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Other changes included a shift of the independent Alien Property Custodian to the Department of Justice, Agriculture's Weather Bureau to the Commerce Department, and Labor's immigration border patrol to the Treasury's Coast Guard...
...Cleveland, police arrested for violation of the liquor law Negro Barner Barry, 37, 493 lb., waistline, 66 in. shaped like a hogshead because "I drink good beer." They found him too fat to wedge into the police car. They called a patrol-wagon, budged him in with difficulty, shoehorned him through the central police station doorway, shouldered him quarterway through a cell door, pried him out, let him sit on a bench. In the morning they opened both the courtroom's double doors to arraign him before Judge Westropp where he pleaded not guilty. They sent him away. Fingernail...
...Chicago to help settle his late wife's estate (daughter of the late Marshall Field, she left him and their two sons $1,000,000 each). Admiral David Beatty, Earl Beatty called at police headquarters seeking"excitement" Taken on a radio patrol car tour of the tough South Side, he heard the report of a shooting, arrived on the scene too late for action...
...them received the distinction of France's Croix de Guerre. Geared to truck production, White decided to specialize in it after the War, just as Packard decided to specialize in passenger cars. The White line is now complete, from light city delivery wagons to heavy duty trucks, patrol cars, armored cars, busses. Last year it sold $23,000,000 worth of trucks compared to Mack's $27,600,000. For White, Studebaker plans to give $5,800,000 worth of its own stock. $16,250,000 in 6% notes, $3,250,000 cash. For each White share stockholders will...
...early part of the War one Quartermaster Henriet of the French Luneville Dragoons led a cavalry patrol on reconnaissance in the Vosges Mountains. They suddenly found themselves miles behind the German lines completely cut off from their own troops. All but five were killed or captured. The five hid safely in the forests, and there for two and a half years they stayed. In time other French stragglers reached them until there were 15 men in the band. They waged a little war of their own, hiding by day, raiding German supply trains by night for food to keep from...