World This Week highlights Stillwell recall and war briefings
General Joseph W Stillwell recalled from the Far East at Chiang Kai Shek's request amid strained ties since the Burma road campaign. Stillwell to receive a new assignment. Navy victory in Philippine waters may shave months off the Pacific war. Senator Tydings cites savings in lives and treasure. Blue Cross hospital plans reach 15,400,000 members with 2,400,000 new enrollees in 42 states and seven Canadian provinces. Mrs Selma Bonde leaves estate over 20,000 dollars to government. One million Christmas parcels a day for overseas shipment. Margaret Rose travels from Australia to St Louis for deaf nursery schooling. Army discontinues recruiting civilian physicians. McNutt urges Navy medical officer recruitment. Missouri Pacific orders 1000 steel box cars. Priest donates rat poison note to prisoners of war. Fewer marriages this year. large cities show drop in September licenses.
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Joseph W. Stillwell
Far Eastern
Chiang Kai Shek
Burma Road
Stillwell
War Department
The
American Hospital Association
Blue Cross
C. Rufus Rorem
Association
Hospital Service Plan Commission
Puerto Rico
Policeman Faces Murder Charge in Sikeston Case
Trial set for November term of Scott County Circuit Court. Former Sikeston police officer Marshall Knight faces murder charges in the slaying of Mearl Hale on Sikeston's main business corner in mid July. Also named is Henry Jones, another former officer, charged with killing a woman in Sunset Addition. Both cases handled by attorney Eugene M. Munger.
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Marshall Knight
Sikeston City
Mearl Hale
Sikeston
Scott County Circuit Court
Benton
Hale
Henry Jones
Sunset Addition
Eugene M. Munger
Jones
Scott County
Missouri State Penitentiary
J. C. McDowell
State Penitentiary
Frank Thomas
Wm. E. Bone
M. E. Montgomery
Proposed New Post War Buildings for Sikeston
Sikeston plans for a new Missouri Delta Community Hospital on the northern town site with a cross shaped hospital, a 50 car garage and parking area, plus a colonial style nurses home. A parallel project, Sikeston Concordia Lutheran Church on Park Avenue, will be built of stone in a Gothic design at about 35000 dollars seating 250, funded by a building fund as conditions permit.
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Sikeston
Missouri Delta Community Hospital
Commonwealth Fund of New York
Missouri
Sikeston Concordia Lutheran Church
Park Avenue
Theo, Steinmeyer
Meeting Tonight for County War Loan Drive
Plans for Scott county participation in the Sixth War Loan will be perfected at a meeting in the Benton courthouse tonight. County chairman C. H. Butler of Sikeston announces Scott county quota will be broken into community assignments and town chairmen named for those lacking leaders. Residents of each town are urged to attend.
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Scott County
Benton
C. H. Butler
Sikeston
Énty
Stleia
Allied Victories Rise in Holland and Italy War News
Allied advances in Holland clear harbor approaches to Antwerp aiding supplies for continental drive through Germany. American troops push east of Aachen amid stiff German resistance. Italy reports 90,000 Allied casualties since campaign began. progress measured in yards after 500 miles landed. Tokyo raid unconfirmed by War Department and Twentieth Bomber Command. Russians capture railway hub at Kecskemet en route to Budapest. Army Air Forces reveal 75,000 planes, 23,000 combat aircraft, 12,000 overseas.
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Holland
Antwerp
Europe
Germany
Aachen
Italy
Tokyo
Twentieth Bomber Command
War Department
Japan
Twentieth Command
Kecskemet
Budapest
Army Air Forces
Light Plant to Buy Smaller Diesel Engine in Sikeston
The Sikeston City Light and Water Plant will replace a planned 3600 horsepower engine with a smaller unit. Nordberg Manufacturing Company signs a $210,768 contract for the new diesel, not due to operate for at least a year according to plant superintendent Charles Moose.
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Sikeston City
Charles Moose
Sikeston Schools Schedule Thanksgiving Holiday
Sikeston schools will celebrate Thanksgiving Day on Thursday November 23 according to High School Principal Bremen Van Bibber who spoke this morning.
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Sikeston
Bremen van Bibber
Wounded Greerseriously wounded in Holland action
Sel G. B. Greer son of Mr and Mrs Moore Creer was seriously wounded in action October 14 while serving with the Armored Engineers in Holland no message received Monday from the War Department Greer has served nearly three years overseas since last May He was a University of Missouri student in Columbia and trained at Fort Oglethorpe Camp Polk and in California before overseas duty last June
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Sel G. B. Greer
Moore Creer
Armored Engineers
Holland
War Department
Sgt
Greer
University of Missouri
Columbia
Fort Oglethorpe
Camp Polk
California
Staff Sgt Frank Engram Arrives After European War Service
Telegram announces Staff Sgt Frank Engram son of Mr and Mrs Bert Engram has arrived in this country after six months in the European theater. He is receiving treatment at a Clinton hospital and expects to return home within the next month.
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Frank Engram
Bert Engram
Clinton
Town
Sikeston Air School Personnel Depart for New Posts
Soldiers and civilian staff from Sikeston Missouri Institute of Aeronautics concluded operations this week. Army personnel, many longtime residents, departed for new postings across Texas Oklahoma and Kansas while a few remained to exit within ten days.
