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E. W. Cook Jr,^ 9Reported Missing In North Atlantic* * m #FAMILY OF JACKSON SAILOR NOTIFIED BY NAVY DEPARTMENT LAST WEEK. DETAILS ARE LACKINGi HE. W. Cook Jr., about 25 yearsi Qof age, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Cook Sr., was reported missing in action in the North Atlantic, according I to information received by the fam-|ily March 5. I• IThe Navy Department in report-Ming did not give any details. The• • Iexact location and the name of the ship was xnot listed in the officialI • bulletin. .r IMr. Cook, who previously had been employed by the Pepperton Cotton | Mills, enlisted in the U. S. Navy about j ten months ago. One report said this was the first trip overseas.His wife, the former Mips Willie Ruth Mackey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mackey of Jackson, has been residing in New York to be near her husband, but is returning home.Mr. Cook is one of about one hundred men supplied to the armed forces by the Pepperton Cotton Mills.He is a member of a widely known Butts county family hnd had a large circle of friends throughout thecommunity.Friends of the family sympathizewith them in the suspense but fervently hope good news will be received later.
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Jackson Progress Argus
Jackson, Georgia, US
Thu, Mar 11, 1943
Page 5
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