Farmer Is Killed In Crossing Crash As Freight Hits Car
Kansas City September 21. The American Legion moved to open membership to today’s fighting men. A proposal to amend the legion charter to include present veterans and their feminine relatives was approved by a national convention caucus. The plan aims to admit veterans of continuing wars. action seen as technical. Caucuses precede the national election with Roane Waring of Memphis favored for national commander. voting today viewed as a formality. Other candidates: Warren Atherton Stockton Frank Greenyn and V M Armstrong.
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Kansas City
American Legion
Congress
Legion
Woman's Auxiliary
Roane
Waring
Memphis
Utility Execu
Tive
Warren
Atherton
Stockton
Calif
Frank Greenyn
Milwaukee
V. M. Armstrong
Indiana
Frank Walker
Seneca Township
Bixby
the Legionnaires
Sand Creek Crossing
Bir
Walker
Ruth
Adrianon & Shopping
Lyons Church of Christ
Lillie L. Metcalf
Harold Bart Tett
Adrian
Ruth Ryder
Lyons
Stockwell Funeral Home
Morene
Oak Grove Cemetery
Mr. Smith
Lyons Church
Kampher
Tirpitz prowling Arctic sea lanes under Nazi cover
London dispatch reports the German battleship Tirpitz leaving Trondheim to patrol Arctic convoy lanes under air cover. Observers say she aims to attack allied convoys supplying the Soviet front, with previous claims of heavy losses seen as exaggerated but indicative of intensified German effort.
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London
Tirpitz
Trondheim
Arctic
Trondheim Fjord
Norwegian
Russia
Danzig
Wilhelmshaven
Patriotic League Slogan Contest Opens With $25 Bond Prize
Countywide slogan contest invites Lenawee youths to craft a short line expressing Patriotic League aims. First prize is a $25 war savings bond. additional awards include $10 and $5 war savings stamps. Entries must list student name, address, school, grade, and teacher. Submission deadline October 3 at noon.
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Patriotic League
County Patriotic League
The
U.S
British War Relief Society
Russian War Relief Society
E. ‘J T. Armstrong
Lenawee County Fair Opens With Barn Dance and Races
The 65th Lenawee County Fair opens tonight on Dean Street with the National Barn Dance program headlining at 8 pm. Free acts start Tuesday afternoon at 1 30, heavy horse pulls at 7 30 nightly, harness races run Wednesday through Saturday, and a large crowd attended a Sunday religious service on the fairgrounds despite a chilly wind.
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Lenawee County
Dean Street
WLS
Ula Belle and
Scotty
Power lines moved as Adrian dam readies lake formation
Workers completed switching Consumers Power lines to Tecumseh from temporary to permanent poles early today. To enable the move, Tecumseh power was off for six hours and a substation line to the Adrian plant was relocated. The temporary lines are being removed and Adrian’s new dam valves will close soon to form the artificial lake after about a year of work.
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City Dam
Adrian
Wolf Creek
Consumers Power Company
Tecumseh
East Beecher Street
Anti-Inflation Bill Moves in Senate Debates Prices and Wages
The Senate opened debate on a sweeping anti inflation bill with a committee report showing food prices rising 40 percent annually since spring. It cites farm price increases 85 percent from 1933 to 1942 and farm costs up 22 percent, while wages in manufacturing rose about 30 percent since 1939 and total payroll up 71 percent. The measure calls for presidential control of living costs and wage limits, with an amendment proposing parity plus labor for farm goods.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Banking Committee
Thomas D-Okla
Saiate
Senate Agricultural Sub-Committee
Full Agricultural Committee
Thomas
Roosevelt
Thamas
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
Council of Farm Cooperatives
Heal
House
Morrow
Senster Brown
D-Mich
McNary
Ore
Finland Wants To Cease Fighting Amid Peace Guaranties
Finnish minister Hjalmar J Procope in Washington stated Finland desires to cease fighting as threat to its existence is averted and guarantees secured for lasting security. He added no peace proposal or restitution of territories has been offered. Separate peace would sap German war effort. Finnish troops and German forces in Finland complicate any such outcome. Auction notices follow with two listings on Sept 28 and a sale north of Lyons Ohio.
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Procope
Ste
Washington
United States
Finland
Rusala
Hjalmar J. Procope
Caucasus
Russia
Munich Ravaged by British Night Bombardment
British air raid on Munich caused massive fires seen 100 miles away. RAF 1,300 mile round trip conducted the 11th raid on Germany this month. Other raids hit the Saar region and Italian targets in Sicily as weather limited further German action.
