Deep Sea Diver Recalls Odd Catching Opera Ocean Tales
Veteran diver Harry Reinhartsen recounts lassoing lazy fish from 50 to 60 pounds by a wire loop while on a sewer project near Fairport Harbor. He shares near-death experiences including bends after long dives to 210 feet and rescuing a fisherman at 110 feet. His pay and risks are noted, along with family reactions.
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Pairport ‘Harbor
Ohio
Harry Reinhartsen
Mathiott
Fairport Arbor
Miami
Reinhartsen
Recoss
Long Island Sound
Bridiggport
Conn
Lake Michigan
Jersey City
Veterans sentenced to jail for fishing unlawful net use
In Toronto two war veterans pleaded they could not pay a ten dollar fine for fishing with an unlawful net in the Toronto island lagoon. Magistrate Robert Browne offered to pay the fines but the men declined. He then sentenced each to one hour in jail, and the pair spent the night at home with their families.
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Toronto
Toronto Island
Robert J. Browne
Browne
Trapper Chases Coyote Pup At Wichita Mountains Refuge
Lawton Oklahoma John J Pickens trapped 73 coyotes in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. He spotted a three month old coyote pup while driving through the refuge and chased it a half mile across rocky slopes before it dodged into a rock crevice. Pickens pulled it out by the tail.
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Lawton
Okla
John J. Pickens
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Pickens
Glass Eye Dispatches Live Man to Morgue
In San Francisco Wendell Brabham aged 40 was knocked out in a street fight and told a municipal judge the doctors assigned him to the morgue as dead were testing his reflexes by lifting his eyelid and finding none. It was a glass eye.
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San Francisco
Wendell Brabham
Misidentified Kenneth Scotts Cause Unwelcome Fame
In East Cleveland the family of Kenneth D. Scott endures misdirected calls and mail aimed at Kenneth Scott the professor of classics at Western Reserve University Flora Stone Ma ther college. The mix up stems from a namesake illumination engineer who receives demands for lectures and invitations meant for the professor. The engineer notes repeated refusals and door closings as callers insist he is the professor, with items such as travel invitations, poems, German letters, and a misrouted check for a lecture.
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Cleveland
Scott
Professor Scott
Germany
Eye for Freedom Plea Denied by State Prisons
Marley Underwood a Detroit inmate serving 2 to 10 years for obtaining money under false pretenses offered to donate his right eye to William Lewis a Canon City Colorado attorney who needs a cornea to restore his sight. Officials rejected the unusual clemency proposal noting no policy allows eye donations in exchange for freedom.
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Jackson
Mich
Southern Michigan Prison and
State Corrections Department
Marley Underwood
Detroit
Joel Moore
Underwood
William Lewis
Canon City
Colo
Colorado
Grizzly and Two Women Meet Same Hard Luck
In Ronan Montana Mrs Charles Joyce and her sister Mrs Fred Owens and a grizzly bear shared a strange run of luck. The women driving alone avoided injury as a groggy bear slid onto their car and then fled in a zig zag path while the auto sped away unscathed.
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Ronan
Mont
Charles Joyce
Fred Owens
Pussy Ends Long Life Of Ice Cream and Meat
BURBANK CALIF. A 17 year old pet cat of an apothecary died of dropsy. The animal kept stray dogs away and maintained weight at 18 pounds through a daily diet of ice cream and beefsteak over many years.
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Burbank
Calif
Bolt Turns Sand to Glass in Storm Show
A Tampa thunderstorm produced a curious display as a lightning bolt struck a tree and traveled along a buried telephone cable. Heat fused sand along the underground path into a glass tube, illustrating a natural glass-making phenomenon.
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Tampa
Fla
Triplets Born in Capetown Frankfort Hospital Case
CAPETOWN SOUTH AFRICA Mrs Groenewald wife of a railroad employee gave birth to her third set of triplets at Frankfort hospital.
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Capetown
South Africa
Epitome of The Week News World and Nation Summary
World items include five London theatre district bombs blamed on Irish Republican Army, opium den strikes in Shanghai, and aerial clashes near the Russian border. Reports of floods in central Europe and droughts in Beijing signal global unrest. The Kaiser warns against Hitler, Italy plans war maneuvers, and trade talks with the Soviet Union unfold. In the U S, Townsend delegates pledge loyalty to Dr Townsend, doctors discuss cancer X rays, and policy debates rise in Congress amid budget and relief measures. Local notes report floods in Belgium, strikes in Oakland and San Francisco port, and state relief rolls rising as California eyes public works and veterans events.
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Kaiser Wilhelm
Adolf Hitler
London
Irish Republican Army
Shanghai
Vancouver
Europe
United States
Duke of Windsor
Paris
Constanza
Manchukuo
Mongolian
Italy
Papers
India
Soviet Russia
Great Britain
Baltic States
Swatow
Outer Mongolia
Japan
South China
Tientsin
Norway
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
England
America
Belgium
Russia
Indianapolis
Townsend
Cleveland
Donald B. McMillan
Boothbay
Maine
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Roosevelt
House
Thim
CCC
Warrentown
Wichita
Kansas
Senate
North Carolina
Staten Island
Atlantic
Walter D. Head
Montclair Academy
New Jersey
Rotary International
Treasury
Earl Kemp Long
Huey Long
Strath
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Paul Vornes McNutt
Philippines
Young Republicans
Fresno
Navy
Heart of
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Naval Reserve
Olson
Ellis E. Patterson
Oakland
Taft
Maricopa Fire Department
F. A. Eyland
Brundage Lane
J. B. Hunt
Wasco Post
American Legion
George Gularte
Wasco American Legion Auxiliary
Bakersfield
Dustesen
San Joaquin Valley
Coffee Hills Bros
Wheaties
Libby
Libby's
Libby’s
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Bisquick
Kellogg's
ST. Beans
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Crescent
Meat Department
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