Ration Clerk Walks Out Over Gas Plan in Lenawee
Lenawee county ration clerk Guy E. Nemire resigned after two years in protest of the Office of Price Administration plan to ration gasoline for tractor use. The resignation was accepted in Detroit as district officials city the move could affect farmers spring plowing. Nemire warned of a potential April 1 shortage if ample coupons aren’t available, citing about 4,000 tractors in the county and storage concerns.
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Guy E. Nemire
Chick
Lenawee County Ration Board
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Detroit
Nemire
T. R. Lassey
Mr. Nemire
E. Fhagerald
Lenawee County
National Bank of Adrian
Lwate
Filgas Found Not Guilty by Jury Grand Rapids
A nine jurors acquitted David Filgas of murdering Patricia Winters after two hours and forty minutes of deliberation. The dark haired defendant, who testified he remembered nothing after an explosion in a parked car, was cheered by onlookers as he returned home to Greenville. The Winters family thanked the judge for a fair trial.
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Grand Rapids
David Filgas
Loray
Smurder
Juvenil
Filgas J
Greenville
Courtream
Patricia Winters
Filgas
Miss Winters
Jay Wy Lin
Filges
EU Verribte
Patricia
William B. Brown
Winters
Boy Hit by Car Leaves One Year Old Unconscious
Ronald Rendel, one year old son of Mrs Velma Rendel of Adrian Route 2, was struck by a car driven by Leland Blain of Route 2 at 815 last night on Gorman Road, about a half mile west of Gorman. He remained unconscious at Emma L Bixby hospital at noon today as sheriff s officers investigated.
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Ronald Rendel
Velma Rendel
Adrian
Leland Blain
Emma L. Bixby
Ronalds
Gorman Road
Gorman
Blain
Ronald
Confesses Shooting Watchman for Gun
Detroit police report 27 year old Blake admitted shooting and killing Julius Sczepanski the night watchman at the Viviano Bros plant claiming he needed a gun for holdups to obtain money to pay taxes. Blake was arrested after seeking treatment for a self inflicted gunshot wound at Thomas Memorial hospital where he worked as a chef.
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Detroit
Geph Blake
Macaroni Plant
Julius Sczepanski
Viviano Bros
Julian G. MacIntosh
Blake
Thomas Memorial Hospital
Macintosh
Russians Drive West Closer To Lwow Within Seventy Miles
Moscow reports Russian forces press a westward advance through old Poland toward Lwow within seven miles, as Soviet spearheads breach German lines near Vinnitsa and Blahodarny towns. Troops seize Dobno area, threaten Tarnopol and Proskurey, and cut the Odessa Lwow rail line near Zhmerinka.
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Livow
Old Poland
Moscow
Dniester
Oll
Poland
Dobno
Demidorka
Rumania
Vinnitsa
Klembovka
Olstanka
Bessarabia
Dubno
Zhukov
Ukraine
von Malmstein
Russia
Zhukovs
Tarnopol
Proskurey
Tass
Stockholm
Cracow
Black Sea
Nikolaev
Ingulka
Novo-Delovskoye
Isidava
Zhmerinks
Orelavyon
Odessa-Lwow
Zhmerinka
Supervisors Adjourn March Meeting State Fiscal Report
The county board of supervisors adjourned the March session after committee reports. The board will reconvene April 11 at 194 m. Clarke W. Baldwin was named chair of the penal fines committee. Justices reported fines totaling 8721.86 and costs 3014.80, with total collections 12636.66 for March 1 1945 through March 1 1944. Committees of the 1933 board were held over until the next meeting.
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County Board of Supervisors
M. Ka Eteet
Clarke W. Baldwin
Leland Brighton
Manus Island and Bougainville Lightning Advances Reported
General MacArthur announced Allied forces seized Manus land airdrome near Lorengau and pushed 600 yards toward the town. At Empress Augusta Bay Bougainville defenses were broken, with over 1,100 Japanese dead, while Allied destroyers and air power supported progress. Liberator bombers attacked Surabaya and Den Pasar. Wewak raid reached 999-ton total.
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Southwest Pacific
Manus
Admiralties
Lorengau
Mac Arthur
First Cavalry Division
Los Negros Island
Lorengan
Bath
Americal
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Fred Hampson
Associated Press
MacArthur
Bougainville
Peared Greak
Soerabaja
Java
Netherlands East Indies
Soerahaja
den Pasar
Bali
Tokyo Says Masses Will Pay More For Prosecution of War
Tokyo radio reports the Japanese government plans to shift heavier wartime costs onto workers. It says increased taxation on the laboring classes is inevitable and urges moderate corporate tax cuts to aid industry. The Japanese Diet is due to hold plenary sessions in Tokyo on March 22, 28, and 24.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
U. S
Rario
dJap
Wold
Methodical Allied Advance Presses Cassino Warfront
Allied HQ reports Fifth Army tanks and infantry methodically reducing resistance in Cassino and surrounding hills. Heavy fighting continues with infantry supported by tanks, artillery, and aircraft. New Zealand troops push toward the railroad station as air and ground forces clash. engineers bridge the Ranrirto River to speed the advance while German fighters counter with dive bombing and anti-tank fire.
