Local Churches Plan Christmas Services Sunday
Local congregations announce a day of Christmas services at First Baptist and Tabernacle. The First Baptist schedules two morning worships with offertory music and a 5:00 vesper featuring carols and The Music of Christmas. Tabernacle presents a senior Christmas play A King Is Born at 7:20 Sunday night plus a junior program and Christmas treats for Sunday School classes.
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F Baptist Church
First Baptist
Charis
James F. Brower
H. A. Wisk
Myima
Baytist Church
Tabernacle
James i Tamil
Carl Bruner
Maxine Jacobs
Hope Gospel Tabernacle
Annadeane Westbrook
Bernice Bradley
Ruel Oliver
A. F. Partle
Negro Goodfellows drive nets 335 gifts to date
The Negro Goodfellows campaign reports about 335 gifts collected so far for distribution to the needy on Christmas Morning. Workers from oil mills and handline mills are still to be heard from. The committee thanks the Saenger Theatre manager for toy donations and all contributors. The note about earthquakes appears as a separate fact.
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Negro Goodfellows
Saenger Teater
Isa
Booker T Washington Quips on Reward for Knowledge
A Thought No jan who continues to add samething to the quatorial, ine tellectual and yours weld being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. Booker T. Washington.
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Jan
Booker
Washington
Bailey Extends Time To Buy License Tags
Governor Bailey announced the extension of the motor vehicle license tag purchase period by 30 days beyond December 31. The decision, made Friday afternoon in Little Rock, shifts the deadline to January on the new calendar.
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Bailey
Little Rock
Barton Sought to Replace Hays as Arkansas Delegate
The Democratic State Committee in Little Rock unanimously urged the national committee to elect Col. T. H W. Barton of El Dorado as Arkansas representative. Barton would succeed Brooks Hays, who resigned last month due to the Hatch act restricting federal employee political activity. The name of Barton was the only one presented to the 35 member committee in a 17 minute session.
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Little Rock
National Committee
Col
T. H W. Barton
el Dorado Oil
Arkansas
Brooks Hays
Little Reel
Regions
Farm Security Administration
Barton Chuire
Bailey
Hirys
Trains Crash in Germany Kills Seventy
Paris reports a disaster as a barge collision on a river near Notre Dame caused a bridge to collapse. Police say a gas main exploded, sending pedestrians and vehicles into the water. At least twenty were on the bridge. seven recovered from the river and two died. Thirteen others are unaccounted for.
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Paris
France
St. Louis
Cathedral of Notre Dame
Areh
Two Trains Collide in Genthin Station Killing Seventy
Berlin reports two passenger trains crowded with Christmas travelers collided at Genthin station, killing 70 and injuring about 100. The Berlin Saay express struck the Berlin Cologne service at an unscheduled halt, marking the worst rail disaster in the postwar series.
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Berlin
Germany
Genthin
Mind Your Manners A Guide To Courteous Dining
A fragmentary piece on social usage asks questions about proper behavior at meals including whether a man should wait for a woman, who should precede or follow, and how to respond to etiquette prompts. It presents sample questions with brief proposed answers and invites readers to test their knowledge.
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Aman
Hin
Express Thanks as Goodfellows Campaign Ends
The Goodfellows Christmas Cheer fund ended Friday with 366.55 raised. Cecil Weaver, general organization chairman of the drive sponsored by the Anterlom Legion post, said demand from needy families was large but supplies are sufficient. Delivery of food and clothing will start Saturday at 9 am using city trucks for distribution.
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Goodfellows
Cecil Weaver
Anterlom Legion Post
Weaver
American Legion Post
Why Waste Energy Making Touchdowns
Denver University football end Prod Powers kicked from the 60 yard line and sent the ball 65 yards through the posts for a record fourth longest playkick in a college game. The shot traveled true, landing about 20 yards beyond, as the field goal stood between the uprights. Earlier marks include Hazaldf Princeton 65 yards against Yale in 1915 and other long kicks by Davis of Dickinson and Byrnes of St. Lawrence.
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Powers
Denver University
Kluho University
Hazaldf
Princeton
Yale
Davis
Dickinson
Byrnes
St. Lawrence
Hero Leaves His Imprint Behind Him
Paris reports a morning exchange outside a church about Jean, a figure in France and Germany with troops, misheard names and a nod to luftwaffe era imagery, concluding with the line that dead corps and triumphs tie a man’s legacy.
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Hero
Paris
Madame Doedus
Madame Noel
Jean
Franc
Jeu Ik
Germany
Finland in peril as aid and arms are urged now
In a U S correspondent dispatch Finland faces imminent cut off from outside support. The piece warns aid must come quickly for arms aircraft and anti tank guns as Red Army advances threaten key Tornea rail and road links and the Arctic port of Petsamo in a desperate fight to keep contact with Sweden and the world.
