Draft expansion eyed as Congress moves to broaden manpower
The United States pushed to maximize manpower. Representative May urged swift passage to retain all fighting forces for the duration and send selectees anywhere overseas. A Senate action on a similar measure followed. Hershey noted possible reclassification of defermented selectees and discussed lowering the draft age from 21 to 18, though an immediate change seems unlikely.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Senate
England Loses Heavily In The War With Japan
President Roosevelt said the United States faces a long hard war with Japan after Pearl Harbor. He praised naval supremacy but warned coastal defenses and Pacific battles will be in the front line. He announced a seven day work week for war industries and huge expansion of munitions production while condemning Japan as treacherous and allied with Germany to dominate the Pacific.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States Navy
Pacific
United States
Pearl Harbor
White House
Hawaii
Japan
Germany
Far East
North
Central
South America
Defense plans are made in Seymour local post
Mayor Stanley A Switzer was named Tuesday night as chair man of the local American Legion post National Defense Committee. A city wide defense organiz ation is to be formed with districts for possible emergencies and volunteers may join as defense policemen. The Seymour area includes Hoosier Ordinance Works Charlestown and Jefferson Proving Ground nearby.
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Stanley A. Switzer
American Legion Post
National Defense Committee
Switzer
Mayor Switzer
Walter Voss
Forrest Herrmann
Ivan Love
Swails
Sud
Legion Post
Legion's Defense Committee
Seymour
Hoosier Ordnance Works
Charlestown
Quartermaster’s Depot
Legion Santa Fund Sees New Total After Earlier Contributions
The Legion Santa Fund reports a new total after previous contributions. Details of the updated amount are not provided in the fragment.
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Legion Santa Fund
Jennings Family Safe After Hawaii Bombing Alert
A cablegram saying All Safe brought relief to Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Jennings of North Walnut Street. The message comes from Major Maurice E. Jennings stationed at Hickam Field near Pearl Harbor, where the Japanese attack occurred. Major Jennings, with the chemical warfare division, has been at Pearl Harbor over a year, and he is with Mrs. Jennings and their two children.
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L. E. Jennings
North
Walnut Street
Maurice E. Jennings
Hickam Field
Hawaii Islands
Jennings
Many Draftees in Class 1 A Ready in Jackson County
Jackson county draft board reports a large pool of men classified 1 A. Officials say the county is prepared to meet any potential call from Uncle Sam in the coming weeks or months.
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Jackson County
Sam
County Draft Board
State Draft Plan for Indiana 1-A Registrants Induction
Indianapolis December 10. All Indiana selective service registrants in class 1-A about 4000 will be inducted in January, exceeding earlier plans for 2800 to train for war with Japan. Men aged 21 to 28 meet army health standards have no dependents and are not in essential defense work, making up the core of 435000 Hoosier registrants.
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Indianapolis
Japan
Local Draft Candidates Reported Ready for 1 A
Julius G. Harlow said about fifty of seventy men recently given final exams are ready for immediate call and placed in Class 1 A after exams at New Albany. Sixty to seventy more expected to be ready soon to travel to New Albany for final exams before training. Officials anticipate twenty five to thirty men will be ordered to New Albany early in January for final exams.
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Julius G. Harlow
County Board
New Albany
Owen Frost to report to U S Naval Academy
Owen Frost son of Mr and Mrs I L Frost of this city has orders to report at the United States Naval Academy Annapolis Md January 9 to train as an engineering officer in the U S Naval Reserve He will be apprentice seaman first month then midshipman for three months at end of four months he receives an ensign’s commission and active duty He was selected from Indiana for Annapolis training due to scholastic standing at Wabash College from which he graduated last June.
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Owen Frost
I. L. Frost
Frost
Northwestern University
Wabash College
Indiana
Seymour Community Chorus Prepares Handel Mes siah at Shields High
Final rehearsal for Handel's Messiah presented by Seymour Community Chorus is set for Sunday at 4 PM in Shields High School auditorium. Paul W. Rigsbee directs the program featuring chorus numbers and solo performances by three soloists, two trained at Arthur Jordan.
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Shields High School
Seymour Community Chorus
Paul W. Rigsbee
Arthur Jordan Con
Lions Club Ladies Night Brings Roosevelt Radio Address
Mr and Mrs G B Bottorff and Mr and Mrs T P Wesley attended a Brownstown Lions Club ladies night at Brownstown High School. Bottorff presides at Seymour club. Wesley is zone chairman for Seymour Brownstown Wallonia and Medora. After banquet, attendees played games and danced at the old high school gym and heard President Roosevelt speak by radio.
