Six Die As Bombers Collide In Georgia
Two B-50 bombers from the Sith Bomb Squadron collided near Hunter Field Georgia killing six crewmen. Three others believed trapped with witnesses reporting parachutes near the crash. Rescue efforts hampered by mud and rising tides as a helicopter and blimp aided recovery.
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Sagannah
Here
Hunter Air Force Base
Tom Meredith
Hunter Field
Meredith
Sith
Herb
Jacksonville
Fla
Glynco
Brunswick
Plane Lost In Fog Over Laguna Hills
A Marine Corps fighter pilot vanished during a routine training flight near Laguna Beach as thick fog and zero visibility hindered conditions. Air and ground teams, including civilians and Marines, scoured the Laguna Hills area after the pilot radioed from El Toro at 7 p.m. Officials withheld the pilot's name while continuing dawn searches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Corps
Laguna Beach
Laguna Hills
el Toro Marine Air Station
el Toro
Marine Air Base
The Fat Boy's Calorie Card Promises Easy Dieting
A vintage diet card promotes a Fat Boy Institute calorie counting method with a thermometer clip to track daily intake. It claims 1500 calories as a maintenance point and 500 to 1000 more for weight loss, detailing foods and portions and warning against overindulgence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fat Boys’ Institute
Fatso
Slim Jim
Diamond Jim Brady
Caruso
Dissolution Fight Roars At Los Altos Association Meeting
A 2500 member Los Altos property owners group faced a pitched battle at Minnie Gant School as more than 500 crowded the auditorium and overflowed into an adjacent room. Dissenting members demanded dissolution, shouting accusations of slavery and plutocracy over compulsory dues. The opposing side, led by president Elvin L. Funder and executive secretary Warren E. Doherty, rejected the motions as out of order, citing by law requirements for dissolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Altos’ Association
Minnie Gant ‘School
John A. Aldrich
Oceana Ave
Elvin L. Funder
Warren E. Doherty
Aldrich J
Funder
Ildrich
Doherty
Rob Lert Lime
Anselmo
Labor Waterfront Bribery and Gang Control Exposed
L A C reports that testimony before the New York State Crime Commission describes bribery, murder, and gang domination of unions on the New York New Jersey waterfront. The AFL Longshoremen’s Union is depicted as enforcing work, pay, and placements by ex convicts, with theft and padded payrolls inflating shipping costs by about a quarter billion dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State Crime Commission
New York-New Jersey
AFL
Two F-51 Fighters Missing Over Idaho Montana Area
Ogden Utah reports two F-51 Mustangs with pilots aboard missing after takeoff from Hill AFB for Great Falls Montana. A 70 plane search was under way for a C-46 carrying 40 aboard. One fighter was last heard over White Remit while the other was due to arrive Preston Idaho.
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Ogden
Utah
UF1
Idaho- Montana
Salt Lake City
Hill Air Force Base
Great Falls
Mont
Enoy
Air Force
Boise
Preston
Idaho
Ai “Diet
Bat Ab
Bare ‘Rencerr
Fite
Conver
Roberts
Air
Force
Fog Turns Back Plane: McIntyre Flight Returns to Gander
Fog forces an TWA flight carrying Cardinal James Frn McIntyre and party to turn back over the mid Atlantic. Reports from Shannon Ireland say the aircraft diverted to return to Gander after fog delayed the journey.
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Mcintyre
sHanwun
Ireland
A.twa
Sir An
mid-Atlantic
Fina
Gander
Rescue 21 Off Sinking Swede Ship
Rescue ships in heavy seas saved 21 crewmen from the Swedish tanker Avanti after it cracked in half in the North Philippine Sea. Reports later corrected the count to 21 saved from 40 or more aboard, while a British freighter noted the stern afloat with 120 men. Other Pacific incidents included the Cardena docking safely off Vancouver Island with 22 passengers and 60 crew, and the Klipfontein sinking near Portuguese Africa with all 223 aboard saved.
