Ice Chaos Paralyzes Seymour Traffic After Rain Freeze
Snow and rain turned Seymour into a skating rink as ice formed on streets sidewalks and yards. Pedestrians and motorists struggled with pebbled visibility and slick surfaces while rural deliveries and bus service were halted. A minor collision left one rider injured and another noninjury incident occurred as state police investigated near the Sand Creek bridge. Downtown eateries remained crowded as commuters avoided lengthy trips.
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Seymour
Seymour Post Office
Sand Creek Bridge
U. S. Road 31
Bartholomew
Jackson County
Hartwell Woman Hospitalized After Auto Crash
Louise Hartwell of 116 East Sixth street remains in Schneck Memorial Hospital with a hip injury from a collision at Second and O'Brien streets early Tuesday. She rode in a City Cab driven by 17 year old Lloyd Howard when it collided with a car driven by Thomas Elkins. Her husband Pvt. Carl Hartwell serves overseas with the U.S. Army.
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Louise Hartwell
East Sixth Street
Second
O’brien
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Free tuberculosis clinic planned by Jackson County group
A further TB clinic sponsored by the Jackson County Tuberculosis Association and funded from Christmas seals and health bonds will be held next Wednesday, January 3, at the Jackson County Health Center on the second floor of the Penny building. Dr. C. J. McIntyre, an Indianapolis TB specialist, will supervise from 10 AM to 3 PM.
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Jackson County Tuberculosis Association
Jackson County Health Center
C. J. McIntyre
Indianapolis
Glenn M. Keach
W. B. Everdon
Seal Sale
Jurors Named For New Term In Jackson Circuit Court
Jackson Circuit Court opens January term at Brownstown New Year's Day with Judge George H. Gossman presiding. Petit jurors include John A. Bobb Mere Persinger John R Elliott Russell Quinn William L. Wolff Harold Vehslage Carl Richart Ben Buhner Her edel Vermilya Perry Allen Herbert Bultman Royal Robertson William Ault Glenn Zabel Claude E. Bruce and others. Grand jurors are Claude G. Ballard Marion Empson Guy Pfaffenberg Fred Wehmiller Keith Bundy Lee Callahan Francis F. Gates Frank L. Cayle Minnie Coliman.
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Jackson
Brownstown
George H. Gossman
Henry F. Schricker
John C. Branaman
Petit Jury
John A. Bobb
Washington
Mere Persinger
Carr
John R Elliott
Grassy Fork
Russell Quinn
Hamilton
William L. Wolff
Harold Vehslage
Carl Richart
Ben Buhner
Heredel Vermilya
Perry Allen
Pershing
Herbert Bultman
Royal Robertson
William Ault
Glenn Zabel
Claude E. Bruce
Grand Jury
Claude G. Ballard
Redding
Marion Empson
Guy Pfaffenberg
Owen
Fred Wehmiller
Keith Bundy
Driftwood
Lee Callahan
Francis F. Gates
Frank L. Cayle
Minnie Coliman
Vernon
Eckert Named Acting Superintendent of State Police
Captain Walter Eckert of the Indiana State Police was named acting superintendent from December 31 until Governor elect Ralph F. Gates takes over. Eckert previously led Seymour Post No. 7 and has strong ties to Seymour, with headquarters there years ago, now living in Indianapolis. He is a Oswood native and the single state police captain, with prior overseas service in World War II.
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Walter Eckert
Indiana State Police
Seymour
Don F. Stiver
Ralph F. Gates
State Police
Forty-Two Men Accepted For Armed Forces
Forty-two members of a Jackson county group sent to Louisville for pre induction examinations were found acceptable for military service. The group numbered sixty five. seventy eight were called, one failed to report and others transferred. Ages ranged eighteen to over thirty. The list includes Elmo Leatherman Kenneth Ball Max Hill Harold Knoke William Smith Thomas Goen Jesse Alpha Lloyd Robbins Frank Kasting Ralph Stahl Hubert Boknecht Leroy Wischmeier Virgil Hallow Freddie Miller Horace Ramp Wilbern Smith Raymond Corbin Johnny Otte Robert Mather Floyd Thompson Carl Hercamp Robert Ritz Frederic Tormoehlen Ermal Wineinger Fred Nowland William Hanner William Meadows Harry Dickmeyer Cecil Lucas Heilen Robertson Rolland Exuwersman Elva Redicker Robert McKain Edwin Patman Earl Johnson James Lambert Ervin Stuckwisch Robert Bultman Everett Price Burwyn transfer.
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Elmo Edward Leatherman
Kenneth H. Ball
Max Eugene Hill
Harold Edward Knoke
William A. Smith
Thomas H. Goen
Jesse Dexter Alpha, Jr
Lloyd Edward Robbins
Frank Frederick Kasting
Ralph Edward Stahl
Hubert A. Boknecht
Leroy H. Wischmeier
Virgil W. Hallow
Freddie Miller
Horace Egton
Wilbern
Keith Ramp
Roger Hornsby Smith
Raymond C. Corbin
Johnny William Otte
Robert Wayne Johnson
Joseph Bernard
Ervin Edward Stuckwisch
Robert Eugene Bultman
Everett Vaughn Price
Burwyn Sullivan
County Soldier George F Dailey Wounded in Action
Staff Sergeant George F Dailey of Crothersville R2 was listed as wounded in action in the European theater on a War Department release issued today.
