Cache of Gold Hunted in Reich Treasure Stash Explored
A wartime loot hunt probes possible Ribbentrop gold caches across embassies and churches. Kempner's interrogation notes reveal funds totaling tens of millions, including a personal reserve and secret war funds. Hints describe shipments from 1935 onward and hidden gold in southern Germany and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muernberg
Germany
Joachim Ribbentrop
Hitler
Ribbentrop
Foreign Ministry
Kempner
Konstantin von Neurath
Goering
Hjalmar Schacht
Reich
China
Penn students buy hearse for joy ride on river bridge
A Philadelphia hearse carrying three University of Pennsylvania students on a joy ride drew a stop at the toll gate when a police officer spotted feet protruding from the back. The driver claimed the trio were cargo but the students admitted stealing the vehicle after raising 300 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridge
Philadelphia
Delaware River Bridge
Camden
Joseph McWilliams
University of Pennsylvania
McWilliams
Exposure Kills Sleeper in Forest Noted in Milton Pa
Mrs Bessie Gilles Sincox 38 was found dead in a wooded area in Milton Pennsylvania where she and her husband lived without shelter. Coroner Dr Sidney Calloway said death followed a heart attack triggered by malnutrition and exposure after being found by her husband Henry following a job hunt. State Policeman Leo Armbruster reported the discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton
Bessie ‘Gilles Sincox
Leo R. Armbruster
Sidney Calloway
Northumberland County
Lincox
Armbruster
Henry
Derrick Thief Gets Shock When Judge Hears His Story
Emmitt Thompson, 37, arraigned in Pittsburgh on stealing a 30 foot steel derrick, claimed he faced trouble dismantling the apparatus before selling parts. Judge Thomas M. Marshall released him after ordering costs of prosecution and $500 to cover the derrick’s estimated value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Emmitt Thompson
Jlnkoan
Thomas M. Marshall
Thompson
Baltimore's Monumental Heritage and Star Spangled Banner Origin
Baltimore, celebrating 150 years as a city, is famed for monuments from the 200 foot Washington statue funded by a 1810 lottery to honor Poe, Hopkins, Booth, and Columbus. The Star Spangled Banner lyrics were penned by Francis Scott Key after observing Fort McHenry's defense during the 1814 siege. His manuscript rests in Walters Art Gallery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Francis Scott Key
Key
Walters Art Gallery
George Washington
Maryland
Columbus
Johns Hopkins
University and Hospital
Edgar Allen Poe
John Wilkes Booth
Adam and
Independent inventors shaped revolutionary ideas says study
Industry owes many major advances to individuals outside labs. Recordak was patented by George L. McCarthy. Two of the early telephone innovations came from outside Bell Labs. Edwin H. Land created Polaroid. Lee DeForest conceived the three electrode vacuum tube. Neoprene arose from Father Julius Nieuwland's guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recordak
George L. McCarthy
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell Telphone Laboratories
Frank B. Jewett
Polaroid
Edwin H. Land
Lee DeForest
Chicago
America
Julius Nieuwland
Coloration Changes in Salmon and Trout During Spawning
Sea fish show silvery hues for all species, then fresh water spawns reveal distinctive colors. King salmon darkens to blackish with head shading, red is limited to large males. Silver salmon reddens to brick red. females turn dull bronzy. Steelhead keep silvery sides with a rosy lateral wash. Pink salmon males turn red with brown blotches.
Plywood Types and Grades Compared
Douglas fir plywood comes in exterior and interior types. Exterior panels are called waterproof due to phenol formaldehyde adhesive, while interior panels are moisture resistant with water resistant glues. Interior panels use soybean casein or blood albumen adhesives and endure wetting cycles to test for delamination.
Continuous steel mills transform flat-rolled production
The article explains continuous mills, invented only a decade earlier, as huge apparatus where a white hot slab passes through 10 rolling stands to become a long thin sheet. These mills boost output vastly, requiring more workers across melting, ingot making, and shipping, with the largest mills capable of about 800 000 tons annually.
