Legislator Claims Truman Tops World in Pay and Luxuries
Rep Woodruff notes President Truman earns about 110000 after taxes and cites an extravagant fleet including 35 cars, two planes, a private pullman car, a 250000 yacht, a navy destroyer escort, and Shangri La guards among 665 staff. He highlights costly private rail car and a gold adorned limousine with top hat friendly roof.
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Washington
Truman
Woodruff
R-Mich
R-Mi
Ace Aces
Liamsburg
Navy
Air Force
Independence
Williamsburg
Mr. Truman
Shangri-la
Catoctin Mountains
Maryland
State Admission Would Result in Flag Headaches
Harman W. Nichols reports on how Hawaii and Alaska statehood could force a new U S flag. Annin vice president C R Beard notes the patchwork of star additions would require many flags and sketches sample designs if one or both states join.
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Congress
Hawaii
Alaska
C. R. Beard
Annin and Company
New York
Annin
Beard
Flag redesign debate after Arizona statehood proposed in 1912
In Washington, notable figures discuss how to update the national flag with new stars as states join. Arthur E. Dubois, head of the heraldic branch, notes no consultations yet. Possibilities include a presidential commission, the Fine Arts Commission, or congressional action.
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Arizona
Arthur E. Dubois
Quartermaster General Corps
Fine Arts Commission
Congress
Wilson and Co. Producing ACTH Drug Breakthrough
Chicago based Wilson and Company announced it has begun production of ACTH the pituitary hormone used in treating arthritis leukemia rheumatic fever and other diseases. Armour and Company had been the sole major producer until now.
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Chicago
INS
Wilson and Company
Armour and Company
Poet Edgar A Guest Reflects on Child Illness and Worry
Edgar A Guest writes on the troubles of every age and the common fears of illness from measles to mumps. He notes how children bear fever and earache while parents dread doctors and bed rest for Ellen Elizabeth and others.
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Ellen Elizabeth
Sola
Know Your Police Officers Albert Burgert Profile
Ida Grove native Albert Burgert joined the Cedar Rapids police on July 15 1943 after working in a wholesale grocery business and local schooling. He served patrol shifts then moved to traffic in 1947 and rode a three wheeler. Burgert and his family live at 9090 Avenue NW. Blue whales are about 25 feet long at birth and may reach 100 feet as adults.
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Ida Grove
Albert Burgert
Cedar Rapids
Burgert
9090
Avenue NW
Garfield School Faces Growth as Nearby Housing Expands
Cedar Rapids officials warn Garfield elementary may exceed capacity with a 195 unit housing project adjacent to Daniel's Park. Garfield now enrolls 362 with 350 capacity. 18 GB and 10 GA students will be sent to Franklin next fall. The building lacks a cafeteria and multi purpose room and is described as a shell.
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Cedar Rapids
Garfield
Daniel’s Park
Franklin
Clyde Parker
Parker
Packer
Fragmented crossword clues tease national banner theme
A scrambled list of crossword style clues mentions a flag and nation with a 13 colony group. The puzzle includes terms like slope pedal digit and note of sea plus several synonyms and hints.
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Paradise
Scandinavia
Esau
Claus
Answer to Previous Puzzle TRIO 26 Witchcraft 33 Classified 34 Exaggerate
Clue list from a puzzle page with terms and their positions. The vertical hints include Imprisoned and Armed fleet.
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Great Lake
Expansion Work Adds Two Rooms At Corridor Ends
The project required an additional 32000 dollars with 30000 dollars spent in 1927 to add two rooms to each end of the corridor enhancing the facility.
Taxicab driver rescues family from icy canal
Grayslake Illinois. Arthur Yelden a taxicab operator leaped into a drainage canal to pull Earl Brabandt’s wrecked car occupants from the water. He saved Ernest Alvord and three children Marilyn Judy and Nancy Alvord though Nancy died after hospital arrival.
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Grayslake
Ill
Earl Brabandt
Antioch
Ernest Alvord
Alvord
Arthur Yelden
Yelden
Marilyn Alvord
Judy
Nancy Alvord
Psychopathic Tag on Mrs. Madsen
Bellevue hospital in New York reported after a three weeks examination in 1943 that Yvette Madsen was a psychopathic personality. The defense introduced this evidence at her murder trial for slaying Lt. Andrew Madsen of Oakland. She pled innocent by reason of temporary insanity at trial opening.
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Frankfurt
Germany
New York City
Bellevue Hospital
Yvette Madsen
Brooklyn Woman Held in Psychiatric Ward Release
Defense attorney Elmo Gower prepared a photostat report after a three man U S district court motion for acquittal. It states Mrs Madsen aged 22 from Brooklyn was a Bellevue psychiatric ward patient from Aug 24 to Sept 15 1943 when she was 15. Doctors urged institutional care but she was released without an examination of the release.
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Elmo Gower
U. S
Gower
Madsen
Brooklyn
Bellevue
Problem for Art Fans Which Artist Is Sane
Boston AP reports a Newbury Street gallery exhibits 35 paintings and ten sculptures by patients from Metropolitan State Hospital in Waltham. One painting is labeled by a “brilliant and sane mathematician at MIT.” Visitors are invited to guess which work is created by the sane artist.
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Boston
Newbury Street
Metropolitan State Hospital
Waltham
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bomber Crashes On McDill Field Runway in Fog
Fifteen men escaped a flaming B 29 after a crash on a McDill Field runway during landing in dense fog. Captain Charles L Erickson suffered a spinal injury. all others escaped with only scratches. The training flight originated from Barksdale AFB and could not land at Maxwell AFB due to weather.
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Tampa
McDill Field Air Force Base
Charles L. Erickson
Shreveport
Maxwell Air Force Base
Montgomery
Ala
Barksdale Air Force Base
Crash wagons battle flames as Captain Hamm pilots
Crash wagons hosed the flames as Captain Paul J. Hamm of Washington was the pilot amid the blaze.
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Paul J. Hamm
Washington
Soft-Hearted Bandit Returns Cash in Snowy Hold Up
Detroit police heard Gus Lakas recount a robber who, despite cold weather and no hat, showed mercy after finding only $3. The bandit returned $1 to the grocer saying they were both poor.
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Detroit
Gus Lakas
Lakas
Pillsbury Mills Leader Alfred Fiske Pillsbury Dies
Alfred Fiske Pillsbury 81 longtime director of Pillsbury Mills and son of a co founder died Sunday in Minneapolis. He led major company operations and helped shape early growth of the flour empire.
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Minneapolis
Alfred Fiske Pillsbury
Pillsbury Mills
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