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Associated Press
London
Munich
RAF
Air Ministry
Germany
Saar
Rome
Sicily
Britain
English
New Tax Measure Deemed Inadequate in Senate Review
Washington reports show Secretary Morgenthau labeling the tax bill wholly inadequate as the Senate finance committee reconvenes for another revenue survey. Some members hint at major changes, with Clark pondering pay-as-you-go income tax collection as a possible substitute and officials estimating $6.85 billion in additional revenue, though treasury projections face doubts. In North Africa, RAF bombers struck Tobruk port in a weekend raid while ground forces remained largely inactive amid minor clashes and artillery exchanges near the front.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Senate Finance
Clark
D-Mo
House
Treasury
Cairo
Tobruk
Roosevelt seeks more Navy funding in new spending plan
President Roosevelt asked Congress to appropriate 2 731 154 307 for the Navy including 100 000 000 for arming frames for merchant ships and 960 000 day for a Wabash derailment plus helium procurement funds 820 000. The request cites radiolucent frames and helium needs for air service and transport.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Con. LA Grange
Ind
Cortez Ramsey
Portland
Navy
Fort Wayne
Gran@ Rapids
Mich
Bureau of Aeronautics
Wabash
Topeka
Seare
German Long Range Guns Pound Stalingrad After Standoff
Reports from Lenawee county describe a failed scrap metal drive tied to wartime shortages. Only 3 to 4 tons of scrap were pledged countywide, with 15 coupons collected for collection efforts led by Richard Goff. Local officials note scarce participation and urge residents to contribute to meet the deadline.
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Stalingrad
City
Lenawee County
B. F. Stair
Church Street
Adrian
Tessie
Bailey
Blissfield
Walker Tavern
Cambridge
Richard Goff
Mr. Goff
William E. Swick
Macon
John L.calhoun
Raisin
Millard Cheever
Ridgeway
Claude Lee
Seneca
Willis Moore
Adrian Township
Matt Benner
Dover
Cheever
George Issen
Real Brilton
Goff
Lean
Ogden Re
Nebraskans Lead Scrap Drive To Boost War Production
Ne braska workers led a nationwide scrap collection effort to support steel mills and war production. The drive, urged by War Production Board Chief Donald M Nelson, runs officially Sept 26 to Oct 17, with newspapers pledging community mobilization to recover metal for tanks guns planes and ships.
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Associated Press
Nebraska
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
America
Allied air raid on Lae and Buna drives Japanese back
Allied fighters and bombers attacked the Lae base in northeast New Guinea and blasted supply lines inland from Buna to Kokoda as part of a coordinated push toward Port Moresby. In New Guinea ground fighting stalled near Ioribaiwa while patrols forewarn renewed clashes. Milne Bay mopping up eliminates the last Japanese thrust there. Michigan governor appeals to rally scrap metal and rubber drives before winter snows.
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Genera
Macanthur Headquarters
Australia
Lae
Buna
Kokoda
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Ioribaiwa
Gwen Stanley Mountains
Milne Bay
British forces close to Tananarive in Madagascar drive
British radio reports from Port Louis say forces are within 37 miles of Madagascar's capital Tananarive, with advances from Majunga. The Tamatave landings are near the capital, and Brickaville rail junction east of the city is occupied as troops move south of Ankazobe, taken Sept 19.
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London
Madagascar
Tananarive
Port Louis
Mauritius
Majunga
Tamatave
Brickaville
Ankazobe
Willkie Eyes Second Front Visit in Moscow Talks
In Moscow on September 21 Wendell L Willkie said he was asked about a second front about 50 times. He planned to deliver a written Roosevelt message to Premier Stalin and sought a front visit. He deemed the Stalingrad front a shared American British Russian effort.
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Moscow
Wendell L Willkie
Willkie
Joseph Stalin
Roosevelt
Stalingrad
Defenders Hold Own In Street Fighting At Stalingrad
Soviet dispatches from Stalingrad report brutal urban combat as German bombardment rages. Pravda says defenders maintain ground, pierce some lines, and inflict heavy losses, with street by street fighting in the northwestern suburbs and relentless shelling across the city.
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FRESS
Moscow
Stalingrad
Pravda
Leningrad
Voronezh
Norhwest
Col Cleary to Speak at Civilian Defense Graduation
Col Owen Cleary of Ypsilanti, Michigan, chief air raid warden for the state, will speak at Adrian Armory at 3 PM Wednesday. The event honors city air raid wardens and auxiliary police and will award land equipment certificates to civilian defense workers and others. Col Cleary will be introduced by Mayor H. F. Lundahl.
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Col. Cleary
Civilian Defense
Red Cross
Roosevelt
Adrian
Russia
Karl B. Hoch
Col. Owen
Willkie
Moscow
Pence
United States
Brita Jian
Wilde
V Cleary
Ypsilanti
Michigan
Hf. W. Lundahl
UAW Walkout At Borg-Warner Carburetor Plant Near Flint
About 300 auto workers at Borg-Warner Corp in Flint walked off the job at the Blarvyel Schebler Carburetor division. President S. W. Gray said the strike followed the fourth management attempt directed by the National Labor Relations Board to reinstate a woman employee who was a UAW member.
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Flint
United Automobile Workers
AFL
Blarvyel-Schebler
Borg-Warner Corp
S. W. Gray
National Labor Relations Board
UAW
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Lenawee County Brotherhood
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G. Roscoe Swift
J. R. Foreman
Clinton
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