Two New Trailer Pumpers Arrive for Seymour Fire Dept
Seymour receives two 500 gallon trailer pumpers assigned to the civilian defense auxiliary. The units will be unloaded at the Chicago Milwaukee station at 7 30 tonight and paired with existing equipment for training before active use. Mayor Burkart says four fire trucks are now provided, boosting city protection.
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Seymour
Civilian Defense Auxiliary Fire Service
Chicago-Milwaukee
Civilian Defense Auxiliary Fire Organization
John Morton
Bill Gamron
T. P. Wesley
Cleveland
C. W. Burkart
Detroit Race Riot Death Toll Mounts to Six
Detroit citywide rioting escalates with six dead including four Black residents one white civilian and one white officer. Governor Kelley mobilizes state troops and police as 3,500 officers were on duty and River Rouge military policemen protect riot zones. Continuous violence leaves over 700 injured and looting widespread.
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Detroit
Associated Presse
Harry Kelley
Columbus
Ohio
Horace White
Plymouth Congregational Church
Man Dies While On Visit Here
Phillip Bauman aged about 56 of 1631 South Ridgeway avenue Chicago died at 5 20 Sunday evening at the home of his brother in law Phillip Vorick 722 West McDonald street where he had come for a short visit Funeral services will be held Tuesday and his body sent to Chicago by the Pennsylvania railroad He was born in Russia son of Jacob and Ethyl Bolton Bauman He married Katie Vorick of New York in February 1910 Survived by widow a daughter Mrs Rose Ferstein of Chicago two sons William of Rockport Ill David of Chicago and a brother Harry Bauman of Chicago
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Phillip Bauman
South Ridgeway Avenue
Chicago
Ill
Phillip Uorick
West McDonald Street
Mr. Bauman
Pennsylvania Railroad
Russia
Jacob and
Ethyl Bolton Bauman
Katie Vorick
New York
National Malleable Steel Company
Rose Ferstein
William
Rockport
David
Harry Bauman
Indiana tops salvage efforts in early 1943 record
Edmund Eitel of the War Production Board praised Indiana residents for collecting about 333000 tons of scrap iron and steel in the first three months of 1943. He cited 40000 pounds of silk and nylon in six months and about 250000 pounds of waste fats each month since April, in a letter to Governor Schricker.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Edmund Eitel
War Production Board
Schricker
Eitel
Bartholomew County Gun Fatality Sparks Grand Jury Probe
Lewis Collis 26, held in Bartholomew jail, suspected of shooting neighbor Roscoe Craig 31 in Ohio Township. Sheriff Oneal and a posse captured him at 3 am after a night escape. Prosecutor says grand jury to convene Thursday. Collis claimed accidental discharge during rabbit dog talk. Evidence included missing blankets and hidden out in nearby woods.
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Lewis Collis
Bartholomew County
Columbus
Roscoe Francis Craig
Craig
Ohio Township
Marvin R. Davis
William N. Lienberger
Collis
Walter Oneal
Oneal
Harrison Collis
Lewis
Carmichael
Oegilville
Alma Schoermerhorn
Anna Francis
Mary Anna
Naomi Ruth
Lienberger
Raymond Bell
State Police
Sheriff Oneal
Collis House
Elvin
Medical staff forms first for Schneck Memorial Hospital
Dr. L. W. Elsner of Seymour named president of the medical and surgical staff at Schneck Memorial Hospital during an organizational dinner Friday night. Dr. D. J. Cummings of Brownstown is vice president and Dr. C. E. Gillespie of Seymour secretary-treasurer. An executive committee includes Drs. Graess Shortridge Martin Miller Green Kamman Osterma Wright Grossman Gillespie and Cummings with others from Seymour North Vernon Brownstown Crothersville and Medora. A lab was recommended and staff by laws adopted.
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L. W. Elsner
Seymour
Schneck Memorial Hospital
D. J. Cummings
Brownstown
C. E. Gillespie
H. P. Graess
W. 8. Shortridge
Guy Martin
H. E. Miller
John Green
North Vernon
G. R. Gillespie
Jackson County Medical Society
C. E. Gillespix
Graessle
Shortridge
Martin
Miller
G. H Kamman
L. H. Osterma
E. D. Wright
Seymou
Green
W. H. Stemm
W. L. Grossman
North Vernor
D. J Cummings
L O Miller Dies at Paoli Brother of Local Man
L O Miller age seventy three of Paoli brother of Harry M Miller of this city died Sunday at St Joseph infirmary Louisville after a brief illness. He suffered a stroke Friday night and was taken to the infirmary. He was engaged in the Paoli insurance business and was prominent there. Surviving are his widow and a son Elmer in Paoli business. Funeral services at his Paoli home 3 oclock Tuesday afternoon with burial at Paoli.
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L. O. Miller
Paoli
Harry M. Miller
St. Joseph Infirmary
Louisville
Licenses Removed From City Hall Plate Stack
A stack of automobile license plates at the rear of the city hall was moved today to the state highway garage. The plates were donated by motorists for recycling into 1944 plates.
Weather records for Seymour reveal informal max and official min
Official and unofficial readings for Seymour list a downtown maximum temperature as unofficial and a 24 hour minimum from Miss Louise Ahltert, government weather observer, as official. The Rockford Amour Water Co. pump station supply figures appear in the record with a 2 p.m. minimum reading noted.
