Lindahl Orders Store Lights Off At Closing Hour
Mayor H W Lindahl issued a blackout order restricting store lights after closing hours in Adrian under the new ordinance. Lights may stay on only if someone remains on premises to turn them off during an air raid alert. Civil defense chief Karl Hoch urged siren changes. mayor favored eventual special sirens. City appropriated funds for civil defense council and appointed Birger E Johnson to the fire department probationary post.
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H. W. Lindahl
Adrian
Devils Lake
Lundanl
Karl B. Hoch
Lundahl
City Civilian Defense Council
Birger E. Johnson
Senate To Get Price Bill Thursday
Washington Sept 9 Administration leaders labored over a comprehensive farm price stabilization bill to be introduced in the Senate tomorrow and taken up by the banking committee soon. Senator Brown outlined a broad program aiming to control industrial wages and crop levels, emphasizing urgent action by Congress.
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Associated Fress
Washington
Roosevelt
Brown
D-Mich
Senate
Congress
Capitol Hill
Car Hits Train in Hart County Fatalities Reported
Three youths from Hart were killed outright and a fourth fatally injured when their car collided with a six car freight train two miles south of Lulingium on US-31 shortly after midnight. Names Morris Ruse 20 Christian Jensen 20 Robert Quail 17 Arnold Lambrix 22. Lambrix died at Paulina Stearns hospital. A switchman and four man crew attempted to flag the car but it failed to stop. One freight car wheel derailed. Cars were being switched for Dow Chemical Company yards.
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Lulingium
Sep
iPr
Here
Rose
Dow Chemical Company
Watermelon Raiders Pay Fines In Court
Louis Downing Meredith Smith and Thomas Gittus all 17 of Britton faced trespassing charges after a raid on Herbert Roffs watermelon patch in Raisin township. Downing and Smith pled guilty and Gittus pleaded guilty to aiding. They paid fines and costs or served ten days in jail. Roff fired on a speeding car injuring Tecumseh teens Lois and Joyce Covell before being arraigned on felony assault and related charges. Lois suffered a thigh wound and Joyce a wrist flesh wound. both treated and recovering. Bernard Clark and Robert Krnitz, other party members, were not held.
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Louis Downing
Meredith Smith
Thomas Gittus
Britton
Herbert Roff
Raisin Township
Roff
Franklin J. Russell
Downing
Smith
Guiljty
Getius
Russell
Justice Russell
Lois Covell
Mars
Margaret Covell
Tecumseh
Joyce
Clem Covell
Tecumseh Hospital
Bernard Clark
Route 2
Robert Krnitz
Route 3
Milan
Michigan
Lenawee County Backs President On Price Controls
A Lenawee County survey shows residents from farmers to housewives largely support President Roosevelt’s plan to curb farm prices and wage scales to fight inflation. Most interviewees favor timely action, with few objectors, and many praise his radio address and congressional appeal.
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Lenawee County
Roosevelt
Congress
Lenawee
Victor Roussin
Adrian
Time confusion grips Idaho as clock mixup spreads
Idaho puzzled over time zones after counties shift to Pacific War Time while governor seeks Mountain War Time. Attorney General rules governor lacks authority to change state hours, urging adherence to federal and state law. North Idaho stays Pacific. South Idaho eyes Mountain. No court action filed yet.
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Boise
Idaho
Buddy
Chase A. Clark
Bett H. Miller
South Idaho
North Idaho
Miller
State House
Submarine nests attacked by RAF bombers
Heavy British squadrons bombed Nazi submarine nests at Le Havre and Cherbourg in overnight raids following daytime assaults on targets in western Germany. Berlin radio said areas of western Germany suffered material damage in residential districts. three RAF planes were reported lost.
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London
Germany
Boston
Douglas
le Havre
Cherbourg
DNB
Berlin
Defense Items Military Secret In the Future
A state civilian defense head ordered no publicity on the nature or quantity of federal equipment loaned to municipalities. The directive aims to protect the civilian population from potential enemy air raids and covers items the federal government may loan in the future.
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Adrian Civilsian Defense
H. W. Lundah
Harold A. Furlong
Householder Auction Notice From Bussfield Market Page
Henderson auctioneer announces a household goods sale listing Joe Dilworth and EnchonBer at 604 Market Page. Bids expected for a wide range of items in the late afternoon, with terms to be set by the executor.
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Househol Auction
Bussfield
Joe
Dilworth, Enchonber
Wakefield Fire Damages Naval Transport At Sea
The Wakefield formerly the Manhattan was severely damaged by a September 3 fire at sea. More than 1,600 passengers and crew were rescued with no loss of life, though several were injured. The ship’s hull remains at a port as salvage work continues. Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury led the defense as warships aided in evacuating the blazing liner.
