World This Week Highlights From Wartime Britain And Germany
The blackout ends in Moscow as May Day approaches with lights for children under four. A memorial in London adds a children’s ward at St Thomas Hospital. A German factory produces typewriters in captured facilities for the U.S. Army, with over two thousand made and capacity rising. Allied forces in Landsberg remove a Hitler tablet. a prison shrine is partially disturbed. Mrs. Harper Sibley of Rochester is named American mother of 1945. Ruth Summers, 16, survives a heart wound after surgery. Mrs. Truman will not hold press conferences as first lady, fundraising with a personal secretary. 800,000 five cent UN stamps go on sale in San Francisco. nationwide 25 million more. War Production Board orders full rationing of cars, motorcycles, and domestic refrigerators after V E Day. Sister Elizabeth Kenny travels to Washington to present methods before Congress and Illinois lawmakers show support for a Kenny institute.
Outbreak of Burglaries Puzzles Local Police
City police are investigating two robberies from last week, a break in at Ray's Grocery on East Center Street and a residence on North Kings Highway. Stolen items include about $7 in change, clothing, and a wrist watch. A burglary also damaged a St Francis Xavier church money box with small change taken. Police link the church theft to a similar Cape Girardeau case.
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Ray
East Center Street
W. H. Sikes
North Kingshighway
Sikes
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Cape Girardeau
Furlough for Infantry as They Return Home
Relatives of Sikeston men in the Infantry learn from the International News Service that doughboys fighting in Europe will receive home furloughs before heading to the Pacific. The policy applies to Infantry Artillery and Armored Forces with furloughs followed by arrival at training centers to adapt for the Far East.
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Sikeston
Europe
Germany
United States
Tokyo
International News Service
Normandy
Far East
Boy Scouts to Camp at Benton District Camporee
Scouts from Sikeston Vanclyser Morley Benton Miner Morehouse Canalou Charter Oak Matthews meet at Benton for the annual district camporee. The two day program ends with a Court of Honor at the Benton Community House. Activities include tent setup, cookouts, camp fire, star study, first aid relay, signaling, and tracking with ribbons awarded by patrol performance.
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Sikeston
Vanclyser
Morley
Benton
Miner
Morehouse
Canalou
Charter Oak
Matthews
H. E. Niswonger
Sikeston Tops In Safety Last Year
Sikeston is named by Highway News as one of four Missouri towns to have no traffic fatalities in all of 1944. The honor also goes to Trenton Brookfield and Washington, reflecting safe driving and pedestrian habits citywide. Mrs Thomas Gwaltney will travel to Cape Girardeau for medical care tomorrow.
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Sikeston
Highway News
Missouri State Highway Department
Missouri
Sikestone
Trenton
Brookfield
Washington
Thomas Gwaltney
Cape Girardeau
Sunday World War II Updates From Europe and Asia
Forces of the Seventh American Army entered Munich and freed 110000 Germans including 11000 Americans at Moosburg. Austria forms government with Karl Renner as chancellor. Fifth Army moves into Milan Como and Genoa Venice as Berlin airlift fails to halt Soviet advance. USS Comfort damaged. 58 dead or wounded. Rangoon near fall. Burma liberation near. Washington earthquake felt in Washington state. Laval ready to surrender. Franklin D Roosevelt carrier launched. Eleanor Roosevelt speaks. Mussolini bodies displayed in Milan.
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Munich
Mooseburg
Austria
Karl Renner
Renner
Fifth Army
Milan
Como
Italy
Genoa
Venice
Berlin
Comfort
Okinawa
Rangoon
Burma
Washington
Pierre de Laval
Switzerland
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Forrestal
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Benito Mussolini
Lake Como
Radio broadcast to start Mighty Seventh drive in Missouri
A Sunday afternoon radio event from KFVS Cape Girardeau will launch the Mighty Seventh War Loan drive. District Chairman Clyde B Harris directs the 2 15 to 3 15 pm program featuring Major Boston Rudolph of Cape Girardeau and county leaders delivering brief talks with musical interludes to boost drive plans.
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Missouri
Cape Girardeau
KFVS
Clyde B. Harris
Boston Rudolph
Former Italian dictator Mussolini executed by partisans
Benito Mussolini the former Italian dictator was executed by partisan forces in northern Italy on a Saturday afternoon. His body and those of his mistress and 16 other Fascists were publicly displayed in Milan, with reports of later placement in a Milan shop window. The executions came after a partisan seizure near Lake Como as they tried to flee toward Switzerland. a firing squad carried out a swift, unofficial trial. His son-in-law Count Ciano had been executed in Verona about a year and four months earlier. Mussolini allegedly refused his daughter Edda’s pleas to spare Ciano.
