Five-cent Cigaret Levy Aimed At California Schools
Sacramento June 17 A cent per cigaret tax to fund California schools was proposed to the Legislature today. The Assembly ways and means committee approved the levy as a tax rider to a $25 million bill for distressed school districts, with potential annual yield around $50 000 to $55 000. Part could finance a school-support measure. Other governor tax proposals for balance of the state budget were set aside by committees as the Senate efficiency panel killed a liquor tax plan and an administration proposal to raise about $3.6 million from parimutuel betting.
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Sacramento
California
Senate
Assembly Revenue and Taxation
Fire Station Loses 2478 Dollars in Unlocked Safe
Police investigate theft of 2478.20 in public funds from an unlocked safe at Brimont Fire Station yesterday. Clerk Paul Rave placed money inside at 3:20 am and later sought a key from Nan Roberts, who said the safe was unlocked. He found money missing and only checks left when open. Officers say no one was seen entering the office during the incident.
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Brimont
Paul Rave
Nan Roberts
Fefe
John, Dunbar
Mina Taylor
Bridges Counsel Attacks Charge
In San Francisco on June 17, lawyers for Harry Bridges argued to keep his case out of court. Bridges faces fraud and perjury charges tied to his 1945 naturalization, claiming he was not a Communist. Defense motions seek dismissal and challenge grand jury and court jurisdiction.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Michael J. Todge
Herbert Resner
Resner
Reche
Greek tribunal sentences eight guerrillas to death
In Athens on June 17 a military tribunal at Piraeus convicted eight accused members of the Communist underground. They faced charges including assault, murder of policemen, and supplying the guerrilla command with military intelligence. Three others received lesser sentences.
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Athens
VP Theaperk
Piraeus
Todas
Dirath
Wed 8 Years Pair Plan Church Nuptials
After six years of marriage Lucile Pull and bandleader Desi Arnaz plan a Catholic ceremony at Lady of the Valley Church in Canoga Park with immediate family. They were married civilly in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Hollyword
Lucile Pull
Desi Arnaz
Lady of the Valley Chien
Canoga Park
Greenwich
Conn
Happy landings women prisoners wear chute cloth
In McAlester Oklahoma on June 17 a shortage forced 150 women inmates at the state penitentiary to receive parachute cloth. Warden Clarence Burford learned of an Air Force surplus sale and soon 300 chutes were bought for the inmates. Matrons organized sewing classes and the result was a novel nylon protective cover dubbed happy landings.
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Mcalester
Okla
VPI
Oklahoma State Penitentary
Clarence Burford
Burford
Industrialist attacks government spending in Detroit speech
Detroit industrialist M. E. Coyle of General Motors blasted federal outlays at a National Retail Dry Goods Association banquet. He labeled farming aid and public housing programs excessive while condemning taxes and government mismanagement of business and profits.
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Detroit
M. E. Coyle
General Motors Corp
Coyle
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Congress
Final Argument Heard by Jury in Garnier Case
An all-woman jury in Riverside heard final arguments in the Agnes Garnier murder case. Prosecutors argued whether the April 22 killing by Garnier was passion driven manslaughter or premeditated murder, with potential downgrade from first degree. Garnier’s counsel framed the case as a conflict between the Owen family and the Apartment House Owners Association. The 33-year-old divorcee is accused in the death of John E. Owen at his ranch home following a dispute over cocktail glasses from actress Irene Rich. The trial's outcome hinged on whether the jury finds intent or passion, with verdict anticipated later that day.
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Riverside
Agnes Garnier
John E. Owen
Auto Firms Head for Record Year
DETROIT, Jane 17. Auto makers race toward a record year as steel shortages ease and demand climbs. Output of cars and trucks is set to reach peak weekly levels in 20 years, with a target of about 16,000,000 vehicles this year. The industry benefits from loosened steel supplies and solid sales despite broader recession fears.
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Detroit
Jane
Auto Make
Automotive News
U. C. Will Graduate Biggest Class Today
Berkeley reports the University of California will award diplomas to its largest graduating class. Estimated counts include 4641 bachelors and 3085 other degrees with further checks and final results pending.
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U. C
Berkeley
University of California
Alabama antimask law urged by Folsom in Montgomery
June 17 in Montgomery Alabama Governor James E. Folsom urged the legislature to pass an antimask law to deter what he called lawlessness. He condemned recent night rider activity, especially in the Birmingham area, as a disgrace to the state and said it must be stopped.
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Montgomery
Ala
James E. Folsom
Folsom
Birmingham
Britain's Moron Brain Computer Edsac Ready for Unveil
Cambridge scientists reveal the Edsac thinking machine or electronic delay automatic calculator weighing a ton. It uses 8500 tubes in 120 racks, stores instructions, runs 15 000 arithmetic operations a minute, and can perform addition subtraction and multiplication rapidly. Ten engineers built it since 1946 and it will be shown to leading mathematicians at a conference next week.
