War Prisoners To Be Interned At Atterbury
War prisoners will be kept in a permanent camp at Camp Atterbury as part of a broader program to expand and relocate prisoners of war. Official figures show 36 688 enemies in twenty one US camps including 14 516 Italians 22 110 Germans and 62 Japanese.
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Camp Atterbury
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Associated Press
United States
Crossville
Tennessee
Carson
Colorado
Clark
Missouri
Florence
Arizona
Fort Leonard Wood
Ogden
Utah
Phillips
Kansas
Weingarten
Wheeler
Georgia
Col. Welton M. Modisette
Surface Named To New Position In Indiana
Walter L. Surface, longtime Shields High School athletics coach, is appointed field worker of vocational rehabilitation for fourteen southern Indiana counties by Dr. C. T. Malan. His Seymour district office will coordinate services for handicapped youths sixteen and older, offering school or employment training and guidance.
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Walter L. Surface
Shields High School
Indiana
C. T. Malan
Surface
Seymour
Vocational Rehabilitation Department
Rehabilitation Department
Franklin College
Butler University
Indianapolis
State Department of Education
Funeral for Yamamoto Reported by Jap Radio
Tokyo dispatch says elaborate rites marked the burial of Fleet Admiral Yamamoto. The ashes were interred at Tama cemetery near Tokyo after state ceremonies led by Emperor Hirohito with Tojo kneeling before the ashes. Yamamoto’s death was announced May 23 and he is the twelfth non royal Japanese citizen to receive a state funeral.
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New York
Yamamoto
Tama Village
Tokyo
Hirohito
Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Japanese Naval Club
Wings for Victory feature to debut soon
The Daily Tribune will launch a new feature called Wings for Victory starting Monday. It will include photos or drawings and thumbnail sketches of widely used planes aiding the axis and will interest readers including service men families and Freeman Army Air Field civilian workers.
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The
Daily Tribune
Freeman Army Air Field
Board of Review Members Named for Jackson County
Judge John C Branan names five members to Jackson County Board of Review for upcoming session to review county assessments. Named are John Hauenschild Seymour city board of works chair and former clerk treasurer James B Cross Brownstown resident, with Jason Bottorff county auditor Ford Lutes county treasurer and James H Hartsell county assessor serving by office.
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Jackson County Board of Review
John C. Branaman
John Hauenschild
Seymour City
Shields High Announces Summer Music School Program
Shields High School launches a summer music program directed by Paul W. Rigsbee with four bands C B and A plus a community band rehearsing in the Shields Memorial Gym and city parks. The C band meets Wednesday and Friday mornings at 9 30 with beginners. The B band meets Thursday mornings and Tuesdays Thursdays at 9 30 with more experienced players. The A or junior band meets Thursday at 10 30 and on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The community band practices Wednesday evenings and performs Sunday concerts at city parks. Baton twirling classes begin Monday June 14 with a first practice session at 7 30 pm.
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Shields High School
Paul W. Rigsbee
Shields Memorial Gymnasium
Deadline Near for Second 1942 Tax Installment
Nine days remain to pay the second quarterly federal income tax installment without penalty, Indiana Internal Revenue collector Will H. Smith reminded. He noted 560,000 notices mailed while many payments lag, and urged taxpayers to attach identification to checks to speed posting of credits.
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H. Smith
Indiana
Internal Revenue
Weather Records for Seymour Day
Official and unofficial readings for Seymour list the downtown maximum temperature as unofficial and the twenty four hour minimum from Miss Louise Anhlert, government weather observer, as official. River level data obtained from the Seymour Water Company at Rockford is noted.
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Seymour
Louise Anhlert
Seymour Water Co
Rockford
H Rebber Dies Here Friday Night
William H Rebber aged 74 died at 8 Friday night at 414 West Brown street after nine months illness. Born in Germany on October 25 1868 he came to the U S as an infant. He was a carpenter and Emmanuel Lutheran Church member. Survived by widow Mary Reater a son the Rev Arthur Rebber two brothers John Rebber Henry Rebber a sister Elizabeth Rebber and four grandchildren Funeral services Tuesday at 1:30 from Tower Funeral Home and 2 from Emmanuel Lutheran Church. Burial in Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call after noon Sunday.
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William H. Rebber
West Brown Street
Mr. Rebber
Germany
Henry
Anna Marie Hoevener Rebber
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Mary Reater
Arthur Rebber
Blackwell
Okla
John Rebber
Seymour
Henry Rebber
Crothersville
Elizabeth Rebber
Tower Funeral Home
E. E. Streufert
State Man Missing in Action List Includes Indiana Man
Washington AP reports a War Department casualty list of eighty missing in action soldiers released this morning names one Indiana man Beecher Metzger of Rossville reported missing in the North African area.
