Thunderstorm kills woman and sparks citywide fire
A freak thunderstorm yesterday killed Lena Lang, 75, as lightning hit a building corner near the Jergzing Trust Building. A $25,000 market fire followed, with 65,000 beachgoers evacuated and power outages reported citywide while weather officials blamed a rare moist air flow from the south and southeast mingling with desert heat.
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Mother Nature
Weather Bureau
Lena Lang
Pacific Ave
Geak
Jergzing
Trust
Pacific Electric
Lne
Willow St
American Ave
Southern California Edison Co
North
Long Beach
U. S
News High Lights OFF THE TELETYPE
A compact roster of features and page references from the old hometown newspaper. Highlights include State Fair exhibits, beach combing, bridge, classifieds, puzzles, obituaries, radio and television, theaters, tide and temperature notes, and women's activities.
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Asia
Boyle
Guard U S Envoy to Indochina From Red Assassins
Saigon Indochina Sept 4 Twelve American marines assigned to guard U S Minister Donald R Heath amid police reports of a Viet Minh assassination plot. French authorities say Vietnamese police have arrested terrorists connected to Ho Chi Minh guerrillas. Heath, long a target of Viet Minh propaganda, previously served as minister to Bulgaria. A fourth shipment of U S aid is unloading on the Steel Voyager.
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Saigon
Indochina
U. S
Donald R. Heath
Heath
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Minh
Bulgaria
Endochina
Steel Voyager
Graham, Radio Actor, Found Dead in Car
Hollywood reports Frank L. Graham a 33 year old radio actor and announcer was found dead in his car after calling two friends to collect something from the front seat. Police say the engine ran and exhaust entered the car as they arrived. A pictured companion Mildred Rossi lay beside the body in recent weeks.
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Hollywood
Frank L. Graham
Mildred Rossi
Guns Bark in Duels Over Daughter’s Marriage in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a father and his son-in-law were jailed on suspicion of dueling after exchanging gunfire at a Santa Monica cafe and near Veterans Administration property. Jose Garcia, 47, and Esquivel, 26, faced the charge following a feud over Garcia’s daughter Evangeline’s marriage. A motorcycle officer who witnessed the clash detained them as they prepared to shoot again. no one was seriously harmed.
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Wes
Los Angeles
Ose Garcia
Esquivel
Garcia
Evangeline
Jose
Veterans Administration
Geome Deing
Aa Thang
Ay Garcia
Gad Fangio
West Los Angeles
Love Not Blind: Sightless Bride Sees With Husband's Eyes
NEW KENSINGTON Pa G2 Pretty Mary Jane Puet who was blinded in 1949 returns home after a belated New York honeymoon. She described seeing stage shows and movies through her husband Bernard's eyes and even helps pick his outfits as she learns to cope with her fading sight and new routine.
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Mary
Jane Puet
Bernard
New York
Mary Jane
Associated Press
New Kensington
Mary Jane Puet
New York City
Pittsburgh
Jane
Retreat on Rainbow Pier Ends In Sudden Storm
The University by the Sea convened on Rainbow Pier after a dramatic electrified session. Two speakers clashed in a verbal attack as lightning cracked the sky and religious singers rendered a hymn, forcing an abrupt adjournment amid a stormy retreat.
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University
Rainbow Pier
Unis
Sys
Youthful gunmen loot two liquor stores in 15 minutes
Police seek two groups of armed youths who robbed two liquor stores within a 15 minute span last night. They escaped with 207 dollars and liquor. At 314 E Broadway a blue 2 caliber pistol was used to force owner Philip L Druzanich to the rear. A second robber took 50 dollars from the register and three bottles of liquor. A bystander, Delfred Simmons, 78, was ordered to stay quiet. Fifteen minutes later another pair robbed 24 E Anaheim St, Gene M Neill’s store, taking 50 dollars. one robber carried a 36 caliber automatic.
