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...Theft-Proof Wheat. The Roosevelt Stockman's Association put on sale confetti to foil wheat thieves. (For the last few years there have been several big wheat thefts a year in Roosevelt County, Mont.) Packaged with a code number printed on each piece of paper, the confetti is mixed with the farmer's wheat, and the code number recorded by elevator men when the wheat is traded. If the wheat is stolen, the code number makes it easy to identify when resold...
...company sells its product by plugging "the dangers of fire and theft. Says Mosler: "There are four times as many crooks as policemen in the U.S., and they commit more than 1,000 burglaries a day. Four out of every ten firms that lose their records in a fire go out of business." Safecrackers keep Mosler's designers on their toes. The cracksmen keep up with the latest technology and quickly find any weak spot in a new design...
Cambridge police said yesterday they have a definite suspect in the theft of more than $250 from Liberal Union film proceeds, but would not say whether they would make an arrest...
Discovery of the theft came after a cross-check of ticket stubs against total income revealed that the organization received no money for $180 worth of tickets...
Carl A. Wagner '53, chairman of the H.L.U.'s film series, discovered the theft Tuesday following the showing of Alfred Hitchcock's mystery, "The 39 Steps." He found the total number of ticket stubs--more than 1,000 selling at 60 cents apiece--were in excess of the net income of $534. Wagner estimates income should have been approximately...