20 000 More Leave Jobs at 9 Alcoa Plants
Federal officials announced new steps to settle the steel strike as government officials warned it could idle 5,000,000 workers if unresolved. Reports said President Truman might intervene personally to settle the Vidagold steel walkout while progress and contract negotations were to begin tomorrow. A further major segment of the industrial network was hit as 20,000 C O steelworkers left nine Alcoa plants. Strikes have idled more than 1,500,000 persons. One encouraging feature of the...
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Vidagold
Aluminum’Co.'of America
Green declines bid to pool steel strike funds
President William Green rejects John L. Lewis’s plan to mobilize 2.5 million dollars weekly behind the CIO strike. Four railroad brotherhood leaders predict trains may resume on the Missouri Pacific by Saturday after five weeks. Steel Corp accepts mediation invite. Cyrus S. Ching to meet in New York. Alcoa workers quit to press 10 cent demands amid basic steel strike. Page 4 continues.
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New York
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Alcoa
Kansas City Bakery Cash Hoax Tale Sparks 1944 Loot Legend
An elderly Kansas City Kansas woman sketches a hoax treasure diagram claiming $20,000 hid in a bakery floor. Police excavate under a cake rack near the store door but find only deteriorated tins. The letter, dated 1943, ties Sonny Bartlett to a Los Angeles robbery and asks the baker to send the loot to his mother Mrs. Bartlett of Kansas City Kansas.
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Towne
H.C. Bartlett
Sonny
Baxter
Marine Chief Warns Policy Would Turn Corps Into Police Force
General Clifton Cates testified before the House Armed Services Committee that pentagon plans threaten to strip the Marine Corps of its combat role and turn it into a police force. He asserted Army control of amphibious training funds will hinder Marine readiness and questioned Air Force ambitions to take over Marine aviation. Retired General A. A. Vandegrift supported safeguards in the 1947 unification law, while Chairman Vinson pledged congressional defense of the Marines.
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Clifton B. Cates
Marine Corps
House Armed Services Committee
Washington, D. C
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W. P. T Hill
Associated Press
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Congress
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Army High Command
Marine. Aviation
Air Force
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D-Ga
Coness
Nationalists abandon Amoy port and base amid Chinese civil war
Hong Kong reported that Nationalists ceded Amoy port and naval base to the Communists after a month long siege. About 2400 Communist troops moved to positions along the Hong Kong border near Canton while the Pearl River estuary was blocked to thwart sea trade with Hong Kong.
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Amoy
Canton
Formosa
Central News Agen Icy
Pearl’ River
Shumchun
Shumehun
Les. Safes
Marine Reserve Plane Sinks After Ocean Landing
A plane from the Marine Reserve vanished when it landed in the ocean, sinking with unclear survivors. Other notes mention the California Order of Eastern Star celebrating a golden centennial in Long Beach and various section pages listed for typical newspaper content.
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Marine Reserve Hier
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Order of Eastern Star
Long Beach
Hawaii
Five Die Near Riverside In B-26 En Route To Long Beach
A B26 bomber from Sheppard Field Wichita Falls en route to Long Beach crashed into high tension 42 000 volt wires near Riverside in fog killing four air force members and one civilian. The wreckage was found after an hours long search and gasoline leakage created hazard. Names withheld pending next of kin notification. The plane refueled at Will rog base and originated from Sheppard Field.
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March Air Base
Sheppard Field
Ralph Jones Lane
Willingas Air Force
Arizona
Long Beach
Power Company
Wichita Je
Texas
Wijaras
Suffering Ends as Brother Kills Brother in Los Angeles
Los Angeles police say 15-year-old Richard Manning Elliott shot and killed his 10-year-old brother Robert James Elliott after an accidental discharge with a 12 gauge shotgun. Richard, detained on suspicion of murder, told officers he shot to end his brother's suffering after the boy groaned from the first shot.
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Los’ Angeles
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Richard Manning
Elliott
Edward Ream
Robert
West Los Angeles
Baby born aboard Atlantic flight a GI bride's son
A four pound boy arrived aboard an American Overseas Airlines Constellation 460 miles from Shannon Ireland. Dr. Fred Henschel and nurse Mary Jane Hinckley assisted with improvised delivery in the crew area while Captain John Hennessy held speed. Passengers cheered, $26 raised for the infant, mother Darinka Parker from Bavaria and father James C Parker of Alderson West Virginia.
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Ireland
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New York City
Mary Jane Hincklay
Millville
N. J
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New Town
New York
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Associated Press
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Frankfurt
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Air Force
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Parker
Nuernberg
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Alderson
W. Va
Bavaria
Comn
Hennessy
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Dr. Henschel
New X ray Invention Reveals Soft Tissues Details
Upsala Sweden sees a mild breakthrough in X ray imaging by Dr Anne Frantzell of Academic Hospital. The new technique uses soft X rays filters and printing to show muscles fat skin and internal water. It distinguishes fat from muscle and reveals fatty degeneration in seemingly healthy young men and older adults. Frantzell notes 300 photos support the claim but warns it is speculative toward aging research.
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New York Times
Upsala
Sweden
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Academic Hospital of
the Times
Frantzell
Znen
Lumber steamer Salina Cruz burns 180 miles west of Grays Harbor
Crew of 17 abandons lumber laden Salina Cruz after fire erupts aboard while en route from Long Beach to Hawaii via Vancouver. Coast Guard aviator confirms safe lifeboat escape. Balsam and Bering Strait head to scene. Black Douglas aids as rescue efforts continue and message logs report no injuries.
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Grays Harbor
Wash
Long Beach
Hawaii
Vancouver
B.C
Coast Guard
Associated’ Press
Bering Strait
Columbia
Federal Fish and ‘ Wildlife
Black Douglas
Nationally Known Iowa Seed King Henry Field Dies
SHENANDOAH Iowa Oct 17 Henry Field 77 founder and president of the Henry Field Seed and Nursery Co and pioneer in radio broadcasting died today of cancer The firm started in 1859 was the nation s largest retail mail order seed and nursery company Field retired from active management in 1938 He was active in politics winning the Republican nomination for the U S Senate in 1932 He was survived by his widow Bertha eleven children one brother and five sisters
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Shenandoah
Iowa
Henry Field
Field
Bertha
Supreme Court review of rent control consent debated
Two federal judges issued opposite rulings on rent control. Judge Shaw held the law unconstitutional, while Judge Yankowich ruled for the contrary. The case, started by Housing Expediter Tighe Woods, sought to stop Evicting tenants at Shore Line Co operative Apartments. The dispute hinges on whether Congress delegated power for local option decontrol and the scope of executive discretion in rent regulation.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Elwyn BR. Shaw
Chicago
Leon Fr.’ Yankowich
Los Angeles
Tighe
E. Woods
Shgreine Co-operative
Shoreline
Shaw
Congress
Moch Resigns After Short Attempt to Form French Government
Paris reports that Moch resigned tonight after an 11 day effort to form a French government failed. UK Premier Iuels commented on the unusual sequence and political instability in France during this period.
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Moch
Paris
Iuels "Moch
Ambassador tuna clipper sinks near Cape Maln Panama
The Ambassador, a Long Beach tuna clipper, burned and sank off Cape Maln Panama during a routine mission. Five crew members, three from Los Angeles and two Colombians, were rescued about 50 miles north of the area. Built in 1938, the vessel had been converted into a brine refrigerated tuna clipper at Wilvers Boat Yard, Long Beach.
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Caribbean Command
Noiee
California
Panama
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Roy Ly Deskin
J. G. Grey
Steve Shawethee
Purse
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