Credit tightening as Americans fall back to cash
NEA staff writer S Burton Heath reports that postwar spending shifts back to cash as credit slows. War savings, nylons shortages, and new accounts fueled a credit surge, but now collectors show a seven percent drop in March versus last year with many stores posting weaker receipts and more checks bounce. Credit agencies note slower payments and rising court actions, signaling a return to prewar norms.
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Schoolboy Rowe Shut By Laceration Injury
Philadelphia reports Schoolboy Rowe back in uniform after a lacerated elbow from a freak diamond accident. An X ray showed no bone damage and no fracture, though he will not pitch for at least a week. Rowe the veteran ace has a seven win, one loss record.
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Credit managers forecast postwar credit stability and growth
Abercrombie & Kileh manager and Credit Group chair say wartime easing ends. Open credit rules lapse, wages rise, and households cut back. losses from bad credit stay small. They anticipate a credit surge with new durable goods but warn dollar value, not volume, matters.
Long Town claims nation’s longest town status
Island Park Idaho spans 25 miles along Yellowstone National Park Highway and was incorporated on Monday marking a two day old village claiming to be the nation’s longest town.
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Zombie Ship Hangover From Bikini
Pearl Harbor scene centers on USS Hughes, once a flagship of the 8th Fleet, now a derelict 800 yards offshore. Radiological contamination from Bikini atomic tests left the ship untouchable for months, awaiting study by scientists with Geiger counters before any final disposition to Bremerton.
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Chicago Court Schedules Thefts And Frauds Trial Lineup
In Chicago on June 7 the clerk in criminal court announced that Christopher Columbus Spenson, 29, faced an immediate hearing while Judge Julius H. Miner noted he has others ahead on the calendar. The docket includes Ulysses S. Grant for automobile theft and Calvin Coolidge for a confidence game. George Washington remains a fugitive on a murder charge. Across the hall Judge Elmer J. Schnackenberg presided as witness Andrew Jackson appeared.
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Ex-marine Bentley Opens Restaurant After Prison Hunger
Joe M. Bentley, former Marine prisoner after Wake Island fell, vowed not to go hungry again and opened a restaurant in Livingston, Montana, on June 11.
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Bedside fibre-glass piano showcased at Chicago convention
At a Chicago music merchants convention Mary Ann Duus demonstrates a new invention for bedridden patients a light weight fibre glass piano designed to ease confinement and long convalescence the device promises portable sound and comfort in recovery.
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Reginia Hanes Misses Camp Bypass After Crowded Call
In Atlanta on June 10 Regina Hanes, a girl of 60 slots, sobs as 100 girls crowd to join the Atlanta Mission camp for underprivileged children. Rev Felton Williams selects 60. Mary Kingston denies extra space, promising a possible next week option. Regina pleads to join Bonnie, but Kingston declines. Eventually Regina is placed in Kingston’s car for transport to camp.
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Small Party Rescues Negro From Mob
In Hartsboro Alabama a mob planned lynching of 18 year old Jimmy Harris accused of raping a white woman. A rescue party led by Mayor Hugh Vann intervened as Harris was bound with clothesline and being mauled. Harris was taken to Kilby prison as authorities pursued alleged attacks in North Carolina and New Jersey, with local men praising restraint over mob justice.
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Youthful Slayer Found to Be Insane
In St. Joseph Missouri a circuit court jury found 16 year old Stuart B Allen innocent by reason of insanity in the mutilation slaying of church sexton John Frank. The verdict orders confinement to a mental institution while condition remains unchanged. Allen calmly called it a perfect verdict after the decision was read. The boy, adopted son of the church rector Rev James S Allen, faced first degree murder charges for the beating and mutilation of 58 year old Frank inside Christ Episcopal church basement on April 2. The trial featured arguments over the death penalty and character deterioration linked to a fictional persona Waldo Lydecker from the movie Laura. Defense attorney Robert A Brown Jr noted no appeal. Jurors deliberated from Monday night, with initial ballots placing guilt before insanity.
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Black mob scene ends with rescue of man Harris
Vane and Vann recount a tense mob incident where a Black man facing lynching was saved. Officials halted the crowd for moments, guiding Harris to a rescue car. The mayor notes calm words and swift action moved the person to safety.
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Spellman blasts Protestant bigotry against Catholics
New York June 12 UP Francis Cardinal Spellman archbishop of New York accused Protestant groups of fanning religious bigotry against Catholics and questioning their patriotism. He cited a 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling on buses carrying parochial students and criticized its opponents as subversive to public schools and church state separation. He named Christian Century and Rev Dr Charles Morrison as leading agitators and warned secularism threatens organized religion.
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Prohibition Moves Expand as Dry States Grow
At Asbury Park New Jersey on June 12 Mrs D Leigh Colvin president of the national Women’s Christian Temperance Union said one fourth of the United States is dry or bans hard liquor and eight more states may join. She cited 500 communities added to prohibition in 1946 and noted movements toward statewide bans in Alabama Arkansas North Carolina and Texas with sentiment rising in Georgia Kentucky South Carolina and Tennessee. She called it encouraging that Rep Joseph Siyson of South Carolina introduced no Congress and amendment to restore federal prohibition.
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State Department denounces Petkov arrest in Bulgaria
The U S State Department yesterday denounced Petkovs arrest, saying that Bulgaria, by trying him, would also face scrutiny before the bar of public opinion.
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Footnotes on the folks out here in southern California
HAL BOYLE notes Californians attract oddballs the crowd overlooks a barefoot street character with pink feet, beard like Walt Whitman, hatless and shirt open. The elderly man seems “just another character” in a land that claims to have them all, needing to pass out dollars for attention.
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Council to Settle Russian Patents Claim in Hungary
A US official said Russia’s claims to 825 American patents used in Hungary have been referred to the Allied kommandatura in Berlin for settlement. The patents, many tied to International Telephone and Telegraph, require royalties paid directly to Russian headquarters, risking double payments for firms like Combustion Engineers and Underwood. Brig. Gen. George Weems pressed the issue in Allied Control Council meetings, prompting action by Lt. Gen. V. P. Bridov.
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