President orders survey of southern storm damage
President Truman directed Maj. Gen. Philip Fleming to personally inspect storm damage in the southern states. Fleming, federal works administrator, will visit areas in Florida Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi to assess impact and coordinate relief.
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Washington
Truman
Philip Fleming
Federal Works
Fleming
Wyoming
Plorida
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Accountants Return From Conference
Seven members of the local Society of American Accountants have returned from Bakersfield where they participated in committee meetings for the fall planning conference of the State Society. Named are Guy Balser, Howard Plowman, Jack Wood, Joseph Abrams, Rose Dunjill, George Hollingsworth and Cecili Wilson.
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Society of American Accountants
Bakersfield
State Society of American Accountants
Guy 8. Balser
Howard Plowman
Jack L. Wood
Rose M. Dunjill
George W. Hollingsworth
Cecili W. Wilson
Fire damages sedan at Truman Boyd Manor parking spot
A sedan owned by Claud Coursey at 867 Truman Boyd Manor was badly damaged by a fire of unknown origin parked there last night. Two neighboring cars sustained minor damage before neighbors moved them away. The Long Beach Fire Department extinguished the blaze.
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Claud Coursey
Truman Boyd Manor
Long Beach
Donlevy Says Wife Untrue
Los Angeles actor Brian Donlevy files 10 affidavits in Superior Court to overturn a divorce decree. One affidavit claims his wife saw him with another man in New York, another includes a physician who says Donlevy and detectives disrupted his wife Marjorie Lane Donlevy’s hotel room. Donlevy won an interlocutory divorce from Mrs. Donlevy in February, alleging cruelty and spurning dates with other men. He contests a property settlement, citing his $7500 weekly earnings and seeking custody of their daughter Judith Anne, age 4, for 20 months each year.
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Los’ Angeles
Brian .Donlevy
New York
Milton “Tobing
Marjorie Lane Donlevy
Donlevy. West
Dantevy
Danlevy
Judith Anne
Taft-Hartley Law Used In Chattanooga Boycott
The NLRB general counsel seeks an injunction against Local 74 Carpenters Union and its business agent Jack Henderson for a secondary boycott at Watson's Special Store in Chattanooga. The action, the first under Taft-Hartley, alleges the store refused to sign a closed shop contract, prompting the dispute.
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Washington
NLRB
Carpenters
Chattanooga
Bitter Tilt in Overell Case Sees Debate Over Clock Evidence
In Santa Ana on September 2 a courtroom clash pitted defense counsel B Kaufman against Prosecutor Eugene Willigina over the Mary E explosion case. Criminological expert William Harper testified on the time clock and blast, while explosives expert Ford Alexander described the forward cabin blast and body position of Walter E Overell and his wife. The trial featured sharp exchanges as lawyers disputed evidence handling and witness credibility.
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Robert
ProneTelegram
Santa Ana
B. Kaufman
Sremesay
Eugene
Mwilligina
William’ Harper
Paradena
Walter E. Overell
Beulah T Louise
Overell
George R
Bud
Colham
Ravente
Kenneth E. Morrison
Harper
Kaufman
Williams
Russell Camp
Los Angeles
O. A. Jacobs
Pa T. Wolfe
Morrison
Hi Irper
Alexander
Querells
Acobs
Jacobs
Return of Yanks by Slavs Asked
TRIESTE Sept 23 UP United States Army headquarters in Trieste today demanded the return of an American officer and two enlisted men captured by Yugoslavs while on mounted patrol duty near the Trieste free territory frontier. The trio, First Lieut William Van Alten, Bart G Hendrie Jr, and Pvt Glen A Myers, were forced across the border at gunpoint after talking with Yugoslavs at a distance.
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Trieste
United States Army
Trieste Free Territory
U.S
Free Territory
First Li
William van Alten
East Orange
N. Ft
Pfe
Edison T. Lenhart
Southbury
Conn
George FE
Perry
Fort Thomas
van A
van Atten
Davis Furniture Co Incorporation Files in Los Angeles
Incorporation papers for a $500000 Davis Furniture Co were filed with the Los Angeles county clerk by Denis Hart Tathman Simpson. Directors include John P. Davis Albert Davis and Gerald W. Reese of Long Beach. A J Building Corporation also filed with J Fleming Houchins John P. Davis and Albert G. Davis as directors. The firms say the new corporation grew from an existing partnership and recently moved from 1628 to 1935 American Ave adding space from 18000 to 53000 square feet.
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Davis Furniture Co
Los Angeles
of Denis, Hart, ‘Tathman & Simpson
John P. Davis
Albert @. Davis
Gerald W. Reese
Long Beach
N Corporation
A & J Building Corporation
J. Fieming’ Houchins
Albert G. Davis
Corporation
American Ave
American Ave.s
Explosion details reveal dynamite with proximity to body
Greene says pieces were dug from the bilge after the blast and that the forward cabin held a restricted pile of dynamite. He notes all the dynamite rested on the floor and within six inches of Overal's body as eight to 12 sticks exploded at that spot.
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Jacobs
Overell
Alexander
Eal
Roger Greene
Greene
Overall
Overal
Ex-private picked War Assistant named Army Undersecretary
President Truman named Gordon Gray of Winston-Salem North Carolina as Assistant Secretary of the Army. Gray is president of the Piedmont Publishing Co publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin-City Sentinel and operator of WSJS radio. He has served as a North Carolina state senator and was an Army private beginning May 1942.
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Washington
Truman
Gordon Gray
Winston-Salem
N. C
Gray
Piedmont Publishing Co
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