Long Beach clubs honor students with $1000 in awards
Exchange Club luncheon plans award of 20 scholarships totaling 1000 to Long Beach City College and local high school graduates. Recipients include Jim Andrews Louis Archuteta Angela Farmer and more, with two outstanding students named from each school. Rev Alec Gerald Nichola will speak on meeting life’s requirements at the event and city officials will attend.
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Long Beach Exchange Club
Wilton Hawes
Long Beach City College
Jim
Andrews
Louis Archuteta
Angela. Farmer
Willam Crow
St. Anthony's High School
Wancy L Kealy
Donald G. Eckrote
Jordan High School
Thelma M. Ingram
Wiliam R. Atkinson
Jerry Heald
Cochairmen
Alec Gerald Nichola
Watson Receives Overseas Duty Orders at Fort Lewis
Brig. Gen. LeRoy H. Watson, commanding Fort Lewis, announced he had received orders for overseas duty. He stated the destination was secret as the announcement was made here.
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Fort Lewis
Wash
LeRoy H. Watson
Fort. Lewis
Shrine's Hospital for Children Nears 1952 Completion
Shrine temple in Los Angeles announces the Shrine Crippled Children’s Hospital will be ready by 1952. Erected at 2.5 million dollars, the 17th in the national chain will offer free medical care to underprivileged children in the southwest with a 2000 patient waiting list. Southland Shriners plan to raise about 200 thousand for equipment through local clubs and donations.
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Edifice OF Mercy
Fourth St
Commonwealth Ave
Los Angeles
Shrine Crippled Children's Hospital
al Malaikah Temple
Frank Blair
Thatee
Long Beach Shriners
Southwest
California
Froelich
Shrine Hospital
San Francisco
Southland Shriners
Blaly
6-man Captor of Floyd Retires
PITTSBURGH June 2 FBI Agent Dante Dilillo who helped capture Hauptmann Dillinger Pretty Boy Floyd and Robinson Jr has retired after 0 years of service. Dilillo joined the FBI in 1919. Since the middle 30s the Italian born agent has been assigned principally to the Pittsburgh office serving as investigator and field supervisor. He was credited with cracking an interstate auto theft ring that stole 9 cars from Pittsburgh and New York streets and sold them in West Virginia.
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Pittsburgh
FBI
Dante Dilillo
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Joan Dillinger
Pretty Boy Floyd
Thomas Henry Robinson Jr
Dilillo
New York
West Virginia
Postcard Costs Raise U S Postal Deficit Debate
June 2 report notes penny postcards push the U S annual postal debt toward 70 million dollars. House appropriations reviews postal losses and presses for higher rates. Postmaster General Donaldson defends service cuts while lawmakers insist on improved efficiency and coverage.
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Ashington
House Appropriations Committee
Post Office Department
Jesse M. Donaldsornh
Donaldson
Congress
Rep
Canfield
New Jersey
Appropriations
Commerce and Industry Association of New York
Marine Corps
W. Co. Burke
New York
Burke
Post Office
House
Full Appropriations Committee
Bureau of the Budget
Sears Price Cuts Highlight Mid-Summer Catalog
Chicago reports Sears Roebuck and Company released its largest sale catalog amid its 65th anniversary. The four quarterly catalogs note price cuts on tools, lawn mowers, sporting goods, housewares, and bedspreads with men’s shirts at 3.50 per four and women’s rayon slips at 2.47, while TV sets, aspirin, and automobile items receive selective reductions.
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Chicago
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Sears
Two Long Beach Men to Get Degrees at Whittier
Two Long Beach residents will receive master of arts degrees in education next Saturday at Whittier College per President William C. Jones. The graduates are Robert W. Harper of 524 Cayman Street and Jack Duane Thompson of 4846 North Radnor Avenue. Harper studied music as an undergraduate after graduating from Polytechnic High School. Thompson, a Santa Ana High School alumnus, completed his degree.
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Whittier
Long Beach
Whittier College
William C. Jones
Robert W. Harper
Cayman St
Jack Duane Thompson
Camille Thompson
North Radnor Ave
Harper
Polytechnic High School
Thompson
Santa Ana High School
Two to Get Scrolls at Claremont College
Alan Koch and Richard C. Secord will receive bachelor of arts degrees from Claremont Men’s College on Wednesday. Robert M. Blakey will complete work this summer and receive his degree in September. all are Long Beach area sons of noted families.
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Alan Koch
George O. Koch
Richard C. Secord
Gerald Secord
Long Beach
Claremont Men's College
Robert M. Blakey
Samuel H. Blakey
Long Beach Municipal Band
James W. Duncan
Eugene LeBerre
Press-Telegram
Czech Envoy to Tito Refuses to Go Home
Belgrade dispatch reports a Czech consular official in Zagreb refused to return to Czechoslovakia. It marks the first Cominform diplomat in Yugoslavia to balk at repatriation and stirs unrest as Yugoslavia faces pressure from Soviet dominated blocs.
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Tito
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Zagreb
Czechoslovakia
Cominform
Yugosslavia
Marshal Tto
Commounist
Oie
Exercisin
Pope Pius XII consecrates church in Rome
In Rome on the anniversary of Saint Eugene, Pope Pius XII consecrated a new church named for Saint Eugene. He traveled from the Vatican in a large black limousine amid ceremonies reflecting Catholic devotion.
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Rome
Pope Pius XII
St. Eugene
Vatican
Proposition 4 Sunday Meat Sale Debate in Long Beach
Debate centered on Proposition 4 which would repeal current hours for Long Beach meat markets and allow Sunday and holiday sales and after 6 pm on weekdays. Proponents argue it boosts retail meat trade by removing city-bound restrictions and aligning with other foods. Opponents warn of higher costs, passed to customers, and contend backing comes from Los Angeles firms.
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Long Beach
Butchers Union
Los Angeles i
Eight Council Incumbents Seek Re election in Long Beach
Long Beach voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose eight incumbents seeking another term on the city council. The race features Parmley, Sutter, Kealer, Seaton, Wagner, Chace, Carleson and Livoni among others with endorsements from the Civic League and the Central Labor Council.
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Long Beach
Arthur Lynn Parmley
Raymond C. Kealer
James R. Seaton
Clarence E. Wagner
Burton W. Chace
Bazil A. Carleson
Lyman B. Sutter
Countiman Joseph Ramsey
Carl Filetcher
Herbert R. Klockstein
Lawrence O. Jackson
Max Livoni
Livoni
D. Patrick Ahern
Donald May
E. Curtis Clark
Concilman
Malvina Raynolds
F. Ray Downey
Roy Hilton
Raymond C. Simpson
Frank E. Fitzgerald
League
Simpson
Long Beach Central Labor Council
May
Sutter
Kealer
Downey
Wagner
Ahern
Fletcher
Chace
Carleson
Labor Council
Marriage Wisdom Doubter Succumb
Reno District Judge George Bartlett, 82, who long granted divorces and challenged marriage in writings, died after a hip injury. He authored Men and Women and flirt later revised as Marriage Necessary, reflecting his skeptical views on wedlock.
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Nev
Upvada
George Bartlett
Marri
Washoecai Center
Bartlett
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