Woman Found Dead in Compton Motel With Unidentified Companion
In Compton a woman and a male companion were found dead in a motel room late Tuesday. The man is named Lawrence Temple, 39, of 1931 N. Locust St. Authorities say both likely died from asphyxiation. Fingerprints were taken to identify the woman, described as about 35 to 40 years old, five feet seven inches, 135 pounds, brown hair and gray eyes. Both bodies remain at Morelann's Mortuary pending identification and possible inquest.
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Compton
Lawrence Temple
N. Locust St
Nalice
Morelann
Writing Expert Joins Check Squad Strengthening of Police Detail
Police Captain Otto Faulkner announced that Writing Expert Ralph Bradford, a handwriting expert and technician, will join the check squad to handle rise in forgery and check cases along with two new officers George J. Lapay and Felipe V. Candelaria. Details indicate Bradford will helm the enlarged team as the department expands its investigative capacity. Eating found in the place are clue as to her identity.
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Ralph Bradford
Otto Faulkner
Bradford
William H. Dovey
Police
George J. Lapay
Elmfield Ave
Felipe V. Candelaria
Adriatic Ave
Rent Board 13 Lauds Blaylock for Fair Service
A unanimous Rent Advisory Board 13 resolution commends Charles H. Blaylock who has resigned as associate area rent director of the Office of Housing Expediter. The board notes his cooperative spirit, fairness, and willingness to help, and wishes him success in his new business venture effective Dec 30 1949.
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Charles H. Blaylock
Office of Housing
Rent Advisory Board
Blaylock
Harvey E. Harris
Max Livyani
Edward L. Brown
Maurice W. Daubney
Charles H. Blayock
Office of Rent Control
Suspect in Attack to Be Arraigned
Robert Ballard a 25 year old Long Beach dock worker will be arraigned in Santa Ana Superior Court on a charge of attempted rape against Mrs Mitzi Redfern a 34 year old Westminster real estate broker. Redfern testified she was lured to a deserted Cerritos road on the pretext of inspecting ranch property and attacked when she resisted Ballard at the pocket knife to her throat. She escaped and sought help prompting police and medical aid.
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Robert Ballard
Long Beach
Santa Ana Superior Court
Mitzi Redfern
Westminster i
Redfern
Ballard
Cerritos
Smog Foes Plan Closed Meeting in L A
Long Beach and Southland smog concerns will be aired at a 2:30 pm closed meeting in Mayor Fletcher Bowron’s Los Angeles office. Mayor Burton W. Chace will represent Long Beach with several other affected city leaders. Dr Louis C McCabe, former head of the County Air Pollution Control District and now head of the Interior Department air pollution unit, will address the group.
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Long Beach
Southland
Fletcher Bowron
Los Angeles
Burton W. Chace
Louis C. McCabe
County Air Pollution Control District
U. S. Department of the Interior
Washington, D. C
L B Architect Takes South America Trip
L B Architect Hugin K. Davies has flown to South America for a month to study architectural trends in major cities. Davies, a City Planning Commission member, will observe zoning, off street parking, and beach development in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
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Hugin K. Davies
Total Architect
South America
Davies
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro
City Planning Commission
City Aid Dismisses Employee Over Missing Funds
Public service department worker Paul Rabe Jr. was dismissed by City Manager Samuel E. Vickers for mishandling 82 47820 in city funds collected at gas and water offices last June. Rabe has five days to appeal to the Civil Service Commission for a public hearing. Judge Irvin Taplin had earlier ordered the city to reinstate him after ruling Rabe was coerced into resigning and that the city was obliged to reemploy him.
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Samuel E. Vickers
Paul R. Rabe Jr
Public Service Department
Rabe
Civil Service Commission
Gas and Water Departments
Second St
Irvin Taplin
Taplin
State to Begin Paying Hospital Benefits Jan 1
California will start hospital benefits under the State Unemployment Act on January 1 after legislative expansion. The change adds eight dollars per day for up to twelve hospital days annually for disability claimants, with 16 district offices ready to issue payments. An estimated 5 million dollars annually expected, funded by the original program and federal funds.
