Oscar Derby Inches Toward Oscar Race in Hollywood Headlines
Hollywood studios rush to release late contenders before year end to qualify for the Academy Awards. Top hopefuls include Weekend and The Bells of St. Mary’s with Ray Milland Bing Crosby Ingrid Bergman and Martin Scorsese. Other leading films feature Mildred Pierce A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Valley of Decision The Corn Is Green and more. Bette Davis and William Grant Sherry’s wedding trip proceeds after a gift of tires amid Mexico mishaps.
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Hollywood
St. Mary's
Los Angeles
Ray Milland
Bing Crosby
Ingrid Bergman
Saratoga Trunk
Ingrid
200h-Fox
Gene Tierney
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
Dorothy Guire
Bryn
Greer Garson
Bette Davis
Brooklyn
Mitchum
Johnee
William Grant Sherry
Bette
Mexico
100th Praised For Battle At Bitche
The 100th Infantry Division landed in France October 20 1944 and fought through the Vosges to Bitche. They captured Raon l Etape S stations and faced heavy German counterattacks before reducing Fort Schiesseck. General Devers praised their action forcing enemy offensives to stop. The unit then cleared Saarland pocket between the Third and Seventh Armies.
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France
Mediterranean
Meurthe River
Baccarat
Centurymen
Raon L’etape
Jacob L. Devers
Sixth Army
100Th
Saarland
Century
Radio Tonight and Tomorrow Schedule Highlights
Associated Press radio listings show a dense lineup across networks NBC CBS ABC and MBS with programs featuring Chester Bowles American Forum Louis Ludlow Van Johnson Alan Young Guy Lombardo and a mix of dramas comedies musical programs and news segments. The schedule covers Wednesday with morning to evening slots including Words and Music District Attorney Jack Carson and The Fitzgeralds among others.
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Talks
Chester Bowles
Columbus
Ohio
American Forum
CBS
Louis Ludlow
NBC
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Amos and Andy
Fibber and Molly
Red Skelton
van Johnson
Russell Bennett
ABC
Alan Young
Eddie Cantor
Guy Lombardo
MBS
Mike
Tommy Band
Eileen Ferrell
Jack Carson
Geo. Jessel
Andrews Sisters
Bride and Groom
Shady
Walter Police
John J. Anthony
Johnson Family
Radio Schedule for Wednesday December 11 1945
A detailed Broadcast timetable lists programs from 5:45 PM to 2:15 AM including Sport Flash, news reads, comedies like Amos n Andy, dramas such as Road of Life and Guiding Light, musical segments with Roy Orchestra and Morton Downey, and shopper and market reports.
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Chesterfield
the Barber
Johnny Presents
Judy
Amos
Andy
Richard Harkness
Roy
Uncle Josh
Ed East
Polly
Morgan Bratty
Guiding Light
Woman of America
Ma Perkins
Chiang Kai-shek Ousts Kunming Garrison Commander
Chiang Kai-shek relieves General Kwant Lin-cheng as Kunming garrison commander for mishandling a student strike of 6,000 and a December grenade attack that killed four demonstrators. General Ho Kwei-chang named acting commander and Kwang is to be punished.
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Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
Kwant Lin-cheng
Kunming
China
Chiang
Ho Kwei-chang
Youth Army
Kwang A
German Held for False Statements Misled Allied Forces
ISERLOHN Germany Helmut Stumbech 22 son of a butcher received five years in a military government court for making false statements to Allied forces alleging he knew the hiding place of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.
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Iserlohn
Germany
Helmut Stumbech
Butcher
Adolf Hitler
Eva Braun
Man pockets pheasant he nabbed barehanded in cornfield
Denver based hunter Howard Cook says he caught an wary cock pheasant barehanded while walking from a cornfield near Fort Morgan after already shooting one pheasant. He grabbed the tail and found a live bird beneath the cornstalks.
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Denver
Howard Cook
Fort Morgan
Women help soldier buy washcloths in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis several women shoppers pitched in to assist a serviceman just back from the Pacific. Limited to one washcloth per customer, the soldier said he had left all belongings in the south Pacific and needed more than one. The courteous civilians bought the items for him.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Pacific
South Pacific
Warrier carrier commissions in Belfast next month
The 14,000 ton aircraft carrier Warrior, the first flat up built for the Royal Canadian Navy, will be commissioned next month at the Belfast navy yard.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Warrior
Royal Canadian Navy
Belfast Navy Yard
German reparations allocate $93 million in industrial equipment
The Allied control council says 26 western German factories worth about 93 million dollars will be given as an initial reparations payment. Russia and Poland receive 47.8 percent. 52.2 percent goes to 17 western nations including the United States.
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Berlin
Germany
Allied Control Council
Russia
Poland
United States
French Troops Encircle Band of 30 Natives in Indo China
A British French statement said troops had encircled and wiped out a group of 30 natives who were attempting to evacuate Annamite hostages in a southern area of Indo China.
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Saigon
Annamite
Indo-China
Hastings Castle to join war memorial with Eternal Flame
Hastings council considers incorporating Hastings Castle onto the city war memorial plan. An Eternal Flame would burn on Castle Hill and be visible across the English Channel, linking the monument to the town’s historic fortress.
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Hastings Castle
Hastings
England
Citys
Castle Hill
English Channel
College Orchesis Sees Christmas Toy Shop Dance Saturday
State Teachers college junior and senior dancers present an Orchesis program set in a toy shop dream with 17 senior dancers and several juniors performing. Miss Virginia Congreve directs with choreography by the group and costumes by dancers. An afternoon school program precedes the main 8 15 p m show with tickets at the door.
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State Teachers College
Virginia Congreve
Raggedy Ann
Andy
Jean Bakkom
Zenda
Marian Becker
Plymouth
Dorothy Foster
Philips
Ann Garney
Kansas City
Judy Graham
Betty Steckel
Stevens Point
Jane Pettibone
Janesville
Alberta Smith
Beloit
Ruth Turgeson
Mauston
Ruth Walters
Wausau
Cora Forbush
Evelyn Findlay
la Verne Wierzba
Milwaukee
Janan Rieff
la Crosse
Shirley Briesemeister
Shirley Crane
Virginia Waggener
L. G. Rose
Marion Becker
Youth Groups Plan Holiday Dances At SOS and Wee Blue Inn
Executive committees from SOS and Wee Blue Inn met to arrange a senior high Christmas dance at the USO on December 26 with an orchestra to be announced. Two junior high parties follow on December 27 at SOS and December 29 at Wee Blue Inn with lower member prices. Local representatives from Logan Aquinas and Central attended.
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SOS
Wee Blue Inn
USO
Logan
Enzebret Ellis
Edith Brown
Gerry Klar
Pat Nelson
Joan Loughan
Ruth Huebner
James Cross
Jim Scheel
Ronnie Otto
Arlene Oliver
Aquinas
Joyce Witt
Joyce Tikal
E. H. Bellevue
Maybelle Anderson
E. H. Lundby
Herb Fregin
Bus Fire Promptly Evacuated by Driver Elwood Kromer
Philadelphia reports driver Elwood Kromer ordered riders to transfer to a following vehicle as a bus caught fire. Passengers evacuated in record time, with six fire companies extinguishing the blaze. A separate note recalls a 500 year old Chinese treatise on carbon black manufacture.
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Philadelphia
Elwood Kromer
Kromer
China
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