Owls Lose At Bedford Amid Roof Leaks And Rain
Shields High School Owls saw their win streak end with a 29 to 21 defeat at Bedford as heavy rain and a leaking gym floor disrupted play. The Cutters pulled ahead in the second quarter and held the lead, while officials repeatedly mopped the wet area to prevent injuries. Rain and fog reduced attendance from an expected capacity crowd.
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Myers
Owls
Caress
Wiethoff
Deputy
Seymour
Torphy
Riggs
Bedford
Giverstone
B. Torphy
Frank
White River Flood Watch Near Rockford and Seymour
Stream readings show White River rising rapidly with levels at Rockford and Seymour gauges climbing several inches per hour. Officials report 1.31 inches of rainfall since Thursday and no flood stage indicated yet despite muddy roads foggy driving conditions and continuing river rise.
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White River
Henry Ahblert
Weather Observatory
Seymour
Ahlert
State Weather Bureau
Wabash
Weather Bureau
Abilert’s
Ablert’s
Indiana Farm Bureau opposes 15 percent freight rate rise
Indianapolis December 17 The Indiana Farm Bureau announced its opposition to a 15 percent freight rate increase sought by railroads. Livestock marketing director Lee Hichsen said the rise would cost live stock producers and packing houses about 18.283 million dollars if traffic stayed near the 1935 36 average.
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Arrexs
Indianapolis
Indiana Farm Bureau
Lee RN. Hichsen
Rome Flood Threat Forces Troop Reinforcement
Troops were called out to reinforce thousands of men fighting the Tiber as it rose to the highest level in sixty seven years. Floodwaters cut highways to Pisa and Naples and raised fears the Milvio bridge dating to 109 B C may collapse under the torrent.
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Romes
Associated Press
Rome
Tiber
Pisa
Naples
Milvio
Flier With Poor Visibility Lands Safely After 70 Minutes
Cyril Vanfossen piloted a Seymour Aviation Club Aeronea monoplane and, amid extreme fog, flew for seventy minutes before landing at the Seymour airport. He wandered above clouds and briefly over Crothersville, then navigated by railroad to return to base with nearly empty fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson County
Cyril VanFossen
Mr. VanFossen
Aeronea
Seymour Aviation Club
Seymour Municipal
Seymour
Orville Wright
LaRne Coy
John Hanenschild, Jr
Midwestern Aviation Corporation
Robert Curry
H. R. Wagner
Coy
Curry
Seymour Field
Mr. Wright
VanFossen
Crothersville
Senate moves toward final vote on crop control program
Senate leaders push for a final vote today on the crop control program as two substitute ideas from McAdoo and Lee face quick dismissal. Debate stretched into the night with officials urging action and a Wallac e letter criticized by McNary as not backing the bill. The ever normal granary plan seeks a dairy land policy on fatigued soil.
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Washington
Senate
McAdoo
D-Conf
Lee
D-Okla
Wallace
McNary
Oregon
United States
Seymour Plans Christmas Story Hour at Library
The Seymour Public Library announces its annual Christmas story hour for Saturday at 2 30 P M in the children's room. Miss Katherine Frazee city librarian says librarians will read Yuletide stories to children, and the room features a decorated Christmas tree and festive decor.
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Seymour Public Library
Katherine Frazee
Benefit Musical Planned Here For Welfare Aid
Nine local churches and a string ensemble plan a Sunday 3 PM benefit in Shields High School auditorium to aid the Seymour Welfare Association. Proceeds from a collection go to help the city's needy this winter. Lions Club bag campaign changes. Shields High School students will collect bags Saturday morning. Churches participating include Central Christian and First Presbyterian.
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Shields High School
Seymour Welfare Association
Nyle Jackson
Seymour Lions Club
Hi-s Boys
Central Christian Church
First Presbyterian
Funeral Rites Planned for Mrs. Sarah Cinders Oaklandon
Funeral services set for 10:30 a m Saturday at the Christian Church in Oaklandon Ind for Mrs Sarah Cinders who died Wednesday night. Attending will be her nephew George Lockmund of West Second Street and Mrs H F White.
