Post Office braces for busiest Christmas traffic
Middletown Post Office prepares for a heavy Christmas mail load as Postmaster Hilbert H. Martin cites rules to speed delivery. Cards in unsealed envelopes now require two cents postage, with last year’s rate at a cent and a half. A December 15 deadline for out of town parcels and December 20 local mail is advised, with first class for sealed packages that cannot be opened. Bundling many cards in small stacks and delivering parcels to the Charles Street station are suggested options.
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Middletown
Hilbert H. Martin
Martin
Ing
Charles St
Trucker Held After Slaying in Brockton
In Brockton Massachusetts police charged 33 year old truck driver Robert S Lundin with murder for the shooting of 25 year old Muriel Beal a Brockton Enterprise bookkeeper. Beal was shot in the back and struck the newspaper office building as Lundin turned the gun on himself after a pursuit ending in an alley. He was wounded and hospitalized under guard. police say he had warned friends he would kill her. Beal had previously dated Lundin who had recently been told by her she did not want to see him again.
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Brockton
Mass
Muriel Beal
Brockton Enterprise
Robert S. Lundin
Brockton Hospital
Lundin
Severabh
Three Robbers Hold Family During $15000 Fort Worth Holdup
In Fort Worth Texas three robbers captured an elderly man Charles L. Renaud president of West Texas Oil and Royalty Co his wife and daughter a guest and a maid for over an hour stealing an estimated 15000 in jewelry and photographic gear. An unrelated note mentions alligators aiding fishermen by eating turtles and gars, enemies of game fish.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Charles L. Renaud
Westexas Oil and Royalty Compan
Mickey Cohen Plans Sale To Raise Cash
Hollywood reports Mickey Cohen, free on a $50,000 bond, seeks to liquidate his exclusive haberdashery by selling the store lease or conducting a stock liquidation. He cites a need to raise cash after forfeit bonds of two henchmen worth $75,000 tied to their disappearance.
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Hollywood
Mickey Cohen
Cohen
Frank Niccoli
Dave Ogul
Man Sentenced In Theft Case In Milan Robbery
Norman W. Taylor, 31, of Mansfield, was sentenced to the Ohio penitentiary after pleading guilty to armed robbery. Common Pleas Judge Edmond H. Saward gave an indeterminate term despite a request to delay. Taylor allegedly struck James Bickley, 17, at a Milan service station, stole $41, and was captured after his car hit a culvert west of Milan.
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Sandusky, O
Norman W. Taylor
Mansfield
Ohio
Common Pleas
Edmond H. Saward
Taylor
James Bickley
Milan
Girl's Slayer To Be Given Quick Trial
Los Angeles AP reports Fred Stroble a 66 year old retired baker charged with the brutal slaying of six year old Linda Joyce Glacoft will face arraignment Friday ten days after the child’s body was found in his daughter's backyard. He was captured last Thursday in a downtown bar. A preliminary hearing revealed details from his confession including that the girl was killed last Monday in a bedroom at his daughter's home after she screamed during the alleged assault.
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Los Angeles
State of California
Fred Stroble
Linda Joyce Glacoft
Stroble
Grusome
Linda
Pelicans Sharpen Thanksgiving Feast in Santa Monica
In Santa Monica a fishing boat named Bunkie from Santa Barbara tied up for refueling when hundreds of pelicans and seagulls swooped in to eat a deckload of sardines. The birds gorged themselves and many could not fly, drifting around the harbor as fishermen estimated several hundred pounds of sardines consumed.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Bunkie
Santa Barbara
Radio Director Horizons Pedal Clues Hidden Word Puzzle
A cryptic set of crossword style clues lists numbers and hints across radios and names. Solve to reveal terms like Greek gods and world places while filling the pattern with allied answers. The page mixes language, geography, and myth with page design hints and vertical clues.
Opera Opens Season With Record Met Attendance
The Metropolitan Opera launched its 65th season with Der Rosenkavalier starring Rise Stevens and Eleanor Teiber drawing six packed tiers. The gala featured society onlookers milling between acts as ABC televised the event for a record nationwide audience.
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NEW York
Metropolitan Opera
der Rosenkavalier
Rise Stevens
Eleanor Teber
39Th St
Broadway
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