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Newspaper
Seymour Daily Tribune
Location
Seymour, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1943
Page
1
More than 5 260 swimmers have used the municipal pool since it opened on Sunday June 6 averaging about 575 daily across nine days. The record shows 1 101 admitted on the busiest Sunday and 774 on a day including 111 soldiers. Officials plan a paid valuables check service after theft reports with envelopes opened in presence of attendants.
The British Ministry of Home Security reports May casualties at 584 killed or missing and 733 seriously injured, the highest monthly toll of the year. This compares to April with 172 killed and 205 injured, and January previously the peak with 328 killed and 507 injured.
The War Production Board announces five hundred million board feet of soft wood lumber is available for essential farm repair and construction. The War Food Administration is authorized to assign AA-2 priorities to the lumber.
New York on June 15 AP reports thracite operators and United Mine Workers officials pressing wage contract negotiations. UMW official Matt F. Brennan says a draft proposal is nearly ready for submission.
Norman J. Lasher, superintendent of public schools, praised former Rotary presidents from 1919 to present at a gathering in the Elks Home. The lineup included Leon Griffith and multiple leaders. Dr. John Prentice will become president on July 1. Also honored were Raymond Morris with fourteen years of perfect attendance and Lt. William H. McLeod from Freeman Army Air Field.
Mrs Regina Scheidt 73 wife of Louis J Scheidt died suddenly of a heart attack at their Columbus home. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hathaway Funeral Home with Rev A E Bauer officiating. Burial at Farland Brook Cemetery. Survivors include husband two brothers seven stepchildren and several in law or military service including Paul Scheidt Louis Scheidt Jr Arthur L Scheidt and others.
Lieutenant A. P. Pasquariello in charge of construction at the Crane Naval Ammunition Depot says work will continue through the rest of 1943 and perhaps into 1944. He notes the end of the building program is in sight. The site was formerly Burns City Naval Ammunition Depot.
Morristown Pa June 15 a county coroner's jury exonerated President Roosevelt's ten year old grandson of blame for the fatal shooting of playmate Lewis Hutchinson Junior. The coroner said the evidence showed the incident involving William Donner Roosevelt was purely accidental.
Local shops were crowded as shoppers with coupon 17 rushed to buy footwear before it expired. Coupon 18 becomes valid soon, smooth operations expected. repair shops faced backlogs with high demand and delays for multiple pairs.
Severe weather after two heat waves knocked out multiple telephones in Seymour's business district and scattered residential outages. Austin and Cortland reported transformer fuse outages while a tree was struck near Noble H Parker's home at 726 West Fifth Street, tearing a sidewalk hole.
River water stands .2 feet above the previous low water mark as records show a modest rise in level. Officials monitor gauge readings and river conditions along the waterway.
Lt. Jesse S. Baskett of the area engineers is promoted from first lieutenant to captain. He is stationed at Freeman Field and is the son of Mrs. J. S. Baskett of Cynthiana Kentucky. A University of Kentucky civil engineering graduate, he joined the Army June 5 1942 at the Louisville engineering district after working as a Kentucky highway department civil engineer.
The War Department released a casualty list naming seven Indiana soldiers wounded in action. Sergeants Fred Gerkin of Loogootee and Raphael Penzenik of Mishawaka were injured in the Pacific area, with the others hurt in North Africa. The named men include Gene Brown of Muncie, Corporal Burton Davis of Frankfort, Sergeant Louis Greene of Jeffersonville, Everett Harrell of Madison, and Joseph Summer of Indianapolis.
Members of the city council will hold a regular meeting at 7 30 o’clock in the council chamber on the second floor of the city hall. Only routine business is expected to come up at the session.
Bernard Doyle of the Alcoholic Beverages Commission announces Indianapolis resident Charles McAlpin has resigned as special investigator for the excise police. McAlpin previously served as a state purchasing agent.
A five year price table shows 1939 to 1943 food costs rising from 2.42 to 4.99 dollars, with 1943 the spike year. The piece notes housewives campaign for higher food funds as living costs jump about 100 percent and urges calls for OPA intervention.
Betty O Neal 20 daughter of Mr and Mrs Orvil O Neal of 308 St Louis Ave Greencastle Indiana died at 8 30 this morning at Schneck Memorial Hospital Funeral services are set for Friday in Greencastle She was born September 25 1922 in Greencastle Survived by parents two sisters Mrs Christine Master of Greencastle and Mrs Virginia Holderman of Worthington Indiana.
A movement in Indianapolis with civic help in Atterbury area towns opposes turning Camp Atterbury from a training center to a concentration camp. Ernest W. Budd told Columbus Rotary about letters from Senator Van Nuys and Rep. Ludlow replying to inquiries. The War Department named Atterbury a POW internment camp but gave no plan to convert it to a prison camp.
Washington June 15 AP price administrator Prentiss Brown urged wholesale and retail food merchants to enforce the new OPA price control program. He warned failure could harm the war effort and hinder postwar peace, citing four reasons for slow stabilization and noting retail food prices run about five percent above regulated levels.
A truck driver was burned to death after a collision with a street car on Bowery in New York. Dozens of street car passengers were treated for shock, forty aboard the car escaped with minor injuries, and the driver remained unidentified.
The National Safety Council awarded its wartime honor to the United States Army Air Forces for a training record in which 95 of every 100 pilots complete training without injury.
About ten thousand Canadian war workers in Ontario and Quebec left their jobs. Quebec shipyards suffered the heaviest losses with seven thousand on strike seeking higher pay and a closed shop. unions tied to the Canadian Congress of Labor urge government action on collective bargaining and recognition.
Congressional tax leaders after a White House meeting say they will push to enact a tax bill this year to raise 16 billion dollars in revenue for Roosevelt. House Ways and Means Chairman Robert Doughton said hearings could begin about two weeks before Congress reconvenes and no tax details were settled yet.
Philadelphia earns a 6 4 win and a 2 1 victory over Boston as Ron Northey homers in his first at bat of each game. The wins lift the Phillies to a 23 23 record and a .500 percentage.
The report claims a frontier closure between Syria and Turkey as a possible prelude to a Balkan or Aegean operation. Rome radio reports a large allied fleet off Sicily with Italy as the invasion target while daylight raiders relentless drop bombs on Germany. total raises over six thousand tons since Friday.
Royal Air Force raids hammered western Germany with Oberhausen targeted again as heavy bombers struck rail yards and industrial centers. Allied pilots reported losses while lighter RAF aircraft attacked transport networks from Holland to northern France. In the Mediterranean, axis forces claim allied ships off Sicily and Malta endure heavy air attacks as Eisenhower’s NW Africa air force limits activity to reconnaissance. Turkey closes Syria border amid Balkan invasion expectations.
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