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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1952
Page
3
A publican party rhetoric targets Taft faction and delegates, calling for cleansing corruption at all levels including primaries and conventions. The piece quotes a WWII Allied commander discussing Berlin and Elbe strategies, harshly criticizing Yalta Potsdam decisions and asserting Americans must fight corruption without smearing individuals.
Explorer and Sea Scout members received achievement citations at the Expares Bridge of Honor ceremony hosted by Elks ub. Over 200 attendees, with Sea Scout Ship Alamitos as host, heard awards to Explorer Post 50 members Donald Poole and Basil Frawley, plus many leaders and crews earning ranger, craft, and ordinary awards across multiple ships and posts.
In Fort Wayne Indiana a 100 man posse including horsemen and National Guardsmen trapped a snake described as 18 feet long with a head like a bulldog on the Parker Whiting farm north of the city. Darkness halted the hunt but picket lines were set and Sheriff Harold Zeiss said the posse would press the search again tomorrow. The serpent had first been seen after crossing a road in a Fort Wayne park last night before a couple and their two children.
An unidentified amateur detective helped Officers Lambert and Pilace arrest Milford Cox 26 of El Cajon after a night chase around 19th Street and Atlantic Avenue. Cox fled from Hitchcock's Market after attempting to pass counterfeit checks and admitted forging names for a May burglary at Lester Box Manufacturing Co. to cover hospital bills for his wife.
A meteor expert stated a fireball seen over Seattle on May 11 was 50 miles high. J Hugh Pruett of the American Meteor Society collected reports from about 60 witnesses across Oregon California border to Western Montana, tracing the spectacular Northwest event.
A baby boy cried twice before birth at White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. Doctors Olson and Currier and two nurses reported the birth yesterday. The baby, born to 26 year old Mia Mary Low Skrimpson, joins 22,000 deliveries noted over 16 years. mother and baby are reported well.
The wreckage of a B-29 missing since Friday was sighted in the Japan Sea midway between Honshu and Korea. Search planes reported no signs of survivors. The bomber had departed Qatara Japan, about 450 miles across the Sea of Japan from Vladivostok, on a surveillance mission.
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