Marines End Taxicab Trip From Coast
Six marines completed a coast to coast cab ride ending in New York after a blizzard laden trip from San Diego. Sgt. Sam Steinman and three New York colleagues arrived with two others heading home from Pittsburgh and a fifth departing en route to Pittsburgh. The group faced heavy delays and a near skid on a mountain road before reaching New York and plan return trips.
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New York
San Diego
Sam Steinman
E Minichino
Gordon W. Edwards
New York City
George Shepard
Woodstock
West Coast
Steinman
Indiana
Tucson
Ariz
Pittsburgh
Arisohn
Shepard
New Hampshire
Marine Corps Air Station
Cherry Point
N. C
Bedcovering Dispute Ends With Judge Acquittal
Mrs Alberta Brooks told Judge Charles S Dougherty she aired bedding by shaking it from a second story window. Prosecutor Maurice Mettel said a bed hit a parked car causing $200 damage. The judge freed her of malicious mischief.
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Chicago
Alberta Brooks
Charles S. Dougherty
Brooks
Maurice Mettel
Mrs. Brooks
Dougherty
Python at San Diego Zoo Injures Self in Fall
A 20-foot, 160-pound Indian python at the San Diego zoo fell from a cement tree and injured itself. Zoo Director Mrs. Belle Benchrey ordered hospital staff to set up an X-ray in the python’s glass cage to assess the injury and determine further care based on the X-ray result.
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San Diego
Calif
San Diego Zoo
Belle Benchrey
Court Sets Homma Trial Date for January Third
The court schedules the trial of Homma for January 3. The fragment discusses infants’ focus and eye development with unrelated scientific notes.
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Crimes Court
Homma
Search Being Conducted For Yanks' Killers
Berlin officials, with German police, search Temple Hof airdrome district for the assailants in the Christmas Eve slaying of two American soldiers. Investigators report both victims were shot through the head with a .38 caliber pistol. a German girl Ingard Grossa 19 described the encounter with two uniformed men she believed were Russians.
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Berlin
Temple-Hof
U. S. Army
Ingard Grossa
Dogs invade Chicago rooming house in Queenie scare
Queenie, the sole resident, awoke to about 18 dogs romping through the first floor at a south side rooming house run by Mrs Irving Klein. Police were called and multiple squads arrived to clear the residence, ultimately removing all dogs except Queenie.
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Chicago
Queenie
South St
Irving Klein
Eugene McCoy
Young Knoxville Boys Direct Traffic At Crossing
Two about ten year old boys acted as crossing traffic directors in Knoxville Tennessee. They stood with boyish dignity and waved a girl to wait and then signaled her to cross when a car approached.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Teetotal bartender dies at 75 in Hastings
E. J. Breeds, longtime local bartender in Hastings, died aged 75. He sold beer whisky and wines for 44 years yet remained a strict teetotaler himself.
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Hastings
Eng
E. J. Breeds
Paul C High of Raleigh Dies in Washington DC
Paul College High aged 49 nephew of Mrs C F Rogers of Raleigh died Monday morning December 24 in a Washington DC hospital. A WWI veteran he worked for the U S Post Office in Raleigh until ill in June. He married Irene Elizabeth Jordan in 1923. survives include wife two daughters Mrs James Wilburn of Aboro and Nancy High. Burial was at Montlawn Memorial Park in Raleigh.
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Montlawn Memorial Park
Raleigh
Treasury loaned silver for wartime electrical needs
About four hundred million dollars worth of silver, valued as an excellent electricity conductor, was loaned by the treasury to atomic bomb scientists during the war to complete electrical equipment in place of scarce copper.
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Treasury
N. C. Hill 75 Dies At Home Near Denton
N. C. Hill 75 died suddenly at his Denton area home on Wednesday. Survived by son W. M. Hill Albemarle. daughters Mrs. A. R. Morris and Mrs. J. J. Cooke of Denton. and brother A. A. Hill High Point. Body to remain with daughter Mrs. Morris until funeral Friday at 2 p.m. at Lineberry Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery. The National Academy of Sciences is the official science advisor to the U.S. government.
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Denton
N. C. Hill
W. M. Hill
Albemarle
A. R. Morris
J. J. Cooke
A. A. Hill
High Point
Morris
Lineberry Methodist Church
The
National Academy of Sciences
United States
Funeral Rites for Julius Harrison Held in Thomasville
Funeral services for Julius H Harrison a well known local retired merchant were held at his residence 408 West Street. Rev S Moorefield and Rev Harold Schram conducted the service with pallbearers Byron Harrison Austin Harrison Carl Harrison Wayne Harrison Ray Harrison and Alton Parrish. Music was by a trio Mrs M Childers Mrs F Locka Jr and Mrs M H Potts. Interment followed at the Salem Methodist church cemetery in Ra county with relatives and friends in attendance.
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Marines
UNRRA
Landsberg
Leo Srol
Germany
Lucien Truscott
Front
Walter Bedell-Smith
Masaharu Homma
Arrow
U.S
Manila
Bataan
U.S. Army Signal Corps Radiophoto
International
U. S
P. C. High
Washington
High Point, N. C
IBM
Electromatic
Aten, MM
International Business Machines Corporation
World Headquarters
N.Y
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