Fletcher elected to Long Beach City Council seat
Carl Fletcher, former mayor and councilman, won a seat on the Long Beach City Council in a special seventh district election. Only 26 percent turnout. Fletcher captured 45 percent of votes, beating Harold C. Freeman and Donald L. Wilkins. Freeman 35 percent. Sea ELECT continues on Page 4.
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Carl Fletcher
Long Beach
Fletcher
Harold C. Freeman
Donald L. Wilkins
Freeman
Sea Elect
Mayer’s Brother Dies in Wilshire Blvd Fire
Police identify Rudolph Mayer 63 uncle to Louis B Mayer as victim of a Wilshire Boulevard apartment fire in Los Angeles. The blaze claimed his life on February 27, with investigators treating it as a fatal incident.
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Mayer
Los Angeles
Rudolph Mayer
Louis B. Mayer
Wilshire Blvd
Long Beach Men Named At Crime Quiz
In Los Angeles a Senate crime hearing linked four Long Beach bar owners and W L Robertson to a gambling club tied to Seal Beach Airport. William Bonelli emerged as a key witness as Stock in the Hillview Co tied to Bonelli moved from shares valued at one dollar to two thousand dollars per share for holders of Long Beach liquor licenses. William J Cook, Bonelli’s brother in law, sold the stock in 1945 to named license holders Bonnie Price Arthur Morgan D A George and William Moffett.
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Long Beach
W. L. Robertson
Seal Beach Airport
Senate
Los Angeles
William Bonelli
Hillview of Co
Bonelli
Prices Thawed on Clothing and Furniture
The government ended the retail price freeze on furniture and clothing and about 75 percent of department store items. A new percentage system for pricing will take effect March 29, affecting over 230,000 stores with $31 billion in annual sales. DiSalle expects some hikes and rollbacks, aiming to peg markups at pre Korean War levels, with manufacturers and wholesalers later governed by further orders. Food drug hardware and appliance stores are not covered.
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Washington
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Camp Roberts 60mm shell blast injures nineteen trainees
Nineteen boys in training at Camp Roberts California are hospitalized after a 60 millimeter shell exploded accidentally. Five may die and seven are in serious condition. The army will notify next of kin before public release of casualty names. As of now, 36 hours post incident, no list has been disclosed. Continued on page Aa 61.
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Camp Roberts
California
Preas
Mystery Flattop Sighted Off Formosa
Reuters dispatch from Taipei reported an unidentified aircraft carrier sighted 20 miles off Formosa. Nationalist planes were said to be standing by to take off as the sighting circulated.
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London
Reuters
Taipei
Caaat
Formosa
Pengy
Vandenberg's Condition Worse After Health Setback
Grand Rapids report says Senator Arthur Vandenberg has worsened health after multiple operations in Michigan and Washington. The physician disclosed the setback as Vandenberg, a key figure in Republican foreign policy, battles to regain strength.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Arthur Vandenberg
R-Mich
Vandenberg
Washington
Brisk Winds Forecast as Storm Adds to Rain
The U S Weather Bureau predicts winds reaching 30 mph tomorrow with clear skies and few showers in the coastal area. A recent storm dropped 42 inches of rain in two days, while snow lingered near 250 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains and around 3000 feet elsewhere.
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U. S
Weather Bureau
California
San Bernardino Mountains
UN forces launch probing attack on central Korea front
United Nations troops jumped off in a probing attack to test Chinese and Korean Communist forces massed in great strength on Korea's rain lashed central front. The operation aimed to offset a potential Red counteroffensive as Allied successes were reported.
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Tokyo
INS
United Nations
Korea
U.N
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