Athletes Head Overseas From Fort Sam Houston Area
More than 250 veteran enlistees from Fort Sam Houston and Fourth Army area ships out to embarkation ports as key personnel lose posts to overseas orders. About 90 leave Camp Hood for Camp Stoneman and the Pacific. others discharge as buttons shift with overseas ration changes.
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Fort Sam Houfton
Fourth Army
Camp Hood
Camp Stoneman
Calif
Pacific
Second Armored
Fasteeth powder promises secure false teeth comfort
An ad copy urges users not to neglect slipping dentures and introduces FASTEETH a five powder to sprinkle on plates to secure false teeth. It claims a natural feel no gum taste or pasty sensation and promotes confidence in talking eating or sneezing.
Sheriff Buys Rope Fears Fire in Dallas Hotel Incident
Sheriff Jess Sweeten of Athens Texas, a 14 year veteran, awoke in a Dallas hotel and arranged for rope from bellboys. He tied a rope to a radiator pipe, set his gear nearby, and used it to descend wishing to avoid fire as hotels burn elsewhere.
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Dallas
Jess Sweeten
Athens
Texas
Henderson County
Sheriff Sweeten
Arnall Plans to Stay Then Yield Gubernatorial Seat
Governor Elis Arnall announced he will remain in office until a lieutenant governor is sworn in and then resign, transferring the governorship to the lieutenant governor. The move sparks a fierce Georgia political fight to be aired in the January legislative session and potentially decided by the Supreme Court. Lieutenant governor elect M. Thompson is Arnall’s choice for succession, while Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene, is contested to fill the four year term his father left unfinished after his death.
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Atlanta
Elis Arnall
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Supreme Court
M. &.Thompson
Arnall
Herman Talnaige
Eugene
Talmage
U S Draws Atom Report On Baruch Plan
A U S memorandum backing the Baruch formula for atomic energy control will go to the atomic energy commission drafting group. The 12 members will study harmonizing Baruch plan with UN resolution on universal arms reduction. Contents are not disclosed. it is seen as a compromise to meet the commission's timetable.
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Lake Bull
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
United Nations General Assembly
Bernard Baruch
Commission
Furniture Store Pays Christmas Bonuses to AV Employees
AV employees at Jorrie Furniture receive cash bonuses timed for Christmas. Starting with two weeks pay, bonuses increase with length of service, rewarding longer tenure with higher sums.
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Jorrie, Furniture Company
How to Stay Young and Choose a Mate
Reader's Digest excerpt outlines staying young through mindset and life choices. It includes a 20 item marriage quiz by a prospective counselor and a reflection on pivotal life awakenings as a source of hope.
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George Lawton
Quads Pass Crucial First 24 Hours at St Agnes
In Baltimore on December 24, the Henn quadruplets born Sunday night at St Agnes hospital passed the crucial first 24 hours. The three boys and a girl, still in incubators, had their first feeding of four teaspoonfuls of glucose water. Parents Dorothy and Charles Henn, of British origin, named daughter Jean Mary and sons Thomas Bruce and Donald, with middle names Joseph, after a family tradition. Weigh-ins showed weights of three pounds five ounces for the girl and varying weights for the boys, with total birth weights and dates recorded.
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Baltimore
Henn
St. Agnes Hospital
Dorothy Henn
Fourth Christmas for Cieminello quadruplets in hospital
Philadelphia reports the Cieminello quadruplets born November 1, 1944, still in hospital incubators at their third Christmas. Santa Claus amuses yet confuses them as they await their first words, with medical history noted and a planned Cesarean section for delivery.
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Philadelphia
Cieminello
Cersarean
Santa Claus
Joseph Cieminella
Army Commission Deadline for Regular Commissions
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright reminded eligible officers and former officers that the deadline for regular army commissions is December 31. Applications must be mailed by midnight. blanks are available by phone from Capt. 2b. A. Fells, Fourth Army adjutant at Fort Sam Houston, and should be addressed to the commanding general of the Fourth Army.
