City Churches Celebrate Christ Birth in Charleston Area
Charleston churches plan Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services with Catholic Lutheran and Episcopal parishes holding special events. Sacred Heart and St Anthony’s offer midnight masses. Trinity Lutheran hosts candlelight service and Christmas cantata. broadcast of services on WCHS.
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Charleston
Sacred Heart
St. Anthonys Catholic
St John's Episcopal
Trinity Lutheran
St. Paul’s Lutheran
Gounod
Sacred Heart of Jesus
Bruno Oscar Klein
Vincent Novello
W. S. Mason
David Dale Johnson
WCHS
Trinity Lutheran Church
Lee and
Elizabeth Streets
O'crite
Chihbert Harris
Chor
Neidlinger
William P. Clune
Trinity
Alexander Matthews
Walter T. Schaefer
E. A. Fruth
A. W. Holz
Paul W. Kautz
Donald Withrow
William E. Whiteman
Gabriel
Tam
Santa Gets Mail From Fairchance
More than 180 Christmas letters arrived yesterday from Camp Fairchance near Madison Boone County to Santa Claus. They request gifts for children, with boys asking for games guns knives and flashlights while girls seek dolls clothes house slippers and toys. Local committees gather gifts from merchants in Boone and Logan counties ensuring every child gets something.
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Camp Fairchance
Madison
Boone County
Santa Claus
Charleston
Logan
Gazee
Kanawha
Boone
Santa
Jolly Christmas Cash Registers Across London Stores
Christmas time in England echoes the holiday tune as cash registers ring with Jingle Bells in London shops. Stores advertise heavily and profit from gifts while theaters and hotels raise prices. Italians skip gifts, but dress up for midnight mass as families buy new outfits.
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London
Associated Presa
England
America
Italy
Father Christmas
Gunboats May Sail Under Forced Craft
London dispatch reports the British admiralty quietly speeding plans to move part of the Mediterranean fleet to the Orient. A diplomatic source says the foreign office views strengthening the Far Eastern fleet as virtually inevitable while awaiting cabinet approval. Foreign Secretary Anthony Maen and French Ambassador Charles Corbin are said to have discussed taking some British dreadnoughts from the Franco British patrol in the Mediterranean.
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London
Mediterranean
Orient
Foreign Office
Admiralty
Ward
Anthony Maen
Charles Corbin
Evening Sing
Raft found fuels Alcatraz escape manhunt
A mysterious life raft drifted into San Francisco Bay spurring a manhunt for two convicts Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole who escaped from Alcatraz. G men and police widened searches along Northern California shores as fishermen towed the raft ashore and experts weighed its possible link to the escape plan.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Bay Cities
Avim
Ralph Roe
Musko- Ree
Okla
Theodore Cole
Cushing
Lefferson
John Engler
Life Boat
Alcatraz
Delvedere Island
Woman Helps Santa Remember Needy Children
Elkins Park Philadelphia area Mrs Bireh Hammer started the Santa Claus Mail Association in 1913 to aid toy distribution to needy children across the eastern United States. This year about 50,000 gifts were sent, with roughly 50,000 already provided since the program began, funded by cash gifts and mail donations from many supporters nationwide.
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Elkins Park
Dee
U.S
Santa Claus Mail Association
Bireh
A Hammer
Philsadt
Hammer
Mra. Iam
Minimum nourishment costs for New York working girl
In New York on December 18, 1937, a study shows a working girl requires about 7 dollars 23 cents weekly to eat if living alone and 5 dollars 70 cents if sharing family meals. It lists annual food quantities including flour milk potatoes and vegetables, highlighting the strain on low wages.
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New York
Prieda Miller
Ina
New York State
Housing Bill Passes House
The House passed a housing bill aimed at spurring construction and sale of millions of homes over five years. It seeks to lower financing costs and down payments, with federal mortgage insurance for multi family dwellings.
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Washington
Dee
Snwie
Roosevelt
Congress
Dalhover Sentenced to Death for Trooper Minnemin Murder
In MAMMOND Indiana James Dalhover the last of the Brady desperadoes was sentenced to die in the electric chair for the murder of State Trooper Paul Minnemin. If his motion for a new trial is denied the execution date is set for April 8 at the state penitentiary in Michigan City. Dalhover showed limited composure as the sentence was pronounced by General Judge Thomas W Slick.
