New Orleans Mother of Holiday Lights Builds City Spectacle
In New Orleans Miss Finnin, city official and self-taught decorator, orchestrates immense holiday displays using papier mache and millions of lights. She secured eight tons of sugar cane and 1,500 palm trees to adorn 58 Canal Street blocks and St. Charles Avenue, spending about 40,000 of city funds with a 50,000 budget this year.
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Betty Pinnin
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Finnin
City Hall
Evening club dances and temple events in Amarillo
Tonight events at Buchanan Street Methodist Church YWCA Lone Star Assembly and Khiva Temple include a Jar dance party at 7:30. Avikh Temple No 70 Daughters of the Nile at 7:20 and 8 o'clock. Saturday story hour at Amarillo Public Library 3 o'clock and a co ed club dance at the YMCA 8:30.
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Lone Star Assembly
Order of the Rainbow
Khiva Temple
Amarillo Public Library
YMCA
Shoppers Find Varied Goods Seized by Customs at Mobile
Mobile shoppers visiting the federal building can buy over 650 articles seized by the customs department from sailors and travelers entering the port this year. Items include grass skirts perfume cameras marmalade jewelry stockings a bicycle an alarm clock a sextant watches bracelets whips canes fans dolls and a dagger.
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Customs Department
Indiana man chews 112 Stocks of gum at once
An Indiana man chewed 112 sticks of gum in a single sitting drawing attention for remarkable endurance. The unusual stunt sparked local curiosity and a playful vow to award a prize for persistence.
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Indiana
Mannerheim Seriously Ill in Helsinki Hospital
Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim aged 80, former president of Finland, was reported seriously ill today in a Helsinki hospital.
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Mannerheim
Helsinki
Finland
Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Robbery, confrontation end with gunfire in Atlanta
George Grant told police three men robbed him of $60 as he walked home. He retrieved a shotgun, fired three poorly aimed shots at the trio, and the attackers seized the weapon. A girls bike club in the east says they bike to tone arms. no comment from members.
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Atlanta
George Grant
East
Youth Succeeds Not in Breath Hold Test Trumpet Dream Ends
New York youth Harry Abrams aged 17 sought to master breath control for piano and trumpet. He strapped on a gas mask and blocked the air intake with a cloth to test how long he could go without air. Family found him in bed, coroner ruled suffocation.
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New York
Harry Abrams
Notable German Generals and Admirals Named
A list names multiple Wehrmacht officers including Gen. Johannes Blasko witz Gen. Hermann Hoth Gen. Hans Reinhardt Gen. Hans von Salmuth Gen. Karl Hollich Adm. Otto Schniewind Lt. Gen. Karl von Roques Lt. Gen. Hermann Reinecke Lt. Gen. Walter Warlimont Lt. Gen. Otto Woehler and Lt. Gen. Rudolf Lehmann.
Indict 14 Nazi Leaders in Nürn berg War Crime Case
Indictment filed by Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor charges 14 high ranking Wehrmacht and Navy officers with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The group includes three field marshals 10 generals and one admiral accused of participating in Hitler planning conferences and violating Versailles limits. In total 184 Germans have been prosecuted for war crimes. The named defendants include Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Hugo Sperrle and George Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von.
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Mernberg
U.P
Third Reich
Telford Taylor
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
Hugo Sperrle
George Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von
Chinese students strike at Nanking university over self government vote
Two thousand students at Central University in Nanking staged a strike to protest the beating of several colleagues during an election for a student self government body.
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Nanking
Central University
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