Bank Accounts Discovered in Recluse's Hotel Room
Rich L. A. Bones a 70 year old recluse was found dead behind a barricade of newspapers and magazines in a S Spring St hotel room. He kept a dozen bank accounts and trust deeds for 50 properties. Public administrator will handle the estate. Detectives Labne and Stevens could not enter the room and entered via a hallway window. Police said death was due to natural causes.
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Los Angeles
Henry A. Bones
S. Spring St
Collyer Brothers
New York
Bones
Public Administrator
Leonard W. Lane
Wiliam A. Stevens
TV Crosses U S Two Ways Today
A 13 hour cross country television program for the Crusade for Freedom airs tomorrow. West Coast viewers will see east coast programs for the first time and Hollywood productions reach eastern audiences. CBS presents the telecast with features from New York Washington and Hollywood stars including Bob Crosby Marie Wilson Rosemary Clooney William Bendix J Carrol Naish and Ginny Sims. Ed Sullivan and Art Linkletter host eastern and Hollywood segments with ABC and NBC co distributing in color across regional feeds.
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New York
Crusade For Freedom
West Coast
Hollywood
San Francisco
Long Beach
Washington
Crusade
West ‘Coast
Columbia Broadcasting System
Bob Crosby
Marie Wilson
Rosemary Clooney
William Bendix
J. Carrol Naish
Ginny Sims
Ed Sullivan
Art Linkletter
CBS
Jean Mate
American Broadcasting Co
National Broadcasting Co
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
San Diego
Douglas and CIO Still Deadlocked
The CIO United Auto Workers strike against Douglas Aircraft Co in Long Beach drags into its third week with no talks progress. Negotiations collapsed after a Malcom mediated meeting between Douglas President Donald W Douglas and UAW aircraft director Jack Livingston. Violent incidents near the plant prompted company criticism of beatings of two nonstriking workers and a joint investigation by UAW International and Local 148 of Long Beach.
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CIO
United Auto
Douglas Aiverait Co
Long Beach
Harry Malcom
Malcom
Donald W. Douglas
Jack Livingston
Aircraft Department
Cio-Jaw
United Aircraft
Douglas
Santa Monica
el Segundo
Todd
Bethlehem
Craig
CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
Douglas Company
John C. MeCrillis
Lochinvar Dr
Rivera
Wallace William Wright
Harvey Way
Lakewood
McCrillis
Wright
UAW International
Best Tractor inventor dies at 73 in San Francisco
C I Best pioneer inventor of Caterpillar Tractor Co dies at 73 in a San Francisco hospital. Born in Albany Oregon, he founded the C I Best Tractor Co in 1910 at Elmhurst California and led the firm until 1925 when it merged with Holt to form Caterpillar. He chaired the Caterpillar board and held mining and oil ventures in California and Nevada. He lived with his wife Irene Wagness Best in Walnut Creek.
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San Francisco
C. I. Best
Ruby
Downieville
Nevada
California
Britons Pray for King as Hour of Surgery Nears
Britain prays for King George VI as doctors announce no operation tonight though five royal physicians including a chest specialist have spent Saturday with the ill monarch. Crowds gather outside Buckingham Palace as the hour of surgery nears, with Queen Mary and Princess Elizabeth visiting and nurses stationed at the palace. The king, aged 51, is reported in good spirits despite a lung condition. a postponement until tomorrow is possible.
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Associated Press
London
Britain
George VI
Buckingham Palace
Bem
Grey Stone Palace
Broad Mall
Victoria Statue
British Empire
Palace
Mary
Princess Elizabeth
Margaret
Scotland
Queen Elizabeth
Pacific Coast
Huntington Beach
Ray Allen Nixt
Edward Collins
Studio City
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Royal
Queen Mary
Elizabeth Flowerleft
Senate field pushes to lift tax hike to 10 billion
A bloc of 15 Senators proposed 16 amendments to raise the annual tax increase to 510 billion, led by Humphrey. They aim to close loopholes and raise personal income taxes while supporting efforts to restore billions from excess profit tax provisions. The Senate also softened a plan to tax savings banks, approving a Capehart amendment to broaden the tax exemption rule for undistributed earnings until deposits reach 10 percent of total, with a debt reserve target.
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Washington
Truman
Sen
Humphrey
Minn
Finance Committee
Senate
O’mahoney
D.-Wyo
Sen. Capehart
R.ind
Capehart
Antarctic Lecturer Ends Life by Gas
East Orange New Jersey reports Malcolm L. Douglass Antarctic lecturer who joined Admiral Byrd on a South Pole expedition was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in his car in Wallpack Township. Police ruled the death a suicide. He left a note requesting his body organs be sent to Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota for research into recurring migrainous headaches that plagued him.
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East Orange
N._J
Malcolm L. Douglass
Richard E. Byrd
Wallpack Township
Felice
Douglass
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Mini
Fisherman's Fiesta windup draws crowd of 100000
On the local front the Fisherman's Fiesta winds up today and is expected to draw about 100,000 attendees. Other items noted include State college using 11 of 21 temporary buildings for the fall term starting Wednesday and a “Winds for Freedom” display in the city today.
