Airport committee seeks extension to study Lenawee plan
The Lenawee board of supervisors airport committee asked for a one month extension to review the city county airport proposal. Chairman Leland Brighton cited “complicated details” including runway safety margins and emergency landing space. The panel plans to meet again before the board session on April 10 to report findings and hear from state aeronautics director Thomas Walsh.
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Lenawee
Adrian
Rongus
Brighton
Ellis
Lena- Wee
Thomas E. Walsh
State Board of Aeronautics
Jolai Mering
Supervisors’ Airport Committee
City Airport Commission
Cliniy
Maurice E. Tripy Éptke
Soldiers drown in training accident near lake
In Arkansas near Herve a training accident on a large artificial lake killed eleven soldiers of the 66th Division, most from Company M, 264th Infantry. Two assault boats were involved as men were ferried across the river after maneuvers. Bodies were recovered and a board of inquiry named. Last week a surface mine exploded at the camp, killing 12 and wounding 16.
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Little Rock
Avk
Canin Robinson
Herve
Sipper
66Th
Allied Bombers Blast Vienna and Creil Rail Center
U S Allied headquarters reported that heavy bomber formations from the Mediterranean air force hit Vienna in old Austria and Creil near Paris, with no German fighters present. Ground resistance was moderate at Creil as Marauder bombers aided by P 47s struck the rail center.
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Alliz
Naples
Vienna
Austria
Ninth Air Force
Briain
Creil
Paris
U. S
MacArthur Declares Return to the Philippine Islands
Australian ceremony decorates General MacArthur with the Grand Cross of the Order of Bath. He says his sole aim remains to return to the Philippines, reiterating his mission in a Canberra dinner address as Governor General Gowrie honors him for role in the Pacific campaign.
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Canberra
Australia
MacArthur
Philippine Islands
Order of Bath
Philippines
Lord Gowrie
MacArster
Papuin
Blissfield to Host Great Lakes Sugar Refinery Next Fall
A. C. Joost of the Great Lakes Sugar Company announced Blissfield will host a sugar refinery next fall with an 11 500 acre beet contract plan. Beets from the area will again go to Ohio. payment will be 13.30 a ton for beets at 16.2 sugar content. The four county area includes Lenawee and Washtenaw in Michigan and Fulton in Ohio with 42 000 acres in 1942. 4 000 in Lenawee.
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Blissfield
Ilenawee County
A. C. Joost
Great Lakes Sugar Company
Blissfield Sugar Yefinery
Ohio
Joost
Great Lakes Company
Beet Growers Association
Jslowers
Elmasfield
Chiled States Employment Service
Ouiaher
Monroe
Lenatwees
Ford plant engine production drop shocks air forces
Detroit news reports a drop in vital engine production at Ford’s Rouge plant, blamed on recent work stoppages and a barricade incident. Ford confirms 22 more nighttime suspensions, with unions denying endorsement of disciplinary actions. Separately in Toledo, three Weiland sisters were killed when their car was struck at Eggleston road by a New York Central passenger train en route to Rossford ordnance depot.
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Detroit
Foard Motor Co
Spakesman
Army Air Forces
Rouge
RAF
Ford
R. J. Thomas
theUnited Automobile Workers
CIO
Toledo
New York Central
Eggies‘ton Road Crossing
Rossford Ordance
Lucille Weiland
Pearl Weiland
Lovell ‘Weiland
American air force claims destroy 125 German planes in Augsburg raid
London dispatch says U S air force engaged a large Luftwaffe defense over Augsburg and Ulm in southern Germany. Fortress and Liberator crews claimed 45 enemy single and twin engined aircraft. 12 American fighters were shot down and 22 bombers failed to return. The raid reportedly involved up to 850 planes, with German radio reporting attacks on Augsburg and Ulm amid heavy overcast.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Ulm
Friedrichshasen
Germany
U.S
Berlin
United States Strategic Air Corve
Augsburg
Stuttart
Conmtini
Furn 19
Troops Land on Manus Island in Allied Push
Allied forces on Manus Island reported a manpower landing designed to eliminate remaining Japanese resistance. U.S. troops pushed toward Lourengau village after landing near Lagos Inissina on the northeast coast, suffering few casualties from mines and booby traps. The advance continued despite pillboxes and machine gun nests as air raids struck Wewak and Bougainville, with significant bomb tonnage and several Japanese planes shot down.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Marca 17
Lorengau
Manus Island
Admiralty Group
Bismarck
Lourengau
Airrome
Lagos Inissina
Manus
Protess
Los Negros Island
Mamote Ai Strip
Low Ogats
Wewak
New Guinea
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Wewak Sax
Rabant
New Britain
Empress Augusta Bay
New Ireland
Pons
Sailor Escapes Japanese Prison Camp aiding others
SEATTLE March 174 An American sailor named Japaul Little 22 an ordnance man third class escaped from a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines and returned to help liberate American war prisoners his mother Mrs L E Jackson of Seattle said last night Little had been missing in action at Corregidor and had been held prisoner 22 months The Navy Bureau of Navigation sent a sealed message three weeks ago to Mrs Jackson and a naval officer delivered it No details of other escaped prisoners aided by Little were announced.
