World This Week Highlights From War to Peace Roles
Funeral services were held in Fredericktown for Carl Crow 61 a former editor and author who died in New York He spent 16 years in China and wrote books on China including 400 Million Customs and I Speak for China Japan's wet seasons and typhoon patterns are noted Eisenhower receives the Jeweled Order for Victory from Zhukov and is expected to head Allied forces in Europe Therapeutic aquatics at O'Reilly General Hospital Missouri aid to returning GIs includes new discharge scores and vast prisoner of war plans Under Geneva Convention guidelines 600 000 POWs to labor in Europe and in France Okinawa graves reveal early American landings Peregory describe historic voyages Bonomi resigns to be replaced by De Gasperi Truman signals Beisenhower to Europe as Allied Germany rep
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Fredericktown
Carl Crow
New York
Crow
China
The
China Press
Shanghai
Confucius
United States
Europe
Robert J. Gill
France
Britain
Gil
War Bond Show by Coast Guard Band Saturday
Sikeston awaits the United States Coast Guard Band this Saturday as hundreds of E bonds have already been bought. Tickets and bond pledges are sold at banks post offices and downtown stores with free admission for service members. The event at Sikeston Armory features the road to Tokyo with a full Coast Guard unit including the Guardsmen ensembles and former top-name musicians.
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Sikeston
United States Coast Guard
Sikeston Armory
Tokyo
J. O. Knupp
Charles Butler
Legion Park
Scott County
Coast Guard
Naval District
George Racford Sais
Tommy Tucker
Teddy Powell
Bobby Byrne
Lawrence Welk
Civic Opera
Guardsmen
Coast Guard Band
William Max Muller
LST
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Jack Miller
Dave Wright
Roger Pryor
George Wamser
George King
Sherman Hayes
Louis Kittler
Hittler
Tony Dipardo
Brad Maples
Jean Chard
James Halloman
Ray Barbee
Roy Niemeiller
Edward
Coast Guard Band to Play in Sikeston Saturday Night
Noted band with bassist Bayer and Ray Olsen as vocalist brings enthusiasm to Sikeston at 8 pm Saturday. Coast Guard Band rally and musical show expected big turnout with radio airings on KMOX. Local schedule includes sunrise salute at 6 am, news at 7:45, spot announcements, War Bond Show at 1:30 pm, and barn dance finale at 10:30 pm.
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Bayer
Vincent Lopez
Sherman Hayes
Ray Olsen
Dell Courtney
Ray Herbee
Red Skelton
Anson Weeks
Ben Bernie
Coast Guard
Tokyo
Silkeston
St. Louis
KMOX
Sikeston
Dick Slack
Life Insurance Meeting Tomorrow
The Tri-County Life Underwriters Association sponsors a 7:30 p.m. meeting in the Sikeston Armory American Legion room to discuss United States Government Life Insurance including conversion options. George C. Seybold of the Veterans Administration will explain forms. service organization members are urged to attend. Mrs. Charles Osborne returns to her parents home in Sikeston after visiting Atlanta.
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United States
Tri-County Life Underwriters Association
American Legion
Sikeston Armory
The
Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
George C. Seybold
Veterans’ Administration Office
Charles Osborne
Atlanta
L. BE. Moore
Barn and Equipment Destroyed by Night Lightning
A large barn on the Frank Van Horne farm northwest of Sikes ton burned last Thursday afternoon with almost total loss. About $3,000 in value was ruined, and little insurance was carried. The barn housed a new combine an ensilage cutter a cultivator and other gear along with baled straw. Lightning is believed to have started the fire.
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Frank van Horne
Sikeston
van Horne
Aves
Chief Wallace Seizes Wanted Man in Record Time
Police chief Harold Wallace took custody of Theodore Mite within 30 minutes of a notification from Ann Arbor police that a desertion suspect was in Sikeston. Hite, driving for City Cab, had been in the city for weeks. detective Albert I. Heusel arranged his return to Ann Arbor after a six month chase.
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Sikeston
Harold Wallace
Wallace
Ann Arbor
Theodore Mite
City
Albert I. Heusel
Hite
Wallace Hite
Flood Threats Persist as Mississippi Falls at St Louis
Southeast Missouri tutors monitor the Mississippi as flood fears ease with a 34.8 foot level in St. Louis and predicted cresting along Cape Girardeau Cairo New Madrid and rural roads. Heavy rain furthers flood risk. Route 13 remains closed at one point while ferries reopen after high water.
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EF. J. Magruder
River Authority
Cape Girardeau
Cairo
New Madrid
Fabick Takes Possession of Huge New Plane
Joe Wright of Fabiole Bros Equipment Co. took charge of a five passenger Cessna bought from the Defense Plant Corporation at Harvey Parks Airport Sikeston. Wright, a former commercial flyer with 7500 hours, will fly the plane to Parks Airport East St. Louis for painting and licensing before use transporting company officials. The two 2500 horsepower motors and purchase price of 8500 dollars mark the craft as a powerful civilian aircraft.
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Joe Wright
Fabiole Bros. Equipment Company
Sikeston
Defense Plant Corporation
Harvey Parks
Joe Griffith
Fabick
Wright
Parks Airport
East St. Louis
Cessna
War Bond Drive Reaches 77 Percent of Goal
Seventh War Loan drive bond sales to individuals total $2,448,000,000, 61 percent of the $4,000,000,000 target, with other individual sales at $2,958,000,000 bringing total to $5,397,000,000. A. C. Barrett, city clerk, confined to his home this week due to illness.
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A. C. Barrett
Bloody Okinawa Fight Continues Invasion Presses Toward End
The Okinawa campaign nears two weeks beyond its 75 day mark as American forces report about 10 to 15 days more of fighting. U S Marines claim vast enemy losses, with 70 000 Japanese dead to date and 150 dead at a pocketed Oroku hospital. Seventh Division advances up the Yaeju escarpment while First Division Marines push reinforcements over Whunmsh Bridge amid heavy fire.
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Okinawa
Japan
Oroku
Sixth Marine Division
Doushboys
Yaeju
First Div Iston
Whunmsh Bridge
Italian War Prisoner Faces Court Martial
An Italian prisoner of war is held at Weingarten Mo guardhouse after Mrs Pratt of Sikeston Missouri identified him as the intruder in her home early Sunday morning The incident occurred near a camp where volunteers labored on an agricultural project Investigating officers from the Seventh Army Corps pursue court martial proceedings while the prisoner claims he meant no harm and does not know how he entered the house
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Sikeston
Herald
Seventh Army Corps
Omaha
Nebraska
Omahla
Neb
Weingarten
Tth Service Command
Wm. H. Pratt
Kitcnen
Pratt
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Gregory K. Zhukov
O’reilly General Hospital
Springfield
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Naha
Matthew C. Perry
Naha Harbor
Bay of Japan
Perry
Ivanoe Bonomi
Prince Humbert
Alcide de Gasperi
Truman
Gen. Beisenhower
Allied Control Council For
Germany
United States Coast Guard Band
Ray Olsen Solois
George Rachford
Chief Wallace
Missouri
Butler County
Popliar Bluff
Campbell
Missouri State Highway Department
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