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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1947
Page
2
Fire swept through southern Maine destroying two farms and several homes as winds shifted. Officials said the deer hunting season started late with optional evacuation orders in affected counties and crews battled the blaze as more homes were threatened.
Julie Straad 31 sues to block estranged husband Antoine from visiting their four year old daughter argued as a test tube baby. The State Supreme Court divorce decree gave Sunday visit rights but she questions paternity asserting artificial conception with physician payment details. Antoine’s lawyer counters proving paternity is biologically impossible to establish with one parent.
Essex Md October 21 a 36 year old mother Mrs Katherine M Thompson of Middle River drowned when her rowboat capsized during a trip to buy cigarets on the opposite side of Dark Head Creek Two other women Mrs Thelma Pickering 25 and Mrs Dora Knapp 31 were in the boat Knapp clung to the overturned craft while Thompson’s body was recovered as rescuers arrived The scene underscored a fatal boating accident on a local creek at night.
In St Louis Oct 21 1947 Ramon Beteta of Mexico and Nelson Rockefeller urged private capital to fund Latin American industrialization for hemispheric solidarity. Rockefeller outlined a plan to raise living standards via private investment and management, with an Inter-American Bank and regional production linked to Europe under the Marshall plan.
Los Angeles reports a 18 percent decline in juvenile offenders in 1946-47, with 862 youths committed to the California Youth Authority across 10 counties, down from 1,041 the prior year. Santa Barbara and Riverside show gains in improvement while San Bernardino rises sharply.
Newport report details Mrs. Henry C. Thomas seeking help to locate her vanished husband and a son claimed by the couple. She says the boy Richard, aged one at the time, wed a woman named Lorraine Willis of Asheville, but Asheville police dispute the marriage. The family faded from view after a 1930 visit, with Red Cross and military searches yielding no record.
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