Capital Man Hurt In Severe Weekend Crash
An Indianapolis man, William C. Neff, 32, is critically injured with a fractured skull after a rear impact on U S Road 31 three miles north of Reddington in Bartholomew County. He was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Indianapolis in fair condition as multiple winter weather accidents plagued Seymour and surrounding areas.
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Indianapolis
Seymour
St. Vincent's Hospital
William C. Neff
U. S. Road 31
Reddington
Bartholomew County
Neff
Hope
Harvey H. McConnell
Oaklandon
Ind
McConnell
Walter G. LaMaster
Moore Walters
Louisville
Theodore Weathersby
Walters
LaMaster
George W. Abel
Jackson County
Anderson
Abel
Marion
High Altitude Flight At Freeman Field Draws Crowd
Col. H. C. Dorney piloted a P-47 Thunderbolt to 42,000 feet despite near freezing temps. The clear purple sky showed a rising moon at 3 PM as spectators watched displays. Snow and ice remained in downtown, with more snow forecast tonight and Tuesday.
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Col. H. C. Dorney
Freeman Field
United States
Kasting in Critical Condition After County Crash
Norman Kasting of West Brown Street remained in critical condition after a Sunday night transport by ambulance to St. Vincent's Hospital Indianapolis for a severe head injury from an auto-truck collision at a county road intersection 4.2 miles south of Dudleytown. He has been unconscious since the crash, with no improvement reported. The accident also killed two youths, John G. Laupus III, 17, and Lawrence Wayne Wheeler, 14.
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Norman Kasting
West
Brown Street
Dudleytown
St. Vincent's Hospital
Indianapolis
Young Kasting
Schneck Memorial Hospital
John G. Laupus III
Memorial Service Held for Pfc Lawrence Hoevener
Memorial services for Pfc Lawrence L. Hoevener declared dead after being missing since December 16 1944 in Luxembourg were held Sunday at St John Evangelical Lutheran Church Sauers with Rev J Th Destinon in charge. He entered the army March 5 1942 and is survived by his widow one daughter parents three brothers and four sisters.
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Lawrence L. Hoevener
Luxembourg
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Sauers
J. Th. Destinon
Mercury Drops to Record Low as Cold Streak Continues
The coldest weekend of the season produced a Friday night reading of one degree below zero and a Sunday low of even zero. Three consecutive subzero nights contributed to hazardous streets and sidewalks despite a moderating daytime trend. A second December open house program was canceled due to the extreme cold and raw wind.
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Willard N. Everhart
Mercury
Teachers Attend Board Meeting in Indianapolis
Seymour public schools were represented at the State Federation of Public School Teachers executive board meeting in the Claypool Hotel assembly room. Attendees included Superintendent N. J. Lasher and Shields High School faculty members L Grace Anderson Jane Waldkoetter and Mina McHenry. The program covered Trends in Public Education with a NEA film Appointment for Tomorrow shown after lunch and panels on public school expenditures teaching personnel and curricular trends led by W B Bechdell Borden Purcell and O W Swihart.
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Seymour Public Schools
Indianapolis
State Federation of Public School Teachers
Claypool Hotel
Seymour
N. J. Lasher
L. Grace Anderson
Jane Waldkoetter
Mina McHenry
Shields High School
Chateau Room
NEA
W. B. Bechdell
Indiana State Teachers’ Association
Borden R. Purcell
O. W. Swihart
Richmond
Shotgun Fatality Shocks Pleasant Grove Family
An inquest contemplates accidental death of Wanda Allman twelve in Pleasant Grove area after a twelve gauge shotgun discharged while her brother Allen fourteen and a cousin handled it in a room with nine to ten children present. Coroner L E Shaver noted the weapon was four to five feet away when fired. Funeral planned Tuesday at Pleasant Grove Methodist Church.
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Wanda Lorena Allman
Pleasant Grove
L. E. Shaver
Brownstown
Allen
Shaver
Allman
Otho Allman
Mance Allman
Prudy Ferguson Allman
Allmans
Miss Allman
Jackie Harold
Richard Lee
Larry Ray
Vanita
Carrie Im
Hoosier Ordnance Handover Sends Plant to Army Standby
Hoosier ordnance plant at Charlestown Indiana was placed on stand-by as R H Gray Goodyear manager handed keys to Col John D Armitage. The plant will join the army Indiana arsenal system and could resume operations with 120 days notice.
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Charlestown
Ind
Hoosier
R. H. Gray
Goodyear Corporation
John D. Armitage
Gray
Army
Col. Armitage
Indiana Arsenal
Moscow Foreign Ministers Open Talks in Cordial Atmosphere
In Moscow the Soviet Union the United States and Britain opened a meeting to discuss world peace and atomic energy control. Molotov presided at Speridoniska Palace with Byrnes and Bevin, signaling a cordial start among ambassadors Harriman Kerr and their delegations.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Speridoniska Palace
Vyacheslav Molotov
James F. Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
Foreign Ministers’ Council
London
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
Molotov
Sixteen Go For Pre-Induction
Sixteen Jackson County youths were sent to Louisville today for pre induction physicals as part of the selective service. They traveled despite cold weather and icy roads and will return home for a minimum twenty one day waiting period before induction. Names of those accepted will be announced after the official list is received by the local draft board from the Louisville center.