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Christian Church
Oaklandon
Ind
Sarah Cinders
Seymour High to Begin 95000 Gym Project
WPA officials met with Seymour city leaders to announce the start date for the new Shields High School gymnasium. Construction will begin January 3 with about twenty workers, rising as needed, and should take ten months to complete. The gym will seat around 4,500 and occupy the central site on the city square.
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Seymour
Sixth Street
Poplar
Pine Streets
Works Progress Administration
New Albany
Burkait
N. J. Lasher
WPA
Glen Blumer
F. W. Sparks
Washington
Jackson
Scott
Jennings
Blumer
Sparks
Everett H. Brown
Indianapolis
New Cymnasium
City to finish Shields Gaiser Park pools with WPA grant
Seymour receives 9264 WPA grant approved by President to finish Shields Park pool construct concrete walls and steps. It funds interior work, restrooms, painting, landscaping and park improvements at Shields and Gaiser Parks with city covering about 500 in materials. Police budget gaps and skid chains discussed at council meeting.
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Shields and Gaiser
W. W. Stradley
City Park Board
Seymour City
Daily Tribune
Frederick van Nuys
Washington, D. C
Shields Park
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pccific
Park Street
Gaiser Park
Seymour
Stradley
WPA
Julius G. Harlow
Harlow
Japan Expands Milky Way of Empire in China
New York dispatch outlines Japan’s slice of Chinese territory in a self-styled empire, listing five northern provinces and Kiangsu with Shanghai, totaling about 649000 square miles and a population figure. It notes ongoing hit and run warfare and the goal of self sufficiency amid a growing great power.
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New York
Japan
China
Peking
Garden of Allah
Suiyuan
Shansi
Hopei
Shantung
Chahar
Kiangsu
Shanghai
Hupeh
Honan
Anhwei
Judge Sentences Edward Johnson for Drunken Driving
Indiana judge Frank P. Baker sentences Edward Johnson, 43, to one to five years in state prison for a second offense of drunken driving, a felony under state law.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Criminal Court
Frank P. Baker
Edward Johnson
Indiana State
Indiana
Spread of War in China Feared Across Southern Coast
Reported Japanese forces threaten further advances after the fall of Nanking. Communiques claim resolve to pursue aims toward lasting peace in the Orient. Chinese sources expect an assault into Southern Kwantung, Canton, and near Shanghai.
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Shanghai
South China
Hongkong
Kiyoshi Hasezawa
Nanking
United States
Kiangsu
Hankow
Mayor Upheld in Indiana After Contest
Beomington Indiana December 17 The right of Early V Bull Republican to hold the office of mayor of Linton was upheld by Judge Donald A Rogers. Lew Good Democrat contested Bull’s 1934 election and a recount showed Good the winner by 11 votes. Bull served unpaid since 1935 pending action on the suit.
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Beomington
Ind
Early V. Bull
Linton
Donald A. Rogers
Lew Good
Bull
Good
Injured 80-year-old dies after auto crash
Evansville Indiana December 17 three hours after being struck by an automobile Henry E Stonecipher aged 80 died of injuries here late yesterday The death followed the accident and was reported by Associated Press from Evansville.
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Associated Press
Evansville
Ind
Henry E. Stonecipher
Unbreakable lens wear and medical notes
A cryptic note mentions Dr. C. E. Gillespie and Dr. Anderson's pad on page three. The fragment references a cost and unbreakable lenses, suggesting a medical or optical topic within the newspaper.
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C. E. Gillespie
Dr. Anderson
Two Alcatraz escapees Feared Dead In Fogged Bay Flight
In dense fog off San Francisco a pair of inmates Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole escaped Alcatraz during a 30 minute window. Guards theorize they may have drowned or been swept to sea after slipping over the cliff and into the water while a coast guard and police search pressed.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Alcatraz Island
Federal Penitentiary
Ralph Roe
Duncan, Okla
Theodore Cole
Stroud
Okla
James A. Johnston
Johnston
Golden Gate
Angel Island
Max Reznik
Farallons
Farallon Islands
Coast Guard
Jess Dunn
Oklahoma
McAlester Penitentiary
Cole
Alcatraz
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The
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Shields
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Shields and
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DeWitt McKenzie
South China Coast
Rn Associated Press
Seymour Water Co
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