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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1949
Page
11
A reader venting in the public service column criticizes airline baggage mishandling and slow insurer and carrier responses. The writer, citing personal loss and prior settlement, urges stronger customer protections and notes air travel baggage handling differs from trains and rail cars.
George E. Sokolsky rips the handling of airline baggage in 1949, detailing passengers losing belongings from pickup to flight, the cold $100 payout, and the lack of a binding contract or clear liability. He questions who truly binds travelers to international tariffs and laments the indifferent system.
Brockton dealer Ben Stone sells height increasing shoes that add about two inches, a scheme he says helps grown men feel taller. He markets to actors like George Raft, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Humprey Bogart amid a broader sales push reaching about a million pairs last decade.
Hal Boyle relays mass produced built up shoes by Stone attracting diverse buyers. Cowboys wore them for semiformal events, giving Texans a sense of belonging. Stone notes most aspirants are average-height men seeking vanity and balance with taller partners. He says he is five foot ten in stocking feet.
The piece links Harvard figures in the Am erican Communist trials to Daniel Boone reminiscing on miseducation and legal woes. It notes Harvard alumni in court such as Harvard 29 and Harvard 06 in the Hiss trial, mentions Harvard 37 descendent Daniel Boone Schirmer, and recalls Boone’s frontier struggles against land loss amid legal shenanigans and taxation.
Inez Robb recalls Dan'l who endured harsh trials in the Missouri wilderness where Indians killed two sons and a brother. He did not see himself as a victim of capitalism. With a Harvard education and Karl Marx’s guidance, he might have known what to do, yet he died loyal to country and kin.
The CIO Mine, Mill and Smelters Workers executive board voted to require officers to sign non Communist affidavits under Taft Hartley, ending a two year boycott of the NLRB. The change cites repeal battles and leadership actions by reactionaries as the reasons.
Clarksdale Mississippi native M. H. Klutts used a stripped-down navy training plane to dry a rain-soaked baseball field. He hauled the craft onto the field and revved the engine to push water away, allowing the Cotton States League contest between Greenwood and Clarksdale to proceed as scheduled.
A black bear cub arrives weighing about ten ounces and measuring eight inches at birth. Wildlife officials note the newborn's small size as it begins life in a protected area and researchers monitor its growth.
Washington July 21 AP Representative Huber of Ohio failed in late efforts to extend the 52-20 wartime unemployment benefits. The $20 weekly payments for 52 weeks would end Monday, leaving many veterans without aid. Huber sponsored a two year extension but said it is stuck in committee and he cannot advance it.
Salem faces a large insect invasion as residents race to buy up fly swatters DDT and other killers. Health Commissioner Dr. R T Holzbach expressed equal surprise at the unusually heavy mosquito and fly problem affecting the city.
A Good Neighbor Vermillion South Dakota reports that the University of South Dakota is donating medical volumes to the University of Chile. The Chilean medical library, the country’s only center of its kind, has lost about 60 percent of its 50 000 volume collection to fire.
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