Counterfeit Ring Leaders Nabbed Across Cities
Secret Service agents captured Salvatore Salli and Anthony Iraci, both Buffalo residents, identified as the ring’s masterminds behind a $500,000 counterfeit operation traced from Los Angeles to New York New Orleans St. Louis and other cities. They allegedly coordinated widespread counterfeiting of OPA stamps during the war and moved large sums of currency in recent months.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Secret Service
Salvatore Salli
Anthony Iraci
Treasury
Los Angeles
New York
New Orleans
St. Louis
Cleveland
Atlan
A. E. Whitaker
Whitaker
Salli
Iraciere
U. S
Confusion in Hospital Over Two Mrs Smiths
Los Angeles AP report notes mix up at General Hospital where Mrs Pauline Smith died after admission on March 24 and burial papers were signed for a different wife. Edward Smith of Covina inquired about his spouse before learning the elder Mrs Smith was alive. Clarence Smith had died earlier.
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LOS Angeles
Auline Smith
General Hospital
Pauline Smith
Covina
Calif
Clarence Smith
Edward Smith
Covinar
Mrsmith
Edward
Clarencemith
Clarice Smith
The Poet of the People Edgar A Guest On Golf
Edgar A Guest offers a humorous reflection on golf showing that reading a book alone cannot make a golfer. He notes that real skill arises from constant practice and proper swing mechanics, emphasizing practice over theory. The piece contrasts book learning with hands on effort to improve in the game.
Know Your Police Officers Patrolman Donald Spicher
Patrolman Donald Spicher, a Belle Plaine native, joined Cedar Rapids police on December 19 1946. A World War II veteran, he worked for the American District Telegraph, served in the traffic bureau as a motorcycle rider on day and night shifts, and now patrols the midnight shift. He is married with two daughters.
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Donald Spicher
Belle Plaine
Cedar Rapids
Parks sidelined by laryngitis in Jolson biopic
Hollywood AP reports Larry Parks, who portrays Al Jolson, is off duty with laryngitis. He does not sing in the film. Jolson supplies all vocal performances for the movie biographies.
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Hollywood
Larry Parks
al Jolson
Jolson
Oklahoma Badman Nabbed in Munich
Homer Cook a 27 year old Oklahoma fugitive and former army deserter known as Public Enemy No 1 was recaptured by American military police in Munich Germany after two days on the run. He was found sleeping in a boxcar, weak from hunger, and surrendered without a fight. He had escaped Dachau prison last week by ripping bars from his cell triggering a large postwar manhunt.
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Munich
Homer Cook
Cook
Germany
Muskogee
Okla
Dachau
Bomb injures U S marine in Damascus legation attack
A bomb was tossed into the American legation compound in Damascus injuring a U S marine guard slightly. The blast shattered glass and doors signaling rising anti American and anti British sentiment amid tensions over the Arab states and Israel.
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Damascus
Syria
Legation
U. S
Irael
Maple syrup production concentrated in Vermont and New York
The National Geographic Society reports that about three fourths of U S maple syrup and sugar come from Vermont and New York state, highlighting regional dominance in this commodity.
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U. S
Vermont
New York State
National Geographic Society
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PEPSI
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Oklahoma
Badman
U.S
F. H. Pfunder
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Complete Optical Service
Merle E. Garmoe
Optometrist
Third Street SE
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Cannon’s “Cavalier
Bath Towel Sale
Percase
Brown
Lares
Ironing Board
Duran Arm
Meoralll
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Cedar Rapids Lumber CO
Mckinley Street
Lovell Wringer
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