Advertising and farming notes amid county updates
Wheat in Greene and nearby counties mostly harvested with good quality and above average yield. corn season shows promise after a good year. Public ads vary in quality. Yaeger and White find newspaper ads most effective and influential, while theater, billboards, and circulars rank lower. Insurance scams warned with local agent guidance. ersatz materials discussed as substitution in industry. Fourth of July plans are outlined with preparations and a bigger celebration expected.
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Greene
Jane Bull Critically Injured In Indiana Auto Crash
Jane Ellen Bull fifteen daughter of Linton mayor suffered critical injuries from a gravel road accident near Stafford church six miles southwest of Linton. A Ford convertible overturned after skidding on loose gravel pinning Bull beneath wreckage while three male companions Marvin Friedman Fred McLain and Hershell Davies escaped with minor injuries. State police investigated the crash.
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Jane Ellen Bull
E. V. Bull
Linton
Freeman- Greene County Hospital
Stafford Church
Miss Bull
Marvin Friedman
Fred McLain
Lin
Bulliaso
Indiana State Police Department
Nine Greene county draftees named for Army induction
The Greene county Area No. 2 draft board announced nine youths to report to Ft Benjamin Harrison on July 3 under the Selective Service. Inductees from Solsberry Springville Bloomfield Switz City Scotland Lyons and rural routes include Harry Fowler Earl Spinks Max Frye Robert Quillen Everett Stalcup Robert Spencer Pearl Summerville Wandley Burch and Woodrow Sparks. Area No. 1 draftees are not yet determined and will be announced later.
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Greene County
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Bloomfield
Greene County Area No
Wright, Stockton
Stafford
Area No. 2
Army
Harry David Fowler
Solsberry
Earl Spinks
Springville
Max Wilbur Frye
Lunn Injured at Indiana Police School
Ira Lunn of Linton sustained a painful back injury during calisthenics at the Indiana State Police School in Bloomington. He is expected to be confined to bed for two weeks as a result of the incident.
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Ira Lunn
Linton
Indiana State Police School
Bloomington
Lunn
Clearing House Story Details Red Cross Message Aid for Greene County
Joseph H. Haseman explains the International Red Cross clearing house helps Greene County residents contact relatives in war torn Europe. A Paris letter requests news of Mme Marie Nothier in Bloomfield Indiana and contact through the Red Cross. Haseman offers to assist locals in sending messages and will obtain proper forms from National Red Cross in Washington.
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Clearing House
International
American Red Cross
Greene County
Joseph H. Haseman
Haseman
Paris
France
International Cross
Geneva
Switzerland
Bloomfield
Indiana
Mme. M. Denoyer
Rue Cherche Midi
Mme. Denoyer
Lee Jones
Marie Nothier
Jones
Ms. Nothier
National Red Cross
Washington, D. E
Traffic Signal Likely at North Main and A Streets
Indiana State police will supervise a traffic count at the North Main and A streets intersection in Linton to decide if a traffic light should be replaced. Lieut. Don Franklin announced the count, with Greene County prosecutor Robert L. Stevenson and police official Mendenhall present. If autos meet a sufficient threshold, the signal will be erected.
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North Main
Linton
Indiana State Police Department
Don Franklin
Indiana State Police Force
Robert i L. Stevenson
Greene County
Mendenhall
Police Department
County Life Prisoner Is Give Another Star
Andy Combs 73 of Greene county, serving a life term for 1922 first degree murder, is granted parole by the state clemency commission. He plans to live in Cloverdale with a brother after nineteen years in Indiana State Prison where he served as head nurse and drew praise from officials and a prosecutor who called the act a momentary lapse.
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Andy Combs
Greene County
Indiana
John Baker
Hoosier
Cloverdale
Combs
Indiana State Prison Hospital
Commission
Baker
Greene
Clemency Commission
Shad
Weather Bother Residents With Heat and Humidity
Temperatures climbed into the nineties with high humidity across the area. Elliston's official 2 PM reading stood at 90 degrees while Linton's semi-official thermometers reached 93. White River rose from 7.78 to 7.87 feet amid light showers around Terre Haute to Greencastle, possibly continuing upward.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Elliston
Linton
O. H. Brown
White River
Terre Haute
Grencastle
Eel River
Dugger Resident Fined in Switz City Court
Robert Bonham of Dugger, age 283 years old, was fined $5 plus costs after a June 15 altercation in Switz City led to his arrest. He pleaded guilty to public intoxication in the court of Justice of the Peace Jack Wakefield.
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Switz City
Robert Bonham
Dugger
Bonham
Jack Wakefield
First objectors sent to camp in Indiana
Indiana state selective service officials announced that thirty seven conscientious objectors to the draft are ordered to report for a year of civilian work in conservation camps. All but one were assigned to the Wells county camp near Bluffton.
