Feasts Planned by Uncle Sam for Holiday Troops
A 1940 Christmas message outlines garrison and fleet traditions with army Christmas dinners, religious services, and family activities. It notes potential promotions for officers, recalls 1917 promotions, and cites naval dedication to carry on through the coming year amid wartime service.
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Army
Roosevelt
Navy
Harold R. Stark
France
Turkey
United States
Knox
F Scott Fitzgerald Dies in Hollywood at 44
Novelist and screenwriter F Scott Fitzgerald died of a heart attack in Hollywood at age 44. He passed away Saturday afternoon in a friend's apartment, with news released Sunday. The story notes his fame from the Jazz Age and later work in film.
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Scott Fitzgerald
Hollywood
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Train wreck derails City of Los Angeles injuring six
Six passengers were injured when 14 cars of the Union Pacific City of Los Angeles derailed near Julesburg Colorado. Officials blamed a broken rail under the last power unit. none were seriously hurt. Victims include Philip Heitzman Alma Barnes Mia Ridgway Sandra Ridgway Esther Croft and Wright Prickett Jr. The Ridgways and Mrs Barnes were hospitalized and others sought treatment. Union Pacific officials launched a personal investigation.
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Julesburg
Colo
Union Pacific
City of
Los Angeles
Philip Heitzman
Hollywood
Alma L. Barnes
Montebello
Calif
Mia
H. M. Ridgway
Sandra
Esther H. Croft
Wright H. Prickett
Long Beach
Ridgways
Chappell, Neb
Croft
Prickett
Heitzman
Miss Barnes
Chicago
Columbine
Sts
W. M. Jeffers
Otto Jabelmann
Omaha
Neb
Rayville Christmas lighting contest winners announced
The Rayville contest, judged by outsiders, named Mulbearn Funeral Home as first prize with 10 dollars, Mrs George C Purvis second with five dollars, and Mrs J E Stodgill third with two dollars. Honorable mentions covered several local church members and residents.
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Rayville
W. W. Kelly
Mulbearn Funeral Home
George C. Purvis
J. E. Stodgill
G. W. Bolton
I Church
C. J. Ellis
G. B. Franklin
J. G. Joseph
H. A. Mangham
J. B McCaa
Methodst Church
Fred Morgan
L. L. Tolar
H. W. Blakemon
Bottleneck in German air power may decide invasion fate
In The War Today DeWitt MacKenzie argues Germany’s air force faces a bottleneck limiting raids on Britain. He highlights oil shortages, reliance on synthetic fuels, and gasoline constraints as key factors that could force Hitler to act quickly or risk failure in an imminent invasion.
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Associated Press
Britain
Hitler
England
Royal Air Force
Europe
Norway
Adriatic
British Isles
Germany
Russia
Rumania
Dalton
Fuehrer
America
Italy
Secretary of Odd Fellows in Louisiana Dies in New Orleans
Robert T. Leland, 83, longtime secretary of the International Order of Odd Fellows in Louisiana, died Sunday in New Orleans. A Hoboken native who arrived there at 16, he witnessed Lincoln’s funeral procession and later marched in Jefferson Davis’s funeral procession in the city.
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New Orleans
Robert T. Leland
International Order of Odd Fellows
Louisiana
Hoboken
N. J
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Six in Family Crash Victims
Montgomery dispatch reports at least nine dead in weekend Alabama crashes. A Georgia family of seven traveling to Louisiana had six killed when their car plummeted from an overpass at Flomaton after colliding with a pickup. Taxi driver Clarence Honeycutt died in Birmingham collision. Jasper resident William Allison struck near Manchester. Woodrow Harper killed in Bessemer crash.
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Montgomery
Ala
Georgia
Alabama
Louisiana
Flomaton
Birmingham
Jasper
Bessemer
C. P. Kiff
Kiff
Betty
Jackie
Walter C. Hornsby
Walter, Jr
Hornsby
Oglethorpe
Clarence H. Honeycutt
William Thomas Allison
Manchester
Woodrow Harper
Flying Santa Claus Bombs Lighthouses With Yuletide Gifts
Massachusetts coastal legend Edward Rowe Snow with his wife and a crew dropped tobacco candy and magazines from a low flying plane on 20 lighthouses from Boston to Boone Island. The gifts were greeted at each station and marked with a large Merry. Snow intends to continue to the Boston lightship pilot boats and coast guard stations on Tuesday.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Nantucket
Edward Rowe Snow
Winthrop
Boone Island
Maine
Gloucester
Snow
William Wincapaw
Bolivia
Meeker Orchestra Set for Rainbow Inn Christmas Eve
Rex Meeker and his orchestra will perform for Rainbow Inn patrons on Christmas Eve. The group will furnish music for dancing at Rainbow Inn every night from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Eve.
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Rex Meeker
Rainbow Inn
Tommy Bureh
Meeker
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Spoll
Parents’ Magazine
Consumer Service
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Monroe
LO Usama
News-Star
Union Label League
All American Federation of Labor Unions
Jack Mashaw
Lloyd Everman
John Laws
Billy Myers
By DeWitt MacKenzie
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Santa Claus
YULE
the Monroe
Turkeys
Iceberg
Texas
K.C
K. C
Dep’t—4Th & Stubbs
Rolls, Parker House
Doz
Stromberg Carlson Radios
United Electric Service
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