The Brighter Side by Damon Runyon
An aging man recalls extensive reading and finds comfort in the Twenty third Psalm. He recounts how Bible verses sustained him through hardship, war, and sorrow, highlighting the psalm as the most beautiful and consoling words he knows. He recalls memorizing it by a campfire and values its message of guidance.
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Shakespeare
Rousseau
Plutarch
Rabelaly
Baleau
Bone
Pueblo
David
Cancer Breast Hormone Experiments Reported at Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins University announces Dr Charles F Geschichter findings that daily 20 gamma units of estrogen injected into rats produced mammary cancer within 180 to 200 days. He links hormonal balance disruption to cancer growth and notes implications for prevention and cautious therapeutic use of ovarian hormones.
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Johns H Mopkins University
Charles F. Geschichter
Geschichter
Il ‘Eatwa
Ohio purge nears 2000 in Bricker administration sweep
Ohio's new Republican administration expanded its purge of state workers toward the 2000 mark. Highway director Robert Beightler says removal charges will be filed against J Matthew Carr over destroyed employment records ordered by former official J. Matthew Carr. The Bricker team prepared to discharge nearly 500 more workers, with 1916 already listed, including 26 from the highway division.
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Columbus
Ohio
Republican
Martin L. Davey
Robert S. Beightler
John W. Bricker
J. Matthew Carr
Davey
Garr
Carr
Rogda
Highway Department
Sige Bricker
Highway Division
Boy Hurt by Ornament in Christmas Display
A boy was struck in the eye by a falling ornament at a Christmas display on Durango Street. The injury was serious and the incident prompted hospital treatment, with the boy receiving care at Grean Hospital.
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Thes
Pelicitas Villegas
Durango Street
Ian Robert GB
Grean Hospital
Wepdarils
300 Die as Japs Bomb Chungking
Shanghai dispatch says about 300 people killed and many wounded in Japanese air raids on Chungking the provisional capital. Additional raids hit Wanhaiien in Szechwan killing 60 and wounding 80. Severe fighting reported in southwest Shensi Province with Chinese claims of recapturing Lishli and surrounding areas.
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Shanghai
Chiese
Thiay
Chungking
Wanhaien
Szechwen
Wournding
Shabsl
Lishlt
French Veterans Call for Immediate Aid to Spain
Paris dispatch reports the federation of war veterans with 1.5 million members urging France to urgently send food clothing and medical supplies to the beleaguered Spanish government in defiance of Italy's stance. The appeal emphasizes aid to Barcelona and supports Franco's opponents in the civil conflict.
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Spain
Paris
Federal Union of War Veterans
France
Italy
Franco Unifie i
Batoslona
Germany Turkey Sign Credit Pact
Germany and Turkey signed a credit agreement allowing 180000000 marks to be used by the Turkish government for German industrial purchases. The credit was arranged during a visit by German economics minister Walther Funk to Ankara in October.
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Germany
Turkey
Berlin
Walthe Punk
Ankara
Police picket gambling dens in Buffalo drive
Buffalo police under Commissioner Glenn H. McClellan stage picket lines in front of suspected bookmaking establishments. Uniformed officers stand outside to deter bettors without blocking entrances, a tactic aimed at reducing patronage and pressuring operators amid ongoing raids and door locks that have hindered earlier efforts. Captain Thomas W. Ryan notes patronage has fallen since the visible police presence began.
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TRL
Glenn H. McClellan
Chological
Thomas W. Ryan
Weye
Court Fight On Will Ready In Wisconsin
Racine Wisconsin January 16 The delayed court fight over the will of the late Mabelle Horlick Sidley heiress of malted milk fame was to open in county court tomorrow morning without further hitch. Her son William Horlick Sidley contests the will which leaves a third of the estate to W Perk Bull a Toronto lawyer and mining promoter. Sidley seeks an investigation of his mother’s death at Bulls home where she had been visiting the last year. The matter was adjourned indefinitely by Toronto courts at the coroner’s inquest.
