English: Newspapers must be printed blackout or no blackout and news services must get the news to the papers, so (left to right) Alexander Kahn, night manager of United Press, and Arthur Whitney, staff correspondent, get the wire news going from the service's office in Los Angeles, during Blackout Dec.11.
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