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Sacramento
California
James G. Bryant
Bryant
Civic League Votes by Mail for 15 Directors in Long Beach
Members of the Civic League of Long Beach vote by mail this week to elect 15 new directors and set 1950 officers. Results will be announced January 5 by Everett Calhoun, executive secretary. The league backs adoption of a new city charter to be filed with the City Council early next year. Harold F. Seal, associate dean at Long Beach City College, serves as league president.
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Civic League For
Long Beach
League
Everett
Calhoun
Harold F. Seal
Liberal Arts
J.long Beach City College
Former Educator Joins U S Government Staff
Milo G. Lacyer, who resigned from City College’s business and technology division, will join the U S Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics. He will organize a nationwide produce training program after attending a Washington produce conference last November where he outlined the grocers merchandising program. Lacy attended Poly High School and Long Beach City College, later graduating from the University of Oregon and completing graduate studies at the University of California.
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Milo G. Lacyer
City College
Bure of Agricultural Economics
U. & Department of Agriculture
Washington
Lacy
Poly Highs
Long Beach City College
University of
Tax Payments Top Last Year
First installment tax payments for 1949-50 rose 37 percent over the previous year, with 66.99 percent of the levy collected by December 3. City Tax Collector Frank W. Brejcha announced, noting the total levy was 33,188.11. The prompt includes stray fragments about naval officers and a dinner in their honor, but the core tax update centers on Brejcha’s figures for late 1949.
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Frank W. Brejcha
Brejcha
I Seaferr
I Seaferr. B, Were Select Out of First Installment Wat A Dinner Py At Beeee
Lyney R. Brown
George
Ord
William P. Vastrand
Aes. Neson Warren
Ross Smith
D. R. Shaul
Sydney R. Brown
William J. Morgan
K. Lord
Lord Sign
George H. Seafert
Tjg
Jack Krause
Li. Tjegir Aml
Anthony Mackez
Seal Drive Over Funds Near Goal Despite Returns
In four days since the Christmas seal sale closed the Long Beach Tuberculosis and Health Association has received 1300 in contributions bringing the total to 41959. Mrs. Marriner notes at least a thousand people have sent in returns and says they expect to reach the quota after the holiday rush ends. The association depends entirely on seal sale funds to finance its health education and care programs.
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P. J. Marriner
The
Long Beach Tuberculosis and Health Association
Two Youths Held for Tree Battle
Belmont Heights youths clashed while collecting Christmas trees to build forts. A raid at 138 Roswell Ave. led to officers detaining three youths, one released, while two remain in juvenile custody for investigation. Mrs Phyllis Saladin and her mother faced mud clods and cartons of water hurled at them during the confrontation.
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Juve
Belmont Heights
Phyllis C. Saladin
Roswell Ave
Aiis
Saladin
Marvel G. Bureh
Taok
Java Pacific Ship Aground Off China Shoal
The Silverwalnut of the Silver & Java Pacific Line, 6770 gross tons, sailing from Long Beach on December 17 to Singapore, Jakarta and Calcutta, ran aground at Royal Captain shoal in the South China Sea. She carried four passengers and a crew of 61. Four tugboats were en route to assist.
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Silver & Java Pacific Line
Long Beach
Los Angeles Harbor
Singapore
Jakarta
Calcutta
South China Sea
City Employes Unit Will Meet Tuesday
The 25th annual meeting of the City Employes Association will be held Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. in the council chambers City Hall. P George Beavis, president of the association, announced.
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City Employes Association
Clty Hall
P. George Beavis
Trains Crash Head-On Injuring Twenty-Five Near Southesk
About twenty five persons were injured in a head-on collision between two Canadian Pacific passenger trains on the main line south near Southesk between Calgary and Medicine Hat. No deaths were reported by the CPR.
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Winnipeg
Alan
Calgary
Medicine
Canadian Pacific Railway
Southesk
Investigation Tells Woe in Lamar Refugee Camp
Elmer Simpson of Humanity Calls Inc reported to Long Beach Harbor that over 3000 displaced people mainly White Russians live in mud huts with leaky tents at the UN Refugee Organization camp on Samar Island Philippines. He met local leaders and plans to present the plea for U.S. action in Washington.
