Yanks Victorious In Central China Air Scraps
American fliers of the 14th United States Army Air Force defeated Jap air forces over central China on two combat runs. One bomber confirmed shot down, three Zeros and two bombers probably destroyed amid operations near Yochow after raiding the Yochow area.
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United Press
China
14Th
United States Army ‘Air Force
Yochow
Lake Tung Ting
Indo-China
South Pacific
Russell Islands
Solomons
United States
General MacArthur
Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
Charles Hollars Named Chairman of War Finance Committee
United States Treasury appoints Charles B. Hollars as Greene County chairman of the new war finance committee overseeing war bond campaigns. Appointments announced by Eugene C. Pulliam and J. Dwight Peterson after the merger of the war savings staff and the victory fund into the committee.
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United States Treasury
Charles B. ‘Hollars
Greene County
War Finance Committee
Eugene C. Pulliam
J. Dwight Peterson
War Savings Staff
Victory Fund Committee
Indiana payrolls rise slightly in May 1943
Indiana reports May payrolls up one and two tenths percent while total payroll reaches 18 million 569 thousand dollars, a 34 percent year over year increase. employed workers total 576 thousand 530 but down six tenths from April 1942. Gardner cites curtailment in non arable woods manufacturing and seasonal slumps as reasons for the employment drop. Wholesale trades rise. coal mining falls while quarrying and non metallic mining rise. hotels laundries and dyeing and cleaning establishments expand both payrolls and staff.
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Indianapolis
Ind
U.P
Indiana
Everett Gardner
Indiana Employment Security Division
Gardner
Falls From Bike Injures EmilA Lechien's Son
Steve Lechien seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Emila Lechien of D street southwest sustained painful injuries when he fell from a bicycle near home Thursday afternoon. A milk bottle broke causing severe chest lacerations. He was taken to Freeman Greene County Hospital for minor surgery and discharged this morning.
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Steve Lechien
Emila Lechien
D Street Southwest
Freeman Greene County Hospital
Hungry soldiers praise Red Cross aid in flood relief
In St Louis on June 11 a Red Cross mobile canteen served 500 bread and butter sandwiches, hot Irish stew, spaghetti, cereal, milk and 40 gallons of coffee to U.S. soldiers and guard units stranded by Missouri River floods. Volunteers operated for six hours, earning praise and comparing their work to overseas Red Cross clubmobiles.
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Missouri River
United States
Red Cross
St. Louis
Baseball game scheduled Sunday between Robin Hood Stripper Owls and Dagger Merchants
A Sunday afternoon baseball game is set at the high school park at 2 o'clock. Owls pitchers are Herndon and Jerrell, Merchants pitchers Story and Hiatt. Players with interest are asked to contact team managers as this is the first in a series depending on interest, with a future challenge to Maumee Colleries.
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Robin Hood
Owls
Dagger Merchants
Herndon
Jerrell
Story
Hiatt
Merchants
Maumee Colleries
Showers Workers Win Wage Increase Across Two Plants
The War Labor Board awarded a general rise of five cents an hour for about eight hundred Showers company workers in Bloomington and Bloomfield plants. Raises are retroactive to November 16 at Bloomington and December 26 at Bloomfield, pending approval from Economic Director Fred Vinson to offset price relief.
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The
Bloomington
Bloomfield
Fred Vinson
United Mine Workers threaten strike over daily fine
United Mine Workers declare readiness to halt work again if the government enforces a 1 daily fine for last week's five day stoppage. Beaverdale local Cambria county Pennsylvania warns 400 members will strike rather than pay. The move reflects wider miner resentment across Pennsylvania and West Virginia coal fields amid wage talks and portal to portal pay disputes. John L Lewis denounces the fine as illegal.
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United Mine Workers
TheBeaverdale
Cambria County
Pennsylvania
Solid Fuels
West Virginia
United
Central Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
John L.lewis
House
Senate
Davis
Ickes Says Western Drives Ban Not Needed Now
Oil Administrator Harold Ickes told eastern senators a midwestern pleasure driving ban would not help the gasoline shortage, which he called mainly a transport problem. He urged higher crude oil prices to spur production and noted tight west coast fuel use despite peak crude output.
