Tobacco Road actor John Barton dies at 69 in France
John Barton 69 longtime Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road died today in a French hospital after a week with heart disease. Born 1876 in Philadelphia he built a career in vaudeville Canal Boat Site and led Tobacco Road touring company with James Barton his nephew also acting on Broadway. Barton took over Jeeter Lester in 1927 and toured 48 states including Georgia where tobacco country themes drew audiences.
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Interesting Masons meeting planned with Rev. R. T. Watson
William Mintz chaplain, Claude M Guillot and E M Wooten stewards, T W Ware tyler. An interesting program has been arranged for this meeting including an address by Rev. R T Watson. All Master Masons are invited to attend.
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E. M. Wooten
T. W. Ware
Tyler
R. T. Watson
Masonic Joint Party Plans St John Day Installations
Western Star Lodge No. 24 and Graham Surginor Lodge No. 383 will observe St John day at the Masonic Temple in Monroe on Friday December 27. Officers elected for the coming year will be installed after a 7 p.m. banquet hosted by Louise L. McGuire and Dixie Chapters of the Order of Eastern Star. Dee A. Strickland will install, aided by R. W. Cretney and Rev. E. D. Holloway.
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Monroe
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Order of Eastern Star
Actors Overpaid Says Dick Powell In Hollywood Notes
Hollywood column notes Dick Powell argues actors may be overpaid as production slows and salaries surge. He cites Gary Cooper’s 300000 plus for Cloak and Dagger and urges re negotiation to long term, lower pay. Also mentions Mervyn LeRoy’s MGM contract and upcoming films with Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life starring Stewart and Reed.
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All Out Safely in Hotel Blaze
Firemen and well drilled hotel staff evacuated all 330 guests from the Kentucky hotel without injuries after a blaze yesterday. One woman, Mrs Bonnie Cillian of Charlestown Indiana, rescued from the ninth floor via a fire ladder. Damage is estimated at $10 000 confined to the ninth floor. Cause of the fire remains undetermined.
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Charlestown
Ind
Trains Collide Near Cowansville Injuring 12
A head-on crash between the Alouette express from Montreal to Boston and a freight train in sleet near Cowansville Quebec injures twelve people, one severely. Both locomotives suffer major damage. the express delays about five hours. The freight was on a siding when the Alouette passed.
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Collie credited with saving life in New Jersey incident
In Gloucester New Jersey on December 23 a small collie braved frigid winds to guard a garage. His vigil prompted neighbor Mrs Laura Goeckler to investigate and found George Goeckler 35 overcome by carbon monoxide. Police conveyed him to a hospital where doctors revived him.
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Father's Truck Hits Girl in Accident
Delores West nine received a fracture of the right leg when her father's truck accidentally backed into her Sunday morning. She was rushed to Charity Hospital where her condition was listed as satisfactory Monday morning. Negro casualties in World War I were 1.28 percent of Negro strength, white casualties were 6.54 percent of white strength.
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Charity Hospital
War prisoner romance embezzlement case in Pittsburgh
Carmel ia A Vozza, a 22 year old bookkeeper, faces embezzlement charges after Sheriff Monaghan said she admitted taking about 16000 dollars to woo an Italian prisoner of war. She allegedly gave the officer hundreds at a time while visiting Chambersburg in 1945 and falsified company accounts.
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Walter C. Monaghan
John J. Lardo
Carmelia A. Vozza
North Africa
Detonator on Christmas Tree Injures Pittsburgh Boy
In Pittsburgh on Christmas Eve 14 year old Ronald Berich hung a copper tube device with wires on his tree. The detonator exploded injuring his hands and causing serious internal damage while his father Clarence was only slightly injured. The device had been in the house for years with no one knowing its purpose.
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