NEWS OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM
Local families note a steady stream of service members and relatives stationed nationwide. Cpl. Howard Wilson, likely in Australia, writes home. Pvt. Edward Leech and Pvt. Loomis Mayfield Jr. visit their families while serving abroad. Lt. Harold Swanagan and Mrs. Swanagan visit Kansas. Master Sergeant Marvin Rayburn is in Miami. Other updates place Cpl. Floyd Hinkle in New Guinea, David Marshall with the Navy, Pvt. Frank Stevens near Traux Field Wisconsin, and Flight Officer Donald Chisholm with the Air Transport Command in Montana. Additional relatives are split between Camp Polk Louisiana, Camp Barkeley Texas, Great Falls Montana, England, Italy, and the Pacific theater, with promotions, furloughs, and assignments noted.
War service notes from Sikeston area families during WWII
Mrs. Sherman Boone of Sikeston visits her Navy husband first class petty officer in Newport R I. Sgt. Darwin Reed of Morehouse serves in the South Pacific with Marine Aircraft as an engineering clerk and saw Guadalcanal action. Reed’s brother Sgt. Dewell Reed, now in Bermuda, will shift to the states mid summer. R. C. Kiehne Jr. returns from India and North Africa to his parents in Sikeston amid overseas duty. His brother Kuehne, Army Air Corps, left May 27 1942 for overseas and two years later returns. His other brother Second Lieut. Howard Kuehne serves in England and may have landed on D Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Boone of
Sikeston
Newport
R. 1
Navy
Darwin Reed
Mary Reed
Morehouse
South Pacific
Reed
Guadalcanal
Sgt. Reed
Morehouse High School
Dewell Reed
Bermuda
States
R. C. Kiehne Jr
India
North Africa
C. Kiehne
East Gladys Street
Kuehne
Army Air Corps
United States
Howard Kuehne
England
D-Day
Kiehne
Paul Kiehne
Cape Girardeau
Five Neal Brothers Serving Their Country
Five Neal brothers from Morehouse Sikeston and Cape Girardeau are serving in the U S Army and are stationed in England except for two who are in Italy and Florida. Sgt James R Neal Sgt Charles Neal and Cpl Wilbert M Neal Pvt K D Neal and Pfc Milton M Neal form the family contingent. Sikeston Soldiers Enjoyed Meal Together. Anis Couch son of Mr and Mrs George Couch Sikeston has received a medical discharge from the Army and will work in defense in Cairo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Story
Matthews
Sgt
Kestner Story
85Th Division
Italy
Neal
W K. Neal
Morehouse
James R Neal
Charles Neal
Cpl
Wilbert M Neal
K. D. Neal
Cape Girardeau
Milton M. Neal
Sikeston
Drew Field
Fla
England
Anis Couch
George Couch
Cairo
Couch
Sheppard Field
Texas
C D Matthews 3d
Sikeston Man Harold Cooper Promoted in England
Harold L Cooper of Sikeston Missouri has been promoted to corporal at a Ninth Troop Command Base in England. A radio operator and son of Mr and Mrs Charles H Cooper of 219 William Street, he previously worked as a sheet metal mechanic for Curtis Wright before enlisting in 1942. After training he joined the Army Air Force Technical School in Sioux Falls South Dakota and departed for overseas duty in early 1944 with the Ninth Air Force, part of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. Stevens
C. Stevens
Sikeston
Headquarters Technical School
Army Air Forces Training Command
Traux Field
Madison
Wisconsin
Alfred L. Jewett
Stevens
Air Force
Harold L Cooper
Missouri
Ninth Troop
Ninth Air Force
England
U. S
Allied Expeditionary Air Force
Two Days at Camp Poem by Army Recruits
A soldier writes of boot camp life with long hikes and heavy packs. The verse follows weary recruits from dawn drills to 15 mile marches and blistered feet, ending with orders to rest before another full day begins. The narrator notes the author is a U S soldier in training in the states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
States
Farmers Act on Wheat Subsidy Repair of Rates Cited
Lyman Bowman of Scott County Milling says farm groups civic clubs corrected unfair soft hard wheat subsidy differentials. Protests in June reduced the gap to within one cent per bushel, narrowing a December 1034 cent gap that grew to 13 or 14 cents by spring. The move allows grain interests to pay farmers at least 18 cents more per bushel for soft wheat than before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyman Bowman
Scott County Milling Company
Bowman
OPA
Farm Bureau
National Administration
Washington
Cable Delayed One Week Cables Home From Overseas
Sergeant T. Marshall had messaged his parents Mr and Mrs Dean Marshall that he arrived overseas safe and well. The connecting cable was delayed by one week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
sjSgt
T. Marshall
Dean Marshall
Jackson minister will address business men
Rev. W. L Myers, pastor of McKendree Methodist Church in Jackson, will speak at Sikeston Chamber of Commerce meeting at Dunn Hotel at 7 pm Monday. T. A. Martin will preside over the dinner. Myers topics include Community Problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L Myers
McKendree Methodist Church
Jackson
Sikeston Chamber of Commerce
Dunn Hotel
Rev Myers
Jackson Church
Rotary Clubs
T. A. Martin
Chamber of Commerce
Frisco Leases Lines of Motor Transport
The Motor Transport Company leases its trucking business to Frisco Railroad Company effective this week due to supply and labor shortages. Motor Transport retains its franchise to operate trucks, and the agreement is a joint-action contract with Frisco. Frisco station becomes the new freight depot terminal. Motor Transport will continue hauling gasoline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Motor Transport Company
Frisco Railroad Company
Frisco
Frmseco
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. W. Marshall
Howard Wilson
Marine Corps
Australia
Cpl. Wilson
Pvt
Edward Leech
Jean Wilson
Loomis Mayfield Jr
Camp Campbell, Ky
Tris Marshall
The
Medical Corps of the Army
Camp Barkeley, Texas
Harold Swanagan
Air Corps
Garden City
Kansas
Marvin Rayburn
Walter Rayburn
Army Air Base
Miami, Fla
Floyd Hinkle
Engineering Corps of the Army
New Guinea
David Marshall
United States Navy
L T. Marshall
Ilima
Time Jimplicate
Donald Wm. Chisholm
7Th
Air Transport Command
Great Falls
Montana
Oscar Miller
United States Engineers
Camp Polk
Virginia
W. C. Andrews
Richard Asher
Willis Andrews
Pacific
J. C. Throop
Barkeley, Texas
John Ponder
U. S Coast Guard
St Louis
B. K. Ponder
Leo Forbis
U. S. Army
F. M. Forbis
Alaska
Virgil Davis
U. S. Navy
Oran
Vernon Buck
Camp McCain
Miss
Maggie Buck
Dorman Buck
Commerce
John Paul Stewart
Semo Motor Company
Naval Reserve
Camp Wallace
Phillip Greer
Canalou
Sikeston Man
L. C. Cook
Tank Corps
Camp Campbell
Reece Matthews
Meridian
Aiken
S. C
F. & M. Oilco
Malone Avenue
Ranney Street
Sikeston, Missouri
Farmers Act On Wheat Subsidy
Ferguson
Walton & Williams Motor Co
Ford Tractor
West Malone Sikeston, Missouri
DeWint Zarkor
Riley Bray
Signal Corps
Dwight McAdoo
Ernest T. Reed
Seabees
William Walker
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