Geologists to Survey Water at Advanced Twin Engine School Site
A team from Decatur Ill arrived to locate abundant water for a new base field near the Advanced Twin Engine School southwest of town. Drillers found ordinary water but not enough for several hundred gallons per minute. The survey aims to cut drilling and speed development as plans include seven large warehouses and 350 structures around a parade ground.
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Twin Engine School
Decatur
Ill
Warren & van Praag
Pennsylvania
Mercury Soars to New High Then Rain Brings Relief
A weekend rain hit Seymour with heavier showers in parts of Jackson county while the temperature briefly set the season’s second record. Saturday's high reached 99 degrees, the previous peak, and Sunday topped at 88 with overnight lows around 69 degrees.
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Jackson County
Seymour
The
Mercury
Louise Ahlert
Rotary Meeting Tonight at Elks Home
Seymour Rotary Club holds regular dinner at 6 15 tonight at the Elks Home on West Second Street. President H R Ringler leads the business session while Ephraim Harlow oversees the program. A large attendance is expected.
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Rotary
Seymour
Rotary Club
Elks
West Second St
H. R. Ringler
Ephraim Harlow
Dentist Dr. W. W. Gates Dies at 78 in Indianapolis
Dr. W. W. Gates aged eighty seven? Wait. For seven months he endured illness and died at home. A longtime Indianapolis dentist, he arrived from Dublin Indiana and practiced in the city for more than half a century.
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Associated Press
Nattanmmaliet
W. W. Gates
Gates
Indianapolis
Dublin
Ind
Moose Convention Set for Indianapolis 1943
Indianapolis will host the Indiana Moose Association annual convention in 1943. Delegates chose Indianapolis for the twenty first meeting and elected officers during yesterday's session in Marion.
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Associated Press
Marion
Ind
Indianapolis
Indiana Moose Association
Roosevelt hints at fireside chat on rubber and gasoline
President Roosevelt told a House committee he may address the nation in a fireside talk on rubber and gasoline issues once he finishes studying the situation. The statement signals possible public explanation of policy steps during the energy and materials concern.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Sugar blanks arrive. county seeks registration plan
Jackson county received 3,000 canning sugar application blanks, but existing registration centers could not serve all applicants last weeks. People in need may apply at Brownstown courthouse office. Officials study a replacement schedule as centers, shut due to late supplies, may resume later this week.
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Jackson County
County
Brownstown
Darlage Guilty In Third DUI Offense
Alfred Darlage of this city was found guilty by a Jackson Circuit Court jury after a short deliberation. He faced a third offense charge for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence and was fined 39.30 with license suspended for one year. Edward Carr of Columbus pleaded guilty to DUI and received a 90 day sentence suspended with a one year license suspension and a 35.65 in costs. Trial in the Foster case was continued and a three-judge panel was named for Rider’s venue challenge with three judges listed and one to be chosen by strike.
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Alfred Darlage
Jackson
Brownstown
Darrage
Edward Carr
Columbus
Seymour
Harold Jolliff
John C. Branaman
State
Orval Foster
Stephenson A. Rider
Crothersville
State Supreme Court
George W. Long
Bartholomew County
Emmett Mitchell
Washington County
Donald Rogers
Monroe County
Lions Hold Convention Opens in Indiana Meeting
Oswald Ryan of Washington and Prof. Robert Phillips of Purdue were scheduled to speak at the Indiana Lions Clubs annual convention in Anderson. The event opened yesterday and continued today with planned talks by the two officials.
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Associated Press
Anderson
Ind
Oswald Ryan
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Robert Phillips
Purdue University
Indiana Lions Clubs
Opening Day Brings 284 Swimmers to Municipal Pool
Despite rain and the coldest week, the municipal pool opened with 284 people swimming. About 181 were men and boys and 103 were girls and women. The pool operated 1:30 pm to 10 pm with free hours for young students on select mornings.
Six Accidental Deaths Across Indiana This Weekend
Six people died in Indiana over the weekend including drownings in Terre Haute and Gary and four auto related fatalities. Victims include Ruth St John 33 Montpelier who died after a collision near Bluffton. Richard Mayrose 27 Terre Haute. Harold Sims 18 Chicago. George Meara 41 Noblesville. Ed Skinner 50 Nappanee. Cleo Vaughn 34 Indianapolis whose wife was critically injured.
