Rooney Plans New GI Show for Germany Tour
Hollywood dispatch reports Mickey Rooney plans a four week entertainment tour for U S troops in Germany pending Army approval. He aims to perform in Wiesbaden Frankfurt Munich Berlin and Heidelberg with his previously written Okay U S A show. Rooney targets July Fourth timing with possible guest Marlene Dietrich and believes rehearsals could start in 12 days.
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Hollywood
Mickey Rooney
Germany
Mick
U.S
Wiesbaden
Frankfurt
Munich
Berlin
Heidelberg
U.S.A
Army
Hitler
Jeanette MacDonald
Gene Raymond
Donald O’connor
Jackie Coogan
Air Force
Horace Heidt
Frank Sinatra
Rooney
Marlene Dietrich
Crane accident claims life in Indiana plant
East Chicago Indiana June 28 Alvin Marshal 63 of Hammond was killed yesterday by a moving frame of an overhead crane at the General American Transportation plant in East Chicago.
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Chicago
Ind
Alvin Marshal
Hammond
General American Transportation
Court Entries Highlight Multiple Divorce Actions
Superior Court records list divorces including Bruce and Frances Roberts and Musetta Cooper versus James Cooper. Other cases include partition actions by Grahovsky family and damages suit by Ruth Nickles. Two pairs of young adults from West Terre Haute and Danville appear as engaged in listed employment and residences.
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Fannie Roberts
Bruce Roberts
Criss
Virginia Harbough
Daniel Harbough
Musetta Cooper
James Cooper
Bauer and Kincade
Katherine Rogers
Raymond Rogers
Ruth Nickles
Charlotte Reese
Damages
Mann
Stohr
Dorothy Sankey
Arthur Sankey
Divoce
Ralph Berry
Frances Purdy
Paul Purdy
Sam Beecher
Property Transfers in Atherton and Surrounding Areas
Charles Piccatti Jr to Alexander Naby lot 8 Auspurger's second add Atherton for 1. Robert Houston to Irene May Goings and Mary E Goings lot 19 block 1 Grafton Place for 1. Mary Kolle to William T Stringer lot 9 E W Smith's add Seelyville for 1. Victor Mosteller to Everett Maxwell lots 36 37 38 39 Elroy B Smith's third sub Ellsworth for 1. Elmer Johnson to Ernest Scott lots 270 271 272 part of 273 Warren Place for 1.
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Charles Piccatti, Jr
Alexander Naby
Auspurger
Atherton
Robert Houston
Irene May Goings
Mary E. Goings
Grafton Place
Mary Kolle
William T. Stringer
E. W. Smith
Seelyville
Victor N. Mosteller
Local births listed for June across multiple families
A series of birth announcements records newborns from June 20 to June 24 for families in Terre Haute Cory Brazil Casey and nearby areas. Names include Teresa Gene Hoover Sanatorium Jeannie Dean Forest Monroe James Alexander Mark Stephen William Charles Robert Joseph Jean Ann Diana Sue William Russell. Hospitals cited include Union Hospital St. Anthony's.
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Robert G. McIndoo
North Seventh Street
Teresa Gene
Otis Hollingsworth
R. R
Cory
Hoover Sanatorium
Charles E. Thompson
Third Avenue
Jeannie Dean
Forrest M. Butcher
Chrisman
Ill
Forest Monroe, Jr
Union Hospital
Warren A. Weir
Brazil
James Alexander
George Oliver
North Twelfth Street
Mark Stephen
Charles E. Brammer
William Charles
James R. Snow
North Thirteenth Street
Robert Joseph
Carl E. Rodgers
West Terre Haute
Jean Ann
St. Anthony's Hospital
Rupert R. Darling
Casey
Diana Sue
Hubert Glosser
William Russell
Valley firms install signs with stated totals
Valley Supply Company installs three street signs at Sixth Street and New York Central Railroad for 400 dollars, at Eighth and Cherry for 200 dollars, and at Ninth and One-half Street Feabash Avenue for 800 dollars all dated June 27. Helen Beard lists a basement sign purchase at 1800 North Fifth Street for 400 dollars on June 27.
