact with the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, 1 100 WPA workers on the 4 000 000 Fort Shenugler project will be removed from most jobs. The union had threatened a strike last week unless these WPA workers were reassigned, claiming the project could be finished faster.
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New York
AFL Building Trades
Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks
Building and Construction Trades Council of
Greater New York
WPA
Navy
Fort Senhugler
Less Profit Reported By General Motors
General Motors Corporation reported that its net income for the second quarter of 1942 was 24,613,218 dollars, less than half of the 53,579,569 dollars earned in the same period a year earlier. The amount available for common stock dividends after preferred dividend requirements was 51 cents a share, down from last year's 13 cents per share.
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New York
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
Army Vaccination Warrants Despite Jaundice Cases
Chicago July 28 The Journal of the American Medical Association says vaccination of American soldiers against yellow fever is warranted despite jaundice cases. It notes 62 deaths from 28,000 jaundice cases amid millions vaccinated, and cites Stimson figures of 28,585 jaundice cases Jan 1 to July. Surgeons General expect vaccine form changes to prevent future cases. Also reports 40 German soldiers killed when saboteurs wrecked a troop train between Paris and Cherbourg, BBC relay via CBS.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal
Washington
Henry L. Stimson
James C. McGee
New York
Aris
Cherbourg
BBC
CBS
Tecumseh to stage Echoes pageant in outdoor Park
Tecumseh prepares a four day patriotic pageant Tecumseh Echoes opening with Governor Van Wagoner address at 4 p m Wednesday A large cast of 400 in period costumes plus 100 chorus members will perform 17 episodes tracing Lenawee County and Southern Michigan history from Indian times to World War I and the roaring twenties.
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Tetewrans Tecumseh
Mary Jane Hayden
Lenawee
Ruth Schneider
Lenawee County
Michigan
Tecumseh
Willow Run housing compromise eyed by WPB committee
A War Production Board panel may propose an immediate limited housing program near Henry Ford's Willow Run bomber plant. The plan aims to avoid long water mains and utility lines, with later expansion, and details on initial size remain undecided. Earlier estimates ranged from 108 million to about 29.75 million dollars.
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WLB
Washington
Henry
Special Committee
National Housing Agency
War Production Board
Willow Run Housing
John 8. Blandford, Jr
NHA
Mat
Parachutist reports near Washington investigated
Washington area reports that parachutists or other objects dropped from unidentified planes were being investigated today by military authorities. Third Service Command said reports came from Doubs Maryland near the Potomac, Shenandoah Junction West Virginia, and Bartgis Store near Annapolis. An unidentified plane was reported to the Army War Center at about 10:30 p.m. as investigations by state police, the state guard, the FBI, and military intelligence agents continue.
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Balismmunss
Washington
Third Service Command
Doubs
Potomac River
Shenandoah Junction
W. Va
Harpers Ferry
Bartgis
Annapolis
Army War Center
State ‘Police
State Guard
The
PHI
Service. Com
Nang
Petition Protests Detroit Rent Ceiling Date
A Detroit area landlord group filed a petition with the Office of Price Administration challenging the April 1 1941 maximum rent date. They contend unemployment and limited war work in Detroit justify a date equal to Chicago and others or an act amendment, with potential appeals to the emergency court of appeal if unresolved. Attorneys note OPA must respond within 30 days and an oral hearing may follow.
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Detroit
Michigan
Tooday
Office of Price Administration
Washington
Leon Henderson
OPA
Henderson
Chicago
Buffalo
Toledo
Frank W. Donovan
Donovan
Court of Appeal
United States
Shurch 10 Ask Ban On Alcohol Industry
Grand Rapids reports delegates gather for the Disciples of Christ sixity convention. The denomination plans to push for elimination of the alcoholic beverage industry during the war and to urge Congress to pass the Sheppard bill to allow military authorities to control liquor sales near bases. The social welfare department cites rising alcohol consumption in Washington and DC crime and accidents as justification.
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Grand Rapids
PHA
Disciples of Christ
Washington
Congress
Social Welfare) Department
Bureau of Internal Revenue
District of Columbia
Germans Press Red Army As They Threaten Caucasus Oil Axis
Moscow dispatch reports German forces, said by Red Star to be many times superior to defenders, drive toward the Caucasus from Rostov and Novocherkassk. Allied and Soviet lines say Soviet troops fall back while Stuka bombers and tanks bolster the offensive along the Don and near Stalingrad.
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Moscow
Germany
North Caucasus
Rostov
Novocherkassk
Soviet Union
Caucasus
Russia
Red Star
Stalingrad
Don
Tsimlyansk
Leit
Volga
Novacherkeassk
Bataisk
trans-Con
Red Army
Bermans Execute 28 For Sabotage Acts Vichy
German authorities announced the execution at Lille of 28 men for sabotage weapons possession and communist activity, most of them Lille mine workers. Douai courts jailed two for stealing ration cards and 28 others for a total of 40 years. Hostages were reportedly arrested after five fires in one night near Courtrai. Brussels fined 5 million Belgium francs for attacks on collaborators, with 50 hostages to be deported to Polish war camps. A prior 2.9 million franc fine remains. A special tax will collect the fines in Brussels and environs.
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Vichy
Lille
Douai
Courtrai
Belgium
Brussels
Warl
Doolittle Raid On Tokyo Shocks Interned Americans Abroad
In an internment camp between Tokyo and Yokohama, an April air raid involving a Doolittle raid fighter thrilled U S inmates. A twin motor plane skimmed roofs at 200 feet as anti aircraft bursts lit the sky. Reports say Nagoya Kawasaki Osaka and Nagoya plants suffered damage and 350 Kawasaki workers died. A later Japanese mass marine burial item appeared.
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Joseph Dynan
AP Tokyo
Lourenco Marques
Tanagawa Valley
Fuji
Yokohama
Uliy
Kobe
Osaka
Nagoya
Kawasaki
Yokosuka
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Supreme Court
WAACS
Des Moines
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Fort Des Moines
Meawwhile
Caribbean
England
East Anglia
Northern Ireland
RAF
Hamburg
Willow Run
Washington Area
Shurch
Bermans
Doolittle
5Th Symphony
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