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Seattle
Philippines
L. E. Jackson
Japaul Little
Little
Adrian Wife Rejoices as Solders Bigamy Arrest Emerges
Adrian wife of a Lansing army private learns of her husband Luce’s bigamy arrest after he deserted and later confessed to a prior marriage. He waived a court hearing and remains jailed on a 2500 dollar bond. The couple, now separated, had seven children. the wife also remarried during the case.
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Donna
Robert
Lansing
Ates
An Shi Barkalian Point
New York
Luce
Ruth Ann
Tulles
Anita. A. Robert
Giary
Phin
Helen Ward
Army Manpower View Affects Production In War Effort
Washington A surge in army manpower demands forced shifts in civilian production. The War Production Board faced a clash between munitions needs and the draft plan to pull 240,000 men under 25 from civilian work, risking serious production losses. Nelson warned executives that the army and navy require men, while he remained confident essential munitions programs could be protected with targeted exemptions.
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Washington
Fac
Franstice- Terger
Donald M. Nelson
Jim
Army
Navy
War Production Board
Burt
Brag Direct
Nelson
Nelsom
McNute
Hudson Soldier Killed in Action in World War II
Tech Sgt Benton E Lowry, former Hudson A P store manager, has been declared killed in action after previously being reported missing. He enlisted in 1942, served as radio operator and swaner on a bomber, and is survived by his wife in Napoleon Ohio, two sons, two daughters, a sister Dorathy Lowry, and a brother Russell in Italy. The Red Cross notified his wife through the German government.
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Hudson
Tech
Benton E. Lowry
Hudson A. & P
Napoleon
Ohio
Red Cross
Lowry
Dorothy Lowry
Russell
Italy
Suit Promised to Balk Election Law
March 77 P1 Charles E Misner of Gram Haven head of Michigan Association of Democratic County Chairmen said an injunction suit will be filed to restrain enforcement of a law separating presidential and vice presidential ballots from state officer elections. He warned others not to file first, calling the act unconstitutional for amending the wrong portion of the law and noting Republican legislature aimed to weaken Roosevelt era electoral practices.
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Lansing
Charles E. Misner
Gram Haven
Michigan Association of Democratic
Roosevelt Cram
Nekels
Manchester Officer Dies in Plane Crash in Virginia
Charleston army air base released names and kin of nine of 11 crew killed when a bomber crashed into Built Mountain near Stuart Virginia Wednesday night. Two victims remain unidentified. Identified was 2nd Lt Wayne R Alvar bombardier son of Lewis H Alvar Route 1 Manchester Michigan. Noted optometrist Dr Ernest Elmer dies in Muskegon after illness. pioneer in optometry and coiner of the term.
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Manchester
Charleston
Charleston Army Air Base
Buil Mountain
Virginia
Stuart
Wayne R. Alvar
Bombardier
Lewis H. Alvar
Mich
Muskegon
Ernest Elmer
Michigan
Eimer
Grand Rapids
Nazis fail to halt Red drives on Odessa and Nikolaev
Moscow reports March 17 that German forces north and east of Odessa and Nikolaev are being pushed back by the Red Army. Russian units advance within ten miles of Odessa as combat widens along the Odessa to Proskurov rail corridor. Evacuation by rail and sea grows likely as German defenses near the Dnieper and Carpathians weaken.
