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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1947
Page
3
Fires swept through Bar Harbor and six nearby communities as strong winds fanned wildfires across New England. The death toll reached 12 with property losses exceeding 26 million dollars as 3500 residents evacuated by land and sea in a night-long operation.
Heavy selling hit grain and cotton on the Chicago Board of Trade as President Truman called for a special session to curb soaring prices. Wheat, corn, and oats fell to limit losses, with December wheat at 3.02 and December corn 2.22. Soybeans slipped, cotton futures opened down, while hogs rose on midmorning trading. Analysts said a new allocation system to ration scarce commodities could be proposed, possibly reducing a need for futures hedging.
A United Air Lines DC-6 crashed in flames one mile east of Bryce Canyon airfield at 12:30 p m local time. All 50 occupants were feared killed with no survivors reported. The flight originated in Los Angeles and was bound for Chicago and New York.
Rep Halleck accuses President Truman of breaking faith by not consulting Congress before calling a November 17 special session. Truman plans a nationwide radio address tonight to justify urgent inflation and foreign aid measures.
Bernard Baruch told the Senate war probes that foot dragging and fumbling cost the U S thousands of lives and billions of dollars. He urged a 17 point preparedness plan, universal military training, and broader wartime mobilization, noting a cold war rising while denying imminent war. He faulted piecemeal price controls as worsening rent inflation, calling it second only to human loss.
A chemical explosion at a Philadelphia drug company laboratory injured 18 workers. Officials at St. Marys Hospital reported two severely burned victims with poor survival prospects, while company spokesmen disputed early casualty estimates and debris counts among about 300 employees.
The 45,000 ton aircraft carrier Midway and a fleet of cruisers destroyers submarines and support ships will practice cold weather operations in the Atlantic from Oct 29 to Nov 26. An amphibious landing is planned under Adm. Arthur W. Radford’s direction.
Oliver Carlson former Communist testified to the House un American activities committee that Communists sought control of Los Angeles public schools The LA local chapter of the American Federation of Teachers was said to be dominated by Communists He cited a 24 543 vote tally for a Communist candidate in a city school board race and noted prolonged influence efforts in Hollywood through Jacobson a 1938 assigned trainer of film workers Carlson now a writer and UC extension lecturer left the party long ago and said Mrs Lela Rogers testified Communist activity in Hollywood is rising.
Weather Bureau extends storm warnings from Astoria Oregon to Strait of Juan de Fuca until 11 p m with small craft warnings south to Cape Blanco. Severe Gulf of Alaska disturbance drives the system toward the Washington coast.
More than 100000 mice used in cancer research perished when a fire destroyed the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor Maine. The loss is estimated at 150000 dollars. Director Clar ence C. Little noted the strain took 35 years to develop.
A major fire leveled 200 to 300 homes including summer shows of an international society. Bar Harbor suffered eight million dollars in official damage to mansions and furnishings, while its business core remained intact. Six nearby villages became ghost towns with populations around 500, notably Ly man Brownfield East Brownfield Goose Rocks Kenne bunkport Fortune's Rock and East Waterboro. The fire swept toward Otter Creek on Mount Desert Island. Sheriff Norman Dyer commented on the unfolding disaster.
London dispatch reports Nikolai V. Novikov, seen as a proponent of Soviet American friendship, was removed as Soviet ambassador to the United States. Alexander S. Panyushkin, former Soviet ambassador to China, will succeed him. No reason given.
London reports Moscow radio says Russia has taken hostage the former Brazilian ambassador Mario Pimentel Brandao and his staff to secure the safe departure of the Soviet embassy staff from Rio de Janeiro. Brazil cut diplomatic ties last week over Soviet press remarks about President Dutra. The radio cites a Montevideo dispatch alleging anti Soviet protests before the embassy.
Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio formally announced his candidacy for the 1948 Republican nomination calling the race wide open He sent a letter to Ohio GOP chairman Fred H Johnson outlining plans including not personally campaigning in the future due to a busy Senate term and schedule Taft named Rep Clarence J Brown as preconvention campaign manager and indicated limited participation in state primaries amid travel and speaking engagements across the region.
Harold E. Stassen spoke at the Maplewood Civic Association annual meeting and urged that the United States could cut taxes by about 3 billion dollars in 1948 while still providing 5 to 6 billion dollars for foreign expenditures in the year.
A midnight collision in fog off Point Sur touched off an explosion and fire aboard the S S Sparrow Point. Coast Guard and Navy crews rescued 37 of 38 aboard before dawn. one lookout remained missing as the tanker sailed to San Francisco under Coast Guard escort.
The Coast Guard gun boat Minnetonka departed Long Beach Harbor Tuesday bound for Seattle with cutter Morris in tow. It will be stored with the 13th District before proceeding to Fox Weather Station for weather patrol duty until December 1 under Comdr. MacLean.
A Southern Railway commuter train crashed into a standing train near South Croydon Station in foggy London, killing 31 and injuring 150. Sixty injured were hospitalized. others received first aid and went home. Some victims were schoolchildren. both trains were electric and signals had halted the standing train.
Food Committee Chairman Charles Luckman announced that the poultryless Thursday will stay in place as part of a grain-saving campaign for western Europe. He said the federation’s plan fails to cut chick and broiler production below current levels or to cull flocks beyond normal operations, leaving an open door for a new plan.
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