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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1945
Page
7
A Nashville letter from Mrs Johnny Williams praises Faultless Starch claiming it cut ironing time by half and made ironing easy by preventing sticking. The ad asserts ironing aids are already mixed in the product and urges readers to buy Faultless Starch for easier, faster ironing.
American patrols in the Sierra Madre mountains report finding mutilated Jap bodies and evidence of cannibalism among isolated stragglers. Capt Yust led 200 38th Division troops and 300 Filipino allies on a six day trek with two prisoners captured.
The FBI survey based on 392 cities with 25 000 plus residents shows increases in murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft from January through July. Negligent manslaughter fell 1.6 percent.
Pratt Army Air Base in Kansas City names P. U. Flyaway the skunk mascot for a B-29 bomber crew. Flyaway, known as P. U., has 43 hours flying time and was hoped to accompany the unit into combat over Japan. Captain John A. Maksimiuk, the skipper, says the crew would love Flyaway even without deodorizing.
Dr. David P. Bader, psychiatrist, reported a memorial watch missing after alighting from a crowded streetcar in Chicago. Six hours later John Kelly found the inscribed watch tangled with a coat button, a fraternity key on the chain pulling the button through.
A leading expert argues mental prime sits near 40 while physical peak occurs around 33. He cites examples from boxing to golf showing top athletic performance often occurs in the mid to late twenties for combined skill and vigor, with experience enhancing later years.
A 15 year old girl confessed to spreading petroleum on ground near Laroya in Almeria province, triggering a mysterious rain of fire that prompted three government expeditions to the area.
Two Mexican bootleggers trail across the border with three ponies loaded with liquor. The result is a sweeping fever tick quarantine affecting 765,810 acres in four Texas counties and obligations to dip nearly 25,000 head of livestock. Officials from the U S marshal service immigration, bureau of animal husbandry, Texas sanitary livestock commission, and cattlemen’s associations coordinate the response as infected ponies leave ticks along their 10 day route through Webb Zapata Duval and Jim Hogg counties. The quarantine covers all pastures they touched and adjacent lands under tick policy.
Seaman 1/c Roger Peterson, 19, traveled from the far side of the world to seek clemency for his brother Royal S. Peterson, 21, sentenced to death for first degree murder of Matthew Wier, a Manchester jeweler. In a second hearing before the state board of pardons, Roger argued for Royal’s life. Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin chairs the board.
Walter C. Clifton reported his sheet metal barn being torn down in pieces each morning. Deputies found a relative sold the barn and the new owner was moving it chunk by chunk to rebuild on another property. Clifton managed the site and did not know it had been sold.
In Latrobe Pennsylvania Mrs Joseph McLaughlin waved goodbye to Lt and Mrs George Blinebury at the station. As the train stood ready to depart they realized the nine month old baby was still in her arms. A conductor intervened and retrieved the child before departure.
A 14 year old boy told FBI agents he stole 17 cars and looted 110 more since January. He was arraigned on charges of violating the national auto theft act and cited taking a car to aid his escape from Starr camp in Bellevue Michigan where he faced an auto theft charge.
After V-E Day about 1,000 civilians per week have died from Nazi planted land mines in France Italy Belgium and the Netherlands. With only 5 percent of the 115 million mines located, three to five years will be needed to remove them.
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