Lightning strikes kill two in county wrecking injuries
A severe electrical storm and sudden lake winds left two dead and three injured in the county. Victims include Max Welsh and Tula Sedalease struck at Lake St. Clair. Mitchel Louros Monroe Dixon and Ralph Crull were hurt diving near Jefferson Beach. Crull later fled hospital as his back injuries were confirmed. Police and hospital staff located Crull as the paddle wheel was removed.
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Lake St. Clair
Max Welsh
Delaware
Detroit
Tula Sedalease
East
Congress
Mitchel Louros
Monroe Dixon
Virginia
Clinton Township
Ralph Crull
Gotham Hot
Leaves Hospital
Welsh
St. Joseph's Hospital
Jefferson Beach
Crull
Shores Police
Saratoga Hospital
Donald J. Wolf
Blaze destroys Berube Bakery Plant and defense HQ
A midnight fire in Jay Me destroys the Berube Bakery Plant and the town’s civilian defense headquarters. The blaze follows a threatening letter signed with a Nazi Swastika sent to Dr. William E. Berube of Chisholm, the civilian defense head, two weeks earlier demanding he stop civilian defense work.
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Jay, Me
Berube
Jay
William E. Berube
Chisholm
Leahy Favored for Military Coordination Under FDR
President Roosevelt is expected to name Admiral William D. Leahy soon to be coordinator of military activities directly under the Commander in Chief.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
William D. Leahy
B-24 crashes near Davis Monthan base kill all aboard
A B-24 bomber from the Davis Monthan base crashed and burned about three and a half miles south of the field at daybreak. All crew members aboard were killed.
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Tucson
Ariz
Davis Monthan
Auchinleck's Eighth Army Captures 4000 at Alamain Line
Cairo reports General Auchinleck's Eighth Army has taken about 4000 German and Italian prisoners on the Alamain line since last Tuesday according to a communique issued today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
U.P
Calude Auchinleck
Eighth
Alamein
Soviet Navy aids convoy repelling German air attack
Moscow reports Red Fleet units and aircraft helped a British and American convoy beat off a heavy Luftwaffe assault. Nazis released 212 bombs and 14 aerial torpedoes during the attack.
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Moscow
Red Fleet
Soviet Navy
Threat on Likhaya Junction By German Forces
Front dispatches report German forces advancing toward the Don threat the vital Likhaya junction where Moscow Rostov and Stalingrad Rostov rail lines converge. The railway hub connects major supply routes in the region and guards are on alert.
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Moscow
U.P
Don
Likhaya
Moscow-Rostov
Stalingrad - Rostov
Italian Sahartha Division Withdrawn for 90th Light Reinforcement
British dispatch from El Alamein reports German Field Marshal Rommel shifts the battered Italian Sahara division from front lines and substitutes part of his 90th Light Division to bolster a sector.
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EL Alamein
U.P
Erwin Rommel
90Th Light
Minesweeper Chicka dee Launched by Defoe Shipyards
Bay City Michigan July 20 The minesweeper Chicka dee the second of this type built for the U S Navy by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co was launched at noon at the shipyards on the Saginaw river.
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Bay City
Mich
Chickadee
U.S. Navy
Defoe Shipbuilding Co
Saginaw River
Defense on the Don shapes Caucasus line plan
In Don frontline quarters an anonymous official said Marshal Semen Timoshenko aims to shield the Caucasus by building a defense along the Don River elbow. The claim reflects strategic talk about protecting vital southern fronts.
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London
Semen Timoshenko
Caucasus
Great Elbow
Don
German Submarines Sink Two U.S. Merchant Ships
Berlin broadcasts report German submarines yesterday sank two medium sized American merchantmen off the east coast of the United States. The ships were bound for the American east coast with new cargoes of raw material.
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Berlin
United States
DNB
Tobruk Attacked by U.S. Bombers Daylight Strike
The Middle East news service reports that heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Forces conducted a daytime attack on Tobruk yesterday.
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Cairo
United States Army Air Forces
Tobruk
RAF
Middle East
M Willmarth Passes Away in Mount Clemens
Merritt Willmarth Sr a Mount Clemens resident and realtor died at 170 South Wilson boulevard at 71 after three months of ill health. Born in Detroit in 1871 he moved to Bedford then to Mount Clemens in 1920. Survived by wife Eva ten children eleven grandchildren and five grandsons pallbearers. Burial in Woodmere Cemetery Detroit. Services at Hubbard Funeral Chapel led by Rev George Merifield.
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Merritt, M. Willmarth
Mount Clemens
South Wilson Boulevard
Detroit
Bedford
Eva Stembridge
Willmarth
Sherman House
Cass and
Gratiot
Eva
Dexter D
Merritt, Jr
Robert
James D
U.S. Navy
Philippine Islands
Lewis Besancon
Norman Marton
Detit
Donald Park
Robert Rickard
Robert Hallin
Hubbard Funeral Chapel
George Merifield
Grace Episcopal Church
Woodmere Cemetery
Eight Injured in County Traffic Crashes Over Weekend
Eight people were injured in Macomb County traffic accidents over the weekend. Notable incidents include Helen Dawson and others treated for injuries at local hospitals after crashes on Gratiot Butler road and nearby streets. No fatalities were reported.
