Boy Playing Traffic Cop Killed In Street Crash
A ten year old boy named Peter H. Allen was struck by a Studebaker Rid near Kilden Street while directing traffic after 2 pm. He was rushed to Community Hospital and pronounced dead at 2:35 pm. Driver Robert Lechner Whitney, 24, said he could not see the boy until it was too late and that he was traveling about 40 mph. Witnesses had seen the child and another child acting as policemen moments before. The boy’s mother, Mrs Vernis L. Allen, reported the incident to officers.
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Fred Bolinger
Peter H. Allen
Coralite St
Studebaker
Kilden St
Vernis L. Allen
Two Boys Injured Totals After Car Incidents Here
Two young boys were hit by cars in Long Beach incidents. Russell Bishop, 5, suffered a severe skull fracture and was taken to St Mary's Hospital after being knocked about 40 feet on Pine Avenue. Richard Edward Myers, 8, sustained a broken collarbone and possible skull fracture on Jacinto Way near Hathaway Avenue. driver Adolph Gustav Jakobi, 51, said he did not see the boy in time. The toll for the year reaches ten pedestrian deaths in Long Beach.
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Russell Bishop
Pine Ave
11Th St
Edith Brown
Russell
Margaret Loise Barum
250Th St
Lomita
St. Mary's Hospital
Richard Edward Myers
Martin St
Jacinto Way
Hathaway Ave
Adolph
Gustav Jakobi
Whitney
Long Beach State College
Studebaker Rd
Long Beach
Petterson-Snively
Builders Chief Sees Sport and Recession End
Washington AP reports national home builders chief sees housing as a bellwether to end the recession. FHA requests four billion more insurance authority. Cole cites rising applications and aims to raise FHA yearly and four-year authorities. Congress to act quickly as armed forces pay scales rise notably across ranks.
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Nels G. Severin
Eisenhower
Albert M. Cole
FHA
Senate
Cole
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Sen
Washington
Homer Canchart
R-Ind
Congress
House
Ates
Gether
Road Mishap Kills Youth in Wilmington
A sixteen year old youth died Monday night when ejected from his car and crushed between it and another vehicle. Ed Wals, 36, of Los Angeles, faced felony drunk driving and manslaughter charges after his car struck the youth's vehicle at a Broad Avenue boulevard intersection. The youth died at Wilmington Receiving Hospital at 8 15 p.m. Officers reported Hilden, named driver of the youth’s car, was pronounced dead.
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Wilmington
Russell D. Hilden
la’ Oon Ave
Wilmington Receiving Hospital
Hilden
Ed Wals
Tod Angeles
Wals
Broad Ave
Opp St
Five drug firms indicted for polio vaccine antitrust plot
A federal grand jury charged Eli Lilly Allied Laboratories American Home Products Merck Parke Davis with conspiring to fix prices and remove competition in polio vaccine sales to federal state and rural governments. The firms deny the charges.
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Trenton
N. J
Eli Lily & Co
Indianapolis
Ind
Allied Laboratories, Inc
Kansas City
American Home Products Corp
New York City
Merck & Co
Rahway, NJ
Parke, Davis & Co
Detroit
Housing law spurs gains and GI loan extension impact
Severin cites a 1.85 billion spring housing law as unlocking funds for mortgages and easing insured mortgage payments. It extends the GI home loan program two more years and could lift new housing starts by 100000 to over a million this year, up from 991000 last year.
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Severin
Home Builders
Hopes High for Accord at Douglas
United Auto Workers and Douglas Aircraft Co progress in late negotiations in Los Angeles. Following agreements with Lockheed Convair and pending votes at North American Aviation workers next Sunday. UAW Local 198 spokesman said agents aimed to bargain all night to present a proposal for a Sunday vote. Next talks with Federal Mediator Harry Malcolm set for Wednesday.
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United Auto Workers
Douglas Aircraft Co
Los Angeles
California
Lockheed
Convair
North American Aviation
UAW
Long Beach Douglas
Douglas
Harry Malcolm
Independent SA SA's Goat Mink Net Chinghilla
The pur chaser Refael Trujillo Jr claims mink as the goat in a peculiar exchange noted on page A-5. The Board of Education reviews a tentative budget of 2,000,000 dollars on page Ba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SA SA
Chinghilla
Refael Trujillo, Jr
Boar of Education
Days Old Baby Abandoned in Church Pew
A three to four day old blue eyed baby boy was found abandoned in a church pew at Nativity Catholic Church in Torrance. H B Schooler of Manhattan Beach reported hearing crying, and the infant was taken to Torrance Memorial Hospital then Los Angeles General Hospital for care while authorities locate the mother or seek Juvenile Court direction.
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Ol & Torrance
H. B. Schooler
Manhattan Beach
Nativity, Catholic Church
Engracia Ave
Schooler
Torrance Memorial Hospital
D. C. Cook
Torrance
Nixon to proceed with Caracas visit despite assassination report
Vice President Richard Nixon planned to continue his Caracas visit as scheduled despite reports of an assassination attempt. William Key said Nixon appeared unconcerned and would not change his itinerary, while he typically rode in an open car from the airport.
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Bogota
Colombia
Richard Nixon
Caracas
Venezuela
William Key
Nixon
Reimann
Key
Life in cellars and a strange boss in a vanished piece
A disjointed fragment shows WM murmuring to staff in a chartroom while others laugh. The scene shifts to a distant, yodeling sound described as unfamiliar and hinting at a Dodger fan in a worn workplace setting.
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