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Seymour
Louise Ahltlert
Amour Water Co
Rockford
Water Heater Blast Damages First Baptist Church
An explosion in the First Baptist Church in Valparaiso Indiana shattered windows and wrecked the basement and main auditorium. The blast occurred after about 100 children left the basement during preparations for baptisms, and firemen said the church service would likely have caused multiple deaths if held at the time.
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Valparaiso
Ind
First Baptist
FBI Conference To Be Held Here In 1943
Announcement notes an FBI conference at Shields High School Tuesday afternoon June 29 with open session at 2 o clock. Major William H Krieg and Lieut Don Kooken will address attendees from nineteen southern Indiana counties. D S Hostetter will lead the meeting with Earl J Wynn and T Perry Wesley among the speakers. The closed session will discuss Highway Safety in Indiana and the Max Stephan treason case. The event is part of a nationwide series begun in 1941.
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FBI
Indiana
Shields High School
William H. Krieg
JAGD
Selective Service System
D. S. Hostetter
Indianapolis
Don Kooken
Indiana State Police
Earl J. Wynn
T. Perry Wesley
Seymour
W. Burkart
Kooken
Wynn
Max Stephan
Stephan
United States
Hans Peter Krug
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Indiana Sgts among 156 missing in action list
The War Department released a list of 156 soldiers missing in action. Two Indiana men appear on the roster: Sergeant Melvin Hall of Van Buren Grant county and Sergeant Bruno Bukalski of Kouts Porter county.
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Washington
War Department
Indiana
Melvin Hall
van Buren
Grant County
Bruno Bukalski
Kouts
Porter County
Supreme Court endorses curfew on Japanese ancestry
Washington the supreme court today held constitutional military regulations imposing a west coast curfew on all persons of Japanese ancestry and excluding them from specified areas. London the air ministry disclosed Lancaster bombers penetrated deep into southern Germany last night to attack the Luftschiffbau Radio factory at Friedrichshafen. The announcement said all main buildings were damaged.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Oday
London
Air Ministry
Germany
Luftschieffbau
Friedrichshafen
Britain names Archibald Wavell Viceroy of India in move
India appoints Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell as viceroy on June 19. General Sir Claude Auchinleck succeeds him as commander in chief and sits beside the new viceroy, signaling a high level leadership transition.
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Great Britain
Archibald Wavell
India
Claude Auchinleck
Dies Saturday of Jacob Ramp 88 a Jackson County farmer
Jacob Ramp 88 died at 11 25 p m Saturday night at the home of his daughter Mrs Lew Peck Medora R1 after five weeks bedfast He was born December 21 1854 in Germany and moved to the county at age nine He married Louisa Acton in 1876 He was a German Lutheran Church member Four children survive Mrs Peck Mrs Bruce Goss Henry Ramp and Frank Ramp Two brothers Fred Ramp and William Ramp and two sisters Mrs Cara Holthoefer and Mrs Augusta Weitzel also survive Burial was at Smallwood Cemetery with funeral from Ratcliff Grove Church and wake at his son's home in Ewing </S>
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Jacob Ramp
Jackson County
Lew Peck
Medora
Ratcliff Grove
Smallwood
Henry Ramp
Ewing R
Mr. Ramp
Germany
Jacob
Barbara Ramp
Louisa Acton
Peck
Bruce Goss
Ewing
Frank Ramp
Brownstown
Fred Ramp
Cincinnati
William Ramp
Louisville
Cara Holthoefer
Augusta Weitzel
AP Opposing Anti-Trust Suit
The Associated Press prepares to file over fifty affidavits in federal court opposing a government anti trust summary judgment in a case against the cooperative news agency. The Chicago Tribune joins as co defendant, challenging AP membership openness. Chief affidavit from Frank B Noyes former AP president argues founders did not intend universal U S newspaper membership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Cooperative News Agency
Chicago Tribune
The
Washington Star
Frank B. Noyes
Noyes
United States
Coal Miners Out OF Pits Again
More than a half million coal miners are idle under the no contract no work policy for the third time in two months. The protest draws sympathy stoppages in Illinois and threatens steel production, while pressure mounts over Roosevelt’s pending anti strike bill and possible veto or swift enactment.
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Associated Press
United Mine Workers
A. F. of L. Progressive
Illinois
Harold Ickes
Columbus
Ohio
War Labor Board
Ickes
Roosevelt
White House
Invasion Rumors Rally Nazi Radio Across Europe
German broadcasts weigh invasion in the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa while allied raids continue. Radio Berlin cites an allied fleet off Syria and troop movements near Gibraltar. Italian civilians in Pantelleria denounce Mussolini. Western Allied air attacks hit Messina, Sicily, and northern Germany.
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Mediterranean
Radio Berlin
Messina
Sicily
English Channel
North Sea
Europe
Berlin
Germany
Bern
Lake Constance
Switzerland
Algiers
French Committee of National Liberation
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
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Reeds Beer
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Floyd
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Jennings
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Monroe
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Ripley
Scott
Washington Counties
Carnegie-Illinois Corporation
Pittsburgh
Dispatch
Italy
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Aegean Sea
Gibraltar
North Africa
Stockholm
Sweden
Pantelleria
Mussolini
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Red Army
Hitler
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