New Car Delivery After Five-Year Wait
A narrator recalls waiting since 1944 deposits for a maroon four door Mercury sedan and finally taking delivery with family excitement. The piece contrasts the old Mercury’s junkyard items with the gleaming new car, recounting the long wait, the garage finds, and a family ride through local streets.
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Barnacle
Charles Longus
Milt Dolier
Ulysses
Milt
Mercury
Shipyay
Marine Corps
Zola
Nana
California
Kenny Kilgore
Jonathan
Niles Road
Decoto
Sar Torrenzo Village
Castra Valley Boulevard
Ford
Veterans Welcome Candidates at Regular Meeting
Veterans' Association met Monday night at the Memorial building. Candidates Cah Alves and Harry Cae hill were initiated. Les Lewis to head the ways and means and social committee, assisted by Jesse Turner Walter Smith Carl Alves and Harry Wessman. Plan a July 20 med chicken dinner. Alves to chair adult sports. Manuel Brown to lead youth athletic teams with Hayward Area Recreation District. The post sponsors a baseball team and purchased tickets for Bill Coady dance. Mr and Mrs Eynie Alexander welcomed a baby. presented with a post baby blanket.
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Lesle Lewis
Jesse Turner
Walter Smith
Carl Alves
Harry Wessman
Alves
Post
Manuel Brown
Hayward Area
Bill Coady
the Post
Mia
Eynie Alexander
Pee
Blanche
The
Senate committee backs unified armed forces under civilian secretary
A Senate Military Affairs subcommittee urged unification of the armed forces under a civilian secretary of defense. The plan would abolish separate army navy and air force secretaries, all to be noncabinet officials appointed by the President. The goal is centralized civilian control to avoid conflicts, delays, and waste in war effort.
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Washington
Senate
Common Defense
Omambar
Department of Common Defense
Army
Navy
Ube
Sen. Athert. Thomas
Utah
de Mahares
Bikini Atoll
Pacific Isle
Pacific Islands
Bikini
Marshalls
W. H. P.blandy
NATS Lease Site at Hayward Airport
NATS Air Transport company leases a site at Hayward airport and plans two transport planes on the field by week’s end for non scheduled freight. C. E. Gibson, port manager, notes freight to Chicago and other areas. Plan to build shop buildings. both planes are surplus and one is reconverting in southern California. Sixty eight planes currently operate for instruction, passenger flights.
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Oe Nats Air Transport Company
Hayward
NATS
United States
C. E. Gibson
Chicago
California
Haysward
Gibson
Sailor Receives Major Injuries In Road Accident
Camp Shoemaker sailor Ralph McCray, 24, was struck while walking on the Santa Rita Road near Pleasanton and extricated to Shoemaker hospital in critical condition. Tromer Stout, 20, attempted to avoid him but could not, while a passenger, Mrs. Pay McGinnis, 35, of Livermore, suffered minor injuries when her car rolled and caught fire on Highway 50. A second collision on Highway 17 left W. E. Tilton, 53, with a back injury and William Wood, 28, with minor injuries.
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Camp Shoemaker
Pleasanton
Ralph McCray
Shoemaker Hospital
Tromer Stout
Qak Street
Livermore
Uecay
Lawrence Burley
Sue
McCray
Pay McGinnis
St. Paul's Hospital
Highway 50
Highway 17
Allie
W. E. Tilton
Cherry Way
Congress Reopens Pearl Harbor Quiz
Washington reports the Pearl Harbor hearings reveal Roosevelt planned a Dec 9 warning to Japan to curb aggression, but the attack halted his plan. Documents show he would first appeal to Emperor Hirohito, then issue a formal warning if needed. Admiral Stark testified he learned of a key Japanese message just hours before the attack.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Hirohito
Ual
Ate
Adm
Marald R. Stark
Naval Operations
Stark
My. Roosevelt
Two Smallpox Cases Found on Ship at Richmond
The Navy transport La Salle remained in quarantine in Richmond after two crew members contracted smallpox aboard the Kaiser shipyard overhaul. A prior quarantine had ended a week earlier following a returning serviceman’s illness. Twelve of the 42 other workers had been vaccinated and left. the remaining crew stay aboard for two weeks.
