Pauper leaves $200000 estate in Chicago will
Chel estino Chiesa a 75 year old flophouse resident dies after a heart attack in Cook County Hospital. A vault key reveals a fortune including stocks deeds and bonds from a 1900 inheritance. He leaves 500 to the Catholic church and divides the rest between his brother John and sister Mary with a fallback to the archbishop if both are dead.
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Chicago
Chelestino Shiesa
Chiesa
Cook County Hospital
State Old Age Pension Division
Chester
Kay
Illinois
Jack Rubens
Calvary Cemetery
John
Mary
Highway Work Advances South of Town and Shady Beach to Reopen
Concrete highway construction proceeds through town and beyond the big Heitman hill has been cut down. Shady Beach resort on White river near Elliston will reopen in a few days, announced by Homer Hart Stanley Martin and Ed P McQuade.
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Heitman Hill
Shady Beach
White River
Elliston
Homer Hart
Stanley Martin
Ed P. McQuade
Indiana News Roundup of Obits and Weather Across Cities
Death notices include Charles H. Parris former highway commission publicity director and Claude R. Crooks ex Indiana State Police Board president. A drowning accident marks Jane Ensminger’s death. a boy’s accidental death verdict in Mt Vernon. Also reports on wartime bond drive at Bunker Hill and a weather-storm, fishing license decline for women, and a Golden Fleece chapter founder’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
U.R
Charles H. Parris
Indiana State Highway Commission
Department of Conservation
Indianapolis
Claude R. Crooks
Indiana State Police Board
Honan-Crane Corp
Lebanon
MT. Vernon
U.P
Franklin Delano Brown
Harry Wilson
Orville Aldrich
Disabled War Vets to Visit Hospitals Across Nation
Two disabled veterans will tour U S veterans hospitals to show other injured soldiers how they adapted. Charlie C McDonegal of San Francisco who lost both hands in World War I and Herman Pheffer of Brooklyn who lost both legs in World War II will assist in teaching artificial limb use beginning at McCloskey General Hospital Temple Texas.
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Indianapolis
U.P
American Legion Auxiliary
Charlies C. McDonegal
San Francisco
Calif
Herman Pheffer
Brooklyn
N. Y
McCloskey General Hospital
Temple
Tex
Fire destroys A. W. Parsons Lumber Co plant in Brownsburg
A. W. Parsons Lumber Company in Brownsburg burned last night with damage estimated at fifty thousand dollars. Firefighters from four towns and Indianapolis prevented spread to homes and a nearby business. The cause was undetermined. a truck, lumber and equipment were lost and some damage was insured. The same report notes a Department of Agriculture study on rabbit breeding and housing to boost meat supplies.
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Brownsburg
Ind
A. W. Parsons Lumber Company
Indianapolis
Parsons
Department of Agriculture
End of North Luzon Campaign Declares Liberation of Luzon
General MacArthur announces the end of the north Luzon drive after five American divisions and the 11th Airborne linked near Alcala. American casualties total 11 351 wounded 3 793 dead with 34 missing. The island of Luzon is fully liberated and remaining Japanese pockets are isolated in three areas.
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Manila
U.P
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Luzon
MacArthur
37Th Infantry
11Th Airborne
Cagayan Valley
Alcala
Santa Fe
Aparri
Bayombong
Nueva Vizcaya
Tuguegarao
Highway Five
Kiangan
Baguio
North Luzon
Lingayen Gulf
Southwest Pacific
Borneo
Seria
Kuala Belait
Chiang Kai-shek says US not giving enough economic aid to China
In his first press conference since 1941 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek said the United States provides military aid but not sufficient economic support. He urged more American economic experts to China while praising Wedemeyer and Hurley for cooperation. He also noted Chinese troops could defeat Japan with less foreign help. The piece also mentions the turtle submarine of 1776 and a growing postwar Wyoming tourist boom.
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Chung King
U.P
Chiang Kai-Shek
United States
China
Chiang
Japan
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Patrick Hurley
Wedemeyer
Millard Pope S 2c Sent to Shoemaker California
Millard Lee Pope S 2/c, son of Mr and Mrs Millard Pope, has been sent to Shoemaker California for further training.
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Millard Pope
California
Millard Lee Pope
Shoemaker
Cal
Felker S 2c Arrives in Shoemaker for Training
Thomas W. Felker S 2c has arrived in Shoemaker California for further training according to word received by his mother Mrs. Martha Felker.
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Thomas W. Felker
Shoemaker
Calif
Martha Felker
Stalcup Brothers Meet in Austria
Mr and Mrs Earl Stalcup of Midland report letters from their sons Lt Wayne Stalcup and Pfc Victor Stalcup saying they met in Steyr Austria. It is the first reunion in a year and a half.
