Vagrant Is Sentenced in Illinois Case
LTON BREDEN, 37, of Cairo Illinois, pled guilty to vagrancy and was sentenced Thursday to six months in Linn County jail. The sentence was suspended with orders to leave town, bond set at 1000 dollars. Police arrested him at Union Station after prior lodging there. A woman reported a lost purse containing 20 dollars after visits to local taverns. Charlie's Furniture Exchange reported eight gallons of gasoline stolen from a car in the municipal lot Tuesday night.
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Lton Breden
Cairo
Ill
Linn County
G. K. Thompson
Breden
Union Station
Roperietor
Charlie's Furniture Exchange
Fifth Street SE
Daily Record ration updates and notices from 1944
The item lists invalidations and expirations for meat and sugar stamps, blue food stamps and gas coupons through 1945, plus shoe stamps and gasoline allowances. It records drunkenness fines for Leonard Furman and Frank Watson, and notes several birth announcements and divorce petitions in the area.
Small Boys Attend Lions Club Christmas Party
Eighty seven young boys, each with a parent in military service, attended a Lions Club Christmas dinner at the Roosevelt hotel. Santa handed out large presents while host Lions members prepared cards for each child to mail to their fathers or mothers. Dempsy Jones sang with Fred Erickson and his team as Tom Owens and his cowboys performed, and the boys sang Silent Night, moving many adults present.
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Roosevelt Hotel
Lions Club
Santa Claus
Dempsy Jones
Fred Erickson
Tom Owens
Cowboys
Chaplin Testimony Sparks Courtroom Clash in Paternity Suit
Charlie Chaplin testified briefly in the paternity case filed by Joan Barry. The trial halted as lawyers argued over who should pay $25 for the transcript, drawing a sharp rebuke from Judge Willis.
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Hollywood
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Barry
Henry M. Willis
Miss Barry
Joseph Scott
Chaplin
Pat Millikan
Scott
Christmas Mail Progress and Urgent Card Deliveries
Post office notes Christmas givers are mailing parcels early and praise their effort. Trains miss connections nationwide causing mail delays. cards delayed risk late delivery. Report shows packages 1 percent behind last year and letter mail 6 percent ahead. receipt figures 11 percent above 1943.
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Post Office
Aeice
Nationwide Ward Strike Threat Warned by CIO Leader
Union President Sam Wolchak warned of a nationwide strike by CIO Retail Wholesale and Department Store Employes if the War Labor Board or President Roosevelt does not enforce directives aimed at Ward stores and plants in seven cities.
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Washington
Sam Wolchak
Montgomery Ward
CIO
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
WLB
Ward
Congress His Speech Attacks Allied Draft Rules
A heated exchange on the floor centers on British conscription in colonies and American insistence on equal drafts. Rep Gavin urges tough policy talk with Britain while Rep Bulwinkle counterclaims his facts. The debate grows tense over wartime diplomatic and military duties.
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Republican Party
Fish
Gavin
State Department
Sam
Bulwinkle
North Carolina
Freak Lake Michigan Snowstorm Hits Gary Indiana Section
A freak snowstorm off Lake Michigan centered in Gary Indiana dumped about 12 inches of snow in a small northern Indiana area on Wednesday and Wednesday night. Temperatures were mostly near normal elsewhere as a previous severe storm lingered in memory.
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Associated Press
Lake Michigan
Gary
Ind
Indiana
Weather Bureau
Landrechs recall war, Americans aid, and Dakar to Iowa visit
The Landieches describe life under Petain then favorable press shift after American arrival. They praise U S aid for food and relief from Germans. The Dakar couple, touring LaPlant Choate and Link Belt in LaPlant Choate Iowa, visited Mr. and Mrs. Myers and planned to travel to Portland Oregon after a New York arrival via Clipper.
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West Africa
France
Petain
LaPlant- Choate
Portland
Ore
Allied air blows paralyze German rail traffic in Reich
An RAF spokesman said Allied air attacks have so crippled German rail traffic, leaving virtually no passenger trains running in the Reich besides military transport.
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Twenty-First Army Group Hdq
The
Reich
R.A.F
Hargrove Stages Real Life Sequel to See Here Tale
New York feature editor Marion Hargrove staged a real life sequel to See Here Private Hargrove. He played an usher at Lt. Thomas Mulvehill and Miss Esther Wall McCarney’s wedding, arriving 1 hour 25 minutes late after 16 wrong turns on the way to Roseland Louisiana wedding scene.
