Ortakio Village in Bulgaria-Greece Clash Reported Ablaze
Bulgarian village of Ortakio across the Greek border was reported afire amid heavy fighting in the Greece–Bulgaria front. Greek forces said 33 guerrillas allied with the Athens government were killed, with battles near Trifylia and Didimotikon leaving nine insurgents dead and smoke seen from Greece. High officials planned to inspect Macedonia and western Thrace aboard a destroyer, stopping at Volos, Salonika, availa, and Alexandroupolis.
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L. S. Chakales
Athens
Ortakio
Turkey
Bulgaria
Greece
TrifyNion
Komotini
Didimotikon
Souphli
Sylianos Gonatas
Constantine Kalkanis
Navy
Dimitrio Londos
John Epiliotopoulous
Macedonia
Thrace
Volos
Salonika
Availa
Alexandroupolis
Tolson to Attend Junior Red Cross Meeting
Brad Tolson former president of Tucson high school Junior Red Cross leaves Tuesday for a Pacific area committee meeting in San Francisco convening at noon Thursday and continuing Friday He was chosen at last June's National Red Cross convention in Philadelphia to serve on the committee which will plan the Junior Red Cross division for the next convention in Cleveland Also on the agenda are ways to improve the Junior Red Cross Journal circulated to high schools across the country
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Brad Tolson
Junior Red Cross
Tucson
Junior Red Cross Pacific Area
San Francisco
Red Cross
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Truck Licenses To Be Sold Wednesday
Truck license plates for 1947 will go on sale Wednesday despite no 1947 passenger car plates. The assessor's office cites the need to verify numbers and complete extensive paperwork for commercial fleet plates before issuance.
University of Arizona selects Pat Lyon as Sun Carnival princess
Pat Lyon a dark haired 18 year old freshman from Casa Grande will serve as UA princess for the Sun Carnival in El Paso before the Sun Bowl game. She is a Delta Gamma pledge chosen by the student council and will spend six days in El Paso with expenses paid by the Associated Student organization.
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Pat Lyon
Casa Grande
University of Arizona
el Paso
Delta Gamma
Miss Lyon
A. J L. Slonaker
Phoenix Woman To Face Retrial In 1945 Killing
Irene Moore, a Phoenix woman saved from execution by a state Supreme Court reversal, faces retrial February 25 in Maricopa County Superior Court for the August 24 1945 murder of her husband Willie in Phoenix.
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Phoenix
Irene Moore
State Supreme Court
Maricopa County
Willie
State School Plans Program Christmas Show at Deaf and Blind School
The Arizona State School for the Deaf and Blind presents a joint program by deaf and blind departments in the school auditorium at 8 p m on Wednesday to close the semester. The event features carols and tableaux with EDuar do Caso directing the blind choir and Jack Kennedy as pianist. Notable readers include Beth Maurel Jack Salazar Nora Whitlock and Billy Young. A Santa Claus sketch closes the program with acts by Carolyn and Guy Bateman.
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Arizona State School For the Deaf and Blind
Blind
Eduardo Caso
Jack Kennedy
Tucson
Beth Maurel
Globe
Jack Salazar
Holbrook
Nora Whitlock
Billy Young
Phoenix
Bethlehem
Herald Angels
Edna Rose Jay
Justina Armstrong
Alice Soto
Bobby Corbett
Miami
Betty
Sherman
Window Rock
Pedro Acuna
Benson
John
Miguel Ruiz
Florence
Howlett Smith
Gertrude Woodford
Angelita Zermeno
Yuma
Joe Chowning
Clarkdale
Carolyn
Guy Bateman
Deaf Department
Community club and lodge events listed for Tucson week
City Briefs outline a slate of meetings and activities across Tucson organizations. Bird club at University of Arizona building, FOE auxiliary Christmas party, Masonic lodge degree, Ahepa meeting, a Thursday transport to a Christmas bridge party, Legion auxiliary candy wrappers for a veterans’ children party, Reserves Officers Association meeting with speakers, and a naval reserve V-6 enlistment note for K Casey Willis.
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Bird Club
The
Tucson Natural History Society
University of Arizona Agricultural Building
C. T. Vorhies
Women’s
FOE
Lodge Hall
North Sixth Avenue
Tucson
Masonic Temple
Arizona
Order of Ahepa
Knights of Columbus
Chamber of Commerce
Tucson Visitors’ Club
Mountain House
Tucson Mountain Recreation Area
Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Pima County
Reserves Officers’ Association
Pioneer Hotel
Roy Richards
Dori Hijalmarson
Phoenix
Chinese Lose Regain Yufa in Peiping Area
Chinese Communists captured Yufa 27 miles south of Peiping at 3 a m but Nationalists recaptured it four hours later. Communist forces pressed toward Changhsintien and near Peiping while Nationalists retook Miaofengshan. About 2,000 Communists attacked Paoting, 90 miles south, as fighting continued.
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Peiping
Yufa
Changhsintien
Miaofengshan
Paoting
Hopeh
Here
Train crashes into freight cars 20 killed near Madrid
Madrid dispatch reports an express train collided with a line of freight cars about 90 miles southeast of Madrid early Tuesday. Twenty people were killed in the wreck and advices from the scene confirm the toll.
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Madrid
Tucsonian Held In Silver Theft Case
Roscoe H. Johnston Jr., 21, of Tucson, held on $5,000 bond on a charge of stealing a mail pouch containing 1,000 silver dollars from the Yuma railroad station baggage room on December 9. Johnston was an employee of the Southern Pacific railroad.
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Phoenix
Roscoe H. Johnston, Jr
Tucson
Bend
Yuma
Johnston
Southern Pacific Railroad
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SEARS
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E. Congress
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