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Benito Mussolini
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Milan
Mussolini
Lake Como
Switzerland
Count Ciano
Verona
Sikeston Forms Steering Committee for Airport Plans
A Sikeston committee, chaired by Jos L Matthews, forms to guide airport efforts contacting local service and civic groups. It will recruit a larger panel to select a site of 140 to 160 acres, arrange financing, and begin initial work to attract Federal and State aid after the war. Oliver L Parks of St Louis urged early groundwork to join his feeder airline network with St Louis and Memphis routes. Eugene V Fryehoff, Missouri aviation head, also spoke, pledging support for Sikeston’s aviation drive.
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Sikeston
Oliver L. Parks
St. Louis
Parks
Civilian Aeronautics Authority
Memphis
Eugene V. Fryehoff
Missouri
Mr. Parks
Fryehoff
Aviation Committee
New Grocery Store Building Nears Completion on Handy Street
A concrete block building with living quarters above is nearing completion on South Handy street one block south of Highway 60. Luther Jines, owner, plans to operate the store.
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Handy Street
Highway 60
Luther Jines
Milestones in Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
Important dates trace Hitler life and Nazi rise through events from his 1889 birth to his reported death on May 1 1945. Chronology lists key moments: 1933 chancellorship, 1939 war declaration, 1945 Allied advances and meeting at Elbe. Includes invasions, battles, and regime actions with dates and places.
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Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Munich
Germany
Reichstag
Rhineland
Austria
Britain
France
Italy
Poland
West
England
Russia
United States
Stalingrad
French North Africa
Tunisian
Rhine
Berlin
Elbe River
Negro’s scheme lands man in Benton jail in Scott County
Roosevelt Artis a Negro of Sikeston claimed a bicycle theft ruse would repay. Police report say Artis stole Riley Gross’s bike and offered to return it for $5. Gross paid $2 and alerted authorities, leading to Artis’s arrest in Benton jail.
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Roosevelt Artis
Sikeston
Artis
Scott County
Benton
Riley Gross
Gross
One Rabbit Wins Nine Awards at LaMoine Show
Mr and Mrs W C Warren returned from McComb Illinois where they attended the LaMoine Rabbit Show last Friday and Saturday. Warren entered a senior buck rabbit that earned nine awards among 500 entries.
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W. C. Warren
McCombd
Warren
East Sikeston
Will Attend Rites for Festus Relative
Mrs H J Welsh traveled to Festus Missouri this afternoon to attend funeral services at the Methodist church at 2:30 Friday for her brother in law Walter Welsh who died Tuesday He owned a Festus mercantile business for nearly four decades and was a life long Methodist He was preceded in death by brothers Eugene of Festus 1941 and Henry J Welsh of Sikeston 1942 Survivors include brother Charles Welsh seriously ill and sister Mrs HB Drake both of Festus
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H. J. Welsh
Festus
Walter Welsh
Welsh
Methodist Church
Eugene
Henry J. Welsh
Carroll Guests Are Welcomed By W Q Carroll Family
Mrs. R F Carroll of Frederick town and Dr F Eugene Carroll of Monroe City Missouri visit their son and brother W Q Carroll and wife as honored guests in a family gathering.
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R. F. Carroll
Fredericktown
F. Eugene Carroll
Monroe City, Mo
W. Qo.carroll
Allies Plan for Beaten Germany
Washington reports the Allies will implement a long prepared program after Germany's surrender. Immediate actions include armistice for German forces, zone-wise occupation by Soviet American French and British troops, suppression of underground resistance and war criminals, safeguards against looting, and a temporary Allied cabinet to govern until a German government is formed.
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Washington
Germany
No word from man in Moosburg camp
Mrs Ruth Seymour, wife of Pvt Edward Seymour, held at Moosburg in Bavaria, had not yet heard of his liberation. Moosburg housed about 110000 prisoners including 11000 Americans and was liberated by American forces earlier this week. Seymour was captured by Germans on July 4, 1944. Mrs F A Bell to visit Cape Girardeau this weekend.
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Ruth Seymour
Pvt
Edward Seymour
Moosburg
Bavaria
Seymour
Rural bond drive names district chairmen
H. M. Zarkor announces chairmen for Scott county rural school districts for the Seventh War Loan Drive. Listed are Graysboro E Ross Rock view Len Tucker Head Omar Hogan Macedonia Lee Kerley Wylie A R Howell Bieda Tony Gosche Big Island Lennie Gib bar Sergeans Buford Carter Campbell C C Collier Owensby H R Crumpecker Miner Bill Pratt Stringer J s Hodges Hickory Grove J M Powell Hunter near Oran Carl Vaughn Hope D H Vaught Lusk F O Johnson Lemons Arthur Shelton Sand Prairie J Ernest Grant McMullin Frank Altom Lennox Jack Dumey Tanner Wesley Hodges Hunter near Sikeston Wm Cole Chaney W J Mays Dunaver Abra Moulder Baker Ruby S Shoaf Greer Alvin Heusser Crowder Ray Marshall.