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G. B. Bottorff
T. Perry Wesley
Brownstown
Lions Club
Brownstown High School
Bottorff
Seymour Club
Wesley
Seymour
Wallonia
Medora
Roosevelt
Seymour Lions Club to Hold Weekly Meeting at Ells Home
Seymour Lions Club will meet in the Ells Home dining room Thursday at 6 15 PM. Officials urge full attendance to maintain the club's long standing perfect attendance record.
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Seymour Lions Club
Ells
Army officer attacks complacency at Frisco
San Francisco faced air raid fears after a blunt rebuke from Lieut General John L. Dewitt. He condemned local blackout lapses as insane and foolish while warning civilians of potential death from enemy air attacks. Major General Jacob E. Fickel urged vigilance and emergency preparedness.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
John L. Dewitt
Fourth Army
Dewitt
Canada
Mexico
Gouth
California
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco Bay
Helder
San Pedro Harbor
Woman Fined for Child Abandonment in City Court
Mrs. Mabel Owens of this city pleaded guilty to a charge of child abandonment and was fined $5 with costs totaling 15 by Mayor Stanley A. Switzer in city court Tuesday. The husband filed the charge Monday.
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Mabel Owens
Stanley A. Switzer
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War Bulletins From Manila Describe Luzon Standoff
The war bulletin says northern Luzon remained unchanged with no new landings after earlier reports. A radio alert claimed Red Army troops recaptured Olets south of Moscow, destroying two German divisions with heavy casualties. U S forces reportedly repelled a Sea Horse Japanese attack on Luzon’s west coast while other Japanese troops landed at the island’s north, the first major invasion on American soil since 1812.
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Olets
Moscow
United States Army
Luzon
Philippines
War Department
Washington
Indiana Casualties Name Soldiers Killed in Pearl Harbor Attack
Indianapolis and Connersville report two U S Army air corps casualties official word says Elmer South twenty three of Indianapolis was killed at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack Corp William Offutt twenty one of Connersville son of Mrs Lillian Binder was killed in action December 7 stationed at Hickam Field Pearl Harbor
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Indianapolis
Amelia South
Elmer
Hickam Field
Connersville
William Offutt
U. S. Army Air Corps
Lillian Binder
Binder
Corp
Offutt
Pearl Harbor
Talley victim of tularemia after rabbit handling
Mrs Pearl Talley aged forty nine of Seymour Indiana died at Schneck Memorial Hospital at four this morning from tularemia believed to result from handling a dressed rabbit. She was widow of Ed Talley and mother survives with two daughters, a son, three brothers, and other relatives. She was born in Lions Georgia March 27 1892 and had lived in the county about 15 to 20 years. She was a Baptist.
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Seymour Ri
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Talley
Ed Talley
Lions, Gla
Berry M
Anna Giles Hall
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The
Baptist Church
Louise Wiant
Indianapolis
Opal Rice
Columbus
William Talley
W. ¢. Hall
Dennison
Texas
Wallace Hall
Surreney
Marcus
Harvard linguist says Japan gains edge from English speaking officers
Cambridge Massachusetts December 10 Harvard University linguist Dr Erwin O Reischauer notes Japan benefits from a large pool of military officers who speak English giving Nippon an advantage in questioning war prisoners translating intercepted messages and obtaining information from material found on men fallen in action.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Japan
United States
United States Army
Navy
Nippon
Erwin O. Reischauer
British Battleship Prince of Wales and Repulse Sunk
Reports from Berlin and Tokyo claim the battle off Malaya cost Britain the Prince of Wales and the Repulse. Japanese sources say King George V may also be lost with others, while Tokyo asserts a major U S Pacific fleet strike and warns of a prolonged war.
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Repulse
Associated Press
United States
Manila
Britain
Malay
DNB
King George V
George V
Tokyo
Hideo Hiraide
Imperial Headquarters
United States Pacific Fleet
Pacific
Hawaii
U.S.S
Singapore
Weather Records for Seymour Day Official and Unofficial Readings
Official and unofficial weather readings for Seymour compile the day’s figures. The downtown thermometer gives the maximum temperature. minimum 24 hour reading comes from Mise Louise Ahlert government observer records. River stage reported at Rock Street pumping station is 11 inches above low water mark.
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Mise Louise Ahlert
Seymour Water Co
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