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What is a man without money to do when he must look at his only son lying in bed paralyzed from waist to feet? Quiet, hard-working John Edwin Byers of Chanute, Kans. found his own desperate answer. He put a hunting rifle in his battered Ford sedan, drove off and held up a bank. The $900 paid for sending his 13-year-old son, Albert, to Spears Clinic in Denver...
Kansas authorities began combing the countryside for a quiet man who drove a 1934 Ford sedan. When the trail led to John Byers, they found it hard to believe that he was a bank robber. He had lived frugally, worked hard, first as a pumping-station oiler, then as a fireman on the Sante For Railroad, during all his years of crime. But police found money sacks hidden in his garage. In bed in the Spears Clinic lay his son, still paralyzed, still getting expensive treatment. Last week John Byers confessed, was taken off to Fort Scott County Jail...
...ceilings, to take care of rising wage and material costs. From now on, new car buyers must agree to add the increase, when OPA decides on the amount, to the price of their car. Reflecting auto wage increases, the first boost may be 5%. Price of a Ford Tudor Sedan, for example, would be increased by $45. Eventually, as the new wage policy boosts costs all along the line, automen expect the increases to run as high...
Slightly bigger than the Crosley, Standards have a 90-inch wheelbase, a four-cylinder, eight-horsepower engine (U.S. rating: 28 horsepower), will cruise at 50 m.p.h., get 35 to 40 miles on a gallon of gas. The Standards come in three models, "tourer," "saloon" (sedan) and "drophead coupe" (convertible coupe). Another shipment of 8 or 9 cars arrived in the U.S. last week...
...Windsor Daily Star heard about a ''large black sedan" crossing from Canada to the U.S., hinted that it was probably loaded with escaping Russians...