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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1947
Page
12
Dr. Charles A. Thomas, atomic scientist and Monsanto Research Director, argues atomic energy can advance peace by ending shortages and fear. He says global control delays hinder peacetime uses and the development of abundant production reducing war causes.
President Truman discussed food price factors noting exports raise prices slightly and that about one third of grain is exported in normal times. He reviewed Europe aid, possible emergency sessions, and praised recent funding moves while outlining food saving plans and poultry stock data.
In Havana on October 16, President Grau San Martin called the Communist inspired general strike a complete failure. Strikes ended with a gun exchange between Communists and progovernment workers. An emergency tribunal detained 150 strike leaders, though Lazaro Pena and Jesus Menendez avoided arrest due to parliamentary immunity.
Gen Alexander A Vandegrift told the University of Maryland fall convocation that U S victory in World War II failed to secure fundamental freedoms for all. He warned that nations remain sources of exploitation and aggression and questioned if postwar peace is sustainable or if fear of atomic war forces any peace at any price.
The C I O unveiled a Roosevelt memorial plaque to be placed in the Georgetown University Hospital children’s wing in Washington. The ceremony featured praise for Roosevelt and remarks by Roosevelt’s son, amid praise for Secretary of State Marshall and U S foreign policy. A convention resolution backed economic aid, peace, unity, and opposition to war talk.
Maj. Gen. M. S. Eddy, Army chief of information, says the United States is effectively in an undeclared emergency and that without universal military training the Army cannot fulfill its core duties. He warned the Army is at the bare minimum for its tasks.
Local notice states Potluck-Victory Chapter 43 of American War Mothers will host a potluck luncheon tomorrow at Veterans Memorial Building. The brief adds a Wyoming picnic October 19 at Syc amore Grove Park in Los Angeles with the slogan My friends are your friends and your friends are my friends.
Resumes studies Robert A. Lineberger son of Mr and Mrs John S Lineberger of Long Beach returns to Lake Forest College Lake Forest Ill as a senior for the 1947 48 school year.
A light red spaniel named Sir Brucewood known as Brucie is missing. Neighbors report sightings near the Bramble Street area as local volunteers organize a quiet search for Brucie.
Unseasonably warm weather and clear skies were forecast across the nation as Summer's return engagement was extended for another day. The mercury neared 90 in parts of the Midwest with new date and October records set in many communities.
Acting on his physician's orders former President Herbert Hoover canceled a dinner speech opening the 75th anniversary fundraising drive for Wellesley College. Toastmaster Bruce Barton announced the cancellation and no further details were provided as Hoover and his secretary could not be reached.
Agriculture officials predicted there would be no change in the retail price of sugar when price controls end October 31. They said the United States would divert 484000 short tons of raw Cuban sugar to U S occupied zones in Japan, Korea and Germany, offset in part by a new U S Cuban agreement to send additional sugar to the United States.
A list of marriage licenses issued in Long Beach includes couples such as Kenneth Kirkpatrick and Iva Bearden Eugene Adams Merrill Lady William Patterson Baravanca Anastas ia Dorothy Lovejoy Keyser Earl Dorothy Braunwarth Gehl Robert Cunningham Talbert Laura Walker Olive Nancy Russell Grube Claude June Gill Hambly Bruce Betz Barnette Dorothy Pinder Snyder William Ruth Cornelius Harman Bill Vivian Peare Dutton Edgar Bettie a ant Jr Dorothy Brown Hutchison Albert Jr Mary Oertle Zwierstra Leslie Gertrude Vojs Jones Bobbie Slocomb Platt John Peggy Burke Matthews Douglas Connie Murphy Frantz Gerald Margaret Jones Kammerer Mardell Muriel Winter Hansen Robert Marie White Lyle James Mary Cole Wells John Charlene Miller Kuhr Robert Virginia Romano Franklin Augustin Wanda Christal Godwin Edward Jewel Broadwell Miller Margaret Osborne Backman Lucille Fairbanks Beck Chester Wyvetn Swenson Ellis Walter Darlene Appleton Onstott Robert Vela Parrish Nicholson Harold Dorothy Raymond Pillon Philip Helen Hays Pittmen Wesley Joan Steelsmith Wachl h ofer Thomas Maria Olson Clayton Duaine Wanda Ashbourne Zack William Eva Ballard Schall Robert Barbara Wüethrich Burnsed Chris Jr Joyce Arnett Ruegsegger Thomas Virginia Tweit Harkey Arvid Carol Camp McDonald William Clark Essary Wilburn.
Long Beach court records list divorces filed by William Fensler and Karen Fensler Pearl Frazier and Arvil Wilson and Mary Wilson Peggy Anderson and Robert Anderson Arthur Carlson and Dorothy Carlson.
Color photographer Herman Wall of Los Angeles will discuss color photography before Long Beach Camera Guild members at Recreation Park golf clubhouse Friday night at 8 o clock. The event features miscellaneous color slides shown in competition by guild members.
William R. Jarnagin son of Mr and Mrs Louis H Jarnagin of 747 East Broadway has been elected president of the senior class of the School of Law at the University of Southern California. He also serves as president of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity at the university.
Four California students join 148 residents in Northwestern University enrollment at Evanston Illinois. They are Robert John Crum dental school Marjorie Jean Engle journalism Harriett Alice Hudson education and Joseph Franklin Rominger graduate school, with home addresses in Long Beach.
Eastman Kodak Co discloses a new periscope camera capable of snapping shore line closeups at over one frame per second. The first models were issued to the Navy late in World War II and deliveries to the submarine fleet are complete. Previous information had been restricted.
A running list from Seaside and Community hospitals records numerous births by family name and address. Entries show newborns by gender and birth dates from Sept 30 to Oct 12, including Seaside Hospital and Belmont and other local addresses.
Kenneth N. Chantry of Los Angeles and Antelope Valley is nominated by Mayor Fletcher Bowron to fill the seat held by Eugene Overton. If confirmed, Chantry joins Roy Beaton on the board, restoring full membership after Overton’s departure and Beaton’s reappointment.
Mary Magruder Mingis a longtime librarian for the U. S. Army District Engineers Office in St. Louis offers to act as hangman for condemned Japanese war criminals in the Philippines. She cites personal vengeance for her brother and says she volunteered after reading reports of difficulties in finding volunteers.
About 5000 volunteer solicitors will report progress in the Community Chest drive at a Friday noon meeting held at the Veterans Memorial. Rex Reason urges all workers to attend the Dutch treat luncheon at 75 cents per plate, with program by Dan Patch and a chance to win Hedda Hopper’s hat.
Seven Long Beach men enlist in the regular Army for three year terms: Donald L. Mc Gowan Verdun E. Schlipp Billy M. Young Rene Maddox Andrew Swansen Yoshikazu Kinoshita and Frederick E. Foley.
The Ephrata Cloisters, founded in 1732 by Conrad Beissel of the Sev enth-Day Baptists, will be restored by the state. Once a semi autonomous peers house system with the Saron sisterhood the Be thania brotherhouse and house holders the commune declined after Beissel's 1768 death a typhus outbreak and celibacy practice reduced its vitality.
Three Long Beach officials travel to Corona for the National Savin and Loan League fall conference October 19 to 23. C. R. Lough leads Long Beach Building and Loan Association, Thomas A. Gregory heads Bellflower First Federal Savings and Loan, and Paul Mallonee chairs the shareholders committee of the Long Beach association. The league represents savings and loan organizations nationwide.
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