Weatherford siblings share perfect attendance record
Independence notes Clarence Weatherford a 17 year old William Chrisman high school senior with 12 years of perfect attendance joining his brother James and sister Mrs. Lora Weatherford Ellis who also graduated from the same school with flawless attendance in 1943.
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Independence
U.P
Clarence Weatherford
William Chrisman High School
James
Lora Weatherford Ellis
Biggest Spending Spree In History Sparks Taxpayer Alarm
Washington reports a near record May war outlay exceeding 8 billion dollars as the U.S. eyes a one front war and a new fiscal year with national debt around 240 billion. Truman seeks deeper cuts while Congress trims 112 million from a 19 agency bill amid looming next year cuts.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Icbt
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Treasury
Congress
Truman
House Appropriations Committee
House
Japan Navy trains for death by own action tactics
U P Radio Tokyo reported all Japanese navy branches are training in death by own action attacks and urged national preparation to repel invaders. Kusuo Oya noted a recent high command shakeup aims to ready the navy for such tactics, as Admiral Toyoda relinquished command to the staff post and Vice Admiral Ozawa assumed key duties.
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Guam
U.P
Radio Tokyo
Japan
Kusuo Oya
High Command
Soemu Toyoda
Navy
Naval General Staff
Jisaburo Ozawa
Toleda
Indianapolis Sets All Time June 4 Low Record
An all time June 4 low was recorded in Indianapolis with 44 degrees by midnight to 6 am, breaking the 1924 45 degree mark. Indiana readings include Rochester 38 Fort Wayne 39 Angola 40 Marion 41 Terre Haute 43 Columbus 44 Paoli 44 Evansville 48 with slight frost risk and a cloudy cool forecast.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
South Bend
Indianapolis Weather Bureau
Rochester
Fort Wayne
Angola
Marion
Terre Haute
Columbus
Paoli
Evansville
Weather Bureau
Woman to Mark 105th Anniversary in Logansport
Mrs. Sarah Chapin, who has outlived six of her nine children, prepares to celebrate her 105th birthday in Logansport Indiana. She has lived in Indiana 103 years since coming from Xenia Ohio in a covered wagon. Her health remains decent though sight and hearing are fading. At 85 she first flew in an airplane with her grandson Col C Dawson McAllister piloting.
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Logansport
Ind
Sarah Chapin
Col. C. Dawson McAllister
Burglars Loot Houston Cafe After Meal Theft
In Houston burglars broke into a cafe, ate 50 pounds of baked ham and boiled rice, drank beer, and smoked cigars. They grabbed $55 from the cash register and escaped, authorities said.
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Houston
Tex
Foreign supply of meat canceled across July to September
The June report states the government will cancel all lend lease and foreign relief meat shipments in July August and September, with only U S armed forces receiving exports. The move aims to ease domestic shortages though it will hit liberated peoples hard and shift more supply to civilians at home.
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Washington
U.P
U. S
Russia
Soviet Union
Price
Chester Bowles
Agriculural
Canada
Weather Bureau
Army
National Army
New Orleans
Pacific
Mew and Woven in Uniform Salute Overseas Soldier
James R Uland son of Mr and Mrs Lester Uland has spent 27 months overseas in Iran. He writes of dug ditches cleaned miles of ground, cooks beans, guards hours, washed pots and duds, ants in pants, and heaven after a time in hell. He recalls redoubled duties and a hopeful afterlife.
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James R.uland
Lester Uland
Iran
Hell
Earth
Heaven
Gabriel
St. Peter
CPL Smith Recovering From Combat Wounds In England
Corporal Kenneth E. Smith 21 of Linton Indiana is recovering at the 155th General Hospital in England after being wounded by shrapnel near the Rhine. He has been awarded the Purple Heart and is improving steadily, with further hospitalization needed before returning to duty. His wife Mary and son Alexis reside at his Indiana address.
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155Th General Hospital
England
Kenneth E. Smith
North Main Street
Linton
Indiana
United States Army General
Cpl. Smith
John W. Peterson
Duluth
Minnesota
Army
Allison Engineering Division
General Motors Corporation
Indianapolis
Mary Smith
Alexis
Main Street
Charles Petoskey Promoted Overseas Coxswain News
Mrs. Charles Petoskey of Linton announces her husband Charles Petoskey has been promoted to Boatswain's Mate Second Class after eighteen months overseas. The coxswain, formerly Miss Minnie Lawson, resides with their small daughter in Linton.
