War Came to L. B. on Christmas Eve
Ten years ago on December 24 1941 a Japanese submarine entered the Catalina Channel and torpedoed the lumber steamer Absaroka killing one seaman. Depth charges rattled the masthead Christmas tree as the fleet of lumber steamers dwindled to seven, with the SS Cricket laid up for sale and the Lumberlady the remaining vessel. Coast Guard and shipboard crews observed Christmas traditions aboard diverse ships while officials announce new leadership in the American Tunaboat Association and a Newport News to Long Beach ketch voyage.
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Long Beach
Catalma Channel
Absaroka
Pacific Northwest
San Francisco
Los Angeles Harbor
San Diego
Qwens Parks
Lumberlady
Hudson to unveil new light car in 1952 summer
A. B. Barit of Hudson Motor Car Co spoke at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco about an upcoming light car for the 1952 season. He said the model would be lighter than present Hudsons, seat six, cost hundreds less than the cheapest current model, and be as sensational in its class as the Hudson Hornet. Barit also commented on a hopeful 1952 economy amid inflationary pressures and new defense spending. Hudson executives from Detroit attended, marking the final of four dealer meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Faelsco
A. EB. Barit
Hudson Motor Car Co
Fairmont Hotel
Barit
Hudson
Detroit
N. K. VanDerzee
S Co
A. J. Hadley
G. R. Browder
Rey D. Chapin ,Jr
W. L. Courage
H. c. Levis
United States
American Airlines
Douglas
Douglas Aircraft
Port's Transit Shed Space Increasing
Port of Long Beach expands transit shed capacity to meet diversified cargoes with a target of 1 million square feet. Current facilities include nearly 750,000 square feet on Pier A plus 140,000 square feet on Pier 2, an old shed near 40,000 feet, and a small Pier D shed, with private facilities from Procter Gamble and Richfield Oil. The harbor spans 85,200 linear feet of frontage, 12,000 municipal feet improved, 15,200 feet improved private, 34,000 linear feet of paved streets, a 200-car rail yard, and 22 miles of track, plus 23 municipal berths, 11 private berths, and 20 Navy berths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pier A
Coast Guard Academy List Closes January 1
The Coast Guard announces a January 1 deadline to apply for entry to the Coast Guard Academy at New London Connecticut. The 11th District seeks at least 200 applicants across Southern California Bakersfield southward part of Nevada and all of Arizona. Existing service personnel may apply if meeting age and physical requirements. Information available at the district office Times Building 215 American Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Coast Guard Academy
New London
Ferryboat Put in Bay Service
A new omreer ferryboat built by Fellows & Stewart boat yard went into service last week between San Diego city wharf and North Island. The steel hulled passenger craft cost about $40,000 to build and is owned by Star & Crescent Co., a major San Diego vessel operator.
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Fellows & Stewart Boat Yard
San Diego
City Wharf
North Island
Star & Crescent Co
New Goosesteppers Boss Explains Aim
Hannover December 2. Count Westarp called the brain behind a Nazilike party in West Germany outlines a national socialist aim. He rejects racism and one party rule, favors private enterprise with state direction in emergencies, and advocates a strong executive and national rearmament. The interview notes extremists may join and warns allied denazification policies helped birth the group.
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Hannover
Germany
Count Wolf von Westarn
Socialist Reich Party
West Germany
Count Westarp
Hitler
Russia
Westarp
Plane Talk on United air coach service Pacific Coast
United Air Lines plans New Year Day launch of coast to coast coach flights from Long Beach to major Pacific cities. Northbound routes reach Burbank, Oakland and San Francisco with connections to Portland and Seattle Tacoma. southbound to San Diego. Coach fares highlight savings versus regular flights.
