Mercury Reaches Season High Again In City
The temperature hits ninety one degrees for the second time this month, tying the June 1 reading. .24 inches of rain fell Thursday, with .46 inch recorded on June 13 and White River rising to four feet before easing to three and six inches. The forecast remains cloudy with showers and storms and little change in temperature.
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Mercury
Louise Ahlert
Miss Ahlert
White River
Seymour Water Company
Rockford
Pfc Jesse Baker Listed Killed In France
Private First Class Jesse Thom Baker, age 30, was killed in France on January 10, according to a War Department message. He had been missing in action before the report and is survived by wife Margare Meek Baker of Walesboro, his parents, a sister, and three brothers.
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Jesse Thomas Baker
France
War Department
Margare Meek Baker
Walesboro
Pfc
Baker
Jacob Baker
Columbus
Seymour
Bartholomew County
Cummins Engine Company
Pfe
Harry Taylor
Sherman
Henry
James
Three County Youths Await Navy Call
Three Jackson county youths aged seventeen who sat Navy exams in Indianapolis have qualified and were sworn in. The eight applicants from Columbus Navy office include Robert E. Fleenor and Earl Garriott Jr of Crothersville and Russell Eugene Cox of Brownstown. They returned home awaiting training.
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Jackson County
Indianapolis
Columbus
Robert E. Fleenor
Earl Garriott, Jr
Crothersville
Russell Eugene Cox
Brownstown
Steering Group For Vets Named By Montgomery
T. Harlan Montgomery, general chairman of the County Veterans Information Service committee, formed a steering committee from county members to draft resolutions for the full panel. Members include Martin W. Steinwedel J. Walter Hastedt George Snider and Fred Nuss. The full committee meets Monday night June 18 at 7 30 in City Hall to ratify resolutions for county council and plan a paid veterans information director and headquarters.
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T. Harlan Montgomery
County Veterans Information Service Committee
Mr. Montgomery
Martin W. Steinwedel
J. Walter Hastedt
George Snider
Fred Nuss
Brownstown
Montgomery
Council
County Council
Liberated Officers Arrive Home on Leave
Two Seymour officers freed from German captivity returned home on leave. First Lieutenant James C Utterback a B 17 pilot was listed missing Christmas Day last year while Second Lieutenant Huber V Shierling a B 17 navigator was reported missing over Czechoslovakia December 18. Both men are sons of local families and husbands and fathers.
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Seymour
James C. Utterback
Virginia Utterback
N. L. Utterback
Huber V. Shierling
Czechoslovakia
Worker on Highway Receives Burns in Oil Explosion
Elvie Phillips of Columbus was admitted to Schneck Memorial Hospital Thursday afternoon for burns suffered while working on a state highway. He was exposed to oil that reportedly exploded burning his arms and was released the same afternoon after treatment.
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Elvie Phillips
Columbus
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Phillips
Lions Hear Lt Beatty On Tank Crew Tactics
Seymour Lions Club members heard Lt Charles Beatty, a 14 month veteran of the army tank corps, describe a hypothetical tank raid with a five tank outfit. Beatty explained infantry as eyes and ears and stressed teamwork between units. He noted light tanks at 16 1/2 tons and medium tanks at 33 tons with 500 horsepower engines. The talk followed a meeting agenda to plan for new officers taking office July 1.
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Beatty
Frank Mattox
Seymour Lions Club
DeWitte Ogan
Charles Beatty
Army Tank Corps
Twenty-Nine Qualify For Armed Forces
Twenty-nine of thirty-six Jackson county men sent to Louisville for pre induction physicals were found acceptable for general military service. The group, all under thirty, includes Verner Hull, Horace Tennis Walker, Myrel McCory and others who will await calls for induction.
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Jackson County
Louisville
Jackson County Selective Service Board
Armed Forces
Horace Tennis Walker
Verner Edward Hull
Joe Loyd
Lyle E. McCafferty
Clifford F. Schafstall
John Harrison Cole
William W. French
Clyde Harrison
Ernest Oliver Reynolds
Glen Earl Pifer
James Edward McKain
Hubert Ollie McGinnis
Richard H. Ruddick
City Wide Paper Drive Saturday
The White Rose Troop of Girl Scouts of the Seymour Girls Club postponed a city wide paper drive due to rain and will hold it Saturday with two Edison Franklin trucks and local residents urged to place papers on porches or curbs. Bundles should be tied in small, manageable loads for the scouts to collect efficiently after 9 o clock.