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Earl Stalcup
Midland
Wayne Stalcup
Pfc
Victor Stalcup
Steyer
Austria
S/Sgt Charles Baize Returns to the States on Furlough
Mr and Mrs C C Baize received a telegram from their son S/Sgt Charles Baize confirming his return to the United States after nearly three years overseas. He served in North Africa Italy France and Germany. This marks his first furlough.
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C. C. Baize
Charles Baize
States
North Africa
Italy
France
Germany
New Polish unity government forms in London under Eduard Osuka Morawski
Warsaw radio announced the formation of a unity government headed by Eduard Osuka Morawski with Stanislaw Mikolajczyk as vice premier and agriculture minister. The cabinet includes Wladyslaw Gomolka as vice premier and ministers for war, posts, social welfare, culture, and propaganda. Leaders return to Warsaw after Moscow conference.
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London
U.P
Warsaw
Eduard Osuka- Morawski
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Yalta
Moscow
Mikolajczyk
Peasant Party
Tomasz Archisewski
Qsubka-Morawski
Boleslaw Bierut
Wladislaw Gomolka
Michael Rola Zymierski
Moczislaw Thugutt
Jan Stanczyk
Widaislaw Kowalski
Stefan Matuszewski
Average Indiana corn crop expected with normal yield
Horace E. Abott, Marion county agricultural agent, said central Indiana corn probably would yield a normal crop this season despite heavy rains and flooded lowlands. He noted rapid growth and fair condition with little expected corn borer trouble.
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Indiana
Olis
U.P
Horace E. Abott
Marion County
Air Imports of Strategic Materials in 1944
The report notes that air imports of strategic materials in 1944 totaled 7,133,000 pounds, amounting to far less than half the carrying capacity of a single Liberty ship.
Chest Clinic Held Here Wednesday
Twenty six people attended a diagnostic chest clinic at Freeman Greene County Hospital on June 27 with Dr. R C Myer of Hillcrest Tuberculosis Hospital Vinccennes as examining physician. Sixteen were re checks. seven of these were school children. Five had never visited the clinic before. one will enter Rockville Sanitorium.
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Freeman Greene County Hospital
R. C. Myer
Hillcrest Tuberculosis Hospital
Vincennes
Rockville
J. R. Mitten
Cecilia Conrath
District Health Department of
Bloomington
Germ
Cleo Harter
Margaret Foulks
Myer
Larsen couple wed in Milwaukee visit brothers before returning home
Visiting here Mr. and Mrs Arthur E Larsen of Chicixife were married in Milwaukee Vis on June 23. They are visiting his brother Mr and Mrs H J Larsen. Mr Larsen was in business in Linton about twenty five years ago. They will leave for South Bend Friday en route to their home in Chicago.
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Arthur E. Larsen
Chicixife
Milwaukee
Vis
H. 3. Larsen
Larsen
Linton
South Bend
Chicago
Indiana Officers Roster Shows GOP Edge After 1944 Elections
The annual Indiana state and local officers roster, issued by Governor Gates’ department, details new appointments and party control shifts since 1943. Republicans hold 226 county commissioners and 58 circuit judges, while Democrats number 50 commissioners and 24 judges, with other offices split across parties. Mayors total 74 R and 28 D, township trustees 678 R and 334 D.
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Indianapolis
U.P
Indiana
Gates
State Division of Accounting and Statistics
Henry F. Schricker
Livestock Report From Indianapolis Hogs and Cattle Prices
Hogs 3 000 active and steady with good and choice from 140 to 160 lbs at 14.80 and 100 to 140 lbs from 13.50 to 14.50. sows at 14.05. Cattle 500, calves 400, fed steers mostly 17.35 for 1072 to 1323 lb weights. some 1200 lb at 17.50. Cows steady, best above 13.50, common 9 to 12.50, canners 7 to 8.75. Dealers active, mostly 0.50 higher. top 16.50.
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Indianapolis
U PR
Luzon Liberated As Forces Push Final Japanese Pockets
MacArthur proclaims Luzon liberation five months after Lingayen Gulf landings. Linkup of the 37th Infantry and 11th Airborne completes Cagayan valley conquest, leaving about 15,000 enemy in mountain pockets. Allied casualties listed. Okinawa naval losses total 46,319.
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Far Eastern Air Force
Balikpapan
Luzon
Chester W. Nimitz
Okinawa
Tokyo
Ichiro Baba
Southeast Asia Command
Burma
Sittang River
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James Inman
Chas. G. Alen
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J. D. Ensminger
St. Joseph River
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Will H. Smith
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Purdue University
Division of Fish and Game
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Princeton
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Golden Fleece
Eastern Star
LA Porte
Herbert Link
Lumber Company
America
Wyoming
Stalcup Brothers
Hillcrest
T. K
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Holden
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Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City,n.y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling CO
Ray Taylor
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Tokyo Defense Command
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Turban Bey
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Richard DIX
Frances Farmer
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