Every Briton Now Spy In War To Exterminate Rats
London May 5 Britain passes a revised rats and mice bill making every occupant a ratter under a national program begun in 1919. City authorities lead the drive with trained operatives using food bait laced with poison to kill 85 to 90 percent of rats, aided by sewer attacks and repeated six monthly poisonings. Gracie, head of the operation, says Britain may house about 50 million rats costing up to 25 million pounds yearly to the nation.
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London
Britain
Hamelin
River
Weser
Antirat
Hitler
Rat Brigade
Gracie
Fire Damages Hospital Eight Patients Moved
A fire at Lutheran Memorial hospital in Newark New Jersey damaged the administration building and cut telephones. Eight maternity patients, including two in labor, were moved to the main hospital as a precaution. The blaze was confined to the administration building. no patients were in that structure.
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Newark
N. J
Lutheran Memorial Hospital
Water Projects Bill Heads To President After Senate Vote
Backers of a broad water projects authorization bill sought a final Senate vote to forward it to the White House. The measure would authorize about 1.73 trillion dollars for rivers and harbors flood control and reclamation across states, passed the House 210 to 137 after brief debate, but no funds are provided in this bill.
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Washington
Senate
White House
House
Two Easterners Die In Vacation Mishap
Burlington Colo May 5 Mrs Mary Shufro 48 of New York City died of injuries from an auto crash that also killed her husband Samuel 60 vice president and general manager of Carter Hotels Corp Their convertible skidded about 300 feet on a highway near Burlington and overturned as the couple traveled west for a vacation on the way to the west coast likely in a vacation trip
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Burlington
Colo
Mary Shufro
New York City
Samuel
Carter Hotels Corp
Shafros
West Coast
Frank Drachman Jr Named Kitty Kat Business Head
Frank Drachman Jr aged 19 will head the business department of the University of Arizona humor magazine Kitty Kat next year. He is a sophomore in liberal arts and son of Frank Drachman advertising manager of Tucson Newspapers, Inc.
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Frank Drachman Jr
N. Warren Ave
University of Arizona
Kitty Kat
Drachman
Frank Drachman
Tucson Newspapers, Inc
Former Convict Sentenced in Phoenix Threat Case
Marion G. Walters a 28 year old former federal convict was given an 18 to 28 year sentence after being convicted on two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Walters threatened a Phoenix woman and a taxi driver with a knife and a gun on January 13. Judge Renz L Jennings imposed the sentence in Maricopa county superior court.
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Phoenix
Marion G. Walters
Walters
Renz L. Jennings
Maricopa County
Illinois Soldier Kills Jap Girl Shoots Self
In Kobe Japan on May 5 the army reported Pvt. Howard L. Cannon from Cairo Illinois killed his Japanese girlfriend Yoshiko Kametani and then shot himself twice below the heart. He was 21 and in critical condition awaiting a court martial on assault and robbery charges scheduled for the next day.
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Kobe
Japan
Howard L. Cannon
Cairo
Cannon
Yoshiko Kametani
Woodward Nominated as Ambassador to Canada
President Truman formally nominates Stanley Woodward to be ambassador to Canada. Woodward would succeed Laurence Steinhardt, killed in a plane crash last month. He is a close friend of the President and a frequent companion on his vacations.
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Washington
Truman
Stanley Woodward
Canada
State Department
Senate
Woodward
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Oslo Pulp Plant Gas Leak Triggers Mass Flight
Norwegian government orders 60,000 residents to flee two towns south of Oslo due to chlorine gas leaking from the Borregaard pulp plant pipeline into the Glomma river. By evening 25,000 returned as gas moved toward Frederikstad. authorities urged higher ground and rapid evacuations.
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Oslo
Norway
Sarpsborg
Glomma
Frederikstad
Borregaard
Norwegian Broadcasting Co
U N Fund To Clothe 150 000 Jap Youths
Tokyo reports the United Nations fund will begin distributing clothing this Saturday to 150 000 underprivileged Japanese youths. Garments were produced in Japan from 574 donated bales of cotton.
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U. N
Tokyo
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
Japan
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