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Ambridge
Eng
Cambridge University
M. V. Wilkes
Edsac
Wilkes
Britain
Europe
America
Princess Lucky to Marry Texan in Texas Vibe
ECHINGEN Germany June 17 Princess Cecilie granddaughter of the late German Kaiser and great great granddaughter of Queen Victoria is to marry Clyde Harris of Amarillo Texas The wedding will be in Castle Hohenzollern with German aristocracy gathering The princess plans to leave royal life behind to become Mrs Harris and settle with her veteran husband an interior designer in Amarillo The town mayor and local newspaper editor anticipate the ceremony drawing many nobles to the castle steps in a dramatic cross continental match
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Echingen
Germany
Pers
Cecilie
Victoria
Clyde Harris
Amarillo
Texas
Harris
Cecillé
Wilhelm
Cecille
Hohenzollern
Salt Lake waves flood highway to Sunset Beach
Approximately 300 people were stranded for hours at Sunset Beach as wind driven waves three to four feet deep covered the road to the Great Salt Lake resort. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were among those stranded during a motion picture distributors outing. Crews used emergency equipment to pull cars through one to two feet of water as winds eased near midnight.
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Salt Lake City
Sunset Beach
Great Salt Lake
Roy Rogers
Dale Evans
Tion Picture Distributors
Sympathectomy Fails Often Says Doctors
Chicago doctors report that cutting the sympathetic nerve chain to lower blood pressure shows poor results. In a five year follow up on 100 patients, only about twenty per cent had favorable outcomes, twenty seven per cent died, and the rest did not see meaningful blood pressure reductions.
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Chicago
Equal Pay Bill Sent to Warren
SACRAMENTO June 17 A bill providing equal pay for equal work with exceptions has been sent to Gov. Warren by the Legislature. Both houses agreed on the wording yesterday. The measure states that no employer shall pay a female in his employ less than the rates paid to male employees for the same work in the same establishment, with exceptions for seniority length of service ability and skill.
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Sacramento
Gov. Warren
Lina
Donald L.grunsky
Watsonville
Reds Now Claim Evolution Theory
Moscow reports a Soviet newspaper argues Russian scientists discussed evolution years before Darwin. The piece adds to a long list of Russian scientific "firsts" and notes Darwin's 1859 publication in London which popularized the idea that humans descended from primate life.
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Moscow
Charles Darwin
London
Outstanding C. C. Students Named at Annual Prom
The Long Beach City College prom announced the outstanding man and woman plus ten Viking Award winners. Mary Pankey and Sterling Clayton were named campus representatives. Clayton also earned a Viking Award. Winners include Diana Copulos Patricia Donovan Shirley Reece Marian Soyster and others. Pankey is a former Viking Award recipient and a scholar with leadership roles. Clayton holds varsity basketball letters and student leadership positions.
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Mary Pankey
Sterling Clayton
Long Beach City College
Exchange Club
Ella C. Lewis
Long Beach
City College
Beverly Hills
Clayton
Ella Lewis
Diana Copulos
Patricia Donovan
Shirley Reece
Marian Soyster
Shirley Vanatter
Laurence Belier
al Moorhead
Richard Waterhouse
Bert Resnik
Saga
Alpha Gamma Sigma
Elka
Tjene Pilger
Eueporters Club
Associated Men Students
Miss Pankey
Ebell Club
Carr to Address L B Retailers Meeting in Long Beach
John K. Carr general manager Buffums will speak to the Long Beach Retailers Association at the Lafayette Hotel on Wednesday evening on the topic Whats Happening to Capital Shouldnt Happen to a Day Elder M Johnson association president said new officers will be installed and D P Ahern area supervisor of the 1949 federal business census will explain the census methods and value to retailers Balloting for directors ended at noon and will be counted tomorrow The new board will meet Monday to elect officers
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John K. Carr
Eral T
Buffums
Long Beach
Associated
Lafayette
M. Johnson
Association
D. P. Ahern
Library Robbery by Two Boys Aged 8 and 10
Two juvenile burglars aged 8 and 10 confessed to robbing a library at 560 E Hill St a 5 and 10 cent store at 2172 Atlantic Ave and an unlocked trailer at 2035 Atlantic Ave. Police arrested them early today and juvenile authorities took custody. One wallet found on the younger boy contained 3.85 dollars indicating the thefts.
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E. Hill St
Atlantic Ave
One Dead in Cruiser Blaze at Mare Island
A flash fire aboard the light cruiser Astoria killed Fireman Carter Reeves Elis, 20, son of Mrs. James P. Ellis of Nashville, Tenn., as deactivation work continued at Mare Island Navy Yard. Three other sailors were hospitalized but expected to be released soon: Howard F. Vincent, 22, chief machinists' mate from National City. Robert P. Kesterson, 21, fireman from Parkersburg, West Virginia. and Salvatore Marchese, 18, seaman from Omaha, Nebraska.
