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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1948
Page
5
New York reports Babe Ruth's death underscoring cancer's grip despite surgery X rays and experimental therapies. Ruth underwent biopsy, radium implants and daily X rays at Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases with doctors noting metastasis and uncertain autopsy findings.
Iva Toguri D AQuino, known as Tokyo Rose, was ordered returned to San Francisco with 15 Japanese witnesses to face a federal grand jury on treason charges. The arrest ends a life of doubt after years of investigation and mixed public speculation about her wartime radio broadcasts. She was born in Watts California, studied at UCLA, married in Tokyo, and has waited for U.S. action while living in a Tokyo suburb with her interpreter husband. Only a U.S. citizen can be charged with treason.
Lloyd E. Williamson of Lomita California and Kenneth H. Braden of Sacramento were jailed on suspicion of robbing a Hollywood bar of 1172 dollars. Police said they matched the bandit description from last night’s hold up of bar owner Anthony Notti.
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