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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1948
Page
2
The judge in the I. G. Farben directors trial ruled that the presented evidence does not show any German industrialist guilty of conspiring with Adolf Hitler to wage war. He noted the evidence fails to establish a criminal connection to aggressive war planning.
In Columbia, Thurmond accuses President Truman of hiding Communist influence in government and links civil rights efforts to communism. Indiana judge Shake discusses Farben trial outcomes and asserts the central issue is establishing personal responsibility in international law.
Fort Morgan Colorado reports a court session where traffic violators paid fines including Police Chief Homer Morse who was fined one dollar for over parking in a one hour zone.
Storms and heavy rain scour the south coasts of England and Ireland with several ship mishaps. A gust capsized a steam launch near Kew Bridge injuring five. a Thames Estuary yacht lost its mast. Kekionga reported overdue near Rosslare. Mauretania awaited passengers outside Cork. Costello boarded near Cork after attempting to sail to the United States. Scat, Hastings rainfall reduced visibility. Shetland avoided rain for a month. Water shortages hit Scalloway with 700 residents cut to 11 hours daily.
Elaine Monesmith a twelve year old from Dayton Ohio arrived home from a Belgian Congo safari with her father J T Monesmith. She boasted two elephants seven buffalo a lion five leopards three hippos two rhinoceroses four crocodiles and many antelopes along with several close calls during the perilous journey. She plans another safari with her father in January.
W C Arnold, Alaska salmon industry leader, denounces Interior Department officials for closing southeastern Alaska to salmon fishing. He says orders by Albert Day of the Fish and Wildlife Service are unjustified and threaten regional jobs and the territory’s economy.
Rapid City dispatch reports a prairie fire 50 miles southeast in uninhabited territory. Public relations officer Capt. Thomas Siegler said the base received a call for all available men to fight the blaze, likely from an aircraft above the burning area.
Hopis of Second Mesa Arizona and Sioux of Pine Ridge South Dakota led the Gallup intertribal ceremonial after the first half of performances. The annual celebration brings about 8000 people, 3000 tribesmen, and visitors from 38 states and DC. Final rankings to be announced tonight.
Annetta Newman, 30, wed John Taylor, 30, a father of six, in a lawn ceremony outside a Somerdale tap room amid delays from shifting the altar and testing the PA system. The event followed her public vow to marry a widower with many children, drawing hundreds of letters and widespread notoriety.
The late Father Flanagan told the Army that crime detective and adventure films harm Austrian youths. Welfare authorities call them Hollywood productions and police warn they incite hungry youths to imitate criminal acts for money. The report recounts Austria’s youth woes including malnutrition, tuberculosis, and poor housing.
John A. Grable, 63, a retired Army warrant officer, died from head injuries after being struck by a motorcycle on El Camino Real near Lomita Park. The rider, Jack Centers, 20, of Lomita Park, suffered severe cuts to the mouth.
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