Enemies Tank Action In Luxembourg Report
Reported clash mentions various personnel including John Ulm Norman R Wilde and Kart Fritsche amid tank operations near Luxembourg. Names listed include John Hischke Avis Hoewvener Edwina Carson and Margaret McBride with other soldiers and officers noted in the dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Ulm
Norman R. Wilde Kart Fritsche
John Hischke
Avis Hoewvener
Edwina Carson
Margaret McBride
Elizabeth James
Helen Woolls
Norma Thomas
Graduates Help Bring Peace Closer In Air Cadet Ceremony
Brig. Gen. William D. Old urged aviation cadets of 44 J at Freeman Field to aid in finishing the war. He praised the Troop Carrier Command’s record in WWII and noted cadets will return home for Christmas after the graduation five days early.
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Old
Freeman Field
Army Air Forces
William D. Old
First Troop Carrier Command
Stout Field
Indianapolis
Col
E. T. Rundquist
Freeman
705Th Raf Band
Phillips Brooks Henderson
China-Burma- India
Provisional
Troop Carrier Command
Burma
Eastern Flying Training Command
Howard Williams
Louis Rosenthal
James W. Fuller
Palm Cafe to Close Christmas Day
The Palm Cafe will be closed on Christmas Day, marking a rare holiday shutdown for the popular dining spot. Patrons are advised to plan accordingly and check for any special hours around holiday staffing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palm Cafe
Tribune Holiday Greeting Edition Opens With Community Messages
The Tribune presents its annual Holiday Greeting Edition with messages from merchants manufacturers professionals and others addressed to every reader. The edition conveys goodwill friendship and appreciation reflecting the community’s dealings over the past year and differs from the daily business edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Vacancy in Shields High School science department filled
Seymour school officials face filling a vacancy in the Shields High School science department after Christmas break. Eugene B. Butler of Crothersville, currently a science instructor at Shields, is elected principal of Scottsburg High School and resigns his Seymour post. He starts January 1 and will teach biology and physics, holding a B S from Earlham and a master's from Chicago.
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Seymour
Shields High School
Eugene B. Butler
Crothersville
Scottsburg High School
Scottsburg
Mr Butler
Vaughn G. Shoemaker
Grocers’ Biscuit Company
Louisville
Butler
Rushville
Indiana Department of Public Instruction
Earlham College
Richmond
University of Chicago
Local Soldier Wounded in Leyte Action
Pvt. Thomas G. Smith of 417 East Ninth Street was slightly wounded December 1 on Leyte Island while serving in a cavalry division. He has been in the army two years and overseas since March 1943, with service in Australia New Guinea the Admiralty Islands and the Philippines. He attended Shields High School and worked at Reliance Manufacturing before induction. His parents report two younger brothers also in service: Pfc. Gerald D. Smith in Italy with an ordnance company for twenty months and Pfc. Frank P. Smith in the U S Marine Corps convalescing in Seattle after a year in Guam and Hawaii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Smith
East Ninth Street
Pvt
Thomas G. Smith
Leyte Island
Pvt. Smith
U. S. Army
Australia
New Guinea
Admiralty Islands
Philippines
Reliance Manufacturing Company
Army
Ft. Riley
Kansas
Delicious Christmas Menus Placed At Freeman Field
Freeman Field personnel will enjoy Christmas meals on Christmas Day from 10 45 to 12 45 Monday. Eight men and eight women at Browns Town farm will get chicken and dumplings and a full side lineup. Jail inmates will have roast pork with brown gravy and the usual trimmings plus mince meat pie and coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeman Field
Air Force
Jackson County
Brownstown
Ziba A. McMahan
Cletus G. Sneed
Weather Readings For Seymour Show Mixed Official And Unofficial Data
Officials report the official minimum temperature for the last twenty four hours from Miss Louise Ahlert, government weather observer. An unofficial maximum temperature comes from a downtown thermometer. River level data comes from the Seymour Water Co pumping station at Rockford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Louise Ahlert
Seymour Water Co
Rockford
Jackson County Commission Special Meeting Today
A special meeting of the Jackson County Board of Commissioners to complete the year’s business was set for today in the Brownstown courthouse. A reception for outgoing county officers was also scheduled at the courthouse this afternoon.
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Jackson County Board of Commissioners
Brownstown
City Prepares for Christmas Amid War Time Observance
City churches arrange services for Sunday and Christmas Day. Freeman Field to observe the army holiday with services. Local stores close 6 pm today through Tuesday. Tribune to suspend Monday edition for the annual holiday observance. servicemen on furlough return home, others remain overseas.
