Wounded Jap Fleet Limps Through Pacific Relates War Effects Locally
Seymour businessmen report war production board orders and emergencies reshaping industry. Karl Nessler cites wool shortages and tight wool usage. Ernest Birge notes steel priorities constrain fabrication. Orvis Steinberger describes cleaner service cuts and material scarcities. W. C. Baldwin discusses synthetic chemicals surpluses and missing new items. Members note local staffing changes and sustained demand despite regulations.
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Karl Nessler
Seymour Woolen Mills
Ernest N. Birge
Seymour Manufacturing Company
Orvis Steinberger
Bell's Cleaners
W. C. Baldwin
Baldwin's Drug Store
Army plane crash kills instructor and three cadets at Columbus
A twin engine trainer from the army flying school in Columbus, Mississippi, crashed during a routine training flight late yesterday. The Public Relations Office released few details while a witness said the aircraft went into a spin from about 1000 feet. One pilot bailed out but the falling plane clipped the parachute ropes.
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Columbus
Miss
Army Flying School
Drunken Driving Arrests Highlight May Report in Seymour
Seymour State Police Post No. 7 logged 212 traffic arrests in May with 199 convictions and 45 accidents investigated. Nine of 32 drunken drivers were sentenced to 30 to 90 days at the penal farm plus fines and license suspensions. Costs totaled 970 dollars, fines 1145, and 360 days at the farm were assigned. There were three fatal accidents and twenty four injuries in fifteen personal injury incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour State
State Penal Farm
Frank B. Gray
Seymour Post
Post
Jackson
Scott
Washington
Jennings
Bartholome
Medora Plans Flag Day Ceremony For 27 Nations
Flags from 27 nations will be raised at Medora schoolyard Sunday at 2 pm in a Flag Day program. Speakers Thomas Branaman and R. S. Robertson of Brownstown will attend. Scouts, the Brownstown band, and the Medora P T A Chorus will participate along with the county civilian defense director Robert son.
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Medora
Thomas H. Branaman
R. S. Robertson
Brownstown
Brownstown American Legion
Medora Boy Scouts
Wiley Phillips
Medora Lions Club
Branaman
P.t.a.chorus
Robertson
Local Residents' Aunt Buried at Terre Haute
Funeral services held Monday in Terre Haute for Mrs. John Marion eighty four aunt of Frank Nichter and Lena Price of this city and of Joe Nichter east of Seymour. She died Friday morning after a week of illness. Survived by five children and several grandchildren.
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Terre Haute
John Marion
Frank Nichter
Lena Price
Joe Nichter
Seymour
Marion
Frank
Nichter
Willard
Salvation Army Drive Opens With Luncheon Kickoff
About 100 reservations were made for the Salvation Army campaign kick-off luncheon at the Elks Home on Wednesday noon. Norman J. Lasher will preside as general chairman. the drive aims for a $750 Seymour quota. Washington and Lincoln School staffs donated fully, with city schools raising $50.25. Graessle-Mercer Co gave $10 and Ruth C. Nichols $5 Marie Fill $1. Industrial lists will allow factory contributions. no door-to-door solicitation. The piece notes the Army’s broad social work and cites Roosevelt on its impact.
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Salvation Army
Elks Home
Norman J. Lasher
Seymour
Washington
Lincoln
Graessle-Mercer Company
Ruth C. Nichols
Marie Fill
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men to be moved from Vincennes CCC camp to Fort Benjamin Harrison
Vincennes Indiana June 9 AP officers said the CCC camp here will close Thursday and men stationed there will be transferred to the Fort Benjamin Harrison camp. Lieutenant Pride, senior officer, announced yesterday.
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Vincennes
Ind
CCC
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Pride
D Ward Macey Dies Here After Brief Illness
Evansville June 9 D Ward Macey sixty two a well known figure in automobile sales died yesterday at his home after a brief illness He retired eight years ago as sales manager for the Dodge Brothers Motor Company in the south
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Associated Press
Evansville
D. Ward Macey
Dodge Brothers Motor Company
South
Air Chief Harris forecasts 10000 bombers nightly over Germany
Air Chief Marshal A T Harris said in a news reel that 10000 bombers a night could soon fly over Germany with heavy loads and that raids on Germany are only warmups for future punishment of Japan.
