More Navy Ships for Long Beach Urged
Long Beach should receive more U S Navy ships as other ports are crowded. Chamber of Commerce committee chair C T Furrer urged Rep Clyde Doyle that Los Angeles should transport oil for fleet operations from the Long Beach port and the cruiser Los Angeles may be overhauled locally rather than at northern yards. The shipyard can handle repairs and the local personnel are numerous.
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Long Beach
C. T. Furrer
Chamber of Commerce Armed Services Committee
Clyde Doyle
Furrer
Pacific
Long Beach Los Angeles
Chamber
Davie
Los Angeles
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Duelling revived by German youth shocks educators
Bonn dispatch reports secret duelling revived at German universities with heavy sabers and feudal ritual. Educators alarmed as bans, police raids, and prosecutions loom. some see honor and national pride, others warn of Nazi links and anti Semitism amid debates on the practice.
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Bonn
Germany
Kiel University
Theodor Huess
Thomas Dehler
German Duelling Association
Duelling Association
Karl Weizsaecker
Weinheimer Corpsstudentischen Arbeitsgemeinschufe
Otto Hess
German Democratic Students Association
American High Commission
Neue Zeitung
Socialist Reich Party
Grading Work Nears Finish At Long Beach Ball Park
Long Beach city grades a corner lot at Carson Street and Bellflower Boulevard in Lakewood for a kid's baseball diamond. Dr Frank Harnett says completion will occur in a few days with a temporary backstop to be installed by the recreation department. A $40,000 development plan is expected later but likely not this year.
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City of
Long Beach
Carson St
Bellflower Blvd
Lakewood
Frank Harnett
Municipal Recreation
Public Service Department
Recreation Department
Harnett
Army Tests Flying Saucers for Field Supply Discs
The Army announced it is testing disc shaped containers to drop from altitudes of 400 to 2000 feet that hold five gallons of liquids. Made with General Tire and Rubber Co, the inflated pancake like discs stretch to near double size on impact, rebound, and settle near contact.
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Washington
General Tire and Rubber Co
Army
Mother Kills Children Self in Easton House Tragedy
In Easton a 34 year old woman under psychiatric care hanged her two children Maria ten and James six from a stair railing and then stabbed herself in the chest before placing her head in a gas oven. Detective Ewadinger said James Liebermann returned from Bethlehem Steel work to find the bodies. The deputy coroner said the mother had been treated for mood disorders for years and neighbors recalled her fear of harming the children.
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Easton
Matthew Ewadinger
James W. Liebermann
Bethlehem Steel Co
Bethlehem
Maria
James
Ewadinger
Noted Inventor Kettering, 75
DAYTON Ohio Aug 29 The man who invented the first successful automobile self starter and later headed General Motors research is 75 today. Charles F Kettering spoke of seeing great advances and urged focusing on progress. He retired in 1947 as GM vice president and criticized Russia, claiming Western innovation leads.
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Dayton
Ohio
General Motors Corp
Charles F. Kettering
Kettering
Mother to Demand Probe in Death of Son
The mother of George Lawrence Sturdevant says she will travel to Minnesota to pursue an inquiry into his April 21 1946 death at the St Cloud Reformatory. An autopsy by Dr Richard O Myers and Dr Frederick Newbarr found multiple skull fractures but no neck injury, casting doubt on a suicide ruling.
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Los Angeles
George Lawrence Sturdevant
Minnesota
St. Cloud
Charles G. ‘Olsen
St.’ Paul
KSTP
Sturdevant
Olsen
Richard 0. Myers
University of Southern California
Frederick Newbarr
Dr. Newbarr
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