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U. N
International Refugee Organization
Samar Island
Philippines
Elmer Simpson
Representativf
Humanity Calls, Inc
Long Beach Harbor
de la Rama
Simpson
Samar
Vereby
Kell
Washington
United States
Shanghai
Austalia
Pny
Humanity Cars, Inc
Los Angeles
Tot
China
San Francisco
Lumber-straddle Truck Crash Disrupts Alameda Boulevard
A high-bodied lumber carrier collided with a tank truck near Del Amo Street in Dominguez, spilling about ten tons of lumber on Alameda Boulevard. Injured driver Edward Viantel Reardon, 20, of Wilmington, was taken to Compton hospital. The other vehicle, driven by Richard J. Murphy, 45, of Huntington Park, was undamaged and the driver unharmed.
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Alameda Blvd
Dominguez
del Amo St
Central
Edward Viantel
Reardon
McFaelanaret
Wilmington
Compton
Reardan
Richard J. Murphy
Huntington Fark
Alameda St
Murphy
Britain weighs recognition of Bao Dai regime in Indochina
Britain plans to recognize the Bao Dai regime headed by Bao Dai, the former emperor of Indochina, amid moves to back the French sponsored government. Reports suggest decision in early January, signaling a shift in policy toward the Indochina leadership and the pending recognition of the government.
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Britain
Bao Dai
Loadon
Dee.au
Indochina
Amam
Two Parking Meters Rifled Police Say
Police report two parking meters were forced open and $4 stolen between Christmas Eve and yesterday. One meter at 9 Locust Avenue north of Broadway. the other in the 490 block of Pacific Avenue. Authorities say both incidents occurred within the same timeframe.
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Locust Ave
Broadway
Pacific Ave
Porige
Governor Hurls Sabotage Charge at Welfare Heads
SACRAMENTO December 29 Governor Ah Gay Earl Warren accused Social Welfare Director Myr Ue Williams and pension premier George H McLain of trying to sabotage California's new pension program set to take effect March 1 He called Williams statements about federal withholding of pension contributions untrue and said McLain's remarks were irresponsible He assured pensioners payments would come as planned under Proposition No 2 and that the Legislature will review pension matters when it reconvenes in March, noting discrepancies could be resolved then.
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Sacramento
Ah Gay
Earl Warren
Myr Ue Williams
George H. McLain
McLain
Willams
Warren
Ho c
Melani
Army Family Home Maj Terstegee Invalided Home
Aboard from Osaka General Hospital Japan Major John FP Terstegee and family return home to visit his mother Mrs Mahrt Waile 241 Olive Ave Yemple Sinai. Sabbath services list Rabbi I Shalom Raveleh preaching The Biblical Concept of Messiah and a social hour follow Temple Israel event led by Rabbi L Elliot Grafman on New Year greetings The public is invited.
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John FP. Terstegee
Osaka General Hospital
Japan
Mahrt Waile
Olive Ave
Yemple Sinalm
Aeloek
Yompla Sinai
I. Shalom Raveleh
Taiuis Cohn
Cohn
Baroveh
MT Aranan
Temple Israeel
Temple Israel ‘Reform
L. Elliot Grafman
Vandals Damage Palm Beach Park Property
Vandalism damaged Palm Beach Park as Recreation Commission officials reported. A seven foot fence was torn down and wires knocked loose, several trees were damaged, limbs ripped off, and trash scattered. Police report attributes the act to unknown vandals, carried out last night according to Behiee Stanley.
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Palm Beach Park
Recreation Commission
Behiee Stanley Gs
Three Killed as Auto Rams Train Near Denton Texas
A car collided with a Santa Fe passenger train at a grade crossing 19 miles northwest of Denton Texas killing three people. Police reported two bodies found near the wreckage and one interior casualty. The victims, unidentified, were described as two women and a man.
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Denton
Texas
Santa Fe
Here
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Pine Avenue
L. B. Architect
Vickers
Civic League
U. S
Milo G. Lacy JR
T.B. Seal
Kadee
Pioneer
Pioneer Savings and Boan Association
East Broadway
Harold W. Ray
Mgr
South Broadway
Robert R. Sprague
Pris
All America
Santa Ana
Cell
Kimberly
Rea O
C. P.R
Lamar
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