Strike vote set at Long Beach Douglas plant
A 3:30 p.m. Sunday vote by CIO United Auto Workers Local 148 will decide on strike action at the Long Beach Douglas Aircraft plant potentially idling 12,000 workers. Union officials cite wage disparities with auto industry and ongoing contract talks. Douglas says negotiations continue with no comment beyond studying proposals. Snow and rain caused accidents and traffic disruption across the Southland with Dallas-like storms reaching San Bernardino and mountains. police injuries reported from Long Beach crashes as the storm moved inland.
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Douglas Aircraft Co
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Municipal Auditorium
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Pierce
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UAW Aircraft Department
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Weather Bureau
Artesia
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Cajon Pass
Las Vegas
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Palmdale
Beaumont
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Citrus
San Fernando Valley
Mt. Wilson
California
San Diego
San Francisco
Monterey Bay
Sierra
Bakersfield
Hall
Body of Girl Found in Los Angeles Alley
Police identified the dead woman as Elizabeth Exum, 19, found in a Los Angeles alley Monday. Investigators said the body showed no signs of violence and appeared dragged into the alley, leaving the cause of death unexplained.
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L. A. Alley
Los Angeles
Elizabeth Exum
Slayer Flying to U. S. for Sixth Army custody
Mrs Dorothy Kreuger Smith 40 a general's daughter convicted of murdering her colonel husband departed by plane for the United States under orders to turn her over to the Sixth Army command at San Francisco. The court martial verdict remains under review.
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U. S. Tokyo
Dorothy Kreuger Smith
United States
Sixth Army Command
San Francisco
C of C backs new scramble traffic system for pedestrians
The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce board approved a three phase scramble traffic system designed to aid pedestrians. The plan, headed by Prof. Homer H. Grant, allows pedestrians to cross two streets at once in one phase while vehicles stop or proceed in other phases.
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Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Civic Group
Transportation Committee
Homer H. Grant
Chamber
Civic Development Committee
Robert Dier
Denver
Colo
California
Three Gangsters Die in Havana Gun Battle
In Vedado Havana a 90 minute gun fight between police and suspected gangsters left three men dead and three wounded. Victims include Vicente Leiroz known as the Little Italian. Wounded were a police lieutenant, a policeman, and a sailor bystander.
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Havana
Cuba
WUP
Vedado
Vicente Leiroz
Secret Agreements Criticisms of Yalta Pacts Cited
The British criticize U.S. stance on secret accords with Russia citing Eisenhower. Officials who signed without constitutional authority are questioned. The piece notes Churchill’s veto power without parliamentary ratification and Roosevelt’s lack of similar authority. The discussion continues on page 4.
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Eisenhower
Russia
Yalta
Churchill
Roosevelt
Willows High School Destroyed by Fire in California
A blaze gut the Elk Creek High School near Willows in Glenn County California Monday night. Sheriff Lyle Sale estimates damage at 250000 with no injuries reported. Fire investigators suspect an overheated basement furnace caused the fire.
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Willows
Calif
Elk Creek
Glenn County
Lyle’ Sale
Here
Noone
Weather forecast misfires on Mondays storm turn
Weatherman recalls the storm slicing rather than hooking as forecast errors caused a wrong path for Monday. Forecaster predicts clear skies today with a risk of showers Wednesday and a return to cool, windy, potentially 56 degree warmth. Authorities hope the forecast aligns with actual conditions as the forecast misses still linger.
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Nevada
Ana
Sailor swept overboard near San Pedro during severe weather
A crewman aboard the British vessel Graighwyd was swept overboard 120 miles southwest of Point Conception while the ship was offshore from San Pedro. The Coast Guard distributed an urgent marine broadcast instructing vessels in the area to keep watch as the distressed seaman, not named in the message, was reported missing after the Graiglwyd departed San Pedro for Yokohama.
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Coast Guard
Pt. Concepcion
1Th District Coast Guard
12Th Coast Guard District
San Francisco
Coast
Craiglwyd
San Pedro
Yokohama
Three Day Old Baby Exhibits Teeth in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a three day old baby, John Mason Myers Jr., is reported to have visible teeth at the lower gum. Hospital officials confirmed the finding as the infant’s mother, Etta Myers, 30, expressed disbelief at the unusual newborn development.
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Los
Angeles
John Mason Myers Jr
John
Etta Myers
Allied Raiders Break Out Of Bloody Korean Ambush
Allied raiders of about 40 infantry and several tanks fought a three hour battle southeast of Panmunjom, breaking a Chinese trap with 60 enemy killed and 40 wounded. Two Allied tanks were damaged, one abandoned, and a tank retriever recovered the prize at daylight. Air and sea units supported operations along the northeast Korean coast and Wonsan area.
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Seoul
United Nations
Eighth Army
Thelefruce
Panmunjom
Okinawa
Wonsan
Kowon
Fifth Air Force
Missouri
Korea
Zanuck's Son Hurt in Party Crash Fight
Richard Zanuck 19 and two Stanford students suffered minor injuries when police said a party crash led to a scuffle at a Palm Springs home near the Agua Caliente Indian reservation. Rudy Martinez and Gabriel Estrada 18 jailed on assault charges. six others freed on bail.
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Palm Springs
Richard Zanuck
Darryl Zanuck
Stanford
J Glenn Arthur Doughbey
Beverly Hills
Philip Wilson
Redwood City
Young Zanuck
Rudy Martinez
Gabriel Estrada
Agua Caliente Indian Reservation
Frank Sinatra
Canada Students Rout Red Dean at London meeting
Canada students from the University of Western Ontario disrupted a London Society of Friendship Committee meeting at the Masonic Temple with cadences and noise. Dr. Hew Jett Johnson known as the Red Dean fled through a back alley as students surrounded his car, police later clearing a path.
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London
Clark Denounces Peiping Germ Warfare Charge
General Mark Clark assailed Red China’s renewed radio claims of Allied germ warfare as baseless and discarded, warning the broadcasts manipulate captured Marines’ words. He expressed deep sympathy for two captured airmen and denied any U N Command involvement in biological weapons in Korea.
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Tokyo
Mark Clark
Red
United Nations Command
Red China
Frank W. Schwable
Reds
Schwable
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Marine Air Wing
Air Force
Navy
North Korea
Clark
Tron Curtain
Korea
France
Marshal Alphonse Juin
U. N. Command
U. S. State Department
Peiping
Hinn
Hotel Fire Damages Northridge Site and Stores
A hotel fire Monday damaged two apartments and three ground floor stores in Northridge. Owner William Wuest estimated losses around $10,000. Firemen said the blaze might have been started by a cigarette butt discarded into a wastebasket.
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Northridge
William Wuest
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