Morals Conviction Triggers Calls for Mayor to Quit
Stanton officials and citizens react after Mayor Howard Walker was found guilty of participating in unnatural sex acts at a Hollywood stag show. A citizens committee led by Mrs. Wilbur Gertz urged his ouster, and three council members signed a petition for a special meeting to decide his future. Walker vows to stay, saying he has support from local citizens and business leaders. If three council members vote to remove him, he would lose the mayor’s post.
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Siness
Savanna School
Walker
Hazel Lewis
Mrs. Lewis
Reading
Superior Court
Richard Filden
Hollywood
Welker
Randy Hagan
Butler Ave
St. Mary's Hospital
Randy
St. Mary’s
Albert Hagan
City Map Mixup Triggers Fire Department Scrutiny
Long Beach officials admitted Friday they fudged a map to define city limits after a home at 3014 Ladoga Ave burned. The blaze damaged Betty MacLyman’s house and garage. a dispatcher delayed equipment, misreading county territory. Fire Chief Frank Sandeman ordered new cross jurisdiction rules, while residents fear repeat disasters amid annexation efforts and a county-city land corridor dispute.
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Long Beach
Betty MacLyman
Ladoga Ave
Los Angeles County
Frank Sandeman
Wardlow Rd
Palo Verde
Sandeman
J. R. McHenry
Bellflower, Blvd
San Gabriel River
MacLyman Tn
Across the Nation Head-On Crash Claims Seven in Rain
A rainy day head-on collision in Hannibal Missouri killed seven, including four children, two Kansas families among the victims. The tractor trailer driver said the other car swerved into his lane before the wreck. Rescue crews freed survivors after nearly an hour of entanglement.
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Hannibal
Kansas
Benjamin Franklin Rogers
Daisy
Debbie Rogers
Alice Campbell
Parsons
Kans
Margery Seibel
Rodney
Anita
Valley Center
Kan
Thomas Short
Brighton
Rogers
Cheer for a Tiger in New Orleans Visit
Madame Chiang Kai-shek visited Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault in New Orleans on Friday. She offered encouragement to the cancer-stricken Flying Tiger, praising his fighting spirit and noting he was never defeated, not by the Japanese.
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New Orleans
Chiang Kai-shek
Claire Lee Chennawit
Chennault
Police Must Pay After Disorderly Conduct Verdict
Three men charged with police brutality in a Municipal Court case were found not guilty of brutality but guilty of disorderly conduct. Judge Lyman Sutter suspended the six month jail term and ordered one year probation with $400 fines. FBI probe noted but not influencing verdict. incident stemmed from an attempted custody dispute and an arrest by vice squad officers at a downtown lounge.
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Lyman Sutter
Richard Johnson
Donald
Redhear
St. Torrance
Richard Tardaguila
Bright St. Gardena
Long Beach City
Anderson
Tardaquila
Vice-Bureau
Tardafila
Vide
June Lin Henri
Don Johnson
U S Protests Over Downed AF Plane and Arrested Airmen
The United States protested Soviet pilots shooting down an American transport plane and demanded punishment. Washington warned that failure to free nine U S airmen in East Germany could worsen U S Soviet relations. A formal note was delivered to Soviet Ambassador Menshikov. In Kansas a severe weather storm caused deaths and flooding in Atchison and Topeka.
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Upi
United States
Russia
East Germany
State Department
Mikhail Menshikov
Menshikov
U. S. Atchison, Kan
Armenia
Atchison
Kansas
Mad Slayer in Cuba Slaying Sparks Manhunt and Shootout
In northern New Mexico ex-patient Foose, released as cured, killed two Cuban children in a dawn ambush after wandering the mountains for months seeking uranium. Police closed in near Cuba, New Mexico, wounding him and arresting him after a confrontation. witnesses recall his claim that overpopulation urged his actions.
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Num
Norman A. Foose
New Mexico
Foose
Salt Lake City
Foose Foose
Hadi
Cuba
Albuquerque
Richard Velarde
Vernon Weldon
Sam
Hill
Desert Heat Record Prompts Wiseman Commentary
The Weatherman notes a desert at 121 degrees and comments on heat in Ishashaan. Officials say charges will be filed later, with records from a state mental hospital in Blackfoot. Norman Atle Foosel receives treatment after six months starting in July 1954, then moves to veteran administration care.
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Blackfoot
Daha
Norman
Trans
Mintali
Independent column on hotel room bugging controversy
Drew Pearson comments on alleged bugging of Washington hotel rooms, raising privacy and security concerns. The piece appears on Page A-2. Separate item notes Kim Novak blaming her studio for the breakup with Trujillo, listed on Page B-5.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Kim Novak
Trujillo
Page
McElroy Arrives in Hawaii After Record nonstop flight
Defense Secretary Neil McElroy arrived in Honolulu aboard a four jet KC135 from Washington in a record 11 hours 8 minutes, first nonstop Washington to Honolulu flight. He planned talks with Adm. Felix B. Stump and other Pacific defenders before leaving for the nuclear test zone in the Pacific.
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Honolulu
Curtis LeMay
McElroy
Adm
Felix B. Stump
Pacific
Ee McElroy
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