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Richmond
la Salle
Kaiser Shipyard
Blond Woman Found Dead On Balcony At Whitcomb Hotel
Police investigate after a platinum blond woman is found dead on a pipe protruding from a Market Street balcony at the Hotel Whitcomb. She apparently fell from the seventh floor room 741, possibly after being pushed, with fingerprints found on the window sill suggesting she may have hung before dropping.
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Ban Francisco
U.P
Whitcomb
Market Stream
Market Street
Enger
OPA Suspends Control on Many Items Local Merchants Expect No Price Increase
OPA lifts price ceilings on a wide range of household, personal, and professional items. Local merchants say prices will not rise due to ample supply and consumer restraint, with many retailers stressing continued emphasis on quality and value.
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OPA
Alice Sargent
Imed
Taylor
Bill Bowman
Hayward Drug
CPA
George Hoye
Boye Hardware Company
Ted Biffencurt
Andrew Williams
San Lorenzo
Oro Loma May Action Looms At Sanitary Board Meeting
Oro Loma Sanitary District faces a tense moment as a regularly scheduled board meeting tonight at 8 15 p m at 21845 Woodhill Boulevard may be canceled if two board members remain ill. District issues include criticism of engineer Cadric Macpher and bookkeeper J A Maaske, who threatens resignation unless an immediate election to clear the district is held. The board sought help from the District Attorney’s Office, but was told aid is limited to specific cases. An ouster motion to remove engineer and attorney Ernest K Wilson has not yet been acted on.
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Oro Loma Sanitary Board
Woothill Bouleware
William
Jacobsen
George Fuller
J. A. Maaske
L. Cadric Macpher
Ernest K. Wilson
Company to Build Quonset Hut Here
Permit issued for a quonset hut at 648 Atherton street for the Arthur C Day Implement. Lewin will construct a $60000 building. Cagnation company of 19 Castro street has a $4000 repair and office addition permit at the Creamery.
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Atherton Street
Arthur C. Day Implement
Pat Walzal
Lewin
Castro Street
Election Service Review for Hayward Polls Today
Voters head to the polls to choose three Hayward city councilmen and decide on a non civil service status for the librarian and airport manager. The Review keeps a staff on duty tonight at The Review office to answer inquiries, with polls closing at 7 p.m. and final precinct tabulations not expected until after 10 p.m.
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Civil Service
Hayward
Heview
To Complete Cline Jury Venice Today To Complete Cline Jury Venice Today
San Francisco reports the forgery trial of former choir singer Alfred Leonard Cline resumed as authorities seek a murder indictment from a grand jury. After day one, Cline, 58, faces nine forgery counts and one grand theft with a tentative panel of seven women and five men, expected to be completed today.
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San Francisco
Ur)i
Alfred Leonard Cline
Cline
Watchers at Polls Set for Jap Election
U S army poll watchers dispatched by General MacArthur to Japan monitor Wednesday's general election. The aim is to ensure a free vote, with teams alerted to guard against police interference, coercion by landlords and employers, bribes, and inflated vote tabulations.
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Wasxo Um
U. S
Douglas MacaAr
Hue
al Yankee
Guardian Appoints Faye Harvey for Ruth Judd in Phoenix
Mrs. Faye Harvey of Phoenix was appointed guardian for Winnie Ruth Judd, jailed for the trunk slayings and now confined in the Arizona hospital for the insane, with the action reported from Phoenix.
