Four Men Missing On Flight North
Four men including auto race drivers Mack N. Heliings and Bob Barker left Pomona by private plane Sunday bound for Bay Meadows near San Mateo. The sheriff's office sought a search for them after the craft did not reach San Mateo. The group also included North Hollywood sports photographer Lee Harvey and pilot Bob Harris of Arcadia.
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Los Angeles
Pomona
Mack N. Heliings
Bob Barker
Furbank
Lee Harvey
North Hollywood
Bob Harris
Arcadia
Bay Meadows
San Mateo
Harris
Trains Collision Kills 20 Near Evanston Wyoming
Twenty people are confirmed dead and several more missing after a rear end crash between the City of Los Angeles and City of San Francisco trains west of Evanston Wyoming. Union Pacific officials and Evanston authorities report 49 wounded, eight seriously, with bodies recovered and others trapped in wreckage. Surviving passengers and medical crews aided the injured as crews worked through the night to clear tracks.
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Evanston
Arthur G. Bloom
Union Pacific
Omaha
Bloom
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Uinta’ County Memorial Hospital
Anthony 5
Ippolito
Chicago
Lee Douglas Campbell
New Richmond
Wis
R. V. Backman
Pittsfield
Mass
J. Thompson
Backman
Thompson
Eletrician
Green River
Wyo
Public Ignorance and Freedom in a Dictatorship
A brief discussion argues that a nation's freedom relies on informed citizens. It warns that dictatorship thrives where people are kept ignorant through control of information and apathy or illiteracy, noting the consequences for democratic rule.
Two Hurt in Atlantic and Anaheim Street Collision
A traffic crash injuries two people last night at Atlantic and Anaheim. Emma L Aanenson, 49, fractured pelvis and possible rib fractures, and Essie Adams, 20, cut leg. Gustave Aanenson, 54, was the other driver. Jerry Reed, 25, of the Veterans Administration Hospital, cited for running a red light.
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Atlantic
Anaheim St
Emma L. Aanenson
San Antonio Dr
Essie Adams
21St St
Jerry Reed
Veterans Administration Hospital
Gustave Aanenson
Two Planes Collide Near Los Alamitos. Both Pilots Die
A Navy F-6F Hellcat and a light civilian sportplane collided three miles east of Los Alamitos at 3 30 pm yesterday. Navy Lt. William Spangler 29 of Bellflower and Donald Mitchelson 29 of Compton died. Spangler crashed west of Stanton his plane exploding after contact with the sportplane Mitchelson crash landed in an alley a mile away and died at St Josephs Hospital. Spangler was practicing landings to qualify for transfer to an organized reserve group and was talking to the Los Alamitos control tower at the moment of impact.
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Navy
Los Alamitos
William Spangler
Premier St
Bellflower
Donald Fred Mitchelson
N. Castlegate
Compton
Stanton
Mitchelson
St. Joseph's
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Spangler
Tal
Orange
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