Flood Drenches Jackson County Farmland in Severe Downpour
River flooding leaves several thousand acres under water in Jackson County as White River at Rockford stops falling after a morning shower of about .72 inch. The flood, worst in years, halts crop recovery hopes with fields saturated, highways closed, and potential replanting to soybeans or quick corn varieties discussed by agricultural leaders.
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Jackson County
White River
Rockford
Ridgeview
Brownstown
Methodists at 114th Indiana Conference Meeting
Jackson county ministers and wives travel to Indianapolis for the 114th annual Indiana Conference of Methodist Churches held at Central Avenue Methodist Church. Bishop Titus E. Lowe presides with Rev. Edwin F. Shake serving as secretary. Seymour attendees include Rev. C. S. Black and wife. Streamlined two day session due to wartime transport issues features ministerial assignments for the new year.
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Jackson County
Indianapolis
Indiana Conference of Methodist Churches
Central Avenue Methodist Church
Titus E. Lowe
Edwin F. Shake
First Methodist Church
Seymour
C. S. Black
Immanuel Lutheran Church marks 75th anniversary series
The church observes its seventy fifth anniversary with a Sunday homecoming service at 3 p.m. in Shields Memorial Gymnasium featuring Dr Walter A Maier of Concordia Theological Seminary as speaker. Morning services feature Rev A Rebber and Rev A Herkamp as preachers in the final day of services titled The Anniversary Memorial Services. Special music planned.
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Immanuel Lutheran Church
Shields Memorial Gymnasium
Walter A. Maier
Lic
Maier
Concordia Theological Seminary
St Louis
A. Herkamp
Valley City
Ohio
Senate Action on National Cemeteries Plan
The Senate approved a bill directing creation of a national cemetery in every state or territory lacking one and requiring superintendents to be chosen from disabled veterans. The measure now moves to the House for consideration.
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Washington
Senate
House
Wounded Veteran and Ex-Prisoner Address Seymour Post
The Seymour American Legion Post No. 89 saw its largest turnout in months as two returning veterans spoke. First Lt. Charles G Beatty described his unit’s D-Day preparations and combat experiences while hospitalized for severe wounds. Second Lt. Huber Schierling recounted parachuting into enemy territory and liberation from a German camp.
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Legion Post
Seymour Post No. 89
American Legion
Post
Armored Force
Air Corps
Legion
Charles G Beatty
Mary Beatty
Schick General Hospital
Clinton
Iowa
Huber Schierling
Walter Schierling
Beatty
Normandy
Schierling
Second Naval Casualty In 2 Days Reported
John Gilbert Sutton of the U S Navy is reported killed in action and interred in an Allied cemetery on a Pacific island. El don E Wood, also a motor machinist's mate, is reported missing in the Pacific area. Sutton, 27, served fifteen months in the Southwest Pacific and fought at Saipan and the Marianas. He is survived by his widow Florence Stahl Sutton and his mother Mazie Sutton plus two brothers.
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John Gilbert Sutton
U. S. Navy
Pacific
Clyde Wood
Reddington
Eldon E. Wood
Florence Stahl Sutton
West Jackson Street
Southwest Pacific
Seymour
John
Mazie Sutton
Florence Stahl
Caroline Stahl
Hayden
Hayden High School
Navy
John C. Grouch Company
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Sutton
Armed Forces
Urbena
San Diego
Calif
Momm
Saipan
Marianas
Boston
Mass
San Francisco
Momm Sutton
Aubrey East
Louisville
Sutton Belives
War Department
Weather readings for Seymour daily totals and river level
Official and unofficial temperature readings for Seymour list the downtown maximum as unofficial and the 24 hour minimum from Miss Louise Ahlert, government weather observer, as official. River level measured by Seymour Water Co at Rockford pumping station stands 10 ft 7 in above low water mark.
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Seymour
Louise Ahlert
Seymour Water Co
Rockford
Stege
New Commander Named for Group
Col Benjamin O Davis Jr, former commander of the 332nd Fighter Squadron in Italy, is assigned to command the newly organized 477th composite group an all Negro unit. He has arrived at Godman Field Kentucky to lead the fighter bomber unit now equipped with B 25 bombers and P 47 fighters. The 477th Bombardment Group is destined for Pacific service.
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Washington
Benjamin O. Davis
Italy
477Th
War Department
Col. Davis
Godman Field
Patterson
447Th
Pacific
Thirty Four Go For Induction In Jackson County
Thirty four young men from Jackson County were sent to Indianapolis for final induction into the armed forces. They are all under thirty and recently completed pre induction physicals in Louisville. An official list naming those qualified and their assigned branches is expected at the county board within days.
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Jackson County
Indianapolis
Jackson County Selective Service Board
Armed Forces
Louisville
Selective Service Board
Man Hunted For Jennings Escape
State Police from Seymour along with city and county officers search southern Indiana for Ward Otto Langhoff 27 of Noblesville and Deputy who escaped Jennings county jail Vernon by prying a stove grate from his cell. He is armed with a .38 revolver and .22 rifle linked to a North Vernon service station robbery and fled through Sheriff Conrad Hughes home. Langhoff faces trial on second degree burglary robbery while armed and auto banditry with prior charges of second degree burglary in three counties.
