Great American Family enacted on school stage
Long Beach California press reports Miss Marjorie O Dougherty drama teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School produced the play The Great American Family at the Pasadena Playhouse. Rehearsals started when the amateur release came, Wilson orchestra conducted by Nicolas Furjanick. The eight scenes trace Greg and Sylvie Seymour in a ramshackle home as they strive for the great American novel and discover they have created the great American family.
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Long Beach
Marjorie O’ Dougherty
Woodrow Wilson High School
Lee Shipply
Pasadena Playhouse
Wilson High School
Seymour
Parenta
Ene Willson School
Miss Dougherty
Tim Conklin
Ruth J. Burdick
Nicolas Furjanick
Wilson
Greg
Sylvie Seymour
Mount Wilson
Mountain View
Hank
Sylvie
Ben Little
Bob Orr
Topper Smith
Neil Pinney
Richard Daiken
Ralph Manns
David Tosh
Zaann Neil
Paul Sonning
Percy Organ
Dell Abbott
Shirley Wyatt
Paul Welby
Jean Jacobs
Anne DeFreece
Jim Conklin
John Guérrant
Mary Ayn Peterson
Vince Jones
Billiam O'Blennis
Arthur Costa
Jean Wuda
Dorothy Whit Drusilla
Spong
Art Germann
Marjorie Ripley
Diannie Hart
Pat’ Sewar
Fifty Million Bushels of Grain Slated for Relief
The United States may provide a grain bonus of 50 million bushels this spring as the Agricultural Department projects a crop of 1.132 billion bushels of wheat. The new Economic Cooperation Administration under Paul Hoffman began its first food purchases totaling 21.008 million dollars for Austria, Greece, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. It remains to be decided whether aid will be gifts or loans.
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Washington
United States
Agricultural Department
New Economic Co-operation Administration
Paul G. Hoffman
Marshall Boliman
Austria
Greece
France
Italy
Netherlands
Roffiman
Cabinet Food Committee
Agriculture Department
Victim of Blaze Taken to Hospital
Andrew J T Menard of 130 Esther St was taken to Navy Hospital today by meat ambulance with first degree burns to the left hip. Police say he accidentally set his bed on fire last Friday evening and his clothing ignited. Fire department not summoned at first. burns worsened hours later prompting authorities to be notified.
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Andrew JT. Menard
Esther St
Navy Hospital
Doctor Attending Bay City Meeting Flies from Frisco
Radiologist H. A. Judson of Community Hospital Bay City attends a joint California Cancer Commission conference and California Medical Association convention in San Francisco. He flew back to Bay City yesterday.
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Bay City
Terminal Isle Crash Wrecks Car Injures Four Near Navy Hospital
A skidding pipe machine caused a two car collision injuring Clark and three passengers Francis Denton 34 Navy CRM Joseph Burke 23 Navy RMZc and others. Eyewitnesses cited a high speed, with vehicle damage severe and hospital treatment given. Nearby, a widow Pearl Gipe Los Angeles and relatives survive. Funeral plans by Dispay Mortuary. A separate Sunset Blvd. crash left a woman fatally injured after her car collided with a Pacific Electric train. she died en route to hospital.
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Clark
Navy Hospital
Francis, Denton
Navy Crm
Joeph C Burke
Navy Rmzc
Juho
Can
Pearl Gipe
Los Angeles
Earl 'S
Gipe
Walteria
Franklin Gipe
Sunset Blvd
Pacific Electric
Sokk
Former Druggist Wilson Dies
W Patton Wilson a 97 year old Long Beach druggist died April 7 in an Orange sanitarium. A Indiana native he came to Long Beach in 1903 and worked with Edward H. Jackson in the original drug store where Buttums Men’s Store now stands. He helped build the Professional Building at Eighth and Pine and owned realty and a 12 acre Signal Hill ranch. Active in First Presbyterian Church, he lived with a daughter in Los Angeles since 1931. Surviving: son Hugh C. Wilson of Long Beach. daughters Mrs Anne W Beck of Fullerton and Miss Bessie Wilson of Los Angeles. three grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Service planned for Wee Kirk o’ the Heather at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale.
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W. Patton Wilson
Long Beach
Indiana
Edward H. Jackson
Buttums ‘Men's Store
Fier Mown
Oakford
Eighth and Pine
Signal Hill
First Presbyterian Church
Los Angeles
Hugh C. Wilson
Anne
W. Beck
Fullerton
Bessie Wilson
Wee Kirk O' the Heather
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
Fishing Tackle Stolen From Garage Home of Myron Brooks
Police report thefts from a garage at 2745 Caspian Ave. Fishing tackle valued at an estimated amount was stolen. A voltage electric drill valued at 65 dollars disappeared from a residence, with Susie In the 400 block Olive Ave noting the incident.
