Passenger Train Service Ordered Stopped On I. & W.
The Indiana Public Service Commission approves abandoning the Indianapolis Vincennes branch passenger service. The Pennsylvanian line serves 21 towns including Worthington Switz City Lyons and Marco. Train patronage fell to about six riders per day, with the railroad to give notice before service ends.
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Indianapolis
Vincennes
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Indiana State Public Service Commission
Indiana
Polis
Grene County
Worthington
Switz City
Lyons
Marco
Public Service Commission
Public ‘Service ‘Commission
Spencer
Mrs Williams 90 Dies in Terre Haute
Mrs Eliza Bridges Williams aged 90 died at 2 30 Sunday afternoon in Terre Haute She is survived by a daughter Mrs P H Ferguson a brother William H Bridges of Roachdale and several nieces and nephews Funeral services will be held at 830 Tuesday afternoon at the Gillis Memory Chapel Terre Haute with burial in Highland Lawn cemetery
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Eliza Bridges Williams
E.W. Foster
Linton
Floyd Shannon
Terre Haute
P. H. Ferguson
William H. Bridges
Roachdale
Gillis Memory
Highland Lawn
Hospital Notes Local births and discharges at area clinics
Mrs. Lewis Hall of Linton route 3 admitted for observation Saturday. Mrs. Aleiem Edwards of Linton gave birth by Caesarean section Saturday night to a son. Their condition improved. Mrs. S. Hoffeditz of Linton route 1 underwent minor surgery this morning. Mrs. Waneta Hardesty of Linton mother of a daughter born Sunday. Several patients were dismissed Sunday including Clovis Rawley of Worthington Ralph Michael of Linton route 2 Mrs. Sam Terrell and Mrs. James Meurer of Dugger. Mrs. Audrey Lambright was taken to her home in Lyons today. Mrs Eva Stoner of Jasonville admired for treatment Saturday afternoon.
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Lewis Hall
Linton
Haldon West
Lyons
Aleiem Edwards
Eva Stoner
Jasonville
S. H. Hoffeditz
Sam Terrell
Switz City
Clov
DYNAMITING CASE CONTINUED IN GREENE COURT
The Indiana v George Benham dynamiting case for the Lyons Free Methodist Church is continued generally in Greene circuit court Bloomfield delaying trial past July 7 to the September term. A motion to quash related affidavits remains pending with no hearing date set.
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Indiana
George Benham
Washington Township
Free Methodist Church
Lyons
Greene
Bloomfield
Benham
Robert L. Stevenson
Warm Weather Probed in Greene County Fields
Greene County sees heat as official 93 degrees at Elliston and 94 at Linton with 93 noted in the afternoon. U S Weather Bureau thermometer reads 91 at Elliston. Tonight's forecast calls for slightly cooler conditions. Dry spell aids farmers in completing the wheat harvest.
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Elliston
Linton
U. S.weather Bureau
United Press
Weather Bureau
Indianapolis
Warning to Motorists Over Playgound Racetrack Use
City officials warn motorists using the Central school building playground as a racetrack that they face prosecution if the practice continues. Police and the school board report breakneck speed driving near the grounds and a no trespassing order is issued.
Senator Harrison Taken By Death
Washington reports the death of Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi at age 59. He served 23 years as president pro tempore and Finance Committee chair and will lie in state today in the Senate chamber. He died after exhaustion following surgery and extended illness treated in Arkansas.
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Washington
Pat Harrison
Miss
Senate
Finance Committee
Arkansas
Welles Defends Actions Against Hitler Methods
Washington June 23 Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles voiced Roosevelt policy against dictatorship and urged stopping Hitlerism after Germany attacked Soviet Russia. His remarks signaled potential sympathy for Russia but framed as immediate American priority.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
Sumner Welles
Roosevelt
Defense training reports outline 24 hour class plan and new equipment
New equipment is ready at the defense training project in South Linton with seven lathes a saw a shaper and future milling machine. A 1 am to 7 am class is planned if enough local interest appears while current classes run 12 weeks 300 hours and NYA employees study three hours daily. Seventy area men are enrolled and twelve new machine shop students begin tonight.
