Sitts Admits Killing After Multi-State Manhunt
George Sidney Sitts 32 confesses to killing Special Agent Thomas Mathews and Butte County Sheriff Dave Malcolm in Spearhead? S.D. after a five-state seek, captured by Undersheriff Robert Owen and Sheriff R. D. Laughlin in Lysite Wyoming. He fled via Deadwood and MinneapOLis jail escape.
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Casper
Wyo
George Sidney Sitts
South Dakota
Robert Owen
Sitts
Thomas Mathews
South Dakota Bureau of Investigation
Butte County
Dave Malcolm
Spearhish
S.D
Owen
Owens
R. D. Laughlin
Lystte, Wyo
Deadwood
S. D
Ross Dunn
Leonard Renneberg
Beulah
Sundance
Ronneberg
Ronneb
Minneapolis
Montana
Colorado
Nebraska
Wyoming
Queen Mary Slows To Aid Seasick Brides
The Queen Mary reduced speed from 28 to 20 knots to ease seasickness of British war brides and children bound for the United States.
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Queen Mary
United States
Snowball law violation detains five youths in Los Angeles
Five youths were detained by sheriff's deputies in Los Angeles for allegedly throwing snowballs at cars in violation of state law. Dorothea Dalton complained that the snowballs were real enough to crack her windshield. The Chamber of Commerce had not commented.
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Los Angeles
Dorothea Dalton
Chamber of Commerce
Air Priority Cited to Avert Deaths on Long Sea Voyage
Medical officers warn that given the peril of a protracted ocean crossing many lives would be lost without air priority. They urge prioritizing air transport for vulnerable passengers and essential personnel amid the voyage risks.
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Sitts
Guinea Pigs Rated Top Priority for Pacific Flights
Twenty four guinea pigs arrived in Tokyo by air for use in the United States typhus control commission laboratory. The animals have been assigned to the project as top priority for transport and research in the Pacific theater.
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Tokyo
Pacific
United States Typhus Control Commission
Counter-irritants hit Japan in army store sales ruse
The Tokyo Shimbun reports a practice forcing customers to buy unwanted items to obtain desired ones has spread in Japan. A man entering an army store to buy vitamin pills for his undernourished wife left with both the vitamins and a bottle of fat reducer.
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Tokyo
Japan
Tokyo Shimbun
Appointment of Administrator for Carrie M. Holmes Estate
H. P. Losey administrator notice states B. L. Wick attorney. Linn County Iowa on January 22, 1946. All debts to the estate must be paid. claims to be filed with the Clerk of Linn County District Court.
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State of Iowa
Linn County
Carrie M. Holmes
Iowa
Diapers Top Onward Trip For War Brides Train
Cpl George Ornstein led the war brides special on a Pennsylvania Railroad all pullman train carrying 108 British brides and 69 babies from New York to join husbands on the west coast. The army supplied 24 cartons per car of disposable pants for babies and Ornstein supervised loading at Chicago. Sixty five babies were met by GI husbands. others continued west.
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Chicago
George Ornstein
West Coast
Ornstein
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Army
G.I
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Lysite
Moneta
R Y Guttir
H.G. Fussell
Optometrist
Second Avenue
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Tshligh Mac
Davenport
By Angelo
B. L. Wick
H. P. Losey
Madarne
Erie
A.W. Peterson CO
First Street
Maytag
Thelma Kramer
Ross
Elcho
Wis
America
England
Pat Jogodzinski
Don Jogodzinski
Laura Hildebrand
Ripon
Lawrence
Helen Schattsnieder
Leroy
Milwaukee
Pamela Jewell
Bobby
Robert
Edith Grewenig
Elmer
Joliet
Doris Karaies
Union Station
Penetro
Eomne
INIT
Cedar Rapids
S,s,s. Ce
Craemer’s
Peggy
Cinderella
Valentines
Kate Greenaways
Crisp
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