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E. Broadway
Philip L. Druzanich
Surfside Colony
Delfred L. Simmons
del Mar Hotel
Ocean Blvd
American Ave
Simmons
Riba
Tarée Young
Anaheim
Gene M. Neil
Anaheim St
Ford Boosts Wages in New 5-year Pact
Ford and United Auto Workers reached a five year labor agreement after days of secret talks. The pact raises wages with a cost of living clause eight cents an hour and a 1e cent rise for 16 000 skilled workers, plus a pension increase to 125 dollars monthly. The deal, effective September 1, pins Ford costs at 45 to 50 million dollars annually and aims to align Ford pay with the industry.
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Ford
G. I. O. United
Sto
General Motors
U. A
Walter Reuther
Fort
John 5
Bugas
Col
U S Traffic Deaths 259 One Every 13 Minutes
A wartime era traffic toll rose to 259 deaths, averaging one fatality roughly every 13 minutes during the holiday period. The report notes the Safety Council had projected about one death every 11 minutes and lists state tallies on the toll alongside drownings and miscellaneous fatalities.
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U. S
War Safety Council
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Fiorida
Red Korean girl kills seven Americans in sleep attack
In Korea a Red girl with a tommy gun gunned down seven American prisoners in their tent as they slept, with hands bound behind them. Five died, a South Korean guard also died. Two survivors described the atrocity. A photographer was shot while taking pictures atop a hill near Masan before the Reds retreated. U.S. forces and engineers moved to retake the abandoned position as about 150 Reds remain cut off with U.S. lines.
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Ms. Front
Korea
Army Signal Corps
Masan
U. S
Harbor Rum Brawl Leaves Two Shot and One Knifed
SAN PEDRO police describe an all night drinking brawl that left two men shot and one knifed. Fred Bingham 46 of 21226 Main St Keystone was shot in the abdomen and jaw while Carrie Nicolino 53 of 540 Wilmington Blvd Wilmington sustained a mouth wound. Edward Usher 26 of 1420 Castro Ct Channel Heights was hospitalized then held on assault with intent to murder charges as the fight escalated from a trailer to Usher’s home. Bingham allegedly slashed Usher with a butcher knife and a struggle for a pistol led to more injuries. The episode began at a Nicotine woman’s trailer and ended with a fracas at Usher’s residence early morning.
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San Pedro
Harbor General Hospital
Fred Bingham
Main St. Keystone
Carrie ,Nicolino
Wilmington ‘Blvd
Wilmington
Edward Usher
Castro Ct
Channel Heights
City
Nifsic
Bingham
Usher
Louise
Potato condemned as blight on progress by British scientist
In Irmingham on September 4 a British scientist, Dr. Redcliffe Salaman, denounced the potato as a blight on human progress. The retired Cambridge University potato virus station director warned the tuber worsened Anglo American relations and tied to Ireland’s hardship, citing the 1845-46 famine and mass emigration that fed Anglophobia for a century.
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Irmingham
England
Redcliffe Selsman
British Association For the Advancement of Science
Britain
United States
Salaman
Cambridge University
Ireland
Breakthrough Deepest Yet in Beachhead
Tokyo reports two tank led Red Korean columns broke Allied lines on the northeast front near Kigye and Pohang advancing 12 miles. Marines and doughboys gained west of Yongsan while a major drive threatened Taegu. North of Taegu First Cavalry pressed counterattacks on a 3000 foot ridge as Masan and Naktong areas remained hot.
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Angang
Kyongju
Pakeng
Taegu
Naktong River
Yongtan
U. 5
First Cavalry Division
Tabu
Masan
Ahang
Associated Press
Tokyo
Hnes
Kigye
Pohang
Yongsan
Bem Price
Ksjongju
Yongchon
Kyong+ jiu
Eangu
U.N
Naktong Bulge
First Cavary
First Cavalry
Waegwan
A. P
Jack Macbeth
U. S
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Defense
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Ferrastal
A.P. Wiraphoto
Allied
Kora
Homera
Tommy Guns
By Stan Swinton
Harbor
Russell Brines
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