Mock Air Raid Drill Sets Fire Crews at Four Stations
Adrien's civilian defense plan moves ahead as Chief Jack Hawley designates four emergency stations and assigns auxiliary firemen to posts around the city. Three regular engines and a rural truck will answer at first warning, with 3:30 pm Friday mobilization for practice.
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Adrign
Jack Hawley
Adran Fire Department
Hawley
Civil Air Patrol
Scott
West Meumee
Greenly Streets
Matthes Coal Company
East Mattmes
Dean Streets
Rinehart
Center
Erie Streets
East Church Street
Robert Savage
Fred Westrate
William Wiebeck
Earl Woemer
John Bieri
Berg Gay
Leland Harrington
Birger Johnson
Walter Kindsehy
Ernest Krall
Mathew Lunn
K. L. Mepes
Leslie McNair
Charles Michael
Norman Mountain
Eddie Brooker
Frank Biscupski
Arthur Palmer
Albert Meitzner
Richard van Auker
Edwin Hadden
Elmer Kapnick
Victor Hughes
Harry Hopper
Forest Smith
Reinhold Riebe
Roy Sweet
Bernard Seeburger
Fred Westfall
Frank Kessler
Harry Mann
Carl Stark
Henny Stange
Donald Snedeker
W. J. Talford
Maynard Westgate
Arthur Wilds
J. E. Wilkerson
Leland Green
George Greiner
Frederick Holtz
Arthur Macham
Walter Krueger
Perry Ackley
Sol Beavers
Glen Barnhart
R. J. Briggs
Earl Copeland
Ivan Armstrong
Irvin Fox
Clarence Remmele
Cer
Wolf
Clifford Pifer
Charles Renninger
Claire Peck
John Bauer
L. Schweikert
Paul Howe
Henry Trosien
Center and
Seth Shank
Dean Sherman
H. L. Talmadge
Dewey Vescelius
James Warner
Clarence Hunter
Reinhold Filter
G. Gardner
A. Hohnstreiter
Lennie Kidd
Loren Fergus
Bryning Collins
Arthur Avis
L. J. Albro
Elmer Brooker
Peter Benner
Otis de Tine
Claude Dennis
Gerald Eldredge
W. J. Henning
Harold Broderick
Clare Burch
Dave Miller
Carl Leffelhart
Joseph Beaubien
Pierson Tethbone
Harold Fey
Earl Gratem
Sauter Brothers in Army Air Corps and Artillery
Lenawee men enlist and train in the U S Army during World War II. Pvt Alvin E. Sauter, 25, son of Edward and Mrs. Sauter, graduates soon from Keesler Field air mechanics school in Mississippi after basic training at Jefferson Barracks Missouri. Brother Pvt Francis George Sauter, 23, trained at Fort Sill Oklahoma in field artillery then Fort Russell Texas and Camp Bowie Texas. Two younger Sauter brothers vow to enlist. Both graduates of St Joseph's.
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Alvin E. Sauter
Edward G. Sauter
Croswell Street
U. S. Army Air Mechanics School
Keesler Field
Buoxi
Miss
Army
Sauter
Air Corps
Jefferson Barracks
Francis George Sauter
Alvin
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Fort Russell
Tex
Camp Bowie
St Joseph's
Bealty Expands War Production With Armor Plant
The Gerity-Adrian Corporation buys the old United Electric Co building on Logan Street to convert into an armor plate heat treating plant employing about 3150 workers. A 90 foot furnace will be installed. operation expected around June 1. Plant No 3 makes jeep parts and artillery components. officials seek more work for the Beecher Street main plant. The firm also developed a surface grinder, with three completed and seven nearing completion. output plans rise from 50 to 150 monthly. Nickel use restrictions have reduced Plant No 1 output. grinders will employ many of the 500 workers.
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Gerity-Adrian Corporation
United Electric Co
Logan Street
Gerity-Adrian
Line-O-Scribe
James Gerity Jr
Beecher Street
Gerity
Britton Holds First Blackout Drill To Aid Air Defense
Britton residents staged a Monday night blackout drill to learn steps for invisibility from the air and to deter the town from guiding nearby industries. The 9 pm alarm used a fire bell, while Boy Scouts checked doors, and motorists were urged to switch off lights at the signal. One business left its lights on, and one motorist threw a beer bottle at the air raid warning. Civil defense logged the car’s license number. The council will buy a new siren to ensure all residents hear future alarms.
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Britton
Britten
Idea
Dutch Still Fight Japanese Invaders in Southeast Asia
Melbourne reports indicate Dutch resistance persists in Central Borneo Central Sumatra and Celebes with gains against Japanese forces. Meanwhile Rising Sun bombers hit Port Moresby for a third straight day underscoring fears of a southern New Guinea invasion route. Limited raid details and no casualties reported.
