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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1949
Page
7
Rome dispatches report a sudden war scare in Bari sparked a market riot that required police to intervene. Word of imminent war spread by mouth in the main open-air market then shifted to threats of invasion. Housewives fled with purchases, prices rose, and a fist fight escalated into a riot before riot police cleared the area.
National Woman's Party convenes in Washington April 1 2 and 3 with a pageant and sessions on economic status of women. Speakers include Sen Guy Gillette Rep Katherine St George and others. Banquet luncheon and greetings from party leaders are planned. Nothing Beats a Press-Telegram Want Ad contact via phone 6-B066.
New York March 31 Rob ert W Kenny holder of 1600 Farnsworth stock sues in Manhattan County Supreme Court to block the sale of Farnsworth Television and Radio Corp assets to International Telephone and Telegraph Co The suit parallels an earlier action by Harry Hecht It seeks an injunction to stop a stockholders meeting on April 14 and halt the Jean agreement alleging the transaction does not provide fair value to Farnsworth stockholders
Burtonwood England March 31 A court martial yesterday found Texas Air Force sergeant Joseph B Murphy 26 of El Paso guilty of illegal cigarette deals He was sentenced to forfeit two thirds of his pay for six months for attempting to sell 55 cartons of cigarettes to a Briton and unlawfully possessing three post exchange ration cards
Samuel A. Guiber Jr. won county approval for an industrial zoning permit to construct a cement plant within five miles of Palm Springs despite adverse Planning Commission recommendations. County Board of Supervisors backed the project on March 31 in Riverside.
Public Utilities Commission President R. E. Mittelstaedt announced meetings to establish uniform statewide regulations for railroad trains crossing city streets. The sessions are scheduled for April 15 in San Francisco and April 29 in Los Angeles.
In Amarillo Texas on March 31 the wind blew a panel from the weather bureau building. In Rock Springs Wyoming the Blairtown coal mine closed after 40 years as the coal seam exhausted, mine agent Howard Mc Tee said the mine is being abandoned.
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