Norse Line shifts to turbine ships in trans Pacific service
Norse Line plans to replace diesel powered ships with four foot turbine vessels built in 1955 56 for trans Pacific work from Long Beach Los Angeles Harbor with speeds between 18 and 19 knots. President Klave ness notes higher manning costs for American ships versus British Norwegian and Italian ships. Seamen earnings average about $390 per month plus overtime board lodging and clothing. Japan merchandise now carries Made in Japan label as a broad rise in goods arrives at harbor. Liberty cargo fleet numbered 592 ships with recent additions 35 ships assigned to three firms. Washington ship transfers announced to United States Lines to carry displaced persons. A war built barge at Long Beach harbor is a molded hull rather than a dismast. Grace Line charters two CMAV1 motor ships including Coastal Rambler for Central American coffee movement peak season. Pacific Coast River Platte Brazil Conference raises freight by 10 percent effective Jan 1. Long Beach Los Angeles Harbor engineers branch holds first meeting at Bilge Club Wilmington. French Sardine Co plant managers head Tokyo talks on fishing treaty provisions.
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Canada
trans-Pacific
Thong Beach
Los Angeles Harbor
Tora
Klaver Ness
Liberty
Economic Co-operation Administration
Maritime Administrator
U. S
Tuna Packing Totals Across Long Beach and San Diego
Tuna packers in Long Beach and San Diego during September received 18,573 tons of all species and packed 792,124 cases. Intake included 10,673 tons yellowfin, 4,635 tons skipjack, 683 tons bluefin, yielding 677,611 cases. Albacore landings reached 2,397 tons, canned into 107,915 cases, with bonito at 102 tons and 3,501 cases. Canners processed 5,923 tons mackerel into 107,524 cases, produced 2,774 tons fish meal and 124,435 gallons fish oil. About 55,000 cases of anchovies came from Monterey area plants.
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Long Beach
San Diego
Norwegian Flag Tanker Dalfonn Arrives at Port Today
The Norwegian flag tanker Dalfonn, 625 feet long and carrying 155000 barrels of oil, is set to dock at Union Oil Co. terminal in Wilmington. Owned by Sigval Bergesen of Stavanger, she will also take on 8400 barrels of fuel oil for her engines as she completes a world voyage via Oslo after her maiden Gulf voyage to Japan.
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Dalfonn
Sigval Bergesen
Stavanger
Daltonn
Persian Gulf
Japan
Oslo
Fred Olsen Line
Union Oi. Co
Wilmington
Celebrity Series to Host Washington Columnist Childs
Marquis W. Childs, Press-Telegram Washington columnist, will speak for the City College celebrity series at Polytechnic High School Auditorium Wednesday at 8 p.m. His topic is Washington. Calling. Childs edits a column carried in more than 150 papers and has won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington correspondence in 1944. He has reported from eight countries and frontlines, studied postwar Europe, and conducted a personal interview with Marshall Tito in Yugoslavia.
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Marquis W. Childs
Press-Telegram
Washington
City Colege
Polytechnic High School
Yugoslavia
Greece
Scandinavia
Europe
Marshall Tito
Laborite Questions on Peace Parley Hopes
London October 27 Norman Dodds Labour MP filed the first parliamentary question for Prime Minister Churchill asking if and when he will seek a new bid for peace by fresh negotiations with President Truman and Marshal Stalin. Churchill hinted during the election campaign that he aims for a face to face peace huddle between East and West leaders.
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London
Norman Dodds
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Truman
Marshal Stalin
Churchill
Tanker to Be Towed Here From Hawaii for Salvaging
A stern section of the T-2 type oil tanker Kurt Dearborn, broken in a North Pacific storm, is being prepared in Honolulu for towing to the National Metals & Steel dismantling yard at Terminal Island. Pacific Towboat & Salvage Co. directs the project with Geoffrey Hoag overseeing the operation from Long Beach. the ship’s power plant section has served as a municipal power plant in Hawaii.