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Macomb
Helen Dawson
Detroit
Mary Kurzhals
Ben van Pamel
Evelyn Bossenberger
Jackie Batch
Rochester
Clifford Young
Clawson
Frank Kern
Nellie Shaughnerry
Grosse Pointe Woods
Butler
van Pamel
St. Joseph’s Hospital
North River Road
Franklin County
Harold Knopp
Young
Asa Batch
Auburn
Ryan
Primary petitions deadline set for September primaries
County Clerk Guy L. Brown notes the 4 PM Tuesday deadline for filing petitions for September 15 primaries. A few hopefuls had already filed, with many more expected to enter the lists before the cutoff.
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Guy L. Brown
Parachutist hunt ends with desert search near Lancaster
Lancaster California police and army units searched the desert near Muroc Gunnery School for a reported parachutist after a 14 year old saw a plane fly low and drop a parachute and light. The investigation was turned over to the army and called off at daybreak.
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Lancaster
Cal
U.P
Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff's Deputies
Muroc
Army
Curtis Peeveler
Young Peeveler
Peeveler
Hitch-Hiker Sought in Attack Case
Deputy sheriffs seek an unidentified Negro attacker in an assault on a 39 year old Detroit white woman behind Gowanie Golf Club. Her drunken husband, 39, was present as investigators identify a gravel pit worker known only as Frank. The incident occurred near noon Sunday after a pickup at 10 Mile and Harper.
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Thomas Kaltenbach
Steve Morris
Detroit
Gowanie Golf Club
Kaltenbach
Morris
Howard R. Carroll
Reimold Road
Crocker
Erin Township
Frank
10 Mile Road
Harper
Five Die as Truck and Bus Crash Near Keller Virginia
A trailer truck rammed the end of a bus carrying 25 to 30 women heading to a freezing plant in Exmore. At least five killed and 13 or more injured. The crash on U S Route 13 near Keller left the bus crushed and the truck overturned. Thirteen hospitalized at Northampton Accomac hospital in Nassawadox with others treated and released.
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Keller
Charles B. Strauss
Northampton - Accomac
Nassawadox
Exmore
Strauss
V Army Poised to Strike Axis With Allied Front Open
London July 20 United Press A year after Colonel Britton formed the underground V Army in occupied Europe the force stands ready to hit the Axis the moment a second front opens. At least 1,000,000 have died under Axis rule while millions more tie down German and Italian troops across 645,000 square miles. Britton, who trained the V Army by radio, has not spoken for 3.5 months but expects a coordinated blow with the continent campaign soon.
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John A. Parris
United Press
London
U.P
Europe
V-Army
Colonel Britton
Axis
Britton
Jean Honored by State Social Welfare Board
Leo Jean, vice chairman of the Macomb County Social Welfare Commission, was named chairman of District No. 4 of the State Association of Social Welfare Boards at Alpena. He attended with County Supervisor Floyd W. Rosso and Superintendent Lyle Rosso and was named to the association's legislative committee.
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Leo Jean
Macomb County
Aleutians May Prove Tomb for Japanese
At sea with the Pacific Fleet the Aleutians threat unfolds as Japanese forces gather in Kiska Harbor. U S bombers pound ships and transports while Catalina flying boats locate and harry the invaders. The June 11 assault marks the start of a brutal struggle for control of the fogbound island chain.
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Chicago Times, Inc
Kiska
Aleutian
Army Fortress
Third LaCroix Brother Enlists in Navy
The LaCroix family greets Dr. Albert E. LaCroix Navy enlistment joining brothers Thomas and Norman. Albert left for Great Lakes Naval Training Station after Mount Clemens High School and Northern Illinois College of Optometry. He played golf, bowling, and softball and was a former city amateur golf champion with Gowante Golf Club.
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Henry LaCroix
Crocker Boulevard
Thomas
Norman
Albert E. LaCroix
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Chicago
U. S. Naval
Detroit
Pikeville
Dr. LaCroix
Mount Clemens High School
Mount Clemens
Wayne University
Northern Illinois College of Optometry
LaCroix
Gowante Golf Club
World War II Battle Across Donsteppes Rostov Drives
Axis forces push toward Rostov while Russians withdraw to a defense line near the Don and Donets confluence. German gains reportedly advance 40 miles north of Rostov as Soviet troops contest centers around Millerovo and Voroshilovgrad with heavy fighting and casualties.
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Don Steppes
Rostov
Voronezh
yeeOtherworld
el Alamein
RAF
Vegesack
Bremen
United States Air Force
China
Canton
Linchwan
Kiangsi Prince
Voroshilovgrad
Millerovo
Rostov-Moscow
Donets
Kamansk
Berlin
Paris
Axis
Semeon Timoshenko
Don
Pestone
United States
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State Social Welfare Ass'n
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