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White Rose
Girl Scouts
Seymour Girls Club
Edison Franklin
County Salvage
River weather record as stage hits 3 ft 6 in above low water
River stage measures 3 feet 6 inches above the low water mark, signaling a notable water level reading for the day.
Von Ribbentrop Caught In Lodgings In Hamburg
Field Marshal Montgomery's Headquarters, Germany. June 15. Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was captured while sleeping nude in a Hamburg boarding house. He had hidden in Hamburg since April 30 and carried a poison can strapped to his body, which he surrendered. He hoped to survive a trial as the last top Nazi believed alive after V E Day.
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Montgomery
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hamburg
Europe
von Ribbentrop
Hitler
Laupus Named to Head T B Group
George Laupus Jr of North Chestnut street was unanimously elected president of the Jackson County Tuberculosis Association for 1945 46 at a board meeting in the Jackson County Loan and Trust Company directors room. Fred Nuss was elected first vice president, Mrs W K Adair second vice president, Charles R Brown third vice president. Mrs Glenn M Keach was reelected executive secretary and Harry B Fox treasurer. The board voted to skip July and August meetings unless called. A dinner committee was discharged after being thanked for services. New directors Glenn H Seward and C Neal Hennessy attended their first meeting. The group will consider a downtown room for Christmas seal sales to mail overseas packages. The next board meeting is set for September.
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George Laupus
North Chestnut Street
Jackson County Tuberculosis Association
Jackson County Loan & Trust Company
Laupus
John L. Prentice
Fred Nuss
Brownstown
W. K. Adair
Crothersville
Glenn H. Seward
C. Neal Hennessy
W. B. Everdon
Seal Sale
Charge Six With OPA Violations In Indiana
Six Indiana meat slaughterers faced federal charges for violating OPA slaughtering rules with license suspensions sought. Defendants include Adolph Vetter Kokomo payment of over ceiling prices Vernon Sears Denon over quota payments Willard Lemler Bourbon excess quotas J B Williams Walkerton record-keeping failure George Eastin Ewing over ceiling prices and quotas John Sclavernes Marion non existent ration bank payments.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
OPA
Adolph Vetter
Kokomo
Vernon Sears
Denon
Willard R. Lemler
Bourbon
J. B. Williams
Walkerton
George C. Eastin
Ewing
Jackson County
John Sclavernes
Marion
Seymour Soldier Receives Atterbury Discharge
One Seymour serviceman named Gerald D. Smith was discharged at the Atterbury Separation Center among fifty seven Indiana men. Smith scored eighty five or more points under the Army adjusted service rating plan and returns home as a civilian technician fifth grade living at 802 North Broadway. He is married to Enola Smith and son of Mrs. Frank Smith of Seymour.
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Seymour
Indiana
Atterbury Separation Center
Army
Gerald D. Smith
North Broadway
Enola Smith
Frank Smith
Small Nations Seek Revision Of World Security Charter
Small nations resentful of big power leadership plan to rally UN votes to revise the projected World Security Charter in 5 to 10 years. A late afternoon showdown over the veto fight appears certain with a close battle anticipated as preliminary indicators show a tight vote.
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San Francisco
Troops Press Okinawa Break as Peak Falls to US Forces
On Okinawa the Tenth Army pressed a quick knockout blow toward the Japanese supreme command post. The 96th division, aided by flame throwing tanks, captured Yaeju Peak, the highest point on the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, signaling a potential collapse of the last-ditch defenses. Maj. Gen. Pedro Del Valle warned the defense could crumble in days, as air strikes and a major jellied gasoline raid targeted Japanese headquarters and caves.
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Guam
Tenth Army
Okinawa
96Th
Yaeju Peak
Yaeju-Dake
Big Apple
Conical
Shuri
Pedro del Valle
Marine First Division
Kunishi Ridge
del Valle
Associated Press
al Dopking
Dopking
Marine Corsair
Yaeju
Lutherans Plan Special Services at Immanuel Church
Lutherans observe Immanuel Church seventy fifth anniversary with two Sunday services. Former members speak at 9 and 10 30 am with Rev William Schepman and Rev Leo Tormoehlen. Choirs sing and a 7 30 pm program on School and Christian Education features Rev Ottomar Krueger. A social hour follows the night service.
