Missing After Lonely Hearts Letters Probe in Dover
Police hunted for several people who vanished after Mrs. Inez Brennan, jailed on a murder charge, lured men through lonely hearts letters. Brennan and her sons are linked to two killings and other missing men as investigators seek more victims across states.
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Gons
Delaware
Inez Brennan
Raymond
Robert
Lonely Hearts” Club
Wade Wooldridge
Bedford
Dover
Del
Lonely Hearts
Brennan
Barnes
George Brennan
Texas
George
Sweetumses
C. B. Scull Jr
Dr. Scull
Wade N. Wooldridge
Hugo Schulz
Concord
N. H
Schulz
Wooldridge
Lonely Horsepond Road
Harvey Drumheller
Laurel Springs
N. J
Fred W. Schub
Salisbury
Charles L. Heppard
Andrewsville
Brennan Farm
World Peace speaker raps US war talk at Paris rally
Howard Fast addressed about 25,000 World Peace Congress partisans in Buffalo Stadium near Paris. He said the Truman administration brands war opponents as treasonous and that prisons are filled with political prisoners. Other speakers attacked Western warmongers and supported Soviet-style leadership.
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Paris
Howard Fast
World Peace Congress
America
Truman
Fast
Congress
France
Buffalo Stadium
Soviet Union
Republic of the Workers and Guardian of Humanity
Wall Street
Ronni Zilliacus
Alexander Fadeyev
Emilio Sereni
Sunan Hanzah
Asia
Vet Inspires Modern House Paint Record
A paralyzed World War II veteran in New Brunswick watched as 96 painters set a world record for modern house painting. Bob Hoelzle, in a wheelchair, completed his five room Cape Cod cottage in 2 minutes 32 seconds with Frances Elaine Noll, his fiancée, present. The gift funded by about 1,000 locals included land, materials from merchants, and labor from AFL Building Trades Council volunteers.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Bob Hoelzle
Dream Cottage
Frances Elaine Noll
Bob
Okinawa
AFL Building Trades Council
Flower Arrangements Topic at Elgin Club Meeting
Elgin New Century Club members heard Mrs. Chester McDowell of Austin discuss Flower Arrangements in the Home at the home of Mrs. Joe V Fleming Sr. Hostesses were Mrs. Joe V Fleming Jr and Mrs. Chester Swenson with Mrs. H C Carter as leader. Attendees included many local and Austin women.
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Elgin
Chester McDowell
Austin
Elgin New Century Club
Joe V. Fleming Sr
Joe V. Fleming Jr
Chester Swenson
H. C. Carter
Mary Carol Fleming
Jan Fleming
L. A. Pettdigo
Joseph Poth
Otis Schanhals
Seaborn Riker
E F. Shelton
Roy Rivers, Jr
W. H. Rivers, III
Wayne Davenport
J. B. Posey
Paul Farris
T. L. Watson
C. R. Miller
C. W. Webb
C. E. Brown
W. C. Brown
Jesse Miller
J O. Smith
Guy Carter
William Griffin
Harry G. Davis
Leonard Hagman
Wesley Neibuhr
W. R. Gillum
Wilbur Meier
A. A. Pinnelli
Erwin Roemer
Hong Kong Future Questioned If Communists Take Mainland
As Nanking falls and Shanghai fears rise, Hong Kong debates its fate under Chinese Reds. British authorities recruit volunteers to shore up defenses, but residents view it as a gesture while concern grows over a possible blockade and loss of communication with the mainland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Nanking
Shanghai
China
Red
Mao Tze-Tung
Yangtze
Senator Johnson Calls to Abolish Travel Tax
Senator Edwin C. Johnson urges repeal of the 15 percent excise tax on travel tickets, arguing Canada has already removed it and Americans buy Canadian tickets to dodge the levy. He backs reducing taxes to 1942 levels and favors ending taxes on transportation and telegrams. Canada lifted its tax March 23.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Canada
Colorado
Johnson
Detroit
Congress
International Air Transport Association
Change in the Air Promotes Camels for 30 Day Test
An advertising pitch urges smokers nationwide to try a 30 day test of Camels with a bold promise to prove it yourself. The campaign highlights daily and weekly use and frames Camels as the preferred choice for the self guided trial.
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Hotz Harp
Marine Band
Herbert E. Barnes
Delaware State Police
Edna
San Antonio
Dether
Virginia
Moscow
Bendix
Paar C
Lavaca
Calcasieu
Arata
Sis
Salmon Beach
Wash
James McDonald
Yakima
Linda Stone
SE Ion Fire Insurance
ISI Mma
Ai Gammon
Telos
Binswanger & CO
Brazos
Gene
Golfdom
Lew
P.G.A
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
N.C
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