Molotov Hears Three Powers Ambassadors
Elizabeth Bentley, a confessed Communist spy, named about 30 wartime government officials before the House Committee on American Activities. Top figures included Laughlin Currie and Harry D. White, with details of highly secret information said to have reached Russia. She reported to the FBI in 1945 after becoming disillusioned.
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Washington
Congressional
America
Russia
Laughlin Currie
White House
Roosevelt
Harry D. White
Treasury
House
American Activities Committee
Elizabeth T. Bentley
New England
Vassar
FBI
Rented airplane crashes near municipal airport injuring two
Two men, R. E. Sheldon age 25 and Leonard R. Hunt Jr. age 26, were critically and seriously injured in a light Aeronca two seater crash near Municipal Airport while a crowd of observers, including their wives, watched. Both men worked for General Motors on Tweedy Boulevard in South Gate.
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Municipal
R. E. Sheldon
Covina Ave
Leonard R. Hunt Jr
South Gate
Long Beach Naval Hospital
Sheldon
Hunt
General Motors
Tweedy Blvd
Long Beach
Daugherty Flying Service
Spring St
Cherry Ave
Navy
Coast Guard
Hunts
Sheldons
Explosion on Rainbow yacht injures captain at Cerritos station
A flash explosion on the 74 foot Rainbow motor yacht at a Cerritos Channel bunkering station injured Captain Charles Isentat with second degree burns to his face and hands and damaged the salon. Owner Carl Steffin aboard escaped injury. The yacht, valued at about 100000, had just taken on gasoline and the blast blew the salon door off and wrecked the aft deck. Mervin Routledge aided the captain and he was hospitalized briefly. Fire officials reported the yacht’s automatic extinguishing system helped prevent total loss.
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Rainbow
Cerritos Channel
Charles Isentat
Carl Steffin
Isentat
Mervin Routledge
Routledge
Wilmington
Russell Biegel
Frank D. Higbee
Los Angeles
Pessia
Steffin
Salon
Eck
Molotov Talks Bring Western Proposals to Moscow
Western representatives held unexpected interviews with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov in Moscow. U S Ambassador Walter BeGell Smith and Britain's Frank Roberts met him, while France’s Yves Chataigneau also reportedly saw Molotov as four power negotiations to end the cold war began. Vishinsky challenged the West to accept eastern bloc decisions at the Danube conference, and Gen Lucius D. Clay said negotiations could cover the dual currency issue and Berlin airlift tonnage as the French airport nears completion.
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V. M. Molotov
U. S
Walter Be- Gell Smith
Frank Roberts
Britain
Yves Chataigneau
Moscow
Molotov
Esc
Smith
Roberts
London
France
Russia
Valerian Zorin
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Danube
Belgrade
Vishinsky
United States
Europe
Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
G O P Doubts Truman Plea on Price Controls
Republican critics say President Truman’s push for price control and rationing lacks public traction. Sen. Capehart notes no official requests to testify as hearings resume with Paul Porter to explain the program. Few letters reach the committee, and GOPs foresee a midweek draft of legislation with possible cabinet testimony.
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Washington
Truman
Sen. Capehart
R.-Ind
Tobey
Senate Banking Committee
Paul Porter
OPA
Congress
Indiana
Capehart
Banking Committee
Senate
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Daly
Japs Strikes Tangle Union Backed Move Across Tokyo
In Tokyo on August 1 the Government Communications Workers Union joined the National Congress of Industrial Organizations in refusing to recognize the cabinet's no strike order. Railroad workers demand Prime Minister Ashida resign. Leaders warn up to five million public and private employees may walk out to test the cabinet action as 2.6 million civil servants are poised. MacArthur’s command had issued the anti strike order on July 22 as a temporary measure until a Diet ban is enacted.
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Tokyo
National Congress of Industrial Organizations
Hitoshi Ashida
Eal
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
MacArthur
Landlord Accused of Spraying Tenant in Eviction Row
Mrs. Etta Grenzer of San Pedro says the landlord soaked her with a garden hose during an eviction dispute. She led to the arrest of Harry M. Brown, 68, on battery charges following the confrontation.
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Etta Grenzer
San Pedro
Harry M. Brown
Dorothy Keeps Bertie the Bird at Home
Dorothy de Graw, 13, rescued Bertie a sparrow hatchling and nurses him with eye drops cod liver oil and egg yolk. Now three months old Bertie roams the neighborhood with Dorothy as his owner and returns to her at sunset. He is not caged and sleeps in a box prepared by Dorothy.
