Elderly man kills two to avenge dog's death in Chicago
An 71 year old Constantine Zygler and 65 year old Mrs Mary Sczymczak were killed in a rear yard shooting by 66 year old Frank Powyczynski who then shot himself. Joseph Sonowski was grazed and another victim, Zygler, suffered a jaw fracture. Police found Polish notes where Powyczynski blamed others for poisoning his dog Topsy and vowed to shoot them to show their nature.
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Chicago
Frank Powyczynski
Mary Sczymczak
Constantine Zygler
Joseph Sonowski
Powyczynski
Greenview Av
Topsy
Helen Krolikowski
1759
Armitage Jv
Mellon Heir Gives 4.5 Million for Liberal Arts College
Paul Mellon, son of the late Andrew J. Mellon, donates 4.5 million dollars to establish a new liberal arts college in Annapolis. Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John’s College, will head the institution with an endowment funded through a 1941 charitable corporation. The college plans a curriculum modeled on the St. John’s approach with the 100 great books and courses in lab science mathematics and foreign languages.
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New York
Paul Mellon
Andrew J. Mellon
Stringfellow Barr
St. John’s College
Annapolis
Barr
St. John’s
Slayer Attacks Trusty Then Tries to Kill Self
In Oroville California Sheriff W H Forward reports 14 year old Albert Jones a confessed murderer attacked jail trusty Tony Gonzales painting the cell doors then in the same day attempted suicide by hanging in his cell using a blanket strip tied to a window wire.
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Oroville
Calif
W. H. Forward
Albert Jones
Tony Gonzales
Twins Freed in Courts Can't Tell Them Apart
CHICAGO. Pete and Jerry Renieri, 17 year old identical twins, were released in Boys' court after the complainant James Cliff could not distinguish them. Cliff testified one twin struck him after he refused to cross the street. Judge Joseph J. Drucker dismissed disorderly conduct charges due to lack of identification.
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Chicago
Pete
Jerry Renieri
James Cliff
Joseph J. Drucker
Renieris
Drucker
Cliff
China Reds Free 7 Yanks Report Marines Unharmed
Seven U S marines captured July 13 by about 80 armed Chinese Communists were released to a special executive headquarters truce team. They were unharmed during confinement after being seized at a village 22 miles southwest of Chinwangtao on the Shantung peninsula while going to obtain ice.
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Tientsin
U. S
Special Executive Headquarters
Chinwangtao
Shantung Peninsula
Philadelphia Girl Shot by Street Car Incident
Mary Dymek, 16, was wounded in the right foot when a shot rang out as a trolley passed near an intersection where she walked with friends. Police found .22 caliber cartridges on the tracks.
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Philadelphia
Mary Dymek
Mary
Naval cook admits killing sailor on destroyer
FBI chief announces that David Joseph Watson, a Miami born navy cook third class, confessed to the July 25 homicide of 19 year old Benjamin Leroy Hobbs aboard the U S S Stribling after a two week manhunt. Hobbs died before discharge to help his widowed mother on their North Carolina farm. Watson is detained in the Key West navy brig awaiting Navy decision.
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Key West
Fla
U. S
FBI
Office of Naval Intelligence
Benjamin Leroy Hobbs
Nebo
N. C
David Joseph Watson
Joseph E. Thornton
Miami
Watson
Thornton
Norfolk
Hobbs
North Carolina
Navy
Posed as G Man Given Six Year Sentence
Alexander Arlinsky, described by federal authorities as having 37 aliases and six wives, received a six year prison term after pleading guilty to impersonating an FBI agent in Boston in 1940. Arrested in New York City on July 24, he preyed on wealthy women to swindle them. He used a poison vial ruse at dinners and threatened self harm to press marriages. Victims include a Houston woman who lost 7100, a Detroit matron who paid 14000, and Washington guests who gave 2500 to defend him in a non existent auto accident case.
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New York
Alexander Arlinsky
FBI
Boston
Lowell
Mass
New York City
United States
Joseph J. Verdicchio
Arlinsky
Verdicchio
Houston
Texas
Detroit
Washington
Boy 13 Admits Slaying Alaska Girl
FBI agent in Sitka reports 13-year-old Chris Didrikson confessed to stabbing 11-year-old Anna Marie Ward in Sitka Alaska. Autopsy recorded 30 knife wounds. Body found near an open space under the suspect's home and dragged to Dog Creek. The victim was daughter of City Supervisor William Ward. He is bound over for federal grand jury action under the juvenile code.
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Sitka
Alaska
FBI
Lee O. Teague
Anna Marie Ward
Teague
FBI Alaska
Anchorage
Chris Didrikson
William Ward
Dog Creek
Lift Operator Who Fell 710 Floors Now a Mother
Mrs Betty Oliver who survived a 70 story fall in the Empire State Building when a bomber crashed into it has given birth to a seven pound three ounce daughter at Fort Smith hospital. The new mother sustained back injuries burns and bruises but recovered.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Betty Oliver
New York
Empire State Building
Fort Smith Hospital
Oliver
Tropical Indians Speak Language of Shakespeare
The Bourabbees of Panama in Bocas del Toro district speak an English echoing Shakespearean era usage learned from 16th century buccaneers. They greet friends with per chance and good cheer, utter Zounds and Gadzooks, and refer to a merrie lassie as they roam their jungle home. Modern slang mingles with archaic phrases, yet the old idiom endures.
