Yule Buyers Go on Spree Across U S Holiday Shopping Surge
United Press reports that two weeks after Thanksgiving shoppers surged nationwide for a first peacetime Christmas in four years. Cities saw 5 20 percent higher sales than last year amid broad demand for gifts while supplies lag in house goods, sports gear and certain clothes.
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Chicago
State Street
Madison
Wis
Omaha
Indianapolis
Denver
United Press
St. Louis
Seattle Christmas Rush Shrinks Supply of Men’s Shirts
In Seattle the Sunday ad for men’s white shirts triggered a Monday rush as the department store shelves emptied. Christmas buying began with V J day and by Thanksgiving supplies of metal toys and men’s clothing had virtually disappeared, drawing praise from the Chamber of Commerce retail branch which called it the biggest Seattle will ever have.
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Seattle
Chamber of Commerce
Troop Arrivals From Europe and Pacific Readied for U S Ports
The Associated Press reports fifty five thousand troops from Europe and the Pacific are scheduled to reach east and west coast ports Tuesday. Among ships listed are the Queen Mary from Southampton with 11 360 troops plus a large air service and medical units detailed by squadron and detachment. Several vessels include Marine Wolf Waterbury Victory Pierre Soule and others carrying hundreds to thousands of soldiers, engineers, hospital units, artillery and support crews.
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Europe
Pacific
New York
Queen. Mary
Southampton
410Th Air Service Group
Ord
Signal Service Co
111Th Chemical Procurement Company
Gtm
269Th Field Artillery
Eng
Marseilles
38Th Cavalry
Waterbury Victory
le Havre
Movements of Allied Naval and Ground Units Reported From Harbor Lists
A fragmented listing enumerates units and ships including 182nd and 202nd field artillery groups, various service and supply companies, hospital and engineer units, and multiple Victory ships. Mentions marshalling points at Le Havre Antwerp Newport News and San Francisco with personnel names and vessels such as Munda Korsanda LaSalle and Oakland among others.
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George Dern
Marseilles
LaCrosse Victory
LeHavre
Eng
Eng. Utility Co
Baton Rouge Victory
William ‘Floyd
James Moore
Marshall
C. ‘Floyd
Boston
Barbara Fritchie
Antwerp
Betty Zane
James Fannin
le Havre
San Francisco
Hugh Rodman
Crittenden
Braxton
Biloxi
Edward Hough
Notre Dame Victory
ATA 216
Naubic
Queens Victory
Cuyama
Hamas
F. Farrell, Jr
Los Angeles
Eberle
Hope Victory
City Hall Advances Permits and Appointments
The council issued a cigarette permit to Merle B. Jones of 704 Third Avenue SE. It approved temporary Fire Department staffing for John H. Stamp. It authorized building permit refunds for E. O. Spangler of 809 Seventeenth Street SE and William Symington of 726 Memorial Drive SE. It approved Iowa Steel and Iron Works petition to install inter building phone service on Twelfth Avenue SE.
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Merle B. Jones
Third Avenue SE
John H. Stamp
Fire Department
E. O. Spangler
Seventeenth Street
William Symington
Memorial Drive
Iowa Steel and Iron Works
Twelfth Avenue SE
Youth Confesses in Slaying of Boxer Al Davis
An 11 year old former merchant seaman named David Donohue confessed to police that he was one of four holdup men in the shooting death of boxer Al Bummy Davis at a New York tavern last Wednesday night. He gave a signed statement to Lt. Charles Welch and will be extradited to New York despite paralysis from a bullet wound.
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Kansas City
Bummy) Davis
David Donohue
Charles Welch
Davis
New York
Donahue
Jimmy Giarratta
Brooklyn Police
John Romano
Unnamed Youth Recounts Tavern Shooting Incident
Donahue testified a youth could not identify the robber who fired the fatal shots at Davis in a tavern once owned by him. The confrontation followed an effort by the prize fighter to deter the four gunmen from their loot. Davis allegedly struck one gunman before the shooting. Donohue said he was taken to Kansas City from Brooklyn by his brother Russell and friends Bill and Viola Perry of Brooklyn.
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Joe
Donahue
Davis
Donohue
Kansas City
Brooklyn
Russell
Bill
Viola Perry
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U. S
The
Associated Press
By Angelo
Frederick Victory
Westbrook Victory
Normacport
Karachi
William Patterson
George Handley
Eufala Victory
Cape Blanco
Henry Baldwin
Solomon Juneau
Sea Tiger
Williams Victory
Newport News
J. H. Nicholson
Wheaton Victory
Exceller
Lake Champlain
C. Ford
Rufus Choate
Hms
San Diego
Oakland
Canada
Zamie the Hind Reader
Pru SE
Mays
DRUC
Tae
Upjohn Unica
Iee
Lic
Parker
Matt Almover
Shane
Foley
Bull Durham Tobacco
Adlerika
Miles Nervine
Sumlakia
Wesel
Thornton & Minor
Hornton & Minor
City Hall
al Davis
Paes
Guaranty Bank
Third Avenue
Third Street
Member
Federal Deposit Insurances Corporation
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