Panama City Official Crowned Southeast Champion Liar
John Rainey secretary of the Panama City Chamber of Commerce was named champion liar of the Southeast at the Southeastern institute of commercial organization executives in Chapel Hill. He won with a tale about unfailing perfect attendance at chamber meetings among 250 visiting representatives.
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John Rainey
Chamber of Commerce
Panama City
Fla
Southeast
Southeastern Institute of Commercial Organization
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Suggestion Made Skyscrapers Be Equipped With Fog Lights
In New York after two major aircraft crashes into tall buildings within a year, officials consider fog lights on skyscrapers. Proposals include sky clearance laws, anchored night balloons, radar towers, and piercing lights to help pilots avoid towers in fog.
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New York
INS
Empire To
Wall Street
Manhattan
Nutritional Operation in Progress at Army Meals Test
In Carson Colorado a nutrition program assigns 38th regimental combat team to a 21 day trial of three diets. One group uses K ration, another army improved ration, and a third tests a new E diet. Plans trace to a 1944 Washington conference and Camp Carson study. The 201st Infantry did eight weeks of high altitude ration research, a notable prior effort.
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Ivip Carson
Colo
INS
Iretesa
Army
Army War College
Washington, D. C
Camp Carson
201St
Tarryall Mountains
Deserters In Paris Spread Crime Wave
Sixty thousand deserters from Allied armies are amassing in western Europe with chief concentrations in Paris and Brussels. The La Voix De Paris reports they are active in crime as Allied military police are weakened by redeployment, allowing near unchecked operations.
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Paris
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Europe
la Voix de Paris
Brussels
Bradley College graduation links two mother son pairs
In Peoria June ceremonies Bradley College awarded degrees to two pairs of mothers and sons. The graduates are Mrs. Richard W. Cooper and Mrs. Emory H. Powers, both teachers, and their sons Robert N. Cooper and Norman E. Powers, World War I veterans.
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Peoria
Ilil
INS
Bradley College
Richard W. Cooper
Emory H. Powers
Robert N. Cooper
Norman E. Powers
Plane Ride At Ninety Nine Amazes Civil War Vet
Harrisburg reports Henry Maurer aged 99, a Civil War veteran, took his first airplane ride as he quietly spent his declining years. The news notes his milestone moment amid his long life and public memory.
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Harrisburg
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Henry Maurer
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Walbeck’s Garlic Dill
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