Loretta Youngs sisters sign for Bell biopic
Hollywood rumor column reports Loretta Young and her three sisters Pol Ann Belly Hinne and 14-year-old Georgianna Young signed to play the four sisters in Alexander Graham Bell the biographical film about the telephone inventor. It notes past hits and Hollywood chatter about Anita Louise and others, plus local thefts and incidents in Santa Barbara.
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Hollywood
Love of Peace
Lorella Young
Tewentleh
New Deal sentiment cited at Candler homecoming event
Charles Milton Newcomb of Candler NC described opposition to New Deal policies as growing, saying public funds are their own money. About 500 salesmen and executives attended Ken Comb’s Friday night address at the Plaza hotel, with Welmers presiding.
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Santa Claus
Charles Milton Newcomb
Candler
N.C
Plaza Hotel
Kencomb
Newcomb
Roosevelt
Four Get Life for Murder of Soldier Maycock
Dec 11-vi 3 Under sentences of life imprisonment today a charge of the five persons convicted of murdering Donald Maycock, discharged cashier of Salt Lake City. Judge I M Golden passed sentence yesterday on Patrick Fettiner, 23, Michalas Chimele, 20, Laura Borwani, 27 and Shirley Kayr2, after a jury found them and a 6th defendant, 18-year-old William McCord, guilty of picking up Maycock in a beer tavern last Ate', taking him for a ride, robbing and fatally slugging him. The judge said he would bear a Motion for probation for McCord on January 6.
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Bai Francisco
Donald Maycock
Salt Lake City
I. M Golden
Patrick Fettiner
Michalas Chimele
Laura Borwani
Shirley Kayr
William McCord
Epi
Maycock
Rob T Ping
McCord
Japanese general wounded in Chinese train attack near Yozhan
Chinese press reports a Chinese attack by machine gun fire on a military train near Yozhan wounded General Sryuroki Hala commander in chief of Japanese forces in Central China. He was taken to a hospital at Nanding. Reports claim heavy air raids on Paotow in Suva Province killing 24 Japanese soldiers as Japanese authorities deny confirmation.
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Shanghai
Yozhan
Sryuroki Hala
China
Nanding
Yeehow
Hankow
Paotow
Suva
Suiyuan
Keating
Kwangtung
Hu- Aml
Todays Radio Programs Listing on Various Stations
A dense OCR style list outlines Saturday radio programming across KTBA KABC KARC and other stations. Entries include Twelve Crowded Months, Newscasts, Saturday Revue, Giants of music, sports, and dance shows, with holiday and New Year programming, late night ballroom and dancing events, and multiple network connections such as National Broadcasting Company and Texas State Network.
New Year Radio Networks Welcome Dances Across Nation
A 1999 New Year greeting notes extensive network broadcasts as KTSA joins the Columbia network for New Year Eve coverage until 2 a.m. KABC links with Mutual Broadcasting at 10 19 p m and WCBC presents a dance roundup from WOAT Stom 11 to midnight featuring many of the country’s top stars.
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Beesenna Sinlepere
Kasteir Darby
Anata Rane
Oreh
Talsate
Rninuneea
KTSA
Kewsey Air
George Conk
Jes Mens of
New Fear
KuAc
Rin
Oren
Mideight Fairline
Risa Fire Dancing
RTSA
Columbia
Shoic
KABC
Mutual
Wlam
W. B.C
Midaigas
Short Wave SATURDAK New Year's Eve Broad Program
The item lists radio programming and network broadcasts for New Year’s Eve including a London piece by Anthony Weymouth, English language talks, and Columbia network presentations titled Twelve aie See eae 4 a iep Crowded Months. It notes the 1938 schedule with Vox Pop interviews by John son, Wallace Butterworth, and a Berlin construction project on a water reservoir tower planned at 300 feet high with a five year timeline.