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Foss
North Pacific
Kurt Dearborn
Honolulu
National Metals & Steel
Terminal Island
Pacific Towboat & Salvage Co
Hilo
Hawaii
Geoffrey Hoag
Long Beach
Agnes
Coast Guard Officer Exams Slated in Long Beach Area
Merchant Marine officers will earn Coast Guard commissions in ranks of lieutenant junior grade, lieutenant and lieutenant commander after exams next February in the Times Building Long Beach. Applicants aged 21 to 40 must have at least four years aboard a licensed merchant vessel. Applications from the commandant U S Coast Guard or Marine Inspection offices. West Coast tests in Long Beach San Francisco and Seattle.
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Merchant Marine
Coast Guard
Times
Long Beach
John Trebes
1Th Coast Guard
U. S
U. S. Coast Guard
PTP
Washington
D. C
Marine Inspection Office
1Th Coast Guard District
San Francisco
Seattle
Brothers United After 50 Years Golden wedding reunion in Columbus Junction
Oscar Wanzer, 71, Arthur Wanzer, and John Wanzer were reunited after 50 years at a golden wedding anniversary in Columbus Junction Iowa. Arthur traveled from Oroville to attend at 448 West 19th Street while John lives at 2446 Spalding Street. The three last gathered for Oscar and Edna Johnson’s 1901 courthouse wedding in Columbus. Oscar, long a resident of California, has retired twice and their daughter Helen Wanzer Loran of San Francisco joined the celebration.
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Columbus Junction
Iowa
Theia Brothers
John H. Wanzer
Spaulding St
Edna B
Oscar Wanter
19Th St
Arthur Wanter
Oroville
Calif
Press- Telegram Phate
Oscar
John
Arthur Wanzer
Edna Johnson
Columbus
Arthur
W. 19Th
St. John Jives
Spalding St
Oscar Wanzers
California
Long Beach
Helen Wanzer Loran
San Francisco
Legion Post Plans Member Drive Launches Tomorrow
The 18th annual membership drive of Long Beach Navy Post 598, American Legion, opens tomorrow and runs for two weeks. Commander Wendell S. Cloninger says the campaign will close with a bean dinner at 7 p.m. November 13 in Veterans Memorial Building. First vice commander Richard H. Melanson, campaign chairman, and aides Edward J. Galvin, Robert Allen, Arthur Langner, and Charles Howe will assist. Melanson is a World War II Navy veteran.
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Long Beach Navy Post
American Legion
Wendell S. Cloninger
Veterans Memorial Bldg
Richard H. Melanson
Edward J. Galvin
Robert Allen
Arthur Langner
Charles Howe
Musicale at Arts Center by Long Beach Women’s Music Club
The afternoon musicale at Municipal Arts Center features Long Beach Woman's Music Club members. Directed by Fred Ghlendorf, the program includes vocal duets by Myra and David G Oldham, a vocal trio with Easter Thompson Kathleen Shatta Agnes Burchffe, piano pieces by Eunice McPherson, and poetic selections by Mrs. John McDonald, junior past president.
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Municipal Arts Center
Long Beach
Halloween Prompts Warnings of Fire
Fire Chief Frank Sandeman warns Halloween poses fire risks from candlelit jack o lanterns near curtains and paper or cheesecloth costumes. Parents should prevent children from handling fire and avoid placing pumpkins with candles near flammable materials. Use flameproof decor and note that public assembly candles are banned by city ordinance.
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Frank Sandeman
Rainmaker Tsunesaburo Asada Seeks Proof in Japan
In northern Japan rain fell despite Tsunesaburo Asada from Osaka University claiming cloud seeding success. He flew Saturday in commercial air transport to seed clouds with green dye to show rain was manufactured, but no green coloration was observed as yet.
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Tokyo
Japan
Tsunesaburo Asada
Osaka University
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