Christmas War News and Crane Depot Expansion
After a long Christmas, readers learn of Crane naval depot expansion plans totaling 10 billion dollars to expand storage and facilities. Allied forces complete Leyte campaign with MacArthur noting a decisive Japanese defeat and preparations for future invasions as Mindoro airfields become operational.
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Naval Ammunition Depot
Navy Bureau of Ordnance
Washington
United Press
Philippines
U.P
Leyte
Douglas MacArthur
Palampon
Uip
Crane Employees Buy War Bonds in Pearl Harbor Drive
Crane Naval Ammunition Depot workers purchased bonds totaling $239 662 75 during the Pearl Harbor Day Cash War Bond Drive. The sales boosted the depot quota of $200 000 and county quotas in Indiana, with Martin County credited $50 553 75 and Monroe $40 075 among others. Additional credits await buyer residence verification and non Indiana states receive $14 211 50.
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Crane Naval Ammunition Depot
Pearl Harbor
Martin County
Monroe
Greene County
Lawrence County
Daviess County
Venderburg County
Orange County
Knox County
Indiana
VincArthur to Strike Again in Philippines After Capturing Leyte
Washington dispatch reports VincArthur plans further operations in the Philippines after Leyte victory. OPA raises rationing as blue points return for vegetables and red points for meat, with 85 percent of new meats to be rationed starting Sunday. Bowles cites scarce civilian supplies butter sugar and canned goods, urging public understanding and a push for a food czar in the new Congress.
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VincArthur
Philippines
Leyte
Washington
U.P
Chester Bowles
OPA
Bowles
Congress
Temperature Noted in Linton Readings
Official readings in Linton showed a cold day with the temperature dipping to 6 above early this morning and rising to 13 above by 1 PM.
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Linton
Russians Storm Budapest After Encirclement Ends
Soviet forces break the western flank of the Axis lines around Budapest after a five day battle. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army advances up to 15 miles through a 25 mile breach, sealing the capital and leaving thousands dead or captured. A Hungarian provisional government forms as German forces counterattack multiple times.
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Henry Shapiro
United Press
Moscow
U.P
Red Army
Budapest
Vienna
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Expansion of Indiana farm telephone service during wartime
The Indiana Bell Telephone Co reports a wartime rise of over 5 000 rural telephones in service since Pearl Harbor and 4 600 rural telephone applications being installed as facilities allow. General manager W A Hughes notes rural growth surpassed urban for years and pledges expansion after the war with new tech developments to aid farm production.
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Indiana
Indiana Bell Telephone Company
Pearl Harbor
Campey Hesom
W. A. Hugges
Incana Bell
Hughes
Jasonville Man Called by Death
Funeral arrangements are pending for David Price 76 a Jasonville resident who died Monday at his home. He is survived by a widow three sons a daughter three brothers two sisters eight grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. The body is at Mother's Funeral Home in Jasonville. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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David Price
Jasoville
Rosie Price
David Alin
Jasonville
Samuel Wiliam
Lloyd Thurston
Indianapolis
Lola Severne Shepherd
Charlie
St. Petersburg
Fla
Melton
Terre Haute
Oscar
Monroe County Rent Control Applies to Bloomington Area
The Office of Price Administration announced that residents of Bloomington and all of Monroe County Indiana will be under rent control starting January 1 with September 1, 1949 as the maximum rent date. The decision covers the Bloomington area and surrounding Monroe County.
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Washington
U.P
Office of Price Administration
Bloomington
Ind
Monroe County
OPA
Page Hosts Holiday Guests From Indianapolis
Saul Page and Mr and Mrs Willis Howard of Indianapolis were holiday guests of Mr and Mrs Charles Page in a social note noting guests and hospitality at a local home.
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Saul Page
Willis Howard
Indianapolis
Charles Page
Flames Destroy Boohers Property in South Lintop
Fire destroyed Elmer Booher’s four room home in South Lintop shortly before eight this morning. Fire officials believe an overheated stove started the blaze. Linton firemen arrived too late to save the house or furniture. insurance partly covered the loss.
