Probers Eye Mickeys Loans and Cohen Hearing Looms
Los Angeles hearings shift from closed session as Kefauver eyes public testimony from Mickey Cohen and possible witnesses. Cohen’s tax accountant testified he borrowed about 210000 over three years to cover bills while prosecutors probe Dragna ties and Chicago links involving Los Angeles crime figures.
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Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Los Angeles Federal Building
Esies Kefauver
D-Tenn
Cohen
Eugene W. Bisepilus
Wiliam H. Parker
Arthur G. Jewell
Harry Sackman
Atty William FE. Simpson
Kefauver
Jack Dragna
Chicago
Dragna
California Crime Commission
al Capone
Express Derailed As it Collides With River Barge
Keokuk Iowa November 14 The Burlington Railroad Mark Twain Zephyr collided with a river barge in high wind near the river locks. The engine and car derailed tearing up 150 feet of track but no injuries were reported. A tugboat moved the barge away and through the locks. the barge appeared undamaged.
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Keokuk
Burlington Railroad
Mark Twain
Burlington
Mild Quake Shakes Los Angeles Metro Area
A third mild earthquake in a week rattled the Los Angeles metropolitan area, strongest of 11 quakes, with no damage reported. The tremor centered in the western and southwestern metro district, felt across Hollywood Beverly Hills Santa Monica Culver City Palms districts and in the San Fernando Valley Inglewood South Gate Watts and Eagle Rock, but not in Long Beach or Ventura County.
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Los Angeles
Thyp m
Hollywood
Beverly Hills
Santa Monics
Culver City Palms
San Fernando Valley
Inglewoed
South Gate
Watts
Eagle Rock
Long Beach
Ventura County
Six Killed in Arizona Crash
Six people died when a station wagon from the Arizona State Hospital collided head on with a passenger car near Fort Sumner New Mexico. Five died at once and a sixth died en route to Clovis hospital. Two men in the hospital vehicle were handcuffed. one was killed. Three others were critically injured. A witness said the station wagon attempted to pass a truck and struck the Adkinson auto.
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Fort Sumner
N. M
Arizona State Hospital
Phoenix
Clovis
Adkinson Auto
Distress Flare Spotted Over Lake in Empire Waters
A Michigan conservation patrol reported a red distress flare seen in stormy wake off Empire near Traverse City. Patrol chief Frank Banks told state police the flare shot high into the air around midnight. Search efforts were delayed until daylight.
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Traverse City
Mich
Michigan
Empire
Fiker Frank Banks
United States Easel in UN Veto Power Loss
The United Nations stripped veto power from the 11 nation Security Council, forcing key decisions to go to the General Assembly. The shift, led by the United States, raises questions about future policy and the role of multilateral action as issues reach a two thirds vote in the 60 member body.
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United States
United Nations
Security Council
Russia
General Assembly
Bombers Crash in Tucson Kills Two. 11 Missing
A mid-air collision between a B 50 and a B 29 near Simakya Arizona led to two dead and 11 missing. Survivors include six from the B 50 and four from the B 29 with two paratroopers injured. Names of next of kin exposed. missing officers listed with hometowns across the United States.
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Tucson
Ariz
INS
Simakya
Inajan
Air Force
Castuakin
Car overturns injure man at Pacific and Seventh
Electric car carrying John D. Ireland, 75, of 952 Cedar Ave, overturned at the Pacific Ave Seventh St intersection last night, causing minor injuries as police reported.
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John D. Ireland
Cedar Ave
Pacific Ave
Seventh St
Seventh Division advances near Manchuria in bitter cold
TOKYO Nov 17 The United States Seventh Division pushed along rugged mountain trails toward the Yalu River as UN forces gained two to ten miles along the 230 mile North Korean front. The Seventh and First Marine Divisions enveloped Chosin and Fusen reservoirs while carrier planes struck the Yalu railway bridge at Sinuiju. Communist defenses reportedly hardened north of Pakehon and Yonghyon with road blocks north of Taechon.
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Tokyo
U.P
United States
Manchuria
10Th Corps
United Nations
Canton
Korea
Yellow Sea
Sea of Japan
U. S
Belonge
Yalu River
Seventh
Chosin
Fusen
Sinuiju
Truman urges China to stop Korean War intervention
President Truman urged Communist China to cease its interference in Korea and guaranteed that U.N. forces will not advance into Chinese territory. He accused Red China of attacking U.S. and U.N. troops from a privileged sanctuary across the Manchurian border and stated there was no U.S. plan to carry hostilities into China.
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Washington
INS
Truman
China
United Nations
Red China
U.S
U.N
MacArthur
United States
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Pat Hopkins
Municipal Auditorium
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Wilton Hotel
L.A
Arizona
U. N
Billy S. Christian
Little Rock
Ark
George’ DeLong
Portland
Franklin
D. Spicer
Cumberland
Melvin DeVinney
Missouri Valley
Jobin Kudlak
Cambridge
Mass
Warren’ Fohl
Euclid
Harold V. Shulze
Norton
Kan
Fred P. Gomez
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