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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1941
Page
1
A Greene county reader reflects on lingering rain and crops while noting road conditions and humor at Linton. The piece praises local entertainment, toys with small town nattering, and mentions upcoming community sales day drawing a wide trading circle.
Barbara Briggs has returned to her home in this city after spending the past week in Syracuse New York with relatives.
Thirteen Greene county youths will enter the U S Army on July 3 as part of the eleventh Selective Service call. Four come from Area 1 and nine from Area 2. Area 2 already has qualifying volunteers ready. Area 1 names are to be announced later.
Defense and prosecution spar as George Benham faces new motions in Greene Circuit Court Bloomfield Indiana The latest filing seeks to quash two counts alleging throwing a dynamite bomb and placing a cartridge against the Free Methodist Church of Lyons July 7 trial date remains set for Benham amid ongoing legal wrangling
A Greene county farmers program will be aired on WAOV Vincennes at 11 45 Wednesday morning. Herman Graper Greene county FSA supervisor and Burl Russell Greene county AAA office manager will explain how to obtain Farm Security loans and how the Triple A program works.
The Greene County Tuberculosis association will hold its annual dinner and directors meeting at 6:30 PM next Monday, June 23, at the Linton Municipal Golf course club house. Guest speaker Mrs. Clotilde Sanguinet of Indianapolis will discuss aspects of the state and county TB program. Township chairmen who worked without pay will be guests this year. tickets are 50 cents and reservations go to Mrs. J R Mitten, executive secretary, Linton, by Saturday noon.
A tennis league totaling boys and girls teams from Linton and nearby towns will be sponsored by the WPA recreation department. Inter city matches will feature top players from Jasonville Dugger Bloomfield Lyons Sullivan and Linton with a Greene county round robin and a state wide event for winners. A June 19 meeting at the McDonald courts invites all players and a tennis school is planned for at least three nights weekly.
In Oaktown Thomas Morris a 69yearold retired farmer shot himself in his home. In Clinton Andrew Guriel hanged himself from rafters in his warehouse, both occurring late yesterday.
Mrs Fran Hoese of Worthington admitted for fractured right hip after a fall. Miss Mary Felker of West Linton dismissed. Donald Sims taken to home in West Linton.
Miss Wilma Stoeckel of Linton and Miss Lalena Freeman of Worthington are candidates for state offices at the first Indiana Girls state at Indiana Central College in Indianapolis. Stoeckel seeks state senator on the Nationalist ticket, Freeman seeks state representative on the Nationalist ticket. The event mirrors Boys' state and teaches practical political work.
Report says several U S citizens may have been aboard the Great Western Railway steamer St Patrick when it was bombed and sunk in the Irish Sea with at least twenty three dead. Sixty six survivors were rescued by a warship after leaping into the water. Most first class passengers are believed dead.
Indiana police broadcast a lookout for Herschel Eaton Jr and Clifford Sullivan both 15 from Linton missing since Sunday night. Eaton 5 foot tall 115 pounds with dark hair and eyes. Sullivan 5 foot 8 and 140 pounds with dark hair and eyes. They may have traveled toward Detroit to seek work.
A John Lawrence tent show forecast of fair and warmer weather appears correct with yesterday and today seeing clear skies as thermometers rise from a 45 degree low to 77 by mid afternoon. The forecast calls for more fair conditions tonight and Wednesday. White River at Bloomfield receding to normal at 11 feet today.
Indianapolis will unofficially adopt daylight saving time at 1 am Sunday. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan says compliance will be voluntary until a formal ordinance is enacted. Harold L. Ickes suggested suspending petroleum exports from Atlantic ports until consulted on each shipment.
Washington reports mounting strain with Berlin Rome and Tokyo as Roosevelt acts to freeze axis assets close consulates and seize idle foreign ships. Berlin and Rome threaten recalls and retaliations while Grew protests bombings near Chungking embassy and Knox warns on war talk during a Canadian victory loan drive.
Three firemen died and five others injured in a Chicago lumber mill fire on the northwest side. Noris Coulombe Geo Michalski and Henry Bodenlos suffocated after being trapped inside the Chicago Mill and Lumber Co building. Firemen crawled along hose lines past an explosion as Marshall Michael J. Corigan estimated damage at seventy five thousand dollars.
The White River oil spill from a Tidewater pipeline near Coal City is largely cleared in Greene County. Oil appeared at Elliston around 7:30 AM yesterday and has largely disappeared this morning with only traces along banks and slack water. Officials doubt significant fish deaths will occur.
The Greater Linton club plans a 6:30 p.m. banquet Thursday at the Linton Municipal Golf course clubhouse. Officers negotiate a program with speaker name to be announced. secretary-manager Steve Stalcup promises a wonderful feed and a value program. The Recreation orchestra under Bert Brown will play during banquet service.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson told the House rivers and harbors committee that the St. Lawrence sea way would open Great Lakes shipyards for defense and Allied aid. He urged approval of a Roosevelt Canada accord and said a 27-foot channel could remove barriers to big ships, with completion in about three years.
The Chat ter and Stitch club will hold its annual breakfast at Humphreys Park at 7:00 Wednesday morning. Members are urged to attend.
Officials investigated a fire in Sumner Lawrence County Illinois that destroyed the high school, causing an estimated 70000 dollars in losses. Emergency crews battled the blaze yesterday as officials assessed the damage and cause.
Nazi officials announce retaliatory steps in response to American freezing of axis assets and close of German consulates in the United States. Washington prepares a protest over the Robin Moor sinking while British forces press a 15 mile Libya advance and attack Damascus area.
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