Pennsylvanias Delegates Seek Meetings With Taft and Eisenhower
Pennsylvania Governor John Fine moves to arrange early meetings for the states 70 vote GOP delegation with Taft and Eisenhower as nationwide tallies shift. Nebraska reallocation cuts Taft total, boosts Eisenhower, while Ke fauver gains in the Democratic count. South Dakota primary contest narrows to Taft leading Eisenhower by about 820 votes. Harriman calls tax cuts for later years and seeks labor support amid New York campaign stops.
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Amodated Frese
Gen. Wer
Sen. Taft
Pennsylvania
John 5. Fine
Keystone
Gov. Fine
Associated Press
Jean Ings
Gen
Eisenhower
Taft
Fine
Chicago
Virginia
Staunton
Nebraska
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Presa
GOP
Tennessee
Estes Kefauver
Robert Kerr
Oklahoma
Kefauver
Kerr
Richard Russell
Georgia
Russell
Associated Lo Press
Averell Harriman
Mutual ‘Security Administrator
Labor
New York
Harriman
CIO Labor
Fraud Fix Evidence Blows Up at Inquiry
A House judiciary subcommittee halted after a former assistant U S attorney in Detroit testified a note falsely linked Howard McGrath and William Boyle to a war contracts case. Petzer admitted writing the note after a party and drinks, while others disputed the connections amid denials and partial admissions.
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Washington
House
House Judiciary
U. S
Detroit
Howard McGrath
William M. Boyle
George T. Petzer
Walter Sprague
Petzer
Pak
Sprague
Advance Plating Co
Subcommittee
Bernard M. Brauer
Boyle
McGrath
Bauer
Fetzer
Daniel G. Kennedy
Chelf
D-Ky
General Accounting Office
Justice Department
Michigan School of ‘Trades & Veterans’ Trading Schooter Sverpaymnen
Holmes Baldridge
Clark
Mormons Honor Priesthood With Rite in Long Beach
The Long Beach Fourth Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, meeting in Town Hall, will observe the Restoration of the Priesthood of Melchizedek at Sunday evening service at 7. Lafe Wright will preside. Speakers include Mrs. Harold A. Hickley on What Priesthood Means to a Mother, William B. Appleberry on What Is the Priesthood, William C. Price on The Effect of Priesthood in the Home, and Dr. C. Douglas Barnes on The Priesthood and the Auxiliaries. Howard F. Millett will sing The Lord's Prayer and The Blind Ploughman with Axel Anderson at the piano.
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Long Beach
Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints
Town Hall
Melchizedek
Lafe- Wright
Harold A. Hickley
William B. Appleberry
William C. Price
C. Douglas Barnes
Howard F. Millett
Malotte
Axel Anderson
Bartender Charged In Narcotics Case Preliminary Hearing Set
Bartender Jack B Choates 26 of 2256 E 15th St faces a preliminary hearing June 12 in Municipal Court after arraignment before Judge Charles D Wallace who set bail at 1500. Choates and fellow bartender John F Thomas 26 of 2719 8 Pacific Ave were arrested in a downtown parked car Tuesday. Five other suspects were released. Thomas is out on a writ of habeas corpus returnable Tuesday.
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Jack B. Choates
15Th St
Charles D. Wallace
Choates
John F. Thomas
Pacific Ave
Thomas
Frank Cane Dies Deputy Director of Corrections
Frank Cane aged 47, deputy director of the California department of corrections, died after a heart attack yesterday at Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles. He served in state corrections and was a prominent official in the department.
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Los Angeles
Frank Cane
State Department of Correction
Queen of Angels Hospital
Names Added Aboard Carrier Returning Home Tuesday
The escort carrier Bairoko will dock at Naval Air Station San Diego Tuesday morning with VS-25 Beach crew aboard including Lt. (jg) Chester Morgen and AT1 Ezra J. Bridges. The ship, rebuilt in 1945 and unused in WWII, has completed two Korean tours and recently hosted Marine Attack Squadron 312 amid its latest cruise.
