Huge Throng Breaks Every Local Record
A nine year All- Western Band Review drew an estimated half a million along Long Beach’s 20 clock parade route. Spectators crowded cars windows rooftops as more than 600 bands with 5 000 musicians and 400 drum majors performed. Santa Claus rode a float escorted by Watsonville’s Solars Band, while Nick’s honor guard and the Lythian Guard from Long Beach led the procession. The event opened the Christmas shopping season with holiday displays in downtown windows. Weather was perfect for the three hour celebration.
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Long Beach
Than &C
Santa Claus
North
Watgonville Solars
Watsonville
Santa Tlaus
Lythian Guard
Musical Review
Colombia Seethes on Election Eve
In Bogota on November 26 the bloody presidential campaign ends amid strikes shootings and a funeral. Vicente Echandia brother of ex Liberal candidate Dario Echandia dies from wounds inflicted by military police near the San Martin monument. Conservatives nominate Laureano Gomez as the sole candidate as Liberals plan a martyr’s rite despite government bans on meetings.
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Bogota
Columbia
Vicente Echandia
Dario Echandia
de San Martin
Laureano Gomez
Former U S Bank Aid Kills Self in San Francisco
John C. Galbraith, 58, formerly with the Federal Reserve System in Los Angeles, was found dead in San Francisco Bay. Police called it a possible death by own action. Notes asked to notify his wife Lydia Galbraith of Pasadena and Mr. W. Johnson of the Los Angeles Elks Club. He had been divorced about six months and lost his job. He carried $2 and had lived at a Geary Street hotel for four months while seeking work.
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San Francisco
John C. Galbraith
Federal Reserve System
Los Angeles
San Francisco Bay
W. Johnson
Geary St
Corona High School Wins Sweepstakes Night Band Review
Winners at the ninth annual All Western Band Review include Corona High School sweeping the event and grand prize awarded to ET Marine Base in Santa Ana. Fullerton Bakersfield Downey Roosevelt Junior High lead divisions. American Legion Fest No 8 Band in Las Vegas. Talpa Church Symphonic Band in Los Angeles. El Toro Marine Base service band. Glendale Post 127 drum and bugle corps. Earnest Kellogg Post VFW Santa Ana. Monterey Park Girls Drum Corps. Los Angeles Chinese Girls Mei Wah Drum Corps. Charlene Bielke named All Western Drum Majorette with Orange Coast College. Ted Otis named All Western Drum Major. Homer Shrene noted as Military Drum Major. Alhambra High School Majorette Team.
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Corona High School
Marine Base
Santa Ana
Fullerton
Bakersfield
Downey
Roosevelt Junior High School
American Legion Fest
Las Vegas
Talpa Church Symphonic Band
Los Angeles
E! Toro Marine Base
Glendale Post No. 127
American Legion
Earnest Kellogg Post
Monterey Park
Charlene Bielke
Orange Coast College
Ted Otis
Arthur L. Peterson
Homer Shrene
el Toro Marine Base
Alhambra High School
Ex-chiefs flee Panama with 40 followers to Canal Zone
In Panama City on November 26, forty three people including three ex presidents Daniel Chanis Enrique Jimenez and Ricardo de la Guardia along with Chief Justice Rosendo Jurado sought refuge in the U S Canal Zone from the Arias government After arrests were ordered for Chanis followers the exiles fled Jurado reportedly declined an invitation to return to Panama and stayed in the Canal Zone The move appears tied to thwarting a counter coup and involved the Supreme Court ruling that Chanis was the constitutional president
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Panama
Republic
Supreme Court
United States Canal Zone
Arnulfo Arias
Daniel Chanis
Enrique Jimenez
Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia
Arias
Chanis
Rosendo
Jurado
Vone
Alfredo
Aleman
Jother
Canal Zone
Diamonds Found Hidden in Widow’s Chicago Mansion Treasure
In Chicago on November 26 attorney Ralph Berkowitz disclosed a cache of about 1050 carats of diamonds. The gems, set in 300 pieces of jewelry, were found stuffed in medicine bottles and match boxes within Mrs. Lind Bell Titus Knox’s creaky west side mansion. Estimated value may push the estate over half a million dollars, alongside numerous river forest and Wilmington properties. Authorities described the collection as an investment unlikely to be used personally by the deceased antique collector, with 75 more diamond pieces found in her bank vault.