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Charles Petoskey
Petoskey
Minnie Lawson
Linton
S/Sgt Joe Livingston Honorable Discharge Noted
S/Sgt Joe Livingston of 159 Third Street was discharged Saturday from the Atterbury Separation Center. He scored 85 points or more under the Army's adjusted service rating plan.
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S/Sget
Joe L. Livingston
Third Street
Atterbury
Army
Ernest Begerman Awarded Medals With 38th Division
S Sgt Ernest Begerman son of Mrs Naomi Begerman 409 S E Sixth St Linton Ind is with the 38th Cyclone Division on Luzon east of Manila He has just been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge and also holds the Philippine Liberation Medal Asiatic Pacific Theater Medal American Defense Medal Good Conduct Medal and the Bronze Arrowhead for an assault landing He is a weapons platoon sergeant in Company A 152nd Indiana Infantry overseas 17 months with previous service in Hawaii New Guinea Samar and Leyte.
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38TH
Cyclone
Luzon
Ernest Begerman
Naomi Begerman
S. E. Sixth St
Linton
Ind
Manila
Begerman
152Nd
Indiana) Infantry
Hawaii
New Guinea
Samar
Leyte
SGT LEE CULLISON RETURNS TO FLORIDA
Staff Sgt Lee Cullison returns to Manila Beach Florida after a 30 day furlough from 29 months on active duty. He and wife visit Howard Cullison and John Hughes families. Mrs Cullison stays with her parents.
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Sat
Lee Cullison
United States Army
Manila Beach
Fla
Howard Cullison
John W. Hughes
Cullison
Fort Knox Nurse Lt Marcia Allen Graduates
Fort Knox Kentucky reports Second Lt Marcia Jean Allen of Linton Indiana completed four weeks of basic Army nurse training and graduated on June 2. She is the daughter of Mrs Flora M Albert of Linton Indiana.
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Fort Knox
Marcia Jean Allen
Route 2
Linton
Indiana
Allen
Flora M. Albert
Ind
Americans Press South Okinawa Infd Assault Across Chinen Peninsula
American Seventh Division troops including the 17th and 184th Regiments planted the flag on Okinawa's south coast at 1 30 p m after breaking through red mud and Japanese defenses. The 32nd Regiment struck Chinen Peninsula while the 96th Division pushed along the Naha Yonabaru highway. Marines of the First Division widened gains near the Kokuba river and Naha airfield.
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Seventh Division
Okinawa
Chinen
Edward L. Thomas
United Press
Shikiya
Guama
Sashiki
Terekan
Seaman James B. McGriffin Arrives for Norfolk Training
James B. McGriffin 19 seaman first class USNR from Linton Indiana arrives at Naval Training Station Norfolk on May 14 to train for duties aboard a new destroyer in the Atlantic Fleet. He is the son of Mr and Mrs B McGriffin of 139 North East 3rd Street Linton. He worked for Hamilton Drug Co before enlisting and attended Indiana State College.
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James B. McGriffin
USNR
Linton
Ind
Naval Training Staton
Norfolk
B. McGriffin
N. E. 3Rd St
Hamilton Drug Co
Indiana State College
Greves Reports for Duty at Ft Meade Md
Charles R Greves has reported to Fort Meade Maryland for duty with the United States Army following a ten day furlough spent with his parents Mr and Mrs Roy Greves in Switz City Indiana.
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Charles R. Greves
Ft. Meade, Md
United States Army
Roy Greves
Switz City
SGT Arthur Stephens Promoted In Zig Zag Pass Combat
S/SGT Arthur L. Stephens of Linton Indiana, son of Clark B. Stephens, earns promotion to technical sergeant. He serves as platoon sergeant in Company B, 152nd Infantry, and saw action in the 38th Division’s 16 day battle for Zig Zag Pass east of Olongapo. He has 16 months overseas, with prior service in Bawaii New Guinea Samar and Leyte.
