Pilots Begin Intensive Air Work Training in Oklahoma
Four volunteers in Canada gear up at Spartan School of Aeronautics Oklahoma with 60 day course to become instrument and night pilots. Training includes 14 hours weekly flight and ground work eight hours on Saturday. classrooms total 120 hours with Link trainer for blind flying.
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Ant
Oklahoma
Maxwell Balfour
Spartan School of Aeronautics
Canada
United States
Dallas
Texas
Balfour
Get Up Nights and Kidney Bladder Troubles Ad
An ad describes bladder weakness and related symptoms including nervousness leg pains and swollen ankles. It promotes a product named Cystex with a printed guarantee and urges readers to ask their druggist about Oyetex today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oyetex
Christmas Seal Sale Endorsed As National Defense Effort
Washington officials including Dr. Thomas Parran and Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire urge support for the National Tuberculosis Association Christmas Seal Sale. They call tuberculosis the leading killer of productive-age people and stress health education as key to national defense. American Medical Association President Dr. Nathan B. van Etten backs vigorous, wide enlistment in the fund drive.
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Washington
National Tuberculosis Association
Thomas Parran
United States Public Health Service
Parran
Barbecue Scheduled for Monroe Police Force
A barbecue for the Monroe police force was set for 5 pm Tuesday at city hall hosted by the losing team in last Friday's shooting match. Attendees listed include Mayor H H Benoit Commissioners W D HL Rodriguez Charlies R Tidwell Judge W M Harper Fletcher Ashcraft and C B Braun. City jailer J C Anders cannot attend due to illness.
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Monroe
H. H. Benoit
W. D. HL. Rodriguez
Charlies R. Tidwell
W. M. Harper
Fletcher Ashcraft
C. B. Braun
J. C. Anders
Britain Seizes Mediterranean Initiative In War
The piece argues the initiative in the Mediterranean has shifted to Britain and Greece after a Greek defeat of Italy. It notes Britain's Crete bases, blockade of Dodecanese, and torqued Axis supply routes, with Egypt protests and Spain ties signaling wider war calculus. It cites Lord Woolton on war mobilization and signals pro British sentiment in North Africa.
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Britain
England
Greece
Mussolini
Italy
Lord Woolton
Egypt
Rome
Spain
Messrs
Hitler
Crete
Mediterranean
Dodecanese
Albania
Balkans
Africa
Alr
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Sudan
Blind marksman bags his turkey
At a turkey shoot in Evansville Indiana on December 3 blind shooter John Grassman was guided by a friend who instructed him to aim for the bull's eye. Grassman fired and won a 12 pound turkey for Christmas.
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Evansville
Ind
John Grassman
Grassman
Deaths: Mack, Ball, Mitchell Pass Away
Augustus F. Mack 67 founder of Mack Truck company dies in San Diego. John Ball 79, eight time British Amateur champion and first amateur to win the British Open, dies in Holywell. Steele Mitchell 42, president of Adams Express since 1937, dies in New York.
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Associated Press
Augustus F. Mack
San Diego, Calif
The
Mack Truck Company
Holywell
Wales
John Ball
Steele Mitchell
New York
Adams Express Company
Financier Mitchell Dies After Gun Wound at Home
Steele Mitchell 42 president of Adams Express Company died after a self inflicted gunshot in his Fifth Avenue apartment. Found in Lenox Hill Hospital he apparently shot himself. His wife Herma Lou Mitchell offered no motive and no notes were found. He led Adams Express since 1937 and held director roles with several major firms.
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New York
Steele Mitchell
Adams Express Company
Lenox Hill Hospital
Fifth Avenue
Vincent Kiernan
Mitchell
Adams Express
Woman travels to Duluth cautions about freezing pipes
In Columbia on December 3 a woman returning from a visit to Duluth, Minnesota, telephoned home with a warning to cut off the water at night to prevent pipes from freezing as temperatures drop rapidly.
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Columbia
S. C
Duluth
Minn
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Mavent
Jane
Aitney Jones
Surgeon General of Health Service
Graziani
Libya
France
Australia
St. John Monroe
Trenton West Monroe
Express Company
Hannons
Salammek's
Louisiana
Alexandria
Thieves of Liberty
By Norman Chandler
Newspaper Publishers Committee
Norman Chandler
America
Smith
Brown
Long Live
Stalin
Russia
Sonny
Liberty
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