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Fansher Was Noton U.S.S.FTELEGRAM FROM WIFE CLEARS UP DEATH REPORTChariton Newspapers Wire Mrs. Fansher at Long Beach to Learn TrnthTOLD NOT TO WORRYHuge Cruiser Was Sunk in Battle Off Java Recently•A report circulating around Chariton (hut James Reginald! Ffcmttfir. non of Mr* Albert Murtln.j wa« on board the U. X. S. Houston cleared up today when Die1 Charlton Newspaper* received n i telegram from Mr*. Finisher in Beach. Calif, that her husband warn not on the ship.The ne»«|*imr* wired Mrs. Fan-•her1 yesterday If her husband was on board and the following answer wns| received fust before pniw time: HuuMitd not on ship. Letter follow Inf. Don’t worn.Anefa Fansher I The henry cruiser Houston was! sunk In a huge clash between nJapanese force and an o»l numbered United Nations force In tbe water* north of Jara between Feb. ‘J? i(wd Match 1.This photo Is of the I'. S. S. Houston, the ship upon which James Reginald Fan.her was belleied to he stationed, and one of the 1.1 lulled Nations ships lo*t In the buttle of Jatn. The ship, were lo.t In a buttle with a easily superior Japanese fleet, of which • he Allied forte sunk eltrht of unretenled designation*. The see-oud American ship sunk wus the li. N. S. Pope, a destroyer.Another letter received by Mrs. Fan she r March «—written after war rffl* declared—wa* heavily cen shred and did not toll .on what shlpj Fabsber Wsflstatloned or where ho, wan when be wrote tin* letter. ) Tbe letter merely -hi that his work was Interest Inc and that lt kept him so busy tbe time waa pa—log very quickly.At one time Fonaher wrote that ho wn* an elect rlelno's mate and I hnd charge of the movie* shown to,^ the sailors on board the ship. His mother, however, did not know whatCounty Schools Will Participate inImmunization Plan '.An ImmunUatlOn program in eo-| operation with a proclamation! made by President Roosevelt I* being planned In Lucas county, according to Cecil Stephen*, couhty ■uperlntendcni of school*.ee*tandThe goal set by the prudent Is ! that beforu May 1, children- overI and diphtheria, the 1*0 diseases for which there are the surest preventives. . -; |The program la being set up to i. _ help conserve the health of chU-|■ Iran In oil Unr. its. laelRJAMES FANSHERdren In ull communities. More de-. tails will be announced In the near if?’ futuie, Miss Stephens aald.uHen Kills Herself—Two Eggs at Once—Reads of “Food-for-Freedom” ^flaneret*Ml«. I'iwK'ri, um IIJI •.HUH.Ilia •he wps doing now or what hi* port A hen owned by R. TV. Cooley, of hut not-to he outdone, fbo hyn laidCharlton, killed herself last week one egg InAlde the other one. ,. • when *be decided to liolp out lu the: The large egg Biea*urpd eight, present Food-for-Vlclory” coin-, inche* In circumference. Ipslde U|I* pulgn. Tlie ben had ansircnlly been, was the albumen, but Instruct of the reading about the program for aev- yolk another fully developed' eggFansker—(Conllnusa on p*g* I)clevera;Wllfc!:TIIS•lor.tli.Wed
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Chariton Leader
Chariton, Iowa, US
Tue, Mar 17, 1942
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