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Independent from Long Beach, California • 12

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Independenti
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Long Beach, California
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12
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Pogo 12 THE INDEPENDENT Iwt Mli MML-lifcr, My II, IHI In Death as in AsttDenham Resign NLRB Doggone liX GALESBURG, XU. July 17. TMrty-one-year-old Raymond Hop pbif thinks it's a "dog gone" shame. A week ago; thieves broke into his roadside melon stand near Galesburg and stole all his stock; To check the thieves, he locked his large black dog In the stand last night Today when he reported for work, he found an his melons stolen gain and so was the dog. COLORADO SPRINGS, COla, July 17.

(INS) A resolution was passed today in Colorado Springs at the annual El Paso county democratic assembly asking for the resignation of Robert Denham as chief counsel of the national labor relations board. Superintendent of the ters home Dowell Patterson traduced the resolution tothe assembly and it was passed by a vote of 64 to 54. Two hundred- and forty-eight delegates did not vote on the resolution as it was formally adopted. The resolution reads in part, "Whereas the Taft-Hartley law has been condemned by the. national democratic convention and Its repeals are advocated; and whereas.

President Hairy Truman appointed Robert Denham as chief counsel of the NLRB to admins ter said law therefore, be it resolved that, the El Paso- county democratic convention urgently request President Truman to remove the chief Counsel from his office because of Ms (Denhams) strained, fantastic; and -prejudicetflnteN pretations of the law." GIVE YOUR FEET, A NetvLease on Life SEE DR. I. REID WASHINGTON, July 17. General of the Armies John J. Pershing; in death as in life a symbol of valorous leadership, rested today In an army chapeL Old comrades of the gallant "Black Jack" were admited to the small stone chapel at Walter Reed army medical center to pay their personal and private tribute before the official mourning rites for the World war I commander begin a 10 a.

m. (POT) Sunday. At that hour the remains wiil be transported to 'the capitol to lie In state. Half an hour before the public begins filing by casket President Human will pay personal homage to the officer he served as an artillery captain In World war Relatives Gather. General Pershings ion, Ftands Warren Pershing, and the generals sister, beloved "Miss May," and other close relatives gathered before the bier to say, farewell before the obsequies were riven Into thehandi of the nation he njrv so long.

The great soldier reposed In a simple mahogany casket His uniform was of old fashioned olive drab. The tunic, open at the collar, was of the type he wore when he retired as chief of staff a quarter century ago. Four silver stars gleamed on each shoulder. A saber chain glistened from a burnished leather Sam Brown belt Of the dozens of decorations Pershing only two were represented on the uniform. the red.

and blue rib bons of the Distinguished Service Cross" and Distinguished Service Foot Specialist SMOCS (1IATMINTS ARCMRI 114 East 3rd St. Long Beoch -IKONS 7-S4B1 0iB, i GSm33ShenEEE finsKOCQtEED MedaL The CAMPING EQUIPMENT JtefJWJIJPawnpffflad ill CorpoJyps O0-7E SLEEPING BAG f37iD Sleeping Bags, both wmI and down $2.95 $2L75 7x11 Nylon Tarp. 4.75 Kapok Ufe Preservers SJ5 Nylon Jangle Hmmuoi. 415 Pap Teats, nwpi to US New Army Folding US Air Mattresses 11.75 9x9 Fmbre BaTents, 51.75 9x9 Wail Teat, complete wltk pale. 24.75 The body General John J.

Pershing lies state in the army medical crater chapeL Washington, where those who were closest to him were permitted to pas Ms Met. Today his body will he moved to the capitol lor further honors. An army honor guard stands by. flag, folded in military Placed across the bot-tom half of the opened casket. An honor guard a litutenant with sidearms and two enlisted men bearing rifles with bayonets fixed stood at rigid attention.

-Hundreds of floral tributes, tokens of sorrow and respect from all parts of the United States and from men and women of every allied nation, encircled the casket like a great rainbow. The generals hands were folded and rested upon the belt The famous Pershing mustache, whitened' by the was neatly Three banners stood dose to the blue draped catafalque the stars and stripes. Pershings personal flag and the' colors of his first regiment the Sixth United States cavalry. -Meanwhile; a splendid array of troops and -a greater throng of civilians, Including many of the doughboys he led to victory in World War converged bn Washington for the formal funeral rites to be held Monday. These; the army, promised, will Canteens, Belts, Camp Stoves Water BuckeH, Etc.

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US Gao Lanterns 7.45 Kamp Kook 2-buraer Portable Camp 1L25 Keg; 2J5 floating Knives, JS of the hospital, had taken his own kindly interest the stern, good kindliness of a great soldier. The army band, attired in the gray uniforms which Pershing; as chief of staff, ordered for the musicians, Is to play "Nearer, My God, to the casket. is placed under, the simple wooden stand. -In the nation's history, only 11 other men have been thus honored and of these; only Adm. George Dewey, the hero of Manila bay, and the unknown soldier, were military figures.

eclipse In magnitude any military obsequies in the nation's history. President Truman, his entire cabinet, and virtually all of the nations living soldier heroes, including. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, are to participate.

The official services of mourning begin Sunday. General Pershings body will lie in state in the rotunda of the United States capital, on the simple wooden cats falque which first bore the remains of Abraham Lincoln. Troops to March The funeral procession, with 509-yd. Nylon Fishing Line, 25-Ib. tnt :1.

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The public was barred. High officers of the. army, to whom Pershing was the very epitome of military valor, visited the bier. Enlisted jnemrereLwelcomed, too among them grievously wounded Veterans of combat in whom Pershing, as a long resident y-ia $1(9 MODERN 2-PC. UVB16 ROOM SUITE ALEXAKDI ELECTRIC SSf 1 ANAHEIM i-m.

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