Pacific war fleet to stage largest exercise since WWII
A 26 ship Long Beach San Diego task force will begin a five week Pacific training drill January 3 led by heavy cruiser USS St Paul. Rear Admiral Hopwood commands the cruiser destroyer force with ships including USS Manchester and USS Juneau and four destroyers. Submarines, escorts, tugs, a tanker and an ammunition ship join the lineup. drills include firing on targets and replenishment at sea with 8000 sailors aboard.
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U.S.S. Manchester
G. E. Griggs
U.S.S. Juneau
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Brush
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Perfect J. Thomas
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Harry Sanders
W. K. Mendenhall
B. A. Clarey
T. O. Dahl
Uniformed Pair Slug Rob Trucker
Two men in naval uniform assaulted Roy F. Abeytia a 34 of 99412 FE Broadway on Pacific Way. They knocked him down took his purse containing 41 dollars and fled a dollar later replaced in his wallet before escaping.
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Pacific Way
Abertia
Reds Expel Priest from Hong Kong
Father Sicard Daniel of Colombia, South America, crossed into Hong Kong Sunday in chains after a public trial. Expelled by Chinese Communists on charges of healing a Chinese man, he spent 13 months in jail.
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UPI
Sicard Daniel
Colombia
South America
Eisenhower sees path to Korea peace after trip
President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower returned from a 21,000 mile tour of Korea and the Pacific with renewed confidence that a satisfactory solution in Korea can be speeded. He said the 16 day journey marks the beginning of a new effort to end the Korean fighting honorably. He outlined a plan stressing deeds over words and cautioned that peace requires common sense foresight and patience. Dulles accompanied him and said the statement would be his only on Korea. Eisenhower planned to be inaugurated January 20 and noted he would limit public remarks until taking office.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pacific
Korea
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Eisenhower
Treasury Dept
M. Man Rose
Cleveland, O
Randolph Burgess
Hastingsjoe
Hudson, Ny Y
Marion B. Folsom
Rochester
N. Y
Jaok
United Nations
John Foster Dulles
Woman 38 Attacked at Long Beach Base
A 38 year old Bell flower housewife was abducted from a cafe on Lakewood Boulevard near South Street Sunday morning. She was taken to a deserted shack at the U S Air Force Base by the Long Beach Municipal Airport where she was kept from 2:30 to 6:00 a m and attacked five times. Investigators arrested two suspects, Gerald P Fraser 18 and Guy T Price 19, enlisted men, and searched for a third suspect Monte L Lunsford 30 of El Monte. Police said a knife was used and a tape recording confirmed the assault.
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South St
U. S. Air Force
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Gerald P. Fraser
Guy T. Price
Monte L. Lunsford
el Monte
Lunsford
Def. Ins
W. F. Greeley
Chiang's Regime Executes 5 Spies
Five more alleged Communist spies were executed by firing squads on Sunday in Formosa, raising total announced executions to 39 since November 26. Authorities signaled further executions may follow for those convicted by court martial as pardoned Reds urged others to surrender.
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World Bread Grain Record Seen by U S
Washington ILI The Agriculture Dept predicted that this year's world bread grain crop will total a record 261,000,000 tons, surpassing the 248,000,000 ton record in 1938 39 and exceeding two months ago forecast by about 3,000,000 tons.
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ILI
Agriculture Dept
Maritime unions face job cuts as shipping slows down
More than 600 members of two maritime unions in the area are laid off not due to a strike but to a shrinking shipping market. Union leaders cite lost markets, foreign competition, and government vessel layups as key causes, warning the trend could foretell broader unemployment. The piece urges analysis of underlying factors to prevent recurrence.
Long Beach Man Killed In Monterey Head-on Crash
A head-on collision north of Greenfield Monterey County left L B man Chester H Croxton 23 dead and another injured. Passengers David A Nordin 19 Lloyd A Pierce Jr 1 and Dick Newell 17 all of Los Angeles were also reported killed in the same car. Driver Joe W Graf 25 of 4810 FE Willow Sr was taken to King City Hospital.
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Greenfield
Monterey County
Highway Patrol
Chester H. Croxton
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Salinas
King City
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David A. Nordin
Lloyd A. Pierce Jr
Dick Newell
Los Angeles
Joe W. Graf
Willow Sr
King City Hospital
Mutiny at Pongam Camp Kills 82 Prisoners
The Allied Prisoner of War Command said 82 Communist prisoners were killed and 120 wounded in a mutiny by hardline internees at UNC Camp No. 1C on Pongam Island off Koje. About 3,600 of 9,000 internees joined six compounds uprising. two American and two South Korean soldiers were injured.
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Korea
Allied Prisoner of War Command
Pongam
Allied
UNC
Jon Kose
1953 Draft policy debated by Rosenberg on Meet the Press
Washington AP says Assistant Secretary Anna Rosenberg announced the Defense Department would keep 3,600,000 troops through June 1954 without drafting fathers or Korea veterans. She noted 100,000 separations next year and 620,000 from the draft pool, amid deferment rules scrutiny.
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Anna Rosenberg
Defense Department
Rosenberg
NBC
Meet the Press
Congress
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Armed Services
Italian peasants desert Communist Party in mass protests
More than 450 peasants and farm workers in San Severo and Castelluccio Del Sauri abandoned the Communist Party in demonstrations. About 400 from San Severo arrived in Foggia and surrendered party cards to the Christian Democrat local secretary. A further 52 deserted in Castelluccio Del Sauri. Sixty more quit in the Foggia area a week earlier. The defections follow land grants under a redistribution program partially funded by Marshal Plan dollars.
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Communist Party
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Foggia
Alcide Dei Gasperi
Christian Democrat ‘Party
Castelluccio del Sauri
Four Children Die In Basement House Fire
CHICAGO Four children aged 4 3 2 and 1 perished Sunday in a three room basement flat fire started when 4 year old Jimmy tried to light the stove with a piece of paper. The flame spread rapidly and engulfed the room within minutes. Lucy Haywood 5 survived and said the paper caused the blaze.
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Lucy
Jimmy
Ios
Anthony
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Fred
Queen to witness Duke's first solo flight
Queen Elizabeth II is expected to watch the Duke of Edinburgh make his first solo airplane flight during the Christmas holidays after completing 10 hours of RAF training. The event is anticipated to occur around December 2.
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London
IAF
Elizabeth II
Duke of Edinburgh
Royal Air Force
Dee
Tragic Surf Death At Pt Fermin In Harbor City
A 14 year old Harbor City boy Duane McClellan drowned after a towering ground swell swept him from a rock at San Pedro Pt Fermin. Lifeguards searched six hours as spectators watched from a park. A companion Jack Boyce 14 narrowly escaped when water battered the promontory. Both Narbonne High students were fishing with Duane's father who had brought them to the point.
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Fermin
Duane McCipllan
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Duane
Jack
Narbonne High School
Lomita
Reds Capture Vietminh Flag After Skirmish Near Hanoi
In Indo China near Hanoi a Communist led group seized a Viet Namese post and raised a Red flag 10 miles southeast of the capital. French naval forces responded by moving up a canal, engaging the enemy, and reclaiming the flag in a brief fight.
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Indo-China
Red River
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