Basketeers Prepare Christmas Baskets for 200 Amarillo Families
Jaycees at Basketeer Headquarters on Taylor Street filled Christmas baskets late into the night. With meat added last, baskets will be ready by noon tomorrow for 200 plus families who will pick up after 12 o clock, and deliveries will follow in the afternoon. The group hopes for last minute donations to cover a $175 shortfall and keep volunteer help strong.
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Basketeer
Taylor Street
Guy Walden
Basketeers
Walden
Mr. Walden
King George To Speak On Christmas Morning Radio
King George VI will broadcast a Christmas Day message at 8 A M Am at time over CBS the broadcast announced today in New York The address is set for Christmas morning with the timing listed in Am arulo time by CBS
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King George
New York
George VI
Amarulo
Columbia Broadcasting System
Chinese Mass Forces For Drive on Kowloon
Chungking reports that Chinese forces say Japanese troops, about 20 000 strong, concentrate near Yokoh, possibly to divert the Chinese offensive in the Kowloon Canton area in the ongoing theater actions.
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Kowloon
Chungking
Yokow
Kowloon- Canton
Soong Appointed Chinese Foreign Minister at CHungking
Dr. T. V. Soong, 47, named foreign minister replacing Quo Tai Chi. Harvard and Columbia alum, brother of Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Sun Yat Sen, has been finance minister and acted as head of the executive Yuan. He led the 1933 budget balance and has chaired the Bank of China while guiding lease lend with the United States. He also headed the air force before 1938.
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T. V. Soong
Quo Tai-Chi
Soong
Harvard University
Chiang Kai- Shek
Sun Yat-Sen
Columbia University
New York
China
Executive Yuan
Bank of China
United States
Dr. Soong
Madame Chiang
Japan
Hitler fires Brauchitsch and takes supreme command
A well informed source says Adolf Hitler dismissed Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch after Brauchitsch opposed a plan for an immediate invasion of the British Isles. Hitler then assumed supreme command of the German army while still keeping Brauchitsch as nominal head.
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Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Walter von Brauchitsch
von Brauchitsch
British Isles
Hitler
Arctic Ocean
Black Sea
Russia
Alfred Jodl
Erhard Milch
von Bratchitsch
Fedor von Bock
Moscow
von Bock
Germany
Notable Departures Mark Night of Obituaries
Deaths last night report Capt James Sherman 93 dean of whaling masters at New Bedford. Robert McNitt 30 secretary of McNaught Syndicate. Franklin Gunther 56 US minister to Romania. Dr Walter Niles 63 former dean of Cornell Medical College and founder of dollar-a-call clinic. Bank robbery in Perry Kansas adds $1 047 loot. suspects signed statements. arrests by Missouri state troopers and area officials.
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James Henry Sherman
New Bedford
Mass
Walter Lindsay Niles
New York
Cornell University Medical College
Missouri
Fred Keller
Andrew County
Taylor Lowden
Holt County
P. M. Inman
J. Harry Latham
Perry, Perry
Kas
Bank robbery suspect twins? Union Star men jailed
A 23 year old from Union Star Missouri and his 16 year old cousin were jailed by the FBI on suspicion of bank robbery after a tavern nap tale. An onlooker at Union Star Tavern heard the casual mumble and alerted authorities.
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Kansas City
Union Star
FBI
Rooster Survives Curio Auto Ride at Local Shop
J B Wade of Dumas drove his car into Spikes Truitt Pontiac for service. Mechanic Ernest Wakefield found a frozen White Leghorn under the left front fender. After warming, the rooster crowed again and was taken home. Wade noted birds often migrate by unexpected routes in spring.
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Ernest Wakefield
Spikes-Truitt Pontiac Company
J. B. Wade
Dumas
Moore County
Spikes-Truitt Company
Mr. Wakefield
Mr. Wade
Graham T. Hart
Engineer Prevents Acid Car Accident at Ordnance Works
Engineer Wayne Manuel, 32, possibly saved himself when six acid-filled tank cars rolled toward him at the Kankakee Ordnance Works. He remained at the locomotive and averted a potentially serious crash as the cars broke away from their group.
Boy Wants Mother For Christmas
Bobby McClanahan of Inglewood asks Santa Claus to bring his mother Catherine McClanahan to him for Christmas. He has not seen her for four years and asks Santa to locate her in Santa Ana, California. The social service commission is helping with the search. In a separate note, a switch engine incident near the TNT plant caused no injuries after runaway cars bumped into a locomotive.
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Los Angeles
Bobby McClanahan
Inglewood
Santa Claus
Bobby
Santa Ana
Calif
Santa
Catherine McClanahan
Social Service Commission
TNT
Manuel
Boy Finds $800 and Seeks Owner Reward Fails
Bruce A. Rawson, nine, found $800 in cash near his Pottstown home and walked to locate the owner. A cigar store clerk claimed the bag and Bruce received only words of thanks. The scene reflects lingering Santa Claus doubts.
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Pottstown
Bruce A. Rawson
Bruce
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