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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1947
Page
4
A rental inquiry asks for character and financial references and why the applicant would be a good tenant. It requests contact timing and provides a phone number 771 249 for daytime calls daily and Saturday until noon.
Senator George W. Malone says the Army controls 8,000,000 tons of tungsten ore in Korea, crucial for steel. He notes War Department debate over use with one faction wanting to dump ore to raise funds and others preferring stockpiling.
Britain’s Chancellor Hugh Dalton told the House of Commons that the weekly drain on gold and dollar resources averages 70 million dollars. He warned that only export gains and reduced imports can curb the deficit, forecasting a 1 billion dollar yearly gap by 1949 even with Cripps’ plan. The News Chronicle praised Cripps for candor as austerity measures continue.
A Texas jury convicted Dr. Lloyd I. Ross of murder with malice in the slayings of Mrs. Gertrude York, her husband Willard, their 9 year old son John, and the boy’s grandmother on a rural road last May 25. The Ohio born Harvard educated surgeon was deemed sane and sentenced to death in the electric chair despite an insanity plea. Ross admitted the shootings. his defense argued loss of life savings led to the crime after bankruptcy filings.
Paul Winton 51 admits fatal shootings of his wife Esther, daughter Mrs. Pary Porter, and her husband Charles Porter in Mendocino County. He allegedly became angered when the Porters moved in with him. Winton was arrested near Ukiah after vowing not to be taken alive and is jailed awaiting further proceedings. The Porter children Corky 7 and Bubbles 2 were unharmed and given to juvenile authorities.
West Point Mississippi story of Hal McLeese of Los Angeles who wooed 17-year-old Cather Steadman of Ackerman and wed her in one day then was jailed hours later for passing four bad checks. Police say he admitted the charges and claimed stolen money in California with a trail of road checks to Mississippi.
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