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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1948
Page
17
A jumble of clues and partial words lists scattered as a word puzzle. It references vertical and horizontal cues, sample entries like Souvenir and Kai-Perfect, with terse hints for nouns, verbs, and calendar-like items.
On a rubber estate near Malacca twelve Chinese Communists armed with Sten guns shot dead Leong Eu Sin a Kuomintang leader and then burned a rubber smokehouse. In Johore state gangs killed more Chinese. in Perak Malays with knives slashed four Chinese including a woman. Government pledges arms to planters. planters form a vigilante group.
A tale follows Farmer Brown’s Boy as he grabs Digger the Badger’s tail in a rash bid to befriend him, regrets the act, and then eyes a new danger in the garden. When Bluffer the Adder attacks Old Mr Toad, the boy rescues the toad, prompting reflection on thoughtlessness and courage.
A narrator recounts a scene where a character pockets a toad for safety and contemplates killing an adder. The rescued toad is kept close as they plan to confront the garden threat and decide the fate of the snake.
German denazification court in Duesseldorf found no case to answer for Hugo Stinnes, the influential industrialist behind coal steel and shipping interests. The June 15 decision clears the man reputed as Germanys richest businessman of penalties.
Boston reports Judge Francis J. W. Ford denied a motion for a new trial for Robert H. in a high profile case. The AP dispatch notes the ruling June 15 and outlines the judge’s reasons as based on trial record and evidence presented. Further details on potential appeals or related actions were not provided in the released excerpt.
About 3,600 idle dockworkers and thirty three ships tied up in the Port of London as an unofficial strike over longshore pay for dirty work. The walkout began yesterday in protest of penalties by the National Dock Labour Board on eleven men who refused to handle a zinc oxide cargo without extra pay.
California heart specialist Dr. Ralph Tandowsky reported at the Inter-American Cardiological congress that an injectable drug called DHO-180, a derivative of ergot, reduces high blood pressure by acting on brain centers and slowing heart action in initial tests.
Tandowsky, associate professor of medicine, notes ergot can constrict yet dilate when refined and mixed with hydrogen. Evangelists in Los Angeles report a year long study with eighteen cases. Four show blood pressure reductions and ten show excellent results.
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