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Greatest health menace at the key U.S. military base of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians is a swarming, half-million-odd rat population that has battened for years past in the mean, garbage-strewn alleys of Unalaska village...
Army & Navy authorities have gone after the rats with traps, poison and sanitation control in the village. In addition, hunters have been forbidden to shoot such valued rat killers as hawks, eagles, owls and foxes. As a final touch, the Army called up part of its K-9 Corps, ordered a dozen specially trained terriers from the States. The Aleutian, official servicemen's publication, announced: "The WOOFS are coming." For the first time in Dutch Harbor's history, the rats were definitely...
...Rat race: A dance...
...very important, except as a symbol of the change that's come over this place, but wrecking crew are pulling down the tenements at 59 Plympton and 58 and 60 Mount Auburn Street. Once the most fashionable residences for "the boys," these rat-houses are being torn down by their owner, the Fly Club, as not being fit for service men or their wives to live...
...door and it went down") and found red-headed wife Hannah in blue pajamas, Woodall in pajama trousers and undershirt. A detective testified that, when Mrs. Dempsey asked her husband what he was doing there, Mr. Dempsey's reply was: "I'm following you and that rat, and you're a no good rat yourself, running around with a rat like that, and me out trying to defend my country." Next on the stand, Mrs. Dempsey's side...