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Ralph Berkowitz
Fore la Trust Company
Berk
Qwitz
Knox
Chicago
River Forest
Wilmington
Dope Sleuths Arrest Two In Los Angeles Case
Dope sleuths arrested Eddie Lee, 24, a Los Angeles harbor department maintenance man, and Andrew Mc Garrity, 23, of San Pedro, on narcotic charges. Officers Arrendondo and Diaz booked them after accusing them of selling three heroin capsules. A subsequent search of their homes yielded about $500 in heroin.
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Los Angeles
Eddie Lee
Olive St
San Pedro
Andrew
Plot to Give Away Superbomb Charged Plot to Give Away Superbomb Charged
Sen Edwin C Johnson accuses David Lilienthal of leading a nefarious plot to leak the United States secret of a superatomic bomb to Great Britain. He ties others including politicians scientists and the Washington Post to the scheme in a letter to the Post. Johnson cites top secret information and seeks scrutiny of national security matters.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
D.-Cole
David E. Lilienthal
Great Britain
Johnson
Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Washington Post
The
Post
Truman
McGrath
Senate House
Tee
New Yorkon
United States
Nagasaki
Bandits Raid City In Three Quick Heists Net $365
Robberies occurred within an hour and a quarter in three distant city sections. Grocer Louis Hasptay lost 150 dollars at 7 p.m. armed bandit with missing teeth fled. Fifteen minutes later clerk Thomas Ingram faced two men with simulated guns stealing 185 dollars. About an hour later a bandit tied to the same pair robbed the drugstore at 1241 W Ocean Blvd for 50 dollars.
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Louis Hasptay
Santa Fe Ave
Thomas
JE. Ingram
Atlantic Ave
Art
W. Ocean Blvd
Antidote Flown To Ship Off San Martin Island
A Coast Guard mercy plane rushed an antidote for a penicillin overdose to the S S Monroe Victory 150 miles south of San Diego near San Martin Island. Radioman John T. Waldberg of Miami received the overdose and the antidote was administered on scene. The ship was en route to Panama.
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San Diego
Coast Guard
Monroe Victory
San Martin
Island
Here
Iohn T. Waldberg
Miami
Panama
Saas
Camdy
C. A. Rich
Imond
Northwest Hurricane Kills Eight As Storm Rages
Pacific Northwest faces gales and torrential rains from British Columbia to Oregon. Eight to nine deaths reported as a tugboat capsized near Trial Island and a man died near Everson, Washington. A bridge washout isolates thousands in West Vancouver while power lines fail and harbors aid in rescues.
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Pacific Northwest
British Columbia
Oregon
Vancouver
B. C
Aberdeen
Wash
Jon
Grays Harbor
Pacific Ocean
Everson
Bellingham
Trial Island
Victoria
B. C. G. Anderson
George McGregor
Brit
Columbia
Capilano
Bonneville
Raymond
Saturda
Montesano
Puget Sound
Cosmopolis
Quinault
Seattle
Mt. Vernon
Blockade Proposed to Free American Diplomat in China
Washington reports Rep Judd proposes a U S Navy blockade of the China coast to force release of Vice Consul William N Stokes seized on spying charges The move follows the detention of Angus Ward freed after a month in Communist custody The State Department has urged global protests and a UN appeal Mansfield urges immediate action to gain Stokes release The Ward case had been considered resolved before this new seizure
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Washington
United States Navy
China Coast
William N. Stokes
State Department
Red
Rep
Judd
R.-Minn
Youse Foreign Affairs Committee
China
Angus Ward
Tuken
Mansfield
D.-Mont
Foreign Affairs
United Nations
Stokes
Leutenant
Ward
Pope Ends Vacation at Castel Gandolfo
Vatican City reports Pope Pius XII ended his summer vacation at Castel Gandolfo. He arrived back in Vatican City today after staying there since July 28.
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Pope
Castel Gandolfo
Vatican City
Pope Pius XII
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