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Bairtko
Naval Air Station
San Diego
VS-25
Cheford L. Morgen
Shirley
Chestnut Ave
Ezra J. Bridges
Jean Bridges
Pacific Ave
George W. Grimm
USN
Barbara
Third St
Forest M. Hudson
Forest F. Hudson
Lemon Ave
QMC
James H. Leonard
Mia
Edna M. Leonard
Chatwin Ave
Leonard
Adm
D. S
Comn
Coronado
Carrier Division 15
A. J. Kelly
L. T. Morse
Seattle
Malcolm C. Reeves
Marine Attack Squadron 312
Bairoko
Spud Prices Jump in Kern County Market
Kern County potato prices surged with per hundredweight climbs from 100 pounds to 3 and speculation the rise may affect retail soon. Growers report profits from lifted ceilings while many contracted to sell at the old $2.50 ceiling and consider escalator clauses as 60 percent of the crop is harvested.
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Ellis Arnall
Senate Ie
Kern County
Edison
Donald Kendall
Steel Peace Talks Enter Third Day At White House
Washington June 7 peace talks between the steel industry and CIO union officials entered a third day aimed at ending a five month steelworker strike of about 50 000. CIO president Philip Murray and Jones & Laughlin top negotiator Adm Ben Moreell offered no remarks as talks resumed with cautious optimism inside the White House cabinet room after two earlier sessions across the street.
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Washington
White House
CIO
Philp Murray
Adm
Ben Moreeli
Jones & Laughtin Steel
State Department
Solons OK Billion for Farmer Help
The Senate approved an appropriation exceeding one billion dollars for government farm programs for the next fiscal year, returning the bill to the House which had approved 115 million less. A key fight centered on trimming 100 million from payments for soil conservation partners, with support and opposition from Senators Anderson Douglas Russell and Aiken, reflecting a broader subsidy debate.
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Washington
Senate
House
Truman
Sen. Anderson
Secretary of Agriculture
Sen
Douglas
Agriculture Department
Congress
Mit
Anderson
Russell
D.ga
Farm Bureau
National Grange
Sen. Aiken
Republican Agriculture
County Employees Win 88000 Action in Los Angeles
Los Angeles June 7 Twenty five county employees won a suit for recovery of premium payments against the Los Angeles County Employees Association. Superior Judge J B T Warne ruled dividends belong to the certificate holders. The 5000 members were awarded more than 90 000 in damages or back payments.
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Los Angeles
Towa
Los Angeles County Employees Association
Iso
J. B. T. Warne
Obituaries from Long Beach area residents
Series of notices listing deaths across Long Beach and nearby cities. Names include Edward Lewis, H A Dinsmoor, Adelaide Cochran, Joseph Smith, Thomas Hendricks, James White, Stanley Eaton, Sadie Holman, Elmer Sternke, Madge Evans, Karen Nielsen and others. Details cover ages, addresses, birthplaces, surviving relatives, and service arrangements at local chapels and churches.
Blood donors respond to PT appeal for Giffin
A Press Telegram appeal spurred six volunteers to donate blood for William Giffin, 74, longtime Harbor resident. He is battling cancer at Harbor Generals E Hospital, with doctors advising multiple transfusions. Mrs. Nona Buttery urges donors to give in Giffin's name at any Red Cross blood bank, noting the correct surname.
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William
Bill) Giffin
Harbor Area
Giffin
Harbor Generals E Hospital
Nona Buttery
Leland’ St. San Pedro
Red Cross
Twenty Thousand Scouts Gather at Los Angeles Coliseum
The third Scout-o-Rama of the Los Angeles area Council of the Bay Scouts of America opened last night in Memorial Coliseum. About 20,000 scouts attended the three hour show. The event featured 638 demonstration booths that opened onto the Coliseum’s playing field.
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Los Angeles
Scouto-Rama
Novice handlers invited to Long Beach dog show briefing
Jack Bradshaw announces a staff aid session at show headquarters 1412 W 12th St Los Angeles Prospect 7432 to explain entry procedures to novices. Entries for the all breed event June 21 22 at Municipal Auditorium close Monday noon with late entries accepted. Harbor Cities Kennel Club sponsors largest western dog show with over 2000 entries and $10000 in prizes.
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Jack Bradshaw
Long Beach
12Th St
Los Angeles
Prospect
Municipal Auditorium
Harbor Cities Kennel Club
David H. Upbright
Long Beach Sports and Home Show Concludes Tonight
The Long Beach Sports and Home Show ends its nine day run tonight at 11 oclock in Municipal Auditorium. The event features the Final Family Fashion Hour, a large audience, and New Home Products Reviews at 7 30 and 9 30 p m. More than 207 exhibits have drawn thousands to the eighth annual show by the Long Beach Board of Realtors with Lewis K Cox as chairman and a large executive committee.