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Naples
Fifth Army
Cassino
Anzio
Eighth Army
Nouthwest
Cassing
New Zealand
Focke-Wolfe
Ranirto
Senator Pushes New Wage Formula Amid Living Cost Strain
Washington March 18 Senator Thomas of Utah tells reporters a new wage formula is needed to address rising living costs. He criticizes the Little Steel formula for lagging behind costs and says wage ceilings should be reconsidered by Congress or the White House. Also notes appointment as alternate to Labor Secretary Perkins for the ILO meeting in Philadelphia next month. Auction notices and market page listings follow.
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Washington
Thomas
Utah
Senate Labor Committee
Congress
Tevets
Roosevelt
Perkins
International Slabor
Philadelphia
Inquirer
WLB
White House
Tax collection tops in 25 years in Tecumseh township
The 1943 county tax collection reached $1,099,932, described by county tax clerk Harry Osgood as 97.8 percent and the best in 25 years. The total levy was $1,124,429 with $24497 uncollected, covering township, school, drain and city taxes but excluding village summer taxes. Army Sculs, treasurer, reported Tecumseh township at 98.2 percent with $43,655 collected of $44,435.
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Onvenance
Harry Osgood
Osfgood
Tecumseh Township
Army Sculs
Allied bombers cross channel in daylight offensive
Allied formations head across the Strait of Dover for a daylight raid after RAF Mosquitos returned from a night mission in western Germany. The attack included fighters and bombers striking targets in France, Holland, and northern Italy with Vienna a major objective and Creil near Paris hit as part of the ongoing anti invasion offensive.
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Strait of Dover
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Boulogne
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Vienna
Austria
France
Holland
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Olge
Creil
Pari
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Hamburg
Duesseldorf
Frankfurt
Bertin
Tyaly
Beliberg
Yugoselav
Sibenik
Cacena
Pescara
Italy
Thunderbolts
Danube
Enem
Inpoors
Sanhie
Vatican
Vatican City
Bucharest
U.S
Diplomats Question Russian Consultation Ties
Washington March 13 diplomats question whether Russia is avoiding consultation with the United States and Britain on Europe policy after Moscow recognition of Badoglio in Italy. Secretary Hull notes lack of advance warning as Stettinius prepares to visit London to discuss postwar European settlements with Bowman and Matthews. The French De Gaulle committee policy, Finland’s war status, and potential shifts in Allied talks loom as issues for Stettinius.
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Russia
Badoglia
Italy
United ‘States
Britain
Edward R. Stellinius
London
United Nations
Rulf
United States
Moscow Intennion
Badoglio
Bartoglio
Aiite
Burme
Moscow
French Committee of National Liberation
Hull
Stellinius
Europe
Isaiah Bowman
Johns Hopkins University
H. Freeman Matthews
State Department
General de Gaulle
Stettinius
Finland
Finns cling to slim peace hope amid tense Moscow talks
Helsinki sources say Finland still seeks an armistice and a clearer view of Russia’s six conditions before Moscow talks. The note, delivered at the Russian legation in Stockholm, follows reports parliament rejected terms 160 to 40. Heavy troop movements near Kandalakshe. Finns mobilize toward the front with supplies in steady flow.
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Helline
Russia
Ihe
Finland
Krem
Moscow
Stockholm
Kandalakshe
Berlin
Svenska Daghlan Det
Dies to Answer Winchell on Radio March 26
Washington March 18 Chairman Martin Dies of the House Un American Activities Committee accepted an invitation to follow Walter Winchell on the radio March 26. He hinted at inviting Winchell to testify under subpoena as part of his inquiry into what he calls a campaign to smear Congress. Winchell said he had asked to be called before the committee but they do not want him.
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Washington
Martin Dies
House Committee On Un-American Activities Today
Walter Winchell
Texas Democrat
O ‘Timals
Winchell
Jergens Company
Blue Network
Dies
Texan
Mark Woods
Miami Beach
Caroline Islands Raided 37 Times in Pacific Air Offensive
U S Pacific Fleet reports 37 raids on Caroline Islands including Ponape and Trak from mid January to March 18. Ormluk Pingelap and Feh. 118 and 17 carrier strikes cited with Nimitz press release noting Ponape population decline and Ponape town laid waste after repeated air assaults.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Caroline Islands
Ponape
Trak
Insale
Oroluk
Pingelap Tiwice
Adm
Nimitz
Ormluk
Pingelap
Liberators
Marshalls
Kwajalein
Carolines
Cancer treatment touted by London Daily Mail
The Daily Mail reported a new cancer treatment from Hosa laboratories, a charity trust funded research center. The method, based on parathyroid island theory, aims to prevent growth and may cause regression. Sir George Mitcheson, MP and founder of the labs, voiced cautious optimism about early results in hopeless cases.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Hosa Laboratories
Sir George, Mitcheson
House plan would let 30 million dodge tax returns
Washington report outlines a new streamliner tax aiming to free about 30 million people from filing income tax returns. The plan, praised by House Ways and Means Chair Daughton and Rep Carlson, would shift how withholding and final tax payments are handled and includes broad changes to exemptions and rates while keeping the April 15 filing deadline for 1944.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Daughton
D- Inc
Carlson
House
Treasury
Rubber Director Says Draft Rule Will Cut Output One Third
Rubber Director Bradley Dewey warned that a draft rule aimed at occupa tional deferments will slash civilian tire production by about one third. He said the industry lacks permanent substitutes and warned many plants cannot operate without highly trained technicians.
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Washington
Armed Services
Bradley Dewey
Dewey
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