Forgery Ring Leader Faces Prison in Sanatorium Bed
Indianaplis reports a tuberculosis victim Isenhour 31 admitted directing a 13 member check forging gang that operated in 14 states over two years, forging over $100,000. He sat during proceedings due to illness and faces a four year sentence. Nine others have been sentenced or arrested.
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Indianapolis
Federal District Court
Sunnyside Sanatorium
Lessenhour
William E. Steckler
John Barton
Indiana State Police
Isenhour
Lawrence artists compete for Terry National Art Exhibit prizes
Four Lawrence residents join 17 Kansas artists in the Terry National Art Exhibit vying for 18000 in cash prizes to be awarded in Miami starting February 2. The Lawrence quartet are Robert Green John D Parks Miss Marjorie Whitney and Miss Nancy Kesler Wolf. Judges will select 27 winners from thousands of entries.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Miami
Fla
Robert Green
Tenn. St
John D. Parks
Ohio St
Marjorie Whitney
Ind. St
Nancy Kesler Wolf
St. i
Republicans Set For Campaign In Lincoln Day Year
The Associated Press reports Republicans begin a brisk campaign as Lincoln Day events unfold. In Oklahoma City delegates split seven Taft, seven Eisenhower, two MacArthur, with Johnson predicting 12 of 16 to Taft on first ballot. Eisenhower backers call it a moral victory. Lincoln Day speeches by Taft in Seattle with Stassen and Warren also planned. Democratic Kefauver tours New York and Chicago in early appearances.
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Kefauver
D-Tenn
Tennessean
Inland Daily Press Association
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Associated Press
Abraham Lincoln
Oklahoma City
Sen
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Oklahoma
Gen
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Victor A. Johnson
Sen. Carlson
R-Kan
Washington
Seattle
Harold Stassen
Earl Warren
California
Ternnessee
New York
Fake sales crackdown in Rockville Centre ordinance
Rockville Centre moves to curb fake going out of business sales with a required license inventory posting police inspection and fines from 25 to 100. The measure targets deceptive sales after Chamber of Commerce complaints and takes effect today amid a stated statewide ranking note about Clifford Dean of Lawrence with New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.
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Rockville Centre
N. Y
Long Island
Chamber of Commerce
New England Mutual Life Insurance Co
Clifford Dean
Lawrence
Kansas Agency
White muskrat inspires Kansas cleanup drive at KU
A white muskrat born from two parents trapped near Morrill Kansas sparks a new cleanup campaign inspired by the fur scandal in Washington. KU researchers note albinos are rare and may die young but hope to breed a pure white line in controlled lab conditions.
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Kansas
United States
United Ates
Appalachians
Homer J. Lydick
Morrill
Kan
Brown County
Rollin H. Baker
K. U. Natural History Museum
Dr. Baker
Appalachian Mountains
University of Kansas
University of Kansas Museum of Natural History
Hank Brown
Blood Donors Worth Weight in Gold
Memphis Tennessee February twelve two co eds from Memphis State College lacked required weight for a Red Cross blood drive so they added pennies and metal weighing seventeen pounds to meet the minimum of one hundred ten. Myrlie Fenner and Yvonne Ergle were initially rejected but returned with the metal and were accepted. Myrlie’s father serves as a master sergeant with a medical unit and Yvonne’s foster brother was wounded twice in Korea.
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Memphis
Tenn
State College
Red Cross
Myrlie Fenner
Greenbrier
Ark
Yvonne Ergle
Whitehaven
Myrlie
Aoint
Yvonne
Korea
Loves mother in law sparks contested divorce case
Cleveland, Feb 12. A 22 year old wife testified in an uncontested divorce action that her Air Force husband admitted loving her mother. He said he wanted to marry her mother and named Mrs. Rosemary McDonald as the one he loved. The testimony cites Pfe Kevin McDonald, 30, and Mrs. Mary Jane Nye, 42, as involved parties.
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Cleveland
Air Force
Rosemary McDonald
Pfe
Kevin McDonald
Mary Jane Nye
Markets Close Nationwide For Lincoln's Birthday Holiday
Security exchanges and major commodity markets closed across the United States today through Lincoln's birthday observance with livestock markets exempt.
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New York
United States
Lincoln
Bathing Request Not For Cleanliness In Fairbanks
Fairbanks Alaska February 12 residents urged by city engineer to bathe at least once daily. Not for cleanliness but to keep water running through drains to prevent underground sewer lines from freezing as temperatures stay well below zero and ground remains frozen to ten feet.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Mass Media Criticized For Youth Decay and Crime Image
A speaker laments mass media shaping bad citizens as radio TV films and comics absorb more youth time. He notes fiction populates with gangsters and criminals, while also describing Australia’s dingoes as dog-like wild canines with bushy tails and wolf-like features.
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Australia
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