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Jonathan M. Wainwright
Fourth Army
A. Fells
Fort Sam Houston
Guest Found Dead in Hotel Room at Martin Hotel
A hotel guest was found dead Monday afternoon in a room at the Martin hotel on East Martin Street. Det. Bill Meter said the deceased registered as W G Williams but papers in his pocket bore the name William G Hoyal with addresses in Austin and Columbia, S C. Gas fumes were present in the room.
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Martin Hotel
East Martin Street
Bill Meter
W.G. Williams
William G. Hoyal
Austin
Columbia
S.C
Suspect Robberies Target Local Residents on City Streets
Police sought four men with a handlebar mustache after a Tuesday street holdup on San Carlos and San Jaginto and Tampico where Domingo Saldano was pistol threatened and robbed of $5 and a new jacket. A second victim, Morris Roberts, was beaten and robbed of $8 on Nacogdoces Street. Tomas Guerra, treated for knife wounds at Robert B. Cree hospital, was attacked and robbed of $5 by two men on South Medina Street.
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Domingo Saldano
San Carlos Street
San Jaginto
Tampico
Saldano
Morris Roberts
IDTRC
Nacog-4
Dades
Tomas Guerra
Alla Vista
Cibolo
Robert B. Cree Hospital
Ays
Medina Street
Iron Lung Lands in Mexico to Aid Children
President Miguel Alemán’s special plane carried an iron lung from Kelly Field to Mexico City. Gift of 65 American children memorializes Jeffrey Kroft of New York who died in Mexico last August of infantile paralysis. Formal presentation planned Tuesday at the children’s hospital.
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Miguel Alemans
Kelly Field
Republic
Mexico City
Jeffrey Kroft
New York
Mexico
Children’s Hospital
One Charged In Fireworks Case In Alamo Heights Court
Lois Wassenick of 112 Hays Street was charged Tuesday in Alamo Heights Corporation Court with selling fireworks in violation of a city order at the Groad Way and Ferrell Road area.
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Lois Wassenick
Hays Street
Alamo Heights Corporation Court
Swith
Groadway
Ferrell Road
Three Charged In Fire At Winecoff Hotel
Indictments were returned against A. F. Geele Sr and A. F. Geele Jr of Sheboygan Wisconsin and R. E. O Connell a Chicago detective who had leased the Winecoff hotel since 1934 for involuntary manslaughter over the December blaze that killed 119 guests and staff.
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Atlanta
Nee
A. F. Geele Sr
A. F. Geele Jr
Shehoypan
Wis
R. E. O'Connell
Chicago
Woman Sues St. Anthony Hotel Over Car Crash Injuries
Mrs Elizabeth Niece filed in 37th District Court a suit seeking $20000 and costs claiming permanent injuries after a passenger car she rode in was struck by a truck owned by the St Anthony hotel in October.
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St. Anthony
37Th District Court
Elizabeth
Disease Cuts In Quake Area In Japan Disaster
Tokyo dispatch says disease is under control but refugees in Shingu Wan on Wakayama coast suffer boiled creek water. Army and Japanese authorities rush serum and food as 2318 official casualties include 1061 dead 185 missing 1092 injured. Relief trains reach ports as U.S. aid floods in with hospitals moving in.
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Tokyo
Japan
Shingu
Wakayamia
Jap Home Ministry
Wakayamua
U.S
Hong
U.S. Army
Hoover Heads to Florida Keys Fishing Cruise
Former President Herbert Hoover sails from Miami aboard the yacht Vasquerader for a three week fishing cruise through the Florida keys. He chartered the vessel for the voyage and planned to depart soon.
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Miami
Herbert Hoover
Florida Keys
Hoover
Visit to Kelly Field Highlights Mexican Officials Tour
Arturo Ramirez Urquizo nephew of Francisco L Urquizo minister of national defense and Enrique Vazquez of Mexico visited Kelly Field on Monday during a U S tour to study airport construction.
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Kelly
United States
Arturo Ramirez Urquizo
Francisco L. Urquizo
Enrique Vazquez
Mexico
Kelly Field
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