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Bourabbees
Panama
Bocas del Toro
Boorabbees
British Open Bleak Ocean Island Opens Up to World
Tristan da Cunha, the remote south Atlantic island, long isolated with five volcanic rocks and two inhabited, gains a secret 1942 British meteorological station. Ship visits were rare due to no harbor and rough seas, making supply arrivals eagerly awaited by about 200 residents sharing seven surnames.
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South Atlantic
Tristan da Cunha
National Geographic Society
Argentina
Africa
The National Commission of Fine Arts Established
The National Commission of Fine Arts was created by Congress in 1910 to advise on statues fountains and monuments. Its seven members include a landscape architect building architect painter and sculptor who dedicate themselves to ensuring the capitol buildings reflect austere beauty with unfailingly good taste and only limited veto power.
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National Commission of Fine Arts
Congress
Lincoln Memorial
Capitol
Curly Hair: New Methods Measure Hair Cystine for Waving
Dorothy Sanford and Fred L Humpler of Raymond Laboratories report to the American Chemical Society that new methods determine cystine content in human hair at stages of permanent waving. Their work suggests satisfactory waving is possible for all hair types, including cystine deficient hair, using scientific tools.
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American Chemical Society
Society
Division of Biological Chemistry
Dorothy Sanford
Fred L. Humpller
Raymond Laboratories
St. Paul
Cow Spends Most of the Night Grazing
Louisiana State University researchers found dairy cows graze mostly at night, especially in warm weather. A weeklong study of six cows showed night grazing averaged over six hours on two warm days, while daytime grazing remained brief. Overall nightly activity included three main grazing periods totaling about 5.5 hours, with 3.5 hours lying down.
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Louisiana State University Agricultural Experiment Station
Rheumatic Fever the Major Source of Heart Ailments
Medical note identifies rheumatic fever as the leading cause of chronic heart disease in adults over 40. It describes convalescent care to strengthen the heart, signs of heart weakness such as breathlessness, chest pains after stress, nighttime sleep with pillows, and gas pains radiating to the arms as potential indicators.
Palladium and platinum mesh dazzle in Paris style jewelry
French artisans create high fashion palladium filled jewelry with fine wire strands forming large floral patterns. Diamonds add a gossamer look while rhine stones tip petals. Non tarnishing palladium stays white, welded to base metal for affordable costume pieces bright in color.
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Paris
Origins of English Words by Latin Greek and Saxon Roots
Estimates split English vocabulary by origin. One study assigns 60 Saxon 30 Latin including French 5 Greek and 5 other. Other views claim everyday speech is 75 percent Anglo-Saxon, while literature and commerce lean Latin and Greek. Some place Anglo-Saxon at 50 percent with Latin Greek predominant in rest.
Soviet hydroelectric development on Baltic White Sea waterway
High in the northwest forests and lakes of the Soviet Union streams drop sharply here creating hydro electric reserves. Power stations and dams line the Baltic to White Sea watercourse as nineteen locks were built on the 140 mile final stretch from Povenets to Belomorsk on Lake Onega.
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Baltic-White Sea
Povenets
Ancient Babylonian Irrigation and Early Metallurgy
Ancient Mesopotamian societies used canals and wells for irrigation and drainage. Early metal work included copper metallurgy and pottery glazes over 6,000 years ago, with glassy beads and fluxes identified by prehistoric chemists.
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Babylonia
Oil Blends Designed for Wide Temperature Military Use
During the war hydraulic oils must perform in extreme climates from Sahara heat to Alaska cold. They must flow at very low temperatures and retain viscosity at high temperatures. Such oils are made by blending long chain molecules with petroleum lubricant fractions to suit shock absorbers and gun mounts.
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Sahara
Alaska
DDT Use Against Insects Across Livestock Plants and Pests
DDT is recommended for flies mosquitoes lice cockroaches spiders bedbugs fleas and some ants. Livestock and poultry pests killed by DDT include house horn and stable flies fleas brown dog ticks chicken mites and lice. Plant pests controlled include bean leaf roller cabbage worms leafhoppers grasshoppers European corn borer codling moth Oriental fruit moth Japanese beetle and Colorado potato beetle.
Wisconsin farm of the future to debut at University exhibit
University of Wisconsin researchers install electric barn cleaners silo unloaders and feed handling machines to cut dairy chores. A four year test at a farm near Madison aims to reduce livestock care time from 55 percent to about 20 percent. Reed predicts a broad farm automation shift as factories mass produce the gear.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Russell H. Reed
Reed
Wisconsin
University
France Uses Most of U S Credit to Modernize Industry
French officials say France has spent or ordered use of about three quarters of nearly two billion dollars in American credit since last September. With less than 450 million remaining, Paris seeks help from the International Bank to obtain dollars for modernization. I Leviant, head of the French economic mission, notes that more than one third of the latest 650 million loan has been used since May 28.
