Los Angeles Marks Centennial Under American Flag
Los Angeles celebrates its centennial this week with cautious observances amid Mexican heritage tensions. Tonight a colorful program at San Gabriel Mission marks 100 years since the lowering of Mexican colors and the first American flag, using gowns from San Gabriel pueblo ladies. A Navy donated Mitsubishi plane is shown for a planned city museum, and a fiesta program at city hall on August 13 features stars and a 15 minute ode to Los Angeles by David Rose narrated by Tyrone Power.
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Curtain Falls On War Probers Drama In Washington
The Senate War Investigation Committee ends its six week probe into a wartime munitions outfit and alleged influence with Rep May of Kentucky ill in Prestonsburg. May’s illness halts testimony and a new subpoena seems unlikely without his voluntary appearance. officials cite heart trouble and exhaustion per physicians.
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Sweden UN Bid to Be Sent To New York
Stockholm reports indicate Sweden will forward its United Nations membership bid to New York after today cabinet meeting in the capital. The move would be announced once the UN Secretariat acknowledges receipt of the application.
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Victim of Gun Blast Satisfactory
James M. Ragen, 65, wealthy racing news distributor, hospitalized since June 24 after shotgun blasts on a South Side street. Operated yesterday for kidney complication. condition improved from worse, per Dr. Nathan N. Crohn. Ragen had earlier accused Al Capone of controlling Chicago gambling and vice and filed affidavits for federal authorities in case of death.
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Margus Lake Opens For Local Fishermen Sunday
Margus Lake eight miles east of Indiana on Route 422 will open Sunday for anglers before construction finishes. Stocked over four years the lake, claimed to hold the county’s best bass, hosts nets, crappies, bluegills and sunfish. The site, created by damming spring waters, will become a 33 acre summer fishing resort with rustic shelters and open fires as work progresses.
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Food Price Rise Greatest Recorded
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 13.8 percent rise in retail food prices from June 15 to July 15, the largest monthly increase ever. Previous peak was nine percent from March to April, 1917. July prices were 77 percent above August 1939 and nearly 18 percent above August 1941, with subsidies removed and no OPA controls in effect. Meat up 30 percent, dairy 21 percent, other foods 8.7 percent mid-July.
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Calls Iron Curtain Yank invention
Soviet journalist Ilya Ehrenburg told Izvestia that the “Tron Curtain” between the United States and the West exists and hides American readers from Soviet reality. He accused American editors and media of daily deceiving their audiences with the help of their own correspondents.
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Divine Cult Celebrates Father Divines Marriage
In Denman Kingdom Vancouver followers celebrate Father Divine marrying Edna Rose Ritchings the 21 year old Vancouver girl who joined the cult in Philadelphia. Devout pledge faith while onlookers hail the union as spiritual and divine, a cross lit with electric letters proclaims Father Divine Is God.
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Beaten By Kidnapers To Admit Press
Lancaster, Aug 9 Amies Hostetter a 38 year old silk weaver of Smoketown was beaten by nine men who abducted him and robbed him of $12 and his watch. He was admitted to a hospital for injuries believed to be from the assault. Paris, Aug 8 Secretary of the press adoption of meetings of press conferences as open to the public was discussed with no decision taken.
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Meat Talks To Test Hanley
NORRISTOWN Pa Aug 9 AP representatives of the CIO United Meatpacking Workers Union and related parties opened contract talks today Kenneth W Hanley 25 year old opening hogens stormer serviceman is to be examined as part of the mental health review in the fatal shooting of his estranged wife and her escort A sanity commission was appointed by Judge Sands. The commission will meet to consider a resumption of court proceedings next week with no immediate trial date set.
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Cave yields remains of 150 atrocity victims near Baguio
In Manila on August 9 war crimes investigators uncovered the skeletal remains of more than 150 Filipinos jammed in a cave near Baguio where Japanese troops killed villagers April 10, 1945. Survivor Felicia Malasmas, 24, led the team to the site and recalled that villagers were rounded up from Tube with the pretext of seeking refuge from bombs before being slain with grenades and machine guns.
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Clearfield Man Badly Hurt In Train Car Wreck
CLEARFIELD August 9 A New York Central freight train struck an automobile at the west Market street crossing last night seriously injuring Robert O Lumadue 21 of West Decatur. Lumadue seated alone in the car was taken to Clearfield Hospital reported suffering from concussions. The freight en route from Cleveland to Clearfield dragged the car about 200 yards demolishing it.
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US policy tightens inflation controls on lumber wages
Washington reports that reconversion chief John R Steelman refused a second round of wage boosts for Pacific Northwest lumber workers. The ruling signals continued government restraint on pay increases, with final approval still needed before any higher costs reach price ceilings. The decision affects over 45,000 west coast lumber workers who had seen a 15 cent plus a later 5 cent boost, amid postwar pattern considerations.