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Homer Bailey
Earl Skemp
Raleigh Road
Linton
NYA
Crecelius Returns Home After Pleasantville Visit
June 23. Jess Crecelius returns to Seymour after several days with Mr and Mrs Frear Frye and family in Pleasantville.
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Pleasantville
Jess Crecelius
Seymour
Mrs. Frear Frye
Spain May Send Army Against Soviet Russia
Madrid reports Spain would like to dispatch forces to oppose Soviet Russia but officials refused to confirm any imminent move. In Washington a proposed substitute draft property bill narrows government power to commandeer private property to military materials and tools, plus associated patents for defense production.
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Spain
Madrid
Russia
Foreign Office
Washington, D. C
Robert P. Patterson
Independent Day Plans For Linton Include Parades And Fireworks
The Greater Linton club outlines a grand Fourth of July celebration with a downtown parade at 10 AM on July 4 and a 10 30 PM fireworks display. Imperial Shows carnival runs Monday to Saturday, with no float entry fee and calls for more floats than last year. Steve Stalcup and Andy Humphreys coordinate entries while bands are lined up to headline the parade.
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Greater
Steve Stalcup
Telephone No
Andy Humphreys
Roosevelt weighs lend lease aid to Soviet Union amid war shifts
President Roosevelt faces a pivotal decision on extending lend lease to the Soviet Union as questions rise about the German advance and Soviet Britain US alliance talks circulate from Stockholm. Officials consider releasing frozen Soviet funds and easing export controls while possibly labeling Germany as aggressor to shape policy under the neutrality act.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
Roosevelt
Soviet Union
Moscow
Great Britain
U. S
United States
Nazi Germany
Germany
Pacific
Sheep shearer reaches 10000th shorn in 1941 season
Elbert F Richmond of Armington heads a 25 year career as a sheep barber having shaved at least 40000 sheep. He recently completed his 1000th sheep shearing of the 1941 season at the Normal University farm in Bloomington Illinois.
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Bloomington
Ill.u.p
Elbert F. ‘Richmond
Armington
Las
Normal University Farm
Germany Hurls Might At Red Horde Today Advances Reported
German forces press a 1700 mile front against Soviet Russia with tanks bombs and air power. Reports say Moscow observed strong German strikes in the Baltic states Brest Litovsk and along the Ukraine border as Britain and Russia counterattack.
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Germany
Red Horde
Russia
Moscow
Baltic States
Brests Litovsk
Bessarabian
Ukraine
Caucasus
Bucharest
Chisinau
Bessarabia
Britain
France
Ruhr
East Prussia
Lithuania
Stockholm
Estonia
Winston Churchill
Stalin
Italy
Axis
London
U.P
United States
John G. Winant
Ivan Maisky
America
Great ‘Britain
Adolf Hitler
Soviet
Napoleon
Indiana week end claims ten lives in violent deaths
Ten people died in Indiana over the weekend including Walter Ferguson 31 Indianapolis who died after a traffic crash on road 37 nine miles south of Indianapolis. Kathryn Ballard 20 Georgetown died at New Albany from injuries after being struck by a car driven by Leslie Berry 22 Lafayette. Alonzo Brumett 29 Indianapolis died after being crushed at Central Veneer Company. Authorities report eleven other injuries with non serious outcomes.
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United Press
Indiana
Walter Ferguson
Indianapolis
Kathryn Ballard
Georgetown
New Albany
Leslie Berry
Lafayette
Berry
Mary Lois Thayer
State College
Kendallville
Elizabeth Gilbert
Vernon
Columbus
John Jackson
Knox County
Washington
Bert Curtiss
Fall Creek
Alonzo Brumett
Central Veneer Company
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Roy Fuller
Linton City
Orvan D. Hunter
Waneta Hadley
Nellie Lee
Paul H. Kramer
Jamie Usrey
Hunter
C. C.hendren
M. W. Gilbreath, Jr
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Harrison
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Hitler
Plant
Greater Linton Club
Carnival Company
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