Just-betrothed Pair In Air Collision Near Santa Ana
A Long Beach woman watched in horror as her fiancé Norman F. Lee 25 Santa Ana died in a mid air collision near Lemon Heights while a second plane flown by Barbara Brown 20 Lakewood and piloted by Raine Rosalee Joe Bentley 23 Los Angeles landed at Santa Ana Naval Air Station. Lee's craft crashed 3000 feet up a brushy hillside. Miss Bentley survived and both women were treated and released. Lee survived by his mother Mrs Arthur Lee and two brothers.
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Norman F. Lee
Santa Ana
Barbara Brown
Long Beach
Civilian Air Patrol
Ralph ©. Gulledga
Lee
CAP
Fred Schubert
State Division of Forestry
Phata
Ahe
Rdine
Lone Beach
Lemon Heights
Brown
Kenneth Brown
Arbor Rd
Lakewood
Raine Rosalee Joe Bentley
Los Angeles
Cal
Miss Bentley
Santa Ana Naval Air Station
Miss Brown
Jess Reinking
Paloma Ave
Garden Grove
Arthur
McFadden
Skyline Dr
Newport Rd
T. Ralph Gulledge
Orange County
Civil Air Patrol
L. L. Warren
Trains Dodge Wrecker Blockades in West Newton
West Newton police chief said a 22 year old youth Walter Fergus confessed to attempting to wreck two Baltimore and Ohio trains. He placed ties on rails and tried to cut a switch rack with a hacksaw near Pittsburgh. An electrical circuit was cut, triggering a red block. the Columbian express halted safely. Fergus pleaded guilty to malicious injury to a railroad and is held on bond pending court.
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West Newton
Earl H. Sterner
Baltimore & Ohio
Sterner
Walter Fergus
Pittsburgh
Fergus
Justice of the Peace
J. E. Moorehead
Rent-control Conferees in Deadlock
Washington march 26 angry Senate and House conferees on rent control legislation ended more than seven hours of debate tonight deadlocked over how to handle rent increases. They agreed on a 15 month extension of controls through June 30 1950 while the main issue remains unsettled. The House rejected a Senate percentage increase proposal and leaders expect terms Monday.
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Senate
House
Sen
Sparkman
D-Ala
Alabama
Joint Committee
Joint
Use
Senate House
Rep
Spence
R.ky
Flanders
R-Vi
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Maybank
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Ground to be broken for new Boys' Club in local news
Local front outlines a ground breaking for a new Boys' Club to mark Boys' Week with broader community plans. The edition notes art festival plans, recreation department facility upgrades, and upcoming Board of Education candidates in the April 1 election.
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Board of Education
Tornado Toll Rises Across South and Midwest
A series of powerful tornadoes. at least 25 dead, possibly 27, across Mississippi Louisiana Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas. Towns Belden Chesterville Crowder hit hard with extensive damage and scattered casualties. National Guard mobilized hospital tents blankets and cots rushed in as authorities assess Arkansas Mississippi and other states.
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Ittle Rock
Ark
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Crowder
Okla
Belden
Miss
Tupelo
Sam H. Long
National Guard
Chesterville
Long
Mary Tucker
North Mississippi Community Hospital
W. P
Pat) Wilson
Adjutant General
Jackson
Warren
England-Scott
Whelen Springs
McCrory
England
Scott Vicinity
Little Rock Hospital
Pine Bluff
Whelan Springs
Balch- Beetleville
New
Long Beach Man Ends Pain With Gun Suicide
A 79 year old Long Beach resident Frederick H. McMenamin ended his life with a .38 revolver after injuring his hip and fearing a slow death. Found in his eighth floor Artaban Apartments unit with a note to Mrs. Margaret Pack, the death was ruled self inflicted. He had recently moved to 635 E Ocean Blvd and was a former Philadelphia resident with survivors including a brother and a New York niece. Funeral arrangements are by Loper Funeral Service.