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Melbourne
Austrasia
Australia
Borneo
Sumatra
Celebes
Rising Sun
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Zoo
Cronday
Japanese Expected to Attack Siberia in 1942
London reports military experts foresee a spring 1942 Japanese invasion of Siberia and Vladivostok to threaten US bases and divert Allied forces. The plan would place Vladivostok within bomber reach of Tokyo Yokohama Nagasaki and could give Japan a secondary base for Alaska operations.
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Associated Fress
London
Japan
Siberia
Russia
Pacific
Vladivostok
Ussr
United States
Tokyo
Yokohama
Nagasaki
Vladivostok[gould
Alaska
Axis
United Nations
Superia
Cripps Opens Talks With Indian Leaders in New Delhi
Sir Stafford Cripps held his first conference with Congress Party leaders in New Delhi on March 25 to discuss his London proposals for Indian freedom. Favorable reception echoed in the central legislative assembly as both Congress and Moslem League said the plan could allow self government with a right to secede from Britain. Maulana Abdul Azad, president of the Indian National Congress, was first to meet Cripps, accompanied by a working committee member.
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New Delhi
India
uPl
Sir Stafford Cripps
Congress Party
London
Central Legislative Assembly
Moslem League
British Empire
Cripps
Maulana
Abdul Azad
Indian National Congress Party
Azad
Unions Ready To Modify Overtime Pay Scales
The CIO and AFL signaled readiness to adjust overtime pay schemes amid White House push for change while Congress pursues a 48 hour week for war plants with a bonus plan. CIO and AFL actions aim to reduce costs on arms contracts and recover profits, but Roosevelt opposes broad 40 hour-week changes. Statesmen expect a showdown, possible compromise, as labor and production debates continue in Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
CIO
AFL
House
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
House Naval Committee
William Green
Philip Murray
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Green
APL
Turn To Labor
Flying Tiger Pilot Dies in Dawn Raid Over Thailand
Squadron Leader John Newkirk, famed as Starsdale Jack, is reported killed in action after a dawn raid near Chiengmai airfield. The Flying Tigers claimed 40 grounded Japanese planes hit, 7 Japanese planes set ablaze, as American planes fired 3,500 rounds.
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Runming
China
John
Starsdale Jack) Newkirk
Methany Volunteer Group
Flying Tiger
Lieut
Newkirk
Thailand
Chiengmai
Firm To Cut Executives Salaries In War Profits Probe
Wil Jack & Heintz Inc the aircraft parts producer cut profits to six percent and pledged price reductions after a congressional hearing accusing excess war profits. Executives incomes were slashed though bonuses and frequent worker lunches continued. President William S. Jack was cheered by employees as he outlined future policy for a firm with about 58 million dollars in war contracts for airplane motor starters and automatic pilots.
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Cleveland
Wil Jack & Heintz, Inc
William S. Jack
House
Naval Affairs Committee
James Everett Jacobs
Adrian
Liberty Center
Ohio
Lena
Wee County Jn
Jack
William Russell Jack
Ralph M. Heintz
Adelaide Bowman
Alfft
Prisoner Escapes From County Jail
James Everett Jacobs, 21, a former Adrian youth, fled the county jail and sought refuge near Liberty Center. The text notes possible army return and wartime contracts, with policy hints of profit cuts and salary adjustments amid ongoing corporate restructuring and bonus schemes.
Russians Report German Losses Exceed 149000 Since Feb 5
Moscow dispatches say German armies have suffered over 149000 killed since February 5, with 51700 on the Kalinin front through March 21. Soviet forces pushed west, repelled German counterattacks aided by 38 divisions, and fronts tally 40000, 16000, 14000, and about 10000 killed across Central, Leningrad, Northwestern, and Southern fronts. A Smolensk report notes violent battles with Russians in possession of 12 districts and ten contested. Marshal Timoshenko’s scouts penetrated Taganrog, shelling and exchanging fire with the garrison before withdrawing.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Kalinin Front
Central Front
Leningrad
Northwestern Front
Smolensk
United States
Semeon Timoshenko
Taganrog
Sea of Azov
Prison escape from Jackson jail after five to 15 year sentence
Jacobs, recently sentenced by Circuit Judge G Arthur Rathbun to five to 15 years, escaped an upstairs jail cell in Jackson early this morning. He fled through the kitchen and out the back, with his brother Duane still in a lower cell block. Deputies, city and state police searched the area and alerted nearby sheriffs, suspect possibly heading toward Wauseon Ohio. Jacobs, married with a three month old child, had prior larceny time at Michigan State Reformatory at Tonia, accounting for the longer term. Duane received one to 15 years.