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Harold Kerbany
Blissfield
Baa
Baa Ptiestogs
Karl B. Hoch
H. W. Lundahl
Clarence Krueger
Madison Street
Washington
Wakefield
Manhattan
Navy
Queen of
United States
Bipi
Daary
Hatitie
Naval Service
Harold Gardner Bradbury
Port Angeles
Coast Guard
Comtral
Allies Battle Jars for Mountain Pass in New Guinea
Allied forces slow Japanese troops at the steep Owen Stanley range approaches to a northern mountain pass about 300 miles from Port Moresby. General MacArthur reports Australian troops have effectively destroyed around 700 Japanese in the Milne Bay area as bombers attack warships supporting the invasion. Japanese cruiser and destroyer found near Normandy Island attacked in poor weather. air forces continue patrols.
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MacArthur
Australia
Owen Stanley
Port Moresby
Milne’ Bay
New Guinea
Dovgles MacArthur
Normandy Island
Munique
Government Moves To Control Operation Of Trucks and Taxis
The government moved to control operations of trucks busses and taxicabs by November 15 to safeguard war transportation. The Office of Defense Transportation required certificates of war necessity to obtain fuel tires and accessories, covering about 5 million trucks 150000 busses and 50000 cabs plus similar vehicles.
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Associated Press
Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Green D-Rd
Roosevelt
Seaboard
Green
Han
Joseph Eastman
Eastman
Office of Price Administration
Rommel's Supply Lines Raided by British Forces
Cairo reports long range British fighters struck Rommel's supply routes along the Salum Matruh road destroying trucks tank cars and staff cars. El Alamein airfield fighters shot down three German planes. Ground fighting continued with sparse activity in northern and central sectors. Italian plane and an unidentified biplane destroyed on the ground. One destroyer and two merchant ships hit by bombs. A central Mediterranean convoy attack damaged a vessel listing and leaking fuel.
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Cairo
Evin Rommel
Salum-Matruh
el Alamein
Mediterranean
President Thanks Physicians Aiding With Draft Work
Adrian doctors and dentists who served on the Lenawen County draft examining board received certificates of appreciation signed by President Roosevelt Brigadier General Hershey Gov VanWagoner and Col Rosecrans. The records show 13 physicians and dentists met on the board during the last year.
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Adrian
Lenawen
Roosevelt
Lewis
B. Hershey
Selective Service System
Murray D. VanWagoner
E M.rosecrans
Selective Service
Red Army Holds Before Stalingrad Fight Intensifies
Sept 9 dispatch says reinforced German divisions mass along Stalingrad western defenses to widen a wedge. The Red Army holds fiercely in every sector, with Nazi tanks and dive bombers deepening the salient from the west while Soviet troops repulse southwest flanking attacks. Midday communique notes no withdrawals and cites turns in the central front offensive.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Red Army
Break in U S Vichy ties looms after Laval protest
Washington reported that a rupture in United States Vichy relations neared as Laval protested American air raids over occupied France. The protest was rejected, and Laval was told bombing of German military sites in France would continue.
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Washington
United States
Vichy
France
Pierre Laval
State Department
Laval
le Havre
Rouenbath
Clichy
S. Pinkney -Tuck
Germany
Tuck
Vichy-United States
Dakar
Africa
May Boost U S Annual Tax Yield By Five Percent Victory Tax
Washington Sept 9 Senate Finance Committee backs a five per cent victory tax on income over 624 a year, aiming to lift annual tax yield beyond 25 billion. The plan would credit singles up to 300 and marrieds up to 1,000, with refunds via bonds. Treasury to estimate impact. Taft suggests merging with regular income tax. The measure would levy at source on wages, interest, dividends and other income, with credits for insurance, debt, and bonds to ease postwar costs.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Taft
Ohio
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Comsenile
Congressional
War At A Glance: Soviet Defense Holds Stalingrad Under Heavy Assault
Russia battles show Soviets reinforcing defense around Stalingrad as German troops pressure the city from west with tanks and aircraft. RAF raids strike Frankfurt as allied air power continues, while reports of attacks on British towns emerge. In Africa, British forces press Tull operations and attack Rommel's supply lines. Washington signals Senate moves toward additional wartime taxes.
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Associated Press
Russia
Hitler
Stalingrad
Europe
Frankfurt
Germany
Africa
Rommel
Washington
Senate
Wan
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