Suspect trio nabbed in Downey robbery case
Norwalk residents Virgil J. Fountain Billy Fountain and Michael Fay on leave sailors confessed to last week’s Downey merchant holdup totaling 251 dollars. Des Moines sailors Fay and Billy, with Fountain in Norwalk, were picked up in Los Angeles during another investigation. They plan to be brought to Downey Justice Court midweek.
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Norwalk
Mike Ayre
Virgil J. Fountain
Liebacher
Billy
Michael Fay
Los Angeles
Aure
Tith
Still
Downey
Downey Justices Court
Billy Fountain
Des Moines
Ayre
Fay
Fountain
Iitter
Kefauver hearings set on California liquor licenses and crime ties
California hearings open with William G. Bonelli as key witness on liquor licensing. Artie Samish to testify in San Francisco while Los Angeles Mayor Bowron may discuss crime prevention. Grand jury foremen from Southern California, ex sheriff Jim Stocker, and Izzy Glasser appear. Indicted ex-captain Al Guasti and figures like Joe Sica and Jack Dragna tied to licensed poker clubs and organized crime are named. The panel also notes interest in the Rummel assassination as it relates to the national picture.
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Wiliam G. Bonelli
State Equalization Board
California
Kefauver
Artie Samish
San Francisco
Fletcher Bowron
Los Angeles
al Guasti
Underworld
Sammy Rummel
Rummel
Gardena
Joe Sica
Jack Dragna
California Crime Commission
Grape Millionaire Who Hired Arak Healer Dies
Krikor Arakelian, famed Central Valley grape magnate turned multimillionaire, died of a heart attack at 79 in Palm Springs. born in Turkish Armenia in 186x, he arrived in 1883, later jailed in Armenia, once valued at about 25 million, drew public notice in 1947 for importing Arak Hagopian the Iranian faith healer to treat his epileptic son Vaughn.
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Palm Springs
Krikor Arakelian
Central Valley
Prape
Arakelian
Armenia
Arak Hagopian
Vaughn
Getting by With It Editorial Recount from Tokyo Crisis
Editorial recalls a 15 year old Tokyo upheaval when officers seized power and killed five cabinet ministers. It notes Japan’s aggression after Manchuria and before Pearl Harbor, framing the era in cautious hindsight and continuing on page 14.
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Tokyo
Manchuria
Pearl Harbor
Inside Stories and Fat Boy stories appear in pages
Washington newsmen quote mental mood gauges on President Truman on Page 19 with a related chapter on the “Fat Boy” growth on Page 2 The California legislature spends two weeks sharpening knives for reapportionment surgery and may clash in political combat on Page 8
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Washington
Truman
Caliornia
More Rain and Wind Expected Today
Scattered showers deposited 0.36 inch of moisture on local streets last night and will continue intermittently today and tomorrow. Southerly winds of 10 to 20 mph accompany the rain. Last night's downpour drenched the Bellflower Norwalk area and brought the season total to 5.34 inches, compared with 9.44 inches last year at this date.
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Bellflower
Norwalk
Ecity
Nevada ratifies two term presidency limit
Carson City Nevada February 26 The State of Nevada today passed the 36th ratification of the constitutional amendment limiting Presidents to two terms in office automatically making the amendment part of the Constitution Ratification by the two states leaves President Truman as the final man who can aspire to more than two terms in the nations largest job The amendment stipulates that hereafter no person can be elected to more than two full terms as President of the United States.
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Carson City
Nev
Nevada
Truman
United States
Marines Leap To Ihengsong In Key Korea Clash
Leathernecks of the First Marine Division, veterans of Hungnam, join the fight for the mid-Korean rail hub Ihengsong against strong Chinese forces. The Eighth Army commits seven American divisions to blunt a looming offensive as Chinese buildup signals a major war turn.
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Ihengsong
Eighth Army
Yangpyong
Hoengsong
Seoul
Korea
Fifth Air Force
INS
1St Marines
Thirty troops injured in Camp Roberts shell blast
A 60 millimeter shell exploded in Camp Roberts training grounds injuring 22 soldiers from C Company 1401st Engineers Combat Battalion. Nineteen were hospitalized. five in critical and seven in serious condition. A volunteer blood supply was requested as transfusions were given.
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Camp Roberts
San Luis Obispo
C Company
1401St Engineers Combat Batallion
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