Penicillin and wartime science discussed at clubs meeting
The Greene County Club Woman's group studied Strategic Drugs and Plants with Mrs. Merle Jean Sr. on December 7 at Mrs. D. D. Hixon’s home, focusing on Penicillin discovery and wartime production. Other items covered included chemical front remarks, lab projects, and reports from Lyons and Switz City clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worthington Study Club
D. D. Hixon
Merle Jean, Sr
Terre Haute
H. H. Sloan
Parton
Belize
Safety Director Predicts 12 Deaths Over Christmas Travel
Indiana safety chief Don F. Stiver warned that 12 people may die on Hoosier highways during the Christmas weekend. He cited a 10 percent rise in fatalities and 696 deaths on streets and highways in the first 11 months of 1944 versus 632 in 1945, urging safe and sane driving.
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Indianapolis
Dec
U.P
Indiana
Don F. Stiver
State Department of Public Safety
Hoosier
Stiver
Chicken Poultry Shipment For Overseas Hospitals
Kansas City Quartermaster Depot announces frozen fryer chickens to be sent to overseas field hospitals and Air Corps Rest Centers. The plan expects a 30 percent weight loss in transit and aims for regular procurement by the Quartermaster Corps.
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Kansas City
Air Corps
Quartermaster Corps
Mother-in-law in the limelight amid divorce case
Frances Kaufman accuses Mac Kaufman of betraying her in Hollywood. Agnes Boulton O'Neill, mother of Charlie Chaplin's wife, is named co respondent in the Brooklyn Supreme Court suit filed earlier this month. The case cites collaboration on a book and romance during visits to Hollywood.
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New York
U.P
Agnes Boulton O'Neill
Charlie Chaplin
Mac Kaufman
Frances Kaufman
Hollywood
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Kaufman
West Hollywood
Calif
Goodyear Finds Liquid Inflation Boosts Farm Tires
Goodyear officials report farm tractor tires inflated with a non freeze liquid resist seepage and maintain steady pressure. Recent Goodyear statistics show rapid growth in liquid inflation use for farm tires Akron Ohio based company notes this efficiency trend.
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Akron, O
U.P
Goodyear Tire
Wh Viel Co
Goodyear
January Deadline Aids Taxpayers by S Burton Heath
Taxpayers may file final 1944 returns by January 15 to settle the Ruml Balance separately from 1944 income tax payments. The January 15 date reflects pay as you go estimates, not a new filing date. No change to the March 15 deadline remains.
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Bureau of Internal Revenue
NEA Service
The
Daily Citizen
Bureau
Internal Revenue
Potts Memorial Institute Teaches Tubercular Patients Trades
Living at Potts Memorial Institute in Livingston New York tubercular patients learn trades to support themselves after discharge. The program offers printing stenography secretarial and office skills plus clinical lab X ray and crafts. Since opening 92 percent cured and working, 69 percent partly rehabbed and working. Tuition is twenty dollars a week funded by government and endowment income.
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Livingston
N. Y
Potts Memorial Institute
Wacs
Institute
Hudson Valley
Catskills
Berkshires
National Tuberculosis Assn
Potts Memorial
Ida C Potts
Post Office Owes Apology to Crow
Hanford Cal the dispute centers on a misrouted letter that traveled about 1500 miles from Tulare to Hanford via Washington state, instead of a direct 30 mile path. Mrs Earl Williamson received the misrouted letter, highlighting postal routing error and distance.
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CROW
Hanford
Cal
Tulare
Earl Williamson
Wash
Iowa to Offer Special Instruction Program for Veterans
The University of Iowa will launch a veterans program starting after the next regular semester. Veterans may begin in the month after discharge and join either liberal arts or commerce. Courses are tailored to each veteran with individual or semi individual instruction and prior service and education evaluated to fit goals.
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Versity of
Iowa
Prsident
Virgil M. Hancher
College of Liberal Arts
Tax Filing Guidance for 1944 Income and 1040 ES Estimates
The December 15 final estimate and payment are deferred to January 15 when all 1944 income is received and expenditures completed. File a 1040 ES estimate not more than 20 percent under the owed tax by January 15, or file the final return by January 15 and omit the final 1040 ES. If filing later, ensure the January 15 estimate covers the final tax. Employers may delay W-2 forms until January 31, delaying January 15 filings. If delaying, maintain an accurate estimate and payment by January 15.
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Bureau of Internal Revenue
Treasury
Nye warns of new European war to curb Russia in 20 years
Senator Gerald Nye in his farewell address warned that in about 20 years the United States will face another European war to prevent Russia from seizing world power. Nye, defeated for reelection, urged U S leaders to stay out of World War II and criticized CIO pressure politics and propaganda.
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Washington
Dec
U.R
Gerald P. Nye
N. D
Senate
United States
Russia
Nye
U. S
America
CIO
Congress
Black light may sparkle skylines in postwar cities
Hidden luminescence of everyday objects could illuminate cities at night with invisible ultraviolet rays. The effect may color murals in homes and alter fabrics as worn. In medicine, fluorescein aided light could reveal blood flow and bodily reactions during surgery for improved diagnosis and treatment.
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New York
U.P
Samuel G. Hibben
Mechanix Illustrated Magazine
Milady
Dad's Clothes Won't Fit Chicago
Metropolitan Life statisticians report grown sons now average an inch taller than their fathers and are better developed due to improved childhood care, making pop's discarded pants a poor fit for the new generation.
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Chicago
U.P
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Sonny
Pop
WLB Approves Pay Increases for 40 6 Region
Chicago date reports the Wage and Labor Board regional office approved wage increases for about 40 000 applicants. Thomas O Malley regional director said processing time averages about three days per application. The breakdown shows 32 512 from Illinois 2 546 from Indiana and 4 414 from Wisconsin.
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Chicago
Labor Board
Cage
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Thomas O'Maley
O'Malley
Lilinois
Wiscon
Adults Comprise Two Thirds Of Population
New York, AP. Metropolitan Life Insurance statisticians report nearly two thirds of the U S population is 21 or older, reflecting rising voting age due to lower birth rates longer life spans and reduced immigration since 1920. Women now have a slight edge in numbers of adults.
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New York
United States
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Spain Morally Occupied by Germans, Templewood Says
Lord Templewood, retired British ambassador to Madrid, told the House of Lords that Spain was morally occupied by Germany for most of the past five years. He recalled Gestapo agents watching him and German influence pervading many key areas of Spanish life.
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London
Dec
U.P
Lord Templewood
Madrid
Spain
Templewood
Samuel Hoare
House of Lords
Patsy the Angora Cat Dies Linked to Jean Harlow
Patsy a 20 year old Angora cat once the pet kitten of Jean Harlow is dead in Kirksville Missouri. The cats journey traces back to Miss Harlow who left it with her Kansas City grandparents before Hollywood. It was later given to Dr W E Cragg who presented Patsy to his niece eighteen years ago.
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Jean Harlow
Kirksville
Patsy
Miss Harlow
Hollywood
Kansas City
Navy metalsmith claims world hitchhiking record
Michael Dibulak, 32, a Navy metalsmith, says he traveled 7,400 miles by hitchhiking to reach his wife Eleanor, 30, in a Chicago sanitarium after receiving word she was seriously ill in New Guinea. He left on emergency leave, rode a jeep to an airport, caught a plane home, and arrived four days later at her bedside.
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Chicago
U.P
Michael Dibulak
Dibulak
New Guinea
Eleanor
States
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