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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1948
Page
2
Tokyo August 24 Dennis McEvoy of Chicago Far Eastern director of Readers Digest was elected president of the first American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge signs a security forces transfer with President Syngman Rhee moving police, constabulary, and coast guard to the new republic’s jurisdiction. Hodge will depart for Tokyo then Washington. Maj. Gen. John B. Coulter to succeed him. Truman commends Hodge for Korea work. The north remains under a puppet regime.
Former Japanese sub-Lt. Mangan Stanley was executed at Stanley jail for the murder of Australian missionary Rev. Leonard Kentish on Aroe Island February 5 1943.
Prudential Insurance Co will transfer employees and records from Newark to Los Angeles for its new western division. Eight Pullmans and four baggage cars will transport 79 families and 20 000 pounds of records, with service continuing during the move. Apartments are arranged in Los Angeles, and the shift aims to complete by Sept 8. Temperatures forecast in the 90s to over 100, with a heat wave across much of the nation.
Chicago dispatch notes another sweltering day as Summer's first sustained heat wave continues from the Rockies into a broad region of the country. Heat alerts and high temperatures are expected to affect multiple areas today.
Mrs. Meinley Burnett, 39, of between here and Harlan, was bitten by a rattlesnake while testi fying at a service in the Free Pentecostal Church of East Pineville. She says the spirit leads her to handle snakes and was hospitalized at Pineville Community Hospital where she was reported recovering.
Mrs. Sarah Kruse, 67, seeks alimony and maintenance from husband William, 69, after celebrating a golden wedding anniversary. She says they live in separate apartments on a farm owned by a son in law, he refuses to provide support and bars her from his apartment, and she is in poor health needing medical care. She notes he earns $60 a month from chicken farming.
Workers restoring a family home in Concord uncover a 19th century Emerson letter written when Ralph Waldo Emerson was 13. The note is addressed to his aunt Mary Moody Emerson, alongside a letter from Emerson's grandfather, Rev.
Buckingham Palace says King George VI Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret will tour New Zealand in March as part of a wider Australasia trip. They depart Britain January 27 aboard the battleship Vanguard and plan a cruise route via Panama to Wellington returning through the Cape of Good Hope.
The two historical figures, William Emerson from 1776 and an unnamed pastor William Hobby, have been turned over to Harvard University Library for safekeeping ensuring their preservation.
Russians freed 14 308 Japanese from Kuriles and Siberian POW camps. They were sent back to Japan during the week ending August 19.
Handsome white enamel finish large built-in refrigeration ideal for hot dog stand flower shop or malt stand owner sacrifices as very attractive price for quick sale terms if desired call Mr Petersen Trinity 1845 Los Angeles or write Box No P 2222
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