Newsman Tells Of Doolittle Raid On Tokio
United Press correspondent Robert Bellaire described his experiences in Japan after war began. He recalled arrest, a six and a half month captivity, and confinement by nationality with harsh food, torture, and propaganda. He recounted water treatment, wall bouncing punishments, and morale efforts by guards.
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United States
Japan
Robert Bellaire
United Press
Freeman Field
Tokio
Bellaire
Col
E. T. Rundquist
Singapore
Triads Entertain Lions at Club Meeting Here Thursday Night
Triads Sorority members entertained Sey mour Lions Club with vocal music under Mary Margaret Behling. Arthur F. Brethauer introduced the program. Elizabeth Hitch sang a solo and group numbers were performed. Lions officials urged attendance at the state convention in Indianapolis next week with a presidents breakfast toastmastered by A L Jackson.
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Triads
Triad Sorority
Seymour Lions Club
Mary Margaret Behling
Arthur F. Brethauer
Lions Club
Elizabeth Hitch
Alfred Tower
Paul R. McGuire
Indianapolis
Charley Wilson Rites Saturday
Charley C. Wilson age 34 of Seymour R2 died at North Madison after a three month illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 PM Saturday from Voss Mortuary with Rev. R. S. Wilson officiating. Burial is in Riverview Cemetery. He is survived by his mother Nellie Richards Wilson, widow Alice Baker, six children Delores Charles Norma Harry Paul and Carolyn Sue, brother Albert Wilson of Pittsburg Kansas and sisters Iva Wilds and Fern Greenwood of Pittsburg Kansas.
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Charley C. Wilson
Seymour R2
North Madison
Wilson
Delores
Charles
Norma
Harry
Paul
Carolyn Sue
Albert Wilson
Pittsburg
Kansas
Iva Wilds
Fern Greenwood
Dr Allan Dafoe and the Dionne Quintuplets
The late Dr Allan Roy Dafoe country doctor to the last cared for the Dionne quintuplets he delivered in Callander Ontario in 1934 He served as their physician until about a year ago.
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Allan Roy Dafoe
Callander
Ontario
NEA Service, Inc
Retired Miner Neale Dies at Home in Seymour
Joseph T. Neale age sixty nine a retired coal miner and Seymour resident died at his home 222 South Vine street at 5 05 o clock Thursday night after a year long illness Funeral services were held at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon from Voss Mortuary, burial in Riverview Cemetery He was born October 11 1873 in Clinton county son of James and Elizabeth Neale both deceased He married Ashley Robinson in October 1899 in Clinton county survived by widow five children Mrs Lawrence Arbuckle Seymour Mrs James Stevens Mattoon TV Walter Neale Louisville Ky and others and numerous relatives and friends He was a member of the Baptist Church at Raymond Illinois.
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Joseph T. Neale
Seymour
South Vine Street
Voss
Riverview Cemetery
Mr. Neale
Clinton County
James
Elizabeth Neale
Asley Robinson
The
Baptist Church
Raymond, Ill
Lawrence Arbuckle
James Stevens
Mattoon
Walter Neale
Louisville
Baurle Rites to be Held Monday Morning
Funeral services for Richard Baurle age seventy nine retire wallpaper store proprietor will be conducted at 9 o'clock Monday morning from St Ambrose Church with the pastor in charge Friends may call at the home 708 East Tipton street after 6 o'clock tonight Mr Baurle died early Thursday morning at his home following year s illness
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Richard Baurle
St. Ambrose
Riverview Cemetery
East Tipton Street
Baurle
Revolutionaries Seize Buenos Aires as Castillo Abdicates
Argentina's government turmoil escalates as General Pedro Ramirez's Revolutionary Forces occupy the government house in Buenos Aires. President Castillo transfers the government to a warship as 8,000 troops march toward the capital, amid cries for democracy and disrupted radio broadcasts.
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Buenos Aires
Pedro Ramirez
Ramon Castillo
Gove
Castillo
Ramirez
Arturo Rawson
Campo Mayo
Peder Ramirez
Scout District Meeting Reorganizes Jackson County
The Scout District meeting reorganized the district of Jackson county within the Boy Scouts of America. Plans for a future Scout financial drive in Seymour were announced with Walter L. Surface named chairman and Stanley P. Meenach of Madison in attendance.
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Jackson County
Boy Scouts of America
Seymour
Stanley P. Meenach
Madison
Hoosier Hills
The
Boy Scouts
Walter L. Surface
Pantelleria Island Sustains Second Major Bombardment
Allied air and naval actions press Pantelleria as RAF Wellington bombers join the strike and a large daylight raid targets the island. Britons report minimal damage and claim ongoing heavy assaults across the Mediterranean fronts including Naples and Pan t t el laria.
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Italy
Wellington
Pantelleria
Naples
Mediterranean
Radio Berlin
Weather Records For Seymour Today's Readings
Official minimum temperature recorded for Seymour by Miss Louise Ahlert and the unofficial downtown maximum. Reading from the Rockford pum station notes seeding at 2 30 and river level showing 1 ft 9 in above the low water mark.
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Seymour
Louise Ahlert
Seymour Wa
Rockford
Swimming Pool Set to Open Sunday in Shields Park
Seymour's Municipal Swimming Pool in Shields Park will open for the 1943 summer season Sunday with staff on duty at 1 pm. The pool will stay open until 10 pm, delayed from Memorial Day by rains. Residents, heated by 90 degree heat, look forward to the opening. W. H. Hughes of Madison is reported slightly improved after a recent heart attack.
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Seymour
Shields Park
Swimming Pool Commission
Loca
W. H. Hughes
Madison
Evacuation of Warsaw Ghetto Ends in Massive Jewish Losses
A Polish radio relay described a twelve day siege in which Jews in Warsaw fought Nazis from barricades as the ghetto was bombarded. The broadcast claims 300 German troops killed, 2,000 wounded, and 2,000 Jews shot, with 3,000 dying in fires and 14,000 deported east.
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Warsaw
Stockholm
Gheto
Roosevelt warns striking miners may face induction
President Roosevelt said workers who stop essential war work, including coal miners, could be inducted if they had occupational deferments. He declined comment on troop protection for returning workers. John L. Lewis rejected returning to the War Labor Board, and only two of fifty miners in Pittsburgh would quit without Lewis orders. Local mine union leaders warned anyone brought in to work faced trouble.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
War Labor Board
Lewis
WLB
Pittsburgh
Country Club Readies Open with Breakfast and Army Navy Match
The Country Club plans a Sunday opening highlighted by an 8 o'clock breakfast followed by an Army versus Navy golf team match. J. D. Moller of Bloomington is introduced as the new golf pro and 1942 State Bowling All Events champion who will coach members this season. A new elevated No 1 tee on a platform beside the dining addition changes the course layout.
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J. D. Moller
Bloomington
Ben Keith
Moller
Keith
Lewis to Recommend Return of Striking Miners
Washington reports that John L. Lewis will recommend the return of striking mine workers next Monday as ordered by President Roosevelt. Interior Secretary Ickes has urged Lewis to invoke UMW members to resume work on schedule. Buenos Aires forms provisional legislature with General Pedro Ramirez as chairman after today’s revolt.
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Associated Press
Washington
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
Ickes
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Pedro Ramirez
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