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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1948
Page
2
The City Council approved an agreement with R. C. Schleker to install up to two popcorn vending machines in the Municipal Airport Administration building. Schleker will pay the city 30 percent of gross receipts.
The Young China party paper from Nanking and Kuling says Chiang Kai-shek may resume absolute power to rule by decree under emergency authority. The executive Yuan bans student demonstrations and labor actions, allows home searches for subversive activity, while officials dispute the report of an imminent emergency move.
A 45 year old woman Ada Hansen is held on suspicion of murder after she says she poisoned her husband Otto Hansen at his request and buried his body in pieces near a cabin. She described dismembering him with a boning knife and hatchet and tending a flower garden over the grave. District Attorney Ed Vilas noted she repeatedly claimed the husband, aged about 48, had forced the poisoning. he died within an hour after taking sleeping capsules. The couple had lived in several states before California. The remains were discovered after reports of a foul odor.
Mrs Ettie Garner the wife and confidante of former Vice President John Nance Garner died at 78 in her Texas home. Survived by son Tully and granddaughter Mrs John Currie, funeral set for 4 p.m. today with burial in Texas. Garner was at her side. the couple married in Sabinal in 1895.
Santa Barbara on August 18 reports the body of French dancer Maur cyan Gunsett discovered in her studio yesterday. The coroner found sleeping pills near the body and said the woman had been dead since last Friday.
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