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Moscow
Odessa
Nikolaev
Ukraine
Black Sea
von Mannstein
Lower Rus
Proskurov
Czechoslovakia
Osiessa
Slobodzega
Bris-]larabia
Marshal Konev
Pravda
Kanev
Dhester River
Carpathian Mountains
Russia
Army Bombers Make First Truk Attack
Headquarters at Pearl Harbor reports a first land based bombing raid on Truk targeting the central Pacific approach to Japan. The attack follows February strikes by carriers against Truk and includes new raids on Eniwetok Kwalatein Orotuk and Ponape in the Carolines and in the Marshall Islands.
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Truk
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Keystone
Central Pacific
Japan
Marshalls
Seventh Army Airforce
Carolines
Eniwetok
Marshalls Ai
Kwalatein Atoll
Trek
Dublin
Eten
Orotuk
Ponape
Marishalls
Correspondents Injured As Villa Bombed By Rim
Four American war correspondents were injured this morning when bombs hit Villa Virtue Fifth Army public relations headquarters and the home. The injured include William Strand of the Chicago Tribune Vick Fowler of the Dallas News Sgt George Slim Aarons of Yank and George Tucker of the Associated Press. All received the Purple Heart. Ernie Pyle escaped with a scratch.
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Villa
Villa Virtue Fifth Army Public
William Strand
Chicago ‘Tribune
Vick Fowler
Dallas News
Sgt
George
Slim") Aarons
Yank Magazine
George Tucker
Associated Press
Ernie Pyle
United Features Syndicate
No Joy In Ireland This St Patrick Day 1940
Dublin on St Patrick day shows uneasy peace as Churchill warns Ireland isolation and possible information leakage about Allied pre invasion plans. pubs closed and crowds sparse with a Red Cross nurse group and 200 unarmed Home guards marching, national army kept at barracks.
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Dublin
St. Patrick's Day
Churchill
Eire
Ireland
England
O'Connell Street
Red Cross
National Army
It's a Big Day for O'Briens St Patrick's Day Parade
New York celebrates the 116th St Patrick's Day parade with 50 000 marchers along Fifth Avenue. A million spectators are expected as Capt Stephen J Meaney grand marshal from the Fighting 69th participates, while officials review the procession from 64th Street and St Patrick's Cathedral.
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New York
O'Hoolinans
O'Tooles
O’briens
Fifth Avenue
Erin
Stephen J. Mean
Makin Island
64Th Street
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Finland Expects Little Hope for Peace With Russia
Stockholm reports Finland delivered its reply to Russia on armistice terms and expressed little hope for peace. The Finnish note was sent from Stockholm via Alexandra Kollontay and authorities expect a Moscow receipt tomorrow. Parliament reportedly rejected terms in secret, with Russian demands for seven divisions and Red Army cooperation a key sticking point.
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Stockholm
Finland
Russiaa
Associated Press
Alexandra Kollontay
Moscow
Russia
Roosevelt
Witk
Germany
Gustav
Marcsha
Carl Mannerheim
Red Army
Helsinki
Fifth Army gains heights overlooking Cassino town
Allied forces capture several prominent elevations west and northeast of Cassino after bombed town fighting. New Zealand and Indian troops push through Rubble as engineers clear routes and build a 70 foot bridge. German resistance remains stiff in Monte Cassino ruins and Abbey positions. Casualties and prisoners reported as forces press toward the Liri valley and Rome.
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Naples
Fifth Army
New Zealand
Casilina
Lirik
Rome
Monte Cassino
Cassino
Carano
J Carroceto
Aton Monastery
Casismo
Associated Press
Lynn Heinzerling
Cross
New Petrillo Inquiry Is Set
Washington reports a new Senate inquiry into James Petrillo's activity as a high school music ban is being reopened by Chairman Clark. An interstate commerce subcommittee will hear from Joseph Maddy of Interlochen Camp about Petrillo’s control over broadcasts and recordings and the 1943 ban on school bands.
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Washington
Senate
James Caesar Petrillo
Clark
D-Idaho
Interstate Commerce
Petrillo Bank
Interlochen
Mich
Joseph E. Madde
American Federation of Musicians
Maddy
International Musician
Petrillo
Department of Justice
Clark Committee
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Virgil Pifer
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Snites Woof
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Linehan & Linehal
Nkolaev
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Carpathian
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