Peace feelers and the echoed push for surrender
Washington reports that alleged peace feelers from neutral capitals and German interests circulate weekly. Diplomatic authorities dismiss them as fiction with no real authority behind them. The only viable path to armistice would be through official channels, and no German group shows to gain from talks now.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Germany
Madrid
Ankara
Stockholm
Gestapo
Miler
Hitler
United States
Vatican
Veteran Dickenson Aids Pacific Air Base After War
Staff Sgt. Ralph Dickinson serves as a mechanic at a U.S. air base in the Pacific theater after 32 months of handling heavy bombers. He earned the Presidential Unit Citation and several battle stars for service with the Fifth Air Force, recounting salvaging parts from damaged aircraft to keep planes flying amid intense Jap attacks during the Coral Sea and other campaigns.
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South Pacific
Ralph Dickinson
New Guinea
Coral Sea
Dickinson
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Fifth Air Forces
Ruling on liquor sales ration in Alabama
The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board says a whiskey ration card holder must buy both bottles of his December quota in one purchase to prevent a Christmas rush due to staff shortages. Administrator E. W. Gunn noted continued limits may depend on supplies.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
E. W. Gunn
State Buys Bonds in War Bond Investiment
Alabama state funds totaling 1.735 million dollars were invested in U S war bonds including one million for the 1933 refunding bond issue. The Teachers retirement fund receives 500 000 dollars with 200 000 from docks surpluses and 35 000 from the sales tax token redemption fund.
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Montgomery
Ala
Walter Lusk
Daniels for Treaty Plan highlighted by Daniels plea
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels testified before the House judiciary committee that the two thirds Senate rule endangers world peace and urged a constitutional amendment to allow treaty ratification by a majority of both Houses. He warned a small Senate minority risks popular will and national security amid League of Nations regrets. A woman in Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced for kidnapping a baby and held at a reform facility after pleading insanity.
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Washington
Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
Woodrow Wilson
Senate
Congress
Daniels
House Judiciary
Damocles
Raleigh
N. C
News and Observer
Mexico
Eee
Roosevelt
Navy
League of Nations
Mobile
Ala
Euban Jenkins
William R. Laws
Jenkins
U. S
John Mecce
Alans Eral Women’s Reformatory
Er- W. Va
Brothers in service listed from Hartsville area
PFC Paul Yates is in the Aleutian Islands and has served overseas twice. His brother Pfc Harvey Yates is stationed at Fort Belvoir Virginia and has two years in the service. They are sons of Mr and Mrs W B Yates of Hartsville.
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Alfred Terry, JR
Germany
Robert L. Terry
Lower
A. P. Terry
Courtland
Pfc
Paul Yates
Top
Aleutian Islands
Harvey Yates
Fort Belvoir
Sad Misa
W. B. Yaiee
Hartsslia
Christmas Gift Drive Aids World War Veterans In Alabama
The Eddie Cantor campaign partners with Liary and local merchants to buy gifts for veterans in Alabama hospitals on Christmas Day. Gifts collected by December 10 through the Legion and Auxiliary will be distributed, with each box containing greeting cards and a contents list.
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Liary
Eddie Cantor
Legion
The
Legion Auxiliary
Alabama
Decatur
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AIR Base
ABC Board
E.C. Ray
Somraip Sreene
Office Supply CO
American Legion Auxi
Norway
Awatch
Lepel
Gunter’s
Gunter
Eara
Pho
Second Avenue
Johnston Street
Bathstowe Eines
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