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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1945
Page
8
American troops in Peiping spent Christmas amid homesickness after the war ended, with GI parties on Christmas Eve and day. The Red Cross club was crowded as soldiers, many Marines, wrote letters home and wondered when they would go home.
The Big Three plus France will draft treaties with Romania Bulgaria and Hungary while Britain and Russia handle the Finnish treaty. Deputies start now to ready a 21 nation conference with Belgium Netherlands Norway Czechoslovakia Poland Greece Yugoslavia White Russia Ukraine Brazil Ethiopia and india represented.
In the city parcels are arriving with snow in the east blamed by a cheerful courier. Special delivery letters draw focus as messengers stand by at the post office to speed mail. A lamp post loudspeaker on Stone Avenue plays music, heard mainly by a lone news vendor finding quiet amid a sparse downtown crowd.
The speaker asserts Iran will stick to traditional policies as Azerbaijan undergoes reforms. He claims Russia seeks a neutral democratic partner at its side and argues against letting 15 million Azerbaijanis suffer alongside 200 million Soviets.
Tragedy lit the Christmas sky as news swept through town halting numerous gay parties. Firemen faced freezing temperatures as heavy hoses froze and were thawed while moving between positions. Water streams froze on exiting nozzles and building walls iced over.
The Bethlehem Church of the Nativity held a late service beginning at 10 p.m. led by the Most Rev. Vicar of Port Said Msgr Angeli marine Hiral, standing in for the ailing Latin patriarch Msgr Louis Barlassina. At midnight bells rang out proclaiming the birth of the Prince of Peace.
President Truman spoke to 10 342 workers around the White House and millions listening by radio urging world unity through the Prince of Peace and the Sermon on the Mount. He said many global problems could be solved by love one another.
Neighbors found Florencio Hill, 36, dead on damp ground near a charged wire beside his Plantsite home. Coroner Felix Brutinel ruled the death accidental as his abdomen bore burns from the wire loosened by a recent windstorm from a vacant house nearby.
Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle donned an oversized Santa Claus outfit to visit amputee patients at Walter Reed hospital. Disguised, he distributed gifts and cheer, revealing his identity only after the surprise. He granted a Christmas wish for Pfc. Tony Cerasaro by bringing his wife and four-year-old daughter to his side.
New York dispatch reports Col. Philip J. McCook aged 72 reinvented himself through a two month daily regimen at a Niantic beach cottage. He rebuilt muscle fitness, earned praise from medical examiners, and resumed Army work in the Judge Advocate General's office before planning to return to law in New York City after terminal leave. McCook endured service in the Spanish American War World War I and II, earning the Distinguished Service Cross Purple Heart and six battle stars.
In Nuernberg the 12 defendants at the mass war trials attended a Christmas service in a prison cell. Protestant Chaplain Henry Gerecke led a 12 minute talk and the group sang hymns and prayed, with attendees including Goering Ribbenstrorp Kietel Neurath Sauckel Doenitz Speer Schacht Funk Frick.
ANADARKO Okla Dec 25 C C Lucas is about ready to quit the Cement Okla Masonic lodge annual turkey dinners After three years the dinner has been called off or missed by Lucas Twice he found out late or the invitation arrived after the meal This year he planned to bring six friends but the dinner was again called off leaving him with seven steaks.
Arch bishop Francis J. Spellman of New York urged a return to God as the path to peace for individuals and nations in his Christmas Eve sermon at St Patrick's Cathedral. He warned that without Christ, America’s ideal and the world’s future cannot be secured.
Hollywood Cameraman John Fulton, famed for special effects in films like the Invisible Man, tours in his own Stinson plane. He flies to San Bernardino for business, to Guaymas for fishing, and has partial ownership in a Cuernavaca pottery factory with ambitions for a $60,000 seven passenger ship.
Police searched for the perpetrators of a poison gas bomb attack at a Communist directorate meeting in Rome. The blast ripped the door, sent fumes through the hallway, and several attendees were treated for effects but released. No injuries were reported.
An Albuquerque sailor stranded in Los Angeles paid a taxi fare of 350 dollars to reach his home in New Mexico for Christmas. He joked about learning to use elephants as soldiers in the China Burma India theater.
Gerard Bradford, a 27 year old veteran, returns home with his wife on Christmas Eve to find his two daughters Suzanne, three, and Jo Ann, one and a half, dead from gas fumes. A maid, Eleanora Washington, 26, is found dead in a chair with a nursery book in her lap, also from the fumes caused by a coal burning fireplace after an ice storm cut power.
A grave in Hendersonville North Carolina holds a glass aperture allowing sun on the face of a woman known as the sun lady. The site drew many visitors years ago and was sealed after heavy interest. The page also lists assorted ads for jobs, goods, and services in Tucson.
Local business directory item lists cushiontone acoustical tile by Freddie Ann's Beauty Shop with machineless cold wave permanents at 550 South Stone Avenue and Earl Vogue Beauty on East 6th. Open Book at 47 West Congress and Book Nook at 14 East Broadway appear among the entries. Phone numbers and appointment notes indicate service details.
A mixed read of business ads lists tutoring at Gatlin's Commercial School 396 S Stone Ave and R F Stamp plumbing and heating services 1478 J, plus Arizona Maintenance Co night service 8450. Also offers sand gravel top soil delivery 0125 14 and Cox Commercial College at 79 N Stone with sewing machine repair and Erwin Machine Repair 4111 J 2591 W.
Unusual opportunity for the right party with personality plus and excellent stenographer and office management skills. Requires strong organization, details, and communication. Excellent starting salary with unlimited future growth. Apply with complete details to P. O. Box 2008s.
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