Aged Colonel Wins Rat Feats Stir Veteran Tales
Washington dispatch recalls Colonel Warren Hardenbergh, 87, still sharp and spry despite pension from the U S Navy. He boasts past exploits against a rat with a shoe, a rifle shot at a basement rodent, and a string of bragging recollections from a life in three foreign armies and service at sea. The rat episode rejuvenates him and becomes fresh fodder for his coffee club stories.
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Harman W. Nichols
Washington
Warren Hardenbergh
U. S. Navy
New England
Hardenvergh
Weastington
Frances
East and Middle East terms spark U N disagreement
Washington reports that State Department and United Nations scholars clash over geography and naming of the Middle East. Experts differ on where Near East ends and Middle East begins, with departments using Near Eastern and South Asian divisions while media apply Middle East broadly. Offshore, Japan and the Philippines are Far East, Indonesia sometimes, Australia often separate.
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Washington
State Department
United Nations
Near East End
Middle East
Midle East
Far East
Caucasus
Himalayas
East
Europe
Near Hest
Far Hest
Turkey
Syria
Palestine
Egypt
Iraq
The
Jordan
Transjordan
Arabia
Staze Department
Israel
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Arab Peninsula
Sudan
Iits
Afganistemn
Burma
Ceylon
India
Nepal
Pakistan
Japan
Indonesia
Malay Archipelago
Australia
Japanese Bombs Still Plague New Guinea
In Port Moresby New Guinea unexploded Japanese bombs hinder reconstruction in the Rebaul area. An Australian bomb disposal unit has gathered about 2000 shells and 206 bombs at Rapopo near Rabaul township in the past month. Explosives litter Rapopo and construction stalls as workers fear tractors and bulldozers may trigger blasts. Army bomb disposal squads say they may be active for six to seven years at the current rate.
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Port Moresby
New Guinea
Rebaul
Eee 4
Rapopo
New
Aite
Rabaul
Army
Three A.M. Wrong Time For Visit To Sorority
In Columbus Ohio November 24 an Alpha Epsilon Pi pledge at Ohio State University was warned by police after being found hiding behind a davenport in the Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority house at 3 am. He said fraternity brothers sent him to the sorority house on a scavenger hunt for a light bulb a telephone book and a piece of women's clothing.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
Phi Sigma Sigma
Admitting $23000 theft from Manito wob Wis drug firm
Joseph Decker, 47, admitted taking about $23 000 over eight years from the Manito Woc Wisconsin drug company where he worked as a pharmacist. He received five years probation after making restitution of roughly $21 163. Municipal Court Judge C T Bredesen said prison would not benefit.
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Manitowoc
Wis
Joseph Decker
C. T. Bredesen
Decker
International
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