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Long Beach
Barbara Blakeley
Iwastie
Jay Stewart
Long Beach Board of Realtors
Lewis K. Cox
Harold Steele
Bez En James L. Mills
Ed Dug- Tenny
Moore
Allies Down 9 Hit 4 in Korea Air War Report
Air Force announced the past week saw Allied jets shoot down nine Communist MiG fighters and damage four more with no losses in aerial combat. An F-80 Shooting Star and a TO spotter plane were downed by antiaircraft fire, and a night bomber failed to return. Allied fighter-bombers targeted railway lines between Kanggyo and Huichon, cutting rails in 32 places, destroying three planes, and disabling 26 freight cars. Marine pilots bombed frontline positions as UN infantry repelled a Chinese assault near Chorwon. Eighth Army labeled Friday action light across the 255 mile front.
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Seoul
Kores
Tune
Kanggyo
Huichon
Korea
United Nations
Chorwon
Eighth Army
Wide Areas Hit by Torrid Weather Across Regions
The nation faced hot conditions with readings above 90 in many areas from the Rockies to the East Coast. Detroit saw 91 and Briggs Manufacturing closed, idling 2,700 workers. Record highs included 101 in Presidio Texas and 100 in Yuma Arizona, with 83 in New York and 100 in Dickinson North Dakota. Weather near seasonal levels in New England and the West.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Seaboard
Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Motor City
New York
Chicago
Dickinson
N. D
Bismarck
N.D
Presidio
Texas
Yuma
New England
City Aid Sought on Drainage Job
City Council weighs city funding for half of a 35000 dollar drainage project southeast of Spring Street and Bellflower Boulevard to serve a new subdivision. Builders Cunningham and Brittain seek city help to install a 13 foot wide concrete drainage ditch within a 20 foot easement linking Willow Street and Stanbridge Avenue. Additional projects may follow. City Manager Vickers supports the measure to spur development and tax roll improvements.
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Cunningham & Brittain
Spring St
Bellflower Blvd
Las Coystes Diagonal
Willow St
Stanbridge Ave
Samuel E. Vickers
Spreckels Ex Held as Drunken Motorist
Mary Lavinia Spreckels, 39, divorced wife of sugar heir John D. Spreckels, was jailed in Los Angeles on suspicion of drunk driving. Motorcycle officer Don Zeller said she drove erratically and made sudden stops about every hundred yards after admitting drinking at several night spots.
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Los Angeles
Mary Lavinia Spreckels
John D. Spreckels
Don Zeller
Thief in Market Steals Cigarettes and Cash
A person hid in the S and L Market at 361 South Street after closing and took 50 cartons of cigarettes and $80 from the cash register. Police reported the loss was discovered this morning. Officers found no evidence the thief entered after closing time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South St
Plymouth St
Ex-Kaiser Aid Wilhelm: Adolph Tiemann Dies at Doorn Castle
Adolph Tiemann aged 68, former aid to the late German Emperor Wilhelm I, died at Doorn Castle in Doorn Netherlands. He had accompanied the Kaiser into exile after World War I.
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Doorn
The
Netherlands
G& Sigurd Wilhelm
Adolph Tiemann
Wilelm I
Doorn Castle
Germany
Coronation Proclamation Read Across London Streets
Ancient ceremony marks royal proclamation fixed for June 2, 1953. Heralds in scarlet read the text as crowds gather in London and around the empire. Sir George Bellew, the garter king at arms, begins readings from St James's Palace while the Queen reportedly watches on television.
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London
Elizabeth I
St James's
St. James's Palace
Charing Cross
Temple Bar
Britain
George Bellew
Palace of
St. James's
Kefauver Tide Roils California Democrats
In California the Kefauver drive unsettles old line Truman Democrats as Northern and Southern California Kefauver delegates plot alternates for Chicago. A July convention will test alliances with clues from Fresno and Oakland about who joins the Kefauver delegation and potential national committeemen.
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Sacramento
California
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Kefauyer
Leamington Hotel
Oakland
Chicago
Fresno
Tion
Tennessee
Golden State
Edmund G. Brown
Kefauver
George Miller Jr
D.biardnez
Northern
Elinor Heijer
Atherton
James Roosevelt
Los Angeles
John Anson Ford
Angeles
Brown
Langdon Post
Ed Pachey
Dan Kimball
George Killion
George Luckey
Culbert L. Olson
Bill Malone
Inheritance Tax Talk Heard by Long Beach Bar
Inside workings of California's inheritance and gift tax division were explained at the Long Beach Bar Association meeting at the Lafayette Hotel. Arthur K Marshall, assistant chief inheritance tax attorney, spoke as a last minute substitute for Jaimes W Hickey who was ill in Sacramento. Bruce Mason, head of the Bar Association, presided as Long Beach judges Joseph M Malthy Fred Miller and Perey Hight attended.
