Romance and adventure headline pre-Christmas films
Films at local theatres offer romance in exotic settings with One Night in the Tropics starring Allan Jones and Nancy Kelly at the Granada. Laraine Day and Joel McCrea star in Foreign Correspondent at the Jayhawker. Marx Brothers Go West plays Wednesday for four days, while One Night in the Tropics returns Sunday for three days. The Westerner with Gary Cooper opens, featuring Doris Davenport and Walter Brennan. The theatres close for holidays beginning tomorrow.
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Allan Jones
Tropica
Granada
Walter Wanger
Laraine Day
Joel McCrea
Marx Brothers
the Tropics
Robert Cummine
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Gary Cooper
Doris Davenport
Walter Brennan
Fred Stone
War relief industry grows across United States
About 1,500,000 people and 295 organizations engage in war relief work in the United States. Volunteers perform canvassing sewing knitting bandage making and medical tasks while clothing food and first aid supplies are sent abroad mainly to British civilians. The American Red Cross and American Friends Service Committee aid Belgium France and other nations, Germany relief funds exist but no Germany shipments are made. Six small groups raise cash for German relief, despite official policy.
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New York
United States
The
Herald-Tribune
Britain
American Red Cross
American Friends Service Committee
Belgium
Holland
France
Germany
Italy
Red Cross
Larger 1941 Wheat Crop Forecast by Forecasters
The agriculture department estimated winter wheat production for 1941 at 688 million bushels, up from 489 million this year and well above last year's 669 million, with a ten year average of 571 million. Seeded area and crop condition data are given for Kansas Oklahoma and Texas, showing varying percentages of normal conditions. A separate note reports RFC loans totaling 18.54 million dollars to Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita to expand and boost warplane production.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Beech Aircraft
Kansas City
Reconstruction’ Finance Corporation
Beech Aircraft Corporation
Wichita, Kan
Frank Hodges
R.F.C
Beech
Hull orders withdrawal of three US embassy Paris staff
Secretary Hull said Washington would comply with Germany to withdraw two embassy secretaries Cecil M. P. Cross and Leigh Hunt and receptionist Mrs Elizabeth Deegan from the American embassy in Paris. The State Department will investigate the charges but a preliminary exam found no proof they aided a British officer's escape.
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Hull
State Department
Paris
Cecil M. P. Cross
Leigh Hunt
Elizabeth Deegan
Cross
Hunt
Deegan
Lambertson Sees U S Entering War by Spring
Topeka December 21 Congress man W P Lambertson of Fairview predicts the United States will enter World War within four or five months. He says it will likely be in spring, perhaps April, if Britain holds out. He notes the 1941 Congress may be more independent but predicts war momentum will continue.
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W. P. Lambertson
Fairview
United States
Great Britain
Lambertson
Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Hunt Slayer in Georgia
Ringgold GA December 21 Fifty officers trailed a blood trail across Georgia hills as they hunted a man who killed state trooper Corporal Fred Black 29 a former college football player was shot thrice as he fled after warnings against reckless driving Patrolman B R Farr fired at the suspect as he ran into nearby woods blood traces suggested the killer was severely wounded on the capture attempt
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Ringgold
Georgia Hills
Fred Black
Wood
B. R. Farr
Three Teens Die In Mound Valley Crossing Crash
Dale Testerman 17 was killed and brothers Bobby 15 and Dwight Elledge 16 were injured when their car struck a Missouri Kansas Texas freight train at a grade crossing near Mound Valley Kansas. The students from Labette county high school at Altamont were en route to a Christmas program. the car was dragged 40 feet and a freight car wheel was knocked from the rails.
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Mound Valley
Kan
Dale Testerman
Testerman
Bobby
Dwight Elledge
Labette County
Altamont
British Mediterranean fleet shells Bardia in Libyan campaign
The British Mediterranean fleet bombarded Bardia in Libya near Tobruk, unleashing hundreds of high explosive shells on Italian troops and supply depots. The bombardment aimed to disrupt Graziani’s forces, with ships firing at close range and Italian defenses replying minimally. A December 17 strike sank three small Italian craft near the shore.
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Britain
Mussolini
Bardia
Rodolfo Graziani
Tobruk
Kansas State students urge support for new field house at basketball game
Kansas State college students urged parents alumni and legislators to back a new field house during a school advisory display at a basketball game against Kentucky University marking the start of Christmas holidays.
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Kansas State
Field
Manhattan
Kansas State College
K-State
Kentucky University
Londoners flee to country as blitz reshapes city life
The piece notes a large London evacuation after blitzkrieg begins with no panic. Many Londoners relocate with families, workers, and firms moving offices, schools, and records to the interior. Government and firms set up provincial offices and rest houses as life in England extends beyond the Thames.
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New York
London
America
England
Cancer expert Frank L Rector to lecture at Kansas university
Frank L Rector will speak at the University of Kansas on January 8. A field representative for the American Society for the Control of Cancer, he has conducted surveys in eight states and addressed nearly 200 high schools and colleges on cancer control. He holds a B S from Oklahoma A and M and an M D from George Washington University.
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Frank L. Rector
American Society For the Control of Cancer
University of Kansas
Rector
Kansas
Oklahoma A
M. College
Medical Department
George Washington University
Washington, D.C
Tidrow Leaves for Denver After Illness Recovery
F M Tidrow who suffered a severe heart attack last Saturday is improving and will leave for his Denver home Sunday night, accompanied by Mrs Tidrow who arrived here last Sunday. Tidrow long served Lawrence as a resident and once operated a barber shop. he has been in Lawrence on business for six months.
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F. M. Tidrow
Denver
Colo
Injured Aid ing Her Dog in Kansas City
Mrs Ethel Campbell sixty five was hospitalized after carrying her dog Nugget down stairs and slipping. She says the Alaskan sled dog Nugget saved her life ten years ago in a Nevada snowstorm and has since become crippled, requiring care and outdoor workouts with his front legs.
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Kansas
City
Ethel Campbell
Stalin's 61st Birthday Passes Quietly in Moscow
Joseph Stalin's 61st birthday anniversary passed today in Moscow with no formal observance and no mention in the press. A year ago the birthday was celebrated.
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Stalin
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
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