Suspects Sought in Potter County Forgery Ring
Potter County sheriff's officers pursue suspects tied to a forgery wave involving checks totaling about 5 000. Two men, Joe Buddy Smith and Woodrow Douglas, were jailed after transfer from downstate. Hubert Thompson is free on bond awaiting transfer to Tucumcari New Mexico where warrants exist.
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Potter County
Waco
Joe Buddy Smith
Woodrow Douglas
Lem Pounds
Downstate
Hubert Thompson
Tucumcari
N. M
Smith
Douglas
Childress
Dalhart
Amarillo
Shamrock
Estelline
Memphis
State Department of Public Safety
Big Spring
San Angelo
Kansas
First National Bank
Welcome Stranger Close-Up Limits England Medical Scene
The British market will see a close-up of Bing Crosby performing an appendectomy on Barry Fitzgerald in Welcome Stranger due to screen restrictions in England. A further American cut features Bing with a scalpel and Joan Caulfield as an emergency nurse.
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England
Bing Crosby
Barry Pitzgerald
Bing
Joan Caulfield
Elliott Nugent Sai
Army Pays Germans To Take Lessons in Self Government
Americans fund German students for clerical automotive and English courses in Berlin. About 550 young men and women enroll to qualify for paid occupation roles under Army government. Subsistence pay meals and training costs are covered by occupation funds and Army stocks and imports.
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Army
Berlin
R. E. Fauss
Granite Falls
Minn
AMG Information and Educational Office
Alcohol Lighting More Costly Than Electricity to Britons
A British conference heard Britons spend nearly three times as much on drink as on fuel and light. R S Thwaites of Manchester Electric warned last year Britain spent 1 192 500 000 dollars on fuel and light while 3 082 500 000 dollars went to drink.
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Blackpool
England
R. S. Thwaittes
Manchester
Electricity Department
Great Britain
Brazil Turns Tables on Accused German Saboteur
German scientist Paul Cristienen once jailed for plotting sabotage in Brazil now trains inmates at a federal penitentiary in mechanics. The report contrasts this with San Francisco acquiring a catcher named Ivy and notes several Ivy League connections in local sports.
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Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
Paul Cristienen
Federal Penitentiary
San Francisco
Ivy
Tony Lupien
Hollywood
Harvard
Joe Wood, Jr
Sacramento
Yale
Pacific Coast
Selzer Bomb Test Brings Woe to Young Experimenter
In McConnellsville Ohio a 10 year old boy Louis Dempster tried making an atom bomb after Bikini Atoll tests. He filled a glass bottle with water added a seltzer tablet and sealed it. The blast wounded him requiring five stitches in neck and chest from a doctor.
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Mcconnellsville
O WP
Bikini
Louis Dempster
Omaha Weather Forecast Lost in High Wind Incident
In Omaha Nebraska a weather bureau employee said a high wind swept through the office and blew the forecast behind a filing cabinet leaving Nebraska without an official forecast for about twenty minutes.
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Omaha
Neb
U.P
Nebraska
Omaha Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Pillow Case Shortage Hurts New England Scallop Fishermen
In New Bedford Massachusetts fishermen on 40 scallop draggers face a pillow case shortage. They must use undersize non marketable pillow-cases for scallop dragging bags and are finding it hard to obtain replacements.
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New England
New Bedford, Mass
U.P
Penn State Upholds Freshman Exclusion for 1946-47
State College Penn State announces no freshmen will be eligible for varsity sports in 1946-47 as well as no freshmen admitted to the campus due to housing shortages after 1942 rule relaxations.
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State College
Penn State
Gibbon Flings Itself Through Air 30 to 40 Feet
A small gibbon, more aerial than many birds, leaps through the air 30 to 40 feet per bound, showcasing its remarkable arboreal agility.
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IVY League
Houston
Houston Water Department
L.A. Cherryhomes
FrIends of Cherryhomes
Yanthe
Casper, Wyo
A. E. Winter, Jr
Natrona County
The
American Red Cross
C. C. Searcy Service Station
Skelly Gas
Amarillo Ice CO
ASSIR
Davis Bozvz
DAVIS
NSO I
Huron and Electric
Pspe
Circle
Delicio
Narre
Prez
Minton
Collapsi
XTC
Pitcuine Orse
Henc
Buick
MMM
CHRYS
Pat
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