Freight Engineer in Harbor District Keeps Narrow Horizons
Robert Singleton, a Pacific Electric freight engineer living at 420 Marine Ave in Wilmington, works within a cooperative harbor system moving trains for Union Pacific Santa Fe and Southern Pacific. He travels about 70 to 100 miles daily, totaling roughly 25,000 miles a year, with routes usually under a mile apart. He joined PE in 1923, previously drove buses and red cars, and recalls wartime runs to San Bernardino that left little time to eat or sleep.
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Robert Singleton
Southern Pacific Pacific Electric Railroad
P.T
Singleton
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Wilmington
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Long Beach
Harbor
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Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Pier A
Watson
Los Angeles
San Bernardino
Pacific Electric Company
Seventh St
Redondo Ave
Recreation Park
P. E
San Juan Capistrano
Venice
San Pedro
Anaheim St
Califfornia
Maryland
California
Chamea of Commerce
Pensioner's Eye Plan Approved at Davis Optometrists
Pension plan offers all types of glasses at big savings for pensioners. Davis Optometrists advertises courteous service and glasses fitted to meet needs with special approved minimum seven monthly payments. Phone 7-8149. Pridham Davis Optometrists 2614 Pine Avenue, Long Seach
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Pensioner’s Eye Plan
Hom Davis Optometrists
Pridham Davia Optometrists
Pine Avenue
Long Seach
No Stoops No Squat Same Squir t Milking Trick
Conway Arkansas May 28 farmer H O Proctor says he saved 36000 stoops yearly by placing cows on a high ramp and using electrical squeezers. He milks about 20 cows twice daily for ten months.
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Conway
Ark
H. O. Proctor
Proctor
Churchill Urges Conservatives to Rally for Possible Election
Winston Churchill called on the Conservative Party at a rally in Chigwell England to mobilize for a general election this autumn. He said the country faced a crucial year and cited local election results as proof of public discontent with the Socialist administration.
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Chigwell
Eng
Winston Churchill
Newsmen Inaugurate Transatlantic Flights
London May 28 A plane named the Mayflower arrived with 45 American press representatives and aircraft officials after a nine hour fifty six minute demonstration from New York. The flight previews Stratos cruiser service between New York and London starting next week.
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London
New York
Forest Fire Threatens Small Florida Town
Geneva Florida May 28 A woods fire stretched over six miles threatening the orange growing community of 500 residents. A shift in wind halted the spread this afternoon and firefighters believed the blaze could be stopped before reaching Geneva.
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Geneva
Fla
Ranks of Blue and Gray Grow Thinner as Veterans Decline
Richmond and Washington May 28 UP Old soldiers never die they simply fade away. Memorial Day finds 60 survivors among Civil War veterans in both Union and Confederate ranks with GA R and SCV rosters listing ages from 95 to 107. Final encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic set for Indianapolis later this year.
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Washington
Union Veterans’ Organization
Grand Army of the Republic
Walter L. Hopkins
Sons of Confederate Veterans
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Chicago
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Downers Grove
Iowa
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Sutherland
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Princeton
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Hopkinsville
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Duluth
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Pontia
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Rochester
Ohio
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Allwater
Oklahoma
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Holdenville
Oregon
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Portland
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Gale
Seattle
Wisconsin
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Cadett
Alabama
James W. Mooregelie
P. R. Crump
Lincoln
Arkansas
J. G. Chism
Ben But
John A. Marcum
Birta
German Theaters Face Tough Time May Stay Closed
Frankfurt dispatch reports about Western Germany's private theaters facing closure after currency reforms with up to half shutting, and state subsidized houses fearing permanent closure. Erich Otto, president of the Players Association, cites Germans still hungry for stage plays but wary of disillusionment. He notes wartime damage, new venues like barns and cinemas, and Zuckmayer's The Devils General keeping venues open despite postwar strain.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Balding
Erich Otto
Players’ Association
Carl Zuckmayer
Luftwaffe
Ernst Udet
Zuckmayer
Otto
Memorial Day Veterans Program Slated at Lincoln Memorial
Following the Lincoln Park Memorial Day exercises at 9 a.m. a veterans program will be held at Veterans Memorial in Lincoln Park. Fast Department Commander Charles O. Boyton will host. speakers include Carolyn Beedle and John W. Wilson. Music by Poly High School students and Ar Jene Boyla.
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Lincoln Monument
Lincoln Park
Long Beach
G. A
Carolyn Beedle
John A. Logan
Poly High School
James W. Patterson
Effie M. Patterson
Ralph M. Grove
First United Presbyterian Church
Abraham Overmeyer
Lincoln
Charles L. Chappell
Marcus E. Getter
Long Beach Post
John W. Wilson
Jordan High School
Ar Jene Boyla
Vernon
Overmeyer
Girl Shot at Play Flown to Hospital
Nine-year-old Betty Louise Johnston was flown to the University of California Hospital in San Francisco on a mercy mission after being shot in the spine by a .22 pistol while playing with two children in Summit City near Redding. Her condition was listed as critical.
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San Francisco
Betty Louise Johnston
Air Force
University of California Hospital
Betty
Summit City
Redding
Good-willers Mix Two Oceans Waters in Maine
A group of 150 Oregon flying businessmen completed a seven day 330 mile cross country good will tour in 52 small planes. Pacific water was carried to the Atlantic Ocean as part of the ceremony in Portland Maine on May 28.
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Portland
Maine
Oregon
City Attorney to address tidelands at Long Beach breakfast
Tidelands' forum topic will be presented by City Attorney Irving M. Smith at the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce breakfast Wednesday. Smith will outline tidelands title history and latest developments. William R. Brooks will be installed as forum chair for the next three months, succeeding Howard Millett.
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Irving M. Smith
Long Beach
Four Drowned in Auto Found Near Ohio River Ferry
Four Newell West Virginia residents were found dead in a car partly submerged near a ferry landing as river levels fell. Police believe the vehicle rode onto the Georgetown Pennsylvania ferry and could not stop before the boat’s end. Names identified include James Young aged 25 and his wife Louise Sullivan Young about 18, Elmer Hill 30, and his wife Betty Hill about 19.
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East Liverpool
Ohio
Newell
W. Va
Ohio River
Pennsylvania
Georgetown
James Young
Louise Sullivan Young
Elmer Hill
Betty Hill
Princess Captures Paris Headlines
Princess Margaret arrived in Paris on the way home from a month in Italy and Switzerland and dominated Paris newspapers with three-column photographs of her arrival. She plans to return to London next Wednesday.
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Paris
Margaret
Italy
Switzerland
de Sair
London
Ex Nazi Financier Accepts Chile Post
In Santiago Chile May 28 UR Hjalmar Schacht the No 1 financier of Hitler and Nicholas Yarur owner of a 32 000 000 textile empire offered Schacht a role as economic counselor Schacht accepted but will not leave Germany until denazification is completed according to Yarur
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Santiago
Chile
Hjalmar Schacht
Nicholas Yarur
Schacht
Germany
Yarur
No Change After 47 Years Broom Keeps Spirit Alive
Spencer West Virginia May 28 Lon Love, 76, rehired for the 47th straight year as Spencer's street foreman, vows to sweep the city thoroughfare with a broom while denying plans to replace him with a machine. He knows the sewage system from memory, with lines laid long ago and no blueprints.
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Spencer
W. Va
Lon Love
Love
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