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Seymour
Freeman Field
Tribune
The
Seymour Rotary Club Meeting Cancelled for Christmas
No Rotary Club meeting will be held Monday night due to the Christmas holiday. the notice was issued today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Rotary Club
Sky battles hamstring Japan factories and fronts
Allied forces pressed the Philippines campaign with heavy air and ground actions. American units advanced toward Palompon and Ormoc, killing 1 546 Japanese as Nipponese defenses faltered, while Tokyo and Nagoya claimed air victories despite losses.
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Associated Press
Japan
Philippines
Leyte Island
77Th
Ormoc Valley
Palompon
Ormoc
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo
Hongkong
Imperial
Mitsubishi
Nagoya
Cpl Henry A Dobbins Wounded in Action in Europe
Mrs J A Reinbold Brownstown learns her grandson Cpl Henry A Dobbins was wounded October 6 in Germany. He reports shrapnel wounds in his back and a leg in a cast while in an English hospital. Enlisted 1941 he trained at Hattiesburg and camps in California and has been overseas about a year in England France and Germany.
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J. A. Reinbold
Brownstown
Cpl
Henry A. Dobbins
Germany
Cpl. Dobbins
A. J. Dobbins
Kalamazoo, Mich
Geneva Reinbold
Hattiesburg
Miss
California
England
France
Dobbins
Georgia
Sunday Mail Delivery Planned for Christmas Week
Parcel post and city mail carriers will deliver Sunday to ensure greetings and packages reach residents before Christmas. Postmaster Walter H. Droege announced the plan today due to heavy incoming mail. Christmas Day will see delivery but no city carrier service and the post office lobby will be closed with no rural delivery until Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter H. Droege
Austin Soldier Killed In Auto Accident
Pvt. Luther Morris of Austin aged twenty eight died when an army vehicle overturned near Du Bois Wyoming. Another passenger Pvt. Claude W. Hill of Klamath Falls Oregon was seriously injured in the crash announced by the public relations officer at Scottsbluff POW Camp Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther Morris
Austin
Dubois
Wyoming
Scottsbluff
Soviets Destroy 101 Nazi Tanks in Winter Drive
Moscow reports 101 German tanks destroyed in a twenty four hour period ending Thursday night. German sources say 270,000 Russian troops moved into snow bound Latvia with about thirty Nazi divisions pocketed near the Baltic.
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Moscow
Red Army
Latvia
Baltic
Beauty Operator Is Charged With Knifing Husband
Maude Schwein, a Browns Town beauty operator, is jailed in Jackson county Brownstown on $2000 bond for assault and battery with intent after allegedly stabbing her husband Ralph Schwein in the left chest with a small kitchen knife. He is recovering at home. arrest followed by Deputy Sheriff James McKain and State Police Officers Joseph Cisco and James Brewer. Horace C. Bybee pleaded guilty to drunken driving and was fined $25 plus costs. Corabelle Jaynes pleaded not guilty to public intoxication after arrest on U S Route 31 by Officer Cisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Schwein
Maude Schwein
Brownstown
Jackson County
Schwein
James McKain
Joseph L. Cisco
James Brewer
Horace C. Bybee
George H. Gossman
Corabelle Jaynes
U. S. Road 31
Cisco
Seymour
Attorneys Honor Late Local Judge Branaman
Memorial service for the late Judge John C. Branaman of Jackson Circuit Court was held at the Jackson County Bar Association meeting in the courthouse at Brownstown. The association adopted a resolution on his life and ordered it spread on circuit court records. Attending attorneys from Bartholomew and Lawrence counties presented resolutions and testimonials were heard.
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John C. Branaman
Jackson Circuit Court
Jackson County Bar Association
Brownstown
O. O. Swails
Branaman
Bartholomew
Lawrence
Germans Enter Bastogne Yet Face American Holdouts
Paris reports a German armored thrust advancing forty miles across Luxembourg into Belgium and reaching Bastogne, with Wiltz seized and St Hubert breached. Allied reports confirm Bastogne entered and Wiltz overrun while U S forces defend St Vith Stavelot and Malmedy along the northern wedge.
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Paris
Luxembourg
Belgium
Sedan
Bastogne
Supreme Headquarters
St. Hubert
Wiltz
Vianden
Reich
Habremont
Malmedy
Liege
Arlon
Britain
Coblenz
Bingen
U. S
Laroche
Ourthe River
St. Vith-Stavelat-Malmedy
State Official's Father Dies in Indianapolis
James H. Alexander, 84, father of Indiana Secretary of State Rue J. Alexander, died yesterday at the home of another son Corwin S. Alexander in Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at Boswell, his former home.
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Indianapolis
James H. Alexander
Rue J. Alexander
Indiana
Corwin S. Alexander
Boswell
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