Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christian Front. In Portland, Ore., Ansell Durell admitted plundering $1,000 from the Christmas mails, gave Judge McColloch his reason: he needed money to pursue his studies for the ministry...
That was last February. In March U.S. G-men in Portland, Ore. arrested a young Russian naval officer, Nikolai Redin, for spying. Next month Moscow police called Ruess, who had almost forgotten the Army Day episode, and summoned him to court. The charge: khuliganstvo (hooliganism...
...Done. In Portland, Ore., Robert Kuhn advertised in the Oregon Journal: "Veteran, wife, 10 dogs, 3 female cats, alligator, desire small furn. apt. We drink, smoke, stay up all night beating kettledrums." He got 25 offers...
Long-awaited by the married ex-servicemen here, the housing ready for occupancy Monday will be followed shortly by the opening of 138 other units. Construction began last January upon transfer of the structures from a South Portland, Maine, defense housing settlement by the Federal Public Housing Authority. Additional housing has been requested from the FPHA to accommodate the influx of married veteran students expected during the summer and fall...
...last week Lieut. Redin seemed like a stranger all over again. He had been arrested on a Portland, Ore. pier, dressed in a sweatshirt and grey slacks, just as he was getting aboard the Soviet Steamship Alma Ata. The FBI had arrested him as a spy. He had been under "intensive observation" for months, said the FBI, which charged that he had "induced another to obtain plans, documents and writings relating to the Yellowstone, a U.S. destroyer tender." The information, it added, "was to be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, to wit: the U.S.S.R...