Five Boys and Girl Die in Staunton Train Collision
A car carrying six teens from Staunton to a dance collided with a St. Louis railroad train at a main street crossing. Five boys, all named Scheiter, and a girl were fatally injured. John Majeski Jr., 19, survived in good condition after claiming a clouded windshield hid the train. the Bluebird train was involved.
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Olive, Ll
Ube
Scheiter
Igroup
Counussel
Butler
St. Francis Hospital
Litchfield
John Majeski, Jr
Majeski
Washed Up HIRO American Officer Faces Inquiry Over Photo
An American officer in Japan sent home a picture of his quarters and received questions about feminine lingerie seen hanging on a line. He replied that ten girl interpreters on door and use our wash explains it, and he notes ten girls living nearby as context.
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Japan
Johnston
20Th Fox
Zanuck
Orson Welles
Margaret O'Brien
Lloyd Nolan
San Francisco
Christmas Party For Students At Teachers College
Students and faculty attend the annual Christmas party Tuesday from 4 to 6 pm in the women's gymnasium. Betty's Co-eds dance band will perform and the Girls' Glee Club will sing. Dr Toland reads A Child Born. dancing to a juke box follows and lunch is served. The event is hosted by the college social committee.
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Gayelty
Teachers College
Betty
Toland
Mauree Applegate
Miss Anderson
Lois Arneson
Mary Durnford
Avis Morrison
Six Germans Admit Atrocity Charges in Smolensk Trial
Six of ten Germans on trial before a Soviet tribunal at Smolensk confessed on the stand that they participated in war atrocities. The hearing attracts similar attention to Nuremberg, though most defendants are low ranking.
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Moscow
Smolensk
Russia
Nuernberg
Actress Marsha Hunt to Wed Robert Presnell Jr in a second marriage
Hollywood report says actress Marsha Hunt and writer Robert Presnell Jr will marry in the new year. Hunt is 23, a former model, and Presnell is 31 and formerly a Milwaukee Journal police reporter.
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Marsha Hunt
Robert Presnell, Jr
Miss Hunt
Presnell
The
Milwaukee Journal
Radio Programs Tonight and Tuesday Highlights
Radio listings across NBC CBS ABC and MBS detail tonight and Tuesday schedules with multiple shows. Highlights include NBCs Cavalcade Drama Magnific Meddier Don Voorhees Concert and Information Please. CBS Vox Pop Made for Each Other and Screen Guild Play. ABC Pacific Serenade World Christmas Festival Lily Pons and Swinging on Golden Gate. MBS Bulldog Drummond Sherlock Holmes Dave Elman Auction and Detect a Tune Quiz. Local WKEH daily line includes Kiddies Hour Mandrake the Magician Weather News and Market Report with afternoon serials Our Town and Sacrad Heart programs.
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MBS
Bulldog Drummond
Sherlock Holmes
Dave Elman
Carol Brice
Humphrey Bogart
ABC
Breneman
Mt. Holyoke Glee Club
Jane Cowl
Erskine Johnson
Korn Kobblers
WKEH
Depcember
Mandrake
Ed East
Polly
Morgan Beatty
Guiding Light
Widder Brown
Our Town
Social Security
Sacred Heart
Hollywood Notables Voted Most Cooperative by Club
Joan Crawford and Gregory Peck top the list as most cooperative film notables in Hollywood chosen by the Hollywood women's press club in ballots from 95 of 125 members. June Allyson and Dana Andrews were runners up while Greer Garson and Fred MacMurray were named least cooperative. Clay products will be made in Puerto Rico for the first time under a new industrial program.
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Joan Crawford
Gregory Peck
Hollywood Women’s Press Club
June Allyson
Dana Andrews
Greer Garson
Fred MacMurray
Lauren Bacall
Ray Milland
Puerto Rico
All Quiet Then It Happened To 106th Division
The 106th Infantry known as the Golden Lion arrived in Europe in mid December and faced Von Rundstedt’s Ardennes counter offensive. The 422nd 423rd and 424th regiments held the line near St Vith for two days despite scarcity. The division suffered 8663 casualties with about 7000 prisoners and later manned sixteen POW camps after the war.
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Golden Lion
Europe
United States
Ardennes
von Rundstedt
Golden Lions
106Th
422Nd
423Rd
424Th
St. Vith
Giant wombat fossil found in Central Australia
Scientists in Central Australia uncover bones of a Diprotodon giant wombat. The creature stood about six feet tall and ten feet long, far larger than the ordinary wombat, which is roughly the size of a badger.
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Central
Australia
Melbourne
Neighborhood Theater Center Of Life In U S
Hollywood notes quote Sam Goldwyn predicting neighborhood theaters will become key community centers after the war. He links decentralization, small towns, and local venues to future leisure life and calls for theaters as civic hubs. Also mentions Forever Amber title issue and various Hollywood brief items.
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Hollywood
Sam Goldwyn
Goldwyn
America
Glass Absorbs Heat And Improves Color Photography
The American Optical Company announces anti heat glass that absorbs about 90 percent of infrared heat and transmits about 85 to 90 percent of light. It aims to cut studio heat from hot projectors while improving color fidelity and image sharpness for films and television. A floodlight test dropped temperature from 220 to 80 degrees. The glass will be available to all industry users.
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Southbridge
Mass
American Optical Company
E. D. Tillyer
Illinois Man Heads Employment Office
Eugene J. Brock of Winnetka Illinois was named director of the United States Employment Service for Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin. He has served as deputy director for the three states in the sixth region since October 1942. Brock succeeds Dr William H Spencer who resigns to resume his post as dean of the University of Chicago school of business.
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Washington
Eugene J. Brock
Winnetka, IL
United States Employment Service
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Labor Department
William H. Spencer
University of Chicago School of Business
Suspect in Antigo Murders Taken With 17-Year-Old Girl
Racine County Sheriff confirms Arlington Taylor 29 Antigo man charged with first degree murder in the fatal shotgun slayings of Mr and Mrs Cyril Pauwel at their Pickerel Lake tavern. Taylor was captured with a 17-year-old Antigo girl while visiting relatives outside Racine. Coroner says Mrs Pauwel 54 shot in head and Mr Pauwel 60 shot in back.
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Wis
Robert Matheson
Arlington Taylor
Antigo
Cyril Pauwel
Pickerel Lake
Matheson
Taylor
Langlade
Brack Gillespie
Pauwels
Harry Givens
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