Former Herald Printer in Italy Letter From Pvt Weekley
Pvt Walter Weekley, a former Herald employee for over fourteen years, writes from the Anzio beachhead in Italy. He describes foxhole life, Africa travel, and conditions behind enemy lines while urging Americans to be thankful for the war effort and divine guidance.
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Walter Weekley
The
Herald
Italy
Weekley
Casablanca
Oran
Africa
Naples
Caserta
Santa Maria
Anzio
Former Sikeston Man In Three Invasions
Marion C. Market, cousin of Charlie Boyce and a mechanic at Boyce Equipment, is a Machinist Mate 3 jc in the Navy. He is one of three service men pictured in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on Monday. Market has taken part in three major invasions including Anzio in Italy and has fully recovered from tropical fever earlier this year. He has served for more than a year.
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Marion C. Market
Charlie Boyce
Boyce Equpment
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Market
Navy
Anzio
Italy
Herald Welcomed by Sikeston Soldier in England
John Sells, stationed in England for a year, wrote his mother Mrs. Gid Daniel that he receives The Herald regularly and enjoys it very much this week.
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John Sells
England
Gid Daniel
Herald
Two local Lieutenants in Marine Air Corps at Pearl Harbor
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Golladay hear their son Lieut Bill Golladay has arrived at Pearl Harbor where he serves as a C-47 instructor in the Marine Air Corps after a year at San Diego. His schoolmate Lieut Sonny Waggener, with Corsair duty, is at New Caledonia. Another Waggener son, D. B., trains at Athens, Georgia after 70 hours flying time.
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C. B. Golladay
Lieut
Bill Golladay
Pearl Harbor
Golladay
Marine Air Corps
California
San Diego Marine Base
Sonny Waggener
New Caledonia
Galladay
Lieut. Waggener
Corsair
Lynn Waggener
Moore Avenue
Waggener
Sikeston
Cape Girardeau State College
Cape Girardeau
Armed Services
Lieut Waggener
Navy
Navy Air Corps
Sioux City
Towa
D. B. Waggener
Athens
Naval Air Corps
Air Corps
Oklahoma
Sikeston Lieutenant Wounded by Shrapnel in Pacific Action
Lieut. George Johnson of Sikeston, son of Mrs Mamie Johnson now in Normal Illinois, serves with The Fighting 69th overseas. Mobilized 1941, he has spent 29 months abroad and recalls to mail from home and a Tarawa action where he and another soldier downed a Jap sniper in a tree before their CO killed another sniper.
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George Johnson
Mamie Johnson
Sikeston
Normal
69Th
Johnson
Marshall Group
National Guard
Curtis Tetley
Robi. Tetley
Matthews High School
Matthews
Lieut
Herald
Tarawa
Lieut. Johnson
Sikeston Girl With WAC Unit In Italy
Pvt. Bernice Husher of Sikeston has been stationed in Italy on duty with the Women's Army Corps. She is the second Sikeston girl overseas in World War II and the first local WAC. Her sister Lieut. Hita Clymer, an Army nurse, has served in the South Pacific.
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Pvt
Bernice Husher
John Husher
Sikeston
Italy
Women's Army Corps
Miss Husher
Hita Clymer
South Pacific
Wac
Sikeston War Couple Reunites Aboard Far Ship
Sikeston natives Russell Heath a chief pharmacist’s mate on an LST and Second Lieut Hita Clymer a Red Cross nurse met aboard a vessel near New Guinea where she was a dinner guest. Heath is son of Burl and Mrs. Heath. Clymer is daughter of Mrs. Walter Clymer and she awaits furlough denial was attributed to wartime policies. Heath also mentioned a recent visit with Sgt Harold Ancell in his area.