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State College
City Today
Fires Join Sweep California Forest Fires Join
Uncontrolled fires merged in Six Rivers National Forest Northern California dashing hopes of halting 800 firefighters by Monday. Fire lines include Forest Service experts from Montana 300 Camp Beale soldiers 120 prison inmates and two helicopters. Spotter planes patrol as more than 75000 acres burn across Northern California Oregon Washington and British Columbia.
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Associated Press
Six Rivers National Forest
California
Ernest Baxter
National Forest
del Norte County
Forest Service
Montana
Beale
Notice Creek
Trinity National Forest
Jim Jam Ridge
Humboldt County
Garberville
Pacific Northwest
Oregon
Washington
British, Columbia
Dentist Predicts Pain in Child Bite Incident
Franklin Indiana. On September 22, Dr. Lennis Murphy told a boy in the dental chair that the procedure might hurt. The boy bit the dentist and broke his finger in the unexpected reflex, a moment that underscores the risks of dental visits.
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Franklin
Ind
Lennis Murphy
$1800 Stolen From Home In Safecrack Burglary
Police report that $1800 in cash was taken from a safe in the hallway of Dr. Carlyle L. Ahrens at 4240 Virginia Road while he was away on a trip. He found the door pried open upon returning about midnight. Personal papers were scattered as the crime occurred after he had left Friday for his mountain cabin following a burglary report.
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Carlyle L. Ahrens
Virginia
Dr. Ahren
Mayor J P OBrien Dies After Brief New York Term
John P. OBrien aged 78 former New York mayor died tonight after a brief term that began with a record plurality and ended with a historic defeat. He succeeded James J Walker after the Seabury inquiry and was defeated by Fiorello La Guardia, finishing with the smallest share of the vote for a Tammany candidate at the time. The longtime Tammany politician remained loyal to the organization.
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New York
John P. O'Brien
O'Brien
Seabury
James J. Walker
Walker
Fiorello
Pedestrian Couple Hit by Car on Atlantic Avenue
A Long Beach couple were injured shortly before midnight when struck by a car at Atlantic Ave and Burlinghall Tr. James Smith 38 and Agnes Smith 36 of 435 Cerritos Dr suffered concussion and abrasions with Agnes ending up concussed and injured. The driver Arlin Davis 22, a Marine from Camp Pendleton, was cited for failure to yield the right of way.
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Long Beach
Atlantic Ave
Burlinghall Tr
James Smith
Agnes
Cerritos
Girl Ends Life With 200 Aspirin Tablets
Betty Sue Broome an 18 year old from San Rafael died after reportedly taking about 209 aspirin tablets. A note said she was grieving over her mother's death. The incident occurred on September 22 with authorities treating it as a suspected suicide. The case is under local investigation and no further details were released.
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San Rafael
Betty Sue Broome
Adolph Menjou Sells Moustache For $10,000
Hollywood reports movieland icon Adolph Menjou cut his famous moustache after 40 years. Producer Stanley Kramer paid $10,000 for the shave for a film role, barber Carl Seraban performing the act. Menjou will receive a makeup man each morning to reattach the disguise until filming ends.
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Hollywood
Adolph Menjou
Menjou
Stanley Kramer
Kramer
Carl Seraban
General Ridgway ready to discuss Korea truce talks renewal
Gen Matthew Ridgway indicated willingness to discuss resuming the Korean truce talks suspended Aug 23. He rejected North Korea and China’s bid to maintain charges against Allied neutrality at Kaesong, stating cases were closed. Two liaison officers and interpreters were sent to Panmunjom to arrange a meeting in Kaesong.
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Tokyo
Matthew
Ridgway
Kaesong
Kim Il Sung
Peng Teh-Huan
Kim
Peng
Munsan
Red
Tle
Panmunjom Bridge
Dix
Reds Twice Hurl Yanks Off Ridge
U S infantry fixed bayonets and twice stormed the bloody slopes of Heartbreak Ridge in eastern Korea on Saturday only to be hurled back each time. The action north of Yanggu marked the major battlefront effort with reports of heavy fighting and scarce action elsewhere. Along Big Ailey in far northwest Korea a large air battle saw 119 American and Communist jet fighters clash in what may be history's biggest jet dogfight. 34 U S F-86 Sabres faced 85 MIG-15s over 25 minutes with no U S losses reported. FEAF noted 55 MIG-15s shot down or damaged from June 9 to Sept 20, while Red ground forces reportedly downed 55 Allied warplanes in the same period.
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Eighth Army
Korea
Yanggu
Big Ailey
Florida probate files $30 million estate of Esther Slater
Esther Slater, heiress of a Webster textile fortune, had an unofficial $30,000,000 estate filed for probate in Bartow Florida. She was twice married and later used her maiden name after divorces. Her first husband was Sumner Welles, former Undersecretary of State, and her two sons Benjamin Wells in London and Arnold Nelson Wells in Chevy Chase were named heirs.
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Bartow
Fla
Esther Slater
Miss Slater
Slater
Webster
Mass
Joseph E. Kerrigan
New York City
Sumner Welles
Benjamin Welles
London
Arnold Nelsor Welles
Chevy Chase
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