Disabled Veterans Make Toys for Yuletide
Disabled veterans across 130 VA hospitals aided by Red Cross and local groups craft toys from broomsticks yarn scraps and old boxes. Volunteers repair repaint and distribute the handmade gifts to needy children, including orphans, with attention to veterans’ own preferences.
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Ashington
Dec
America
Veterans Administration
Carl Gary
Red Cross
Mariana Bing
Red Cross Service
Veterans Hospit
Murfreesboro
Tenn
The
Bing
Robeson Snubbed as Czechs Favor James in Prague Show
In Prague Paul Robeson drew a box office flop beside Harry James. The two acts played at the Gramp ton Record Theater with an overflow crowd for James while Robeson drew vacancies.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Paul Robeson
Pice
Harry James
Trumpet
Grampton Record Theater
James
Robeson
No-Rinse Surf Delivers White Wash Says Mrs Keenan
Mrs T Keenan of 5006 10th Ave Los Angeles praises No-Rinse Surf for a spotless wash without bleach noting it left children's clothes exceptionally clean and lint free with easier ironing.
California Draws 1950 Cotton Allotment Under New Law
California’s 1950 cotton allotment is set at 642 599 acres under the new law using a formula tied to 1948 and 1947 48 plantings. The plan allocates 22 500 000 acres nationally and applies a uniform factor to reach 21 000 000. A referendum on quotas is scheduled for December 15 in all cotton states.
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Washington
California
New Mexico
Texas
Arkansas
Missouri
Congress
Farmer Parley Warns on Tough World Market
MEMPHIS Tenn Dec 7. Farm leaders hear a warning from Stanley Andrews a Department of Agriculture foreign relations expert that farmers will find it harder to sell products abroad. Ralph Trigg president of the Commodity Credit Corp says the government price support fund is nearing exhaustion and further commitments must be limited. Andrews cites the world market as harder to sell into noting the US sells more than it buys.
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Memphis
Tenn
Stanley Andrews
Department of Agriculture
Ralph Trigg
Commodity Credit Corp
Trigg
PMA
Andrews
Department
Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
National Wool Growers Meet Opens in Denver
Sheep raisers from across the nation gather for the 85th annual convention of the National Wool Growers Association in Denver. The meeting opened yesterday with delegates from numerous states in attendance.
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Denver
National Wool Growers Association
Vigilantes Formed to Fight Crime in Los Angeles
In California corporate filings the Los Angeles Vigilantes Committee is created with six Los Angeles directors led by George Rochester. The group aims to aid law enforcement against crime and government corruption and to investigate and expose gangster activity.
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Acramento
Los Angeles
Have More Leisure Hire a Helper via Press Telegram
Help Wanted ad invites readers to hire a helper through Press-Telegram. Contact by phone at 6-9066 for easy arrangements.
Radio on Train Inaugurated in Texas Rail Service
The Texas and Pacific Railway introduced engine to caboose shortwave radio on its Fort Worth to El Paso freight train and walkie talkie gear at Lancaster yards in Fort Worth Texas.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Texas and Pacific Railway
el Paso
Lancaster Yards
Glendale Banker Drowned in Japan
Two Bank of America employees drowned near Kobe when a jeep plunged off a pier. Robert F E Burke, 51, of Glendale California, and Mrs H W Wong, 28, of Kobe, were aboard the liner President Cleveland. Their bodies were recovered.
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Kobe
Japan
Bank of America
Robert FE. Burke
Glendale
Calif
H. W. Wong
Army Saic
President Cleveland
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