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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1948
Page
4
Churchill remains in AIX EN PROVENCE during a six week visit. He receives a bouquet arranged in a large V and comments that the victory was costly and must be guarded carefully.
Senator McKellar of Tennessee said he will support President Truman in the November election, denying reports of Tennesseans backing Thurmond. The announcement follows Crump-linked backing and contrasts with other Southern Democrats inclined to sit out or back electors opposed to Truman.
The Shanghai Bankers' Association challenged the government’s push to back the gold yuan by fixing loan rates at 15 percent monthly. The Central Bank of China capped government bank and bureau loans at 3 percent, while private banks appear unconstrained.
Three sailors were listed as killed and a fourth missing after a spectacular fire and series of explosions at a Navy gasoline tank farm in Guam on Sunday.
Beulah Louise Overell 19, heiress, will marry Los Angeles police officer Robert Cannon next May or June. Cannon, former Air Force gunnery instructor and radio patrolman, proposed last Friday. Overell and a former fiancé were acquitted of murder in the yacht blast deaths of her parents in Newport Harbor on March 15, 1947.
A 69 year old retiree from Pasadena long plagued by hiccups for nearly two years finally found relief with a simple technique. Theodore L. Syvertson tried many cures, but the end came when Joseph Wollert urged him to bend and drink from the far side of a glass. Midway through the second glass the hiccups stopped and have not returned.
More than 300000 government officials would be required to pass competitive exams if civil service reforms pass the Diet. Blaine Hoover of Chicago says the changes aim to replace the bureaucratic system with a responsible civil service, expanding reforms from MacArthur’s July 21 letter to Prime Minister Yoshio Ashio.
Sen. McCarthy said veterans can build homes under the new housing act with little or no down payment by using GI Bill loans and FHA coverage of 90 to 95 percent for cooperative ventures. He outlined steps for groups to organize, price sites, arrange down payments, and seek FHA guidance.
Airman Peter Jordan, an R A F pilot, spent a week in the Soviet zone after a forced Vampire jet landing near Lubeck Germany. He said he was treated well by Russians though he disliked Russian style cooking and vodka breakfast. Fuel shortage caused the forced landing, per an R A F spokesman.
Sherry's Fine Foods at 129 East Ocean Blvd offers complete luncheons from 1 A M to 4 30 P M and complete dinners from 4 30 P M to 4 A M with cup soup and a dessert included. A special attraction runs hourly with free parking at Ocean Center Building near Besse and Pine.
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