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Washington
War Department
United States Army
Beecher Metzger
Rossville
Castillo Still Claims Argentina Role After Coup
Buenos Aires reports say President Ramon Castillo, besieged by a military council, travels by gunboat issuing radio statements claiming he and ministers remain the legal government. General Arturo Rawson leads the coup, with martial law in effect and air support visible. United Nations capitals react with mixed views as axis ties shift.
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Associated Press
Buenos Aires
Ramon Castillo
la Plata
New York
United Nations
Axis
Washington
Ramon S. Castillo
Graf Spee
Argentina
South America
Mine Truce Extends Return To Work To June 20
Washington AP reports John L Lewis directs miners to return from June 7 through June 20 in a conditional truce. The national policy committee authorized the return to work to protect union membership while bargaining resumes, though negotiations may still test the War Labor Board order.
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Washington
John L Lewis
United Mine Workers
Union Policy Committee
National Policy Committee
Lewis
John O'Leary
Thomas Kennedy
War Labor Board
Record May USO attendance hits high at Chestnut Center
A May report at the Seymour USO council shows 12 041 attendees at the Chestnut Street USO center 905 South Chestnut. Major Jobe and Mrs Jobe are reassigned to Camp Ellis Illinois as Bramwell Lundgren becomes new Seymour USO director and Daniel B Goings addresses Tipton Street center plans and a Mother's Day program is noted.
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USO
South
Seymour Uso Council
William Jobe
Major Jobe
Camp Ellis
Minois
Jobe
Bushnell
Bramwell Lundgren
Seymour
Daniel B. Goings
Tipton Street
Lundgren
Salvation Army
Freeman Field
Workers Expected to Return to Their Jobs
A UAW CIO union official predicted the full strike at Warner Gear plants in Muncie will end by Sunday night. Local President Ben Weeks said the international union pressed for a return, following Indianapolis representative Carl Parker who called the walkout unauthorized after a pay-reduction dispute affecting about 40 workers. The company later reported about 23,000 employees idle, with some resuming work after Parker's appeal.
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United Automobile
Warner Gear
Uaw-Cio
Ben Weeks
International Union
Carl Parker
Indianapolis
Parker
Bombing raid on Grottalgie air drome near Brindisi
United States Liberators of the Middle East Air Force dropped nearly 125 tons of bombs on the Italian air field near Brindisi in southeastern Italy. The attack used two waves against the air drome named Grottalgie facing Greece and Albania across the Adriatic Sea.
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Algiers
Grottalgie
Italy
United States Liberators
Middle East Air Force
Brindisi
Greece
Albania
Adriatic Sea
First Drunk Driver Fined in Month in Jackson Circuit Court
Virl Greer pleaded guilty to no charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and was fined 25 dollars plus 35.65 costs by Judge John C. Branan. An 18 sentence of six months at the Penal Farm was suspended and the driver’s license revoked for one year. Three state cases set for trial. Rob ert Jarvis and Royal Trowbridge face burglary second degree on June 11. Robert Spray on June 14 for DUI on June 18. Jeff Ross and Betty Wineinger to face statutory charges.
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Virl Greer
John C. Branaman
Jackson
Brownstown
Penal Farm
Green
Robert Spray
Jeff Ross
Betty Wineinger
Schricker To Speak At Indiana Institutional Conference
Governor Schricker will address the closing session of the state institutional superintendents conference and trustees at the state house next Thursday. The two day meeting opens Wednesday with Judge Dan Pyle delivering the keynote on Trends in Juvenile Delinquency.
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Indianapolis
Schricker
Board of Trustees
State House
Dan Pyle
Allied air attacks hit Milo Sicilian airfield and Pantelleria
Allied bombing raids struck Pantelleria and Milo airdrome in Sicily as part of a 24 hour assault on targets in Pantelleria Sicily and Italy. Milo runways and hangars burned. two Allied planes missing. Axis night raid on Algiers reported with some damage and enemy losses.
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Associated Press
Pantelleria
Northwest Africa Command
Milo
Sicily
Italy
Algiers
RAF Pounds German Air War Forty to One For May
Britain's air undersecretary Captain Harold Balfour says in London that for every German bomber over England in May the RAF sent forty to attack the Reich. He notes the RAF used four engined heavy bombers to strike while Germany deployed fighters and fighter bombers over England.
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Britain
Air
Harold Balfour
England
RAF
Reich
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