Tide of fire halted in Los Angeles Ventura counties
A massive brush fire driven by a heat wave and gusty winds threatened five communities in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. About 1000 firefighters from volunteers, city and county crews, and Navy Seabees fought the blaze, using back fires to slow its advance near Agoura and Thousand Oaks. At least 10 homes burned in Box Canyon, with 75 families evacuated. The fire scorched over 10,000 acres, while a heat wave kept humidity low and winds up to 40 mph hampered efforts.
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Los Angeles
Ventura Counties
Santa Susanna Mountains
Ventura County
Navy
Port Hueneme
San Fernando Valley
Agoura
Thousand Oaks
Box Canyon
Canyon
AIR Lab
North American Aviation Rocket Motor Testing Laboratory
Krishna Venta
Gene Burdette
Red Cross
Chatsworth
Army
Vernon E. Neely
Ventura Blvd
L B Husband Fatally Stabs Wife in Domestic Tragedy
Police rushed to a Walnut Avenue home after a frantic call. William C. Schaefer, 39, stabbed Dolores Schaefer, 39, to death with a butcher knife in front of their bedroom, then hid the knife in their child's crib. One-year-old Billy sobbed in the living room as two other children played outside. Police, led by Det. Inspectors Thiele and Finch, quoted Schaefer confessing to the stabbing after quarreling over alleged attentions to other men. The couple wed in 1942. Schaefer, a co owner of a downtown beauty salon, was taken for questioning. The children were placed in Mrs Boyle's care.
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Dolores C. Schaefer
William C. Schaefer
Walnut Ave
Schaefer
Press-Telegram
Dolores Schaefer
Billy Schaefer
Diana
Janet
Lida C. Boyle
Olive Ave
Milwaukee
Wis
District Attorneys Office
James M. Thiele
Harry P. Finch
Tragic Washington collision spurs call for air lane rules
In the wake of a midair collision near the Washington Airport, Congress members press for fighter regulations on military planes in commercial lanes. Navy divers work to recover victims from the Potomac as a Bolivian P-35 fighter and an Eastern Air Lines DC4 crash into the river, leaving 55 dead.
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Washington
Congress
Potomac River
Navy
Eastern Air Lines
DC4
Erick Rios
Women Hanged in Park in Lincoln Park Murder Probe
SAN FRANCISCO Nov 2 A woman found hanged from a tree in Lincoln Park may have been murdered. Patrolman Joseph Galik said it does not appear to be self inflicted and there are other footprints at the scene. The woman was tentatively identified as Mary Allen Paine 30 of Oakland
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San Francisco
Lincoln Park
Joseph Galik
Mary Allen Paine
Oakland
Italian Police Drive 2000 Peasants From Italian Fields
CATANZARO Italy Nov 2 Police have driven 2000 peasants men and women from farm lands in the Isala Capo Rizzuto area of southern Italy according to news dispatches today.
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Catanzaro
Italy
Upr
Isala Capo Rizzuto
Governor Warren Backs Prop 2 in Welfare Reform Standoff
Governor Warren declares support for Proposition No 2 and backs repealing Proposition No 4. He cites chicanery by pension promoters exploiting old age and blind recipients and warns taxes must rise to fund new standards. Warren notes past hikes from 40 to 65 dollars monthly and signals continuation of high welfare standards despite costs.
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Sacramento
Warren
State Social Welfare Department
George H. McLain
Citizens’ Committee For
Truman sees deficit of 512 billions
In brief page summary the paper notes a 0.5 deficit figure for the year 512 billions amid national budget discussion. Other items listed include the Dutch agreeing to Republican rule for East Indies and various sections such as Bridge, Classified Ads, Comics, Crossword, Old Skipper, Radio and Television, Sports, Theaters, Titles and Temperatures, and Women’s Activities across multiple pages.
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Truman
East Indies
A Boyle
Denfeld Offered Post of Bossing Overseas Forces
Navy Secretary Matthews disclosed that Adm Louis E Denfeld was offered the post of commander of U S naval forces in European waters after meetings with Denfeld and Adm Forrest P Sherman The offer follows Denfeld being removed as chief of naval operations over opposition to unification Denfeld asked for time to consider and was granted a 60 day leave Sherman, a supporter of unification, is the new naval operations chief and will work with the joint chiefs of staff to gain support for unification and with the Army and Air Force leaders.