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Racine
Wis
Mabelle Horlick Sidley
Atepede Oa
William Horlick Sidley
W. Perk Bull
Toronto
Opt
Sidley
Bull
Insurgent Planes Raid Near Barcelona Reported
Near Barcelona insurgent planes attacked within a 16 mile circle around the government capital. They dropped hazardous devices and strafed refugee camps. Casualty figures were unestablished with six towns struck and a civil hospital hit.
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Barcelona
Tarragong
Colonia
Alten
Senate backs staff payroll cuts in Texas session
In Austin on January 18 the Texas Senate praised the Railroad Commission for trimming payroll by 20 percent as the chamber passed a commendatory resolution by Senator Morris Roberts. The House also acted to broadcast Governor-elect W Lee O Daniel's first measure and enacted new rules limiting final seal on conference reports. Horse racing was legalized through a rider attached to a late appropriation measure.
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Morris Roberts
Petbus
Appropriations Committee
W.lee O'Daniel
O'Daniel
Japan Press Warns US on Far East Policies
Tokio paper Kokumin editorially declares Japanese people determined to smash American aims in the western Pacific. It questions US motives, warns of fortifying Gaum and Wakle islands, and suggests Japan would resist if Washington seeks to interfere with its China policy. The piece cites military circles and asks whether Roosevelt and the state department intend to destroy Japan's aims.
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Jame
United States
China
Japan
America
Jto
Rokumin
Far East
Roosevelt
State Department
Gaum and
Wale
Insurgents to Try British Pro-Consul in Spain
Insurgent authorities in Spain plan to try Ernest Golting, British pro consul suspected of complicity in a spy plot, by an insurgent court. Golting and his wife and Madame La Garde, a clerk at the British vice consulate in San Sebastian, will attend the trial with legal aid arranged by the British government. Details of the charges are not disclosed.
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London
Ernest Golting
Golting
Garde
Ban Sebastian
Market Prices Fluctuate on the Sait Week Opening
Prices on the commission and growers market show a brisk start to the week with Florida green beans dropping from 2 40 to 2 95 per bushel and California potatoes from 5 50 to 2 25 a sack. Other readings include Florida tomatoes rising to 3 8 per basket, wax beans to 3 a bushel, and Emperor grapes at 2 159 per saw. New arrivals include California potatoes and Idaho white onions.
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Anloula Commission
Merkels
Florida
California
Lux
Sunkist
Commission Mart
Idaho
Apples
Washington
Appier
Wash
Central America
Texas
Calif
Emperor
Mexico
Fury
Esa
Nazi Hungarian Issues Discussed in Berlin Meeting
In Berlin Hungarian Foreign Minister Coun Stefan Craky and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop held a two hour talk touching all questions concerning Germany with Hungary. Osaky met with the Italian ambassador to Germany for discussions seen as shaping Hungary’s future role in the anti Comintern front. The Hungarian government announced it would join the anti Comintern pact of Germany Italy and Japan this week.
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Berlin
Coun Stefan Craky
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Germany
Bunesty
von Ribbentrop
Osaky
Hungary
Italy
Japan
Spring Nears It Tops Yo Yo Time In Houston
A yo yo and top spinning contest is planned for 10 am Saturday at Highland Park playground as Houston homicide detectives seek a 28 year old oil field worker connected to the death of a 24 year old housemaid whose nude body was found in a Houston hotel. A Harris County health examination of stomach contents awaited a final cause of death report.
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Houston
Highland Park Playground
M.A. Nichols
Wathering
Safe Blasted at Nance Bonthside Pharmacy on South Flores
A night blast damaged the Nance Bonthside Pharmacy at 6031 South Flores Street. The safe was blown into an adjacent office, and a small cash haul was found. Manager B A Bergfeld reported the morning discovery as police checked narcotics in the safe and reviewed the front entrance break-in details.
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Sata
Nance Bonthside
South
Flores Street
B. A. Bergfeld
Poets
Phearmacy
B.S. Tullos
Chaperau pleads guilty in jewelry smuggling case
Albert N Chaperau pleaded guilty to three smuggling indictments in federal court on January 18. The charges involve jewelry valued at about 100000 dollars. George Burns of Burns and Allen is named in two indictments. Jack Benny also figures in a related plea.
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Chaperau
New York
Albert N. Chaperau
Jack Benny
Benny
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