Train Collision Near Cedars Injures 26 In Oklahoma
A Frisco passenger train and a Kansas City Southern freight collided head on near Cedars Oklahoma, injuring at least 26 with 22 treated at Sparks Memorial Hospital Fort Smith and seven still hospitalized. No fatalities reported.
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FT. Smith
Ark
Frisco
Kansas City Southern
Cedars
Okla
M. H. Altman
Sparks Memorial Hospital
Fort Smith
Ww. B. Stewart
Tort Smith
Enginger
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Salvation. Army
Red Cross
Pateau
Laflore County
Smith
Fort
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Monett
Kansas City
St. Louis
Highway Toll to Hit 3600 Dead in California Year
California Highway Patrol Commissioner Clifford Peterson forecast a year end death toll near 3600 with about 125000 injuries. He praised drivers who stayed safe and urged stricter adherence to traffic laws to prevent nine of ten accidents.
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Sacramento
Highway Patrol
Clifford
Peterson
California
Wells Blaze At Inglewood Endangers Tanks and Wells
Inglewood firefighters battled a newly drilled oil well explosion at the Inglewood Country Club golf course. A natural gas flare shot more than 100 feet into the air as seven companies fought flames and protected a third well and storage tanks. A derrick hand, Keith Carter, was found after being thought trapped. An injured worker sustained a scalp wound from a helmet. The blast rattled windows up to two miles away and was visible from Los Angeles International Airport five miles distant.
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Inglewood —Cr
Inglewood Country Clit
Inglewood
Los Angeles International Airport
Hotel blaze drives 300 from downtown Cleveland venue
A brief but spectacular fire on Tuesday routed about 300 guests from the eighth floor of the Hotel Gillsy downtown, opposite the Roxy Burlesque Theater. The blaze started late and drew thousands of shoppers and workers as smoke and alarms roared through the area.
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Cleveland
Gillsy
Roxy
Successful Failures and Courage for Young Merchants
A fragmentary piece from L A C discusses how nature favors perseverance, noting that many great industrialists failed earlier ventures. It urges young men in business to learn from mistakes, accept blame for bad judgment, and persist, suggesting failures build future success.
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Ini
Tti
Jean
B 29s Smash Plant and Munitions Dump in North Korea
Twenty one B 29 Superfortresses attacked a 25 mile south of the Yalu ore processing plant and an 85 acre munitions dump northwest of Sinanju, facing heavy anti aircraft fire and jet night fighters. The raid delivered over 200 tons of explosives while B 26 bombers hit locomotives, trucks, and boxcars in night forays as small Communist units probed Allied positions on the West and Central Front.
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Seoul
North Korea
Yalu’ River
Sinanju
Fifth Air Force
Eighth Army
Axi Allied Corps
Studious Rat Demonstrates Value Sense in Lab Test
A Tulane University psychology lab led by Dr. Loh Seng Tsai reports tests where a college rat chooses a quarter over a dime or nickel to obtain five pieces of cheese, showing value judgment. The study notes rats can use tools and tokens, suggesting high intelligence and potential for wider animal mental-process research with cheaper, breedorable subjects.
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St, Louis
Loh Seng Tsai
Tulane University
Tsai
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Churchill sails to meet Eisenhower amid cold war tensions
Churchill, aboard the Queen Mary in Southampton, sails for New York en route to meet President-elect Eisenhower. High British sources say he seeks a close wartime like working relationship with the White House and No 10, to revive unity with the United States on Korea and armament. The scene on deck shows cheering dock workers as Churchill waves to passengers.
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Southampton
Eng
Winston Churchill
Eisen
Korea
Ier
Josef Stalin
York
Churchill
America
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
White House
No. 10 Downing Street
Fner
Parliah i Secretar
Old Man Unloads Weather Tale With Rainbows
A fragmented May 1952 weather summary shows an old man claiming he started unloading his unused weather Tuesday. Long Beach saw sunshine and showers with high winds and a total rainfall of 7.36 inches. Small-craft warnings were in effect from Concepcion to Ocean until 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
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Long
Concepcion
Ocean
Baby Born in Hospital Alley in Norwalk
In Norwalk Tuesday, baby Jarma Kay Blankenship arrived in an alley near Artesia Hospital, ahead of schedule. Janet Blankenship and Douglas Blanken ship rushed through Gridley Road to the hospital as the father recalled their first child Walter Lee nearly born in the street.