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Sikeston Air School
Missouri Institute of Aeronautics
Sikeston
Army
Army Air Forces
Phil Hughes
George H Moskalik
Raymond Welch
Frederick
Oklahoma
Samuel Ashworth
Robert W. Spoonhour
John A Dunleavey
Pampa
Texas
Donald T. Beaman
Jules Roux
Dudley C. Clark
Robert H. Hawkins
Tech
Jerry Neville
Jack Obernhiger
Pfc
Sikeston High Plans Open House for American Education Week
Sikeston High School will host an Open House on Thursday night November 9 as part of American Education Week. Student Council will lead events from 7 30 to 10 00 pm in the auditorium after a short musical program. Parents and patrons are invited to meet faculty, tour facilities, and learn about school programs.
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Sikeston High School
Tharon E. Stallings
Sikeston
Sikeston Lions Club
Sikeston [Kiwanis Club
Bailey
Sikeston Colored
Union Church Service Friday Observed Citywide
World Community Day will be observed here tomorrow afternoon with special services at the Methodist church. United Council of Church Women brings together ministers from Sikeston for a program starting at 2:50. Rev. H. McDonough opens the remarks. Subjects cover Relief and Rehabilitation, Economic Independence, The Home Front, and Worship and Prayer. Rev. Bartley Schwegler ends with the benediction.
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Methodist Church
Sikeston
United Council of Church Women
H. McDonough
Tanner Street Church of God
R M Tatbert
Christian Church
E. D Owen
The
Baptist Church
E. Bartley
J. W. Hoffert
Church of the Nazarene
Bartley Schwegler
Presbyterian Church
Cotton Ginnings Progress in Sikeston District
With favorable weather the Sikeston district reports over 75 percent of the cotton has reached the gins and picking continues. Some growers expect cotton in the fields into the new year despite picker shortages. Prices stand at 20 cents per pound and about 48 dollars per ton. In Scott county, 10,626 bales were ginned for 1944 up to October 18, surpassing 1943’s 9,233 for the same period, per T. J. Stallings, Census Bureau special agent.
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Sikeston
Scott County
T. J. Stallings
Bureau of the Census
Big Vote Shaping Up For Next Tuesday
As four days remain before the election the New Deal versus Fourth Term battle dominates two party lines. Franklin D Roosevelt faces Dewey in a wartime race with Truman as Missouri insider, Bricker the VP candidate, and Donnell versus McKittrick in a pivotal Senate contest. Local races وش candidates Clayton and Malcolm vie for sheriff. National turnout is projected near 44 million, with wartime facts shaping the electorate and age-based voting shifts noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin D Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Harry Truman
Senate
Truman
Lawrence McDaniel
Donnell
Missouri
Orville Zimmerman
Kennett
Ralph Hutchnson
Caruthersville
Scott County
O. D Clayton
Early Malcolm
Census Bureau
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Philippine
Tydings
Maryland
Selma Bonde
America
Sweden
Bonde
LaFayette Park
St. Louis
Albert Goldman
Margaret Rose
Joseph Rose
Melbourne
Australia
United States
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Navy
Missouri Pacific Railroad Co
American Car & Foundry Co
St. Louis, Mo
Church of England
H. C. Green
St. Nicholas Church
Ipswich
Bill Johnson
G. W. Owings
Lester Clayton
Walter Irwin
Frank
Slug) Williams
Lon Gross
Fred Brucker
Civil Docket
Hazel Perry
Buster Perry
Lillie May Emmons
Well Timothy Emmons
Dorothy Jones
John Jones
Juanita Taylor Matthews
Cecil Hugh Matthews
John Paul Staggs
Littie Lucille Staggs
Norma Broadhacker
Odis Broadhacker
Evelyn Hunt
Gareard Hunt
Louise Westrich
August C. Westrich
Archie Smiley
Helen Smiley
Ollie Cole
Rowena Cole
Frances Bohannon
A. L. Bohannon
John EF. Waters
Bernice Waters
Reda Weakley
Harry L. Weakley
Harold Parks
Melba Parks
Ruby M. Ferrell
James P. Ferrell
Minnie Lynch
Ted Lynch
Archie Norman
Minnie Lee Norman
Alice Robinson
Henry H. Robinson
Jean Bodensten
Pearle Moore
Herman Bodenstein
New Hospital
New Lutheran Church
Thelma
Lucille Wallen
Edgar Russell Wallen
Harold D. Hartman
Dixie Lee Hartman
Tommie J. Johnson
Frank P. Johnson
Pearly Mae Johnson
Louis Neil Warren
Frances Warren
Freda Elking
Raymond Elkins
Luther Howell
Erna Mae Howell
Freida Thorn
J. M Thorn
Hope Hartner
Harold Hartner
Doris Layton
Robert L. Layton
Wallace Hunt
Juanita Hunt
Robert Goodacre
Raymond Crook
Waco
John H. Bowser
Harold Slagle
Wm. Black
Earl Trickey
Odis Woodward
Samuel Mol
Morris Ishvitsky
Lubbock
Arthur Foster
Victor Wheat
Edgar Stickel Jr
C. A. Robertson
K.sturkhardt
C. A. Dombroski
Enid
Okla
George E. Barnhouse
Chickasha
Robert Block Jr
Charles A. Campbell
Robert Wadley
Charles Sk. Rogers
Kenneth Jenks
Herbert Baer
Victoria
Jack Frye
J. G
Golden Stott
Mission
Wevell C. Kerr
Alex J. House Jr
Alphonse Franzer
Jesse W. Koneschik
Midland
Richard O'Hara
Chester Earle
del Rio
Heber Whyte
Randolph Field
Leon B. Mangold
Enington Field
Houston
Charles J. Lycans
Hondo
Forrest Allen
Altus
Okta
John W. Tlarr
Monroe
Lay
Wm. A. Keane
San Marcos
Cecil Bishop
Dodge City
Kansas
Union Church
John W. Bricker
Chicago
Dewey
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