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Long Beach
Frederick H. McMenamin
E. Ocean Blvd
Artaban
Atlantic Ave
McMenamin
Margaret Pack
E. Broadway
Ito
McMensmin
Det
Fred Whitmore
New York
Loper Funeral Service
$1.8 Billion Western Europe Arms Plan Revealed
Washington reports a $1.8 billion arms program for western Europe and other free nations as a down payment on a long range effort to deter Communist aggression. The plan allocates about $1.2 billion to western Europe with the rest for Greece, Turkey, Iran, Latin America and possibly other non Communist areas. The proposal, drafted for mid April congressional action, awaits Budget Bureau review and President Truman within a week or ten days.
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Washington
State and Defense Departments
Western Europe
Greece
Turkey
Iran
Latin America
Philippines
Budget Bureau
Truman
Congress
Police Cars Guard Route of Life Race
New York police escorted a three mile drive to hospital for a choking three year old girl, Jane Martin of Canarsie. A radio patrol car led the way as cross traffic was halted to Beth El Hospital, then an ambulance took her to Kingston Avenue Hospital for possible diphtheria. Total time 14 minutes, girl placed on operating table with a throat incision and tracheotomy.
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New York
Edward Martin
Canarsie
Brooklyn
Jane
Martin
Beth-El Hospital
Kingston Avenue Hospital
Moscow Calls for Soviet American Peace Pact
London dispatch reports Moscow radio warned that under the Atlantic Pact any minor incident could plunge the world into war. It said a Soviet American peace pact would regulate relations and strengthen world security while the Soviet government vows to settle all differences peacefully with renewed energy and determination.
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London
Moscow Radio
United States
Penicillin Flown to Ship Off Mexico
A Coast Guard mercy plane departed San Diego in the afternoon to parachute an emergency supply of penicillin to the merchant ship Stanbac Manila, 1000 miles southwest, where an ill crewman or passenger required the drug.
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SAN _ DIEGO
Coast Guard
San Diego
Stanbac
Manila
Here
Air Liner Strikes Wire Lands Safely in Indianapolis
An American Airlines DC6 struck a power line while approaching the Chicago airport and made a safe landing in Indianapolis. The Flight Six from Los Angeles to New York carried 49 persons and was piloted by Ray Warmsey.
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Indianapolis
American Airlines
Chicago
Los Angeles
New York
Ray Warmsey
Vandals Strike Across Long Beach Area In Window Breakage Spree
Long Beach and neighboring cities joined by police in a manhunt for two carloads of vandals who smashed thousands of dollars in windows Friday night into Saturday. A cafe owner on Long Beach Blvd reported a four inch hole made by a marble and suspects said a dark sedan tied to the incident was seen traveling north on Paramount. Dozens of businesses along Paramount and nearby streets reported shattered windows and a pattern linked to incidents in Compton Downey and Paramount. Police listed a long line of victims including cafes markets hardware stores and a real estate office as the investigation continued. Authorities traced a license number but could not confirm its current owner and recovery of the vehicle remained unclear.
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NS Beach
Compton
Paramount
Downey
Adele Cossarek
Long Beach Blvd
Long Beach
Anthony C. Battee
Paramount Blvd
Battee
Third St
Flower St
Firestone Blvd
Sheriff’s
McCoy’s
S. Paramount
May's Cafe
Jack Hart
Rendezvous Cafe
Paramount Tire Shop
Hollydale Plumbing
Talbot
Human Guinea Pig Dies After Atomic Therapy
Henry Noble Hall a 76 year old internationally known writer and lecturer died at Memorial Hospital after being a human guinea pig in atomic cancer treatment. He received heavy radioactive iodine doses at Oak Ridge and later battled pelvic cancer alongside thyroid cancer. Hall recounted his experiences in My Fight Against Cancer and recalled the first dose given September 14 1946.
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New York
Henry Noble Hall
Memoria Hospital
Atomic’ Laboratories
Hall
Mme
Marie Curie
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