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Glider Sets New Distance Record at National Meet
Francis B. Compton of Miami flew 76 miles round trip from Elmira to Penn Yan to set a new official national distance and return record for single place sail planes at the 13th annual soaring contest. The crossing surpassed Maurice Waters 52 mile unofficial mark and the 40 mile official record from 1939. John Robinson, top scorer in prior contests, logged 12 miles and an 11,400 foot altitude in Laurys Pa. Most pilots went south or southwest with wind currents.
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Pennsylvania
Newark police weigh limits on pets for travel
Newark police consider restricting what pets travelers may carry after Arthur B. Eastman of Bogota claimed his two canaries flew from inside his shirt during an outing, prompting authorities to search for the birds and study policy.
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Negro Cook Confesses Navy Slaying on Destroyer
FBI and Naval Intelligence report an oral confession by David Joseph Watson, a Navy cook third class, for the July 25 killing of 19-year-old Benjamin Leroy Hobbs aboard the U S S Stribling. The case followed a two week search aboard a destroyer, aided by blimp surveillance, with Watson held in the Key West Navy brig.
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Norfolk
Hobbs
North Carolina
Navy
Indiana To See 80th Men In 6 30 Victory March
Indiana hosts the 80th division convention with Memorial Service at Stapletons, a Dug-out gathering, and an all day schedule at the American Legion rooms. The banquet at Indiana State Teachers College features Attorney General James H. Duff as keynote and about 400 guests expected. Sunday includes a military Mass at St Bernard Church.
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Closing of last Allied radio stations in Japan noted
Tokyo reports that Allied Civil Communications Section ordered the final two stations in a wartime network to shut down. The Tokyo and Fukoka outlets ceased operations as repatriation of Japanese personnel nears completion, marking the end of eight stations serving occupied eastern areas.
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LaGuardia Considers New York Senate Run
Former New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia signals readiness to enter the Democratic U S Senate race. He would enter after evaluating UN relief work in China and may seek Albany convention path if Mead contemplates governor bid. National party support could be required. Lehman favored by rivals in New York Democratic circles.
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UNRRA
Governor To Get Full Evidence In Lynching Case
Georgia state officials and the FBI probe the July 25 lynching of four Negroes near Monroe. Authorities say they have no arrests yet and no confirmed identifications. Walton County and FBI leaders declined further comment while investigators pursue possible threads.
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Stranded Patrons on Floating Casino Halted by Police
Police and prosecutors halted operations on a converted minelayer acting as a floating gambling casino near Los Angeles Harbor. About 1,000 patrons aboard the Bunker Hill were stranded as coast guard cutters and water taxis were used to remove those in need. Pilots of the Long Beach water taxi fleet were arrested for violating a city ordinance on gambling solicitation.
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Pu Yi Emerges From Obscurity At Atsugi Airfield
Pu Yi last emperor of China and former Manchukuo ruler appeared at Atsugi near Tokyo after a year in Russian custody. He traveled by Soviet PBY planes with a 20‑person delegation to testify before the International Military Tribunal on war crimes charges against Hitler Tojo and 26 others.
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Manchukuo
US British Zone Fusion Proceedings in Berlin
Air Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas reported that American and British talks on economic fusion of their occupation zones were moving smoothly. Joint administrations for food agriculture trade industry and finance were being prepared with plans for equitable resource distribution and a common ration standard to raise German food in the British zone. He urged Allied nations to view cooperation as not aimed at dividing Germany or hindering others and noted tightened controls to curb flows of displaced persons into the British zone.
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Sholto Douglas
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Obituary for Mrs Mary Da Wingard Boyer
Mary Da Wingard Boyer died at her home near Elderton at 4 00 am August 8 1946 born June 9 1874 daughter of the late Jacob and Maria Wingard widow of Amos Boyer She lived in She lecta R D 46 years member of Mt Union Lutheran Church Survived by six daughters and four sons twenty five grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren Funeral services August 11 at 2 30 pm in Mt Union Church with Rev Howard Amick officiating interment in adjoining cemetery
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Ww. Va
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Ellsworth Wingard
Apollo
Leroy Wagner
Plumville
Hilda Heckman
West Grove
Paul Boyer
Shelocta
Murrace Boyer
W. Va
Raymond Boyer
Adrian
Dale Boyer
Elderston
James
Thomas
Charles
Marlin
Erwin Wingard
Mt. Union Lutheran Church
Howard Amick
Ocean researchers warn Bikini blast may taint harbors
Commander Roger Revelle of the Scripps Institute warns that the atomic bomb test could poison harbor currents worldwide and threaten fish life. He notes later effects may appear as radioactive contamination spreads through underwater plant life, while wreckage measurements indicate a crater ten feet deep and 1,000 feet wide. No illnesses among 42,000 task force crew yet reported.
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