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Mammond
Ind
James Dalhover
Brady Desperadoes
Elesric
State
Paul Minnemin
State J
Michigan City
Paris
Sng Dathover
Feneral
Thomas W. Slick
Emperor Receives Report On Panay and Tsingtao Turmoil
The Japanese emperor was briefed as U S forces faced danger from a growing Tsingtao crisis. An American sailor from the Panay attack died of wounds, while ships including the destroyer Pepe and cruiser Marhead moved to respond. Fears mounted over possible Japanese mill destruction and its $100 million damage risk in the port area.
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Shanghai
U.S
Panay
Augusta
Manila
Tsingtao
Diet
Edgar William George Hulsebus
Canton
Pepe
Marbethead
Tsingtan
Wage Bill Backers Talk Retaliation
In Washington advocates of the wage and hour bill vow retaliation against opponents who blocked the measure while labor groups warn the issue could shape the 1921 elections. John J. Lewis of the labor non partisan league comments on the political impact.
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Washington
Der
Capitol
Howe
Labor Non-Partisan League
John J. Lewis
C. I
Claire Man
Nep Stealey
D. Mase
Ambassador Robert W. Bingham Dies After Illness
Robert W. Bingham, American ambassador to Great Britain, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after weeks of illness. He had served as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times and was chosen by President Roosevelt for the London post. His death follows abdominal Hodgkin's disease and a recent operation. Family members were at his bedside as plans to replace him with Joseph V. Kennedy circulated among officials.
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Baltimore
Dee
Robert W. Bingham
Great Britain
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Louisville Courier and Journal
Hodgkin
Louisville
Joseph V. Kennedy
Maritime Commission
Ing
Florida
Bingham
America
Louisville Courier-Journal
Louisville Times
Roosevelt
Court of St. James
Hingham
Jefferson
Landslide blocks highway near Hugheston and rail corridor
A landslide 30 feet deep and 731 feet long blocked U S route 60 near Hugheston early yesterday, disrupting service on the New York Central between Montgomery and Charleston. The state road commission said the highway would close for about four days with detours on U S 61 between Charleston and Montgomery.
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Hugheston
New York Central Railway
Montgomery
Charleston
State Road Commission
U.S. 61
Mont
Dan Cupid Is Headliner Many Times During Year
Chicago dispatch reviews 1937 marriages highlighted by brides from nine to sixty, noting Cupid’s reach across society from Broadway to Hollywood. Among standout unions are the 42 year old Duke of Windsor’s marriage to 49 year old Wallis Warfield and a February ceremony near Sneedville involving a third grade pupil.
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Dan Cupid
Chicago
Broadway
Hollywood
Army
Hs Blegest Niiseye
Edward VIII of England
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield
Tn Contesist
Cupid
Japan to reply first on Panay sinking crisis
Tokyo reports Japan will issue a denial of surface vessel attack and vows naval and air guarantees to prevent repeats of bombardments. Emperor Hirohito informed by Prime Minister Konoye of the Panay sinking incident with U S protests continuing. The note also protests boarding of the sinking Panay by Japanese troops.
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Tokyo
Foreign Office
Japan
United States
Yangtze River
Abays
Nanking
U. S
Prince Konoye
Roosevelt
Joseph C. Grew
Seventy-Three Arrested in Charleston Gambling Raid
In Charleston and nearby areas officers led by Lieut James Fillinger arrested seventy three suspects after two weeks of investigations into poker games. Locations at Summers Street yielded multiple arrests and confiscated money, cards, and tables. Continuous raids extended to several addresses, with evidence including score sheets found.
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Aaid
Charleston
South Charleston
Kanawha City
James Fillinger
J. Blackburn Watts
Fillinger
C. L
Gav
Summers Street
Web Holesapple
Capitol City
Nelson Transfer Companies
C. L. Gates’ Place
Summerstreet
Wil
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Netter
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New York Central
Wally
Eunice Winstead
Charlie Johns
Sneedville
Tenn
Mary Pickford
Fdr
Hirohito
Fumimaro Konoye
Terre
Dawson
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