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Jackson County
Louisville
Jackson County Selective Service Board
Death trap plan cited in Yamamoto interception tale
Vice Admiral Theodore C. Wilkinson told a Senate committee that he set a death trap for Japanese Admiral Yamamoto to lure the attacker into a trap, risking exposure of U S code work. He described the Pearl Harbor context and noted the testimony was delayed by internal Senate disputes.
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Washington
Theodore C. Wilkinson
Yamamoto
United States
Naval Intelligence
Wiliam E. Halsey
Senate House
Pearl Harbor
Wilkinson
Polar Defenses Being Checked
The United States and Canada plan joint polar defense against transpolar attacks. Six observers join Canadian arctic Exercise Musk Ox to gather military and scientific data across 3100 miles. The one eighty one day trek runs from Churchill Manitoba and Edmonton Alberta in two segments.
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Washington
United States
Canada
North America
Asia
Europe
America
Churchill
Manitoba
Edmonton
Alberta
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Pole
North Pacific
North Atlantic
Air Decorations Awarded Posthumously to Father for Son
William K. McKain II received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters posthumously. The presentation, by Major Robert E. McDonald, was at the Majestic Theater in Jackson County, while the infant lay in his mother’s arms. The citation notes his extraordinary achievement as pilot over Romania on August 16, 1944, during Mediterranean and North African operations.
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Jackson County
Seymour
Majestic Theater
William K. McKain
Robert E. McDonald
Atterbury Army Air Base
Columbus
Wayne W. White
Lt. McKain
Romania
Mediterranean
North African
Konoye Death Deepens Crises For Hirohito Regime
Reports from Tokyo describe Prince Fumimaro Konoye's death by own action as a powerful blow to Emperor Hirohito and the imperial household. The episode follows arrests of court figures and fresh talk of abdication as Diet debates touch on succession and responsibility for the war.
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Tokyo
Fumimaro Konoye
Hirohito
Imperial House
Konoye Long
Konoye
MacArthur
Mac-Arthur
Morimasa Nashimoto
Koichi Kido
Akihito
Bandits in Italy Turnout Ends in Family Tragedy
Dora Camusso of Para Sabina near Rome sold cattle for 190 000 lire and feared bandits. She sought help from her brother who offered a pistol. Two masked men demanded money. she fired twice and killed them. The bodies were her brother and first cousin.
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Rome
Dora Camusso
Para Sabina
Italy
Yamashita Death Sentence Stayed By Supreme Court
The Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita, sentenced to death by an American military commission in Manila.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Manila
Prosecution Seeks Conviction of Nazi Leadership Corps
American prosecutors in Nuernberg urge the International Military Tribunal to convict about 600,000 members of the Nazi leadership corps as war criminals. They argue that including minor staff would raise total to about 2,000,000 and press for guilt for the SS SA Reich cabinet gestapo and high command. Col. Robert G. Storey opened the case with records of the leadership corps and its function to spy on the population.
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Nuernberg
International Military Tribunal
Nazi Leadership Corps
Nazi Party
Leadership Corps
Elite Guard
Storm Troops
Reich Cabinet
Gestapo
High Command
Germany
Robert G. Storey
U. S
Hitler
Col. Storey
Train Crash Kills Eight in South Carolina Blizzard of Fire and Fright
A collision near Teale Creek South Carolina between the Silver Meteor and the Sun Queen killed eight and injured sixty as two trains packed with about 400 passengers plowed into each other in pre dawn darkness. Rescue workers formed a human chain lifting victims from derailed cars while authorities opened a full investigation.
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Kollock
S. C
J. C. Wroton
Norfolk
L. R. Redfearn
Cheraw
Sinclair Oil Dispute Ends with 18 Percent Raise
The Navy will return eleven Sinclair Oil Co plants seized last Oct 5 amid CIO strikes as President H F Sinclair announces a settlement. 8400 Sinclair workers get an 18 percent raise for a 40 hour week, with clauses barring strikes and lockouts. A government wage fact finding panel resumes in Washington.
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Associated Press
Navy
Sinclair Oil Co
CIO Oil
H. F. Sinclair
Sinclair
Washington
Truman
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
National Labor Relations Board
AFL
Southwestern Greyhound Bus Lines
CIO Steelworkers
SKF Industries
Philadelphia
Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Co
Providence
R. I
Southwestern Greyhound
Theater Ads Move to Page Five in Tribune
Local theater advertisements, typically found on the last page, now appear on page five of today's Tribune edition. The change shifts promotional listings for shows and schedules within the paper’s layout.
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