Candy Lane Christmas Party Plans At Service Men's Club
The Service Men's Club on Bank Street hosts a Christmas week with junior hostesses and servicemen decorating, dinners, and dances. December 18 starts with a decorating party, December 19 opens The Candy Shop with a formal dance, and December 20 features an officers dance. December 21 hosts a joint party with Decatur and Tri Cities, with open house on the 22 and a candle carol on the 24. Santa will distribute gifts to junior hostesses and servicemen.
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Bank Street
Candy Lane
Mary Wallace Hogan
Elizabeth Griffin
Courtland
Decatur
Tri- Cities
Santa Claus
Mindoro landings, Luzon air attack pace World War II
Allied forces push ashore on Mindoro as Carrier Task Forces scour Luzon with nonstop air power. Nimitz reports 17 Japanese ships sunk or damaged and 139 planes damaged, while MacArthur notes shallow Mindoro invasion and rapid airfield work.
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Douglas MacArthur
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
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Nimitz
MacArthur
Manila
Busungaver
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San Fernan
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Capelinac
Iba
Olonapo
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San Miguelco
Tansj Rt
Tokyo
Japan
Greater
East Asia
Hsinking
Kuniaki Koiso
Shuitus Matsumura
Markets Wall Street extends gains before week ends
New York market closes a strong week with high turnover and broad participation. Industrials slip slightly while steels motors and rubbers show narrow declines. Cotton futures hold to a wide range with late gains for later delivery months.
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Wall Street
Victor Eubank
New York
Associated Press
Chicago
Wheat futures inch higher on demand and cover
The Chicago wheat market firmed as buyers covered short positions with May and December deliveries trading on the offside. Market notes indicate demand supported prices while remaining tight on near term contracts.
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Chicago
Velez Rites Planned Amid Catholic Burial Questions
Beverly Hills report states Lupe Velez will not receive full Catholic rites. Her body will move from Forest Lawn to a Catholic mortuary for possible rosary by laymen. burial may occur at Calvary. Church officials cite civil marriage and suicide factors affecting rites. Funeral could be at 11 a.m. Tuesday depending on her mother’s arrival.
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Calif
Lupe Velez
Associated Press
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Forest Lawn
Miss Velez
Calvary
Rey
Los Angeles
Local notices and military updates fill Decatur area
Ill at home Reverend W B Bentley, Legion meeting set for Monday at eight. Local personnel visit and military assignments noted including RAF training in Ardmore and wounded in action reports from the War Department.
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Pre-War Department
Pfc
Jim Clutts
Emma Clutts
Athens 5
War Department
Pfe
Thomas E. King
Rachell L
Pvt
Walden W. McMillan
Ava W. McMillan
Moulton
Crop Insurance Program Revived by Senate Action
The Senate completed action on a bill reviving the federal crop insurance program, dropped last year. The measure broadens coverage to wheat cotton and flax next year with others added experimentally, and now goes to the White House.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Flax program aims at 30 million fund for seed production
The plan would pay 75 percent of crop value for weather insect and disease losses and create a 30 million fund to boost flax production to ease linseed oil shortages. Incentives would reward farmers who join a flax planting program.
Wolf in Man's Clothing Chapter Thirty Three
Detective Nugent probes Brent family motives and a will as Craig explains his father's German lineage and earlier Hitler era beliefs. The inquiry touches on Mrs. Brent Drue Cable's alibi and the missing medicine box with fingerprints. tension rises over Drue’s possible involvement in Dr Chivery's murder.
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Brent
Miss
Alexia
Conrad Brent
Craig
America
Germany
Stuttgart
Hitler
Night of Murder in the Brent House
In a tense house after a shooting, Craig and Drue confront danger as Miss Cable remains held. The chapter describes the murderer’s unseen threat, the corpse of Dr. Chivery, and a looming police inquiry while the narrator contemplates a dangerous letter to the police.
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Craig
Drue
Claud Chivery
Dr. Chivery
Conrad Brent
Mignon G. Eberhart
King Features Syndicate
Via
LSU Kissing Case Sparks Campus Resignation
Gloria Jeanne Heller an 18 year old transfer from Duke resigns from Louisiana State University after a dispute with President Hatcher over campus attitudes toward the sex question. Student groups urge Civil Liberties Union inquiry and Rockefeller aide involvement while Heller defends herself against charges of promoting free love.
