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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1950
Page
6
The Long Beach Police Department announces a citywide drive to locate and arrest Harry Ajax, identified as the slayer of Officer W. Maclean. The force and many personnel seek public help to capture the suspect after Ajax reportedly escaped from custody.
A note on Miss M. Henson, art instructor and author visiting sister Mrs. Budd Pease at 603 St. Louis Ave. Henson, raised in Long Beach, has long served as art supervisor and teacher in Arizona. This summer she taught ceramics and enamel work at Arizona State College Flagstaff and published How to Enamel on Copper. She writes on craft for teachers and amateurs, with poems in Desert Magazine and Arizona Aways, and articles in School Arts and Instructor. She studies prehistoric Verde Valley pottery, lived 48 years in the area, and earned degrees from Polytechnic High, UCLA, and USC.
Improvements costing 500000 will be made to seaport and air field supplies, approved by the Harbor Commission, linking three Lindbergh Field buildings to house United, Western Air, American, Pacific Southwest and California Central under one roof. A turnkey finger pier will be built near the civic center.
In Frankfurt Germany on September 2 an official note says General Mark W Clark head of U S Army ground forces will attend a major maneuver the biggest since the war with participation by British and French occupation forces near the Soviet boundary from September 11 to 18 A separate U S Air Force show at Grafenwher on September 6 will feature 125 fighter bombers in a display described as the greatest aerial firepower concentration since World War II.
TORRANCE Sept 2 An inquest and funeral arrangements are pending at Cleveland Mortuary San Pedro for Grace Ashley 49 of 1329 WW 220th St who allegedly shot her husband then killed herself early today Roy 47 was improving at Harbor General Hospital after suffering bullet wounds to the cheek and side Police said Mrs Ashley fired two bullets into her husband one into her brain at their home She died in hospital without regaining consciousness about 11 am six hours after the predawn shooting
Mrs. Arnold Holliday aged 1045 Rejondo Ave will enter Carleton College Northfield Minnesota this month. James Holliday son of Mr Z Holliday was graduated from Wilsonth School where he was active in athletics and student activities.
Du Pont District Chief Dr. Walter A. Dew will address Optimist Club members at noon Thursday in the Lafayette Hotel on industrial progress and ethical development. Dew, a Princeton graduate and former Manhattan Project chemist, is Western District manager of Du Pont’s extension division and a member of several science organizations.
Public film lecture series by City College will feature global topics. Deane Dickason opens Sept 28 with a film on Kashmir. subsequent screenings cover India, Algeria, Venezuela, Java, and Rio de Janeiro with photographers Clifford Kamen Nicol Smith Murl Indies Curtis Nagel. Sessions run at Polytechnic High School auditorium and General Adult Division offices.
Long Beach will host a congressional subcommittee hearing in October on the Military Sea Transport Service and Army Transport Service, examining competition with private ship operators. Rep. Carl Vinson named Reps. Doyle Haventer and Anderson to the panel. another session will be held in San Francisco. The goal is a permanent policy to protect national economy amid Korea War era transport changes.
Pacific Coast employment rose by about 48,000 in July reaching 4,235,000, per U S Bureau of Labor Statistics western regional director Max D Kossoris. Gains occurred mainly in manufacturing and construction with leaders in food processing aircraft metals and apparel. a continued rise is expected at a slower pace in the coming weeks.
San Diego will send Miss California of 1950 away with ceremonies to morrow to compete for Miss America honors at Atlantic City. Joanne Durant, 21, who won the state title at Santa Cruz, will be given a sendoff by a committee of county, city and chamber of commerce data. The Atlantic City winner will be named Sent.
The text shows George E Roberts described as inspector of the 24th District with garbled surrounding letters. No clear event or date is present.
Miss Alaska, 22 year old Maxine Cothern born in Portales New Mexico, travels toward Atlantic City to compete for Milas America crown. She taught Eskimo women parkas mukluks and furs, advises on Alaska problems, and hopes the $5000 scholarship for college study at Iowa State.
A Long Beach event features a women’s barber shop quartet as part of a parade planned by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Paul Kelley says the shows on September 22 and 23 will feature female performers from Monrovia and various western cities, with local organizers Dick Montgomery and Charles Hopper guiding the effort. The act ties to a movement preserving barber shop quartet singing in America.
A feature on the piano's history and invention traces early makers like Steinway and Steinweg and explains the evolution from clavichord to grand piano. It notes the complexity of the instrument, with parts from four to twelve thousand pieces, and highlights how pioneers and composers shaped its rise as a superior musical medium.
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