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Associated Press
London
Marshall A. T. Harris
Germany
America
Bomber Command
Japan
Emergency Auto Tire May Be Brought Out
Detroit reports an emergency tire designed to keep most cars running until a government rubber substitute program bears fruit. A joint committee of the automotive industry and the war engineering board notes the solution is not imminent and emphasizes the need for rapid development and cooperation.
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Associated Press
Detroit
America
War Engineering Board
Mrs Rene Gibo Dies in East
Mrs Hazel Higgins Gibo of Frederick Maryland wife of Rene Gibo died at 2 15 Monday afternoon. A daughter born to Mrs Gibo Monday also died. Funeral services Thursday at 4 pm from Voss Mortuary with burial in Riverview Cemetery. She was born September 2 1905 in Seymour and survived by her mother three brothers and three sisters plus nieces and nephews.
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Hazel Higgins Gibo
Frederick
Maryland
Seymour
Rene Gibo
Gibo
Voss Mortuary
Riverview Cemetery
Blaine Higgins
Lawrence Higgins
Harry Higgins
Scottsburg
Joy Kain
Pearl Higgins
Verna Higgins
County Girls Get Jobs In Defense Plants
Rosie Irene Wheeler Medora and Rosie Mae Davidson Wallonia former NYA center enrollees at 4107 East Washington Street Indianapolis secured defense plant jobs in Muncie and Salem. About 100 girls at the NYA center prepare for hospital and other defense work receiving training in health hygiene dietetics shorthand typing bookkeeping and household management. They live in an administration building with dormitories classrooms and a hospital wing. Eligibility requires state residency ages 17 to 25 unemployment and not in school with Jackson County applications taken Saturdays 8 am to noon at Emerson School by C Leland Bridges NYA personnel worker.
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Rosie Irene Wheeler
Medora
Rosie Mae Davidson
Wallonia
National Youth Administration Girls
East Washington Street
Indianapolis
Muncie
Salem
Indiana Medical Center
Jackson County
C. Leland Bridges
NYA
Emerson School
Deputy Graduates From Butler University
James Deputy of Eighth and Broadway graduated from Butler University Indianapolis at the annual commencement, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education. A Shields High School alumnus, he starred on the Butler varsity basketball team and held campus popularity honors and a leading role in his fraternity.
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James Deputy
Butler University
Indianapolis
Deputy
Shields High School
Butler
Missing Eleven Navy Blimps After Atlantic Collision
Lakehurst N J June 9 twelve of thirteen navy and civilian occupants of two U S navy training blimps are missing after an apparent mid air collision over the Atlantic. The Lakehurst Training Station said the blimps were on an experimental mission at 400 feet. One survivor Ensign Howard Fahey escaped via a window.
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Associated Press
Lakehurst
N. J
U. S. Navy
Atlantic Ocean
Manasquan
Coast Guard
Howard Fahey
Chateau Normandy
Scarsdale
N. Y
Clinton S. Rounds
Toms River
Frank A. Trotter
C. C. Ross
R.F.D. 1
Jacksonville
Fla
K. G. Lee
New London
Conn
Work Resumes At Detroit Plant After Week-Long Strike
In Detroit, air craft precision tool production resumed at Federal Engineering Company after a week of idle work following a strike. The army issued a work or fight ultimatum and threatened to relocate orders, with Major George Strong stating the army would take business elsewhere without an NLRB employee election. A group of 250 workers returned to work as talks continued over union representation by the CIO.
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Detroit
Federal Engineering Company
Army
George Strong
Army Air Corps
National Labor Relations Board
Strong
NLRB
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Forecast cites rationing for coffee tea cocoa and clothing
Washington officials released an official forecast by Joseph L. Werner predicting rationing of coffee tea and cocoa and indicating clothing may eventually face rationing. The briefing followed a press conference yesterday.
