Republican Sam Collins faces re election as Speaker
The upcoming Assembly session in Sacramento centers on re electing Speaker Sam Collins. He opposed Long Beach securing the state college, arguing against its location here. Long Beach paid $1,000,000 and deeded the site to the state after forced purchase. Local representatives Bill Grant and Herb Klerksiem stand on the line.
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Assembly
Sacramento
Sam Collins
Collins
Long Beach
State College
Colling
Stooge
Bill Grant
Herb Klerksiem
Subsidence Appears To Be Leveling Off At Harbor
Harbor Department engineers say subsidence, rising until about 18 months ago, is leveling off. From 300 harbor markers they note about 3 inches subsidence since February, with the center near the Edison plant and Pier A. Subsurface loss totals about 12 feet since 1928 at the center, 65 feet along the Bhgnanthe ending in February, and readings vary across the fringe with small declines at Anaheim Ford Seaside Pilot Station Seventh Pico and Seaside Chestnut.
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Harbor Department
Terminal Island
Edison
Charles Vickers
Pier A
Berth 5
Anaheim
Ford
Ford Ave
Seaside
Pilot Station
Seventh
Pico
Chestnut
Hoover to broadcast national policy talk Wednesday
Former President Herbert Hoover will deliver a radio address on national policies in the current crisis. The speech is set for December 20 between 5 and 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time over the Mutual Broadcasting System. Hoover’s secretary said the plan comes in response to thousands of requests for his ideas.
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Hoover
New York
Herbert Hoover
Mutual Broadcasting System
League Decries City Tax Subsidies for Unincorporated Areas
The League of California Cities says 69 unincorporated Los Angeles County areas were subsidized by 45 cities to the tune of 9.6 million dollars last year. It urges state action to stop county fund payments for municipal services and supports funding via special districts or annexation.
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Los Angeles County
League of California Cities
Sam
Vickers
Jeague
County General Fund
Bellflower
Lakewood
Downey
East Los Angeles
Sun Valley
Temple City
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Pasadena
League
Glendale
Santa Monica
Burbank
Huntington Park
Vernon
Don McMillan
Palos Verdes Estates
Weather Tides Update with today and tomorrow highs
High tide today 3.4 feet at 4 46 p.m. and low tides 1.6 feet at 11 24 a.m. and 1.4 feet at 40 27 p.m. High tides tomorrow 5.4 feet at 10 a.m. and 3.2 feet at 6 05 p.m. Low tides 0.9 feet at 12 18 p.m. and 1.8 feet at 11 07 p.m.
Dewey presses eight point defense program
Dewey told the New York County Lawyers Assn at the Waldorf Astoria that the nation must mobilize immediately with an eight point plan. He urged universal military training a two year term and a rapid draft expansion to at least 100 divisions, a 25 percent defense production target, and single authority over mobilization with broad powers. He warned of inflation from defense spending and called for wide taxes to restrain spending.
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New York
National Guard
Dewey
Republican Party
Russia
Formosa
Korea
Japan
Autopsy Ordered in Model Mary Jane Barnes Death
In MOLLYWOOD on December 14 an autopsy was ordered to determine if an overdose of sleeping pills caused the death of model Mary Jane Barnes, 28. She was found despondent in her apartment by a sister, with an empty box of sleeping tablets in a wastebasket.
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Mollywood
Mary Jane Barnes
Miss Barnes
Reactions to Dewey Speech Prompt Bipartisan Support
Leading congressmen from both parties voiced approval of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's call for full military and economic mobilization, while raising cautions about federating the National Guard and stressing the need for industrial mobilization alongside defense. They urged strengthening air, naval, and anti submarine forces and warned against pulling too many workers from commerce and industry.
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Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
Sen
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate Armed Services Committee
Dewey
O'Mahoney
Guard
Air Force
Navy
Sen. Saltonstall
R-Mass
Wilson Heads U.S. Rearming Effort Again for U.S.
Charles E. Wilson, 64, of General Electric, accepted to run the nation s urgent rearmament program for the second time in a decade. He will supervise a new super agency consolidating defense production duties from several departments and oversee the National Production Authority, the Defense Transportation Administration, and the Defense Petroleum Administration.
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New York
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric Ca
Aecade
War Production Board
White House
Wilson
Truman
Defense
National Production Authority
Commerce Department
Defense Transportation Administration
Defense Petroleum Administration
Interior Department
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Marshall Stalin
United Nations
Roosevelt
Woman Takes Own Life Amid Grief Over Husband
Police report Hazel B Bauer 63 of 2217 E 14th St killed herself yesterday by piping car exhaust into the automobile where she sat after becoming despondent over her husband’s recent death.
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Hazel B. Bauer
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Spence
D-Ky
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D-Tex
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D-Ga
Johnson
Charles FE. Wilson
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