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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1954
Page
9
Mrs Theodore S Chapman a 50 year old widow from Jerseyville becomes president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs at its Denver convention. A former teacher she heads an 11 million member group, living alone on a 270 acre grain farm in the Illinois River Valley.
Washington I A House subcommittee investigating alleged labor racketeering fired its two top staff officials, Downey Rice and Arthur Tole, amid a feud between Chairman Bender and Rep. Hoff man. Hoff man supported the dismissal, calling it outrageous and a step to stop investigations. Bender blamed Rice for taking exception to a Democrat member’s goading.
Three B36 bombers returned to Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth after a 17 hour round trip to Central America. The mission flew over Managua Grenade Leon and Matagalpa in Nicaragua before returning home classified by the Air Force as routine goodwill.
Washington postal workers would receive annual salary boosts from 240 to 480 dollars under a House Post Office Committee plan approved 14 to 10. The temporary raise would end October 4 1955 and average about seven percent with part time and hourly workers also eligible for a ten cent increase.
Poultney Bigelow, 98, author and world traveler who often courted controversy with his outspoken views, died today in Saugerties. He had been ill since January and was a boyhood friend of Kaiser Wilhelm I, maintaining a complex friendship despite a quarrel at the outbreak of World War I.
Mrs. Ida Gehr Durboran, born June 15 1856 in Gettysburg, recalled the three day battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 and heard Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. She died in Kansas City on May 2 1834.
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