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Bertie
Dorothy de Graw
Press-Telegram
Boots
Bubbles
Mira Mar Ave
Dorothy
Winifred de Graw
$8000 Narcotics Found in War Assets Safe
In Los Angeles on July 31, Hyman Fink reported finding more than $8000 worth of narcotics in a former Coast Guard safe bought as junk from the War Assets Administration. Locksmith C R Eades opened the safe yesterday and state narcotic officers recovered 30 syrettes of morphine and 1000 opium tablets hidden in a small compartment.
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Los Angeles
Hyman Fink
Coast Guard
War Assets Administration
C. R. Eades
Gasoline Explosion Harms Trucker in Minnesota Incident
In Nashua Minnesota a tank truck driver William Staff aged 30 from Fergus Falls was critically burned when gasoline exploded and hurled him 40 feet. The blast started fires that destroyed several buildings and two vehicles and threatened the western Minnesota town briefly. Investigators suspect a spark from an electric switch triggered the spill.
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Nashua
Min
Minnesota
William Staff
Fergus Falls
Silvermaster Denies Charge In Boston Philadelphia Row
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Russian-born former government economist, denies involvement in a Communist spy ring after Elizabeth Bentley linked him in Washington. The Silvermasters, at their Long Beach Park New Jersey cottage, call Bentley's testimony an old, peddled story.
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Philadelphia
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Washington
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Red
Peepaeeter
Miss Bentley
House Committee On un-American Activities
Long Beach Park
N. J
Silvermasters
Bentley
OSS Secrets and D Day Previews Allegations
A speaker testified that the OSS had early knowledge of D-Day and operations in the Balkans including parachutists and surrender talks. She claimed Currie and White were among about 100 people aware, with details continued on Page A-8.
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Office of Strategic Services
OSS
Balkans
Currie
White
Los Angeles River Freeway Plan Drafted by Officials
State county and city agree ment drafted for Los Angeles River Freeway. An artificial park is being created on 16 acres along the San Gabriel River.
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Long Beach
Los Angeles River
San Gabriel River
California Island Amazons Legend Attributed To Early Historian
A Teletype note on Page B-6 cites a claim that California was once an island inhabited by black women living as Amazons with no men, a statement attributed to an early historian.
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California
Local Newspaper Page Listings Summary
The listing shows section and page references for assorted content including crossword puzzles editorials local news questions and answers passing show public forum radio log sports theaters waterfront and women activities across pages A-1 A-10 A-11 B-1 B-2 B-6 B-7 B-10 D-1 to D-5 and Section C.
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Navy Colony
Long Beach Resident Dies of Poliomyelitis
Orthmette Bauer aged 29 of 314 Heath Lane Long Beach died at County General Hospital Los Angeles yesterday from infantile paralysis. The July toll in Los Angeles County rises to 20 deaths and 467 hospitalizations statewide.
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Orthmette Bauer
Heath Lane
County General Hospital
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Czech Mother Welcomes Quads Born at Home and Hospital
A laborer's wife in Krasova near Brno gave birth to quadruplets the first time in 20 years in Czechoslovakia. The first baby arrived at home, then she rode to Brno hospital and walked up stairs before the remaining three were born. The smallest weighed 38 ounces.
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Pracs
Czechoslovakia
Adele N. Nemcova
Krasova
Brno
Antonin Cernochi
Brno Maternity Hospital
Mine Kills All 14 of Fish Boat's Crew
The French fishing boat Pluviose struck a mine in the English Channel late yesterday and 14 crewmen were killed. Port authorities announced the deaths today.
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Dieppe
France
English Channel
Uncaged Lions Terrify Crowd at Forbes Field Circus
Three lions escaped their cage during a police circus at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh drawing a 10 000 plus audience. The lions wandered onto the field as a trapeze act began prompting police and circus staff to intervene. The lions returned to their cage without incident.
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Pittsburgh
Forbes Field
Coe
Lamb market slump ends owner’s appetite in Kansas City
Market owner James Harlow said buyer resistance to lamb has ended his own appetite for the meal. He recalled buying a lamb last Saturday and selling none at his asking price, then spent the week eating lamb himself and doubting future sales.
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Kansas City
James Harlow
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