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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Bernice Carra Donna, a WW II “Allotment Annie” Predator Upon Servicemen - 1945

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FULL TEXT: Philadelphia, March 26 – A 29-year-old brunette admitted at a federal hearing that she had married six times, four bigamous...

Mrs. Loyal Shufflebarger Was Not Really Very Loyal: She Was a War-Marriage Scam Artist - 1943

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NOTE: The term “Allotment Annie” was used during World War II and afterwards to describe the women who practiced this particular scam. ...

Betty Means Slater, “Allotment Annie,” War Bride Fraudster – California, 1945

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FULL TEXT: While police and FBI agents tried to unravel her apparently tangled marital situation, Mrs. Betty Means Slater, 23, of 2191 E...

Mrs. Earl E. McComb and the “Service Wives Allotment Racket” – California, 1955

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FULL TEXT: A probe into a GI marriage racket in Long Beach was launched Monday by the District Attorney’s office in an effort to crack d...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Rose Mary Lee, “Allotment Annie” Military Bride Fraudster – Indiana, 1945

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FULL TEXT: South Bend, Ind., Dec. 22 – Mrs. Rose Mary Lee, 21, former Michigan City waitress, charged with violating the service men’s d...

Edith Ray Clark, “Allotment Annie” War Bride Fraudster – Alabama, 1944

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FULL TEXT: Sheriff B. G. Farmer said today evidence had been uncovered that an undetermined number of Negro women in Dothan are receivi...

Gladys Wojtowicz, War Bride Hoaxer – Kentucky, 1944

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FULL TEXT: An attractive telephone switchboard operator, Gladys Wojtowicz, 227 E. Jacob, was arraigned in Federal Court here [Louisville...