Ghost Gun Wielding Widow Surrenders .38 at Haunted Farmhouse
An 86 year old widow in Detroit surrendered a .38 pistol after firing through a door at four youths who approached a reportedly haunted four room farmhouse. The teens were wounded and arrested for breaking and entering while the widow kept her home. The case mixes rural superstition with a violent nighttime confrontation.
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Detroit
Emma Arnold
Sheriff's Deputies
Jerome Emala
William Sparks
Jerome Fethke
Warren Upthegrove
Negro Testimony Details Mob Treatment In Court
A federal court jury heard a detailed account of two Black men being arrested without charges and beaten, with one man dying as a result. The testimony described mob-like mistreatment and the legal actions surrounding the case in Shreveport Louisiana.
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Gaston L. Porterie
Webster Parish
John C. Johnson
Minden
Johnson
Albert Harris Jr
Harris
Henderson
Texas
Shreveport
INS
Stock Boy Admits Set Four Fires at Field's Store
Chicago police say 16 year old stock boy Robert C. Smith confessed to starting four fires at Marshall Field and Company, the last in February, claiming frustration. The blazes damaged about 150000 dollars worth of goods in the world’s largest department store, with the first fire traced to a dropped match in women’s clothing on December 17.
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Chicago
Marshall Field and Company
Robert C. Smith
Firefires at store halted by sprinklers after dispute
A sequence of fires at a store ended with the last blaze on February 17 following a dispute with a stock boy and the floor manager. The suspect, Smith, passed a lie detector test and confessed, citing a frustration complex from childhood quarrels. Water from sprinklers caused most damage.
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Smith
Notice of Appointment of Executrix in Linn County Iowa
Notice is hereby given that on February 24 1947 the executrix was appointed and qualified as executrix of the estate of John A Limback late of Linn County Iowa deceased All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment Those having claims will file them authenticated in the office of the Clerk Linn County Iowa District Court To remain limits Canfield Executrix Donnelly Lynch Lynch and Dallas Attorneys
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E & R Corporation
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
State of
Iowan
H. A. Rutledge
Elizabeth T Rutledge
Hazel Marie Estes
Joseph R. Estes
Linn County
John A. Limback
Iate
Iowa District Court
Toremars Limback Canfield
Executrix Donnelly, Lynch, Lynch and
Dallas
Radio Liberta d blast injures staff in Buenos Aires
Police report three station employees fled the studio after armed men claimed a joke and ordered them outside before a blast ripped the building. The announcer engineer and doorman were among the victims as the Radio Libertad station station house exploded Monday night.
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Buenos Aires
Radio Libertad
Jand
Byrnes to urge ratification of Axis peace pacts
Former Secretary of State Byrnes has agreed to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to press ratification of the Axis and satellite peace treaties he helped negotiate. He said he was asked to appear by Chairman Arthur Vandenberg and Secretary Marshall after a Monday meeting with President Truman.
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Washington
Byrnes
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
Arthur H. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Marshall
Elizabeth Jordan Dies. Author of Mrs Warren's Son
Elizabeth Jordan 79 veteran author and journalist died at home after brief illness. Her last novel Mrs Warren's Son was published in 1944 marking a long career in literature and news reporting.
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New York
Elizabeth Jordan
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McLaughlin
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