Driver Found Dead in Auto on Mobile Street
Mobile Alabama December 23 7 After pulling beside a parked car to warn its driver his wheels were on the pavement highway patrolmen found Robert L Davis 21 dead at the wheel with a bullet wound in his left temple A .44 caliber revolver was in his hand the car radio was playing Sheriff W H Holcombe reported the death not self inflicted and Assistant State Toxicologist Nelson Grubbs noted the bullet was smaller in caliber than the revolver Holcombe said Davis formerly lived in Hattiesburg Mississippi and had come to Mobile about three weeks ago Grubbs estimated Davis had been dead for about 30 minutes when found
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Mobile
Ala
Robert L. Davis
W. H. Holcombe
Nelson Grubbs
Davis
Holcombe
Hattiesburg, Miss
Grubbs
Christmas Wish: 12 Year Old Seeks New Home After Tent Fire
Louis Collins, 12, waits for a new home after a fire destroyed the family tent near the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. His mother and father, with five children, lost their shelter and Jabbo the dog stayed behind, guarding the wreck amid cold and uncertainty. Louis recalls past houses in Macon and another downtown.
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Atlanta
Louis Collins
Louis
Fie
Joe Collins
Macon
Federal Penitentiary
Collins
Jabbo
Patterson's Think slogan fuels dynamic business leadership
E. St. Elise Lewis recalls John Patterson, founder of National Cash Register, using dramatic showmanship to inspire staff to think. Baners, banners, napkins, and a ceiling card urged THINK, linking errors to lack of thinking and calling for more inspiration in business.
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John Patterson
National Cash» Register Company
St. Eliife Lewis
Detroit
Patterson
Lewis
Modern Fable Lite Echoes of Daily Life and Advertising
A collage of fragments from dialogue and humor notes critiquing manners media and work. It mixes a marital betrayal line a brutal metaphor a suburban whisper a salesman joke and two cabinet of curiosities style quotes about advertising rest cures and job-seeking.
Chennault Marries Chinese Reporter In Private Ceremony
General Claire L. Chennault wed Anna Chan a 24 year old Chinese reporter in a Lutheran ceremony at his Holly Hill home. The 57 year old former Flying Tigers commander invited close friends for a small reception with a duck dinner and chrysanthemums. The bride returned to her post at the Chinese Central News Agency unsure about leaving her job.
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John Roderick
Shanghai
Claire L. Chennault
Flying Tigers
Air Transport Service
Anna Chan
Chennault
Holly Fath
Joe
Ralph Mortensen
China Bible House
Inter
Harrison Paint Stock Closeout At $1 A Gallon
The T. R. Harrison Machine Co announces over 100 gallons of government surplus black paint closing out at one dollar per gallon. Also offers machine work and welding services from its shop at 108 West Moulton Street.
Meredith Nicholson Dies in Indianapolis at 81
Meredith Nicholson, last survivor of Indiana’s golden literary era, died in Methodist Hospital after a long illness from bronchial pneumonia. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow. A journalist, fiction and essay writer, and diplomat, he served as minister to Paraguay and Venezuela in his seventies. His best known work is The House Of A Thousand Candles, a mystery novel long popular in libraries.
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Indianapolis
Meredith Nicholson
Indiana
Methodist Hospital
Nicholson
Latin America
Paraguay
Venezuela
Two Die In Helicopter Crash In Portland
A helicopter crash near the Cronin residence in Portland killed C. Sam Jackson, 33, newspaper heir and Ambrose M. Cronin, 43, president of the Electric Distribution Co. Cronin was hosting a dinner party for friends and family when the fatal flight occurred.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
C. Sam Jackson
Oregon Journal
Ambrose M. Cronin
Electric Distributing Co
Cronin
Probate Notice for Estate of A H Prickett Deceased
The State of Alabama Morgan County Probate Court grants Letters Testamentary on December 19 1947 to the undersigned for A H Prickett deceased. All persons with claims against the estate must present them within the legal time limit or they will be barred.
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Alabama
Morgan County
A. H. Prickett
Probate Court
T.C. Almon
Trinity Wins Two Games in Hot Stretch of Season
Trinity high school seniors posted their sixth win of the season by routing Athens 29 to 17. Trinity remains largely undefeated this season, with a lone defeat to Union Hill. In the earlier junior game, Trinity Juniors defeated Athens Juniors 21 to 10. Layman led Trinity with 12 points, Stewart added eight, and Allen led Athens with seven. Whitlock led Trinity Juniors with eight points, Christopher topped Athens Juniors with four.
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Trinity High School
Athens’ High School
Trinity
Union Hill
Athens
Layman
Stewart
Allen
Whitlock
Christopher
Costly Blaze Destroys buildings in Williamson business district
A fire in Williamson destroyed an apartment house two department stores and other structures in the central business district yesterday. Damage was unofficially estimated at 350000 dollars.
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Williamson. V
Conl Center
American Aviation Pioneer Divorced After 35 Years
Former air force officer Charles Chennault, long married to an American wife, divorced in 1946 after 35 years. He reportedly told close friends two days earlier of plans to wed Chan, daughter of a Chinese consul. Chennault wore his air force dress uniform. Chan wore a white silk wedding gown and veil.
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Miss Chan
Chennault
Air Force
Funeral 18 Held for Doyle Buckles
Funeral services were held yesterday in Tuscaloosa for Doyle Buckles, an Alabama Press Association field manager and secretary treasurer and director of the UA news bureau. Graveside rites were conducted by the American Legion. Buckles, a noted authority on weekly newspapers, had been ill for months and died in a Birmingham hospital. He was a native of Kangas.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
En Desco
Alabama Press Association
University of Alabama News Bureau
American Legion
Birmingham
Kangas
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