American Tanks Break Through Toward Paris From Brittany Front
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS AEF reports a major Allied offensive 130 miles from Paris. American and British forces push through Orne and Mayenne lines, capture Brest and Lorient targets, with 13,300 prisoners and 3,400 German deaths. Bradley’s tanks move along a 50 mile front toward Le Mans as Britons threaten Caen.
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Supreme Headquarters
AEF
U.P
Paris
Orne
Mayenne
U. S
Breton
London
Nancy
Orne River
Caen
Omar N. Bradley
Mayenne River
le Mans
Thury Harcourt
Thury-Caen
Vire
Brittany
Bradley
Sarthe
Alencon
Angers
Brady
Brest
St. Nazaire
Lorient
Brieuc
St. Malo
Auray
Hospital Report Highlights Newborns and Discharges
A hospital report lists multiple births including Karla Kay weighing 5 pounds 4 ounces to Mrs Harold Geatches and a 7 pound 11 ounce girl to Mrs George Wautler. Several tonsillectomies and appendectomies are noted along with numerous discharges and admissions from Linton Switz City Bloomfield Jasonville and Marco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Geatches
Linton
Karla Kay
George Wautler
Dean Pershing Roberts
Randall Dean
Roberts
Mary Elizabeth Letsinger
Tobe Dixon
South Linton
E. L. Barnes
Juell Burns
Jasonville
Patricia Jane
Phillip Gene Haffley
Francis Haffley
Martha and
Vada Skinner
Bloomfield
Marion L. Minks
Baby
Switz City
Marshall Flory
Democrat Women Plan Meeting Here Greene County Club
A meeting of the Greene county Women’s Democrat club will be held in the College Hill school building on Wednesday. A covered dish dinner will be served at noon. All members and friends are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greene County Women’s Democrat Club
College Hill
Major Sherwood Transferred to New York Post
Major Elmer W. Sherwood former Clerk of the Greene Circuit Court and World War I Rainbow Division veteran has been reassigned from Ft. Benjamin Harrison to Governor's Island New York. He will command the Second Army Corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer W. Sherwood
Greene Circuit Court
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Pearl Harbor
Governor's Island
N. Y
Second Army Corps
Sherwood
Rainbow Division
Car Stolen From Terhune Apartments
A Ford owned by Lou Travis of the Terhune apartments was stolen from in front of the building late Saturday night. The car was driven to a country road north of the city park and stripped of tires wheels and many accessories. Chief of Police Austin Greenway reported today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lou Travis
Terhune
Austin Greenway
Travis
Weekend Deaths In Indiana Claim Seventeen Lives
United Press reports at least 13 killed in Indiana over the weekend with six drownings. Fatalities include Walter Kellemeier and multiple drownings at lakes and rivers, plus 4 traffic deaths, a beating death, a stabbing, and a lightning-related fatality amid a heat wave.
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Indiana
Jasper Dishman
Creasure South
New Castle
Dishman
White River
Washington
Herbert C. Lottes
Orvall Catt
Lottes
Enraged husband kills wife then takes own life at sister in law’s home
Pierce Cummings 38 and wife June Kellam Cummings 29 died Saturday afternoon after Cummings shot his wife in the kitchen, then killed himself on the porch at the Burcham house. The tragedy occurred as the couple visited in Bloomfield Indiana near Herbert Kellams family. The incident followed divorce filings two weeks prior and involved a child, Shelda Sue, in the yard with Burcham children. Funeral arrangements set for Birdseye and Eckerty, with services in Birdseye Christian church and Eckerty cemetery. Jenkins and Son Funeral Home overseeing.
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Co. Pierce Cummings
June Kellam Cummings
Cummings
Louisville
English
Ind
Bloomfield
Isaac Kellams
Mrs. Cummings
Birdseye
Isaac and
Addie Newton Kellam
Shelda Sue
Kellams
Lafayette ‘Kellams
Eckerly
Faith Burcham
Dean Ray Kellam
Victory Kellam
United States Army
England
Billy Lewis
Jack Benny Kellam
Christian Church
Culmer Pierce Cummings
Villa Grove
Ill
Charles and
Emma Chamberlain Cummings
Southern Railroad
Emma Cummings
John Cummings
Indianapolis
Fred ‘Cummings
William Cummings
Petersburg
Daisy Melton
Eckerty
Hatlie Gaither
Jenkins and Son Funeral Home
Donald Sargent Hospitalized in Indianapolis Observation
Donald Sargent was taken to Indianapolis for hospital observation at Robert Long Hospital this morning for evaluation and treatment.
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Donald Sargent
Indianapolis
Robert Long Hospital
Japanese Bear Down On 800 Mile Front In Three Day Assault
Soviet summer offensive raged toward East Prussia Warsaw and Krakow as German forces reinforced to hold the eastern border. Front reports show hundreds of thousands of Germans digging fortifications and a brutal advance littered with dead and wreckage along a front hundreds of kilometers long.