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Long Beach Bar Association
Lafayette Hotel
Arthur K Marshall
California
Marshall
Jaimes W. Hickey
Sacramento
Bruce Mason
Bar Association
Long Beach
Joseph M. Malthy
Fred Miller
Idoe Raycraft
Perey Hight
Students Donate Books to Philippines Collection Drive
Long Beach City College students finish exams and join a book drive by the Order of Tyr. Books and magazines will fund school libraries in the Philippine Islands. Consul Sofronio Z. Albrera in Los Angeles will accept the collection at the City College campus Friday. Lead organizers include Gordon Emery and faculty sponsor Dr. Adolf Stone, with students Dick McGree Jerry Lind and Bob Morrow.
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Long Beach City College
Order of Tyr
Philippine Islands
Sofronio Z. Albrera
Philippine Republic
Los Angeles
City College
Gordon Emery
Dick McGree
Stolen Outboard Motor From Store in North Peeves
An outboard motor valued at 225 dollars was stolen from North Peeves Sporting Goods Store at 1927 10th St. Fred Northgraves, the proprietor, told police yesterday. Between 6 30 P M Thursday and Friday morning a burglar broke the front door glass and crawled inside. Nothing else was taken and blood near the doorway suggested the burglar cut himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northpeeves Sporting Goods
10Th St
Fred Northgraves
Long Beach Students to Receive Degrees at Stockton
Four Long Beach students at the College of the Pacific in Stockton will receive degrees at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 8 in Baxter Stadium. The graduates are David John McDonald, Mary Jean Heath, Ross W. Price, and Francesco J. Sorionello.
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L. B
Stockton
Long Beach
College of the Pacific
Baxter Stadium
David John McDonald
Mary Jean Heath
Ross W. Price
Francesco J. Sorionello
Halloween Sleigh Appears On City Hall Roof
A 300 pound old fashioned sleigh was found atop East Quincy City Hall around June 7. Firemen removed it after confirming no tackle was used and no one could explain how it arrived, with the sleigh located about 50 feet from the ground to the ridgepole.
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City Hall
Quincy
Mass
MIT Student Receives PhD Degree in Cambridge
Tom C. Furnas Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Furnas, received a PhD in philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday in Cambridge. He did research on a structure project at Brooks Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn and worked three years during World War II on secret atomic research for the U S government. He holds a BSc in chemistry from Harvard and is a member of Sigma XI and the International Crystallographers Association.
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Tom C. Furnas Jr
T. C. Furnas
White
Massachusetts
Physics
State of Technology Advan
Cambridge
Mass
Furnas
Brooks Polytechnic
Brooklyn
N.Y
I U
Harvard
Sigma
International
Crys Lographers Association
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George S. Fitzgerald
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Fitzgerald
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Steel
Solons OK
Hendricks
Thomas Perry Hendricks
Locust Ave
Chico
Luckenibsch Steamship Co
Chico Lodge 322
F&am
Imogene
Vet Lerans Administration Center
Veterans Cemeter
Mortell’s Mortuary
Eaton
Stanley Eaton
Atlantic Ave
Needles
Navy
Tong Beach
Key Cafe
Fleet Reserve Association
Lilian M
Blottell
Redondo Beach
First Baptist Church
Riverside
Clifford Holman
L. G. Holman
Los Angelica
Dorothy Barnger
Redlands
Coon
A George Downing
Immanuel Baptist Church
Westminster Memorial Fark
Sternhke
Elmer Charles Sternke
E. Third St
Gaylord
Minn
Winthrop
George M.hurt Lumber Co
Sibley Lodge
Af&am
Eugene Sternke
Camarillo
Clarence Sternke
Santa Ana
Evans
Madge Evans
Aberdeen
Wash
Wisconsin
Ebeli Club
Eastern Star
Amaranth
Aresher
Nellie Mr. Nicely
Fred Graig
Atlanta, Ga
Ardel Craig
Minnesota
Loma Vista Memorial Park
Fullerton
Paramount Mortuary
P.T
L. A. Coliseum
Bradshaw
Allies
Spreckels
Kaiser-Aid
By James C. Anderson
Philippines
Little Liz
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