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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1948
Page
6
Muscatine Iowa April 21 A bread price war reaches new heights as grocers offer free bread with grocery purchases and shoppers pay ten cents if buying only bread. The move follows a supermarket cutting bread from 17 to 12 cents, with rivals dropping to a dime.
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Washington officials fear Communist defeat in Italy could push Reds toward force instead of politics. Italy’s new parliament set to reorganize by May 8, with Yugoslavia seen as a potential spillover gate. Saragat promised that reorganization would exclude Communist officials as Italy moves toward western integration.
Hollywood personalities led by George Murphy Chico Marx William Holden and Eddie Bracken planned to fly to Laramie Wyoming for a benefit show tonight. Proceeds address city’s needy and rebuilding the business district after last week’s 3 million dollar fire.
Senator Morse blasts the 1940s unity law as a flop and urges Congress to create a single Defense Department with one chief of staff. He proposes an Undersecretary of Staff and separate assistant secretaries for Army Navy and Air Defense to streamline defense.
The Admiralty said British air, sea and submarine forces will maneuver in the North Sea between the Orkneys and Norway on May 13 and 14. The exercises involve two battleships a carrier a cruiser 11 destroyers four frigates 10 submarines and about 135 planes.
Ashington April 21 Republican hopes of winning the presidential elections may lead the Senate to block President Truman's move to extend terms of the Atomic Energy Commission. Taft said Republicans may refuse to confirm any Truman nominees, risking the five commissioners' reappointment and forcing recess appointments if needed.
The 82nd Fighter Group of the U S Air Forces arrived at Ladd Field Fairbanks Alaska from Grenier AFB Manchester New Hampshire for training. The group includes the 95th 96th and 97th fighter squadrons under Col Henry Viccellio and flies P51 Mustangs. They traveled via Great Falls Montana and western Canada.
Venice reports former Oregon State Journal women's section editor Nancy Cox aged 62 was found dead in her Portland apartment. Death attributed to natural causes.
The 90 foot concrete Tower of Legends at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale was demolished by workers yesterday. The toppled structure concealed a water tank and stood on a hill that will be cleared for a cathedral auditorium.
Lone survivor Marc Worst arrived by plane from New York after a Pan American flight crash at Shannon, Erie, on April 15 that killed 30 people. He was met by his mother Mrs. Carl T. Worst of Roscoe. Worst, 38, managed Lockheed aircraft's Shannon base.
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