French Customs Fight Crafty Smugglers Across Postwar Europe
The report details customs officers battling smugglers in Europe, with cases from Cherbourg to the Swiss border. Officers dismantle a ship radio to uncover hides of cigars and drugs, and a mafia band directs a submarine route from Lake Geneva to Italy. A weary elderly woman is inspected and found with drugs in a wooden leg. Distinct scenes illustrate the scale, tactics, and international reach of smuggling operations, including currency, luxury goods, and contraband. The piece also notes Swiss travel limits and the clever, varied methods used by smugglers.
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Marseillen
Woma
Tomers
Switzerland
Cherbourg
Stem
Liaby
Magic Bird Act Delights Audiences on Stage
A 21 year old magician named Jack Kodeli debuts a birds act titled A Fanstesy in Birds. He produces three Australian blue parakeets from a silk cascade and later summons birds from a paper tube before revealing a multicolored wart from his top hat. The act concludes with birds disappearing into a glass cage and reappearing in a second cage.
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Dolt
Kodel
Kodeli
Jack
German Youth Plans Rebuild Aid to Oradour
A German youth group seeks permission from British and French authorities to help rebuild Oradour village, destroyed by SS forces on June 20, 1944. They state they do not view French residents as guilty and aim to mend past wrongs through summer aid and reconciliation.
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Hamburg
Benjamin Has
Oranize
Party of
Oradour
Sala
U S Research Seeks Death Ray for National Defense
A United States research push aims to perfect a so called death ray for defense though reports say most work remains secret. Early experiments describe a baby size ray using radioactive phosphorus and electrons that could disable small targets while posing risks to researchers.
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U.S. Research
National Defense
Java
Pennsylvania State
College
Evans Signal Laboratory
Belmar
Bie Ag Nies
Postwar Plant Converts to Multitentant Industrial Complex
A Paterson Wright Aircraft Plant once a top engine producer now houses nine firms plus three more pending tenants. Mary Laws Industries Inc owns 86 percent of the facility with joint operation of power and maintenance cutting costs. The 650 000 square foot site built in 1925 switched to peacetime production in 1940 and sold for 1 198 186 dollars.
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Wright Aeronau
Paterson
Mary Laws Industries, Inc
George R. Jayna
Jomunt
Wright Aircraft
Webb and Knapp, Inc
New York
Textile Printing and Dyeing Company of America
Collectors Rally To Young Stamp Enthusiast Jad Evansville
Evansville readers rally around seven year old Jad Marshall after rheumatic fever sidelined him. A local paper caught his hobby bug and helped flood his collection with more than 150 letters and 50 to 100 stamps each from nearly 50 countries.
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Evansville
Ind
Richard Marshall
Jad
Penny Boom Reaches Demand Peak at Philadelphia Mint
In Philadelphia the U S Mint reports the one cent piece is in high demand with about 250000 pennies minted daily. Superintendent Edwin H Dressel notes 97860000 pennies sit in vaults in 1935 and 991655000 in 1946. He cites odd cent pricing in slots and cash transactions and says the penny remains widely used despite abundance.
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Philadelphia
U. S
Edwin’ H. ‘Dressel
the. Mint
U. S. Mint
Dressel
Poles enter British mines as 30000 displaced workers join pits
More than 5300 Polish volunteers from the Polish Resettlement Corps work in British coal mines with 386 trained from Polish forces in Britain. At Birch Coppice Colliery in Warwickshire a training scheme begins under A M H Crowson to treat Polish workers as equals and promote them on the same basis. A British instructor guides arrivals as a dedicated team trains Polish miners in coal cutting and belt handling, signaling a broader move to integrate displaced Europeans into UK industry.
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London
Britain
Poland
Germany
Italy
Yorkshire
Bloch Coppice Collery
Warwielk
A. MH. T. Crowson
Cotlery
Nll
Hitle
Cwell
Birch Coppice
National Cant Board
Conchuledt
Puppy and Tractor Tie Endures for Loyal Dog
A cattle dog named Shep belonging to the John Wehring family strayed after following a tractor sold last week. The dog, famed for riding beside his master on the tractor for hours, was found a week later, ignoring new owners and staying with the machine.
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Diller
Shep
John Wehring
Wehlings
British Africa: $800 to $1.2 Billion Plan to Exploit Untapped Riches
London reports a ten year, 640 million to 1.2 billion dollar program to develop Africa under British rule. Plan aims include hospitals roads bridges communications agriculture port health services and mineral and water projects to harness 55 to 77 million Africans across vast territories for Britain’s postwar economy.
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London
Britain
Africa
Colonial Office
India
Burma
Boston
Ierritories
Il Uterney
Con
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Josef Malek
Charlie Powell
Mrs. Powell
Nar
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Mint
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