World This Week Highlights Pacific War Strife and Policy Shifts
Admiral Nimitz cites tenfold U.S. losses in Coral Sea and Midway, urging veterans to hold the line until reinforcements arrive. Washington signals draft-relief for dependents, while Ways and Means hikes a broad tax bill and revenue projections. War manpower targets show 10 million armed and 20 million wartime workers needed. price trends soften after Pearl Harbor. Air Training Corps aims to seed 16 to 18 year olds in school programs. MacArthur named outstanding father of 1942 by the National Father’s Day Committee. Mediterranean air operations report sinking Italian ships and damaging cruisers in four days of combat.
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Coral Sea
Midway
United States
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Douglas MacArthur
New Penney’s appoints E. E. Leighninger as manager
E. E. Leighninger arrived Monday to take charge at the J. C. Penney store in Sikes ton succeeding Paul Brown who left for Maryville Tennessee. Leighninger previously managed the Stanberry Penney store for eleven years and has spent seventeen years with the Penney organization. His wife and son Bob reside at 926 North Wings highway awaiting Mrs Brown and the daughter joining them in Tennessee.
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J. C. Penney Company
E. E. Leighninger
Paul Brown
Penney
Maryville
Tenn
Leighninger
Sikeston
Stanberry
Bob
Central College
Fayette
North Wings Highway
Brown
Tennessee
Ministers Urged To Back USO Drive In Scott County
Scott county ministers are asked to observe USO Sunday on June 21 and discuss the United States Service Organization drive starting June 22 in the county. Sikeston’s active drive begins June 25. USO unites six groups including YMCA, Catholic Community Service, Salvation Army, YWCA, Jewish Welfare Board and National Travelers Aid. Clergy are urged to mobilize congregations. J A Sutterfield of Sikeston leads drive planning.
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Scott County
USO
United States Service Organization
Sikeston
Young Men's Christian Association
National Catholic Community Service
Salvation Army
Young Women's Christian Association
Jewish Welfare Board
National Travelers’ Aid Association
County Ration Boards Meet in Sikeston Today
War price and rationing boards from seven Southeast Missouri counties gather in Sikeston for a round table conference on price administration. Office of Price Administration district representatives Alfred K. Frost Courtney Wells Alfred K Wade and Hugh Tighe preside with county delegates from Scott Stoddard Pemiscot New Madrid Mississippi Cape Girardeau and Dunklin counties attending.
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War Price and Rationing Boards
Millsouri
Sikeston
Office of Price Administration
Alfred K. Frost
Courtney Wells
Dallas
Texas
Alfred K. Wade
Hugh Tighe
St Louis
Scott County
Tom Scott
C. D. Matthews III
J. R. Stephens
SiKESTON Markets Prices for grains and poultry listed
The SiKeston market page shows Wheat No 2 at 1 05 per bu Corn white No 2 at 90 cents per bu Corn yellow No 2 at 79 cents per bu Oats per bu Barley per bu 46 cents Hens heavy breed per lb 15 cents Leghorn Hens 12 cents Roosters listed.
Air Raid Training To Start Tuesday In Scott County
Scott County residents are set for civilian defense training starting Tuesday at the Armory. The 7:45 pm session opens an initial six week course with about 75 signups, covering first aid fire defense gas defense and general topics. Instructors include Dr. E J Nienstedt Milburn Arbaugh and W A Myers.
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Scott County
Frst
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
W. A Myers
E. J. Nienstedt
Milburn Arbaugh
Nienstedt
Red Cross
Arbaugh
Sikeston
Bureau of Mines
Myers
Fulton
G. W. H. Presnell
County Defense Staff
C. Scott
Grover Baker
C. E. Felker
Z. E. McAmis
Paul R. Bumbarger
Ward Denman
Frank Miller
Sam C. Wilcox
Chase Hi. Butler
Nathan Yoffie
Lee Bowman
C. J. Jameson
Harry Dover
John J
Charles Moose
Madison Zarecor
Melvin Dace
H. O. Fichte
Mary Ross Rikes
P. J. Schlosser
Jesse W Bohannon
Harry O. Sexton
Max Graber
John J. Lair
Murray Phillips
Leland Hill
H. B. Propst
L. L. Propst
A. C. Taylor
H. R. Stram
R. D Proctor
J. L. Morrison
W. Fi. Sikes
I. O. Weinmann
M. M. Beck
Louie Largent
John A. Moll
R. C. Boston
Fred Cooley
Bill van Hore
Spurlin Beck
H G. Weeks
Geo. L. Hale
A. E. Dunagan
John L Goetz
T. A. Martin
Henry Meldrum
American Legion
Legion
Sevastopol Fortifications Halt German Assaults
Sevastopol and Balaklava withstood renewed German offensive on the Black Sea last night. The report says the German attacks surpassed earlier months in fury, yet Russian forces maintained command and defended the last ports.