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Ruth St. John
Montpelier
James Costello
Kirkland
Bluffton
F. M. Reynolds
Earl St. John
Grace Reynolds
Danny St. John
Richard Mayrose
Ft. Warren
Wyoming
Terre Haute
Harold W. Sims
Chicago
Indiana Dunes State Park
Gary
George Meara
Noblesville
Ed Skinner
Nappanee
Harlan Hall
Warsaw
Skinner
Cleo Vaughn
Indianapolis
Auto Crash North of City Injures No One
Two cars badly damaged in a collision on Alternate U S Road 31 half a mile north of the city Sunday at about 3 30 p m. George T. Taylor drove a 1936 coach north and turned into a driveway colliding with a 1936 sedan driven south by John E. Rose. Corp. Chester Wilson investigated the scene.
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U. S. Road 31
George T. Taylor
Seymour
John E. Rose
Miss Carrie Heaton Ex Local Woman Dies at 77
Miss Carrie Heaton aged about seventy seven former Meth dist missionary to Japan and longtime Seymour resident died Friday in Culver City California where she lived with her nephew Forrest Leininger Funeral services and burial planned in Culver City Her brother Eugene Heaton had died recently
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Carrie Heaton
Japan
Seymour
Culver City
Calif
Forrest Leininger
Frank J. Voss
Miss Heaton
Mr. Leininger
California
Eugene Heaton
Rejected and Accepted Draft Deta ils From Local Induction Group
The county draft board announced the names of 26 men rejected and 29 men accepted in last week’s induction group. Unclassified were Joseph Cobb Sasser Ray Bedwell Paul Englen and George Surrencamp. Rejected include Korte Mize Linn Hollenbeck Stewart Largent George Ferris Tormoehlen and others. Accepted list features McQuilling Reynolds Jones Newkirk Brunow and many Seymours Cortland Freetown and Medora residents.
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Louisville
County Draft Board
Wehstage
Joseph C. Cobb
Sasser
Ray Bedwell
Ewing
Paul Eglen
Medora
George A. W. Surrencamp
Seymour
Arthur Korte
Carl Mize
Milan
Louis Innis
Brownstown
George Hollenbeck
Robert Stewart
Floyd J. Largent
St. Louis
Harry George
Norman
Ferris Tormoehlen
Percy Ganstine
Fontana
N. C
William Mills
Wilbert Ashcraft
Victor Sitterding
Charles Maynard
Alvin W. H. Pollett
Francis D
Willard McQuilling
Crothersville
Earl Reynolds
George W. Jones
Clarence Newkirk
John Brunow
Elmer Tormoehlen
William Lockman
South Bend
Edgar Wolka
Wallonia
Maurice Walker
Mear Steltenpohl
Olen Williams
Herbert Hackman
Earl MecCann
Loran Freeman Cort
Zollman Named Bedford Mayor by City Council
Maurice J. Zollman, Democratic candidate and former council member, elected to fill the unexpired term of Clarence J. Donovan who resigned May 25 to join the Army Air Corps at Randolph Field Texas. Zollman won four to none as three Republicans abstained. he is current Bedford School board treasurer.
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Maurice J. Zollman
Bedford
Clarence J. Donovan
Intelligence
Army Air Corps
Randolph Field
Texas
Zollman
Senate Favors 850 Service Men's Pay Increase
The Senate approved raising minimum military pay to 50 dollars a month with first class privates and naval ratings at 54 dollars. All increases take effect June 1. Separately, Seymour Auxiliary Fire Department members will meet at Shields Park shelterhouse at 7 30 tonight for a business session and attend a public defense meeting with moving pictures at Shields High School Tuesday night.
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Washington
Senate
Seymour Auxiliary Fire Department
Shields Park
Shields High School
Enlistments swell Navy and Marines across nation
The United States swore in 12,326 young Americans into sea services in a nationwide radio ceremony six months after Pearl Harbor. The mass enlistments turned lock watchers into sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen across coast to coast.
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Pearl Harbor
Eastern Users To Get More Gas
East coast motorists will receive an average basic gasoline allotment of nearly four gallons per week under a regular coupon system beginning next month. The plan tightens controls, reduces B coupons, and requires proof of need or car pools of four or more to qualify for supplemental allowances.
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Associated Press
Washington
Joel Dean
CPA
Dean
Four Arraigned In City Court
Four defendants were arraigned in city court before Mayor Stan ley A Switzer after weekend arrests. Howard Pence of Elizabethtown Ky faced public intoxication charges after being found intoxicated on a bus. He posted $11 costs suspended on leaving the city to report to his draft board. Estil Bland of Linton Ind pled guilty and paid $11 total after a Saturday night intoxication arrest. Francis Powers of this city also paid $1 fine plus costs on a public intoxication charge.
