Philippine meet and local youths report in war news
Reports from the Pacific conflict describe four Seymour youths in service with mixed news. Kenneth Earl Cockrum is listed as missing after enlisting in the navy seven years ago. Marion and Marvin Carr, also in the navy, are reported safe and well. Private W H Alexander, US Army, says he is safe and notes awake vigilance.
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Daily Tribune
Charles Cockrum
Fast Second Street
Navy
Kenneth Earl Cockrum
Clarence Carr
South Broadway
Marion
Marvin
W. H. Alexander
United States Army
Alexander
Fred Robertson
Euclid Avenue
Seymour
Arthur Gerth
Wayne Wright
Woodrow Bush
James Jaynes
Mary Brown 72 Died at Son's Home in Jackson County
Mrs Mary Matlock Brown 72 prominent western Jackson county resident died suddenly Sunday at her son's home two miles west of Kurtz. Heart attack listed as cause. Funeral 10:30 Tuesday Kurtz Nazarene Church with Rev Raymond Keithley. Burial Riverview Cemetery north of Seymour. Survived by husband Buell Brown and extended family. Born near Knoxville Tennessee August 2 1869. Joined Baptist church early and was active in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Matlock Brown
Jackson County
Kurtz
Norman RI
Entry Deadline Extended for City Home Lighting Contest
Local residents note the Seymour Christmas displays as Junior Chamber of Commerce extends the entry deadline to Tuesday for homes or others to enter the holiday lighting contest. Entry blanks available at city banks. Crothersville and Brownstown displays draw attention with a revolving red white and blue tree and a menagerie of lit figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Chamber of Commerce
Brownstown
Frank White
Crothersville
Credit License Due January First Under Regulation W
Banks and merchants in the eighth Federal Reserve District must obtain individual licenses for extending installment credit by January 1, 1942. Licenses are issued free on receipt of a Registration Statement, with blanks available from the Seymour Credit Bureau or the Federal Reserve Bank in St Louis. The blanket license expires December 31 and applies to a long list of consumer goods and property improvements with a deferred balance under $1000.
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Federal Reserve Banks
Seymour Credit Bureau
Federal Reserve Bank
St. Louis
Federal Reserve District
Farm Bureau Plans Intensive Defense Fund Drive
The Jackson County Farm Bureau debated an intensive defense fund drive at a Brownstown meeting Saturday. E. H. Vehslage chairs the group and S. J. Brewer announced a county board meeting next Saturday with a special committee to direct the campaign. Defense stamps will be sold at multiple county sites to aid farmers investing in Defense Bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson County Farm Bureau
Brownstown
E. H. Vehslage
S. J. Brewer
Farm Bureau
Yale Edition Presents Christmas Greetings in Tribune
The Christmas Eve Tribune will feature hundreds of business and individual greetings to its 3700 readers. The paper, printed in three sections, aims for artistic merit and includes orders from advertisers and readers seeking a memento of the season.
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the Tribune
The
Tribune
Social Security Representative Visits Seymour January 2
A New Albany Social Security field office representative will be at Seymour City Hall from 10:00 AM to noon on Friday January 2, shifting due to New Year, with future visits on the first and third Thursdays each month. Residents may inquire about the program or file old age or survivors insurance claims regardless of their employment location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Albany
Social Security Board
Seymour
Jerome P. Reed
Red Cross War Relief Drive Encourages Donations
Announcement states the Red Cross drive aims to finish this afternoon if possible but donations continue at two local banks for those missed in canvassing. Workers cover the city in a systematic campaign and those not contacted are urged to contribute.
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Red Cross
Seymour awards sewer contract to Northern Indiana Construction
The Seymour board of public works awarded the Southside Interceptor sewer contract to Northern Indiana Construction Company of Crown Point for 26,455.50 with rialified tile pipe. The bid was $5,586 lower than the Indianapolis Thompson Construction bid, and the firm came recommended by two banks and the La Porte mayor. Raffensperger Hughes also accepted the low bid for related work.
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Northern Indiana Construction Company
Crown Point
Ind
Southside
Seymour
Seymour Board of Public Works and Safety
Maple Street
E. H. Brown
Thompson Construction Company
Indianapolis
Stanley A. Switzer
Indiana
la Porte
Crown Point Company
Switzer
Mrs Martha Young 78 Dies at Crothersville
Mrs Martha Alice Young aged seventy eight of Crothersville died at 12 15 PM Saturday at her Seymour road home after an eight week illness with acute congestive heart failure Funeral services were held at the Crothersville Baptist Church with Rev Walter Moseley of Utown officiating Burial was in Crothersville Cemetery She was born March 29 1863 near Chestnut Ridge to Isaac and Eliza Keller lived in Jackson county all her life and married Crawford Young on November 21 1888
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Martha Alice Young
Crothersville
Seymour Road
Crothersville Baptist Church
Walter Moseley
Uniontown
Young
Chestnut Ridge
Axis subs hunted off the Pacific coast
Far ranging axis submarines attacked shipping off California as rescuers reported the Emidia, a 41912 ton tanker, torpedoed and shelled twenty miles off Blunt's Reef. Two crewmen were killed, five missing, five injured, and twenty six rescued while the Agwiworld escaped a submarine off Cypress Point.
