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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1947
Page
7
Augusta resident Gregory Sullivan, who borrowed books from a Hamburg library before the war, received two volumes in response to his inquiry about resuming the lending service. He had sent a list of titles in 1939.
The Naval Air Transport Service celebrated six years of operation with praise from John Nicholas Brown. Since its December 12 1941 founding after Pearl Harbor, NATS has flown 186,736 passenger miles with no passenger fatalities and carried crucial cargo worldwide. It has conducted many special flights including a 1947 Europe mission pivoting to verse serum transport to Cairo amid a cholera outbreak.
Communists in eastern Germany sent telegrams to politicians across the four occupation zones protesting plans for an economically unified western Germany. The texts from the Soviet backed Socialist Unity party urged party leaders to reject any move aimed at dividing Germany.
In Vatican City on December 17 an encyclical urging Catholics worldwide to pray for peace will be published within a few days, according to informed Vatican sources.
A tiny slug of radium from a London hospital, about three thousandth of an ounce, was recovered from a vast refuse dump forty miles away. Officials and physicists traced the radioactive particle using detectors, fearing radiation endangerment to the public.
Mrs. Thelma Klock reports her purse with 48 dollars and a diamond ring stolen while shopping downtown. Mrs. Leonard J. Stephens says her purse containing 69 dollars was taken from a shopping bag during an art class.
A pilot from the 23rd Fighter Group died when his P47 pursuit plane crashed while approaching Guam Northwest air field. The pilot’s identity was withheld pending notification of next of kin.
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