Broadway Actor Adler stays even when away from Hollywood
Luther Adler, a Broadway actor visiting Hollywood, says he does not hate any place just dislikes any place, explaining that liking or disliking comes from a situation at a specific place. He notes he prefers motion pictures and that people in Hollywood obsess over the weather while others ignore it. He recently finished Cornered and is back on Saigon with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.
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Bob-Thomas
Holeywood
Luther Adler
Hollywood
Lamorville
Adler
Holood
Saigon
Alan Ladd
Veronica Lake
Chicago
New York
Christmas Tree Service at Enon Church Sunday
Lawrence County notices invite all to a Christmas preaching service at Enon church on Sunday December 22. Local news mentions visits between McCaghren and Plain View families and social attendance at recent Joe Wheeler meeting in Decatur.
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Enon
Negro Soldiers Sentenced by Army Court Martial at MacDill Field
Seven Negro soldiers were sentenced to prison terms ranging from four to twenty five years after an Army court martial found them guilty of riot and mutiny following a disturbance at MacDill Field on October 27. Acquittals were handed to two of nine defendants. sentences await review by higher authority.
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Tampa
Fla
MacDill Field
Leonard Dotson
Shreveport
Eddie L. Carothers
Austin
Texas
Harrison Greer
Tunica
Miss
John C. Burse
Erwin
N. C
Albert Jackson
Dutchtown
Ala
James E. Green
Tupelo
Joe D. Henry
Pittsview
Postwar Dream House Goes High Tech in Suburban Lot
Wayne Morris shows a modern home wired with Navy style gadgets. The gate opens as he arrives and each room has two way speakers and automated lighting. Mrs. Morris can rouse him with a pilots command and a button lights the yard. Morris imagines an electronic trout stream.
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Navy
Wayne
Girl Polio Victim Heads 900 Mile Trip For Baltimore
Janet Gentle a 15 year old polio patient from Rockwood Alabama travels in a mobile hospital funded by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to Baltimore Children’s Hospital for treatment. She is escorted by state and local police and joined by nurses and her parents. The project includes a 45 foot mobile unit with an iron lung and medical equipment.
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Louis A. Eckl
Florence
Ala
Janet Gentle
Rockwood
Baltimore
Children’s Hospital
National Foundation For
Baroness Erlanger
Chattanooga
Kings Mountain Memorial Hospital
Bristol
University Hospital
Charlottesville
Janet
J. C. Gentle
Virginia Hamilton
Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital
Mildred Leach
Helen Fairchild
Mobile
National Foundation
March of Dimes
Frank E
Celesia
Brooklyn
N.Y
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
American Federation of Labor
Alabama
Tennessee Line
Tennessee
Virginia
Washington
Maryland
Franklin County
Auburn
Lilly
Mickey
Lauderdale County
Lauderdale
The
134 Get Degrees at API in Auburn
Addressing the fall term graduating class at Alabama Polytechnic Institute Dean Zebulon Judd urged cooperation in community life to maintain peace. He noted people seek miracles from outside while nations must live together in communities. Degrees were awarded to 134 seniors.
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Auburn
Ala
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Zebulon Judd
API School of Education
Stassen Announces Candidacy For Wagner Labor Act Platform
Harold E. Stassen, former Minnesota governor, gestures while in Washington announcing his bid centered on a Wagner Labor Relations Act platform. The AP wire reports the presidential hopeful framing his campaign around labor policy.
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Terry
Washington
Edward P. Terry
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
Quitman, Miss
Senate
War Investigating Committee
Bilbo
W. Harold Lane
Center
Stassen
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Decatur Junior High Council Holds Brief Meeting
The Decatur junior high student council met on their regular schedule Tuesday. President Marlene McBride led the session with secretary Jeanette Golden recording minutes without corrections. Committee checkups occurred, reports were given, a gift was approved for ill Vice President Mary Penn, and the meeting adjourned.
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Decatur Junior High School
Marlene McBride
Jeanette Golden
Miss Bibb
Mary Penn
Long Range Forecast Chicago Cold Wave Heads South
U S Weather Bureau Supervising Forecaster G E Dunn and his family left for Florida for a vacation after Chicago faced its first heavy snowfall of the season and a sharp cold snap. The city posted 5.1 degrees above zero the day before, the coldest since last February. Dunn plans to return January 9. A historical note recalls that Americans averaged 17 in 1820 and about 29 today.
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Chicago
U. S. Weather Bureau
G. E. Dunn
Dunn
Florida
Race casualties in World War II reported
The report notes that Negro casualties totaled 1.28 percent of Negro strength while white casualties reached 6.54 percent of white strength.
Damon Runyon Ashes Scattered Over Manhattan
The Times Square obituary notes Damon Runyon the Broadway chronicler had his ashes scattered over Manhattan as per his written instruction. The columnist’s note describes the wished act and reflects on Runyon’s lasting impact on New York’s theatrical world.
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New York
Damon Runyon
Broadway
Times Square
Damon
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Johnston St
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McCaghren
Decatur Cleaners
2Nd Ave
the Music Box
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Birmingham
Music Box
Lee Street
Rockers
Dinsmore Bros. Furniture Co
Second Ave
Franz J. Polgar
Budapest University
Manhattan
Decatur Appliance
West Church
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