Shanghai Merchants Skinned by Reds Amid Five Anti Movement
War era dispatch from Hong Kong describes Shanghai’s merchant and industrial classes facing arrest, fines, and torture under the five anti movement. Mayor Chan Yi cites 85 percent of local businessmen indicted as commerce stalls, offices arrest becomes common, and state extortion fears grow as the city is described as a ghost town with fear and mutual suspicion pervading daily life.
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Shanghail
Shanghai
China
Nanking Road
Music and Art To Be Joined At County Fair
Hayward Alameda county fair opens June 20 in Pleasanton with outdoor organ music during certain hours. The art exhibit welcomes Alameda County artists with three entries categories Gils Water Colors and Graphic Arts. Premiums total 120 in each section. Organists and exhibit arrangements led by Will Frates Alice Williams and Bianca Kavee with jurors including Ethel Gray Elmer Stanhope Ted Kline Justin Faivre Bignea Rayer Mona Froyland and Catherine iedmant.
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Hayward
Alameda County
Will Frates
Pleasanton
Paul Dolan
County Fair Board
Nelson
Alice Williams
Oakland
Bianca C. Kavee
Alameda
Ethel Gray
Niles
Elmer Stanhope
Ted Kline
San Leandro
Justin Faivre
Bignea Rayer
Mona Froyland
Castro Valley
Catherine Iedmant
Friden Sales Executives Plan Europe Tour
L. B. Taylor and S. M. Friden, San Leandro officials in charge of sales and export rules, will study European customer conditions this summer. They sail from New York aboard the Queen Mary and expect to return to their offices by September 1.
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Friden
L. B. Taylor
S. M. Friden
New York City
June 1 Named Teachers' Day By Gov Warren
SACRAMENTO California Governor Earl Warren proclaims June 1 as Teachers Day and June 17 to be Teacher Career Week urging citizens to recognize teachers' achievements and promote teaching as a career for both men and women. He emphasizes the profession's responsibilities and rewards and calls for wider interest from youth in teaching opportunities.
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Warren
Earl Warren
California
Eisenhower Reports Secret European Progress Military
General Eisenhower briefs defense leaders in Washington on Allied forces in Europe as NATO aims to field 50 land divisions and 4000 aircraft by year end. He plans retirements while politics beckon, with ceremonies and ongoing NATO updates amid cautious talk of campaigning.
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Army
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Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
House
Joseph Short
Fisenhower
U. S
Chie
U.S
NATO
Lovett
Supreme Allied
Office of the Army
Romantic Still Consider Voyage Of Amundsen Unended in S F
The Gjoa, Capt. Roald Amundsen’s 70 foot 47 ton schooner, rests on San Francisco’s rocky shore after being towed through the Golden Gate in 1906. Once a northern explorer, the ship’s bid for the Northwest Passage ended in Puget Sound cargo and danger near the city, then became a memorial in San Francisco. The city honored the voyage with a ceremonial transfer and a dry land berth.
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Rovid Amundsen
North America
Northwest Passage
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Francis Drake
San Francisco
Oslo
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Arctic Circle
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Pacific
Iassly
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Nene
State Says Put Hospitals Nearer Rural Population
The State Advisory Hospital Council reviews policies for the State Plan for Hospital and Health Center Construction and urges three standards. Rural areas should allow one hour travel to a center with at least 6000 people. denser areas require 20 minutes. metropolitan regions should reflect major community groupings. Adoption would reduce service areas from 110 to 101 statewide.
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Sacramento
State
Department of Public Health
Redheads Still Baffle Science
London researchers report red hair remains a mystery as two black haired parents can produce a red haired child. The Landelol notes pigments linked to red hair but unclear how they create the color and cites a pigment found in red hair and red feathers. Red hair appears across purples and predominantly among Europeans and descendants, highest in Scotland at about five percent, northern Europe two percent, and southern Europe under one percent.
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Britain
The
Landelol
Scotland
Europe
Mourning for King Ends as Britain Moves On
The country ends official mourning for King George VI at noon yesterday. Queen Elizabeth is expected to appear in public next week, while royal officials shed black attire. The Queen plans Ascot Week outings and debuts at Buckingham Palace with private half mourning to avoid bright colors.
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George
Britain
Jung
Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Builder Uses Molasses Blocks For Low Cost Home Construction
Former New Orleans vice president George W. Rappteyen promotes molasses based building blocks under the brand Wolisses. He claims five room homes can be built for under 1000 dollars excluding wiring and plumbing, using a concentrate mixed with fuel oil clay and sand. He says the blocks are fireproof windproof and waterproof and even outlines a molasses based finish and a ship landing strip concept for the Navy.
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Ap —Dietitty
George W. Ruppteyen
Tie
Digging Oat
New Orleans
Wolisses
Shaw
Rappleyea
Rappteyen
Happleyea
Navy
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