Long Beach commits to hospital expansion plan with bonds and gifts
LA.C. lauds the community effort to fund a 400 bed Memorial Hospital and add to Community and Osteopathic Hospitals. A $10.5 million bond issue was approved, with $4 million to be raised privately. doctors pledged over a million dollars and donors contributed $3.8 million to date, with four-year payment terms and contracts already let or planned.
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Mallon
Thay
Long Beach
Memorial Hospital
Wife of private eye seeks $1176 a month in divorce
LOS ANGELES UP The wife of private detective Raymond C. Schindler Jr. asked for $1,176.23 a month support pending their divorce trial. Mrs. Schindler, 33, told a court commissioner her husband gambled $3,000 last year. Schindler, tied to his father's New York office, said his only gambling winnings were five or three hundred dollars in a friendly poker game.
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Los Angeles
Raymond C. Schindler Jr
Navy smoke bombs mistaken for geysers off Ocean Beach
Coast Guard received numerous reports of mysterious geysers and ships on fire near Ocean Beach San Diego. Investigators found Navy planes were dropping smoke bombs during routine training maneuvers about two miles offshore, causing the confusion.
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San Diego
Upi
Coast Guard
Ocean Beach
Navy
Castro Revolt Steps Up In Cuba Clash with Batista Cabinet
In Havana rebels under Fidel Castro opened a second front in Oriente Province as Batista’s cabinet crisis unfolds. Prime Minister Emilio Nunez Portuondo resigned, Gonzalo Guell named to replace him, and a new cabinet was formed amid suspended constitutional guarantees and press censorship. Batista called 7,000 more troops, raising the standing army to 35,000 while rebels attacked near Palomrito and Mirandés, 20 to 25 miles north of Santiago de Cuba.
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Tip
Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro
Oriente
Emilio Nunez Portu
Onda
Gonzalo Guell
Nunez
Batista
Cuna
Castro
Sierra Maestra
Cuba
Palomrito
Mirandés
Santiago de Cuba
Lapital
Washington
Battista
Nunez Portuondo
Unclear 1920s list with tides and political note
The fragment shows scattered scores or figures for multiple cities, a Cairo reference to President Nas and a decree dissolving Syrian parties. It also gives tidal times and mentions outlawing the Communist Party, plus sunrise data, all in a jumbled, mid‑section style.
Independent Long Beach Classified Ad Fragment
Fragmentary notice from the Independent newspaper dated October 8 1941 lists adjudication details and docket numbers for a case at Los Angeles Superior Court. The readable text includes entries about class two filings and a long beach address with partial street and date fragments.
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Independent
Pine Ave
Long Beach
Superior Saurt
Los Angeles County
False teeth care product listing and pricing
An OCR fragment shows a dental aid product with phrases about false teeth care and brand names like Fas-Pet and Arn tapas. It lists prices from 2.00 to 24.00 and mentions delivery by mail with single copy availability. The wording resembles a local classifieds style item for denture freshness and odor control.
Elvis Presley Receives Hollywood Farewell Party
In Hollywood Elvis Presley was surprised at Paramount Studies by Dolores Hart Michael Curtiz and castmates as he wrapped King Creole filming before his Army service. A cake showed an Army private peeling potatoes and Miss Hart gave a Civil War musket as a parting gift.
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Hollywood
Elvis Presley
Hed Tain
Memphis
Teron
Paramount Studies
Dolores Hart
Michael Curtiz
Miss Hart
Presley
Sophia Loren
Valerie Allen
Anthony Quinn
Six aircraft workers charged with bookmaking at Long Beach plant
Six Long Beach Douglas plant workers were charged with nine counts of bookmaking and conspiracy to violate bookmaking laws in a district attorney complaint issued Wednesday. Names include Brennan, Shaw, Pflaum, Whiteman, McKee, and Johnson. They were arrested after an investigation led by Det. Insp. Leonard Hermansen, who said they handled over $1,000 daily in horse race bets. Herbert A. Thomas was also charged with bookmaking in a separate complaint.
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Long Beach
Long Beach Douglas
District Attorney's Office
Det
Leonard. Hermansen
Herbert A. Thomas
St. Louis Ave
Mahanna Ave
Farmers rewarded with Soviet Order of Lenin awards
The Soviet government conferred the Order of Lenin this week on 2,178 outstanding farm workers in the Belgorod region and on 2,862 workers in the Smolensk region.
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Moscow
Belgorod
Smolensk
Live the Life of Riley at Huntington Hotel Ad
An advertisement for the Huntington Hotel at 290 Ocean Blvd Long Beach promotes private baths, wall-to-wall carpeting, writing desks, daily maid service, and large airing rooms. Rooms and meals priced at 24.00 per week per person, with breakfast and dinner options and outside catering available. Phone HE 6-6253.
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Riley
Huntington Hotel
OGEAN
Long Beach
Au Roma
Cetan
Turkey
Virginia
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