Long Beach Independent (Newspaper) - December 11, 1949, Long Beach, California WEATHER Scattered cloudiness today Mostly clear Monday Con- tinued windy today and day Not quite so cool day mom Long Beach 12 Calif Sunday Morning December II 1949 HOME EDITION SUB-ZERO COLD SNOW BLANKET WIDE AREAS Forecast Midwest Blizzards By International News Service Ol Man Winter moved in on much of the nation Saturday night bringing heavy snows and Picture on Page threats of severe blizzards over the weekend Cold weather stemming from Alaska reached as far south as Nevada and Utah Temperatures were due to go below zero in Montana and ming before dawn The mercury already stood at 7 below zero early Saturday night at Cut Bank Continued on Page SANTA'S SHUTTLE Monday free tle buses will operate in downtown Long Beach for the benefit of shoppers who wish to park away from heavy traffic or leave their cars at home Santa Glaus shaking hands with Jack Homer of the Long Beach Retailers has given his approval Willard A Lee Long Beach City Lines manager looks on with pride It is hoped to relieve town traffic congestion Story on Page Crippled S Plane Comes in Safely FAIRFIELD Calif A military air transport plane which lost the use of two of ltd engines about 225 miles off the coast from San cisco made a successful landing at the airforce base Saturday night The plane with eight sengers and a crew of five was on from Honolulu to the base northeast of San Francisco when it radioed for aid It said one engine was nut and feathered and a second was tunning rough A coast guard plane with n detachable lifeboat attached to Its belly met the and escorted it In In addition the liner dent Fierce was alerted and dis- played a searchlight beam into the sky as a beacon Chilly Winds Pep Up Long Beach Yule Shoppers No Rain Today Features Index Amusements Classified Dorothy Dix Drew Pearson Peggy Nichols Recipes Radio Log Ray Tucker Star Gazer Television Log Town Meeting Brisk winds chilled Beach shoppers Saturday as they bustled from to store The slight touch of style Yule weather lent a festive air as Christmas swung in the breeze According to the weatherman the outlook for today is for clear weather and continued winds The predicted high is 60 degrees warmer than Saturday's high of 53 There will be no rain the forecaster said Frost warnings were issued to valley regions where the night temperature spots was ex- to reach below freezing department store was blown to the street by the force of the wind No one on the sidewalk was injured Four trees in the northeastern part of the city were uprooted most of the gay holiday ments were blown off The downtown Christmas street decorations twisted in the winds but held Wanted All As a Reward Ethel M Goetz 38 Garden Grove lost her wallet containing in a downtown drug store Saturday and couldn't get it back from the man who found it He wanted the entire for a reward she told police Mrs Goetz left her wallet at a drug store lunch counter and when she returned found that a man had taken it with him ing his name and address at store How about a queried the finder when Mrs Goetz showed up at his house Well what do you think would be asked Mrs Goetz All the the man re- plied You can have the papers Mrs Goetz said that was too much and the man said it wasn't She told the police who said a warrant would be issued Most of the small boats had decorations by the blasts been warned of the approaching The large Christmas tree on blow and remained anchored the front steps of the city Some small boats which did was buffeted by the winds and venture out were without anyone being hurt Ward Party To Board Ship ABOARD S S LAKELAND VICTORY AT TAKU BAR Americans To Be Freed SEOUL Sunday An official American party left Seoul today for the parallel Wind combined with a high tide to cause the closing of the Municipal Pier at Redondo Beach Engineers said the and might collapse at any time ing rough weather Snow flurries occurred for more than an hour at Altadena I U S Consul Angus Winds clocked at 85 miles per Ward and his party of 19 leave hour hit desert communities Tientsin this afternoon for their land along the foothills Sleet Ee ou The chilling winds varied here long cold ride out to the ge nn nf the T from 40 miles an hour at the and protection of the Lakeland port to 25 miles an hour in Victory harbor i dropped anchor at fell alone thn RidEe Route and also to Kute and to to Antelope Valley A large window in Walker's Strike Threatened PORTLAND Ore am Leaders of the Northwestern Council of the A F of L Lumber Sawmill Workers union ened a strike Saturday night for pensions of a Taku Bar Saturday and Ward and his party who have been virtual prisoners of the Chinese for the past year are ex- to be aboard by Sunday and the other members Mukden consulate will Ward of the Hot Dogs and Beer make the trip from the North China port in a cargo lighter towed by a tugboat Yuma Gets Third Snow in 79 Years YUMA Ariz It snowed in Yuma Saturday for the third time in 79 years There were only a few of the feathery flakes and they melted soon after touching the ground The other snowsfalls were in 32 87 two Americans held prisoner by the North Koreans for three months The two men Alfred T ter Kinderhook N Y and bert E Willis Brooklyn both Economic Co-operative tration officials are being ed to the border at by North Korean Communist officials Nobel Cash Handed Out Nobel prize awards up to were awarded formally to their inter- national winners Saturday by Swedish Crown Prince Olaf in a glittering ceremony in the holm concert hall Bandit Believed Green Cap Pulls Stickup I A bandit believed to be the i green cap sans identifying I Editorial We are a great admirer of General Eisenhower but we fear he lost a lot of supporters this week In a speech pointing out our needs for sound planning and hardI used m hdd up unfortunate comparison He is quoted as saying me Liquor store 1036 can people are demanding caviar and champagne when we can and escaped with be satisfied with hot dogs and beer The good sound I clerk Ronald c 5927 j hfs flamboyant headgear logic of the rest of his speech will never be remembered But Lewis Ave forked over the and restrained from Truman will never let this quotation be for- when the thug poked a Luger wearing it for the occasion me uu y automatic at him Police called to the scene were attentions was a liquor store rather than a theater police said his description fitted that of green cap It was theorized logically that green cap may have considered gotten Any suggestion that Americans should be satisfied with a lower living standard than we now have will find few Continued on Page Although the gunman was not wearing a green cap as had the bandit in two previous and although the object of his foiled in their capture by a woman who inadvertently warned the bandit when she screamed at Officer R C Shoot Don't let him get Phillips was about to pick up the man after following him for a block when the woman screamed The man dashed between the houses and was lost The woman witness said she had seen the man entering the store before the stickup Det W F and Sgt Jack Finley directed a March of the area but the suspect was not found police said
