Fiesta Plan Group Named San Jacinto Week Committee
Anointing a planning committee, Dick Pullen announces a week long Fiesta San Jacinto program in April. Harry Jersig selected as committee chair with Travis Bailey Jack Raybould Perry Shankle and others named to supporting groups including Army music and finance units. Jersty says work starts next month as several sub committees name chairs and members.
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Dick Pullen
Fiesta Association
Harry Jersig
Travis Bailey
Jack Raybould
Perry Shankle
Vachel Lackey
Claude Hudspeth
William C. Clegg
Jersty
Pullen
Army
Ralph Durkee
J. L. Toohey
Datus Proper
Claude V. Birkhead
Charles Anderson
John Cape
Clegg
Joni Jones
Clay Cunningham
M. Riley Wyatt
Um Poulos
B. E. Hillie
O. E. Latimer
TH. L. Bridgman
BE. A. Baclz
General Clarkson Wins Distinguished Service Medal Award
Maj. Gen. Percy W. Clarkson of San Antonio received the Distinguished Service Medal from Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright for World War II and postwar service in Japan. Clarkson led the 33d Infantry Division in the Pacific, commanded X Corps at Kure, and served as deputy chief of staff in the Pacific before returning to the United States. Also honored was Col. Robert P. Williams with the Legion of Merit for theater surgeon duties in the China Burma India and India Burma theaters from 1942 to 1945.
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Percy W. Clarkson
San Antonio
Fourth Army
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Japan
Texas A
M. Clarkson
33D
Pacific
X Corps
Kure
U.S. Army Forces
Clarkson
William
Primera Drive
Wainwright
Col
Robert P. Williams
China-Burma-India
India-Burma
Tyne
Peggy Joyce Rates Brains High in Attractive Men
New York reporter notes Peggy Joyce naming ten men deemed most attractive in the United States. She stresses brains as essential beyond looks money and talent. Included are Bernard Baruch Andrei Gromyko Mayor O Dwyer Dewey J Edgar Hoover and W Arrell Har.
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New York
Inpriman
Sidney Blackmer
Jimmy
Stewart
Col
Phil Cochran
Edward R. Stelinins
Pergy Hopkins
Joyce
United States
Bernard M. Baruch
Andrei A. Gromyko
Mayor O'Dwyer
Thomas E. Dewey
J. Edgar Hoover
W. Arrell Har
Rain Author John Colton Dies in Gainesville Hospital
Dee Gainesville John Colton 60 famed playwright of Rain Shanghai Gesture The Widow and the Virgin died in a local hospital today after a stroke in Virginia. He had come to Gainesville earlier this month to recuperate from a lengthy illness and planned to complete Foreign Fancy Woman while there. Colton arrived on the recommendation of Madame Barry Orlova whose son served at Camp Howze during the war.
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Gainesville
Dee
John Colton
Colton
Shanghai
New York
Barry Orlova
Camp Howze
Valley Town to Get Resort Hotel
ELSA Dec 24 Plans for a resort hotel on Delta lake shores ten miles north of Valley Town were announced by Antony Gatti of Clevekind. The $400000 development will convert a three story former land company clubhouse into a 56 room hotel with 200 reservations already requested.
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Elsa
Delta Lake
Here
Antony Gatti
Clevekind
Gatti
Land Company
Cath
Dads of Boys As Burial in Philadelphia
A Philadelphia police officer Henry J. Hicks aged 39, father of six, was killed in the line of duty on Christmas Eve. The funeral was attended by the grieving fathers of two youths accused of the murder Aaron Goreth and Keith Donaldson 15 year olds from Long Branch N J. Police say Hicks was slain while trying to stop the youths from running away from home.
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Philadelphia
Der
INS
Henry J. Hicks
Aaron Goreth
Keith Donaldson
Long Branch
N. F
Hicks
Soldier Injured When Auto Upsets Near Camp Stoneman
Soldier J Knompsen of Camp Stoneman California was taken to Brooke General Hospital Saturday with a broken left arm after his auto turned over on Sulphur Springs road three miles from town. Three passengers were unhurt, sheriff reports.
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Ups
Monroe J.knompsen
Camp Stoneman
Calif
Brooke General Hospital
U S Cloaks Treason Case Unfolds In Boston
A federal grand jury in Boston sits in secrecy as it weighs treason charges against ex newspapermen Robert Best and Douglas Chandler. Eleven witnesses testified, including a German woman, with more to be called Monday as guards secure the jury chambers in New England’s first treason case since the Revolutionary era.
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Boston
Department of Justice
Robert Best
Douglas Chandler
New England
Chandler
Best
Berlin
Diseases On Increase Across Five Communicable Ailments
Dr. W. V. Bradshaw of the city health department released an annual report noting increases in measles, syphilis, tuberculosis, chickenpox, and bacillary dysentery compared with last year. Measles rose to 447 cases from 22, while syphilis reached 1524 versus 1171, tuberculosis 1144 versus 890, and chickenpox 97 versus 67. dysentery was 18 with none previously. The rat control program, now discontinued, is credited with typhus dropping from 115 to 27.
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W. V. Bradshaw
City Health Department
Baldridge Family Welcomes 20th Child in Covington
Mrs Mable Baldridge 43, wife of a tenant farmer, gave birth to her 20th child yesterday at Booth hospital Covington. The infant boy weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces and was placed in an oxygen tent. All but one of the Baldridge children are living, with 16 at home.
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Covington
Baldridge
Fleming County
Mable Baldridge
Booth Hospital
Balbridge
Film barred in Singapore for Malay misrepresentation
The Malayan union government banned the American film Beyond the Blue Horizon starring Dorothy Lamour, stating a special panel found it misrepresented Malaya. The decision came on December 28.
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Tamour
Singapore
Malayan Union
Dorothy Lamour
Malaya
Richard Denning Hones Sea Rescue Role for Two Weeks
Richard Denning endured nearly two weeks afloat in a rubber life raft for his starring part in the Paramount release Seven Were Saved. The film centers on sea rescue operations at sea.
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Bae ‘Thomas
Richard Denning
Paramount
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Kelly Field
C.E. Sprowl
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