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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1947
Page
7
Dr Paul Dudley White of Harvard Medical School urged a national “cat less” program. He said many people eat to satiety, vitamins and good nutrition are overemphasized, vitamin deficiency is rare, and overeating is the actual cause of stress related heart trouble.
T. W. Archer, 80, retired principal of the Illinois School for the Deaf, died tonight in Jacksonville. He led 23 years at the Illinois school, authored deaf education textbooks, and earlier headed the Texas School for the Deaf for 10 years. He also served on faculties in North Carolina, Oklahoma and Indiana. He was not deaf.
Mrs. May Cozart, 48, of 524 Pacific Ave., narrowly escaped choking on a steak at home or nearby seaside yesterday. A swift hospital trip and emergency meat removal by ambulance saved her life.
Long Beach employment has risen to 98 000 workers with the pace accelerating to about 1000 hires per month in recent months. Unemployment dropped from 24000 at the start of 1946 to 11694, about 2000 above normal turnover. George Toll of the California Employment Service reported this at a Masonic Club talk.
Nanking October 31 an official source said voting in China's first national elections scheduled to begin in December may not start on time. The Kuomintang government party is purging political carpetbaggers who joined minority parties to win seats.
San Francisco writer Gertrude Atherton, 91, reflected on atomic war noting consolation in shared fate. She warned that if the United States lacked resolve it might drop atomic bombs on Russian cities to counter a perceived menace.
An Army investigation began into a crash near Mount Cucamonga in the San Bernardino range killing five fliers. The bomber, base at Biggs Field Texas, disappeared after takeoff from Lockheed Airport Burbank. Victims were Maj. John Crouch Port Arthur Texas Capt Bartholomew Tenore Bronxville N Y Lt Wilbert Muller Patterson N J Pvt E L Kyle El Paso Texas.
A Friendship Train is scheduled to depart Union Terminal Los Angeles on November 7 carrying eight cars of food for Europe. The convoy will travel cross country through California’s Central Valley to Chicago with stops and added cars along the way. Organizers highlight growing support and state officials will preside at a sendoff featuring a Hollywood-style parade.
An investigation at American Rolling Mill Co. Hamilton division site near New Miami probes a gas asphyxiation incident that killed Stanley Fry 57 of Oak Hill Ohio John McRoberts 43 of Hamilton and Norbert Nolte of Cincinnati while injuring four others A J Cl Bowling 17 and three 13 year old New Miami youths Melvin Butler Jak Av ery and Joseph Thompson were rescued by the company safety squad.
Robert Parrotte 24 of Greenville Miss faces robbery and kidnapping charges for abducting a church organist on Oct 14. Preliminary testimony by Ruth Radwanski chartered 22 described Parrotte forcing entry to her car, pistol whipping her, and leaving her bound by a highway after a chase across the Southern California desert. The Superior Court in Glendale set the trial for November 17.
Washington reports sugar price controls will expire at midnight marking the end of wartime emergency measures. Officials say ample inventories argue against price spikes and warn against panic buying while President Truman's advisers expect a push to revive rationing and installment sales controls in Congress.
New York report states retail sales edged lower in the week ended Wednesday but stayed 7 to 21 percent above the same week last year, Dun and Bradstreet said.
Peel pumping wells in the Wilmington field report progress with Terma Co Long Beach Warror No 03 spudding Sept 28 and finishing at 200 barrels. Union Pacific E 61 yields 121 barrels from 2785 feet. Ford No 5 deepened to 4125 feet and produced 292 barrels. Continental Oil and Shell Oil note activity near Alamitos Heights and Signal Hill deep tests reaching 9554 feet.
Belgrade reports Gen. Franjo Pire, Yugoslav minister to Argentina, will return to Buenos Aires within days after being recalled for consultations following Chilean diplomat expulsions.
In Philadelphia central police court Bernard Yollin aged 29 was fined $20 and costs after a witness testified he was nearly struck by Yollin's car and offered a pencil to take down the witness's number. Judge Harry S. McDevitt presided.
Tulsa officers arrested Charles Harris, 51, and a 24 year old woman after a tip from Exeteringham authorities. Harris claimed the woman Beatrice Jackie Belle as his companion as police planned to return him to Wayne County for questioning in the machine gun slaying of retired gang leader Carl Shelton last Thursday.
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