Reunion Joyful As Freed Airmen's Kin Rush To Field
Nine American airmen released from Chinese prison camps arrived at Hickam Field in Hawaii aboard a Constellation. Relatives from Hong Kong and across the United States greeted them in an emotional reunion, with families embraced and tears flowing as they met in a private Army barracks gathering after the landing.
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Honolulu
Air Force Constellation
Hickam Field
Bet Thecaa
Elem Abana
Log Ami
Hong Kong
Constellation
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Harald el
Fircher
Swea City
Alex
Judith Heller
Lynnewood
Edwin L. Heller
Heller
Lyle W. Cameron
Lincoln
Nok
Cameron
Rolland Camel
Tme
Robert
Ronald Paris
Omaha
Ned
W. G. Parks
Richard
Fischer
Harold
Youth Held in Piggy Bank Theft From Home
A 14 year old boy entered the Hayward home of Mrs. Pauline Smith at 1453 B Street by forcing a window with an ice pick and took a piggy bank before being arrested and taken to juvenile hall yesterday per Hayward police reports.
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Pauline Smith
Hayward
Eight-year-old Jeannie Singleton Found Murdered Near Kalamazoo
An eight year old girl, Jeannie Singleton, who vanished 19 days ago, was found slain in a pine forest near Kalamazoo. Her bruised body was found by five children playing hide and seek in a remote dune hike area near Doster.
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Kalamazoo, Mich
Jeannie Singleton
Kalamazoo
Doster
Salk Predicts Lots of Polio This Summer
New York reports Dr. Jonas Salk warned at an international health conference that polio cases may be higher this summer than ever before. He and other experts discussed vaccine controls amid ongoing debate, while U.S. public health figures showed weekly polio cases near 240 and total yearly toll around 1,236 with a resumed vaccination effort using 290,000 Salk shots.
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New York
Isi
Jonas E. Salk
Pittsburgh University
New York City Health Department
Sale
Balk
Washington
U.S. Public Health Service
Fitman-Moore and
Wyeth Laboratories
Rita Hayworth Sued by Studio for Debt
Hollywood report states Columbia Studios filed a suit against actress Rita Hayworth for collection of a $17,844 promissory note signed on December 28. The action, dated May 9, sought to seize Hayworth’s Beckworth Corp. stock to satisfy the debt. the note promised payment by May 1 but did not specify loan purpose.
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Hollywood
Columbia! Studios
Rita Hayworth
Miss Haysworth
Beckworth Corp
Ker Independent Filmy Corporation Company
Woman Rescued After Risky Tree Trim Gone Wrong
Mrs Ray Hall attempted tree trimming from a ladder to cut limbs in a neighbor’s yard. She descended only after the Council Bluffs fire department rescued her when she left herself dangling after trimming too many branches.
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Council Blupes
Ray Hall
Council Bluffs
Water Bill Approvals in Sacramento Signal Water Program Moves
In Sacramento today the U S Bureau of Reclamation backed the San Luis unit of the Central Valley project to supply irrigation water for about 440 000 acres in the San Joaquin valley and Southern California. Legislators push for a minimum water program before the session ends with June 8 while considering Feather River Trinity San Luis and a single Department of Water Resources.
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Sacramento
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
San Luis
Central Valley
San Joaquin Valley
California
Oad
Feather River
Merced County
Ili
Trinity-Lan
Department of Water Resources
Assembly
William W. Hansen
Rfresno
Oroville Dam
FRP
Senate
Trinity-San Luis
Edwin J. Regen
Weaverville
Congress
Bureau of Reclamation
Water Department
Water Department. Assemblyman Francis Lindsay (Rloomis
British Make Futile Attempt to End Rail Strike
In London during wartime, Anthony Eden's government and labor leaders held separate talks to halt the rail strike but ended with no hope. Eden summoned his cabinet for its first failed meeting since last week's general election as a special Trades Union Congress peace committee met to seek a solution to the national walkout.
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London
Anthony Eden
Eden
Trades Union Corpress
Nai
Hayward and San Leandro Reach Boundaries Accord
Hayward and San Leandro councils agreed on a common boundary line to limit growth. The line, extending west from Castro Valley along Foothill Boulevard toward Foothill freeway, splits annexation petitions north to San Leandro and south to Bay City. Key dispute centers on San Lorenzo High and the path south to the creek.
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Hayward
Sar Leandro
Bayward
Castro Valley
Foouhill Boulevard
Hesperian
Lewelling
Eastshore
San Lorenzo Creek
Bay
San Leandro
Foothill Boulevard
Mattox Road
14Th Street
San Lorenzo High School
Wth
International Kitchen
Niles
W. C. Wilson
Joan, Purchio
John Ficklin
San_ Leandro
Thomas ©. Knick
Haisey Dunnigan
Sam, Vlehos
William Swiss
J. Q. Bellini
James Frazier
Alv Kent
Wesley McClure
Ficklin
Bay City
San Lorenzo
Aither City
Wilson
Four Admit 150 Burglaries in California Case
Four men confessed to more than 150 safebreaking burglaries across California over six years. Bruce D. Wheeler and Gerald O'Donnell admitted involvement in a November Safeway safe robbery in Montebello, with police catching them nearby as they fled another safe.
