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...Lieut. Colonel Thomas Mackie of the Army Medical Corps predicted an upsurge of epidemics when soldiers return home bringing new diseases (mostly tropical) with them, when half-starved, disease-ridden populations emigrate from Axis-dominated countries...
Died. May Imelda Josephine Irwin, 74, Dowager Countess of Limerick, Dublin society beauty of the '80s; in ghost-ridden Hall Place, her palatial home in Bexley, England. She periodically reported encountering the armored ghost of Edward the Black Prince, found it "dreadfully distressing...
...four years Thurman Wesley Arnold (ex-Yale law professor, former mayor of Laramie, Wyo.) had ridden herd on trusts like a paunchy cowboy. He had corralled more monopolies, obtained more indictments of corporations and labor unions than any other man in history. Last week his trust-busting rodeo was over. To the Senate the President sent his nomination to be an associate justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
Tigers Draft-Ridden...
...Cleveland Press Reporter Clayton Fritchey scouted the countryside, came back with grisly pictures of carcasses in rat-ridden, blood-stained slaughter barns (see cut), a shocking story of racketeers who had already sidetracked 40% of the city's meat supply...