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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1947
Page
2
In Louisville on August 28 a rally by the Little Below the Knee Club and a men’s auxiliary urged keeping hems short and opposed Paris fashion dictates. Spokespersons argued long skirts are uncomfortable and unattractive, with Mrs. Neale Cox leading and claiming 1265 women promised to maintain the status quo.
The United States presses Europe to craft a reasonable, realistic Marshall Plan as nations prepare formal estimates. Lovett says aid demands must fall by next year while home needs receive top priority in screening European requests before Congress. State Department officials travel to Paris to aid officials in finalizing a four year aid schedule.
Joseph Bray a 37 year old father of 13 awaits work after seven years on relief. He fled with an 18 year old baby sitter. Officials sought a job for Bray at East Los Angeles wire works, but manager Harold Stromm refused entry and threw out investigators amid a clash with wire baskets.
In Tupeo Mississippi Rep. John E Rankin 65 announces his bid for the U S Senate seat to succeed the late Theodore G Bilbo who died last week from cancer and complications Two other candidates Circuit Judge John Stennis and State Supreme Clerk Toi Q Ellis have entered the November 4 race
Property owners in Lake Elsinore banded together to form the Elsinore Valley Protective Association to oppose a fee demanded by the Lake Elsinore Development Corp of Los Angeles. D. Washburn, elected president, said the company leased lake bottom land and required annual charges from lake-front property owners.
Aug. 28 near Los Angeles the Trailways strike by Santa Fe drivers continues with most pickets removed pending a company settlement plan. The sole dispute centers on retroactive pay though the union says the wage offer is satisfactory. The stoppage has tied up the western division from Trinidad Colorado to El Paso Texas and the West Coast.
Attempts to recover the bodies of 32 Marines killed in a transport plane crash on South Tahoma Glacier, Mt. Rainier, were abandoned today, leaving the remains at the high altitude site.
Three British transports carrying four thousand four hundred Jewish refugees from the Exodus 1947 sailed from Gibraltar this morning toward Hamburg in the British zone of Germany. An accompanying naval escort accompanied the ships.
In Helens Oregon two males and a female beaver hired to build a dam for a 4000 person town vanish unexpectedly. City officials say the trio, obtained from the Oregon State Game Commission, disappeared after a progress check that found no dams or plans and left officials puzzled about their purpose or fate.
SACRAMENTO Aug 28 California's first postwar State Fair opens at 6 p m with a pageant marking the centennial celebration. Officials predict huge crowds despite light rain with 1500 cast. Attendance may exceed 1 000 000 by Sept 7 surpassing 1941 peak. County exhibits expand as San Jose Monterey Vallejo and Benicia delegations join a centennial program of premiers shows and events.
Berlin authorities move the massive air raid shelter near the Zoological Gardens, once sheltering 30,000 people and serving as a wartime hospital, toward demolition after the war. Notable wartime figures linked include Hermann Goering who reportedly sought safety there.
Batavia reported that Republican forces intensified raids across Java and Sumatra with Dutch troops under frequent fire. A UPROA bulletin records 19 clashes yesterday, with two Dutch soldiers killed and eight wounded, raising total Dutch casualties to 87 killed, 242 wounded, and two missing since the UN cease fire took effect at midnight Aug 4.
Mrs Norton H Pearl, president of the American Legion Auxiliary, told the 29th annual convention that Auxiliary membership rose from 800000 to 920000 in the past year and would reach 1000000 in the near future.
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