Fake SOS Calls Traced to Unlicensed Teens
Distress signal broadcasts last November triggered wide alarms as the Mayday call supposedly from a gas‑starved plane led to canceled flights and search efforts. FCC agents traced the repeat transmissions to two 16 year old boys using unlicensed war surplus transmitters in a private school dormitory. they received only a warning.
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Ashington
Federal Communications Commission
C-men
Estern
FCC
Portland
Gre
Sanitone Dry Cleaning Prowess Touted as World’s Finest
Exclusively franchised to Patri's Cleaners in Long Beach the nationally known Sanitone dry cleaning process is promoted as The World's Finest in a period style sales blurb.
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Patri's Cleaners
Long Beach
House Passes Bill for Land Exchange
The House approved a bill authorizing a land exchange between the federal government and San Diego California. It would grant the city permanent easements for streets and freeways through Navy and Marine installations and create long term leases for city owned lands used by the Navy during the war. The bill proceeds to the Senate.
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Washington
House
San Diego
Calif
Navy
Senate
Buying Slump Ties To Prices Across Western Stores
June 9.41 report shows department store candy sales in far western states fell in April due to price resistance. Fed data indicate overall sales down 44 percent from April 1947 and stocks down 19 percent. Rugs and carpets rose 25 percent, domestic floor coverings 23 percent, floor coverings up except linoleum, while major appliances stayed strong. Main store sales down 2 percent. basement stores up 4 percent.
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San Francisco
Federal Reserve Bank
Grandmother Sets Sail at 72 as Tuna Boat Cook
Mrs Frannie E Melton, 72, will work as galley cook on a converted Navy landing craft off San Diego. The vessel to be manned by her four sons Clarence Ralph Charles and C T Melton will begin its first cruise in three weeks.
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San Diego
Tpa
Frannie E
Melton
Clarence
Ralph
Charles
C. T. Melton
Gold Ore Railway Seeks To Fold Up Operations
The Midland Terminal Railway Co. asked permission to go out of business after 62 years hauling gold ore from Colorado mountains. It once ran 221 miles of track, now reduced to a 6 mile line between Colorado Springs and the Cripple Creek mining district.
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Washington
Midland Terminal Railway
1Co
Colorado Mountains
Colorado Springs
Cripple Creek
Club Plans Dinner for Servicemen
Members of the Long Beach Writers Club organized a dinner to entertain servicemen. The plan emerged from a breakfast meeting held yesterday at the group’s usual location, with attendees including Mabel Gerkin the president Olive Spencer Esther Haynes Marie Wood Lulu Lorendo Laura Thomson Ruth Hughes Jessie Bond Amy Bennett and Avesta Ik.
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M.C. Av
Long Beach Writers Club
Mabel Gerkin
Olive Spencer
Esther Haynes
Marie Wood
Lulu Lorendo
Laura Thomson
Ruth Hughes
Jessie Bond
Amy Bennett
Avesta Ik
MacArthur U K s Cotton Financing
General MacArthur approved a private banking credit plan to provide a $60 million revolving fund for Japanese raw cotton purchases. Participating banks include Export-Import Bank, Bank of America San Francisco, Chase National Bank, National City Bank of New York, and J Henry Schroeder Banking Corp.
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Tokyo
Gen. MacArthur
Bank of America
San Francisco
Chase National Bank
National City Bank of New York
J. Henry Schroeder Banking Corp
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