Hong Kong Defenses Hold Against Japanese Assault
London dispatch reports Hong Kong’s garrison of British, Canadian, Indian and Imperial troops resisting invasion. Despite Japanese claims of capture, defenders reportedly held lines amid counter blows and partial British positions remained in western Hong Kong near The Peak. Japanese sources claimed seven forts remained in British hands as fighting continued.
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London
Hong Kong
Britain
Far East
Victoria
Berlin
Nanking
Happy Valley
Tokyo
Mount Cameron
Althe
C.S.T
Flashes of Life from the Newsroom and Streets
A mix of short vignettes from Fairmont to Chicago covers Navy recruiting moments at a post office, a boy saving for defense stamps, a sailor’s bar tale, and a peculiar case of a man biting his dog after a drinking bout. Narratives mix humor with small civic scenes and a petty offense.
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Associated Press
Fairmont
Russell Edmund Post
Clarksburg
George Dent
Dent
Post
Navy
Chicago
George Burke
Pooch
Burke
Plan Market Holidays Halt Grain Pit Trading
The Chicago board of trade will suspend grain pit dealings at noon CT on December 24 and December 31 for Christmas and New Year’s. Other principal grain centers will do likewise. The New York cotton and wool exchanges will also close at noon on December 24. The New York stock exchange continues beyond.
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Associated Press
Chicago Board of Trade
New York Cotton and Wooll Top
New York Stock Exchange
Christmas Programs Across Eudora Churches
Eudora churches host festive Christmas observances with special services on Christmas day and village programs. St Paul’s Sunday School presents A Real Christmas Message on Christmas eve at 7. Clearfield Evangelical holds a Tuesday 7 30 program and Salem Evangelical a Wednesday 7 30 program. A pageant The Four Tales of Christmas by Ann Rivers debuts at the Methodist church Wednesday at 7 30 with a list of participants. White Christmas Mexican mission offering follows. Catholic church plans midnight Mass and 10 30 Christmas morning liturgy under Rev Lawrenz Reith.
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Eudora
St. Paul’s Evangelical Sunday School
Rev. H. Reifschneider
Clearfield
Ann Rivers
Methodist Church
Bryona Pence
Barbara Johnson
Mary
Jerry Harris
Joseph
Jimmy Kanzig
Wayne Strong
Robert Woodward
Howard Reitzel
Kelvin Hoover
Floyd Ott
Billy Woodard
Richard Cory
Ruth Bartz
Virginia Shirck
Holy Family Catholic Church
Lawrenz Reith
Wichita City Employees to Get Five Cent Raise
Wichita city workers will receive a five cent hourly raise after the new year. The city council voted the increase for all municipal employees except the city manager police court judge and clerk election commissioner and deputy election commissioner whose pay is fixed by statute. No extra taxes will be necessary.
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Wichita
Wichita City
Model aircraft industry may gain priority for vital parts
The Academy of Model Aeronautics seeks government priority on glass jars bottles tissue paper rubber bands celluloid and related supplies for 1942 to support model building training for millions of youth. Leaders argue model aviation pre trains pilots mechanics and morale and cites figures on materials and historic aerospace figures.
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Devon Francis Washington
United States
Academy of Model Aeronautics
National Aeronautic Association
Kendall K. Hoyt
Air Youth Division
Latin America
Hoyt
Albert L. Lewis
Association
Hoyt and Lewis
America
Wright Brothers
Donald W. Douglas
Glenn L. Martin
William B. Stout
Igor I. Sikorsky
Parks Air College
East St. Louis
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Marjorie George Reeves
Robert Barrat
Mary Howard
Riders OF the Purple Sage
Charles Bickford Evelyn Ankers
Burma
Lawrence
Journal-World
Cole
Topeka Ly. Law
Topeka
Union Bus
Mass
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Kar. K.G
Pam
Lv. Law
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Union Pacific
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Creyhoune
Thornton & Minor
Psst
Ronson
Old England
Cortley
Pacity
Pepsiola
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of
Ottawa
Army
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Lucien LeLong
Round Corner Drug CO
the Rapid Transit CO
Granada
W. C. Fields
Gloria Jean — Leon Errol
Bro Crawftrd
Andy Devine
Henry Wilcoxon
Moa Warhie
Admida Maria Monte
Tarzan
Santa Claus
Tarzans
Johnny Weissmuller
Maureen O’sullivan
Sheffield
Inald Owen
Tom Conway
Philip Dorn
Donald Duck
Turkey
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