Long Beach Independent (Newspaper) - August 24, 1948, Long Beach, California HOPES RAISED FOR PACT EN EAST AND W Five Cents Telephone INDEPENDENT LONG BEACH'S ONLY MORNING NEWSPAPER Vol 361 Long Beach 12 Calif Tuesday August 24 1948 1948 City Tax Rate To Be Reduced 16 Cts This year's city tax rate will the tax rate were made be reduced 16.819 cents per in the office of city auditor valuation over the rate This was indicated late day when final computations for See Hope Of Pact On Berlin MOSCOW Aug 24 Tuesday INS Premier Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov were closeted in the Kremlin for most five hours last night and early today with the envoys of the United States Britain and France Length of the meeting was un- precedented for a Kremlin parley but it was not immediately clear whether Stalin himself took part in the conference for its entire duration of four hours and 40 minutes The fact that the conference continued so many hours was taken as a good sign by western diplomatic circles in Moscow who speculated that sume kind of may have been reached The three western envoys en- tered the Kremlin at 9 o'clock last night and emerged at proximately this morning This was the longest of the prolonged series of talks believed aimed at fixing a basis for a full dress conference of Big Four for- eign ministers on the whole man problem United States Ambassador ter Bedell Smith expressed the belief there would be other ings at the Kremlin but he re- mained silent on progress of the Smith discussed the situation with the other western envoys after the Kremlin meeting and then prepared to file his report to Washingon from the United States embassy The meeting was the seventh in the series that began at Kremlin July 31 It was Continued on Page 2 the the Prized Coin Stolen Mrs Laura Gordon of apart- ment No 11 735 American nue reported to police yesterday her apartment was burglarized and small coins and other articles valued at stolen She said one coin was a Queen's Jubilee gold plated shillins issued on the occasion of the celebration of the year of the reign of Victoria She told woman Ann Jolly she had owned the coin since its issue and prized it highly telle L Gunsul The overall rate will be 51.08919 as compared with last years Of this year's total rate 77.176 cents will be for the general tax levy which has a limit The remainder is composed of the recreation levy 16.209 cents the band 3.948 cents and the library 11.586 cents The tax rate is based on assessed valuations of real and secured property and the state utility role That totals 720 this year Increased revenue from sale of its dry gas is given as major reason for the decrease in the tax rate An unappropriated surplus left over from last year's budget of is mainly comprised of gas money Another factor contributing to rate reduction is a hike in assessed valuation of local utilities on the state board tax role A total of will be raised by taxation this year It is expected that information on the tax role will be delivered to the city council today Lomakin to Be Protested by U S WASHINGTON Aug 23 The United States may protest to the United Nations secretariat if Russia assigns Soviet General Lomakin to its U N delegation This was learned definitely day as the possibility of such an unprecedented move was studied by the state department Lomakin whose ouster as con- sul general in New York has been demanded for official misconduct in handling the escaped Soviet school teacher cases reportedly may be switched to the Russian U N staff Such a move admittedly would by-pass the U S attempt to re- move Lomakin from the country since the consul general would be carrying on different work Fate of 561 336 Japs Red Secret TOKYO Aug 23 Probably the greatest treasure Soviet sia won as war booty after her nine day war against Japan was the technical ability and labor of Japanese captives This captive labor was used mostly in the development of a new far eastern industrial em- pire but some of it was shipped west to help rebuild war European Russia Today three years after the war ended there still are 561.336 Japanese unaccounted for in sian territory A Cheap Dollar Editorial Dollars are now cheapest and most abundant in 165 years of this nation's history The dollar when used to buy at sale is worth only 45 cents when compared to its value in 1939 In overall cost of living the dollar is now worth 57 cents when compared with its worth in 1939 That means you need SI today to buy what 57 cents would have bought in 1939 This is after taxes After each war the dollar has fallen in value which means inflation had cheapened it But history also shows that each time the dollar recovered all it lost In the depression on Page 14 Midwest Broils By International News Service The summer's first real heat wave belted the middle states Monday night from Ohio to the Rocky mountains and from consin to Texas The temperature soared to 102 at La Crosse Wis this afternoon It hit 98 in St Louis and Kansas City Mo A high of 95 a new top for the year was recorded in Chicago The northeast section of Texas continued toward a drought ord Dallas has received no ture since July 31 August has been the hottest month on record San Antonio a Texas record Sunday with the day of plus temperature readings Mail Carrier Takes His Life Robert George Kowal 26 of the Best Trailer park trailer No 221 5602 Long Beach boulevard a mail carrier was found dead in his bed yesterday by his mother Mrs Hazel Kowal police reported Kowal had been shot through the forehead with a 22 caliber rifle and R B Harvey and A E Perle reported it was an apparent suicide Mrs Kowal told the officers she had phoned the office yesterday morning and had her son laid off for the day as he said he was not feeling well enough to work She went to work at 10 a m she said and when she returned found he apparently had been dead for some time The body was taken to tell's mortuary and deputy cor- oner Phil Atkins was notified Air Force Made Bomb Authority WASHINGTON Aug 23 Defense Secretary Forrestal in- today that the air force had been given final authority over strategic bombing including A-bomb warfare This was the interpretation placed by defense experts on a statement by the secretary ex- plaining the results of a weekend conference of Hie joint chiefs of staff at Newport R I The nation's defense leaders he explained explored broad matters of particular inter- est in the current international situation This was taken to mean that the Berlin crisis had been discussed Forrestal revealed that the Newport conference had ened the agreement reached at a similar meeting last March in Key West Fla Ruth's Will Helps Kids NEW YORK Aug 23 Babe the week before he died of cancer in New York's hospital remembered kids who idolized him through his baseball career The will filed for probate today was drawn on August a week before his death It leaves 10 per cent of the residue of his estate to the in- of the kids of America after provisions for the widow Mrs Clara Mae Ruth and the Babe's two daughters Weather Long Beach and vicinity Clear Tuesday Slightly warmer Tuesday afternoon Children in the News The estranged parents of Pamela Lamphere bom with aa inverted outside bladder appear in court in Chicago today to settle differences on details of the girl's operation It was during a divorce hearing that the rare condition was revealed Tears of joy are shed by Mrs Paul Schramm as she hugs her son Walter The lad object of a 90 man search in slopes of Mount Hood was lost for seven hours and walked barefooted six miles through yons and across rivers to find his way to Timberline lodge Mount Hood Ore After a painful year in a hospital Tommy Larson 11 of Chicago enjoys his favorite dish of corn on the cob at his birthday party before returning to the hospital for another six months of skin grafts and operations The boy was burned from toes to waist when he broke through the crust of a smoldering refuse dump Features Index Amusements Comics Crossword Puzzle 24 Dorothy 11 Editorial 14 Fast 2 Radio Log Bay Tucker Robert S Allen Sports Town Meeting We the Women 38 14 ti U