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Pacific Coast
Associated Press
San Francisco
California
Pacific
Emidia
Blunt's Reef
Navy
Emidio
Agwiworld
Cypress Point
Play to Be Given at Convocation Tuesday
Shields Hick School dramatics organization stages a Christmas convocation at the high school Tuesday at 2 25 p.m. The Blue Overalls Angel follows a small girl who wanders into a church seeking an angel aided by janitor Secot ty. Jeanie mistakes singer Clarissa Moore for an angel in the church pageant directed by John Lane with a large local cast including Fink Jr Ramona Davidson Anita Jordan Lange Autenberg Wrapp Hess Wienhorst Hageman Deputy and others.
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Shields Hick School Dramatics Organization
Secotty
Jeanie
Clarissa Moore
John Lane
Harry Fink, Jr
Ramona Davidson
Anita Jordan
Dick Lange
Patches Autenberg
Marilyn Wrapp
Robert Hess
Willis Wienhorst
Alver Hageman
Maxine Deputy
Betty Carter
Betty Franklin
Shirley Corin
Bill Shulte
City Court Weekend Docket Includes Public Intoxication Fines
Mayor Switzer presided over cases this weekend. James David Perry was fined 1 and costs for public intoxication, Lawrence Mitchell similarly fined for disorderly conduct. C RK Major and RR DP Colin of Indianapolis had judgments withheld on disorderly conduct. Tess Eglen pleaded not guilty to public intoxication. Preston S. McKinney of Freetown was arrested for operating under the influence after a collision with a parked car.
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Stanley A. Switzer
James David Perry
Lawrence Mitchell
C. RK. Major
RR. DP
Colin
Indianapolis
Mapleton Run
Tess Eglen
Preston S. McKinney
Freetown
War Bulletins and Front Line Skirmishes Reported
Navy reports the steamship Sawor attacked by a submarine off California coast on December 20 and Lahaina sunk on December 11 en route to San Francisco. Ocean City experiences offshore explosions with Coast Guard not commenting. Japanese invasion force estimated at 50,000 to 100,000 with 150 miles from Manila. American and Filipino troops defend Lexon area. War department doubles previous invasion estimates and notes large convoy moving toward Philippine beaches.
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Washington
Navy
California
San Franccisco
Samoa
Lexon
Manila
War Department
Philippine
Joseph Scott Dies in Scottsburg
Joseph Scott of Seymour dies at a daughter’s home in Scottsburg after long service as watchman at the Second street crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 2 PM from the C. L. Hubbard home in Austin. a daughter, Miss Mary Scott, resides locally.
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C. L. Hubbard
Austin
Joseph Scott
Seymour
Scottsburg
Mr. Scott
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mary Scott
Supreme Court Allows Company View on Labor Policy
The court ruled a company may express its views on labor policies or problems without automatically being found guilty of coercing its employees in violation of the Wagner Act.
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Washington
Dee
Supreme Court
Invasion at Lingayen Gulf Repulsed and Defended
American and Filipino troops held their own against a Japanese sea borne invasion off Lingayen Gulf as 80 ships, 50 000 soldiers and air cover pressed toward Manila. U S Navy reports sank submarines in the Atlantic and Hitler reshuffled command while other fronts reported attacks near Vigan Aparri and Mindanao.
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Associated Press
Japan
Philippines
Manila
China Sea
Lingayen Gulf
MacArthur
U- Army
Pacific
Navy
Frank Knox
U. S. Navy
Atlantic
Adolf Hitler
Walther von Brauch
Russia
Lingayen Bay
United States
Vigan
Aparri
Gulf of Davao
Mindanao
Nichols
Maul
Cavite
Baler
Tayabas
Weather Records for Seymour Day Report
Official and unofficial daily weather data for Seymour show a downtown thermometer reading for the maximum temperature as unofficial. The minimum for the past 24 hours comes from Miss Louise Ahlert’s government weather records. River level data are from the Seymour Water Co. pumping station at Rockford.
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Seymour
Louise Ahlert
Weath
Anisoo Ctal
Seymour Water Co
Rockford
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Clerk A. Farrow
Long Beach Calll
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