Christmas Clothing Trade Reaches Asher Ky Hamlet
In Asher Kentucky a 27 resident mountain hamlet received a Christmas gift flood from Champaign Illinois high school students. Thirteen year old Verlin Leddington proposed trading greens for used clothing and shoes. The gesture aimed to aid flood victims and reach the town before Christmas as packages continued arriving and being shipped.
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Asher
Kentucky
Champaign
Ill
Verlin Leddington
Verlin
Middle Fork
Kentucky River
Leslie County
Bus Wreck On St Helena Island Kills Six
A bus carrying 56 people overturned on St Helena Island near Beaufort South Carolina after Christmas Eve shopping. Six passengers died instantly or later at hospital with thirty one injured. Driver George Brown among the injured. victims named Lymas Chisolm Ethel Miller Joseph Smith Clarence Green Joe Deas and William Johnson all from St Helena Island. A later note mentions the Boston Tea Party of 1773.
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Beaufort
S. C
St. Helena Island
T. S. Dear Sales
Roger Pinckney
Beaufort County Hospital
Parris Island Marine Base
Doar Sail
George Brown
Lymas Chisolm
Ethel Miller
Joseph Smith
Clarence Green
Joe Deas
William Johnson
St Helena Island
Hats Off To Santa Raising Beard Neither Easy Nor Fun
Hollywood Christmas feature notes James Gleason’s beard trials for film roles. He tried almond oil, honey, rainwater, vinegar and other recipes with little success, and endured itching as facial hair slowly grows. He finally sticks with a fake beard to avoid two extra hours daily.
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Santa
Virginia MacPherson
Hollywood
U.P
James Gleason
Gleason
St. Nick
Santa Claus
Monty Woolley
Gabby Hayes
Hirsute -Heeman
Richard A. Wells
Noted Air Lecturer Loses Series Notes
Dr. Sidney Goldstein British aeronautics expert arrived in Los Angeles to deliver eight lectures for the California Institute of Technology and reports his notes were lost in transit. He offered a reward for the bag's recovery, believed misplaced between Municipal airport and a downtown hotel after arrival Wednesday.
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Los Angeles
Sidney Goldstein
California Institute of Technology
Ees Oa
Goldstein
Committee For Aeronautics
Tree Burns Father Dies in Apt Fire on Christmas Eve
In Hartford Connecticut a young father Charles Newman 27 died when a fire started by a faulty Christmas tree lighting circuit trapped him in the apartment building on Niles Street Two women and eight other families escaped including Mrs Lucille Newman 25 hospitalized with burns while newborn Donna Lee and Benny Lee survived unharmed The blaze was confined to the Newman apartment marking the second anniversary of a previous hospital Christmas tree fire with 21 fatalities.
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Hartford
Conn
Henry G. Thomas
Charles Newman
Lucille Newman
Donna Lee
Benny Lee
Niles Street Hospital
Newman
Father, son held after Grayson shooting fatality
In Grayson Kentucky on December 25 30 year old Dug Burton was taken into custody by his father Dug Burton sr for questioning in a fatal shotgun shooting of Byron Berford a man about 60 at a Star Branch doorway Deputy Sheriff Ben Burton found his intoxicated son and escorted him to jail where he was held for questioning no charges were filed Police Chief John Dickerson did not yet know a motive for the slaying.
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Dickerson
Contractors Rebuild Home For Widow in 63
Denver December 25 Mrs Mary A Hayes 63 and her invalid son Carroll escaped a recent house fire. Contractors pledged to rebuild the Hayes home completely at no charge as a gesture of shared prosperity.
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Denver
Mary
Carroll
Pottstown Raises 7000 for 17 Year Old Nancy
In Pottstown Pennsylvania donations from about 20 000 residents funded a hospital bill of 30 a day for treatment of a 17 year old girl named Nancy Dalgleish who was born with a spastic condition She learned to walk and talk recently and expressed hope to help others someday in a tearful moment accompanying the gift
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Pottstown
Nancy
Anvil Dalgleish
Bay Walk
Feyes
Demanding Youth In Dance Told by Chicago Woman
Mrs Antoinette Novata testified before Circuit Judge Julius B Miner about meeting her husband in a 1944 dancehall in Chicago, while stating demands related to youth in dance in the case ongoing on December 25.
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Chicago
Antoinette Novata
Julius B. ‘Miner
Woman files cross-bill for maintenance in marital dispute
Mrs. Novata, age 56, seeks separate maintenance and accuses husband Joseph of desertion after she refused to accompany him to a dance. She says he danced poorly and left for a younger woman, while the court waits on Judge Miner to rule by December 30.
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Joseph
Novata
Miner
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