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Sherman
Denfeld
Forrest P. Sherman
Washington, D. C
Louis E. Denfeld
Naval Operations
High Command
Associated Prass
Washington
Navy
Francis P. Matthews
Nusted
Matthews
Denfrid
Joint Chiefs of Staff
White House
Europe
Truman
Man Fires Home and Kills Stepdaughter in San Francisco
A San Francisco man, Brice Harold Brennan, 35, a marine refrigeration engineer, set fire to an apartment and killed his 14-year-old stepdaughter Constance Oliver after holding police for 15 minutes. He was free on bail pending a Superior Court trial on a morals charge involving the girl, stemming from an August 4 incident when his wife, Betty Brennan, 35, had him arrested.
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San Francisco
Brice Harold Brennan
Liberty
Constance Oliver
Betty Brennan
State by state coal settlement offered
The United Mine Workers leader Lewis offered to negotiate with operators of any state for a prompt separate settlement of the coal strike through Gov. Schricker of Indiana. The plan aims at a single state basis for talks amid Indiana’s emergency coal shortage. Lewis urges a quick peace as miners idle since Sept. 15.
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Lewis
United Mine Worker
Henry F. Schricker
Indiana
Schricker
Mississippi River
Chicago
C. I
U. KW
United Electrical Workers
Walter F Reuther
Phillip Murray
Harry Bridges
Abram Flaxer
United Public Workers
Pietro Lucchi
The
Fur and Leather Workers
U. E
Murray
Newlywed Couple and Two Others Slain by Berserk Rival
A Filipino ranch hand in Santa Rosa Calif killed four people including his former sweetheart and her new husband before officers stopped him near his car. The victims were Mrs Louise Howard 27 her husband Clyde 23 her sister Mrs Maria Silvas and her brother Tony Abaya 40. Police say the shootings followed an argument after the woman refused to return to him after hospital release.
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Santa Rosa
Calif
Sonoma County
Louise Howard
Pio
Clyde
Maria Silvas
Silvas
Tony Abaya
Howard
Blaze Curbed at Texas Hamlet
Valley View Texas November 2 Fire raged through a large building housing two businesses in this north Texas hamlet and for a time threatened the whale business section. Firemen from Gainesville Denton and Sanger brought the blaze under control about 7 a.m. It started over three hours earlier. Valley View has no fire department. The water supply was endangered when an electric line to a water pump was burned out. Firemen started pumping water from a lake.
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Valley View
Texas
Gainesville
Denton
Sanger
Welfare Head Defies Senate Probers Call
California Social Welfare Director Myrtle Williams defies a Senate interim committee by refusing to appear, saying she will address the public by radio next Saturday night. The hearing, tied to pension matters and promoter George McLain, was scheduled for tomorrow. Williams says she answers to the people, not to politicians. Her former assistant testified McLain shaped pension policy talks, and Williams later ordered him to join her in Washington to review federal grants.
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Sacramento
Myrtle Williams
Senate
California
Williams
George McLain
Fred Weybert
Salinas
Weybret
McLain
C. A. Herbage
Social Welfare Department
Social Welfare Committee
Washington
Britain to Vote July 6 Says Labour Peer
London November 2 A Labour peer told a Lords debate Britain will hold a general election next July 6. The statement came from Lord Alverly a former cotton mill worker and long time Labour member elevated to the peerage four years ago after the party took power.
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London
House of Lords
Britain
Lord Alverly
Labor Party
Bandits Hold Up Virginia Bank in Falls Church Cash Grab
Two men with automatic pistols robbed the Falls Church east branch today escaping with about $14,000. They fled in a sedan toward Washington seven miles east as police set roadblocks around the Fairfax County town. FBI and DC and Maryland police joined the manhunt.
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Falls Church
Washington
Fairfax County
FBI
District of Columbia
Maryland
Six Die Seven Hurt In Apartment Fire In Cincinnati
A three story apartment building fire in Cincinnati killed six occupants and injured seven who leaped from windows. Residents Coy Shelton William Hartman Alma McBeath James Alexander Geldie Taylor died. one man unnamed. Fire extinguished quickly. damage estimated at about $2000.
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Cincinnati
Elm St
Harry McNay
General Hospital
Coy Shelton
Athens
Tenn
William Hartman
Alma McBeath
Liberty
James Alexander
McBeath
Geldie Taylor
George Smith
Huntington
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Virginia Bank
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