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Seymour Post
Jackson County
Indiana
Otto Langhoff
Noblesville
Jennings County
Vernon
Langholt
North Vernon
Conrad Hughes
Hughes
Indianapolis
Langhoft
Jesse Rowan
Langholf
Jennings
Hamilton County
Scott County
Mrs Noble Smith Injured In Wallonia Truck Collision
Mrs Noble Smith of the Wallonia area suffered rib injuries when a truck carrying children collided with another truck Wednesday night south of Wallonia. State Police and Sheriff George We bel investigated.
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Noble Smith
Wallonia
George Webel
Divisions In Europe Reassigned By End Of War
Paris June 21 American divisions under General Eisenhower's command have been assigned new roles and future statuses. Nine divisions receive occupational duties while eleven are slated for return to the United States for Pacific redeployment. Other units take rear echelon chores or remain in Europe for occupation or supply tasks. The 82nd airborne is expected to garrison Berlin and several divisions prepare for redeployment via specific staging areas and prisoner duties. Discharges and transfers may alter personnel across all divisions. (Continued on page 8)
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Paris
Eisenhower
Europe
Supreme Headquarters
United States
Bremen
Austria
Mark W. Clark
Germany
U. S
Patton
Third Army
Wade H. Haislip
Seventh
82Nd Airborne
Berlin
66Th
Marseille
Pacific
106Th
13Th Armored
Army
Trial Under Way In Waldkoetter Liquor Sale Case
The state versus Mary Rose Waldkoetter is being tried for selling intoxicating liquor to minors after a county grand jury indictment. Dorothy Clark and Babe Allman waived arraignment on disorderly conduct at a tavern in Ewing, with Allman charged also with assault and battery and bond set. Edward S. Lustig represents them.
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Mary Rose Waldkoetter
Dorothy Clark
Babe Allman
Ewing
Edward S. Lustig
Allman
George W. Abel
Plan For Peace Collects Views Of 50 Nations
Fifty United Nations views were wrapped into a world peace document as the conference nears closure. President Truman, holidaying in Washington state, will speak Tuesday afternoon to formally end the gathering. Delegates continue technical sessions and speeches while a Australian Russian compromise empowers the General Assembly to discuss and recommend on any charter scope issue. The long struggle by small nations aimed to make the assembly a world town meeting influencing great powers on security affairs.
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San Francisco
United Nations
Truman
Washington State
United Nations Conference
General Assembly of Nations
Assembly
Poles Convicted by Soviet Court in Subversive Case
Twelve of sixteen Poles accused of subversive activities behind Red Army lines were convicted in a Soviet court and received sentences from four months to ten years. Three were acquitted and another’s trial was postponed. The heaviest sentence, ten years, fell on Maj. Gen. L Bronislaw Okulicki, commander of the underground home army after the Warsaw uprising. Jan Jankowski, deputy prime minister of the London Polish government in exile, led the Polish underground movement.
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Moscow
L. Bronislaw Okulicki
Warsaw
Jan Jankowski
London
Hitler Rumors Grow in Hamburg Over Death Confusion
Hamburg residents hear claims Hitler is in the city or nearby and may have been captured there amid uncertainty about his Berlin death. They question Berlin reports while noting Ribbentrop’s arrest in Hamburg and rumors of visitors to his rented apartment.
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Hamburg
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Berlin
Ribbentrop
Organized Resistance Crushed After 82 Days
Adm Chester W Nimitz announced the end of the Okinawa campaign after eighty two days of savage fighting giving U S forces a base 325 miles from Japan The battle cost 35116 Americans killed and wounded and the enemy more than 90000 dead Stilwell Buckner and MacArthur figures frame the final days as the last pockets held out amid heavy casualties and Kamikaze dives across the Okinawa struggle with Invasion aims to seal blockade and bomber bases for Japan surrender efforts
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Guam
Okinawa
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Japan
Pacific
U. S. Tenth Army
Douglas MacArthur
Manila
Joseph W. Stilwell
Tenth Army
Stilwell
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Buckner
U. S. Army
Navy
Nimitz
Forces converge near Liuchow amid combat in Chungking report
Chinese high command says units are six miles southwest of the Liuchow rail and road junction and another column ten and a half miles away on the Kweichow Kwangsi line. Battles rage as observers weigh a possible Japanese withdrawal from Liuchow.
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Liuchow
U. S. 14Th
Two Separate Forces Planned for Bombing Japan
General James H. Doolittle announced that strategic bombing of Japan will be conducted by two heavy forces the 20th and the 8th air fleets. The 8th will report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Colorado Springs while the 20th is headed by General Arnold with Deputy Giles.
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Doolittle
Japan
Washington
James H. Doolittle
8Th Air Force
Europe
Pacific
Joint Chiefs of Staff
20Th Air Force
H. H. Arnold
Barney Giles
21St Bomber Command
Saipan
Colorado Springs
Colo
8Th
Japanese Ministry Designs Smaller City Populations
The Japanese home affairs ministry orders that no city on Nippon exceed 3,000,000 residents. An Associated Press report notes U S Allied forces reportedly assist in reducing Tokyo and Osaka populations and a Tokyo broadcaster expresses hope the plan will speedily be achieved.
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Japanese Home Affairs Ministry
Nippon
U. S
Tokyo
Osaka
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Dr. Maier
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Eldon Wood
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