New Electron Gun Developed At Stanford University
Dr William W Hansen unveiled a three foot long linear electron accelerator at Stanford that can reach energies above 1 500 000 electron volts and may reach one billion electron volts in later models. The device promises cheap cosmic ray access for laboratories and aids in studying the electron and radioactive isotopes, built under a Navy contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palo Alto
Calif
Stanford University
William W. Hansen
Microwave Laboratory
Hansen
Stanford
Office of Naval Research
Ditches Boost Muskrat Crop, Department Says
The U S Department of Agriculture says digging level ditches in marshes can profitably develop wet lands. Deeper ditch water protects muskrats in cold weather and increases production, with Wisconsin marshes showing more than doubling of harvests as soil removal aids denning sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Soil Conservation Service
Wisconsin
Dutch to assume rule in occupied Java regions
The Netherlands government announced that Dutch authority would be taken over in western and eastern Java with a central interim organization to form a federal framework pending a new constitution. The three-member commission general will be abolished, and Acting Gov Gen Van Mook will receive added assistance as the move proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
Holland
Netherland
Java
Commission - General
Indonesia Republic
Hubertus J. van Mook
Federal Employees To Get Back Pay Boosts
The Civil Service commission authorized back pay for federal workers eligible for automatic promotions since July 1 1945. The gap between expected and actual salaries is estimated at 100 to 150 dollars per affected worker, with several thousand people affected though exact numbers were not known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civil Service Commission
Commission
First Use of Telegraph for Train Dispatching in 1851
On September 22, 1851 Erie Superintendent Charles Minot used telegraph wires to halt a late west-bound train and route an east-bound one to Goshen New York. He climbed into the locomotive cab and drove the engine to meet the awaiting east-bound train, marking the telegraph’s first recorded use in train dispatching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State
Charles Minot
Erie
Turner
Harriman
N. Y
Minot
Goshen
Reducing Highway Accidents In 1946 Speed Key Factor
A 1946 traffic study shows speeding caused 42 percent of highway fatalities. Most crashes arise from common driver errors rather than deliberate recklessness, urging motorists to slow at intersections and railroad crossings. In 1945 twenty seven of every hundred highway railroad grade crossing accidents involved cars hitting trains from the side.
Lightning Kills Fish at Bellefonte Hatchery
Lightning, a little known enemy of fish life, strikes large trout in two ponds at the Bellefonte Pennsylvania fish hatchery. After severe storms, stunned paralyzed larger fish with strange body marks die within days. small fish seem rarely affected due to smaller surface area.
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Bellefonte
Churchgoers Hear Simple Sermon As Brown Absent
Attendance at Sunday school reached 46 and Rev. Brown preached without his usual helper Fox who was away for an operation. Neighbors assisted with butchering, and many local families hosted or visited kin across Clarksville including the Spires, Clapps, Buckners, Turners, Nicholders, and Reeleys.
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Brown
Fox
Harry KE
Harbor
Shirley
Caroline Spires
Chicago
Harry
Mary Spires
Reymond Spires
Ernest Spires
Dudley
Harry Harbor
Donnie
Harold Clapp
Marshall
Evert Clapp
Wendell Buckner
Clifford Turner
Riley Baker
Lyman Newman
John
Cora
Eliza Nicholson
Paris
Charles Nicholson
Sam Reeley
Wes Millhouse
Obituary of Mary E Wright from Spiketown area
Mary E daughter of George W and Cordelia Mathews Gibson born August 29 1888 died February 4 1948 at home northwest of Marshall aged 59 years 5 months 6 days. She joined Centenary A B Church Spiketown and married Nathan A Wright on December 22 1922. Survived by husband two children Jeanne and Donald at home a brother in law Ira Winger and several relatives. father mother and two sisters preceded her.
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Mary E
George W
Cordelia Mathews Gibson
Marshall
Spiketown
A. B
Our Lord Jesus
Nathan A. Wright
Jeanne
Donald
Ira Winger
Hutsonville
Illinois
James Winger
Ilinois
Horace Winger
York
John H. Dennis
Vern Phillips
Robinson
Obituary of Mrs Ella Kirby
Filla daughter of Hattie Rodebaugh and William Garver born in Gari County Illinois on July 14 1883.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Kirby
Filla
Hattie Rodebaugh
William Garver
Gari County
Llinois
Daughhetee Woman Dies in Paris Illinois
The Paris Ill. woman died January 26 1948 at 64.6.12. She married I N Daughhetee in 1900, had five children including Hattie who died in 1945. She later wed John Kirby in 1918 and had one child. Surviving are four sons Floyd Lee Dayton Daughhetee of Martinsville and Sylvan Daughhetee of Paris, Ill. plus others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris Hospital
I. N. Daughhetce
Hattie
John Kirby
Mrr. Kirby
Floyd
Lee
Dayton Daughhetée
Martinsville, In
Sylvan Daughhetee
Paris, Ill
Notable Family Passes After Death of Mrs. Garver
Mrs. Garver of Marshall Illinois is noted to have died with a large family including daughter Mrs. Mike Reely of Marshall, fifteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. A brother Frank Garver and sister Mrs May Sexton also preceded her in death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Reely
Marjshall, Til
Frank Garver
May
Sexton
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Derrick
Clarksville
Mary E. Wright
Chester Claypool
A. F. Deckard
Marshall, Ilinois
Morris van Lines
Harvey Morris
East
Crawford St
Robert L. Kelly
North Tenth ST
Lawrenceville, Ill
Drs. E. H. and
Lois G
Spooner
Optometrists
W. Wood St
Amazin Low
Atlanta, Ga
Baltimore, Md
Bridgeport
Cincinnati
Ohio
Champaign
Ill
Chattanooga
Cleveland
Duluth, Minn
Hot Springs
Niagara Falls
U. S
Marshall HO Phor
Carl *A. Newlin
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