Sailor's Inheritance Hoax Unravels After Weeks of Hope
Navy veteran Howard D. Rife, 29, spent two months planning to spend a $437,600 fortune said to be left by a widow. Front-page excitement faded as inquiries failed to locate any trace of the will or the law firm cited Strousbourge & Corinth. He questioned the phony story but awaited clarification, with documents from a New York firm leading nowhere.
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Emma Riverrs
Ogdensburg
St. Lawrence City
Rule
Firat
Cherty
U. S
Lexington
Long Beach
New York
Rite
Strousbourge & Corinth
Fifth Ave
New York City
U N Wall of Fire Stops Red Hordes
Five girls including Shirley Armitage escaped during a school return from a rehearsal. Armitage had prior ties to the Tommy Cook crime gang involved in the May 12 Calarce killing and liquor store robberies. she was sent to the Ventura institution. Lawrence Collins Jr. and three others were captured, Cook sentenced to San Quentin. flame throwers used by Chinese Communists at the I US UN front in Korea, first time in the war.
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Shirley Jean Armitage
Mary Perry
Miss Armitage
Shirley Walker
Ventura Institution
Tommy Cook
Long Beach
Dominic Calarce
Orange Ave
Compton
She
Larry Horace Collins Jr
Calareo
Cook
San Quentin
Collins
Shirley Armitage
Muriel “Pickles Downs
Peggy Byrnes
West Central Front
Korea
United Nations
Mystery Man Identity Tied to Local Slaying Case
A bundle of clothes found under lock and key at the Long Beach police station linked a so called mystery man to Rose Marie Birdsall, amid San Bernardino officials preparing to arraign 24 year old waitress in the whisky bottle killing of Warren I. Eddenfield. Sheriff Eugene Mueller said the crime was committed in his county and the investigation centers on the unknown man as officers disclose new details.
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Long Beach
Rose Marie Birdsall
Fae Hemthinn Tee Lee
San Bernardino
Warren I
Tuffy) Eddenfield
Eugene W. Mueller
Bee
Dollar Value Days in Long Beach Spotlighted
Long Beach hosts semi annual Dollar Value Days with all local stores taking part. Merchandisers report stocks aimed at male shoppers for today and tomorrow. Store participation includes numerous retailers across the city.
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Long Beach
Associated
Help We Offer Fight and Chinese Troop Issue
In wartime remarks Robert 5 Allen told a Rotary Club audience we will not deploy Chiang Kai-shek’s 50 000 troops to Korea citing equipment and trust concerns. He noted many Chinese Communist forces in Korea were formerly Chiang’s men and warned of heavy casualties against a Reds counter attack.
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MacArthur
Korea
Chiang Kai-shek
Robert 5. Allen
Rotary Club
Chiang
Kidnapers Beat Off-Duty Officer in Long Beach Incident
Sgt. Gil Smith, a Long Beach police sergeant, was badly beaten by two men who kidnapped nurse Margaret Kelley during an off duty patrol at Spring Street and Bellflower Boulevard. Kelley, 24, reported her purse with over $160 taken. Smith was hospitalized after the assault while officers pursued the car.
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Long Beach
Gil Smith
San Anse
Orizaba
Set
Smith
St. Mary's Hospital
Massed Allied Push Halts Chinese Offensive in Korea
TOKYO February 13 Allied forces repelled a major Chinese assault in Korea with heavy casualties. The U S Eighth Army reported 10 288 Communists killed or wounded and 365 captured in one day, raising two day losses to 14 927. Artillery and air support battered enemy columns as Red troops fled before a wall of firepower.
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Tokyo
United States Eighth Army
Raisin
U. N
Bricker charges graft tolerance by Truman admin
Senator John W. Bricker accuses the Truman administration of not punishing graft and corruption while allowing special interests to profit from public funds through White House influence and Democratic campaign contributions.
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Washington
U.B
John W. Bricker
F.O
Truman
White House
Housewife Chokes To Death On Olive In Norwalk
Norwalk woman Mrs. Robert L. Feagan 23 of 13054 Rosecrang Ave choked on an olive yesterday afternoon. Found unconscious on her lawn by neighbor’s child Stephen Teenant 4 of 13106 Rosecrans he summoned aid. Deputies M C Crane and S H Douglas and county fire dept personnel treated her but she died an hour later. Two olives and a fragment were removed from her mouth.
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Norwalk
Robert L. Feagan
Rosecrang Ave
Stephen Teenant
Rosecrans
M. C. Crane
S. H. Douglas
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U. N. Wall OF Fire
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Crime Club
Sam
Ray Tucker
Sportna
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