Comic Leaves Show Bob Hope Taken Ill In L A
Bob Hope, the ski nosed entertainer, fainted backstage at Concert Hall in Los Angeles. An unidentified physician said Hope appeared to have indigestion, but his blood pressure checked normal. He drove home to Kollywood after a brief recovery outside.
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Bob Hope
Gls
Arc
Jane Russell
Beverly Taylor
Frances Langford
Hope
Tye
George Barker
Tertainer
RCA
Jerry Colonna
Tor Hope
ROA
George Murphy
Seo Rob Hovr
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Wash Our Own Windows on Aid to Chiang Kai-Shek
In reflecting on public corruption, the piece argues that condemning foreign governments distracts from domestic issues. It notes the state department’s view that aid to Chiang Kai-Shek’s government was squandered due to internal corruption, suggesting the need for honest reforms at home.
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Geome
State Department
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Santa Ana Freeway Contract Awarded to Winston Bros
A 32,439,710 contract for construction on the Santa Ana Freeway in Orange County was awarded today by the State Department of Public Works. The award goes to Winston Bros of Monrovia.
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Sacramento
Santa Ana
Orange County
State Department of Public Works
Winston Bros
Monrovia
Forty aboard search for missing Pan American jet
Planes from four nations comb West Africa's jungles and Ivory Coast seeking a Pan American Airways Constellation missing with 40 aboard including 12 Americans. Officials in New York call it the largest air search ever launched in West Africa, with vessels aiding the operation near Dakar and the Big Bulge.
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Dakar
French West Africa
West Africa
Pan American Airways
Pan American
New York
Jungies
Ivory Coast
Captain Nephew of Compton Woman Captain Nephew of Compton
Pan American plane missing over the African Gold Coast prompts searches in Gambia Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast with missionary led parties and tribal chiefs guiding efforts. The New York based Pan American team reports darkness halted the search at 3 23 p m EDT but to resume at 2 a m EDT Saturday with extra planes. Three passengers and all nine crew members are American including a Canadian businessman and two infants.
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Frank J. Crawford
Gold Coast
San Francisco
Long Beach
Crawford
di Bull
Thorson Ave
Compton
Gambia
Sierra Leone
New York
234th AAA Unit Heads to Camp Irwin for Training
Long Beach based 234th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group leaves tonight for Camp Irwin near Barstow for two weeks of field training. An advance convoy departs the National Guard Armory at 7 PM, with the main body following at 11 PM. The unit includes the 720th and 682nd battalions under Col. Clif ford Beyers and will operate under the 114th AAA Brigade from San Diego.
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Long Beach
234Th
Camp Irwin
Barstow
National Guard
Seventh and Alamitos
Clifford Beyers
AL Camp Irwin
114Th
San Diego
Phone Workers Walk Off Jobs in Southern California
Nearly 3000 telephone workers walked off at 21 exchanges across Southern California in protest of stalled contract talks between CIO Communications Workers of America and Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. The union has called a 6 a.m. Monday strike for 9500 maintenance and accounting staff if no agreement is reached.
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Los Angeles
California
CIO Communications Workers of America
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
Big Ferry Kalakala Aground Then Freed Near Bremerton
The 276 foot Seattle Bremerton ferry Kalakala with 100 passengers ran aground three miles east of Bremerton after engine failure but was freed and towed. Coast Guard cutters patrol craft and two tugs aided, crossing Rich Passage near White Point as tide fell. A Navy tug from Bremerton pulled her clear after distress signals were heard from the vessel.
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Seattle
White Point
Rich Passage
Bremerton
Coast Guard
Puget Sound
Alfred
Statewide drive to collect unpaid 1940 income tax
Sacramento June 22. The California Franchise Tax Board has started a drive to collect income tax from about 200000 Californians who failed to file returns for 1940. Controller Thomas H Kuchel and FTB chairman said delinquents were found in a recently completed check and lists were sent to field officers with instructions for agents to collect.
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Sacramento
Caliornia Franchise Tax Board
Hay
L A Chrysler Plant Ups Wages
The first pay increase under Chrysler Corporation improvement factor plan adds four cents per hour for 1300 Los Angeles plant employees today in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Chrysler Corporation
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