Beet Growers Board Calls for Full Crop in Blissfield Area
In Blissfield Michigan March 10 the Beet Growers Association and Great Lakes Sugar Company set aside past differences during a five hour session to pledge maximum sugar production during the war. Officials and county agents from Ottawa Lucas Fulton Lenawee Monroe and other interests heard assurances that labor will be available for the 1942 harvest and tires will be provided by the federal government to move beets, amid a note that sugar shortages have intensified in Washington. A letter to 1 200 members explains the urgency and duty of producers.
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Blissfield
Great Lakes Sugar Company
Beet Growers Association
Ottawa
Lucas
Fulton
Ohio
Lenaweek
Monroe
Michigan
Ward Andrews
Monroe County
Seven of eight Lenawee villages re elect presidents
Village elections across eight Lenawee county towns produced one clear party sweep for the People's party. Rex Crist won the presidency in Blissfeld 241 to 93 while Arthur Donaldson beat Elmer Seeger for clerk 283 to 53. Florence Stearns unopposed as treasurer 311. Harold Staver won trustee 207 to 136, John Murray re elected 212 to 107, J D Moore 243 to 93. Addison saw a four way tie for assessor with four candidates receiving two votes each. The deadlock to be resolved by Thursday night council vote.
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Lenawee
Rex Crist
Blissfeld
People's Party
Crist
Rost
Arthur Donaldson
Elmer Seeger
Florence Stearns
Harold Staver
Durward Hahn
John Murray
Fred Jorenhans
J. D. Moore
Milo Staup
Addison
Joseph McGrath
C. H. Ingersoll
Frances Saunders
Blanche Halderman
Payroll payroll savings plan eyed for city county and school staff
Tre William C Stark Post of the American Legion acts for the U S Treasury to urge a payroll savings plan for city county and school employees. Harold C Foote Clare M Hess and Howard F Godwin head the committee aiming to cover 100 county 60 city 120 school system workers and state employees. The Legion tests the plan in the state with potential national expansion if results are solid.
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Tre William C. Stark
American Legion
U. S. Treasury Department
Harold C. Foote
Clare M. Hess
Howard F. Godwin
Walter Kindsley
Post Somamander
Frank N. Ishey
Defense Savings Committee
Elmir
Baldwin
Allied troops may occupy Madagascar as war talks rise
London reports unofficial discussions that Allied forces might move to seize Vichy Madagascar in the Indian Ocean to safeguard supply lines after Singapore's fall. Observers note a Japanese mission has been in Madagascar for six weeks seeking naval and air bases.
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London
Madagascar
Indian Ocean
Africa
Singapore
Matagescar
Former Policeman Leads Lenawee Draft Group
Lenawee county men head to Fort Custer today with John C. Howell, ex Adrian police officer, as group leader. They reported to the Adrian armory at 7 00 am for departure by bus at 8 00 am. Another Lenawee contingent is set to leave March 18. Nelson to speak on March 20 about the production drive and labor council plans.
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Lenawee County
Fort Custer
Adrian
John C. Howell
Harry P. Cole
Lenawee
Lenawee Man Sent To Aid Rubber Production Drive
Ronald Pocklington of Britten a former Lenawee county ERA administrator and former superintendent of the county farm will leave Washington Sunday as a representative of the U S Department of Agriculture to promote rubber production in Central and South America. He will team with two other senior rubber production technicians Oscar Hargis of Texas and Cheeks of California on two year contracts. They will visit Central and South America to help establish a base of operations Panama Nicaragua Colombia and Costa Rica to stimulate rubber production and obtain supplies under Inter-American affairs direction.
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Ronald
Pocklington
Britten
Lenawee
Firestone
Liberia
Washington
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Central
South America
Japan
Malaya
East Indies
Oscar Hargis
Texas
Mr. Cheeks
California
Sen
Ior
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Nelson Rockefeller
Colombia
Atrocities At Hong Kong Attributed To Japanese Army
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden charged in the House of Commons that the Japanese army in Hong Kong committed wholesale atrocities in the occupied crown colony. He cited 50 British officers and men bayoneted after capture, mass rape and murder of women, and a district declared a brothel, with testimony from escapees confirming the brutal acts and comparing them to the Nanking massacre of 1937.
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Associated Press
London
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Hongkong
Crown Colony
Eden
Nanking
Michigan Struggles After Snow and Ice Storm
Michigan reels from a severe snow and ice storm causing floods, power outages, and fires. Roads blocked by gale winds. telephone and telegraph services crippled, especially in the Thumb. A 40 mile wind fed fires destroying cabins near Ferrysburg and damaging Allegan offices and a store. An explosion injured Harry Nelson, 30, while attempting to light a stove with kerosene.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Thumb
Raisnt
Britain
Saginaw Valley
Us- 31
Ferrysburg
Spring Lake
Effie Kling
Richard Greenvelt
Allegan Farmers’Protective Association
Allegan
Harry Nelson
Nelson
Dominion status for India nears immediate grant
London reports Britain weighing immediate dominion status for India as cabinet and Cripps push for equal rank within the commonwealth. Churchill shifts toward rapid action amid war pressures and tepid Indian sentiment. Turn to INDIA, Page 2.