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George F. Dailey
Crothersville R2
War Department
Dailey
Strikers To Return To Work At Muncie Foundry
Moulders and Caremakers Union members who quit last Wednesday at the Muncie Malleable Foundry Co. reached a return to work agreement with federal authorities. The terms remain undisclosed.
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Muncie
Ind
Moulders and Caremakers Union
AFL
Weather Records For Seymour Day
Official and unofficial readings for Seymour show a downtown thermometer max and a Miss Louise Ahlert official min over the past 24 hours. River stage at Rockford pumping station reads 2 inches above the low water mark.
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Seymour
Louise Ahlert
Orem Oermour Water Co
Rockford
Soldier Killed in Action on German Front
Pfc. Clayton C. Weddel of Norman Ri was killed in action November 20 in Germany. He served in an infantry division on the Western Front after initially being reported missing in a telegram to his wife. later official confirmation confirmed his death.
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Clayton C. Weddel
Norman Ri
Germany
Western Front
Weddel
OPA Rent Area Expands as Monroe County Added to Columbus
The Indiana OPA Rent Control Division expands the Columbus area to include Monroe county effective January 7, making eight counties under rent control. Landlords must file Change of Tenancy reports within five days, noting property address, landlord name, new and former tenants, and the maximum rent.
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Indiana Opa Rent Control Division
Columbus
Monroe County
Bartholomew
Monroe
Morgan, Johnson
Shelby
Jackson
Brown
Lawrence
William J. Bowman
Do. R. Gutermuth
Indiana
Tokyo Bombing and War Developments Reported
Destruction of a large Japanese carrier and six more enemy ships by American submarines is reported. About fifty B29s bomb Tokyo interrupting war reports to the Diet as air raids intensify. American fighters claim seventy four Japanese planes destroyed in the Philippines and North China while Leyte mopping up continues. Four American divisions kill 899 Japanese and take 14 prisoners on Leyte. seven Americans dead, twenty one wounded. Japan’s war minister cites 502000 Allied casualties since Pearl Harbor. Imperial communique claims nine enemy raiders shot down.
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Tokyo
Philippines
China
Leyte
Fighth Route Army
Loyang
Henan
Japan
Gen Sugiyama
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo-Yokohama
Abel Names Green Deputy Sheriff
J. A Ob Green of Browns town township is named deputy sheriff of Jackson county by George W Abel who will become sheriff January 1. Abel was elected to a two year term starting November 7 and will succeed Cletus G Sneed. Green is a former Seymour police chief with county experience and is well known in western Jackson county.
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J. A. “Ob” Green
Brownstown Township
Jackson County
George W. Abel
Mr. Green
Mr. Abel
Cletus G. Sneed
Seymour
Green
Housewives Told to Destroy Invalid Ration Stamps
OPA orders housewives nationwide to destroy all red stamps A through Z8 and A5 through P5 blue stamps, with blue stamps A5 through W5 and others discontinued. Sugar stamps 30–33 and 40 are invalid, while red tally stamps 95 R5 S5 become valid by December 3 and others shift to late December and February dates.
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OPA
Reds Attack Budapest From Danube Hills in Stiff Battle
Soviet shock troops launched a major assault on Budapest from the Danube hills as German forces burned supplies and dynamited utilities in the Hungarian capital. Encirclement tightened with several spearheads pushing toward the west while roads out of the city were cut. Soviet tanks and infantry reportedly penetrated into the Buda district as Nazis fought street by street and thousands of German dead filled battlelines.
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Moscow
Red Army
Budapest
Danube
Buda
Szekesfehervar
St. Stephen's Cathedral
Military minds push victory date back months in Europe
Washington dispatch notes military planners now estimate victory in Europe may stretch three to six months beyond earlier expectations. Analysts cite overoptimism, warning that German gains in the west and uncertain Soviet timing could extend the war, delaying Japan's fate and prompting possible intelligence shakeups in Washington.
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Washington
Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Japan
Asia
Pacific
Red Army
Germany
Berlin
Eisenhower
Three Die in Paris Bombing as City Sees First Air Raid
Paris reports three killed and thirteen injured in attacks that hit near landmarks. A servicemen’s club and a hospital were damaged while night fighters pursued the unknown bombers.
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Paris
ELAS Artillery Breaks Truce in Athens clash
The British said ELAS artillery fired on a British warship and naval HQ ending a temporary truce. Air strikes will resume as the truce is declared null and void. The move follows ELAS delegates attending a conference after Churchill appealed for peace.
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Athens
ELAS
Churchill
Piraeus
Greece
Nazi Columns Pushed Back In Slow Gain
Allied dispatches report U S Army and French forces slowing the German push into Belgium and regaining the initiative on both flanks of the forty mile gap near Bastogne. American armor and infantry face heavy fighting as Von Rundstedt’s drive stalls near the Meuse and Bastogne.
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Paris
Meuse
Doughboys
Belgium
Celles
Ciney
Supreme Headquarters
U. S
Hotton
Bastogne
Allies Retreat In West Italy After German Counterattack
Near Gallicano on the Serchio river valley a strong German thrust forced Fifth Army forces to withdraw from advance positions along Italy west coast. German officials said Nazi and Fascist Italian troops broke American lines and disrupted a formation of the 92nd Infantry Division amid bitter combat.
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Rome
Italy
Fifth Army
Serchio River
Gallicano
Tyrhennian
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