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Norwalk
Jarma Kay Blankenship
Sopapa
Douglas Blanken
Gridley Rd
Janet Blankenship
Artesia Hospital
Papa
Walter
Lee
Bidault Fails to Form French Government
Paris reports former premier Georges Bidault surrendered his bid to form a cabinet on Tuesday night. The 53 year old leader of the Popular Republican Movement failed after key parties in parliament refused to back his demand for wider powers, returning the cabinet crisis to President Vincent Auriol.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
Vincent Auriol
Bidault
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Auriol
Antoine Pinay
Air Line DC-3 Hijacked and Forced Down
A Philippine Airlines DC-3 was hijacked in northern Luzon by Ang Cho Kio. He killed the pilot and a purser during flight toward Amoy, then was captured as nationalist fighters diverted the plane to Kinmen Island. Two Americans among seven passengers were rescued. the group headed to Taipei for repatriation to Manila.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Philippine Air Lines
Kinmen Island
Red China
Air Pirate
Ang Cho Kio
Philip Ang
Hong Chu Chun
Manila
Philippines
vAng
Laoag
Aparri
Luzon
Pedro Z. Perlas
Amoy
Eduardo Diego
Felix Gaston
Mary Treton
Bethel
Marshall E. Nunn
San Francisco
U.S. Information Service
Boy killed by street sweeper wheel brushes near Compton
A 12 year old boy riding a bicycle west of Compton rode into the side of a nine ton street sweeper at 136th Street and Avalon Boulevard. He died from revolved brushes and was deceased on arrival at Physicians and Surgeons Hospital. Driver George W. Tessier 39 of Downey was shocked but not blamed. The boy John Clayton Jr 344 F 137th St Compton died in the incident Tuesday.
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Nineton
Compton
John Clayton Jr
F. 137Th St
California Highway Patrol
Frank S. Runyon
136Th St
Avalon Blyd
Runyon
Clayton
Physicians’ and Surgeons’ Hospital
George W. Tessier
S. Birchdale St. Downey
Navy Marines exceed war is bomb totals
Special armed services subcommittee report on a tour to the Korean front Aug 15 to Sept 1952 states that by May 1952 Navy and Marine aircraft had expended as much aviation ordnance as the entire World War I war at sea.
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Special Armed Services Subcommittee
Navy
Rain Causes Rash of L B Accidents
A rainy Tuesday night in Long Beach marked the city’s 52nd traffic death of 1952 as police logged a series of accidents, two involving police cars. Ann O’Hara, 70, died at St Mary’s Hospital after being struck near Fourth Street and Lime Avenue. Lula Gamble, 60, of San Diego, suffered a fractured shoulder in a two car collision at Atlantic Avenue and Willow Street. Police cars were also involved in noninjury crashes, and pedestrian Harry Holiday, 45, received injuries after being hit crossing Second Street near Bayshore Avenue.
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Ann O'Hara
E. Fifth St
St. Mary's Hospital
Fourth St
Lime Ave
Merle R. Newland
Dawson Ave
Lawrence E. Tuffs
Euclid
Ave
St. Mary’s Hospital
San Diego
Atlantic Ave
Willow St
Lula Gamble
Chester R. Gamble
Gamble
Willow
Ronald C. Criswell
New York St
Darrel L. Goldsmith
San Antonio Pl
Bruce G. Elliott
Seabright Ave
Terry Brown
Ocean Blvd
Magnolia Ave
Harry R. Holiday
American Ave
Second St
Bayshore Ave
Warren W. Pangborn
18Th St
Crash Near Santa Ana Kills Woman in Collision
A Vallejo woman, Pearl Gibbons, 61, was killed and Homer Anderson, 57, was critically injured in a collision 10 miles south of Santa Ana involving a car and a northbound truck trailer driven by Paul Liniger, 47, of Stockton. The trailer jackknifed on a wet curve, struck a bridge, and broke loose.
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Santa Ana
Vallejo
Here
California Highway Patrol
Pearl Gibbons
Vailejo
Homer E.anderson
H. ©. Allen
Paul A. Liniiger
Stockton
Joose
Anderson
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