Tear gas ends Inglewood bar standoff with five held
Lavymen surrounded a street corner bar in Inglewood as two gunmen held five men and Evelyn Shane at gunpoint. After a three hour siege police fired tear gas and the pair surrendered. Howard Lee Scott and Roger A. Hoskins both 19 of Inglewood were booked on suspicion of robbery.
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Howard Lee Scott
Evelyn Shane
Inglewood
Scott
Roger
A. Hoskins
Roger A. Hoskins
Los Angeles
Eisenhower backs $1.5 billion science education plan
President Eisenhower endorsed a four-year federal state program to boost U S scientific output for the space era. Marion Folsom outlined a seven point package costing about 1.5 billion dollars, including 40 000 government funded science and math scholarships for high school students.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
White House
Marion B. Folsom
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Congress
Folsom
United States
San Pedro Slayer Faces Gas Chamber Decision
Charles Evan Turville Jr 22 was condemned to death for the torture slaying of Lamar Mitchell, with a Jan 7 hearing set on a defense motion for a new trial. The verdict places Turville on death row awaiting automatic appeal as the first Long Beach case to yield a death sentence under the new law.
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Charles Evan Turville Jr
San Pedro
Long Beach
Ralph K. Pierson
Rayfield Lundy
Pierson
Turville
San, Quentin
State Supreme Court
Bill Morse
Jack Davis
Supreme Court
Harbor Area
Lamar Mitchell
Atty
William L. White
Mitchell
Oil Strike Reported Near Soviet Iranian Border
London dispatch says the Soviet southern region near Iran reportedly discovered large oil deposits. No further details were available on date or exact location.
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London
Radio Moscow
Soviet Union
Depth Charge Betty Dominates Anti-Sub War Tactics
Admiral Jerauld Wright disclosed that the Betty, the Navy's new atomic depth charge, delivers an explosion radius far beyond conventional charges and must be dropped from aircraft to ensure safe handling. The weapon targets submarines and surface ships, with deployment planned for the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. The Defense Department also advances a nuclear powered airplane program amid ongoing program speculations.
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U.S. Naval
Atlantic
Navy
Adm
Jerauld Wright
Wright
Pacific
Admi
iNorth
Defense Department
California State Federation of Teachers forms union
LA says the convention here last week was the California State Federation of Teachers, an AFL-CIO affiliated group with about 10,000 members in California. It notes nearly 125,000 teachers statewide, with 5,000 represented by the California Teachers Association, which stays out of politics to focus on teachers' welfare.
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California Teachers Association
California State Federation of Teachers
Afl-Cio
California
Independent reports on Alpine death-cheating climb
The Independent notes a mystery about Unaon football remains unsolved and highlights a near victory by young Germans in a perilous ascent in the Italian Alps. The report appears on page A3 and page two.
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Italian Alps
WM MAKES NEW YEAR S RESOLUTION
A fragmented column notes WM vows a different year after a party near midnight. The piece hints at a playful Zoo scene where animals were shuffled between cages and a caretaker shouted a refrain as the crowd recalled past escapades with humor and local color.
Red Skelton Hospitalized With Acute Heart Failure
Comedian Red Skelton aged 44 was hospitalized Monday night at St. John's Hospital after a Bel Air home incident. Firemen reported acute congestive heart failure with cardiac asthma diagnosis by Dr. Garth K. Graham. He remained unconscious and on oxygen as press agent Milton Wells said he was resting comfortably. A rescue squad accompanied him, headed to the hospital where Skelton had been working on a skit for a Gonzaga University benefit in Spokane, Washington.
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Santamonica
Red Skelton
St. John's Hospital
Red
Milton Wells
Skelton
Wells
Garth K. Graham
Bel Air
Los Angeles
Waiss
Walle
Bingo Crosby
Gonzaga’ S University At
Spokane
Baby Abducted in Foster Home in Lakewood
A 13 month old, Scott Lester Kennedy, was abducted from the Kennedy home in Lakewood as three intruders demanded the child. Neighbors intervened, during a struggle that left the foster mother and two neighbors with bruises. Deputies traced the abductors’ car and planned to hand the child to the County Bureau of Adoptions after custody determination.
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Crih
New York
Alto
Stanley
Norwalk
Sheriff's
Kennedy
Briercrest
Avgc
Ton
Scott Lester
Isto Mangily
County Bureau of Adoptions
Kennedys
Ura
Kennnedy
Scott
Los Arg County Bureau of Adopt
Suspect in Double Slaying Surrenders in Florida
Wayne Carpenter, 22, fugitive linked to a double slaying at a Washington bar, gave himself up to a West Palm Beach patrolman posing as a vagrant hitchhiker. He admitted his identity on the spot after being traced by FBI agents and police.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Wayne Carpenter
Washington Bar
Carpenter
Henry Clay Overton
Ae Nepornont
Bisa
Wrens
Ward
Hlm
FBI
Washington
Miami Beach
Larcy Wald
Illicit Sai Kee villagers to San Francisco Chinatown
Federal officials disclosed that about two thirds of Sai Kee villagers from Taishan Canton Province have illegally immigrated to San Francisco's Chinatown. Some paid as much as 1500 dollars to Chinese-American sponsors to claim family ties. About 37 villagers named, 2 fines totaling 1500 dollars paid, 20 subpoenaed. Deportation likely suspended due to lack of diplomatic ties.
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Canton
James B. Schnake
Dena
Sai Kee
Schnake
Red China
Taishan
Canton Providence
Scehnake
United States
Red
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