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Washington
America
Joseph L. Weiner
War Production Board Division of Supply
Tough Texan Witness Gives Ringside View of Midway Battle
Ensign George H. Gay, from Houston, survived a torpedo strike on June 4 as he floated under a sea cushion after bailing from his sunken plane. From his improvised shelter he observed American success, including hits on Japanese carriers, while recovering from slight wounds in Pearl Harbor.
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Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Midway Island
George H. Gay
Chester W. Nimitz
Gay
Defense meeting to show wartime films at Shields High
A large crowd is expected at 7 30 tonight at the old Shields High School gym for a defense meeting with films including Japs Bomb U S A London Fire Raids Goofer Trouble and Fighting the Fire Bomb. Chief Robert F Hamm will speak and parade of Seymour auxiliary firemen precedes the event.
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Old Shields High School
Robert F. Hamm
State Fire Marshal’s Department
London
Russ Johann
Indiana State Fire Marshal’s Department
Seymour
Old
Relatives of Local Woman in Fatal Crash
Dr. F M Reynolds seventy two of Montpelier drove in a fatal weekend crash six miles northwest of Bluffton. He is an uncle of Mrs. Franklin M Moore of Calvin Boulevard. Ruth St John thirty three of Montpelier was killed and Grace Reynolds injured in a collision with a Mayflower moving truck at State Roads 303 and 224.
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F. M. Reynolds
Montpelier
Bluffton
Franklin M. Moore
Calvin Boulevard
Moore
Ruth St. John
Grace Reynolds
Mayflower Company
Tractor accident claims Evansville farmer
Fred Bumb a 63 year old Evansville farmer died after a tractor loaned by friends overturned and pinned him in a creek bed. The incident occurred on June 9 and was reported by the Associated Press.
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Evansville
Ind
Fred Bumb
Gas Rationing Delay Seen By AP
Washington predicts postponement of nationwide gasoline rationing until a comprehensive scrap rubber survey is completed. Senate leaders report estimates of reclaimable rubber vary from 700,000 to 10,000,000 tons, with Henderson projecting about 300,000 tons for 1942 and 6,000,000 tire caps possible. He says full avoidance of a transportation crisis requires nationwide gas rationing alongside tire conservation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Barkley
D-Ky
Roosevelt
War Production Board
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Maloney
D-Conn
Service Pay Bill Nears Signature
Washington reports congressional support for a bill shaping dependents payments and military pay. The House passed general pay provisions and the Senate set a $50 minimum monthly pay for servicemen effective June 1. A conference will resolve minor differences, with the measure likely to go to the President this week.
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Associated Press
Washington
Navy
Uncle Sam
House
Senate
Mighty Naval Unit Reported Badly Crippled
In the Pacific, Japan’s fleet suffered heavy losses after an all out attack on Midway Island. Reports say three Japanese warships sunk, eleven damaged, and air units wiped out while U S forces lost one destroyer and an aircraft carrier. Observers expect remnants to regroup near home waters.
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Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Japan
Midway Island
America
Hawaiian
United States Sea
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Uncle Sam
United States
Hawaiian Islands
British Sub Sinks Four Italian Ships in Med Scene
The Admiralty says the British submarine Turbulent sunk one Italian destroyer four Italian vessels in the central Mediterranean. The action occurred as British forces engaged in operations in the region.
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London
Admiralty
Turbulent
Mediterranean
British Lose 18 Planes in Ruhr Raids
The air ministry said RAF attacked Germany's Ruhr Valley with a strong force and targeted Dieppe channel docks and Axis airfields in raids last night. a total of 18 bombers were downed. The report notes fierce fighting and mentions ongoing coverage on page 4.
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Ruhr
Associated Press
London
Air Ministry
RAF
Germany
Dieppe
Fighter Command
Weather readings for Seymour show unofficial high and official low
Official records show the minimum temperature for the past day from Miss Louise Ahlert, government observer, while the 2 pm maximum comes from a downtown thermometer as an unofficial reading. The river level, measured by Seymour Water Co., indicates 2 ft 6 in above the low water mark at Rockford.
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Seymour
Louise Ahlert
Seymour Water Co
Rockford
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