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Myron B Brooks
Caspian
John Woitzner
Linen Ave
Thousands Idle as Coal Walkout Hits Industry
Pittsburgh reports show nationwide effects of a 25 percent cut in galburning train service starting April 15. Railroads including Pennsylvania, Chesapeake & Ohio, and Baltimore & Ohio furloughed tens of thousands, with Chrysler Ward’s forecasting auto production losses and steel plants idling workers. In Pennsylvania, coal miners in Scranton area joined the strike, swelling idle workers beyond 32,000.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
Julie
Cleveland
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Detroit
Ward
Pittsburgh Steel Company
Middand
Pennsylvania
Scranton
Reds Ban Free Czech Voting Plan Clears Hurdle
Prague report says the Communist party plans a single ticket in the May 23 Czechoslovak elections, needing parliamentary approval. The Trades Union, with 2.3 million members, supported the plan after the executive committee endorsed it. Nearby, reports from Frankfurt note many Czechs fled since the Communists seized power.
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Prague
Agatettones
Central ‘Trades Union
Communist Party
Oklahoma Judge Dies in Texas Local Briefs
Sherman Texas reports the death of Milam, 79, former governor of Oklahoma and later a federal judge for the eastern district of Oklahoma. He died after long illness. His home was Durant Oklahoma. Relatives in Seattle and Long Beach are mentioned. A visit notice from Escondido notes Maude Newstead invited to speak on Legion histories with attendees from Imperial and San Diego Counties.
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Sherman
Texas
Mon
B Milam
Eovernor
Oklahoma
At & Toda
Paul AL Walker
Woestington
D. C
Jewell County
Kansas
South Park
Avalon Blvd
Gladys Hennesey
Seattle
Wash
A. J. Hai
Second St
Long Beach
The
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Escondido
Maude A. Newstead
Samuel Thomas Amt
22Nd District
Eccaida
American Legion
Auxiliary
Imperial
San Diego
Newstead
Howard J. Newstead
As of the Legion
Ed Fox
Thomas Unit
Kathryn Atlan
Huntington Beach
Aist Distriets
Kara de Rovers
Thorns Nil
Colombian revolt grows after Gaitan murder and embassy siege
Rebels in Colombia widen the crisis after the assassination of Liberal candidate Gaitan. mobs killed ministers and leaders as troops vanished from streets. Diplomatic reports in Washington say Communists may back the uprising while the Lima conference venue is debated. Embassies shelter staff as dyns explode near the U S mission.
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Willard Beaulac
State Department
Bogota
U. S
Marshall
Lima
Washington
Ospina Perez
Liberal Party
Communist Party
Colombia
Hulormanon
United States
Gaitan
Jose Antonio Montalvo
Jose Antonio Montalvo, Minister of Mines and Petroliim
Guillemmo Lean Valencia
Laureano Gomes
U.S
Pulp Workers Vote Union Shop Seattle
In Seattle on April 10 the National Labor Relations Board completed a Taft Hartley union shop election for the Pulp and Paper Workers Union AFL. A total of 13 531 ballots were cast across four plants on the West Coast with 12 972 voting in favor and 556 against. The vote authorizes employers to enter agreements requiring union membership as a condition of continued employment.
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Seattle
United States
National Labor Relations Board
West Coast
Cition
Pulp and Paper Workers” Union
A.F.L
International Brotherhood of Pulp Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers
International Brotherhood of Paper Makers
Anloy
MacLean Divorce Sparks Sensitive Allegations
Hollywood reports a divorce filing accusing the former movie star of causing grievous mental suffering during their nineteen year marriage. The case centers on financial and personal settlements as the suit proceeds.
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Hollywood
Dougls Machead
Long Test Flight by Colossal B 36 Bomber
A Convair B 36 bomber completed over 30 hours of test flights between Fort Worth and the west coast. Pilot B A Erickson led the test crew as Convair and Air Force observers documented the mission. Officials said the flight was not a maximum effort and no distance or duration records were pursued.
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T Worth
Texas
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp
Air «Rave
B. A. Erickson
Convair Teat
Convair
Air Force
R. G. Mayer
Fort Worth
Fleet Reserve Association marks birthday dinner night
Branch 43 of the Fleet Reserve Association gathered at Vivian Laird's for a chicken and lobster dinner to celebrate its 16th birthday. Husbands who are past or active Navy men attended as guests. Rear Adm. Paul Hendren, commander at the Naval Base Los Angeles, praised the Navy and noted older service veterans in the audience. Adm. Hendren entered the Naval Academy in 1905. Mrs. Mary Baker, president, presided. Dancing followed the dinner.
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Fleet Reserve Association
Vivian Laird’s
Navy
Paul Hendren
Naval Base
Los Angeles
Adm
Hendren
Naval Academy
Mary Baker
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