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Thomas M. Jonson
NEA
Washington
Friends of
Finland
Red Army
Gulf of Bothnia
Sweden
Petsama
Tornea
Tornca
Seweden
Resr
New Theater Celebrates Third Anniversary on Christmas Day
The New Theater marks its third anniversary on December 25 1999 tying celebration to its founding on Christmas Day 1946. Owner-manager Ro V McGinnis announces a fourth year with a strong lineup and piano of top pictures as crowds exceed quarter million over three years.
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News Theater
Pridy
Uhu
Ro V. McGinnis
Green Invited to New Year s Day All Star Game
Norman Green, Hone High School left end, was invited to the All Star tri state football game in Memphis Tennessee on New Year s Day. The game teams from Arkansas Tennessee and Mississippi. Green will discuss with Coach Foy Hammons and Bill Brasher before deciding. If basketball eligibility would be affected he will decline the invitation.
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Memphis
Tenn
Arkansas
Tennessee
Mississippi
Charity Green
Foy Hammons
Bill Brasher
Green
Mine Warfare and the Hague Code A War Threat
Thomas M. Jominson analyzes a rising mine threat to Allied and neutral ships. He weighs weather, mine types, and German use, noting magnetic and contact mines, their concealment, and the need for Britain to enforce cautious mining under the Hague Code while warning of potential intensified sinkings.
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IM Service
Waslington
Mjire
Orth Sea
British Channel
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Holland
Eugape
Gereny
San Diego
Bertain
Col Lindbergh May Leave U S Again
Washington report states Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh may abandon the United States to live abroad once more. Officials said the flier was considering a move while White House named Brigadier General Walter G. Kilner to succeed him on the aeronautics advisory committee.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Thursby
United States
Lindbergh
National Advisory Committee
Aeronautics
White House
Walter G. Kilner
Air Corps
England
Canada
Britain
Silent Night Origin Story in Bavarian Church
In 1818 the carol Silent Night arose after an organ fault left a Bavarian church with only a choir. Josef Mohr penned the words and Franz Gruber hurriedly composed the music as a wintry blizzard night inspired the moment. Shopping Day Till Christmas.
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Josef Mohr
Oberndorf
Franz Gruber
9 Percent Billion to Be Asked by FDR
President Roosevelt, described by officials as reconciled to a 3 billion dollar deficit in the next federal budget, is expected to ask for about 4.4 billion in expenditures for the year beginning July 4, 1940, with revenues near one third of that amount. Hanes resigns as undersecretary of the Treasury effective December 31 to return to private business. Roosevelt also notes a plan to have the federal government build small hospitals in poor states and localities lacking medical facilities.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Hanes
John W. Hanes
The
Treasury
He Should Ap preciate Blockers He Should Ap preciate Blockers
Austin report cites Ravin Raven a Travis County football messenger star. Raven led high school players with over 100 points by mid season while a standout blocker and feeder for top scorers as headlines spread of his season.
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Austin
Tex
Travis
Ravin) Raven
Express
Caboose
Raven
Cranium Crackers Meanings Puzzle On Page Two
A puzzle page lists multiple noun groups with four possible definitions each. Readers must pick the single correct meaning for terms like Logograph Manciple and Dusna while avoiding confusion with similar words and noting the page indicates more content on Page Two.
Scots Beat Raid Helsinki In Snowbound Finland
Arctic fighters chased retreating Russian forces in narrow Finnish corridors as snow blanketed the nation. German planes dropped pamphlets on Helsinki but released no bombs. pamphlets drifted into the sea amid a driven snowstorm.
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Helsinki
Finland
Cor
Thesea
Hero's tribute to Graf Spee captain Langsdorff
Buenos Aires reports a crowd of about 100000 at the funeral of Captain Hans Langsdorff, commander of the sunken Graf Spee. German sailors formed a guard of honor at the cemetery as Argentine and German mourners attended. The body lay under the flag of the Graf Spee, with scatterings of naval honors following the ship's destruction on Hitler's orders near Montevideo. An Argentine commission recommends impounding Langsdorff's farewell letter from public view.
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Graf Spee
Hans Langsdorff
Naval Arsenal
Langsdorff
Adolf Hitler
Montevideo
Montevived
Cotton market report from New York closes steady
The cotton market in New York opened with steady tone and closed around 75 cents a pound. Prices showed Middling at 11.15 and futures similar with slight gains and daily volume modest.
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New York
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