Tecumseh brothers and two sisters die in Adrian crash
A weekend furlough gathering ended in tragedy when a Tecumseh family car left M-52 near Birdsall and crashed into a maple tree, killing two Hoekstra brothers and two Choate sisters. Nelson Hoekstra and Maurice Hoekstra died at the scene. Joyce and Marjean Choate died in the car. Fireman Hoekstra died later at Bixby hospital with critical injuries. Coroner ruled no inquest. driver believed to have fallen asleep. Funeral services planned in Tecumseh and Adrian with Army officers awaiting Fort Knox arrival.
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Adri’an
Joyce Choate
Marjean Choate
Lynn Choate
Addison Street
Joyce
Adrian High School
Marjean
Jungs
Nelson Hoekstra
Fort Knox
Maurice Hoekstra
Atlantic
Frank Hoekstra
Tecumseh
Hoekstra
Nele Son
Toledo
George Hoekstra
George Hoekstras
Adrian
MS2
Friends
Technician Hoekstra
Bixby Hospital
Ed Braun
Braun
James
Frank Choate
Parker
Detroit
Braun Funeral Home
Sanford
Woodstock Township
John E. Martin
The
Methodist Church
Robert
Bruce
Jane
Collins Funeral Home
U. S. Army
Ways and Means backs renegotiation repeal and mulls taxes
The House Ways and Means Committee voted against repealing the renegotiation law for recovering excess profits in war contracts and advanced plans to finish a general revenue law by January 1. Separately, reports said Thunderbolt fighters escorted Flying Fortresses on an 800 mile round trip to Emden, Germany, in the war effort. Baseball deferment rules place draft age players who are fathers into 1-4 status unless hardships or dependents justify deferment, amid debates over essential industries.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Losdon
Emdes
Germany
Emden
North Sea
Selective Service
No Man’s Land
Fortress Gunner From Adrian Area Reported Missing
Lenawee county confirms Technical Sergeant Louis Hamilton, 23, son of Mr and Mrs L Hamilton of Adrian Route 4, missing in action since September 16 in the European theater. An aerial engineer and gunner on a Flying Fortress based in England, Hamilton enlisted December 4, 1942, trained at Keesler Field and in Florida and the western states, and has been awarded the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster.
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Lenawee County
Louis 4. Hamilton
L. Hamilton
Route 4
Adrian
War Department
Hamilton
England
Air Force
Keesler Field
Miss
Florida
States
Adrian High School
Bassett
Reds Battle for Dnieper Toehold Across Broad River
Soviet unils push toward the Dnieper as German forces retreat westward. Kiev under siege guns, several towns near the river edge reported as Red Army advances reach Dnepropetrovsk and Kremen'chug sectors. Berlin radio confirms penetrations. heavy German losses and abandoned material signal gaping retreat.
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Associated Press
London
Dnieper
Kuba
Smolensk
Kiev
Russia
Dneprogietrovek
Kremenchug
Pereyaslav
Berlin
Red Army
Lengthy Lenawee Fair pulling contests end amid wet track
The Lenawee Salt grounds hosted pulling contests with a wet track from a Friday shower. Lightweight teams failed to reach the 29oo foot requirement while B Moyer of Greenfield Ind won with 25 feet 2 inches, and heavyweight results saw Harry Harter of Middletown Ind take 21 feet 6 inches with a 3700 pound pull. Henry Marks of Seymour Ind placed second with 31 feet 3 inches on 3700 pounds. Attendance at the fair exceeded last year with 29,478 paid, 5,896 automobiles, and Adrian Day drawing 12,712 paid admissions. The fair closed with horse events as exhibitors moved to Hillsdale. A separate note reports Hugh Belles escaping from Ionia State Hospital after being committed in Oakland County on arson charges.
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Lenawee Salt Grounds
B. Moyer
Greenfield
Ind
Charles
Henry Marks
Seymour
Harry Moxley
Michigan State College
Conttests
Marks
Cedarville Farms
L. Smith
Lowe
Centerville
Dr. Cross
Pioneer
Ohio
E. J. Shrover
Falr
Hillsdale
George Jones
Plan Scrap Campaign War Loan Effort in Lenawee
Lenawee county holds a Thursday meeting at 7 30 to plan an all out scrap drive for steel needed for winter reserves. Richard Goff Savage chairman says the drive runs Oct 1 to Nov 15 and will involve schools road commissions USDA and Civilian Defense officials. The drive aims to replenish steel inventories and support war production amid limited ore shipments and ongoing coal strikes. The Third War Loan opened with Lenawee $2 5 million short of its 3 567 million quota and appeals to citizens to save and contribute.
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Court House
Tae
Richard Goff
Savage
Goff
Road Commission
Usda War
Civigian Defense Authorities
R. E. Stingel
WPB
Great Lakes
Lenawee
Frank I. Isbey
Michigan Warnance Committee
Citizens Sunday
SRR Rra
Third Court Martial at Selfridge Field
The last of three courts martial at Selfridge Field was convened today with Major George A Hartford 30 a Detroit native and former intelligence officer as defendant He served in the 106th cavalry of the Michigan National Guard before active duty starting November 27 1940 Charges were not disclosed until the trial began further market page notices list multiple auctions across Michigan including Britton Britton farm and Onsted with dates September 29 through October 1 conducted by Linehan Linehan and others and advertised on the Market page
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Selfridge Field
Army Air Base
George A. Hartford
Detroit
106Th Cavalry
Michigan Nations Guard
Hartford
Bond drive extension sparks Lenawee sales drive
The Second World War finance update notes an extra two day extension of the Third War Bond drive to October 2 to boost Lenawee County totals. Adrian, Blissfield, Morenci, Palmyra and other towns push toward quotas as county fairs close and a war bond premiere at Croswell Theater promotes purchases of 50 to 5000 dollars. County chairmen urge house to house and farm to farm canvassing to ensure all residents can buy bonds.
