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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1948
Page
3
Police in Take Maryland seek a firebug linked to at least 12 incendiary fires since a mine theft. Explosive sticks were found at the water tower and a paper mill site, with authorities tying the arsons to missing dynamite and fuses from a Westernport mine operator.
Weather maps show cooler air lingering from the Dakotas to the Atlantic with near freezing temps near Minnesota and New England and 40s as far south as the lower Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. Rain falls in the Pacific and middle Atlantic regions as well as parts of Ohio Indiana and Michigan. Highs in the Rockies and upper Missouri Valley. Yesterday's peak reached 97 in Phoenix Arizona.
Millbrook Illinois residents bring 25 tractors to Harlan Bryant’s 300 acre farm after his wife and 5 year old son died in a tractor accident. Neighbors plowed 150 acres by night, spread manure, and prepared fields for corn planting as 45 workers toiled from dawn to dusk. Local women provided meals.
Baltimore residents anticipate a large bronze monument featuring Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The statue, depicting their parting before the Battle of Chancellorsville, aims to mark a Civil War era remembrance amid city preparations.
The Fish and Wildlife Service approved Minnesota plans to convert the lower Whitewater River area into a $1,000,000 game refuge and public hunting ground, reforming farmland and orchards into wild habitat once settled by pioneers.
Nanking April 29 Li Tsung jen known as Lion of the North was elected vice president of China today. He defeated incumbent Sun Fo 1433 to 1295 and the office carries limited power beyond succession to Chiang Kai shek. The vote signals a minor setback for the Kuomintang right wing.
Vernon April 29 Edgar W. Taylor a 30 year old electrician of Wilmar was killed by a short circuit last night while repairing a switch at the Bethlehem Steel plant.
Denver police arrested Rev. John H. Wimner a 48 year old Nazarene preacher on assault to injure charges after his two sons Donald 15 and Homer 14 showed welts from a rubber hose beaten for ditching school. Wimner said he demanded obedience and that he took proper steps to ensure it.
Actress Mary Beth Hughes and singer David Street are honeymooning after their wedding at the Little Brown Church in the Valley. Hughes previously married actor Michael North. Street was previously married to Lois Andrews whose marriage ended in annulment following a nightclub custody dispute.
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