Rat in Camp No 5 and the humor that kept POWs sane
AP photographer Frank Noel recalls in Glendale a North Korean camp tale of a rat dressed with a parachute and patches, plus chicken traps that fed prisoners. He notes indoctrination, the 21 defectors, and jokes amid hardship, ending with a call to question fifth amendment secrecy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moe
Frank
Pappy) Noel
Associated Press
California
Glendale
Rene Sesaan
Baney
Camp No. 5
Air Force
Pappy
Noel
PwWs
America
Communist Party
Andrea Michalik
Minneapolis
Texas
Andrea
Howard Carney
Beatete
Charles Crabb
Los Gatos
Calif
Crabb
Hoover Announces New Probe of U S Bureaus
President Hoover forms a 13 member task force of leading businessmen to study federal subsistence services across agencies including food procurement storage warehousing and distribution. The mission seeks to map organization of executive branch operations and cost estimates suggest a $6 billion annual value in subsistence items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fornerot
Herbert Hoover
Department of Defense
Bureau of Prisons and Indian Force
A Hoover
Hoover
United States
Veterans’ Administration
Department
Hvasta Flew Home After Five Wild Years
Hvasta, a Czech-born U. S. Navy veteran, left Red-ruled Czechoslovakia after 21 months as a fugitive and five years in prison. He slipped through the Czech German border with State Department help, slept at a Nuremberg hotel under guard, and boarded a flight toward New York via Zurich, aiming for Idlewild Airport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Germany
John Hvasta
United States
Czechoslovakia
U. S. Navy
State Department
Spillat
William Oatis
Hyasta
Red
Leopoldov
Bratislava
Prague
Nuremberg
Zurich
Switzerland
U. S
New
York
Hvasta
New York
Idlewind
U.S
Local Long Beach Notice From 1888 Postal Audit
Fragmentary OCR shows a Long Beach postal notice dated March 18 1888. It references the Audit Bureau of Circulation, financial figures in dollars, and a filing under the March 3 1870 act with Long Beach California post office details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tress-T Elegram
Bixth Street
Pine Avenue
Long Beach
Celifornia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Ie Daley
Cody Cman Ern
Ag Secong
Grandparents Bill commercial airliners in vague report
An unclear fragment mentions airliners from Munich to Washington and Zurich to New York and references a first Sunday every October. It notes no immediate news and references Hoyasta's wife with a possible celebration, a resolution, and a prison context tied to Rep Holtzman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Washington
Zurich
London
New York
Hoyasta
Holtzman
D-N
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Antonis
Funer
Sam Farston
Montreal
Aylmer
Que
Main St
Ottawa River
Farston
Flo
Sam
Atlanta
Mnell Culpepper
Pansboars Welcome
Ahrens
Kang Seack
W. Broadway
Lee A
Civil Service
Forestry
Civil Service Park
National Landscape Institute
S. Roberton Blvd
Los Angeles
Richard D. Frick
Lake Vila
Ill
Waukegan
John Hvasta Frea
Sunbeam Schick Remington
Ronson Lighter Repair
Shaulis Jewelry
Avey
Fuzz Harris
East Third
ST. Phone
Asfobl
American Optometric Association
Long Beach Optometric Association
The
American Optomatris Association
Lilien Russell
Lillian Russell
Vanity & Mirror
Eenos
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