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Ruth Judd
Phoenix, Ariz
Faye
Harvey
Phoenix
Winnie Ruth Judd
Arizona Hospital
San Lorenzo Sheriff’s Office Dedicatory Ceremony Opens Substation
The San Lorenzo branch of the Hayward sheriff's substation was dedicated at 18891 Hesperian Boulevard. David D. Bohannon turned the office keys to Sheriff H. P. Glennon as officials observed the formal ceremony. Deputies Richard Foudy Newton Moore and William Miller were assigned, with one more to be named, to serve the 9000 residents day and night.
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San Lorenzo
Sheriff's Office
Hayward
Hesperian Boulevard
David D. Bohannon
Greenwood Corporation
H. P. Glennon
Alameda County
Janssom
N. W. Armstrong
Walter R Baumant
Richard
E. Condon
Gleason
Richard Foudy
Newton Moore
William Miller
House Appropriations Cuts Budgets For Four Departments
The House Appropriations Committee approved a 358.8 million four department appropriation slashing funds for the intelligence unit and halving the international information service. It trimmed Commerce by 30.8 million and kept Justice and Judiciary funded near 1946 levels. State’s international service and cultural relations were cut to 10 million from 19.3 million, while FBI funding was fully approved at 28.7 million with potential for more if crime rises.
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Washington
U.P
Slde Department
Henry A. Wallace
Commerce Department
Budget Bureau
State and Commerce Departments
Justice Department
Federal Judiciary
State departtment—Committee
Justice—Committee
Commerce—Committee
Nego
Judiciary—Committee
State Department
James ¥. Byrnes
Wallace
Thiss Department
PBI
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Four Million Chinese Face Starvation Warns Survey
A MA NTA RA survey warns about 4,000,000 Chinese facing death from starvation unless immediate action is taken. It cites 34,000,000 already at starvation levels, with Hunan worst hit. The report blames famine on drought and crop failures, notes UNRRA and Chinese relief efforts are hampered by transport, and mentions shortages of rice and aid requests.
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Hunan Provence
China
Hunan
UNRRA
Rond Board
Manchuria
Canton
Gromyko to Attend UN Meret Today
Andrei Gromyko ends a 13 day boycott of the United Nations Security Council as Poland accuses Franco Spain of a threat to world peace. He will attend this afternoon's meeting and may defer pressing his Iranian case demand to the agenda chaired by the council president.
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New York
U.S
Andrei A. Gromyta
United Nations Security Council
Poland
Spain
Gromyko
Council
Plane wreckage found on Mt Diablo in fog bound crash
A ground search party found the remains of one man in the wreckage of an army B 17 on Mt Diablo California after the aircraft departed Fairfield Suisun at 11 05 am for Los Angeles. The tail was visible through low clouds. A second body was believed aboard the plane. The B 17 pilot Lt Stephen W Cummings reported no signs of life.
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Hamilton Field
Calif
Killu
Mt. Diablo
Wasi
jRangers
Fairfield-Suisun
Los Argales
Sephen
Cummings
Ware
Mode 1 Plane Contest Rules Set by Hayward Lions
Hayward Lions sponsor announces Mode 1 plane contest at Maynard airport grand opening on April 14. Two divisions for builders under sixteen and older. three prizes per division plus best tying model. Bring models to field 104 on opening day. name tag attached to plane. one plane per person or ten per lab. Contest indoors with possible curtain flights if weather allows.
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Hayward Lions Club
Maynard
Harvey Reed
Lions Earby Aviation Committee
Reed
Calendar Off Events
Today events include Dret Harte PTA and Canadian Legion at Veterans Memorial building at 2 pm. Also Hayward area listings show junior choir, worships, and a May events note for local clubs and youth groups. Tomorrow features badminton at Hayward High School and dancing events in Ashland with multiple local organizations.
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Dret Harte
Canadian Legion
Veterans Memorial Building
Bool
mt school _ of
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Veterans’ Association
Memorial Building
Cah Alves
Harry Caehill
PLAN
Secretary OF Common Defense
Sailor
Congress
Philippine
BEA
Toxo
Caroline Island
Hequipmerd
Venice
House Appropriations Committee
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