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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1947
Page
9
Madrid reports a government controlled press now calls Francisco Franco chief of the kingdom rather than chief of state fueling rumors he plans a government reshuffle and regency. Bolt regent mentioned amid uncertainty about the leader’s future role.
A different application of treatment by Dr. Duncan's Method of Arthritis Correction claims lasting results after other methods failed. The ad cites years of treating arthritis rheumatism neuritis and selatica and provides contact at 620-65, Dr. Duncan's (D.C.) Method of Arthritis Correction, 1423 E. Th St, Long Beach.
Navy announces relaxed re enlistment rules for former regular Navy and Naval Reserve members living outside the continental United States. Qualified veterans with honorable discharge and no police record may re enter on any Navy ship or at the Receiving Station Terminal Island. Navy Day events at Naval Shipyard Terminal Island expected crowd 25000 with educational displays planned. People mentioned include Lt Commander Samuel Goldhaber and Lt Commander Edward Steigelman along with Opal Lovelace and Sgt Harold Blakeslee.
At McChord Field Washington on October eight the Flight Service Center announced the first mass flight of C-82 twin-engine Fairchild Packet aircraft. The flying box cars carried 42 infantrymen plus a five-man crew and landed at 25 minute intervals after rerouting due to a storm along the route to Great Falls Montana.
The Long Beach Mineralogical Society hosts its fourth annual fossil show this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 728 Im Ave. Exhibits include minerals, fossils, and polished slabs with stones from California mountains and deserts and pieces from other states and countries. Local exhibitors listed include Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Gordon, Fritz Schmidt, Mrs. L. J. Stehsel, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hardman, L. P. Cutler, Milo Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Grimm, Mrs. Elizabeth Cailland, Sam Christenson, Mrs. Muriel Carlson, Mrs. Jane Fisher, Roy Stanton, Roy Wagoner, Ralph Houck, Imo Ohlsen, J. F. Kauffman, William Jordan, and George Raymond. The show is a foreunner to the world’s largest mineral show planned for July in Long Beach, where California mineral societies will convene.
Fragmentary wartime text shows Lt. Comdr Bill J. Harris receiving orders to Mare Island Naval Base San Francisco and J Barta assigned to the US Columbus yard at Terminal, with other attached officers and locations partially listed.
Qhanghai Oct 8 Chinese Reds may not join the new Comintern as the Chinese Communist Party debates alignment with Moscow. Indications suggest the Central Committee may decide to remain economically politically and ideologically independent from Moscow despite the formation of a Red European headquarters.
In Los Angeles October 8 a Mexican rancher Manuel Mendez is questioned over the bomb death of Jose Buenos. Police say Buenos was slain by a homemade device planted to block laborers entering the United States crop fields. U S Immigration Service notes workers from Mexico in the harvest are involved.
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