Poisoning Suspect Indicted On Two Counts In Downey Case
Caltech student Richard La Force 19 of Downey is indicted on two counts of attempted murder for poisoning his best friend Richard Hayden 19. Authorities say La Force claimed intimacy with Haydens wife Joyce Hayden 19 and may be father of her expected child. He assaulted Hayden with potassium cyanide and arsenic, was held on 50000 bail, arraignment scheduled.
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Paramount
Downey
Caltech
la Force
Joyce Hayden
Firestone Blvd
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Hayden
Egypt Air Crash Kills 2 Soldiers
Cairo Egypt Twenty nine Egyptian servicemen were killed when an Egyptian air force transport plane crashed during a sand storm between Cairo and the Suez Canal Zone. Thirty one others aboard were injured as wing commander Wagih Abaza said engine trouble from the storm was likely.
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Cairo
Egypt
Lin
Suez Canal Zone
Wagih. Abaza
Air Force
Cairo Suez Road
Olson ship jettisons logs to right listing load
Seattle dispatch reports the lumber schooner Cynthia Olson bound for San Francisco sent 300000 feet of logs overboard off the Washington coast after listing 15 to 40 degrees in heavy swells. Coast Guard cutters, freighters, and an ocean tug raced to assist the Olson line vessel about 25 miles offshore.
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Seattle
Cynthia Olson
San Francisco
Joose
Washington
Coast Guard
Olson Steamship Co
Jim Thorpe and wife jailed in San Pedro
Jim Thorpe and wife Patricia were arrested in Wilmington on a wage law warrant and jailed in San Pedro, then bailed out Tuesday night after bond of 200 dollars each. The couple, visiting Wilmington for health and personal reasons, listed professional athlete and homemaker as addresses, with Thorpe recently named athlete of the half century for Olympic and professional career.
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Jim Thorpe
San Pedro
Patricia
Wilmington
New York
G. E
Saim) Harrison
Sup
Thorpe
Posse Hunts 4 Children
A Norwalk sheriff's posse organized early today to search the Lakewood area for four missing children. Jerry Dean Maple 11 Michael James McLery 11 Dixie Lee Thomas 9 and her 5 year old brother Ronald Paul Thomas left school Tuesday and were reported missing by their parents at 7 p.m A patrol car searched and at midnight a full-scale posse was ordered by the sheriff's substation.
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Lakewood
Jerry Dean Maple
Hayter Ave
Michael James’ McLery
Lakewood Blvd
Dixie Lee Thomas
Ronald Paul Thomas
Norwalk
Snow isolates three English villages as blizzards rage
Blizzard winds up to eighty mph sweep northern England and Wales, piling six foot snowdrifts. Sixteen main roads blocked, scores of vehicles stranded. Leyburn Redmire and Carlton, home to about 1400, blocked from public transport. Farmers battle drifts, searching for lost livestock on the moors.
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England
Wales
Yorkshire
Leyburn
Redmire
Carlton
Wholesome Explosion A City Beauty Plan Emerges
Local club women push for a city beautification program and a competent Park Director to plan parks and streets. The group, part of the Presidents Club, emphasizes nonprofit aims and no personal publicity, seeking official city action rather than oil funding.
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Presidents Club
Theft at poker club ties to rent fraud in Long Beach
William Robertson, head of the Sea Beach Airport Club, faced election petitions to block a club shutdown while Roy H. Isbell, a former Long Beach apartment manager, confessed to stealing $500 in rent and losing it gambling at Robertson's card casino. Isbell, sought since October, was arrested in Fullerton on grand theft charges after allegedly taking $585.35 in rent and borrowing $500 later lost at poker. Police say he used rent money to recoup losses at the Airport Club. The story notes a string of poker related misfortunes in Seal Beach and Gardena, including a baby sale case and a woman jailed for bad checks after gambling at local tables.
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William Robertson
the Sea
Roy H. Isbell
W. Chapman
St. Granges
Fullerton
Ed Boyington
Long Beach
Isbell
E. O. Carroll
Airport Club
Seal Beach
Gardena
Charles B. Haynes
Haynes
van Nuys
Gamling
Weatherman Says Fog and Wind Have Passed
The forecaster notes a return to normal climate in Miami after a blustery week. There is practically no weather today with no high winds or fog and little temperature change. Sunshine and light clouds persist, giving a long beach day.
Predawn organ concert leads to arrests in Laguna Beach
Two men, James Robert Kearny and George Picciotto, were arrested during a predawn church organ recital at First Church of Christ Scientist in Laguna Beach. They were sentenced by Judge C. C. Cravath to 30 days in county jail for malicious mischief and vagrancy, with 10 days suspended.
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First Church of Christ Scientist
Laguna Beach
James Robert Kearny
George Picciotto
Browncroft Rd
Lagurla Beach
C. C. Cravath
Hoover Expected to Return to Hospital Today
Former President Herbert Hoover is expected to return to his hospital today after being confined since Saturday at St Francis Hospital with an influenza attack. He had been in Miami Beach.
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Hoover
Miami Beach
Fia
Herbert Hoover
Brownell First Witness in Tide Hearings
Washington is set for hearings as the House Judiciary Subcommittee opens on tidelands with Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. leading the witness list. The issue, among 11 on the Eisenhower administration’s must list, centers on whether submerged lands off state coasts should be state owned or federally controlled.
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Washington
Icpha House
Tidelands
Herbert’ Brownell Jr
Svitness
E.cGraham
R.pa
Browncell
Eisenhower
Texas
House
White House
City Hears Files Lakewood Protest Over Honor Farm
City council hears protest from Lakewood Artesia and Los Altos groups opposing the proposed honor farm on the east side of the San Gabriel River near Carson Street. Demonstrators demand site relocation or delay while officials review alternatives and the State Board of Corrections evaluates the plan.
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Lakewood
Artesia
Los Altos
San Gabriel River
Carson St
Orton W. Chace
State Board of Corrections
Vickers
Dovey
Alcoholics “Anonymous
Wife Sues Husband for 50000 After Alleged Attack
Mrs. Margaret J. Dubickas, 29, Chicago, sues Walter Dubickas, 49, butcher, for 50000 alleging rape and beating on Feb 1 and threats to kill. They had reconciled Jan 8 after a separation and earlier suits were withdrawn. Lawyer cites recent state high court ruling permitting a wife to sue her husband for wanton and willful acts.
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Chicago
Mel
Margaret
J. Dubickas
Layla
Grant
Desert Slaying Suspect Due Back in West Coast Case
Leonard F. Baldwin, 29, wanted for the Barstow killing, waived extradition and agreed to return voluntarily to the West Coast. He was ordered held in Bradford awaiting custody transfer from the local jail after the Tuesday incident.
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Wanda
Leonard F. Baldwin
Barstow
West Coast
Baldwin
Bradford
Cai Jad
Guerrillas Grab 2 Craft Off Shanghai
Nationalist defense ministry reported two motorized junks manned by guerrillas sank a Chinese Red junk in Wenchow Bay and captured two others south of Shanghai. A senior Nationalist general said seaborne raids hit Reds 15 times in seven months as part of broader efforts to pressure mainland forces.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Defense Ministry
Wenchow Bay
Shanghai
China
Tai Chow Islands
Red China
Alphis
Marchuria
Inner Mongolia
Pibet
Burma
Indo-China
Li Mi
Burma-Yunnan
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Honor Farms
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Honor Farm
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Cienbat
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Chiang Kai-shek
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