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W. Va
Salvatore Marchese
Seaman
Omaha
Neb
Northrop Aircraft Expands Personnel Postwar Hiring Surge
Northrop Aircraft Inc announced expansion to a postwar peak of 7000 employees due to new U S Air Force contracts. The firm has hired 2100 workers in six weeks, bringing total employment to 7400 as production tasks include assault transports fighters and converting B35 bombers to jet propulsion.
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Waw
Intorne
Northrop Aircraft, Inc
School Salary Boost Approved For LA County Superintendent
Sacramento June 17 The Senate education committee endorsed a bill to raise the Los Angeles County superintendent of schools salary from 12000 to 15000 dollars annually.
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Sacramento
Senate Education Committee
Assemblyj
Los Angeles County
Johnny Mercer Headlines Signal Hill Children’s Show
Johnny Mercer and Barton MacLane headline tomorrow morning’s Signal Hill children’s show sponsored by Tod Faulkner. Mercer will perform several hits including Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and will sing with one functioning piano finger. MacLane, recently film detective, joins in comedy numbers alongside The Dandies Billie Bird and The Aristocrats. The free event airs on KFOX at 10 35 a m.
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Johnny Mercer
Capitol Records
Barton MacLane
Signal Hill
Tod Faulkner
Mercer
Atchison
Topeka
Santa Fe
MacLane
Billie Bird
KFOX
Hearing Set for Mother in Boy Death
Mrs Ruth E Bennett 28 facing murder charges after she allegedly drowned her month old son Douglas at 444 Chestnut Ave. Preliminary hearing set for June 22 with bail denied. She attempted suicide prior to arrest. husband Marley Bennett, 28, says she is sick. Police Det James Thiele and Harry Finch report she claimed she and baby were “even good enough for my hand.”
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Ruth E. Bennett
Douglas
Chestnut Ave
Bennett
James A. Thiele
Harry P. Finch
Police
J Police
Origin of San Joaquin dust storms studied in Fresno brief
Fresno June 17 AP A study by Dr Guy F MacLeod chairs a Central Valley dust committee probes whether dust storms in the southern San Joaquin Valley originate from western farmland or from uncultivated land farther west. Aerial surveys show barren, dust-covered tracts in Kern County near Blackwells Corners Lost Hills and McKittrick with wind-damaged cultivated fields nearby. MacLeod advocates thorough climate and land use history research to support a reseeding program.
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Fresno
San Joaquin Valley
Guy F. MacLeod
Central Valley Empire Association
MacLeod
West Side
Kern County
Etween Blackwells Corners
Lost Hills
McKittrick
Princeton
Thomas
B. Bissett
Riviera
Ceivers
B.S. E
Suit against city on park project condemned land
Long Beach Unified School District has filed a friendly condemnation suit in local Superior Court to acquire the 9.1 acre Veterans Memorial Park tract at 29th Street and Golden Avenue. The Board of Education will pay about 75,000 dollars, equal to the city’s total investment. The city already spent 55,000 dollars to attorney Lynn O. Hossom and 20,000 more on curbs and sidewalks before his title transfer.
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Long Beach
Lynn O. Hossom
Hossom Angerter
Odd Fellows Dinner and Rummage Sales Noted in Local Notices
Magnolia-Mrs. Staber De Barard in Laguna hospitalized after surgery ten days ago at Magnolia Hospital. Odd Fellows Lodge 399 to sponsor dinner at Houghton Park Clubhouse tomorrow at 6 30 p m with cards and motion picture entertainment after. Sgt. John William Doolan transferred to Davis Monthan Air Force Base Tucsor Ariz from Long Beach Air Base. City of Hope Sanatorium donor funds cited. Sponsors Club to hold five day rummage sale at 314 Locust Ave beginning tomorrow 9 45 a m to 4 p m. Richardt Paul Bray Jr received MA and JD from University of Michigan. Joaquin Joseph Fernandez and Norma Bennett Hulet named degree recipients at local addresses.
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Odd Fellows
Odd Felows Lodge 399
Houghton Park
John Willam Doolan
Belmont Ave
Long Beach Air Base
Davis Monthan Air Force Base
Tucsor
Ariz
City of Hope
Duarte
Long Beach
Locust Ave
Richardt Paul Bray Jr
E. Carson Sti
University of Michigan
Joaquin Joseph Fernandez
Fuego Ct
San Pedro
Norma Bennett Hulet
E. Campton Blvd
Bellflonse
In the Middle Sisters Sue Man for Annulments
Los Angeles reports Walter Fisher, 19, is named in annulment suits by sisters Helen Blane Fisher, 29, and Evelyn Blane Fisher, 23. Helen says eloped to Las Vegas March 16, 1948, and was deserted a hour after the wedding. Evelyn says she married Fisher July 3, 1948, in Baltimore and later learned of Helen. Both sisters, stenographers, accuse him of tricking them into marriage.
