Hollywood's Face Is Red as No 1 Gangster Rumor Runs Wild
A Paris-length feature portrays Benjamin Siegel as America's top gangster with ties to New York mobsters. The piece cites Siegel's alleged leadership of Murder Inc connections, a planned Los Angeles trial for murder, and past aid from Dr. Benjamin Blank while in custody.
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Hollywood
Paul Harrison
MEA
Movieland
America
Benjamin
Bugsby
Siegel
Kings County
N. Y
Los Angeles
John Duckweiler
O'Dwyer
Murder, Inc
Albert Tannenbaum
Christmas Tree
Abe
Kid Twist
New York
Tannenbaum
Tri States
Frank C. Bals
Bals
Bugsy
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Buchalter
Leavenworth
Eskower
Whitey Krakower
Lepke
St. Paul
Charles Ward
Benjamin Blank
Blank
Statter
Dr. Blank
Bugsy Siegel linked to Hollywood visits and mob ties
The report chronicles Bugsy Siegel’s jail stints and irregularities including a lunch with a Hollywood actress during a jail absence and a rescinded appointment for Dr. Blank. It ties Siegel to the Countess di Frasso voyage on the Metha Nelson, FBI interest in a possible aiding fugitive, and mentions his Holmby Hills home and family.
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Baron Fitts
Bugsy
Siegel
Blank
Dr. Blank
Dorothy di Frasso
Cocos Islands
Metha Nelson
FBI
Coke
Mexico
Beverly
Holmby Hills
Hillcrest Country Club
Estelle Siegel
Oklahoma Tax Tokens Used as Everyday Items
Oklahoma City reports Tax Commission Chairman J D Carmichael investigated why 87 million sales tax tokens vanished. Workers used tokens as washers roofers used them as nails players used them as chips and even toys. The tokens cost one to five mills, cheaper than the items they substituted.
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Oklahoma City
Tax Commission
J. D. Carmichael
Foker Players
Carmichael
Duck shoots mallard as gun remains in hand
Walter C. Bonebrake recounts a lake incident where a flock of ducks startled him and he continued to hold his shotgun while a live mallard drake swam away unharmed. In Ohio, farm labor on U S farms hits a record low since 1925, as economists note workers move to better paying industrial jobs.
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Oklahoma
Walter C. Bonebrake
Bonebrake
Feweh Farm
Columbus
United States
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department of Rural Economics
Ohio State University
Black List Targets 46 Citizens In Fairmont
Fairmont mayor Fred T. Wilson ordered dispensaries not to sell beer to 46 citizens on a blacklist he says marks habitual drunkenness. The roster includes ages from 25 to 7 and lists three women who have been arrested repeatedly for intoxication.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Wov
Fred T. Wilson
Three Dimensional Seeing Aims to Improve Plant Safety
Philadelphia report notes three dimensional seeing used to color plant machinery in light gray with buff surroundings to reduce accidents and boost production. Engineers cite safer visibility and efficiency as key outcomes from the paint schemes. Public employees in Florida face travel expense limits of four fifty a day for hot rooms and meals.
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Philadelphia
Florida
Durant Fire Dept Cuts Response Time With NYA Foundry Call System
Durant Oklahoma November reports the NYA foundry near the highway repeatedly appearing on fire alarms. Firemen raced to the site but found no blaze as motorists misread the glow. The department tests a telephone-based alert system to save time on future calls.
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Durant, Okla
Durant
NYA
Wax imports rise in second quarter of 1940
In the period from April to June 1940 the United States imported 2,814,041 pounds of vegetable waxes excluding carnauba. The figure highlights the reliance on plant based waxes during that quarter.
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United States
Pioneer Woman Bertha Koepp Dies in Gettysburg Home
Mrs. Bertha Koepp of Potter County died Saturday at her Gettysburg home aged 71. She came from Norway in 1855 and wed in 1894. Survived by brother Nels Hanson and three sisters Mrs Her man Rud Mrs Ole Anderson and Mrs Gilbert Johnson, all in Potter County. Funeral Monday at the Lutheran Church with Rev. C. J. Krueger officiating.
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Gettysburg
Bertha Koepp
Potter County
Koepp
Norway
Nels Hanson
Herman Rud
Ole Anderson
Gilbert Johnson
Lutheran Church
C. J. Krueger
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Laurence S. Betts
Waibel
Frank Dave
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