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Washington
Harold Ickes
Middle West
Eastern Seaboard
Ickes
Oili
Jay-Cees Notice Opens Election For Officials
An important meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce is called for this evening at the public library at 7 30 o clock. All members please be present as there will be an election of officers.
Reverend Moore Seriously Ill at St Marys Evansville
Former United Brethren pastor Reverend W W Moore is reported seriously ill in St Mary hospital Evansville room 205.
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W. W. Moore
United Brethren Church
St. Mary Hospital
Evansville
Roosevelt urges Italians to oust fascists and end war
In a June 11 address from Washington President Roosevelt urged the Italian people to overthrow their Fascist rulers and choose a non fascist government after Nazi domination ends. The same day reports from Algiers and Buenos Aires note De Gaulle’s protest over reforms and Argentina’s government recognition by the United States. Britain also recognizes Argentina’s new government.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Italy
United Nations
Buenos Aires
Argentina
United States
Pedro Ramirez
Washington
London
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Pantelleria Falls to Allies in Air and Sea Siege
Pantelleria surrenders without invasion as Allied air fleets and ships laid siege for twenty days. Italian garrison of about 13 000 troops capitulated after heavy bombing while Allied forces began landing. The seizure gives the Allies an airport 60 miles from Sicily and weakens Axis control of the Mediterranean convoy route.
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United Press
Pantelleria
Panteleria
Algiers
Algiers Iioaacast
R.A.F
St. Elmo Hill
Benito Mussolini
Gibraltar
Rome
Sicily
Mediterranean
Gari Spaatz
Eisenhower
Pantelestia
Gem
Lauris Norsad
Minneapolis
Manhattan Island
Bizerte
Tunisia
Malta
Mussolini
France
Zerte
Linton Boy Returns to United States for Treatment
Mr and Mrs Newton Lewis report their son Archie a Lin ton Stockton high school graduate class of 1937 serving in the United States Army Engineers has landed in San Francisco and entered Letterman General Hospital for treatment after injuries. This is the first word since March 17 from the South Pacific assignment ending eight months of service.
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Newton Lewis
Archie
South Pacific
United States Army
San Francisco
Cal
Letterman General Hospital
Linton-Stockton
United States Army Engineers
Substitute for Gas Reported in Boston
The Boston Traveler reports that C. K. Plancon of Meredith New Hampshire invented a gasoline substitute two years ago. Plancon claims it works in motorboats and automobiles, is plentiful and cheap at about four cents per gallon, yet he has never used it in his own vehicle.
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Boston
Mass
U.P
Boston Traveler
Mereith
New ‘Hampshire
C. K. Plancon
Plancon
Hospital Notices Include Admissions And Discharges
Miss Dola Imrie of Linton submitted to a minor operation this morning. Mrs Lowell Bureh of Bloomfield route 4 admitted this morning. Rev Personette of Worthington admitted to major surgery. Steve Lechien aged 7 son of Mr and Mrs Emila Lechien admitted for treatment Thursday afternoon. Mrs Lethel Ellett of Lyons dismissed this morning.
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Dola Imrie
Linton
Lowell Bureh
Bloomfield Route 4
Rev
Personette
Worthington
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Victorous
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Wilfred Roof
Steve Stalcup
E. 'L. Barnes
Francis Haseman
Fe.v. Bull
Bomber
St. Louis, Mo
John L. Lewis
Jay-Cees
Rev. Moore III
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Charles de Gaulle
Committee of National Liberation
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Malaita Island
Guadalcanal
Island of
Elas Plan
Terre Haute
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Indiana State Teachers College
State Association
Edwin Lowenthal
Harry
McClain
Shelbyville
Carl T Bartlett
Muncie
Paul G. Jasper
Fort Wayne
L. E. Yodar
Goshen
C.L. Shideler
W. J. McAvoy
Tipton
Roy Parsons
Marion
E. R. Strong
J. L. J. Miller
East Chicago
Jere Goodnan
A. Schlorch
South Bend
Tyler
A. A. Piel»eir
Vincennes
John Dillon
Linton Boy
Archie Lewis
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