Moslems and Jews Ease Christmas Travel in Holy Land
In a fifth consecutive year the Moslem Jordanian and Jewish Israeli governments allow limited two way crossings for about 5000 Israeli Christians to visit relatives in Jordan and return via Mandelbaum Gate. The old Bethlehem Road opens to diplomatic corps, and Nazarath hosts main Christmas events with Protestant and Catholic centers noted.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Israel
Jordan
Wal
New Jerusalem
Old City
Bethlehem
Mandelbaum Gate
Syria
Egypt
Beth
Electric wire keeps pigeons off buildings in Birmingham
The British Information Service reports a slim electric wire along ledges delivers a weak one second shock to deter pigeons. Birds touch the wire and take off immediately, a method already used successfully on several large Birmingham buildings.
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New York
British Information Service
Birmingham
England
Republicans Organize Nation's First Major Party in 1854
The Republican Party of the United States formed in 1854 as a new political faction opposing the expansion of slavery. Founders organized in a period of national reform, uniting diverse groups under a common platform.
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Republican Party of the
United States
Two Million Christmas Spruce Trees From Duluth Ready
Dwarf spruce trees grown in ancient Minnesota lakebeds will brighten about two million homes this Christmas. Halvorson Trees Inc plans to produce 1.5 to 2 million trees with 75 percent green 15 percent silver and 10 percent white finishes. The process includes wax undercoating, color coats, and cold storage before shipment by rail from Duluth starting Nov 10.
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Joe F. Kane
Duluth
Minn
Minnesota
North Woods
Halvorson Trees, Inc
Halvorson Firm
Paul Bunyan
Halvorson
Lake Superior
Liquor Ring and Bank Case Arraignments Begin in Federal Court
More than 100 people tied to a large Southwest Alabama liquor ring face arraignment in Federal Court today and tomorrow. Mobile detectives Paul Duck and Francis Salde and Clarke County Sheriff Jenkins Hill are among those charged with conspiring to violate federal liquor laws. W. P. Stutts, owner of a South Alabama lumber firm, and his wife are arraigned on counts of conspiring to misapply funds from the old Thomasville bank and violating the federal wage hour law, with a separate charge of making a false statement to the Reconstruction Finance Corp. trial for Stutts and his wife, along with ex bank president J Moody Drinkard, bank cashier Myrtle N. McCrory, and Mrs. Drinkard, has been set in federal court.
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Mobile
Alabama
South Alabama
Clarke County
Jenkins Hill
Hill
Paul Duck
Francis Salde
Thomasville
Ala
Daniel H. Thomas
Stutts
Lucy Kate Stutts
Reconstruction Finance Corp
J. Moody Drinkard
Old
Thomasville Bank
Vrinkard
Myrtle N. McCrory
Forger Jailed in Owensboro After Check Theft
A man jailed in Owensboro on charges of stealing two checks from a doctor's office and forging the physician's name. He tried signing stolen blank checks and left a signature on a scrap found on the doctor's desk.
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Owensboro
Bank funds conspiracy arrests in Mobile and counties
State and federal officers reported scores of arrests last summer in Mobile Washington Monroe and Clarke Counties on liquor law violations. The ring allegedly operated with protection of law officers.
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Mobile
Washington
Monroe
Clarke Counties
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Blue Bird
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