Portola Reenactment Arrives at San Gabriel Mission
Portola and 14 riders reach San Gabriel Mission reenactment marking 179 years from his first stop en route from San Diego to San Francisco Bay. They cross Rio Hondo on a modern bridge, rest after a fiesta, then head toward Los Angeles, with E. E. Kleck portraying Portola.
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San Gabriel
Don Gaspar de Portola
San Gabriel Mission
San Diego
San Francisco Bay
Portola
Rio Hondo
Montebello
Pueblo of
Los Angeles
California
San Francisco
E. E
Dick) Kleck
San Luis Obispo County
Decrease Noted in Crime Cases in Harbor Area
The Long Beach harbor area shows fewer felony complaints in the 1947 48 fiscal year with 535 filed against 641 defendants, down from 597 complaints and 697 defendants the previous year. Trials remained 71. preliminary felony hearings rose to 461 from 458, while misdemeanor prosecutions dropped from 38 to 19.
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Long Beach
Ted Sten
Baltimore Youth in Fatal Stabbing and Suicide
In Aberdeen Maryland on July 31 a 25 year old Baltimore youth named Duncan Livingstone Jr. strangled his 18 year old girlfriend Shirley Will, drove with her body for hours, then shot himself. Police said the youth told his father he had killed her and planned to die. Doctors gave a 50-50 chance of life tonight.
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Aberdeen
Baltimore
Duncan Livingstone Jr
Shirley Will
Livingstone
Thief Steals Steak Hiding It In Pocket
George Nickel admitted taking $2.35 worth of steak from a Milwaukee meat market and hid the meat in his hip pocket. He was fined $50 in West Allis Police Court for disorderly conduct.
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Milwaukee
George Nickel
West Allis
Nickel
Indigestion Triggers Mint Guard Alarm at U S Facility
A bookkeeper at the United States Mint in Denver belches four times triggering a security alarm. Moses Smith describes the vaults storing five story worth of gold and the meticulous processing of bath water and clothing to recover gold dust. Mint workers operate heavy machinery weighing coins and have scales to verify coins in every batch.
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Moses Smith
Belching
Denver Mint
Smith
Jon
Camera Guild and Cinema Club at Flower Show
Camera Guild and Cinema Club join showing amateur 8 and 16 mm color slides of flowers arrangements and gardens at the Flower Show in Municipal Auditorium from Thursday to Sunday. Afternoon and evening shows with final show at 7 p m Sunday. prizes to be awarded. S. Roy Erickson and Jack Lloyd lead committees for the two groups.
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Camera Guild
Cinema Club
Municipal Auditorium
Mera
Los A Ee
S. Roy Erickson
Jack Lloyd
Monkey Outwits Kentucky Scientists in Zoo Escape Tale
At the University of Kentucky, a clever monkey named John fled his cage and eluded researchers for weeks. He raids the bio logical science area and dodges traps as Dr. Edney and neighbors plot capture with creative methods.
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Sxington
John
University of Kentucky
Darwin
Phyllis
Biological Science
John M. Edney
University Zoological Department
Edney
Byrd’s Son Weds Solon’s Daughter in Dover Ceremony
Miss Emily Saltonstall daughter of Senator Leverett Saltonstall wed Richard E. Byrd Jr. son of Admiral Richard E. Byrd in a Dover Massachusetts ceremony at a village church. The bride wore heirloom lace. attendants included Helen Byrd and Susan Saltonstall.
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Dover
Mass
Emily Saltonstall
Leverett Saltonstall
Richard E. Byrd Jr
Richard E. Byrd
Dover Village
Susan
Helen Byrd
Carleton Bush
Needum
Leverett Jr
William L. Saltonstall
Beverly
Harry Byrd Jr
Miss Saltonstall
Byrd
Harvard
Pacific
Naval
Antarctic
Israel Restoring Order in Palestine after Mandate End
Lake Success July 31. Israel says internal order is being restored rapidly. A police force of over 1400 officers has been recruited since the British mandate ended May 15. Arab policemen are used in Arab areas, with 15 Arabs on duty in Jaffa as the nucleus of an Arab unit in the Israeli police.
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Lake Success
Israel
United Nations
Jaffa
Three in Family Die in Two Crashes
In Virginia two crashes claim three family members. James and Mary White, siblings, died in an early morning collision on U S Route 1 near Woodbridge. Moments later their mother Mary Eliza Pugh, 62, of Grifton North Carolina, was killed in a second crash nearby.
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Alexandria
James
Mary White
Woodbridge
Mary Eliza Pugh
Grifton
N. C
Cooler Tomorrow Says Weatherman
A respite from warm weather is promised for Long Beach and vicinity tomorrow, with little temperature change today. The forecast calls for clear conditions today and tomorrow with low fogs tonight and Monday. Yesterday’s high in Long Beach reached 84 degrees.
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Long Beach
Weather Bureau
Archives Reveal How Pig Almost Triggered U S War
The 1859 incident on San Juan Island involved a British owned pig killed by American Lyman Cutler. The clash nearly sparked war between the United States and Britain, leading to a joint military occupation and later border settlement in 1872.
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Waashington
State Department
United States
Britain
Department
U. S
San Juan
Vancouver Island
Washington
U.S
Hudson’s Bay Co
Lyman A. Cutler
Cutler
Wes
London
Subsidy Urged to Secure Veterans Rental Housing
State Sen. Gerald O Gara of San Francisco told the Marine Corps League assembly that a subsidy is necessary to provide adequate rental housing for veterans. He said the goal is housing at 50 dollars a month or less, with subsidies making up the difference to avoid owner losses.
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San Francisco
Gerald O’gara
O’gara
Legislative Interim Committee On
Marine Corps League
Department of California
Salmon Packers Call for Slowdown Probe in Unloading
The Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc. of Seattle urged the Justice Department to investigate an alleged slowdown in salmon unloading. Waterfront Employers' Association spokesman cited Seattle longshore gangs delivering only 250 cases of canned salmon per hour, marking an all time low.
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San Francisco
Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc
Seattle
Department of Justice
Waterfront Employers’ Association
Escapee alleges whisky access at Palomar camp
Verl K. Snyder, 23, who escaped from Palomar Mountain road camp, says inmates easily obtain whisky and benzedrine inhalers. Camp superintendent W. M. Bonham confirms probing the liquor situation. If his charges are found reliable, a full-scale conduct investigation will be opened, says DeGraff Austin.
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San Diego
Palomar Mountain
W. M. Bonham
Palomar
Bonham
Verl K. Snyder
Tribune-Sun
Snyder
DeGraff Austin
County Board of Supervisors
Filippo Mazzei Lodge Set to Install Saturday NLB
The Filippo Mazzei Lodge of the Order of the Sons of Italy will install Saturday night at North Long Beach Masonic Hall Long Beach Blvd and Plymouth St. New lodge charter will be presented then a dance and refreshments follow. Acting president Salvatore Fusco notes 40 members already. Permanent officers to be chosen later.
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Mazzei Lodge
Order of the Sons of Italy
North Long Beach Masonic Hall
Long Beach Blvd
Plymouth St
Salvatore Fusco
Fusco
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