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Russell Heath
Hita Clymer
Red Cross
Sikeston
New Guinea
Young Heath
Burl Heath
Lieut. Clymer
Walter Clymer
Heath
Sgt
Harold Ancell
Hig Area
No plans made for Sikeston Country Club's future
T A Martin chair of the club board said no plans exist for the Sikeston Country Club's future. For three years the Cadet Club of Missouri Institute of Aeronautics ran the grounds as an auxiliary recreation area, a plan now discontinued. The club operated about a year before cadets took over.
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Sikeston Country Club
T. A. Martin
Cadet Club of Missouri Institute of Aeronautics
Former M I A Cadet Had Part In Invasion
Lieut Robert M Woodside a former M I A cadet told on a Sunday broadcast of his role in the invasion He described a crash landing in a wheat field behind German lines near the coast after his plane was hit by severe flak He crawled six hours to a British patrol and was sent back to England for a new fighter plane He had trained at Sikeston and Cape Girardeau State College before receiving wings at Eagle Pass Tex and going overseas last February.
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Lieut
Robert M. Woodside
R. E. Woodside
Parma
England
Woodside
State College
Cape Girardeau
Sikeston
Eagle Pass
Texas
Sturgeon Returns Home After Army Service in California
Staff Sergeant J. D. Sturgeon, longtime member of Company K, Missouri National Guard, is back in Sikeston after two years in California. He has been discharged and works in the Mitchell-Sharp Chevrolet parts department. He notes none of the Guard have been killed and praises the training. His brothers Ralph, John, and Charles Sturgeon are also serving abroad or in England.
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J. D. Sturgeon
Missouri National Guard
Sikeston
California
Army
Mitchell-Sharp Chevrolet Company
Sgt
Sturgeon
National Guard
Ralph Sturgeon
David Keasler
John Lett
England
John Sturgeon
Eighth Air Force
Charles Sturgeon
Rev Owen Ties Invasion With Former Pastorate
Rev Owen, local Baptist minister, notes his link to Allied invasion history through Gen Omar Bradley, once pastor at the First Baptist Church of Moberly Missouri during Owen's seven years there. Bradley’s military duties kept him away, though his family remained active in church life.
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Europe
RE. D. Owen
Omar N. Bridley
Round Forces
Gen. Bradley
First Baptist Church
Moberly
Owen
Sikeston
Bradley
St Louis Drives Broad Endorsement for Nicolay for Secretary of State
The St Louis Republican City Committee, nearly unanimously led by Elmer Nicolay, endorsed Nicolay for Secretary of State three months before the primary. Fifty of fifty five members backed Nicolay, with three out of city, one ill, one unavailable. The vote reflects St Louis demand for a city voice on the state ticket and follows Secretary Brown’s death.
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St. Louis
Elmer Nicolay
Nicolay
Fourteenth Ward
General Assembly
Republican City Committee
Big City
Nicolay Named to Fill Governor Donnell’s Vacancy
The Republican Committee proposed Nicolay for the governor appointment vacancy. Nicolay, a former General Assembly member, drew nationwide attention by sponsoring an anti third term for presidents resolution passed by the House. He fought the merit system plan, aiming to allocate jobs to Republicans under a Republican administration. Born 1901 in St Louis, he hails from a prominent German-American Republican family. His great uncle served as secretary to Abraham Lincoln and co-authored a Lincoln biography with John Hayes.
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Donnell
Nicolay
General Assembly
House of Representatives
St. Louis
Abraham Lincoln
John Hayes
Lincoln
ODD LOT SHOES RATION-FREE JULY PERIOD
The Office of Price Administration announced that during July 1 to July 29 odd lot shoes will be ration free. Men and women shoes of all sizes and youths and boys sizes 1 to 6 are included with special price reductions. Children misses and little boys shoes remain rationed.
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Office of Price Administration
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Missouri
United States
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Sikeston Girl Witn Wac
Itma Cleaners & Tailors
North Kingshighway
Sikeston, Missouri
Mack
Rev. Owen
Elmer -Nicolay
G.O.P. City Committee
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U. S. Treasury
Powell Insurance Agency
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