Christmas Mail Reaches Remote U S Army Posts
The War Department reports hundreds of evergreens, cigarettes, candy, cake, radios, and other gifts flown to isolated outposts. Army Santa began deliveries four months ago and will continue until every soldier receives a package.
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Washington
Santa Claus
United States
Isles
Pacific
War Department
Bering Sea
Aleutians
Islands
Southwest
Australia
Black Market In British Toys Has Been Discovered
A. P. Features reports profiteers selling flimsy Christmas toys at high prices as wartime shortages hit UK makers. The Board of Trade limits and rationing leave room for fly-by-night sellers while sturdy wooden toys remain scarce. The Daily Express exposed shoddy products in vivid examples.
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A. P. Features
Condon
Board of Trade
Daily Express
MacArthur and supply shortfalls amid Pacific advance
The war tempo against Japan has quickened as Allied operations in the central and southwest Pacific expand. Reports contrast promise of Arawe and Gilbert Islands landings with prior warnings of insufficient forces, while speculation persists about MacArthur’s potential return to seek greater supplies and air power.
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MacArthur
Japan
Central
Southwest Pacific
Marshall
New Guinea
U. S. Sixth Army
Arawe
New Britain
Gilbert Islands
Marshalls
mid-Pacific
United States
United Nations
Philippines
Cairo
Roosevelt-Churchill-Chiang
Teheran
Roosevelt-Chur
Stalin
Pacific
Germany
Pearl Harbor
Middle East
Douglas Nimitz
Europe
Germans Withhold Hanging News From People
Stockholm dispatch reports the Nazi press has not yet told Germans of the Kharkov war criminal trials ending in hangings of three Germans and a Russian traitor. Berlin foreign office hinted concrete action may follow. London dispatch says German military courts will deal with Anglo Saxon prisoners accused of serious international law violations.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Dagens Nymeter
Kharkov
Germany
London
Wanted Help and Goods in Local Ads
Classified notices seek large clean cotton rags, good used furniture for top price, a responsible housekeeper in Whitacre Virginia, a credit manager for an immediate opening, a 1 14 ton truck, and two experienced waitresses aged 21 to 40 at the Metropolitan Restaurant with in person applications only.
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P. O. Box
Railway Express Dominates League Action in Close Wins
Railway Express rolled 1725 to win three from Elliott Motor Lines as Lee Ressiguié posted a 149 game and 593 in one thriller. Viscose topped American Tea Co with Ray Mond Boyce and Mildred Strode starred for Comets in the Wa Woolen League.
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Lee Lee Ressiguie
Lando White
Railway Express
Elliott Motor Lines
Elliott
Ressiguie
Frank Burd
Louie Zirkle
Elliott Motor
Bessie
Raymond Boyce
American Tea Co
Allen Hawthorne
Bill Bridge
Bill Bridgeforth
Perry Construction
Eagles
Max Butler
Raymond Webber
Mildred Strode
Comets
Bombadier
Walter Cooper
Doug Chaney
ED Burch
Dyers
Weavers
Bob Legge
Lee Ressiguie
Viscose
Expressmen
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