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Tokyo
Avanti
North
Philippine Sea
Japanese Maritime Safety Board
Eastern
Okinawa
Cornes and Co
New Guinea
Iwakuni
Japan
Pacific Northwest
Union Steamship Ca
Cardena
Vancouver Island
Sullivan Harbor
Vancouver
Cynthis
Olson
Bandon
Ote
Troops quell bloody riot in Karachi violence rises
In Karachi Pakistan armed troops moved to end a Communist led riot that left at least nine dead and more than 60 injured over two days. Police say seven died while student groups claim twelve. rioters and police injuries rise with many wounded hauled away by friends. Forty rioters were arrested as the unrest centered on a Democratic Students Federation demonstration.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Eighth
Punjab ‘Regiment
Naqvi
Democratic Students’ Federation
Weather Riddle Murky Forecast In Fog Baffling Note
A garbled weather item mentions fog and confusing lines about the weatherman and weather forecasts. The readable parts indicate fog in the forecast and unclear commentary on forecast accuracy.
Long Beach teacher granted new trial in murder case
The District Court of Appeal suspended Violet Berling's first degree murder conviction and ordered a new trial after ruling she was not present at all times during her four month trial. Justice William O'Doran said her rights were violated when proceedings continued as she became ill. Berling, 33, was convicted in 1951 of torturing to death 10 year old Kay Frances Erickson, living with her in a downtown studio. She was sentenced to life, but appeal argued she was in a veiled fog for much of the trial.
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Violet
John Berling
District Court of Appeal
Long Beach
Herling
William O'Doran
Los Angeles
Miss Berling
Kay Frances Erickson
L. C. Drapau
Oy 2
Miss. Bérling
Fred. Miller
Miss ‘Berling
Miguel Verdugo
J. Albert Guay
Quebec City
Bordeaux
Terninning
Quebec
Kes Teather
Genereauest
Senate Debates Tidelands Ownership Bills in Congress
Washington reports Senate debates two rival tidelands plans. The Holland bill would grant states clear title to lands beneath marginal seas for three miles out, identical to a vetoed measure. A Price Daniel alternative would extend Holland benefits and share 37.42 percent of revenues from all oil and gas development beyond state seaward boundaries.
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Washington
Senate
Florida
Holland and Smathers
Holland Hill
Truman
Eisenhower
Texas
Price Daniel
Holland
Beds Set Up. To Fill Need Beds Set Up. To Fill Need Desperately
Long Beach area hospitals turned away 163 seriously ill patients in a 24 hour period ending Thursday as all emergency beds were in use. George Badenhausen of the Long Beach Community Welfare Council said the area has only about half the beds required and plans seek 60 new beds with a year or more to completion.
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Long Beach
George Badenhausen
Badenhausen
Pate
Heentsal
Pho
Harriman-Jones Clinic Hospital
Shipper Dies on Street in Forest Hills
Albert Voorhees Moore, 72, president and director of Moore McCormack Lines Inc., collapsed from a heart attack on a street near his Forest Hills home Thursday night. The prominent shipping executive led the major shipper for years.
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New
York
Albert Voor
Moore
Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc
Forest Hills
Canada Hangs Woman As Murderess of 23
Montreal reports Marguerite Pitre was hanged at Bordeaux Jail for involvement in a fatal airliner timebombing that killed 23. She was the first woman executed in six years in Canada, accompanied by nuns and officials during the late night ceremony after a midnight mass.
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Montreal
Quebec
Bordeaux
Marguerite Pitre
Canada
Pitre
J. Alpert
Cigare Gee Tees
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T B. Byrd
Parkersburg, Ga
Byrd
Sparks Civic Uprising
Rualing
Los Altos Association
Olticera
Fat Boy
Chapter
Elmer Wheeler
Los Altos Assn
L.A.C
Feared
Portuguese Africa
Indian Ocean
Weather Bureau
Long ‘Beach
Shipper
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