Many Country Delegates to Big Perth Convention
Nearly 2000 people from all over Australia will trek to Perth for the 23rd National Christian Endeavor convention devoted to youth. Delegates come from Rockhampton to Albany with WA centers represented and a week of speeches demonstrations and activities planned. Main speaker Rev Alan Walker and figures J Oswald Sanders and Stuart C Davies are among the crowd.
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Perth
National Christian Endeavor
Rockhampton
Queensland
Albany
W.A
Legion of Delegates
Perth Girls' School
Capitol Theatre
Alan Walker
Nsw
J. Oswald Sanders
Endeavor National
Stuart C Davies
Giant Snails Threaten US Warned by Zoologist
Dr. Albert Mead of the University of Arizona warns in Atlantic Monthly that giant snails six inches long and weighing a pound threaten to overrun the United States. He says they migrated from Asia to California on war equipment and could spread in the Gulf region and the Southeast. A single snail, he notes, could produce thousands of descendants within five years.
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Albert Mead
University of Arizonna
Atlantic Monthly
Dr. Mead
Asia
California
Gul
Lifesize Plastic Limbs With Hair and Veins Shown in Australia
American ex serviceman Benjamin C. Arnold demonstrates lifelike rubber limbs in Glebe New South Wales to help banish self consciousness among the limbless. The 30 year old Marine veteran lost his left arm in Palau in 1944 and wears a hand with hairs veins nails and knuckles.
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Frank Alder
Australia
Benjamin C. Arnold
Palau Islands
Arnold
Glebe
Nsw
Hairdos and casting quirks in Columbia screen stories
Nina Foch’s natural long page boy style mirrors a drawing by Malvin Wald for The Undercover Man. Ida Lupino alters 1880s nails for authenticity in Secret Treasure Mountain while Desi Arnaz belts The Arnaz Jam in Holiday in Havana. James Gleason and Frank McHugh reunite with Lucille Ball and William Holden in Miss Grant Takes Richmond, with Gleason as a bookie’s aide and McHugh as bookkeeper.
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Treasury
Nina
Glenn Ford
Columbia
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Ida Lupino
S. Sylvan Simon
Ida
Simon
Desi Arnaz
Havana
Desi
Lucille Ball
Missing ad copy from Montana State paper described
In Missouri Montane a veteran advertises a free carriage in the Montana State University newspaper. The unusual notice seeks a young couple to take and care for an elderly companion.
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Missouri
Montane
Montana State University
Sleepy Burglary Ends in Bed Incident in Cleveland
Reports describe three incidents this week of men dozing off under unusual circumstances. Ernest Lilly, fatigued during a burglary of Matilda Besman’s Cleveland home, inadvertently crawled into bed with the 82 year old woman.
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America
Ernest Lilly
Cleveland
Ohio
Matilda Besman
Denver police arrest man after mistaken snores crime tale
In Denver Walter Trask recalls how police, summoned by neighbors, arrested Warren McWilliams after they mistook snores for groans. Officers found two diamond rings a watch a necklace in his pockets along with his shoes and hat still on him.
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Walter Trask
Denver
Warren McWilliams
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