Elaborate Banquet Reveals Caledonian Society’s 75th Year
The Caledonian Society of St Louis marks a 75th anniversary with a lavish banquet at Barnum's Hotel in November. Members in Highland dress, pipers, and a grand dinner are noted, with toasts to Scotland, the Army, Navy, President, and local institutions. The event closes with songs, patronage to Scotland, and a late-night farewell.
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Caledonian Society of
St. Lots
Barnum’s
Mm St Lous
Caldomian Society
Seiteh
Scotland
Mary
Scotia
E. McNeal
Society
William Anderson
Cameron
E. M. Joel
Columbia
Gem of the Ocrean
Army
Caledonian Society of Cincinnati
St. Andrews Sons
Cincinnati
Lahm honored by Army aviation at Randolph Field tribute
Major General Frank Lahm, Army's first aviator and former commander of the Army Air Forces, received a retirement farewell at Randolph Field Texas on Sunday November 30. Generals Lahm and Arnon led ceremonies with 20 000 spectators and 270 planes from Randolph Field and other air bases as cadets and soldiers paraded in review marking the end of Lahm's storied aviation career and the Air Corps Training Center era.
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Randolph Field
Texs
Frank P Lahm
Lthm
Gulf Coast
Gneral Henry H Arnon
Army Air Forces
Lilun
Air Force
Genera Lihn
Gon Lahm
Ranuoph
Graoks
Kelly Fields
Air Corps
Wa UL
Army
Tany
Air
Oss
Gulf Coast Air Corps
Duncan Feld
Tess
Missouri Motorists Set New State Driving Record
Missouri motorists will drive 3.75 billion miles this year, a 15 percent rise, with Route 67 south of St. Louis and the Chain of Rocks Bridge bypass, plus Route 240 between Kansas City and Independence and Route 169 near Kansas City, among the heaviest traveled links. Carl W Brown, state highway chief, cites defense vacations and country weekends for the surge.
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Missouri
National Defense
Carl W Brown
State Highway Department
State Highway Planning Survey Division
Brown
St. Louis
St. Lows County
Chain of Rocks
Kansas City
Independence
Clay County
Kansas City Municipal
Christmas trees sent to Iceland by New York Red Cross
The New York Red Cross chapter shipped frozen 10 foot Christmas trees to U S troops stationed in Iceland after reports there were no trees there.
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Iceland
New York
Red Cross
U. S
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J. W. Dillon
Mr. Clayton
S. E. Missouri
R. D. Clayton
Clayton
Highway 55
Base Line
Sikeston
Sikeston, Scott County, Missouri
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