World War II Leaders and War Spend Dominate This Week
President Truman nominates Patton and Hodges as full generals with Eisenhower in command. Federal Loan Administrator Snyder named. Captures include Prince August Wilhelm and other Nazi leaders. Treasury reports war costs exceed 70 billion since July 1944, debt at 235.324 billion. Ernie Pyle killed in the Pacific. Roosevelt Memorial Bridge dedicated on Rhine. Mrs. Roosevelt proposed for UN Security Conference. Nazi leader Paul Hinkler commits suicide as troops close in. France frees about one million prisoners and deportees. Wyoming and Colorado endure heavy snowfall and cold snaps disrupting travel and farming.
U.S. Adjusted to New Leadership
The United States transitioned swiftly from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman after FDR’s death in Warm Springs Georgia. Truman, born to modest means in Missouri, assumed the presidency as allied leaders honored the late president. Allied leaders and foreign ministers attended the funeral while German Gestapo headquarters reactive efforts fell to American forces near Erfurt.
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United States
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
America
Hyde Park
Harvard University
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
New York City
Roosevelt
New York Senate
Navy
Josephus Daniels
New York
Great of All Lands
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
Winston Churchill
Patton's Third Army enters Sudetenland near Prague
Allied forces under General Patton drive into Sudetenland as 87 miles from Prague. Leipzig and Magdeburg liberated, Nuernberg breached with German resistance. British tanks reach near Hamburg. Nazi defenses flood lines with Zuider Zee waters. Mindanao and Okinawa actions continue. Mindanao beachhead expands to 35 miles. MacArthur notes guerrilla support.
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Sudetensland
George S. Patton Jr
Third
Prague
Hitler
Sudetenland
Asch
Ninetieth Infantry Division
Patton
Chemnitz
Lit
Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
Leipzig
Germany
Magdeburg
Elbe
Nuernberg
Duesseldorf
Bavarian Alps
Alexander M. Patch
Second Army
Hamburg
Holland
Zuider Zee
Okinawa
Hee-Aye
Twenty- Fourth
Mindanao
Philippines
Moro Gulf
General MacArthur
Farm Labor Needs Discussed in Scott County Meeting
Representatives of farm labor classes met in Benton under the Scott County Labor Committee to determine prevailing wage scales before applying for Prisoner of War labor assistance. County wage reports show Sikeston averages $3.00 daily, with the north end at $2.00 to $2.50. cotton-picking wages may target $2.00 per hundred.
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Scott County
Benton
Scott County Labor Committee
W. H. Sikes
Sikeston
Ed Swartz
W F Dennis
Diehrstadt
Joe Caldwell
Doctor Presnell Improves at Sikeston Mayor Restores Health
Dr G W H Presnell mayor of Sikeston shows improvement after a week at home. Relatives visiting include Mrs M E Koesterer and Al Bower from St Louis and Conly Purcell from Louisville Ky.
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G W H Presnell
Sikeston
Presnell
M E_ Koesterer
al Bower
St. Louis
Conly Purcell
Louisville
President Truman Career From Farm to White House
A compact chronology traces Harry S Truman from birth in Lamar Missouri in 1884 through school, early jobs, military service, business ventures, and political rise culminating in his 1945 presidency. It lists key dates for his farming years, WWI service, marriage, roles as county judge and senator, and ascent to vice president then president.
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President Truman
White House
Drouth Halts Mail To Sikeston Over Weekend
A flooding wash-out on Frisco tracks near Ste Genevieve delayed Sikeston mail for about 18 hours. The 10:30 St Louis train backed up and highway floods closed routes, forcing workers to handle a flood of letters until Sunday night. Postmaster Pleas Malcolm urges street addresses to ensure delivery. Activities included funeral services for A. J. Butler in Roo Run.
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Ste Genevieve
St Louis
Poplar Blatt
Frisco Transportation Company
Poplar Bluff
Black River
Wappapella Lake
Cairo
Malcolm
Tuberculosis Group to Meet in Benton Court House
The Scott County Tuberculosis Association will hold an important meeting at the Court House in Benton tomorrow night April 20 at 8 o'clock. President Jos A Leslie of Sikeston announces the public physicians school superintendents teachers pastors and all who are interested in tuberculosis are invited. Discussions include control of tuberculosis in Scott County making a patch skin test in county schools adding an outpatient wing to the Sikeston postwar hospital and securing a tubercular sanitorium. Miss Hettie Green of St Louis will lead the round table with other topics and visitors Sue Tanner and Alice Van Horne of William Woods College Fulton Mo will be there tonight for a brief visit.
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Scott County Tuberculosis Association
Court House
Benton
Jos. A. Leslie
Sikeston
Hettie Green
St. Louis
State Association Office
Scott County
Leslie
Used Clothing Pick Up Saturday in Sikeston
Sikeston Boy Scouts and Cubs plan a clothing collection this Saturday April 21 after rain prevented last week's drive. Volunteers will visit every house to reach a town quota of 10000 pounds of usable clothing for war devastated regions, with each person urged to donate at least five pounds.
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Sikeston Boy Scouts
Gb Niswonger
Sikeston Charmian
Sikeston
District roads still blocked by high water in multiple counties
Southeast Missouri roads remain shut due to flooding across New Madrid Mississippi Cutler Blaft and Dunlin counties with Route K P SAS U Nw and 53 closures. Wayne Highway 67 north of New Greenville also affected. The list appears in the state highway department morning report.
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State Highway Department
New Madrid
Mississippi
Cutler
Poplar Blaft
Dunidin
Campbell
Wayne County
New Greenville
Grover Baker Named New Member of Sikeston Board
Sikeston city council at a special meeting named Grover Baker land owner and cotton gin operator to the Board of Public Works to fill the unexpired term of the late Dr A A Mayfield through April 1946. Other board members are Jo Cox BEP Coleman Jr and Lyman R Bowman. Mayor Presnell announced the appointment and council confirmed it. meeting held at Presnell’s home due to illness. Marvin Carroll elected council chairman succeeding KMooHO Smith.
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Grover Baker
Board of Public Works
Sikeston
G. W. H. Presnell
Baker
Presnell
A. A. Mayfield
Dr. Mayfield
Sikeston Municipal Light and Power Plant
Jo. Cox
Bep Coleman Jr
Lyman R. Bowman
Marvin Carroll
Kmooho Smith
Moor
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Drouth
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Roo Run
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