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Indianapolis
U.P
Selective Service
Indiana
Wells County
Bluffton
New Draft Calls Planned for Indiana Draftees
Indianapolis dispatch reports two July selective service calls totaling 2737 Hoosier draftees. First group 1345 men to be inducted June 30 to July 10, second 1392 men July 11 to 18. A possible third call late July raises total requisition to 19785 for Indiana. Tallinn Capital in Flames After German Air Raid.
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Indianapolis
State Selective Service
Robinson Hitchcock
Hitchcock
New Wage Parley Opened for District No 1 Today
In Terre Haute Indiana on June 24 194? the United Mine Workers CIO District WM and Indiana Coal Operators Associations reopened wage hour contract negotiations The old contract expired March 31 and mining continued May 1 under a Roosevelt suggested temporary agreement John L Lewis UMW president said no agreement was reached after a two hour meeting with southern soft coal operators and a policy committee will meet again.
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Terre Haute
Ind
U.P
United Mine Workers, Cio
District WM
Indiana Coal Appeartors Associations
Roosevelt
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Southern Soft Coal
Lewis
Southern
Townsend Talks Food Supply Confidence in U S
Chicago June 24 M Clifford Townsend director of agricultural defense relations said America can avoid meatless and milkless days if no drought or emergency. He urged increasing cheese production about one third and evaporated milk one fourth as his first public address in new role.
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Chicago
O.R
M. Clifford Townsend
Agricultural Defense Relations
Townsend
Agriculture Club of Chicago
America
Britain
Indiana
Newberry Man Suffers After Bridge Abutment Collapse
Frank Hasler of Newberry sustained a sprained ankle back injuries and a leg cut when a bridge abutment caved in on him during removal work after rains washed out part of the structure. He was treated by a Bloomfield physician and is not believed to be seriously hurt.
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Frank Hasler
Newberry
Center Township
Hasler
Bloomfield
Birth and hospital admissions reported
A son weighing ten pounds eight ounces was born to Mrs. Howard DeWiggins on Monday afternoon named John. Mrs. Edna Sanders of Bloomfield admitted for medical treatment. Jane Ellen Bull admitted for surgical treatment after an automobile accident. Marvin Friedman Fred McLain of Linton and Herschel Davies of Bloomingdale Ill were admitted for treatment after an automobile accident and later dismissed.
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Howard DeWiggins
John
Edna Sanders
Bloomfield
Jane Ellen Bull
Marvin Friedman
Fred McLain
Linton
Herschel Davies
Bloomingdale
Ill
Conflicting War Updates From Berlin and Moscow
Reports from Berlin and Moscow conflict over German and Soviet advances as Allied leaders push for draft law changes in Washington. Gen. Marshall reveals proposals to retain selectees beyond training and expand the army by 100000. Other dispatches describe three Nazi sectors driving toward Riga Brest Litovsk and Bucharest while Britain and Russia coordinate and Spain debates arming against Russia.
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Washington
War Department
Congress
Army
George C. Marshall
Roosevelt
National Guard
Marshall
Alaska
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Ankara
Baltic States
East Prussia
Lithuania
Helsinki
Riga
Latvia
Brest Litovsk
Rumania
Kiev
Bessarabia
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
United States
Berlin
RAF
London
North Sea
Madrid
Finland
Poland
Syria
Gantana
Damascus
Damascus- Beirut
Bhrilin
U.S
Wehrmachst
Red Army
New Labor Strife Threatens Northwest Truckers
Washington June 24 A CIO led drive targets the AFL International Brotherhood of Teamsters risk of a new labor civil war. CIO organizer A D Lewis兄 of John L Lewis's faction mobilized 5000 members from AFL Local 544 in Minneapolis. President Tobin appeals to Roosevelt as officials fear a wider disruption and possible truck boycotts harming defense production.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
C.lo
A.F.L
Teamsters
Northwest
C.1.0
A.F.L. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
A. D. Lewis
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
Lewis
United Construction Workers Organizing Committee
C.I.O
A. F. of L
Minneapolis
Daniel W. Tobin
A.F.L. Teamters
C.so
Black widow spiders found near Black Creek school
A pair of black widow spiders was brought to the Daily Citizen office by Sampson Coulter of this community. The first specimen was reported this year and was found by Mr. Coulter near the Black Creek school building.
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Daily Citizen
Sampson Coulter
Coulter
Black Creek
Beech Grove Resident Richard L Secrest Critically Ill
Richard L Secrest former Linton resident is critically ill in his Beech Grove home. He is not expected to recover and has been living away from the Linton community for some time.
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Richard L. Secrest
Linton
Beech Grove
Mr. Secrest
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