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Washington
France
International Bank
I. Leviant
Leviant
Federal Revenues Fall by 3 Billion in Last Fiscal Year
Revenue declined to 40,672,096,000 for the year ending June 30 as excess profits tax repeal cuts, with corporate and personal income taxes down 239,766,000 and 329,777,000 respectively. Offsetting gains came from liquor 216,298,000 and tobacco 233,374,000 taxes, plus admissions and club dues rises.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Big Food Crops Dispel Fear of Another Crisis
Agriculture Secretary Anderson said world food crops are dispelling fear of another famine emergency next winter. He told a famine luncheon that crop prospects show world export cereals will meet the minimum needs of deficit countries through the 1947 harvest.
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Washington
Anderson
Webb orders 104400 federal layoffs this fall
Budget Director James E Webb orders a fall reduction of 104,400 federal executive department workers. By November 16 one in 25 will be cut, leaving 2,362,300 on payroll. Dismissals hit white collar staff most, while congress and military civilian workers abroad exempt. Total federal employees worldwide stood at 2,686,000 at end of June.
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Washington
James E. Webb
Executive Department
United States Employment Service
Congressional
Army
Navy
War Shipping Administration
United States
Webb
Congress
Tight-Fisted Waiter Dies Leaves $60,000 in Stocks
John Old Frenchy Sucher known at McSorley’s Old Ale House died last January in a $13 room on the lower East side. Police turned papers to the public administrator who reports Sucher died without kin and left a package of 450 stocks and bonds valued at $60,000.
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New York
John
Sucher
McSorley
Greenwich Village
Joe Stalin
Brooklyn Bridge
Lower East Side
Public Administrator’s Office
RussianAffirms Aims of Great Red Naval Fleet
Soviet editors and admirals marked Red Navy Day with articles stressing a large navy and commitment to build ships to place the Red fleet among world powers within a set time. Vice Admiral Abankin said the USSR aims to defend state interests at sea without dominating all oceans.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Red Navy
Stalin
Baltic
Kaliningrad
Koenigsberg
Far East
Abankin
Red Army
Soviet
Egg Bag in Refrigerator Yields Church Collection
In Hays Kansas Mrs Van Hartman found a bag of silver coins and pennies in her ice box when she reached for eggs. Her father R S Maxwell had hidden the church collection in the egg bag and realized he had mistaken the money for eggs the next day.
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Hays, Kans
van Hartman
R. S. Maxwell
Lutheran Church
Son and Daughter Wed After Parents Tie The Knot
In Fort Scott Kansas Clyde Marsh 59 of Louisburg Missouri wed Alta Russell 35 of Buffalo Missouri. Their son Wendell 31 and his wife's daughter May Russell 17 followed suit and wed, though the older couple claimed no idea the children planned a marriage.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Clyde Marsh
Louisburg
Alta Russell
Buffalo
Wendell
May Russell
Two Labor Days Tale: U S Canada Labor Holiday Defined
The article explains that Labor Day in the United States and Canada occurs on the first Monday in September with parades picnics and sports. It contrasts May 1 celebrations in many countries and notes the legal adoption of Labor Day across U S states by 1894 and nationwide by 1928, except Wyoming and the Philippines.
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United States
Knights of Labor
Congress
Wyoming
Philippines
Cranberries Guarded Sailors From Scurvy in Early Voyages
Historical records reveal New England crews used cranberries to combat scurvy. Each voyage day, all hands ate cranberry sauce, aided by the berries vitamin C content, which modern tests show reaches about 80 international units per ounce.
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Cape Cod
New England
New Fibers From Chemical and Physical Processing
Scientists at the Western Regional Research Laboratory in Albany California report methods to construct long chain protein fibers by linking side chains and aligning molecules through spinning. The process mirrors silk production as fibers are stretched to improve strength and quality, with potential for varied properties across rayon nylon vinyon and glass fibers.
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Western Regional Research Laboratory
Albany
Calif
Scissors and Shears Compared for Common Uses
Scissors are smaller and suited to snipping while shears handle fabrics and are longer with one heavier blade. Both dull easily on cardboard, paper, flowers, wet cloth, or heavy string. inexpensive utility shears help. Do not cut heavy fabric with scissors. store to prevent damage and wrap in waxed paper in damp weather.
Population of Middle America Reaches 46 Million
Middle America and the eleven republics between the U S border and Colombia total 46 531 277 people about one third of the U S population The largest nation is Mexico with 19 848 322 people while Colombia numbers 8 701 816 Panama has 573 351 The most densely populated is Haiti with 3 000 000 people across 10 700 square miles The other republics are Guatemala Honduras El Salvador Nicaragua Costa Rica Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
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Middle America
Colombia
United States
Guatemala
Honduras
el Salvador
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
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