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Sevastopol
Balaklava
Germany
Black Sea
Robert A Dempster Conducted Business in Bloomfield
Robert A Dempster engaged in a business transaction in Bloomfield yesterday. This brief note records the activity in the local commerce ledger.
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Robert A. Dempster
Bloomfield
New Drug Store Opens in Sikeston
Sikeston welcomes Jones Drugs, a newly remodeled Walgreen agency, at the Front Street site formerly Ward’s Grocery. John P. Jones owns and manages the store with Mrs. Jones over cosmetics, H W Phillips in charge of prescriptions, and a staff including Miss Jewell Hughes and Harvey Dismore. The shop offers tobacco, stationery, appliances, cameras, cosmetics, fountain service with Borden’s ice cream, and more. L. R. Saunders of Walgreen co assists in the opening.
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Sikeston
Walgreen
Jones Drugs
Front Street
Ward
John P. Jones
Jones
H. W. Phillips
Borden
L. R. Saunders
Walgreen Company
Missour Institute of Aeronautics Nears Completion
Construction at the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics advances rapidly with new buildings to be completed and occupied within 30 days per Col Ralph C. Rockwood. An auxiliary field will open once cover crops mature, while Matthews field hangars are nearly finished but currently inactive.
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Missour Institute of Aeronautics
Ralph C. Rockwood
Matthews Field
Sportsmen to Meet at Poplar Bluff
Southeast Missouri sportsmen will gather with the State Conservation Commission in Poplar Bluff on Saturday June 20 for a 1:30 p.m. hearing on the federal proposal to create a Mingo area waterfowl refuge and to gauge public sentiment. Additional wildlife topics of local interest will be discussed and the meeting is expected to conclude by four o'clock.
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Southeast Missouri
State Conservation Commission
Poplar Bluff
Mingo
Weather Notes for Southeast Missouri Summer Preview
Southeast Missouri sees a moderating trend with June 21 marking the solstice. Recent days remained chilly and damp with frequent rain and low temperatures around 50 degrees while highs barely surpassed 75, after a 91 degree peak on June 12.
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Missouri
Rains Damage Crops Across Sikeston District
Farmers report alfalfa, barley and wheat harmed by excess moisture while lespedera and soybeans stay strong. Wheat withered, rust noted in some fields as two women and two girls harvest cotton on the ridge and fields in lowlands drown. Corn varies from waist high to yellow, with plowing blocked. overall outlook remains bleak until sun returns.
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Sikeston
Missouri
WPB to launch salvage campaign for cooking fats
The War Production Board will start a salvage drive in early July to recover wasted household fats. The aim is to obtain over half a million pounds annually to supply glycerine for explosives, using fats collected from American kitchens.
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War Production Board
WPB
Lions to Secure Rubber Scrap Drive in Sikeston
Lions Club leads a county wide scrap rubber drive in Sikeston to collect tires tubes and other rubber items for wartime use. Boy Scouts will canvass north of the Missouri Pacific tracks Saturday and south Sikeston next on a house to house basis. Gas stations will pay a penny a pound for scrap rubber and will forward all proceeds to relief and Red Cross programs.
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Skeston
Sikeston
The
Lions Club
B B. Tatum
Clay Mitchell
A. M. Jackson
Missouri Pacific
Tatum
C. Mattingly
Oran
Scott County
US O
Army Relief
Navy Relief
American Red Cross
Sugar Stamp Values Raised for Four Weeks
The value of sugar stamps 5 and 6 rose to two pounds each and will now cover four weeks instead of two, extending rationing duration accordingly.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington
Senate
House
House Ways and Means Committee
War Manpower Commission
Pearl Harbor
Air Training Corps of America
Hugh Beirne
National Association of Retail Druggists
United States Army Air Force
Royal Air Force
Mediterranean
Penney’'S
J. A. Sutterfield
Sikeston Markets
New Drug Store
NEW Walgreen Drug Store
O. P. Jones
Lions
Boy Scouts
WSPAE
Pepe Peter EI
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