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London
India
Britain
Stafford Cripps
Commonwealth
Canada
Churchill
Large RAF Bombing of Essen Strikes German City
March 10 report says RAF bombers set fires of great size in Essen, second straight night raid on the Krupp munitions hub. Three British planes reported missing. raids also hit other Ruhr targets. Berlin cited civilian casualties, while western Germany saw six German fighters shot down over northern France with five by Allied air forces.
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London
Essen
Krupp Munsions
Air Ministry
Ruhr
Germany
Berlin
France
Japanese announce heavy Foel loss in long war tally
Imperial HQ said Japanese forces sunk or damaged 767 enemy ships and captured 1,344, with 1,161 aircraft destroyed since the Pacific war began. The communiqué cited 79,999 enemy dead, 119,028 prisoners, and counts for tanks, automobiles, railway cars, machine guns, rifles, and vessels across Malaya, the Philippines, Burma, the East Indies, Hong Kong, and Guam.
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Tokyo
Imperial Headquarters
Pacific
Japan
Johore
Malaya
Philippines
Burma
Netherlands East Indies
British New Guinea
Hongkong
Guam
President Roosevelt warns against inflation and profiteering
President Roosevelt warned in a national broadcast that rising prices threaten wartime victory and national debt. He urged cooperation and vigilance to curb profiteering while leaders in Congress seek to modify farm price restrictions to ease inflationary pressure.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
National Farm Program
Rep. McCormack
Massachusetts
French Warships Handed Over to Germany
Tass reported from Cairo that about 40 French warships under construction at armistice time in 1940 were handed to Germany by the Vichy government. The transfer, part of a long-standing agreement, allegedly included submarines and vessels such as the battleship Clemenceau and a cruiser. Official Vichy circles later denied the Tass dispatch.
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London
Vichy
Germany
Tass
Cairo
Clemenceau
France
Catra
Burma supply line to China closed in Burma battle surge
Burmese and Japanese forces race toward oil fields of Irrawaddy and Indian riches as Rangoon falls. British report losses stretch from Rangoon to the Bengal coast, destroying public utilities at Bassein near the Irrawaddy delta. Public notice directs turn to Burma page 7.
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Associated Press
Mandalay
Burma
Rangoon
China
Irrawaddy
India
Rengoon
Bay of Bengal
Bassein
Jan
Irrawaddy River
Third Brazilian ship torpedoed stirs Atlantic tension
A distorted report notes a third Brazilian merchant ship torpedoed as Caribbean sea lanes face renewed menace. Survivors from a United States steamer named the Carodin were picked up at a Haiti port, though Lloyd’s register lists no such name.
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Mom
Caribbean
North
South America
Braz
Northwest
Haiti
United States
Lloyd’s Shipping Register
Four Japanese Carriers Sunk or Damaged in War Updates
Washington reports Navy figures showing four Japanese carriers sunk or damaged since the war began. Communiqué counts one carrier sunk by two torpedo hits and other ships damaged, lifting total Japanese vessels sunk by U S submarines to 18 and total enemy ships sunk by arms to 138. Marines disclose pilots Elrod and Tharin credited with sinking a Wake Island cruiser on Dec 14. two other pilots damaged another ship.
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Washington
Navy
Army
Japan
Rkewest
U.S
Western Pacific
Marine Corps
Wake Island
Henry T. Elrod
Thomasville
Frank Cunningham Tharin
Washington, D. C
Wake
David Donald Kliewer
Wheaton
Elrod
Tharin
Grumman
Dama
Japanese Make Third Landing on New Guinea
SYDNEY Australia March 10 Japanese forces landed a third time in New Guinea at Finschhafen 66 miles west of Lae. Bombing of Port Moresby continued as Australians watched for a possible armada. Details on the Finschhafen force were not released. A small air drome and harbor accommodate moderate vessels.
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Sydney
Australia
New Guinea
Finschhafen
Lae
Port Moresby
New Navy Chief King Consolidates War Command
The Associated Press reports Admiral Ernest J. King now controls combat operations and fleet planning after taking over duties from Admiral Stark. The shakeup, announced by Secretary Knox, links with Army staff cuts and prompts calls in Congress for a unified all services command under Roosevelt.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Ernest J. King
King
U.S
Harold R. Sterk
Knox
Admiral Stark
U. S. Naval
Army
Air Force
Navy
Air Corps
Austin
R-Vi
Hill
D-Ala
Stark
Roosevelt
New Lock At Sault Ste Marie To Be Built
Washington reports engineers plan to begin an eight million dollar lock project at Sault Ste. Marie Michigan within weeks. The measure, signed by Roosevelt, hinges on defense needs to secure iron ore for eastern mills. The lock will be about 300 feet long 80 feet wide and 30 feet deep.
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Washington
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Miles Reber
Roosevelt
Brown
D-Mich
Budget Bureau
Defense
St Mary’s River Canal
Great Lakes
Army and Navy
Congress
Continental
United States
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Ed. Weaver
Bert Jackson
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Sai
Ronald Pocklington
Central and
Hong Kong
RAF
Foel
Ernest. J. King
Tess
Atte Tet
Tmarch
Sylvania
Ohis
Linehan & Linehan
Auidances
Bearch
Riga
C. Greenwald
Bee Jetty
Triple Threat
Harold R. Stark
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