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Long Beach
Pacific Coast
United Air Lines
Walt Wehner
United
Burbank
Oakland
San Francisco
Pacific Northwest
Portland
Seattle- Tacoma
San Diego
Westarp Holds Firm On Europe Order And German Policy
Westarp denounces Western allied plans for German rearmament and urges a Europe based on a third force joining West European nations. He argues Russia will not yet press war, warns against arming Germany, and says Germany could regain lost eastern territories through diplomacy with Russia, not America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Westarp
Germany
America
John J. McCloy
Russia
Shrine Club to Install Officers in January
Long Beach Shrine Club members will install new officers January 8 at the Wilton Hotel. Wesley M. Sutton will lead as president, succeeding Cecil uleher, with Dr. Frank E. Weld as vice president, Louis J. Antinson as secretary, and Frank C. Blair as treasurer. New board members are John B. Marshall, Dr. Charles E. Cresmer, and George L. Duff. Sutton also serves with El Bekal Temple chanters.
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Long Beach
Shrine Hospital For Cripple Children
Los Angeles
Sutton
Chanters
el Bekal Temple
Frederick Shaffer
Air Force assignments and promotions from World War II era records
The report lists Leroy Carpenter and John Johnson with military education and commands at Fort Leavenworth and Fort MacArthur. It notes promotions for Charles E. Welch of Long Beach and details Lt Francis Ru Atkins and his radar duties aboard a B 26 during a raid in the Sinanju area with 17 Communist vehicles destroyed.
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Pfe
Leroy Carpenter
Hubert E. Welch
Marwick
Verne Nelson
Ave
Air Force
Matney Ave
Sam Antonio
Texas
Chanute
John Johnson
Vermont St
Command and General Staff Co
Jeze
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Charles E. Welch
Long Beach
U. S. Air Force
Welch
Francis Ru Atkins
Elss St
Sinanju
Atkins
Vivian
Elsa St
Girl Scouts Sing Carols Through Long Beach VA Halls
Twenty Girl Scouts from Troop 197 toured most halls of the Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital yesterday afternoon singing Christmas carols for patients. Led by De Anna Meadows on muted cornet, troop leaders Mrs. Jane Maher and Mrs. Irene Thorne oversaw the activity to lift spirits and exercise voice and lungs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital
de Anna Meadows
Jane Maher
Irene Thorne
Air Force eases cadet entry for airmen in U S
Air Force experiments to widen aviation cadet access by allowing airmen with at least 19 months active duty and two years of college to compete for cadet training in the United States. Qualified candidates begin flying training in April 1952 under a program led by Maj. Gen. Kirke B. Lawton at Fort Monmouth.
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Bud Winder
CAA
Glenn Arbogast
Aeromautics
Bill Morrisey
Douglas Flight
Walt Wehner
United
George Cain
Western
Burt McIntyre
Emmett Riordan Jr
TWA
Bulph LaVave
Pan American
Spud Martin
Aircraft Associates
Clyde Schieper
Randall Scott
Scott Flying Service
Kay Daugherty
Wilson Silsby
Douglas
Haskells
Harvey Martin
Herb Lewin
Reserve Training Center
Maj
Link Arnold
ARA
452Nd
Claude Duncan
Fourth Air Force
Ralph Cissne Pio
Fourth AF
Bill Brooks
Air Force
United States
Kirke B. Lawton
Fort MacArthur
Signal Corps Center
Fort Monmouth
East German coal crisis slows Soviet zone industry
Berlin dispatch reports the Soviet zone faces a severe coal shortage, halting industrial output. West Germany’s Ruhr continues strong, with November production at 10.41 million tons, while East Germany produced only about 2.3 million tons in 1950 and faces dwindling imports from Silesia. Coal shipments eastward stopped in mid November, triggering a crisis as quotas and conditions hinder mining despite officials’ pressure.
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Berlin
LEA
Red
East Germany
West Germany
Soviet Union
Soviet
Germany
Ruhr
Silesia
Poland
East Zone
Soviet Zone
Manpower Shortage Impacts Global Aid Shipments
The Federal Maritime Board announced a severe manpower shortage hampers the vast foreign aid effort. Private lines under the National Shipping Authority face delays as 55 ships were held up in late November. Shortages include second and third assistant engineers, able seamen, and radio operators amid shipments of coal and grain to India and Europe.