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East Prussia
Moscow
U.P
Warsaw
Krakow
German National Socialist Party
East Prussian
Pearl Harbor
Japan
U. S
Guam
Tokyo
Red Army
Praga
Vistula
Germany
Luftwaffe
Red Air Force
Poland
San River
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
Drohobycz
I. Y. Petrov
Wyszkow
Carpathians
Hungary
Rites Announced for Mrs Sherrow
Mrs. Jessie Marthena Sherrow of Solsberry died at Freeman Greene County Hospital after major surgery. She was born May 2 1908 in Bloomfield and is survived by her husband Wayne and five children. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 11 am in the Solsberry Methodist church with burial in Solsberry cemetery. Announcer: PEARL HARBOR UPDATE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Marthena Sherrow
Solsberry
Freeman Greene County Hospital
Bloomfield
Charles
Jessie Johnson
Wayne Sherrow
Rowena Mae
Gerald D
Jeanetta
Hazel Maxine
Richard Lorraine
Charles Johnson
Homer
Indianapolis
Carl
Kentucky
Leon
California
Qwen
Minnesota
Virgie Taylor
Leona Scarstin
South Dakota
Lara Martin
Jenkins Funeral Home
Solsberry Methodist Church
Former resident wounded in France
Cleatis Barton, 28, nephew of Mr and Mrs Ray Barton of 409 I Street NW, was critically wounded in the foot in France on July 15 while serving in the United States Army. He is recovering and expected to return home soon. He is married to Thelma Barton and has two sons, Frankie and Larry. He entered service August 12, 1943 and trained in Texas. He lived in Linton with grandparents Mr and Mrs William Barton during school days.
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Ray Barton
I Street
Northwest
Cleatis Barton
United States Army
France
Frank Barton
Toledo
Ohio
Linton
Eva Grosjean
Fifth Street Northwest
Thelma Barton
Frankie
Larry
Texas
William Barton
Route 3
Inter Church Council Sets 6:30 P M Meeting
Members of the Inter Church Council the Committee on Finance and the Teachers Selection Committee are asked to meet at the Christian church at 6 30 this evening. Business of importance is to be considered.
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Inter Church Council
Committee On Finance
Christian Church
Solsberry Woman Is Buried Today
Funeral services were held at Solsberry Methodist church for Mrs Belle Ellis who died Friday at 3 PM after a long illness. Born November 28 1864 in Spencer County she was the daughter of James and Amanda Martin. Survivors include husband Wilford and children Mae Joes Maude Marker Lloyd Ellis Jesse Ellis Ona Kiser Eva Gossie Holland Ellis Wallace Ellis Merrill Ellis and Paul Ellis. Jenkins Funeral Home directed arrangements.
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Solsberry Methodist Church
Belle Ellis
Solsberry
Spencer County
James
Amanda Harris Martin
Wilford
Mae Joes
Indianapolis
Maude Marker
Idaho
Lloyd Ellis
Jesse Ellis
Crawfordsville
Ona Kiser
Maryland
Eva Gossie
Holland Ellis
Bloomfield
Wallace Ellis
Springville
Merrill Ellis
Paul Ellis
Virginia
Jenkins Funeral Home
Battle for Florence Enters East and West Fringes
Eighth Army patrols report German forces withdrawn from Florence except for machine-gun nests along the Arno north bank. Bitter fighting rages in the city outskirts as leaders appear to decide the battle's decisive zone. British patrols avoid north Florence to spare famed buildings amid ongoing street clashes.
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Rome
U.P
Eighth Army
Florence
Arno
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Lord Keynes
House of Lords
Amos
Ezekiel
Obadiah
Lazarus
Miles
Chateaubriont
Seine Bay
Skippy Cody
John Blevens
Freddy Fraser
John Fraser
Barbara Martin
Midland
Ivan Hash
Jean Strong
Harold Harp
Clinton Cunningham
Patty Burch
Clyde Burch
Theodore Padgett
Worthington
Philip Gale
Richard Sheehy
Marco
Everett O'Bannon
Donald Peterson
Democrat
Major Sherwood
United Press
John Campbell
Liberty
Cedar Lake
Michigan City
Greenfield
Ferris Wood
Wood
Sephus Perry
Megro
Clara Cole
Fort Wayne
Phyllis Conine
Eugene Goodnight
U. S. 31
Kokomo
Oral King
Muncie
Frank May
Oakford
May
Lillian Powell
Winona Lake
Pierce Cummings
June Kellams
Burcham
Staulios
Lithuania
Kolo
Prussia
Nowowiej
Allenstein
Lodz
Grodna
Brest-Litovsk
Bialystok
Jaroslaw
Krokow
Rzeszd
Reich
Berlin
RITES
Mrs. Sherrow
Chester W. Nimitz
Haputo Point
Nimitz
Seventh Army Air Force
Wake Island
Bonin
Muko Jima
Ani Jima
Haha Jima
Chichi Jima
Bonins
Iwo Jima
Volcano Islands
Omua
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