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Immanuel Lutheran Church
William Schepman
Crown Point
Leo Tormoehlen
Forsyth
Montana
Walther
Ottomar Krueger
Concordia College
Fort Wayne
Seymour
Immanuel Church
Ladies
William Ahlbrand
Lutheral School
Danville
Illinois
Big Three to Meet in Berlin In Berlin Conference Planned
London June 15 Maj. Clement Attlee disclosed that the Big Three meeting will take place in Berlin. Attlee, former deputy prime minister and leader of the Labor opposition, said he would attend the prospective Berlin conference per Churchill's invitation.
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Berlin
Attlee
Moose Lodge Dance Tonight with Dixieland Band
Aaron Cox leads his Dixieland Band performing at the Moose Home from 9 to 12 tonight. Members and guests invited to enjoy live music and dancing in a community event.
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Moose Lodge
Moose Home
Aaron Cox
Thick Weather Breaks Yank Plane Formations
A force of 520 B29s battled heavy skies over Guam on June 15 as weather broke formations on a mission to Osaka and Amagasaki. They unloaded about 3000 tons of incendiaries, hoping to strike Japan’s industrial heart, with fires started at several points as clouds hid targets.
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Guam
Japan
Osaka
Amagasaki
Tokyo
Jap Air Strike Hits Balikpapan and Borneo Action
Allied air forces struck Balikpapan on Borneo as Australians advanced toward Brunei after capturing the river port. Jap reports claim a new suicide corps formation in south Borneo while weather hampered raids and pilots reported scarce enemy interceptors. Gen. Arnold vowed total destruction of Japan with 2,000,000 tons of bombs annually, targeting Tokyo Nagoya Yokohama Kobe and Osaka.
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Manila
Borneo
Balikapapan
South Borneo
Brunei
Balikpapan
Batavia Radio
North Borneo
Australia
Tobruk
Associated Press
James Hutcheson
Japan
H. H. Arnold
U. S. Army Air Forces
Arnold
Tokyo
Nagoya
Yokohama
Kobe
Osaka
Curtis E. le
21St Bomber Command
Kawasaki
le May
Passenger Train Wreck Kills 17 in Williamsport Pa
Williamsport Pa June 16 At least seventeen persons were killed and thirty two injured when the 34th car of a freight train jumped the tracks and fell on the onrushing Washington Buffalo passenger train. Officials said twenty one freight cars also left the track and many passengers were trapped until railroad crews freed them with acetylene torches. It would be hours before all the dead were released and identified.
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Williamsport
Washington
Hoosier Congressmen Split Over Postwar Training Issue
Hoosier lawmakers remain undecided on compulsory peacetime military training. Most sit on the fence, urging no decision until after victory and peace treaties. Rep Springer calls rushing a leap in the dark, while Rep Harness favors after the war. Eugene C. Pulliam notes caution and war finance ties.
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Hoosier
Washington
Springer
The
American Legion
Harness
Republican
Legion
Eugene C. Pulliam
Indianapolis
Indiana War Finance Committee
House Committee On
Chinese Attack Fort at Wenchow and Ishan Reoccupation
Chinese forces reported attacking the fort at Wenchow 220 miles south of Shanghai while pursuing Japanese from Foochow. McClure's headquarters said Chinese troops recaptured Ishan, a Kwangi railway town west of Liuchow, after a brief loss.
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Wenchow
Chungking
Foochow
East China Coast
Chekiang Province
Shanghai
Wu River
Robert B. McClure
Kunming
Kwangsi
Ishan
U. S
Liuchow
McClure
Tatang
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Jms
Pfc. J. Baker
Seymour Water Co
Atterbury
London
Clement R. Attlee
Labor
Dis
Churchill
Key Oil City
Brunei City
Nippon
Charles B. Miller
Richmond
Jap Air Force
Ollie A. Thacker
Pear Valley
Tex
James B. McWethy
Aurora
Ill
China
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