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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1957
Page
14
Boston residents faced a newspaper blackout as six of the seven dailies suspended publication Friday night. About 300 International Typographical Union members picketed over a wage dispute, prompting widespread frustration and a scramble for radio and TV updates.
New York evangelist Billy Graham addressed 18,500 youthful listeners at Madison Square Garden urging them to renounce lust and devote themselves to Christ. He compared modern youth to Samson, warning that passion and selfish love ruin strength and happiness. Attendance grew to 4,494,200 as week of youth-focused preaching began. Melbourne invitation hints Graham may visit Australia in 1959, while news shortages in Boston and New York highlighted a citywide paper scarcity and public reaction.
Peiping reports a Chinese espionage operation captured by August 4. The alleged spy was seized with a rifle bullets and Communist currency. The claim cites Kuo Radio aboard Ph-Peipings islet off the Fukien coast and mentions Hong Kong as the dispatch point.
Federal Mediator Wayne Kenhaston announced a tentative agreement reached after late Saturday talks to end the San Francisco Bay Area machinists strike that began July 3. Terms require approval by employers and union members before submission to the union.
A tribal chase across Iran targets Dadshah the killer whose band killed 12 villagers and seized six children. The Baluchi tribe, acting for the government, tracked him after he assassinated Brewster Wilson and Kevin Carroll, with Carroll’s wife Anita Hoover Carroll found dead days later. The shah faced political fallout as authorities feared additional hostages remain in rugged caverns near the Pakistan border.
Missoula Montana police arrested Richard McFall 38 on a Los Angeles wanted warrant in the June 28 daring $100000 robbery and kidnapping of opera star Lauritz Melchior. McFall was the final of a four man gang indicted by LA County. Others were arrested in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The burglars looted jewels and furs valued at $100000 with all but $11009 recovered.
In SHICKSHINNY Pennsylvania police report a priest, Reverend Stephen Yanak, received a fake burglar alarm call claiming illness at the Church of the Ascension rectory. He returned to the rectory and found $750 missing after a staged sick call, prompting an investigation into the con.
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