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Jaen Rit
Isbey
Sereoues
Lenawee
Blissfield
Adrian
Morenci
Palmyra
Te County Fair
Croswell Theater
Creswell
Bataan
How Lerianee Is Buying Bonds
Bursa reporting sequence shows Lerianee purchasing bonds with total value near 4.4 million dollars. Figures include regional sums from Adrian Addison Blissfield Hudson Morenci Palmyra Ridgeway Tecumseh totaling about 119 thousand?
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Lerianee
Adrian
Addison
Blissfield
Hudson
Morenci
Palmyra
Ridgewayee Tecumseh
Fourth planting of dynamic kernels in wheat project at Tecumseh
Sept 27 Tecumseh witnesses the fourth planting of dynamic kernels in Perry Hayden's six year wheat tithe project on a 14 acre plot east of town. Six tractors, five driven by Macon area youths from Edison Institute, took part with seed supplied by Finkbeiner and Hans en. One tenth of the crop is tithed to the Friends church each year. Commissioner Charles Figy urged wartime food measures and predicted Michigan’s spotlight after project completion.
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Etrgrand
Harold Kopke
Wayne Kopka
Leap House
Duaine Brooks
Max Cambuen
David Grindstaff
William Korth
Hwark
William Chase
Sumner McCollum
Co. D. Finkbeiner
H.C. Hansen
Toledo
Friends Church
Ford
Charles Figy
Figy
Michigan
Taft proposes substitute draft plan targeting under 30 family heads
Senator Taft urges a Senate showdown to pass a substitute directing Selective Service to draft only younger married men. He says about 1,000,000 married men under 30 with children fit the quotas, potentially avoiding calls for fathers over 30. The plan risks shifting burden to the agency and may affect Wheeler bill fate.
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Washington
Wheeler Warrather
Taft
R-Okia
Senate
Wheeler
Pearl Harbor
Army
Navy
Ohio
Japs Facing Annihilation At Finschhaven
Allied headquarters report the Japanese defenders at Fittschhafen near New Guinea face imminent risk of being swept from multiple directions. An Allied force advances east along the Horn Gulf from Lae, with another threat approaching from land on the northeast tip.
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Associated Press
Southwest Pacific
Fittschhafen
New Guinea
Horn Gulf
Lae
Pacific
Nazi battleships reported sabotaged
A Stockholm dispatch cited unconfirmed reports that three German capital ships the Tirpitz Scharnhorst and Suez 20 were sabotaged while at anchor in Alten Fjord Norway after Italy surrendered The rumor noted these ships and the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer had been in Arctic Spitzbergen raids and speculated on a possible move to threaten the Russia supply route and draw British forces into a wider search Also American bombers hit Reims targets and supported by Thunderbolts over northern France with light flak and no enemy fighters.
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London
UPI
Reuters
Stockholm
Tirpitz
Scharnhorst
Suez
Alten Fjord
Norway
Admiral Scheer
Arctic
Spitzbergen
Russia
Trondheim
Har
Naz Air Base
Reims
Paris
France
Harmony Restored on U S5 Diplomatic Front
Washington reports indicate harmony on foreign policy as President Roosevelt elevates Stettinius to undersecretary of State and reshuffles foreign economic and relief offices. Stettinius, noted lend lease administrator, is seen easing tensions with Britain and Russia ahead of Moscow talks, with Harriman poised as ambassador to Russia. Lehman named special presidential assistant to coordinate UN relief and rehabilitation planning.
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Associated Press
Washington
Edjana FL Stettittius, Jr
Russia
State Department
Roosevelt
Capitol Hil
Stettinius
Congress
Hardly
Tippie
Britain
United States
Moscow
W. Averell Harr Jman
London
Sumner Welles
Welles
San Francisco
Harriman
Hull
United States Steel Corporation
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Lehman
Cassano 15 Taken By Clarks Troops In North Africa
Allied dispatch says Gen Clark s Fifth Army smashed a 10 mile deep salient and captured Cassano 50 miles east of Naples as German withdrawal began in the Naples sector. British Eighth Army advances along the east coast reach 22 miles from Poggia airport, taking Cerignola and Margherita di Savoia, while Calabritto Muro and other positions fall to British forces in the central sector.
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Associated Press
North Africa
Clark
Fifth
Cassano
Naples
Broad Bay
Eighth Army
Montgomery
Poggia
Cerignola
Margherita di Savoia
Qfento
Gulf of Manfredonia
Foggia
Clerk
Calabritto
Salerno
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Oakland
County
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Sala Necas
Jary
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Office of Price Administration
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Lenawee Junction
Victor Voorhear
Britton Village
C. H. Allen
Somerset
Linehan & Linehan
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Victor Sharp
Netas Ohio
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Britton
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Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
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