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Valley Supply Company
Sixth Street
New York Central Railroad
Eighth
Cherry Streets
Feabash Avenue
Helen Beard
North Fifth Street
U.S. May Deter a Major War
The piece argues that halting aggression early is essential to prevent wider wars. It warns that allowing the aggression to succeed would invite militaristic communism to push similar actions in Asia, including Indonesia, Burma, India, and Tibet, by using tactics like the Korean assault.
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Indonesia
Burma
India
Tibet
Dr Frank Mathers to retire from Indiana University
Bloomington June 28 Dr Frank C Mathers world authority on electrochemistry will retire Friday from his professorship of chemistry at Indiana University He was born near the campus in 1881 and taught at IU for more than forty years He contributed to metal finishing industries wrote over a hundred papers and helped develop a fluorine releasing cell used in wartime chemical work He is a past president of the American Electrochemical Society and will focus on farm and city real estate holdings.
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Bloomington
Ind
Frank C. Mathers
Indiana University
University
Chemical Warfare Service
American Electrochemical Society
Mathers
Washington votes on draft extension bill and foreign arms program
At noon today in Washington the draft extension bill is set for votes with debate on the foreign arms program to resume afterward. The Banking committee hears Senators Lucas and O'Mahoney on bills aiding small business while a special committee interviews Treasury officials.
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Banking Committee
Lucas
D.-Nl
O’mahoney
D.-Wyo
Treasury Department
Commerce Committe
Philip B. Fleming
Commerce
Transportation
Republican Policy Committee
Federal sale of 500 acres near LaPorte Indiana announced
About 500 acres near Kingsbury ordnance plant south of LaPorte Indiana will be offered for sale by the federal government. Bids will be received from June 29 to July 31 with openings at 2 p.m. CDT in Chicago. William E. Bergeron director of the Chicago field office of the Public Housing Administration issued the notice.
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Chicago
U.P
Kingsbury Ordnance Plant
LaPorte
Ind
William E. Bergeron
The
Public Housing Administration
Propst Renominated for Indiana State Auditor at Democratic Convention
James M. Propst of Terre Haute, former Vigo County official, was renominated yesterday at the Democratic convention in Indianapolis for election to the Indiana state auditor’s office.
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James M. Propst
Indiana
Indianapolis
Propst
Terre Haute
Vigo County
Two Injured in U.S. 150 Motorcycle Crash Near New Goshen
Patty Priest 21 of Clinton and Robert Berry 23 of Clinton were injured when Berry operated motorcycle skidded on the center line on U.S. Highway 150 half a mile south of New Goshen about 11 PM Tuesday. Priest suffered a severe head injury and shock. Berry had cuts and bruises. Both were taken to Vermillion County Hospital in Bedino-Black ambulance. The bike struck the center line, throwing Priest from the vehicle.
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Patty Priest
Clinton
Robert Wayne Berry
Berry
New Goshen
Miss Priest
Vermillion County Hospital
Vermillion County
Shelton Bond Raised to Twenty Five Thousand Dollars
Henry Harland Shelton, 42, remained critically ill and shackled in a hospital bed in Indianapolis as his bond was increased from 5000 to 25000. U S Commissioner Alvin C. Johnson held a bedside hearing after warrants from Hammond charged Shelton with kidnapping and interstate transport of a stolen vehicle. Shelton was shot by FBI agents after a trap outside an east side tavern and is listed among the bureau’s most wanted. authorities seek two Indianapolis men held by federal officials on harboring Shelton. Vestal Eugene Ely, 42, and Herbert L. Aiken, 37, face vehicle theft and unlawful possession charges.
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Indianapolis
Henry Harland Shelton
Alvin C. Johnson
Hammond
Shelton
FBI
East Side
Labor Day
Northern
Michigan
Vestal Eugene Ely
Herbert L. Aiken
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