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Oeteae
Berlin
Wendetort
Germany
Funeral cortege honors Adam Loreng pilot in San Antonio
A funeral service for Adam C. Loreng 36 was held after his dies in a plane crash shortly after taking off from the municipal airport. Loreng, a native of San Antonio, had lived in New York about a decade before returning last summer to work at Duncan Field. Survived by his widow Carolyn Lovenn of New York, his mother Mrs Bigwirth Loreng, and several siblings in San Antonio. His ashes were interred at Mission Burial Park Friday.
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Stilson Field
Adam C. Loreng
San Antonio
Mission Baulal Park
New York
Dyncan Field
Ie Floyd Hennethied
Brook, Ye
Ant
Carolyn G. Lovenn
Gly
Mos
Bigwieth
Loreerie
Mater
Christine Lorany
Dawn Patrol at Aztec Offers Propaganda and Action
The Dawn Patrol at the Aztec features Basil Rathbone in a gripping air war tale with strong antiwar propaganda. Errol Flynn’s lines provoke a clash over British imperial bias as David Niven’s brother reports for duty.
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Sam Woolford
Carsues
Basil Rathbone
Dicks Barthelmess
Errol Plyan
David Niven
Flynn
Plynn
Fragmented Bexar Facts preview and local notes
FRANK BRADY reports on Brackenridge park director FRED STARK and a list of local figures and events. Names include AR WILLIAMS CHERIE FAIRBANKS, JIMMY HLANCHE, NICK STUART, FRANCES MILLIR, JEAN STARLOW, PAUL MURRAY, EPH CHARNINSKY, CARL, MOORE, DICK KETNER, E G WALSH, KEWPIE YOUNG, GEORGE E SAM ALEXANDER, THOMAS DEAN, LACEY WHITTEN, and ZETA TAU. Also notes about a Houston stage premiere, a Christmas reminder, and a January club engagement.
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Fred Stark
Brackenridge Park
AR. Williams
Cherie
Charles Fairbanks
Alamo Heights
Hlanche Nisselbaum
Nick Stuart
Frances Millir
Jean Starlow
Gilbert Ware
Gleam
Paul Murray
Eph Charninsky
Lelng
Carl
Deason
Moore
Gunes Club
Dick Ketner
E.G. Walsh
Kewpie Young
Kouston Ciy
Houston Community Players
George E
Sam Alexander
New York City
Thomas Dean
Lacey Whitten
Zeta Zeta Tau Sorority
Nazis Campaign for Road Safety in Goebbels Drive
Berlin reports Nazi road safety week led by Propaganda Minister Goebbels features ten commandments for motorists. Parked cars display leaflets under windshields inviting join the National Socialist Motor Corps, with comic strip style illustrations showing drunks and tired drivers.
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Berlin
Joseph Goebbels
National Socialist Motor Corps
Pigeon Sets Speed Record in Germany
Berlin report records a carrier pigeon covering 821 miles from Appeldorn Halland to Berlin at an average speed exceeding 60 miles per hour. The bird shattered all previous long distance marks for the race.
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Pigeon
Germany
Berlin
Supreme court weighs review of farm act marketing provisions
Washington December 11. The Supreme Court considered whether to review an attack on the marketing provisions of the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act. The challenge was filed by Georgia and Florida tobacco brewers. The justices will likely decide next Tuesday when opinions are delivered.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Judge Hits Police for Poker Arrests
Brooklyn Magistrate Rudich denounced police gambling raids as unlawful interference with liberty after dismissing disorderly conduct charges against 12 men accused of merely playing cards. He warned continued tactics could lead to lawsuits, while officers claimed the group played poker behind a York Street graveyard.
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Brooklyn
Rudich
Mbetty
Doilee
Carmine Tete
York Street
Weather data snapshot and city forecasts from a 1940s page
The report lists precipitation totals and deficiency notes for January, detailing January 1 rainfall at 236 inches and monthly rainfall at 2.24 inches. It includes daily lunar and solar times, moon phase, and tourist weather notes for many U.S. cities with cloudy or clear conditions and high and low temperatures.