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San Lorenzo
Montebello
California
Bruce D.wheeler
Gerald O'Donnell
A Safeway
Ford Offer Raises Peace Hope in UAW Labor Talks
Ford Motor Co cleared the way for a peaceful settlement of the CIO United Auto Workers strike threat by proposing a 55 million dollar three year job security fund to pay workers during unemployment. The plan aims to avert disruption as union negotiations continue amid a regional meeting plan in California towns and plans to annex local areas.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers
Oiis
Ion
Union d
Gerald D. Cochran
Bay City
Ford Motor Com- Edendale
Pany
Mercury Assembly
Bylin
Cio-United
Cochran
Auto Workers
Ford
San Leandro
Hayward
Ashland
San Lorenzo
Red Berlin Blockade Peril Cited
Berlin officials charged that Eastern Communists have tightened the blockade and endangered lives by cutting elevated train telephone lines linking East and West zones. The Communist run Berlin railway system reportedly cut direct cables between West Berlin stations and those in the Soviet sector, endangering elevated railway and interzonal traffic while causing delays for West Berlin railway workers reporting troubles.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Wildcat walkout pits UAW Local 980 against plant management
A wildcat walk out by UAW Local 980 workers began last night at the plant as 2750 employees faced a potential strike. At 4 30 a m EDT a sample of the crew left, half forming picket lines to warn incoming day shift workers the plant was on strike. Management said it was too early to tell if the rest would join the picket line.
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UAW
Ion
Weather Update: Warm Trend Through Friday
The forecast calls for warmer today following a warm spell with fair conditions. Yesterday's high and today's low remain in the mild to warm range as dry weather continues through Friday.
British Team Conquers Near Summit of Kanchenjunga
A British mountaineering team led by Dr. Charles Evans nearly reached the Kanchenjunga summit in the Himalayas on May 23, stopping within five vertical feet to respect local Nepalese beliefs. Reuters from Darjeeling notes their route aimed at a possible full ascent next year, with plans to avoid sacred peaks.
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London
SMS
Kanchengjunga
Himalayas
Kanchenjunga
Charles Evans
Everest
Reuters News Agency
Darjeeling
India
Evans
Kanchenginnga
Godwin Austen
Woman and child victims in Alvarado train crash
Mrs Maria Melina Villanueva 40 and her two year old granddaughter Ana Maria Parra died when her westbound 1950 sedan was struck by a Southern Pacific freight train at the Lowry road crossing south of Alvarado. The car was carried 175 feet along the tracks and overturned into a cauliflower field. The engineer Fred C Tower reported minor train damage and about a 40 minute delay. Villanueva, mother of nine, lived at 1442 Highway 17, Alvarado, and is survived by her husband and seven married daughters and two sons. Funeral arrangements were pending at Chapel of the Palms Centerville.
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Alvarado
Maria Melina Villanueva
Ana Maria Parra
Villanueva
Highway 17
Ramon Parra
Jelich
Fanny Estrella
Dolores Chimpry
Lupe Camacho
Antonia Parra
Mary Jiminez
Henrietta Arviola
Amadio Melina, Jr
Freddie Melina
Alvarada
Governor declines clemency for Graham Santo and Periis
Sacramento bulletin reports Governor Goodwin J. Knight denied executive clemency for Barbara Graham Jack Santo and Emmett Periis. They face execution in the lethal gas chamber at San Quentin tomorrow. House Post Office committee approved a 3.1 percent pay increase for postal workers, with Senate approval and expected White House acceptance.
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Sacramento
Goodwin J. Knight
Barbara Graham
Jack Santo
Emmett Periis
San Quentin Prison
Washington
INS
House Post Office Committee
House
Senate
Eisenhower
India Delegate Slain in Mystery At Chicago Meet
The head of India's delegation to the Rotary International convention in Chicago died from a deep wound near the heart under mysterious circumstances. Rev. John Charamal, 40, a Catholic priest and missionary from Kumbalangi Travancore, collapsed at the Little Sisters of the Poor and died at Mother Cabrini Hospital. Police said the wound appeared to be inflicted by a razor. Twenty hours later, the convention reported eight new Rotary International Board members. The issue amid the Rotary jubilee was dates for future conventions in Philadelphia 1956 and Lucerne 1957.
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Chicago
India
John Charamal
Kumbalangi
Travanchore
Chochin
Charamal
Little Sisters of the Poor
Mother Cabrini Hospital
Father Charemal
Little Sisters of the Four Chapel
INS
T He
Rotary International Board of Directors
Service Organization
A.Z. Barker
Cleveland
Rotary
Herbert J. Taylor
W. B. Todd
Fort Worth
Tex
Allin W. Dakin
Town City
C. Dan Procter
Chickasha
Ohio
Alejandro Garreton Silva
Santiago
Chile
Cp. H. Tweenstre
Hilversum
Spencer J. Hollands
Ington
Surrey
England
Botary
Philadelphia
Lucerne
Switzerland
Bloodstained garments found on Bayshore Freeway
Belmont authorities traced ownership of three articles of bloodstained clothing found on the Bayshore freeway near the Ralston avenue intersection. Blood on the items was determined to be fairly fresh human blood, including a T shirt, tan sport shirt, and tan denim trousers bearing a name.
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Belmont
San Mateo County
Bayshore
Ralston Avenue
Fein
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John M. Buckingham
General Insurance
Redwood
Salk
Studio
Leandro
Red
S.P
Bulletins
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Rotary International
Rolf
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