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Los Angeles
Walter Fisher
Helen Blane Fisher
Evelyn Blane Fisher
Fisher
New York
Helen
Las Vegas
Nev
Evelyn
Baltimore
Stenographers
Divorced Wife Sues Messiah Leader In Jail Watch
Krishna Venta also known as the Messiah spent hours in county jail after failing to provide support for his ex wife and two children. His wife Ruth posted $500 bail. He faces a San Bernardino justice court on June I for failure to support. Police watched as 173 white robed followers observed. Geneva Percovic of San Bernardino filed the complaint, divorcing him in 1942 in Oakland. He recently returned from a European flying tour.
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Los Angeles
Krishna Venta
Messiah
Tvho
Krishna
Ruth
San Bernardino
Geneva Percovic
Oakland
Berlin for Better Antikidnap Lew Berlin for Better Antikidnap Lew
Berlin officials demand a new anti kidnapping law and oppose a four power trade pact until human freedom is secured. A Socialist council member cites the arrest of Heinz Westphal of the Falkens as context and notes trials of Falken members over incidents involving West Berlin communiqués in the Soviet sector.
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Berlin
Socialist Council
Germany
Heinz Westphal
Falkens
Alco 2
Westphe
West Berlin
Phi Beta Kappa Assn Honors 46 Local Scholars
The Phi Beta Kappa Association of Long Beach awarded certificates of scholarship achievement to 46 local high school graduates. Recipients include students from Wilson High Jordan High Polytechnic High and St. Anthony's High, with Naomi Selway presenting the honors and W. Odie Wright presiding.
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Phi Beta Kappa Association of
Long Beach
W. Odie Wright
California Scholarship Federation
Naomi Selway
Phi Beta Kappa Association
Wilson High School
Jobie Greenberg
Bob Griffiths
Suzanne Royer
Bill Smithcrap
Terry Thomas
Dirk van Peenan
Jordan High School
Jo Ann Baker
Arlene Boylan
Jack 3Ransford
Robert Careson
Betty Carter
Donna Lee Eizes
Robertavans
Nancy Green
Doreen Liddicoat
Julene Longstreth
Burkey St. John
Winona Wessel
JoAnn Wheldon
Polytechnic High School
Gene Baker
Selwyn Herg
Marlyn Beverwyk
Jean Blair
Jim Gogle
Hetsy Buffalo
Charles Yowning
Virginia Esterlin
Patrick Gilder
Tomiko Kanzaki
Janet Kreager
Peggy Laird
Delorise McCray
Kay Morib Morrow
Bill Sanson
Erlamon Shannberger
Kathleen State
Yeh Thornton
Jimmie Zarifes
St. Anthony's
Downey Attacks Reclamation Bureau Over Richmond Water
Senator Downey charges a corrupt conspiracy within the Reclamation Bureau to deny Richmond California water from the Contra Costa Canal. He raised the issue at a Senate interior affairs hearing on the American River basin project and said he will pursue it further. He supports the $111 million American River project and seeks a broader inquiry into the bureau's policies.
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Washington
Congress
Sen
Downey
D.-Calif
Reclamation Bureau
California
Richmond
Calif
Contra Costa Canal
Senate Interior Affairs
American River Basin
Central Valley
O Mahony
D.wyo
Bureau
Folsom Dam
American River
Tontra Costa Canal
Ground Party Hunts for Trio Missing bomber crew
A volunteer ground party planned an extensive search of a timber slope for a B26 bomber missing since April 21 with three California servicemen aboard. Logger Carl Swansen reported a shiny object beside a broken tree, as investigators focus on a Hamilton Field flight to Portland crash route.
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Mglalla
Gre
Carl ‘Swansen
Hamilton Field
Calif
Portland
Col
A. Y. Smith
Walter W. Hodge
San
Meeting Scheduled on Prophets Parley
Plans for the international convention of the Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, a Masonic body, to be held on Long Beach Sunday through Thursday, will be completed at a Mispah Grotto meeting tonight at 7:30 at Machinists Hall. The Grotto will hold open house.
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Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm
Long Beach
Mispah Grotto
Machinists Hall
Texas records mumps measles endures longer legislature
In Austin on June 17 the Texas legislature nears its 158th day seeking to surpass 171 days set in 1941 as the longest session. Speaker Durwond Manford had measles and Sen. Timmy Phillins contracted mumps while a Senate witness died shortly after giving testimony. The body created more boards and commissions than before and is poised to spend more money than any prior state record.
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Austin
Texas
Durwond Manford
Timmy Phillins
Senate Committee
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