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Jacobs
G. Arthur ‘Rathbun
Jackson
Duane
Sheriffs Office
Arch T. Wilson
Sherif Roscoe Scott
Mr. Wilson
North Main Street
Wauseon
Ohio
Michigan State Reformatory
Tonia
Japs take Andaman Islands in Indian Bay of Bengal
The Indian government reports the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal have been occupied by the Japanese. The archipelago lies north of Sumatra, about 450 miles southwest of Rangoon, and would enable a westward push toward India and the Trincomalee naval base in Ceylon. The raid began with an air attack on Port Blair, likely launched from Burma.
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Associated Press
NEW Delus
India
Andaman Islands
Bay of Bengal
Sumatra
Rangoon
Calcutta
Trincomalee
Ceylon
Andamans
London
Rome
Fokoyo
Port Biair
Burma
F Panhandle
Labor Must Accept War Conversion to Production
Washington March 23 The Nab er leaders like automobile manufacturers must convert to war production or face obsolescence The piece argues unions and labor leaders should abandon reformist tactics and fully mobilize for war production, likening conversion to Detroit to a necessary, inevitable shift and warning of being parked outside plants if they resist.
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Ashington
Naber
Niagara Falls
Tabor - Haiters
Fas
Asj
Detroit
Lippman
Curtin lists Australia's needs and war role in parliament
Prime Minister John Curtin told the House that Australia's two main needs are equipment and an equal voice with Allies. He said Australia has given General MacArthur authority as the highest order and will participate actively in operational direction of the war. Curtin stressed the weight of Australia's voice in United Nations councils and warned against a separate peace with Japan. He outlined MacArthur's supreme direction for land and sea forces and George Brett commanding the air force, noting Australia’s goal to function as an offensive base in driving Japan from the southwest Pacific.
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Canberra
Australia
John Curtin
House of Representatives
Dominion
Douglas MacArthur
Commonwealth
Pacific War Council
Washington
United Nations
Tojo
Carlin
Hideki Tojo
MacArthur
House
George H. Brett
Curtin
Japan
Pacific
American fighters raid Lae and clash in Torres Strait
U S and Allied forces report air and sea actions in the southwest Pacific. Nine P 40 fighters raid Lae as bombers and escort destroy Japanese air power. Mindanao assault yields heavy enemy losses and one American fatality. Destroyers Pillsbury and Edsall lost with up to 145 aboard, no survivors. Idaho Statesman halted by strike. Capital News shut by union action.
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Washington
Southwest Pacific
Australia
Britain
Torres Strait
New Guinea
Strait of Dover
Strait
Fire War Department
Lae
Philippine
Mindanao
Navy
U. S
Pillsbury
Edsall
Bali
Java
Boise
Idaho
Idaho Statesman
Boise Capital News
Taylor G. Robertson
Wake and Marcus Island Raids Highlight Pacific Attacks
Navy reports a Pacific task force bombed Wake and Marcus islands, destroying seaplanes, shore installations, and two patrol boats. The Marcus raid followed Wake operations as Vice Admiral Halsey led air strikes near Yokohama distance, with minimal American losses. The Wake clash confirmed Japan’s fortifications on Wake, which had fallen to U.S. Marines in December.
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Associated Press
Washington
Navy
Pacific Fleet
Wake
Marcus Islands
Mercus Island
Honolulu
Anaineeatt
Yokohama
Wake Island
Pacific
United States
F. Halsey
Marshall
Gilbert Islands
Navy Department
Pillsbury
Edsall
Java
Halsey
Marcus Island
Destroyers Presumed Lost Deadly Pacific Mission Update
Washington reports a Navy communiqué stating the U S destroyers Pillsbury and Edsall are missing since early March and must be presumed lost. The Pillsbury likely lost near Ball Strait after engagement in the Java Sea. Edsall's last position was south of Java. Both ships were part of the Asiatic fleet aiding against Japanese invasion in the southwest Pacific.
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Washington
Far East
U. S
Pillsbury
Edsall
Java
Southwest Pacific
Macassar Strait
Lombok Strait
Ball Site
The
War Production Board limits razor production for shavers
Washington reports a War Production Board order capping safety razors straight razors and razor blades under a limit program allowing an average of one blade per week per shaver. Also, Senator Thomas accuses the U S Chamber of Commerce of organizing a write-to-Congress campaign to disrupt the 40 hour week voluntary agreement, saying letters were sent March 20 urging aggressive local action.
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Washington
The
War Production Board
WPS
United States Chamber of Commerce
Thomas
Utah
National Chamber
Congress
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