Cubans Storm U S Embassy After Insult
Infuriated Cubans stoned the U S embassy in Havana and tried to burn it after a desecration of the Marti monument by U S sailors. Police charged the crowd as Ambassador Butler and Cuban officials offered apologies amid scattered injuries and crowd unrest. The naval attache asked Cuban authorities to release the sailors with promise of court martial.
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Jose Marti
U.S
Rodman
Butler
Minis
Carlos Hevia
Oscar Gans
United States
Marti Monument
Central
Marti
United States Navy
U. S
Thomas Cullins
National City Lines Convicted on Trust Charge
CHICAGO March 12 A jury of 12 housewives convicted National City Lines Inc and 14 others on antitrust charges for conspiring to monopolize the purchase of buses tires tubes and petroleum products They were acquitted on a restraint of trade charge A new trial hearing was set for April 1 with possible penalties including up to one year in jail or a $5000 fine The company operates in 42 cities including Long Beach City Lines
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Chicago
National City Lines, Inc
William J. Campbell
U. S. District Court
National City Lines
Long Beach
B-17 Crashes in Cameroons
Paris March 12 The National Geographic Institute B 17 failed in a storm Friday morning during a flight across Central Africa. AFP said the bomber was en route from Douala Cameroons to Nairobi Kenya when it crashed in the Cameroons.
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Paris
National Geographic Institute
Central Africa
French Press Agency
AFP
Douala
Cameroons
Nairobi
Kenya
Local Highlights and Notices From Today’s Front Pages
Summary of daily local items including $700,000 federal funds for a new Long Beach National Guard Armory, advocacy for an honor farm for alcoholics to city council, spring heralds in the city, a 40th anniversary band concert, and various features listed across pages A-2 A-8 B-1 B-8 B-11 C-8 to C-15 C-10 A-14 A-3 A-5 A-15 and other sections.
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Long Beach National Guard
Truman orders compromise to save program in filibuster talks
President Truman authorized Senate Democratic leaders to seek a compromise with southern Democrats to end the anti filibuster fight over extending rent controls and other measures. Senate leaders planned a parley with southern senators to resolve the 12 day stalemate, with a settlement possible by Monday.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
J. Howard McGrath
Rhode Island
Democratic National Committee
Key West
Fla
McGrath
Finis
Scott W. Lucas
Lucas
Richard B. Russell
Wiretap Plot Tangles New York City Officials
Mayor William O Dwyer disclosed a planned wire tapping to obtain city secrets. District Attorney Hogan said evidence would go to the grand jury. Kenneth Ryan, a retired detective, fled City Hall but may surrender. John G Broady named as the attorney who hired the wiretappers. The probe targets possible enemies of O Dwyer and involves Clendenin Ryan, ally to La Guardia. Ryan claimed his phones in New York had been tapped recently.
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New York
William O'Dwyler
City Hall
Kenneth Ryan
New Jersey
Manhattan
Ryan
O'Dwyer
Frank S. Hogan
John G. Broady
Broady
William P. O'Brien
Edward Jones
Pacific Storm Brings Wet Weather to Northern California
A Pacific storm approached the coast promising a wet Sunday for Northern and Central California. The Weather Bureau warned of a late-night downpour across the Sacramento and Russian Rivers region, with small-craft winds 25 to 85 mph from Cape Blanco to Point Conception. The Russian River flood threat eased as the storm subsided, but earlier floods affected Guerneville homes and cottages with no heavy damage.
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Weather Bureau
San Joaquin Valley
Sacramento
Russian Rivers
Cape Blanco
Point Conception
Bay Region
Russian River
California
Sonoma County
Guerneville
Montana
Canada
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Colorado
North Dakota
Minnesota
Helicopter Rescues Fisherman from Jamaica Bay Mud
A police helicopter fought 58 mph winds for six minutes to reach Frank Vaccaro a 34 year old Brooklyn man stuck neck deep in Jamaica Bay mud His 10 year old son John was pulled to safety by a human chain as the two escaped into a boat to dislodge their fishing craft
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New York
Jamaica Bay
Frank Vaccaro
Brooklyn
Vaccaro
John
Gasser Afire in Louisiana Tide Field
In New Orleans on March 12 firefighters battle a devastating gas well blaze in the Paso Loutre tidelands at the eastern Mississippi River mouth. The fire scorched two wells, causing about 1 million dollars in damage as flames towered up to 150 feet and gas and oil burned from adjacent flowlines. Crews plan dynamite suppression and debris removal while work crews gap the nozzles to cut off heat.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Paso Loutre
Mississippi River
Bandits Change Signal With Cap Pistols On Rails
Philadelphia March 12 a trio of 11 year old desperadoes fired cap pistols at a moving Reading line train causing a block signal to switch from green to red engineer John Sesick halted the train and the boys fled. Police found them later in Cheltenham township and released them after noting the kids’ warnings.
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Hiladelphia
John Sesick
Sesick
Jesse Jameses
Cheltenham Township
Reading Company
Hatboro Jocal
Clyde Beatty
British Note Blasts Bulgar Government
Britain charged Bulgaria will not honor peace treaty guarantees of political and religious freedom. The protest notes protest trials of 15 Protestant church leaders, call the confessions false, and warn of stronger steps. U S protests loom over clergy prosecutions in Eastern Europe.
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Associated Presu
Pune
Britain
Bulgaria
Sofia
Foreign Office
United Nations
Vassil Ziapkov
Ziapkov
Stanley Burt-Andrews
Unil
Tenney Fund Stolen When Aid Blacks Out
In Los Angeles on March 12 state Senator Jack B Tenney reported a theft of his campaign funds amounting to 1259 dollars. Stanley Copley a 61 year old retiree said he felt faint after leaving a bank with the cash to cover Tenneys campaign expenses. He stopped his car collapsed at the wheel and woke to find the money missing. He was treated at Hollywood Receiving Hospital.
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Los Angeles
Jack B. Tenney
Stanley Copley
Tenney
Copley
Hollywood
Rome Rioters Challenge Atlantic Pact Debate
Communist led crowds stormed central Rome protesting Italy's Atlantic Pact ties. Jeep patrols calm streets after clashes near Palazzo Chigi and foreign ministry. Police with clubs dispersed demonstrators as deputies debated the alliance and Prime Minister De Gasperi faced attacks from Socialist Pietro Nenni.
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Rome
Italy
Chamber of Deputies l
Foreign Ministry
Palazzo Chigi
Piazza Colonna
Sforza
Ilo Sforza
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber of ‘Deputies
Pietro II
Al‘elde de Gasperi
Morrison, Longtime A F L Official, Dies at 89
Washington dispatch says Frank Morrison secretary emeritus of the American Federation of Labor died tonight at 89 after a long illness. A printer by trade who later studied law he served as secretary of the A F L for 43 years.
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Washington
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
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