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Baton Rouge
Gloria Jeanne Heller
Havana
Cuba
Louisiana State University
W. B. Hatcher
Civil Liberties Union
Nelson Rockefeller
Dr. Hatcher
Nches
Ar Heller
L. A
Duke Weloeenly
New York City
Hatcher
University Board of Supervisors
Miss Heller
Chemists isolate or synthesize about half a million natural carbon compounds
Scientists note that among the vast pool of potential carbon compounds from natural sources only about five hundred thousand have been isolated or synthesized to date, highlighting the enormous breadth of organic chemistry.
Newlin Rites to Be Held Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Elizabeth Newlin 47 who died Friday at Decatur General hospital will be held Tuesday morning at ten o'clock at the residence 1620 Thirteenth Avenue East with Rev T G Henry officiating Interment will follow in the city cemetery Brown directing Survivors include one daughter Mrs Richard McClarney two sons James F Newlin and Donald M Newlin Army Air Forces a sister Mrs John Bates of Canada two grandchildren and several relatives Pallbearers are Cw Steenson Bob Moore Pete Mills Clayton Coffee John Lively and Alvie Blair
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Frances Elizabeth Newlin
Decatur General Hospital
Thirteenth Avenue East
T. G. Henry
Brown
Richard McClarney
Tuo
James F. Newlin
Donald M. Newlin
Army Air Forces
John Bates
Canada
Cw Steenson
Bob Moore
Pete Mills
Clayton Coffee
John Lively
Alvie Blair
Kalopian class Christmas party at Central Baptist Church
The Kalopian class of Central Baptist church held a Friday night Christmas party at Ms. Kathleen Malone's home. Mrs. Arilla Powers led a devotional reading of the Christmas story, followed by readings and gift exchanges.
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Central Baptist Church
Kathleen Malone
Arilla Powers
Stella Me Louise Stanley
Bethlehem
Sweden’s Lutheran Church Stands as Supreme Authority
A fragment notes that 99 percent of the people in Sweden belong to the Lutheran church, which is described as the supreme administrator or authority within the country.
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Peale of Sweden
Sun Spots Disrupt Transcontinental Communications
Electrical disturbances attributed to sun spots or the aurora borealis disrupted telephone and telegraph lines nationwide. AT&T warned disturbances could continue 36 hours with the West hardest hit. Western Union reported east outages easing through the day. Broadcast networks reported London pickups and Pacific feeds affected, while CBS noted no domestic impact but London program problems.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
A. T. and
Western Union
Florida
Associated Press
Atlanta
Kansas City
National Broadcasting Company
London
Mutual
Pacific
Columbia Broadcasting System
W L Price Called Home In Flint Death Notices
Walker L Price 89 died Friday night of influenza at his Flint home. A L N Railroad employee, he will lie in state at Mrs Guy Flautt’s home before a 3 p m service at Grant Church of Christ with Rufus Underwood officiating. Interment Roselawn Cemetery Brown directing.
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Walker L. Price
Flint
Ilness
Price
L. & N. Railroad
Guy Flautt
Fifth Avenue West
Grant Church of Christ
Rufus Underwood
Roselawn
Brown
Verbal Move Aims At Pecton Impact On U S Britain Ties
A verbal step is seen as likely to affect relations with Britain and Russia. The move may be released after submission to President Roosevelt for approval and issuance from the White House.
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Britain
Russia
Dent Roosevelt
Peace terms rejected as Greece battles in Athens continue
Lt Gen Ronald Scobie rejected the ELAS peace offer, demanding immediate cessation of fighting in Athens and Piraeus. British forces pledged to restore democratic liberties as fighting persists with 1,000 ELAS casualties and 2,800 prisoners reported, while demolitions and fortifications shape the city center.
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Athens
Ronald M. Scobie
EAM
National Liberation Front
Scobie
Piraeus
Harold Alexander
Alexander
Mediterranean
Greece
Eam-Elas
Damaskinos
Harold MacMilla
Middle East
George Papandreou
Ter
Papandreou
Nicholas Plastiras
Philip Dracoumis
ELAS
University Street
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Kallipolis
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