Bronze Star Medal for Adonis Fulk with 40th Infantry Division
Private First Class Adonis R. Fulk of Lyons Indiana earned the Bronze Star Medal for helping capture a bridge near Bago Negros Philippines. His unit landed before dawn on D Day to seize and hold the Bago river bridge, preventing delays to the 40th Division’s advance. The award cites a patrol neutralized within fifty yards of the abutment and the bridge secured before demolitions could be used.
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40TH
Philippines
Adonis R. Fulk
Lyons
Ind
Bago
Negros
P. L
Pfc
Falk
D-Day
Bago River
Bacolod
Rapp Brush
40Th Division
Baby born with full grown tooth in Chicago
In Chicago a seven and a half pound infant born to Betty Jane Funck and her husband Wibert Funck a printing pressman was found to have a fully developed tooth.
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Chicago
U.R
Betty Jane Funck
Linton’s Signals Prove Effective at Four Corners
Gerald Landis studies athletic training at Illinois University. Over 800 Greene County natives in Indianapolis reunite at Garfield Park. Spain exports about half a million boxes of lemons annually.
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Linton
Gerald Landis
Greene County
Indianapolis
Garfield Park
Lyons Soldier Sent to Ft McClellan for Basic Training
Pvt Frank T Swayze recently inducted into the United States Army has been sent to Ft McClellan Alabama for basic training according to word received by his wife Mrs Dessie Swayze of Lyons.
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Pvt
Frank T. Swayze
United States Army
Ft. McClellan, Ala
Dessie Swayze
Lyons
Furlough for CPL Kenneth Smith from Germany visit
Cpl. Kenneth Smith on a 60 day furlough visiting friends and relatives here. His wife and young daughter from Phoenix Arizona join him, and he is the son of Mrs. Florence Smith of Linton.
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Cpl
Kenneth Smith
United States
Germany
Phoenix
Ariz
Cpl. Smith
Florence Smith
Linton
Livestock Report from Indianapolis June 29
Hogs 3,500 active and steady with good and choice at 160 lbs and bulk 140-160 lbs selling up to 1480. lighter weights 100-140 lbs 13.50 to 14.50. sows and good stags 14.05. Cattle and calves 400 each. steers and heifers active and steady. three loads of steers around 1090 lbs at 17. two loads of heifers 740-806 lbs at 17. cows 9.50 to 13, some 13.50. canners and cutters 7 to 9.6. dealers active, top 16.50.
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Indianapolis
Housing units planned at Crane housing project approved
The NAD seeks 200 extra homes at the Crane Housing Project to ease the housing shortage. The Bureau of Ordnance has approved the plan and furnished homes will include a kitchen living room dining room bathroom and one or two bedrooms. More than 6,000 square miles of Louisiana are water covered.
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NAD
Crane
Bureau of Ordnance
Louisiana
Cards of Thanks and Memoriam for Charles E and Bertha Taylor
In memory of Charles E. and Bertha Taylor, departed this life seven and eight years ago. Home is not home for Mother and Daddy’s not there. Angels have taken them out of our care. Sleep dear Mother and Daddy thy toils are over. Sweet be they rest, so often needed before. The Children
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Charles E
Bertha Taylor
Mother
Daddy
Allies Pressward in Pacific War Fronts Amid Frontline Offensives
Allied forces report continuing pressure across the Pacific. June tonnage against Japan reached 30 000 tons as Okinawa based planes maintain the homeland blockade sinking eight enemy vessels and damaging eight more in Korean and home waters. Chinese forces advance near Liuchow as 14th Airforce airfields are seized. The 93rd Negro infantry division prepares for deployment to the Philippines to relieve other units. Sixth Division advances toward Bolog while Far Eastern air forces pound Balikpapan and Pontianak in Borneo and Formosa raids continue.
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Japan
Okinawa
Okinnawa
Sakishima Islands
Kakeroma
Amami Islands
Sakishimas
Chungking
Liuchow
14Th
MacArthur
Manila
Manila Disclosed That the 93Rd Negro
Philippines
Luzon
Bolog
Far Eastern Air Forces
Balikpapan
Pointianak
Borneo
Formosa
Indiana News Update From Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne reports two incidents with minor injuries when a passenger in a car and the truck driver escaped unhurt. County superintendent Kelro Whiteman says Allen County schools need about 15 teachers for next term. Also, Grand Leader Warehouse manager Jack Auding and crew tore out plaster to rescue a baby robin found in a wall.
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Fort Wayne
U.P
Kelro Whiteman
Allen County
Jack Auding
Grand Leader Warehouse
Senator Hears of Jap Peace Offer in June Report
Senator Homer Capehart said he had information that Japan made a peace offer that would be acceptable to him. He did not disclose details or sources but called the informant reliable and urged government transparency if such an offer exists or not.
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Washington
Homer E. Capehart
Ind
Capehart
Telegraphs and telephones spread in Greene County towns
The 1879 Mine Run era saw phones arrive a few years later in Switz City Newberry Lyons and Marco. In 1882 Linton heard its first ring. A rough tale notes shrinking shirt tails and a quip about gravity and fashion as times change with new tech and talk.
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Worthington
Bloomfield
Greene County
Switz City
Newberry
Lyons
Marco
Linton
Governor Gates names Indiana board and commission members
Governor Gates announced appointments to the Indiana State Board of Accounts, the Teacher's Retirement Fund trustees, and a Codification Commission for municipal laws. New members include Clarence Ruston, Thomas Hindman, and Otto Jensen on the Board of Accounts. Robert Wyatt, Russell Dunbar, John Milligan, Luther Lockwood, Virginia Kinnaird on the Retirement Fund. Arch Bobbitt, John Britton, Joe Brady, Harry Neff, Vincent Youkey, Roy Cochran, and Robert Miller on the Codification Commission. The groups will begin terms July 1 or August 1 and the Codification panel will meet soon.
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Indianapolis
U.P
Gates
Indiana State Board of Accounts
Teacher's Retirement Fund
Board of Accounts
Clarence E. Ruston
Gary
Otto K. Jensen
Arcadia
Thomas M. Hindman
Ruston
Hindman
Jensen
Teacher’s Retirement Fund
Indiana General Assembly
Robert Wyatt
Indiana State Teachers Association
Russell Dunbar
Sunman
John Milligan
New Castle
Luther Lockwood
Rushville
Virginia Kinnaird
Fort Wayne
State Teachers Association
Arch Bobbitt
John Britton
Richmond
Joe A. Brady
Mishawaka
Harry Neff
Elwood
Vincent Youkey
Crown Point
Roy E. Cochran
Oakland City
Robert Miller
Bloomington
Supersonic wind tunnel opens at Aberdeen Proving Ground
The world’s largest supersonic wind tunnel at Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland begins operation. It will help Army Ordnance address tremor stresses from B 29 bomb drops at supersonic speeds and refine performance.
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Aberdeen Proving Ground
Army Ordnance
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