News of Our Men in Uniform Parade of Midwest Veterans
In Sikeston and surrounding towns many relatives report service members and veterans abroad. Capt Lynn M Twitty, former Lilbourn school superintendent, arrives on the West Coast after Pacific duty. Russell Heath and other family members are noted in overseas service updates from the Navy and Army Air Forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn M Twitty
The
Marine Cops
Lilbourn Schools
Pacific
Marietta Twitty
Sikeston
Promoted Naval Lieutenant Former City Attorney Dempster
Sikeston attorney Robert A. Dempster, who served as city attorney before entering the U S Navy, has been promoted to full lieutenant and is at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. He and wife Beatrice Dobbins will visit family before reporting for duty in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert A. Dempster
Sikeston
United States Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Dempster
Beatrice Dobbins
G. A Dempster
Longmont
Colo
Seaman Conway Tucker Receives Special Mention On Ship
Conway Tucker of the U S Navy at Norfolk aboard the Wyoming earned an unusual honor when named for outstanding appearance in the Captain's Inspection. The mimeographed report noted most sailors needed haircuts shoe shines or new shoes while Tucker was singled out for commendation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conway Tucker
United States Navy
Norfolk
U.S. S. Wyoming
Tucker
Municipal Light and Power Plant
Prisoner of Germans Reported for Local Family
Mr and Mrs Charles A Lackey of near East Prairie learn their son Pfc James W Lackey is a prisoner of the Germans. He was reported missing in September and said captured on July 13. He has two brothers in service Pfc Carl D Lickey in the Pacific and Charles A Lackey Jr in Farragut Idaho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Lackey
Near East Prairie
Pfc
James W . Lackey
Lackey
Carl D Lickey
Pacific
Charles A. Lackey Jr
Farragut
Idaho
Preacher's Son Promoted to Captain in World War II
Frank Owen son of Rev and Mrs E D Owen of Sikeston has been promoted to captain and serves as a chaplain at Camp Butner North Carolina with overseas orders expected. Pfe Carroll Owen, the younger son, is on duty in France having landed about a month ago. Connie Hayden near Charleston reports his brother S Sgt Rube C Hayden was killed in action in France on September 29 after previously being listed as missing. Pfc Arthur Dalton of Advance seriously wounded on Palau September 18 after service since June 6 1942 and overseas three months. his brother Pat Wreeman Dalton serves in a medical corps unit in the South Pacific overseas since before Pearl Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Heath
Navy
Southwest Pacific
Burl Heath
Young Heath
Charles
France
W. A Welch
Hoyt Welch
Italy
George D Welch
Vineland
Bullud Welch
Victor T. Clark
Matthews
Mediterranean
Fifteenth Army Air Forces
James B. Knapp
Clark
Dupont Powder Corporation
Army
Gulfport
Miss
Las Vegas
Wm Clarke
Pvt
Barrett L French
Charleston
Norman French
War Department
French
St Loui
Set
Ernest E. Byrn
Roy Byrn
Bertrand
Byrn
Joan T. Prince
James T Prince
Pre Prince 15
Mitchell
8. T Sturgeon
West Malone Avenue
Charles F. Sturgeon
Germany
Sgt. Sturgeon
Blodgett High School
Pfe Orne L) Finley
Otis Finley
J A. Also
Finley
Pfe. Finley
Frank Owen
E. D. Owen
Sikeston
Capt. Owen
Camp Butner
N. C
Pfe
Carroll Owen
Owen
Connie Hayden
Rube C. Hayden
Sgt. Hayden
Wm. Dalton
Advance
Pfc
Arthur Dalton
Palau
Dalton
Pat Wreeman Dalton
South Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Transfer Sergeant Hitchcock Visits Mother in Clovis
Ti Sgt J M Hitchcock is transferred from Lincoln Nebraska to Clovis New Mexico and visited his mother Mrs J W Hitchcock on Tuesday. Mrs Hitchcock accompanied her husband on the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M Hitchcock
Lincoln
Neb
Clovis
N. M
J WN . Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Chaffee Soldiers Reunion in Belgium Between Kin
Sgt Kenneth Felden of Chaffee and Benny Capshaw also of Chaffee met in Belgium and shared a joyful reunion. Felden recalled riding past a sign for 294th Quartermaster and finding Capshaw, leading to a warm, unmistakable greeting in a tent amid wartime travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaffee
Belgium
Kenneth Felden
Benny Capshaw
Felden
Benny
Ben
Wounded in France Lt McAlpine Reported Wounded
Mrs D B E McAlpine formerly Miss Allie B Lankford of Chaffee is notified her husband Lt McAlpine was wounded in France on October 1. She is daughter of Mr and Mrs L L Lankford and works at Trailways Bus Line office in Cape Girardeau. Domestic air express total shipments rose 12.5 percent in first half of 1944 versus 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Sikes
State College
Cape Girardeau
W H Sikes
Mary Jane
France
D. BE. McAlpine
Allie B Lankford
Chaffee
Lt. McAlpine
McAlpine
L. L. Lankford
Trailways Bus Line
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Wm. Jackson
New Madrid
Russia
United States Army Air Forces
United States Air Forces
Roy W Darter
Signal Corps
Mar
Nick W. Carter
Southwest Pacific Theater of Operations
United States Army
Samuel D.berry
Set Lawrence Tate
Ernest Tate
Smith Addition
Mets
Sam Morgan
Sgt
P. Morgan
Mildred Patryck
Waves
Naval Training School of Radio
Miami University
Oxford,Ohio
Ancell Patrick
Cpl
Jack Matthews
Artillery Division
Armed Forces
James Brewington
Dyerburg,Tenn
J. G. Brewington
Orville Lumsden
Army Air Corps
Maxwell Field
Ala
Lumsden
Alabama
Dessie Lumsden
Hazel Lumsden
R M Alsup
Amos L Scott
B D Scott
Morley
WAC
Helen Lee
England
Miss Lee
Bernice Husher
Africa
Wayman
EH. Terrell
Army Air Forces
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Mrs Sherman Terrell
Wm Barber
Panamia
Herald
Sgt Barber
Lester Bailey
Panama
National Guard
Ben L Bowman
Columbus
Ind
Air Corps
Bowman
R. Bowman
Plant Park
Florida
Oran
Arthur Kielhaffner
Camp Butler
Kielhaffner
Louis Kielhaffner
Missouri
R. D. Clayton
Sikeston, MO
Charles Vanson
C H Yanson
States
Yanson
Charles R Henley
Henley
Ella Louise Lutz
AMM i of the Waves
Lambert Field
St Louis
Ella Shuppert
Olen Hitchcock
Jack Obermeiger
James P. Edgeman
Camp Roberts
Calif
Commerce
Maryland
German Halter
Camp Blanding
Fla
Nick Halter
Pie van B Stelle
Camp Chaffee, Ark
Ella Steele
Miss Thelma
Pfe Orne L Finley
Vwar
Bill Simmons
J. H Simmons
Infantry
Bill Shain
Fort Lewis
Wash
Shain
John S Smith
Linda
Greenville
Texas
Otto J. Hahs
Sherwood Smith
Benton
Leo. Smith
North Carolina
Mrs Smith
Seaman Conway Tucker
Preacher
TEL.7
Albritton
Kansas City Life Insurance Company
Southeast Missouri
H. L. Harty Southeast Missouri Loan
Scott County Milling Building
Sikeston, Missouri
Crowe’s
Crowe’s Service Station
R. W. Crowe
Highway 60
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