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38TH
Luzon
Arthur L. Stephens
Clark B. Stephens
Linton
Ind
152Nd Infantry
Stephens
Zig Zag Pass
Olongapo
Bawaii
New Guinea
Samar
Leyte
Pvt Dihone Price Sent to Camp Livingston for Basic Training
Pvt Dihone Price, who recently joined the U S Army, has been sent to Camp Livingston Louisiana for basic training, according to word received by his wife Mrs Marjorie Price.
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Pvt
Dihone Price
United States Army
Camp Livingston, la
Marjorie Price
Cpl Avery Moehlmann Receives Good Conduct Medal
Word has it that Cpl Avery Moehlmann has been awarded the Good Conduct Medal. He serves with United States forces in the European Theatre of Operations and took part in the Ruhr Pocket campaign and the Czechoslovakian Campaign. He is the son of Mr and Mrs A W Moehlmann of Route 1 Linton.
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Cpl
Avery Moehlmann
Cpl. Moehlmann
United States
Ruhr
A. W. Moehlmann
Route 1
Linton
Paul L. Franklin Returns to Base in National City
Seaman Paul L. Franklin returns to base in National City California after a 16 day leave spent with his wife son and relatives. He has been on active duty for seven months in the Southwest Pacific.
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Paul L. Franklin
National City
Calif
Seaman Franklin
Southwest Pacific
William C. Lucas Returns to Navy Base
William C. Lucas on active duty with the United States Navy has returned to his base after spending several days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Lucas.
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William C. Lucas
United States Navy
Mrs
Wayne Lucas
American sergeant returns from Stalag 30
Sgt. Doyce Lindley, after six months as a prisoner near Kustrin east of Berlin, describes thin potato and ruta bagas soup feeding. He weighed 40 pounds less on return to Mexia Texas.
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Mexia
Tex
U.P
Doyce Lindley
Stalag 30
Kustrin
Berlin
Model Wins Divorce Over Alleged Swinging Incident
Cincinnati judge grants 23 year old Geraldine Fuller a divorce after testimony that her husband swung her around the room by her heels.
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Cincinnati
O. U.P
Alfred Mack
Geraldine Fuller
Allies weigh indicting Nazi finance and industry leaders
Delegates from sixteen governments open a war crimes conference to decide policy on prosecuting financial and industrial leaders who backed the Nazi regime. The commission lists over 300 chief bankers and industrialists, while Princess Helena of Denmark is banished for collaboration. Lord Haw Haw faces possible trial for treason.
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London
Hitler
War Crimes Commission
United Nations
Copenhagen
Helena
Denmark
Germany
Christian
Harald
Glucksborg
Franz von Pape
Joseph Hodgson
William
Lord Haw Haw) Joyce
Britain
Nazi Children Found After Lidice Burned
Radio Luxembourg reports many children from the Nazi destroyed Czech village of Lidice have been found after appeals by Allied broadcasting networks. The village was razed and adults killed in reprisal for the killing of Heinrich Heydrich.
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London
U.P
Radio Luxembourg
Lidice
Heinrich
Heydrich
Cat Mothers Foxes in Hawthorne Story
In Hawthorne California a stray alley cat adopted four abandoned silver fox cubs as her kittens after the foxes lost their mother. Mrs. C. E. Bergren, who owns the silver fox farm, noted the cat began nursing and caring for the cubs, performing mothering duties for the foxes.
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Hawthorne
Cal
C. E. Bergren
Silver Fox
Livestock Report From Indianapolis Markets
Hogs 8,000 head active and steady with good to choice at 160 lb up, 140-160 lb 14.80, 100-140 lb 13.50-14.50. Sows 14.05. Cattle 1,400. calves 700. steers and heifers opening active with early sales 15-25 higher. yearlings to 17.00. steers 1100-1108 lb at 16.75. heifers 16.50. cows strong 13.25-14.25, and 9.50-13.00 for common and medium. Canners 7.00-9.25. Dealers active, steady. good and choice 16.00-16.50. top 16.50.
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Indianapolis
U.P
Japanese Balloon Bomb Kills Six in U.S.
The only American casualties from Japanese balloon bombs occurred when a family found an unexploded device in the western region and detonated it. A woman and five children were killed, while the husband and another child survived. details were not released by Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson.
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Washington
U.P
Robert P. Patterson
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