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New York
Marion Hargrove
Hargrove
Yank
Army Weekly
Esther Wall McCarney
Roseland
Thomas James Mulvehill
Fort Bragg
N C
Power rate reductions proposed to city council
Nichols outlined proposed power rate cuts from 5.5 to 13.3 percent, aiming steady relief as consumption rises. He noted residential customers will see reductions except hot water heaters at eight mills, with the ordinance needing a seven day layover before final reading and passage.
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Nichols
Roosevelt Expected to Veto Old-Age Tax Freeze Bill
House leaders were told a Roosevelt veto of the old-age pension tax freeze bill will likely be sent to Congress Thursday or Friday. Members are directed to prepare for a vote on sustaining or overriding the veto. Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. predicted the House would override.
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Washington
INS
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Joseph W. Martin Jr. Mass
Chamber
Stimson Says No Move to Lower Draft Age
Secretary Stimson stated the War Department does not plan any request to lower the minimum selective service age from 18. The remark follows ongoing wartime manpower concerns and recruitment efforts in the United States.
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Washington (Ap
Stimson
War Department
Early Big Three Meeting Hinted Amid Allied Struggles
London based AP reports signs of a proposed early meeting among Roosevelt Churchill and possibly Stalin to align postwar policy for Germany and the liberated nations. Key topics include denazification, Greece and Italy crises, Poland recognition, and Russia’s Far East stance with inauguration looming for Roosevelt.
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London
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Europe
Germany
Great Britain
Middle East
Canada
United States
Dumbarton Oaks
Greece
Italy
Far East
Russia
Poland
iIt
Two War Property Nominees Approved By Senate Group
The Senate Military Affairs Committee approved President Roosevelt's first two nominees for disposing of surplus war property valued at 100 billion dollars. Robert Hurley former Connecticut governor and Lt. Col. Edward Heller a wealthy California businessman were favored along party lines with Senator Johnson voting against Hurley. The panel's recommendation followed a week of hearings focusing on Hurley and Heller ties to the Narragansett Machine Co.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Robert Hurley
Connecticut
Edward Heller
California
Gillette
D-Ia
Senate
Democratic Committee
Johnson
D-Colo
Hurley
Heller
Narragansett Machine Company
Pawtucket
R. I
No Dates So No Fags Says Harvard Professor
Cambridge Massachusetts UP Professor Earnest A Hooton a Harvard anthropologist and expert on vanished races of men offered this explanation for the vanishing cigaret The boys in the foxholes with their lives endangered are nervous and miserable and want girls Since they cant have them they smoke cigarets The girls at home with their virtue not endangered are nervous and miserable and want boys Since they cant have them they too smoke cigarets So what happens The learned professor explained that the briar pipe was again becoming the companion of the philosophic male who wasnt bothered by those things
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Cambridge, Mass
Earnest A. Hooton
Harvard
MacLeish Defends Self Amid 1937 State Department Queries
Archibald MacLeish faced Clark in a Congressional hearing over his poems and views on capitalism. The exchange touched on U S policy toward the Spanish Civil War and documents from Bowers about Loyalist aid. MacLeish denied hate toward Capitalists and emphasized democracy.
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Guffey
State Department
Bowers
Hull
United States
Francisco Franco
MacLeish
Clark
Congress
Missouri
Ottumwa Man Suffering Severe Head Injuries After Chain Strike
Lawrence Moore, 50, Ottumwa, was crossing a street when a car struck a heavy chain he carried, throwing it against his head. He was hospitalized with severe head injuries after the incident on Wednesday night.
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Ottumwa
Lawrence Moore
Moore
Corcoran Called In FCC Inquiry
Former White House adviser Thomas G. Corcoran testified behind closed doors before the house FCC investigating committee over the 1940 WMCA sale in New York. Chairman Lea noted additional witnesses would include David K. Niles. Corcoran faced questions about allegedly pulling strings to push the sale at 850000, far below market value.
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Washington
INS
Thomas G
Tommy the
Cork’ Corcoran
White House
House
FCC
Lea
D-Calif
New York
WMCA
Corcoran
David K.niles
Roosevelt
Donald Flamm
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