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H. M. Zarkor
Scott County
Graysboro
E. ©. Ross
Rockview
Len Tucker
Head
Omar Hogan
Macedonia
Lee Kerley
Wylie
A. R. Howell
Bieda
Tony Gosche
Big Island
Lennie Gibbar
Sergeans
Buford Carter
Campbell
C. C. Collier
Owensby
H. R. Crumpecker
Miner
Bill Pratt
Stringer
J. S. Hodges
Hickory Grove
J. M. Powell
Hunter
Oran
Carl Vaughn
Hope
D. H. Vaught
Lusk
F. O. Johnson
Lemons
Arthur Shelton
Sand Prairie
J. Ernest Grant
McMullin
Frank Altom
Lennox
Jack Dumey
Tanner
Wesley Hodges
Sikeston
Wm. Cole
Chaney
W. J
Sikeston Barber James W. Carmody dies after paralytic stroke
James William Carmody a Sikeston barber of 16 years died May 1 at 303 Daniel Street from a paralytic stroke sustained the prior Thursday. Funeral at Baptist church with Rev. E. D. Owen directing. Burial in Memorial Park. Survived by widow Ona Collins Carmody, four sons Edward Richard Buddy Charles, three daughters, five grandchildren, one brother George W. Carmody.
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James W. Carmody
Sikeston
Daniel Street
Baptist Church
E. D. Owen
Memorial Park Cemetery
Taylor
James William Carmody
Crittenden County
Ona ‘Mae Carmody
George W. Carmody
Princeville, TH
Berlin Falls on 11th Day of Siege
Berlin falls after 11 days of Soviet siege as Hitler's capital reportedly surrenders. Stalin proclaims victory with 70 000 survivors said to have laid down arms. Russians claim Berlin the greatest metropolis captured. details on Hitler’s fate unclear. Rex Powell reported missing in the Southwest Pacific as Navy aviator relative to Bertrand family.
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Hitler
Berlin
Stalingrad
Joseph Stalin
Paris
Rome
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Frederick the Great
Oslo
Copenhagen
The
Hague
Prague
Rex Powell
W. H. Powell
Bertrand
John Powell
Burt Rowe
Sikeston
St. Louis
Mrs Hazel Struwe Remains In Cape Girardeau Hospital
Mr and Mrs Franklin Struwe traveled with Franklin's mother Mrs Hazel Struwe from St Francis Hospital to her home on Jon William Street in Cape Girardeau yesterday but she could not be released due to a heart condition.
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Franklin Struwe
Cape Girardeau
Hazel Struwe
St. Francis Hospital
Jon William Street
Germany Totters To Certain Doom
Germany nears collapse as surrender of forces in Italy ends Nazi resistance on multiple fronts. Berlin and Hamburg fall, Hitler dead or dying per conflicting reports, Doenitz attempting to stabilize shattered state as Allied forces push toward Berchtesgaden and remaining pockets capitulate. Von Rundstedt captured as Japan awaits similar fate and Truman rejects any Nazi peace terms.
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London
St. Thomas Hospital
U. S
War Department
Landsberg
Adolf
Julius E. Bernstein
Philadelphia
Harper Sibley
Rochester
N. Y
Golden Rule Foundation
Ruth Summers
Harry S$. Truman
Ruth Montgomery
Roosevelt
San Francisco
War Production Board
Elizabeth Kenny
Washington, D. C
Kenny
Illinois
Wspa Perl
Boy Scouts
Jos. L. Matthews
E. P. Coleman Jr
Ralph Potashnick
Howard Dunaway
F. L. Sisson Jr
F. A. Bell
Sikeston Barber
Norway
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Holland
Latvia
Denmark
North Sea
Aegean Islands
Alba River
Dunquerque
English Channel
Karl Doenitz
Hamburg
Baltic Sea
Berchtesgaden
Isonzo River
Vorarlberg
Tyrol
Salzburg
Carinthia
Styria
Eisenhower
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels
Hans Fritsche
State Department
Truman
Stalin
Churchill
Doenitz
von Rundstedt
Karl Rudolf Ferd von Rundstedt
Luxembourg
Canadian Front
Japan
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