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Federal Maritime Board
National Shipping Authority
Agency For Shipping
FMB
India
Europe
Seaside Hospital Names Lauer Chief of Medical Staff
Senior staff at Seaside Hospital elect Calvin A. Lauer M D to succeed DeMott Sedgwick as chief of the medical staff for the new year. Ben Laur a Long Beach practitioner since 1932 takes over his new duties at the executive staff meeting.
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Seaside Hospital
Calvin A. Lauer
DeMott Sedgwick
Ben Laur
American Board of Surgeons
American College of Surgeons
Long Beach
University of Illinois
Henry
Lauer i
Frederick Kellogg
Ben Parks
Elliston Farrell
Max Marks
KH. M. van Dyke
L. R. Hit
J. A. Tutu
Lewis Seapy
John C. Lungren
LeRoy E. Pittman
W. Zanting
Franklin Waters
Henry Caraco
Maurice Rosenbaum
P. Hansen
Irving Rosenberg
F. Hansen
W. Clough
Edson Beebe
F. Stanton Jr
D. Wigod
el. Caraco
T. Hardesty
E. Duvall
J. Knutson
H. M. van Dyke
J. Dimerson
Legion Delegate Cites Ship Peril
Legion delegateCharles S Booth Pacific Coast member of the American Legion Merchant Marine Committee told the Legion's Merchant Marine Post in Los Angeles last week that drastic steel cuts threaten construction of 14 Mariner class ships across three coasts. Booth, Matson Line freight agent, urged reinstatement of steel allocations for shipbuilding.
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Charles S. Booth
Pacific Coast
American Legion Merchant Marine Committee
Legion
Merchant Marine Post
Los Angeles
Z Booth
Matson Line
The
Hospital Ship Plans Second Yule in Korean Waters
The U S Navy hospital ship Repose prepares its second Christmas in Korean waters for 350 patients with ward parties carols and midnight services led by Chaplain A J Irwin and Rev L F White. Santa will deliver stockings and cards, a South Korean navy chorus will sing, and crew members will create Christmas pictures for local children while a turkey is served to all who can eat.
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Seversl
Chan
D.C
D. G
Pusan
Korea
U.S. Navy
Repose
P. J. Williams
Chatham
N. J
A. J. Irwin
Séattle
L. F., White
Hartford
Conn
Santa Claus
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L. B
Edsel Newton
Proke Telegram Marine Batter
Sam Crivella
Jack Crivella
American Tunaboat Association
Frank M. Perry
Harold Morgan Sr
James Shreve
Kenneth Co. Brown
Newport News
Dolly Brown Murphy
Coast Guard
Acapulco
Col. Brown
Murphy
Tom Wynn
Automobile
Kaiser-Frazer
Kaiser‘Frazer Co
American Ave
Chuck Collins
Benturefit Sales Laboratory
Pacific Avenue
Bisno & Bisno
South
Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills
Calif
Jergins Trust
Long Bessh Busweg
Standard Odl Company of
Californic
Standard Stations, Inc
County of
California
Jergins Building Corporation
Piede
Port’s
Haribor
Don Doane
Herve
Mary
Dr. Chan
Vivian Murray
D. C
Ev, Hosking
9073Th Var
Long Beach Air Force Base
Lawrence W. Weber
9350Th Var
Shrine Club
Wesley M. Sutton
Jordan High School
City College
Col. Johnson
6210Th Replacement Training Center
News OF the Armed Services
Virginia Newton
Arthur Clawitter
CWO
Vernon Simpson
Army
Okinawa
Jsantain
Eugene Blossfield
Norval Rindsleisch
Pontchartrain
Mark E. White
Point Vicente
Woojf
William G. Drulias
Dr. Lauer
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