Loot Confession Ties Robbery to Auto Muzzle Carbines
Detective Sgt. Sellman cites William Rickard confession linking the robbery to a 30 caliber automatic carbine described as highly dangerous. The weapon is Army property and possession is illegal. The 38 caliber automatic cartridge weapon stamped as Canadian government property crossed the border. Rickard is a Merchant Marine veteran. details of obtaining the gun were not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Rickard
Sellman
U. S. Army
Rickard
Merchant
Restaurants May Increase Prices If Ceilings Are Lifted
The article explains how removing price ceilings could let restaurants raise steak eggs chicken and milk prices by adding their current markup to raw food costs. Stabilization Director Chester Bowles estimates meat prices could jump 40 to 50 percent while lobsters and most fish remain exempt.
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Chester Bowles
Norwegian bride-to-be battered by Nazis on voyage
Beth Dulin, 79, a Norwegian resident, docked in New York aboard the Sta vangert after a Nazi lashings ordeal. She travels to Minneapolis to wed former U S Army Captain Wallace Knutsen, whom she met at a party in Oslo, bearing three scars as memories of the assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stavangert
New York
Beth Dulin
Norway
Minneapolis
Minn
U. S. Army
Wallace Knutsen
Oslo
Beth
Overseas Service Jobs Offer 25 Percent Incentive
The notice invites workers to seek foreign jobs with a 25 percent incentive for overseas service. Minimum terms range up to 12 months with Army-provided transportation. Civilian positions feature a 40 hour week with overtime pay, while UNRRA seeks men to run mobile welding shops in China's devastated regions to restore rural industry and farming equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Agricultural Rehabilitation Division
UNRRA
China
Card of Thanks and memory notices
Card notices express gratitude for kindness during illness and death of Charles E. Young and Stewart W. Swartz's father with appreciation for flowers care and transportation. Vinson family memorializes Betty KE and Frances G with a loving verse at May 1830 and June 1932 dates, noting lasting loss and silent grief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Young
C. E. Young
Adv
Blue Ridge Transportation
Stewart W. Swartz
Byrnes Seeks Showdown Parley Over Trieste Crisis
The United States and Britain push for internationalizing Trieste under the United Nations while considering long term controls and an Austrian peace treaty. Hope rests on a compromise favored by Byrnes and Bevin to avoid deadlock and keep Allied unity in postwar settlements.
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Trieste
Russia
Jugoslavia
Peral
Venezia
United States
Tralia
Italy
United Nations
Byrnes
Bevin
Gay
Britain
First New Apples Due In 2 Weeks
The piece notes scarce apples on the market after last year’s poor crop and stores, with transparent varieties expected to sell well. Hancock orchardists praise wet weather for late varieties and sizing, while a heavy June drop reduces thinning needs. Peach crops look bumper. Smithsburg orchards report heavy fruit loads requiring thinning.
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William
Hancock
Smithsburg
Mystery Blast Death Ties Westfield Resident to Whitcomb Case
The New York Daily News reports a photo showing George E. Hardy who died in a blast at his Westfield New Jersey apartment. A Boston detective arrived to probe Whitcomb’s slaying as an unsigned contract bearing the name Geo E Hardy was found on Whitcomb’s desk.
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New York Daily News
George E. Hardy
Westfield
N. J
Boston
William A. Whitcomb
Whitcomb
Geo, E. Hardy
Rumored settlement aims to avert pending strike
Reports from negotiators suggest a possible agreement including a 17.50 monthly wage rise for seamen with overtime starting after 48 hours and a 56 hour work week. A 20 percent wage increase for Pacific Coast longshoremen is cited along with other proposals. Government officials hoped to avoid a walkout while CIO figures pressed for an immediate deal.
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Posal
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Cio-Controlled
Committee For Maritime Unity
Joseph Curran
Govevent
CIO American Communications Association
Miracle escape as debris avalanche hits sidewalk
Fire Chief Harry J. Brown said the avalanche from an adjoining excavation buried a 30-foot sidewalk stretch with debris including a steel girder. He called it amazing luck that occupants escaped and that no pedestrians were buried under the collapse.
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Harry J. Brown
Salvaged Wax-Paraffin From Tank Settling Under Lab Methods
High melting point microstailing wax paraffin content, reaching 17 percent, was recovered from weathered tank bottom settlings using processes developed in government laboratories.
Building Collapse in Reading Sparks Panic and Shouts
A building in Reading collapses sending customers and clerks fleeing. Shouts warn others as roof and walls crash to the ground amid a chaotic scene. No injuries are listed in the fragment, and witnesses describe rapid evacuation from the Mohican Foo premises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Mohican Foo
Ornistery
Man Follows Girl In Fatal Plunge
Police traced a fatal incident in which a man identified as Millison followed a woman from Washington into a building. After warning officers to leave, he refused entry, threatened to jump, and fell from an eighth floor window as fire crews attempted to rescue him. A bloody razor blade and wrist-slash marks were found at the scene.
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Millison
Edwin Birrell
James L. Thrift
Birrell
Thrift
Milllson
Legless Vet Wins Prize For Driving
Harold Rutz a 24 year old former infantryman who lost both legs in World War 2 won the Chicago Motor Club courtesy contest for careful driving. Observers followed his car from Hammond Indiana to Black Oak suburb and handed him $5 for being the safest driver observed that day.
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Chicago
Harold Rutz
Chicago Motor Club
Rutz
Hammond
Ind
Black Oak
Farm Loan Group Here Reorganized
Reorganization of the local National Farm Loan Association united Carroll Frederick Montgomery and Washington counties into a single larger group. Headquarters will be in Frederick’s Pyrth in Castle building with representatives visiting twice weekly. Simon L Downey of near William sport is president and Walter D Bromley near Smithsburg is secretary treasurer.
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National Farm Loan Association
Federal Land Bank
Carroll
Frederick
Montgomery
Washington
Associ
Pyrthin Castle
Simon L. Downey
Williamsport
Walter D. Bromley
Smithsburg
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