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...Emergency. Frantic pleas brought Governor Harry F. Kelly flying home from the Governor's conference in Columbus, Ohio. He called out 1,000 state troops, rushed in 500 state police, asked Fort Custer for 1,000 military police, and decreed a "state of emergency" for Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, which include and surround Detroit. Under the decree, all bars and restaurants were shut, a 10 p.m. curfew established. Still the rioting continued. Finally, after a proclamation by Franklin Roosevelt ordering the rioters to disperse, Federal troops marched in, cleared the streets...
...OLIVE A. MACOMB Long Beach, Calif...
...come news that made all citizens anxious. Sitdowns, wildcat strikes, poor planning, material shortages, short tempers and bad attitudes of union workers (see p. 71) had cut war production. A housing shortage forced some workers to live in tents, shacks and trailers. There was tragic, dirty confusion: in Macomb County, just north of the city, newly laid water mains were torn up to supply another area. Some 300 families of defense workers were forced to lug their water, some as far as three miles, from a public hydrant...
Pourboire. In a hog yard in Macomb, Ill., a man dropped a wallet containing $43 in bills and a $10 check. The hogs ate the wallet, left...
...Macomb, Ill., a freshman at Western Illinois State Teachers College gave the "hot foot"* to sleeping Red Henderson, No. 1 place-kicker on the college football team. Place-kicker Henderson awoke abruptly, took to crutches, was forced to forego place-kicking for several weeks because of a badly blistered foot...