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Howard Pence
Elizabethtown
Saturn
Switzer
Estil Bland
Linton
Ind
Francis Powers
Desperate Retreat Described as Mighty Naval Force Britons Raid
British war planes struck targets in northern France and Holland and damaged a German ship near the Frisian Islands. Weather blocked a mass raid on Emden. all aircraft returned safely. Bombed Caen railway yard and Montdidier train. lone Boston bomber hit Leeuwarden airdrome.
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France
Holland
Associated Press
London
Frisian Islands
Air Ministry
RAF
Emden
Germany
Caen
Montdidier
Amiens
Leeuwarden
Amsterdam
U B Church Location Discussion in Seymour
Dr A P Havermale national church secretary visits Dayton Ohio to confer with Indiana Conference leaders on a site for a United Brethren Church in Seymour. He meets with the local church board tonight at 7 and speaks at Emerson School auditorium at 8 with music by the First Christian Church male quartet. Public invited.
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A. P. Havermale
Dayton
Ohio
Board of Home Missions and Church Erection Society
Church of the United Brethren In Christ
R. D. Smith
Indiana
Conference Board of Trustees
United Brethren Church
Seymour
D. Havermale
Church Board of Trustees
Emerson School
First Christian Church
Roosevelt asks Congress for 39.4 billion war budget
President Roosevelt requested a new War Department appropriation of 39.4 billion dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943. The request would raise total war appropriations to over 200 billion dollars for the three years ending June 30, 1943.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
War Department
Libyan Tank Battle Rages as Allied Forces Hold
From Cairo June 8 the Libyan desert battle nears two weeks with British and Free French forces claiming the upper hand. British artillery repelled Rommel’s latest efforts to break Tobruk near Knightsbridge, while Free French at Bir Ma chem repelled a tank assault threatening Rommel’s right flank.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Egypt
Libyan
Knightsbridge
Bir Hacheim
Erwin Rommel
Tobruk
Bir Macheim
Allied Ship Losses Rise to 252 in Atlantic Sub Attacks
Official navy bulletin reports 252 Allied and neutral ships sunk in the western Atlantic by submarines, with 25 new victims last week and yesterday. The prior week casualty toll stood at 105 dead and 44 missing, 680 survivors. Losses included ten U S ships, seven British, three Norwegian, one Brazilian, one Panamanian, one Dutch and one unidentified allied vessel.
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Atlantic
Canada
South America
U. S
Japanese Submarines Shell Sydney Area
Japanese submarines slipped inshore under cover of darkness and shelled areas around Sydney. The report notes Allied headquarters in Australia and indicates continued coverage on page 4. The incident underscores ongoing naval threats in Australian waters during the conflict.
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Sydney
Allied
Australia
New
Britain warns French evacuees to leave coastal area
The BBC urged residents of German-occupied French coast to evacuate inland as the region was described as a theater of operations. The French language broadcast warned of upcoming capital importance actions for liberation and noted danger to civilians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Associated Press
London
BBC
Midway Battle May Hasten All-out Offensive on Japan
Pearl Harbor June 8. The Midway defeat of Japan's navy by American air and sea power accelerates the move toward a full Allied assault on Japan. The victory marks a turning point in the Pacific war's second phase, following Coral Sea and the Java fall. The U.N. focus shifts to fortifying control from Australia to Alaska while reducing Japan's sea strength for future offensives.
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Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Midway
Coral Sea
Java
Philippines
United States
United Nations
Australia
Hawaii
Alaska
Japanese Fleet Retreat After Midway Victory
Pearl Harbor June 8 The Japanese task force limped west after Midway as American defenses shattered its warships and air arm. Nimitz said contact was lost and the enemy appeared withdrawing with at least three ships sunk and thirteen or more damaged. U.S. losses were minor by comparison, with one destroyer sunk and one carrier hit. Messages of congratulations from MacArthur and others followed the victory.
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Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Midway Island
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
U. S
Nimitz
Central Pacific
Midway
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
J. L. Dewitt
Western Defense Command
Fourth Army
San Francisco
Weather Readings For Seymour Day Official And Unofficial
Official minimum from Miss Louise Ahlert government observer and unofficial maximum from downtown thermometer. River level at 2 pm from Seymour Water Co pumping at Rockford shows 1 ft above low water mark.
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Seymour
Louise Ahlert
Seymour Water Co
Rockford
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Dr. Gates
Moose Pick Capital
Darlage
Lions Hold
Baldwin's
Hatfield
Marshal Tackett
Stanley A. Switzer
U. B
Pyrenees
Nippon
U.S
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