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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1947
Page
2
Atlantic City reports 17 year old WP Roland Hunsicker captured first place in the national Pretzel Baking Institute contest for pretzel benders by twisting at the rate of 41 pretzels a minute.
Washington reports Robert N. Denham says individuals may use union privileges even if union officers refuse to swear non-Communist affidavits. NLRB data through Oct shows 305 individual unfair labor practice charges filed versus 30 by unions. Denham notes law allows individuals to file regardless of union leadership actions.
An aged advertisement promotes ELLOGO’s ALL-BAN as a remedy for constipation. It touts prior laxative use after years of needing relief, advises daily servings with milk or cereals, and urges plenty of water. The copy stresses quick, noticeable results and offers a ten day trial via grocer order.
Patricia Schmidt testified about a chaotic April murder on the Havana harbor yacht. John Lester, the lover, stood trial as the accused, while the waterfront scene unfolded with threats, a drawn sword, and a gun found in a drawer beside her. Authorities questioned Schmidt as she recalled Cuban procedures and pressure to claim it was an accident.
The report notes rising sale figures for A243 and CEE land exchanges and port commission activity.
Tramp search near Caseta Mexico spurs help from U S forces. Mexican mounted troops seek a mysterious object that exploded in smoke ten miles away. Brig. Gen. Diaz Gorr es requests Maj. Gen. Homer to deploy reconnaissance planes to guide troops with flares to a crater sighting.
Detroit reports President Joseph M. Dodge of the American Bankers Association says the United States must assume world leadership or risk ceding it to Soviet Russia. He notes history has delegated leadership to the U.S. and calls it the stabilizing factor of the era.
Premier Paul Ramadier hinted at intrigue as a 3600-strong strike by subway and bus operators tied to the Communist led General Confederation of Labor threatened to paralyze Paris. He warned the walkout, begun five days before municipal elections, aimed to hinder the republic. Police reported attempts to seize garages were repelled without incident amid fears the stoppage could spread. The transport tie up was to affect about 4 million people as workers demand 11 percent raises and other concessions.
The apfprinted press reports fair and pleasant weather for most of the United States with no strong winds expected. Temperatures are predicted to range 10 to 20 degrees above normal, especially in the northern half, suggesting continued mild conditions.
Seamen adrift for 19 days in a powerless minesweeper in the central Pacific sent home hopeful messages to their wives. W. B. Hopkins H. Worosby and L. E. Meets, aboard the lead craft, spoke of a Christmas reunion while awaiting rescue by the Navy Patrol Craft. They described a perilous drift with sinking vessels and a weathered scramble for food and water, and noted the rescue tug Edward M. Grimm aided by air and sea search efforts led by Comar Ira W. Brown. The Navy reported no charges for relief efforts.
Chicago report for October fourteen states that 9.1 percent of 417 eye grafts into damaged eyes produced total blindness while 11.9 percent yielded nearly normal vision. Doctors from eight eastern institutions warn that results do not justify the operation for patients with vision 20 100 or better. The trephine method transfers tissue from a healthy eye to a diseased one, with only 29 cases showing any normal vision. Weather notes mention rain along the Carolina coast after a tropical storm, Florida damage, and near normal temperatures on the Pacific coast. Federal forecasters report Chicago area temperatures rising and Canada seeing warm spells.
Prague reports a foundry of United Steel, Co. in Rychnov near the German border destroyed by an explosion of unknown origin. Advices noted arrests of all Germans over 18 in the town, amid heightened czes toward nationalization and border tensions.
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