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Elmer Booher
South Lintop
Linton City
Former Resident Dies Monday Night
Charles E. Sherwood aged 67 died nine o’clock Monday night in Union hospital Terre Haute He was the son of Mr and Mrs James S Sherwood and twin brother of Jesse Sherwood Survivors include wife Anna two daughters L N Lang Berwyn Ill and Nance Sherwood Warsaw two sons Alexander Greenwich Conn and Max LaGrange a sister Mrs Maude Benencant Terre Haute and four grandchildren The body taken to Thomas Funeral Home Terre Haute pending funeral arrangements
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Charles E. Sherwood
Union Hospital
Terre Haute
James S. Sherwood
Linton
Jesse Sherwood
Alexander
Greenwich
Conn
Max
Lagrange
Maude Benencant
Thomas Funeral Home
Lloyd Shilkett Sees Action in England Africa Shuttle
Sgt. Lloyd D. Shilkett 32 waist gunner on a B 17 earned his aerial warfare baptism during an Eighth Air Force attack on fortified Duren positions. The Wyandotte airman serves with the Third Bombardment Division cited by the President for the Regensburg mission. His wife Ruby M. Shilkett resides at 119 Bondie Street. he is a former Swift City resident and worked as a stoker erector before joining the Army Air Forces in June 1943.
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Lloyd D. Shilett
Duren
Wil. . Creer
Wyandotte
Third Bombardment Division
Messerschmitt
Regensburg
Germany
Shi
Rites Held for Mason Infant at Freeman Hospital
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon for Thomas Elsworth Mason infant son of Thomas and Ruth Mason who died shortly after birth in Freeman Greene county hospital. Survived by parents and two half brothers, burial followed at Old Linton cemetery. M. J. Aikin Funeral Home in charge.
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Thomas Elsworth Mason
Thomas
Ruth Mason
Freeman Greene County Hospital
George
Junior Carr
Old Linton
M. J. Aikin Funeral Home
Rosa Lee Smith Found Dead In Home On Second Street
Rosa Lee Smith was found dead in bed at her Second Street Northwest home Monday about nine o clock by her husband Chester P. Smith. She had lived in Linton and Elnora most of life and was married April 24 1942. Survived by husband uncle J B Thayer Bloomington and nephew Ray Cruse Switz City. Funeral set Thursday 2 PM at M J Aikin Funeral Home with Elder O K Butler officiating burial in Fairview cemetery.
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Rosa Lee Smith
Second Street Northwest
Chester P. Smith
Bloomington
Smith
J. B. Thayer
Bloominton
Ray Cruse
Switz City
M. J. Aikin Funeral Home
O. K. Butler
Terre Haute
Fairview Cemetery
Local Hospital Notes Entries of Births and Discharges
Multiple notices report admissions and dismissals from area hospitals. Among them a stillborn son to Mrs. Tom Mason and a Christmas day birth to Mrs. Gilbert Allen. several patients including James McLaughlin, Larry Gene Collins, Ronnie Barnes, Joetta West, and Shirley White are listed as admitted or discharged.
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James McLaughlin
Linton
Tom Mason
Thomas Elsworth
Mason
Larry Gene Collins
Levere Collins
Anderson
Gilbert Allen
Koleen
German forces push toward Meuse amid world war news
Paris dispatch reports Von Rundstedt’s offensive driving west with 3 German field armies. Meuse aims include Liege Namur and Dinant as Allied air forces clash, while Ninth Air Force and Eighth Air Force strike supply routes and tanks. fighting continues near Dinant and Eppeldorf as a page four update awaits.
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Paris
U.P
Karl von Rundstedt
Meuse
Dinant
Celles
Rochefort
Ciney
Liege
Namur
von Rundstedt
Ninth Air Force
Ninth
Eppeldorf
Diekirch
Eighth Air Force
Rhine
Supreme Headquarters
The
Birth announced for Sgt Don E Spangler’s daughter
Sgt and Mrs Don E Spangler announce the birth of a daughter in the Naval Hospital Quantico Virginia on November. The baby is named Sandra Jewel. Sgt Spangler is the son of Mr and Mrs Forrest Spangler of Lincoln Route 3.
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Don E. Spangler
Naval Hospital
Quantico
France
Sandra Jewel
Sgt. Spangler
Forrest Spangler
Linion
Record Divorce Filed in Greene Circuit Court
A divorce suit was filed in the Greene circuit court at Bloomfield this morning by Mary Ann Record against Mylo N. Record.
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Greene
Bloomfield
Mary Ann Record
Mylo N. Record
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