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Sanday
Aransas Pass
Sunita
Wiel
Pam
Wem
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Texas
Chao Albuquerque
Alpine
Tex
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Analachivela
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Gao
Austin
Birmingham
Ali
Boston
Mase
Brady
Ark
Memphis
Tenn
Uomi
Fin
Minnepolis
Min - Mobile
Ala
Clonty
Sadena
Utah
Montgomery
Clondy
Nashville
Needies
Calif
New Orlem Toudy
New York
Alma Oor
North Platte
Oklahoma City
Okla
Omahn
Pajosuine
Phoenix
Aricorey
Pittabureh
Bt Bhoridan
Wintineg
Curae
Frugal Passenger Dashes for Grapefruit Then Rushes Away
In Cheyenne a passing traveler sprinted into the union station dining room and ordered a grapefruit. He paid four dollars, then dashed to catch a moving dining car. A waitress noted he could have bought several grapefruits instead.
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Cheyenne
Wye
Cheyenne Union Station
Waitresd
Foreign coins going to vet collection fundraiser
Mrs Small will forward foreign coins including Canadian Chinese and Mexican pieces to Ernest Hill a disabled veteran who has collected foreign coins for years. A box at the Legion hall is used for donations and visitors often retreat by leaving coins as if making donations.
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Rentom
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Betty Bronson
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Atwater
Gloria Dickson
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Isa Hunters
I. E. Wrigley
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May Robson
New York
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Rames
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Sun Valley
Maureen O'Sullivan
Alama
Ernest Hill
As- Bilal
Legion
Mra
Lelta
Mustodian
Hil
Mrs Small
Director Falls for Own Idea in Hollywood Comedy
Hollywood report says director Willams Keighley, while filming Yes, My Darling Daughter, broke from his rule of staying behind the cameras to study a scene up close. He imitated actor Tan Hunter during a sequence, slipping and falling on stones, injuring his elbow knee and four wrists while the crew watched.
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Hollywood
Bec
Wrector Willams Keighley
Tor
Mili Darling
Keigh
Tan Hunter
Priscilia
Hunter Taj Iri
Keighley
Mother Asks Shorter Christmas Vacation Plan
In Kbnnoma Wisconsin on December 31 a mother of eight requested a shorter Christmas break for her children. Her plea, backed by nine other mothers, led the school board to keep classes until December 21 and to grant the Easter vacation early by four days.
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Kbnnoma
Wis
Delern
President and Mrs. Roosevelt Welcome New Year at White House
Washington reports President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt plan a quiet New Year’s Eve at the White House. They will dine with a few friends and exchange wishes at midnight in the president’s study. The president’s youngest son John is to bring his bride Eleanor home from Boston for the holidays. Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt and Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt are present, with James Roosevelt Jr and his family also at the White House.
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Roosevelt
Phn
Whita “House
John
Aone
Boston
Sara Delano Roosevelt
J. R. Roosevelt
White House
Art
James. Roosevelt Jr
Kate
Cara
Soldiers Study in Trenches
Barcelona dispatch reports a Cultural Militia program formed by the Spanish government to educate soldiers during the war. Official figures show 362,981 individual and 580,585 collective literacy lessons taught in benches and barracks, amid a 45.46 percent illiteracy rate in Boan lands.
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Barcelona
Ure
Stmy
Mita
Lazy Husbands to Be Confined in Latvia Workhouses
Latvia's new public welfare law targets husbands who refuse to support their families citing insufficient means. Such men face confinement to work houses and forced labor with wages partially deducted for the family, under the ministry of public welfare measure announced on December 31 in Riga.
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Riga
Latvia
Ministry of Public Welfare
Alaskan Oil Test Fails to Produce
In Anchorage on December 31 a test well near Cook Inlet failed to produce oil despite expectations of vast reserves. Five years and 700,000 sunk by Aniskin Drilling to reach 7156 feet yielded no output, delaying the hoped for blow in of Alaska's northerly extreme well.
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Anchorage
Alaska
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