Beauty pageant opens tomorrow in Atlantic City
Fifty four American beauties, contestants for Miss America 1947, prepare for the floats parade on the boardwalk starting today. Evangeline de Castro, Miss Philippines, greets reigning Miss America Marilyn Bufered as hostesses join festivities. The event leads to bathing suit, talent, and evening gown competitions with 15 finalists to be judged Saturday for the title.
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California
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Barbara Helen Campbell
Vermont
FBI seeks help to catch check passer woman
The FBI in New York appealed for aid to locate a middle aged woman who writes rubber checks. Edward Scheidt, head of the New York FBI office, circulated notices to tri state shopkeepers describing her method and listing more than 400 phony checks. She has defrauded hundreds of stores for thousands of dollars, with Long Island a favored area, targeting apparel and liquor shops.
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Shriners Welcome Potentate at Dinner
Karl Rex Hammers of Pittsburgh Imperial potentate visits Pyramid Temple ARONMS in Bridgeport with wife. The divan and George A. Mallett potentate plan a 3:30 p.m. reception in the Indian room at the Algonquin club. Mrs. Mallett assists in the reception.
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Plane Overdue From Montreal Missing Near Burlington
Beverly Hills resident Well Hagen of Beverly Hills California is sought by coast guardsmen state police and Civil Aeronautics Authority investigators after his small sport plane vanished after taking off from Montreal at 10 17 p m heading for Burlington Vermont. No radio was reportedly on board.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
McNamara Family Visits County Over Holiday Weekend
John McNamara now in Detroit advertising visits friends and relatives in the county with wife Eileen Wilson of Westport and their son John Michael. Both served The Post Telegram staff in earlier years. Mrs McNamara is now an executive with Planned Parenthood in New York.
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John 8. McNamara
Detroit
Eileen Wilson
Westport
John Michael
McNamara
Post-Telegram
Planned Parenthood Organization
New York
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