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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1958
Page
11
In Frankfurt and across the country municipal workers staged a two cent per hour strike that slowed public transit, left utilities short staffed, and dented department store sales as more than 200,000 workers stayed home. Ruhr steel workers vote looms for two hundred thousand.
A Justice Department special agent began a probe into the four month old murder of Cecil Thomas a federal informer who had accused six Los Angeles narcotics officers of taking payoffs and selling dope Thomas was killed Oct 28 the night before he was to testify in a federal narcotics case John J Schauer Jr leads the inquiry focusing on obstruction of justice by an organized narcotics underworld Theodore Collins was later sentenced to life for the killing Police Chief Parker said an internal affairs inquiry found no current disciplinary evidence and DA Bowler said a grand jury review would need days of study to decide on any charges against the officers
The Hague Netherlands reports Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands has been ordered to rest in bed for a few days due to a slight illness. The announcement was made here on Wednesday.
The moving mass of Elysian Park Buena Vista Peak again threatened the Pasadena Freeway. The inbound on ramp from Riverside Drive was closed as engineers noted the mountain shifting about one inch per hour and pushing a fence into the lane. A slide last month closed inbound lanes for days. crews stand by with equipment though no immediate danger was cited.
Los Angeles officials prepare to award a 4.516 million dollar building contract for Expo Park Sports Arena to Dixon Co of San Gabriel after a 4.516 million bid with alternates. The decision hinges on final paperwork and a Friday vote by the Coliseum Commissioners at 2 30 p m.
A 19 year old Army reservist, Michael Dean Balles of Los Angeles, lies extremely critical at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after swallowing carbon tetrachloride from a bottle labeled blackberry brandy in a cruel prank. Lt Robert Goodyear of the Inglewood Police says Balles collapsed after an Army Reserve meeting. Fellow reservist Robert Harold Alexander of Lennox admitted luring Balles with the bottle as a prank.
A middle aged woman with gold rimmed glasses and a bright bandana robbed the Bank of America at 8645 Los Angeles Street of 1170 dollars on Wednesday. Described as 45 to 50, about 5 feet 5, 125 pounds, she fled on foot with the money in a brown purse after presenting a small black gun. The bank had 30 to 40 people inside during the hold up. teller Setsuko Masui identified the robbers. No one was injured.
GREENSBURY 4 0 W John Gunther author of Inside U S A and Inside Africa has an admirer in senior high student Jerry Sawers of Greersboro Sawers built a science fair project titled Inside John Gunther The display shows the human respiratory system with a cutaway to reveal its organs
New York police raided the home of Cerferina Carmona a 54 year old grandmother and charged her with concealing 10000 dollars worth of narcotics under a crib mattress of one of her four grandchildren. Her daughters are in reformatories and prisons while two sons await narcotics sentencing.
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