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Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1956

Page

6

Low Slung Car Seizes Intruder in Showroom

In Daly City California police used a low slung car to trap an intruder found beneath a 1957 model in a showroom. Sgt Dave Hanson called the suspect to come out but he replied I can't. Officers jacked up the car and freed him. Winfred Ivanhoe 26 was booked on burglary prowling and vagabancy charges.

Daly City Califax Dave Hanson Winfred Ivanhoe

Pagan Night to Bethlehem Birth The Rise of Christ

Editor's note outlines the ancient religious milieu across Rome Egypt Greece and Persia at Jesus birth. It describes pagan rites temples and deities from Mithra Cybele Demeter and Zeus to Diana and Orpheus, and the shift toward a new faith beginning in Galilee culminating in Bethlehem and the coming of a king.

Jesus George Cornell Bethlehem Rome Egypt Greece Persia Zeus Sahara Mithra Cybelle Osiris Demeter Corinth Alexandria Joppa Tyre Jerusalem Galilee Mediterran Judea House of Abraham Jupiter Asia Minor Diana Assyria Dionysus Orphic Brotherhood Augustus Parthenon Mount Olympus

Gambling on Hearts Fails in Three No Trump Bridge Hand

Oswald Jacoby presents a bridge hand where South's three no trump bid hinges on hearts. West defends brilliantly by leading the queen of hearts, denying South the necessary entries to long diamonds. South cannot overcome the defensive sequence and goes down one.

Oswald Jacoby NEA South West Dummy East

Bridge bidding puzzle with weak hearts and two kings

South holds KSYVJ875206 and KQ532 after a four level auction with North East South West. The question asks what bid to make given limited heart support and reliance on the two black kings to provide play. The same bidding pattern repeats in today’s question.

North

Heroic French Nurse Is Ailing After Dien Bien Phu

Paris reports Genevieve de Galard and her husband Capt. Jean de Heaulme de Boutsock flown home from Madagascar for amoebic infection treatment. The nurse, sole French woman at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, met her parachute-officer husband in Indochina and married last June.

Paris Dien Bien Phu Madgascar Genevieve de Galard Jean de Heaulme de Boutsock Val de Grace Indochina Genevieve Reds

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