Gunman trapped in garage attic after wild 80 mph chase
A 20 year old ex convict Thomas Elwyn Potter hid in a garage attic for about three hours as 10 police cars searched a Bixby Knolls block. He surrendered after being spotted and admitted two hold ups at Bellflower and Atlantic avenues. Police recovered a rifle and ammunition from his car.
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Bixby Knolls
37Th St. Bixby Rd
Lime and
Olive Aves
Clarence
Bud) Johnson
Lime Ave
Johnson
Anna
Polles
William T. Sweet
Howard F. Baxter
David B. Gaddas
Potter
Johnson Home
Colorado
Spring St
Bellflower Blvd
Atlantic Ave
Market St
George A. Hananis
Gene Tautlest
San Antonio
Burlinghall St
Linden Ave
Bixby Rd
Elm Ave
Hanania
Tautfest
Lakewood
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Weather forecast: mostly clear through Friday
The outlook calls for predominantly clear skies into Friday with only early morning fog or low clouds. Temperatures remain steady with little fluctuation across the period.
Cole Recalls Conflict Over Making Hydrogen Bomb
Rep. W Sterling Cole denies sinister motives in months long debate before pressing full scale work on the hydrogen bomb. He notes the decision followed Russia’s 1949 atomic test and stresses no proven delay implies weakness. French and British leaders weighed United Action aids as Indochina tension rises.
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Cole
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Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
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Gress
Dulles
Indochina
Southeast Asia
London
Paria
United Will
United Action
Ian
Henri Sboman
France
United States
Dien Bien Phu
Escaped Babysitter Slayer Recaptured
A dangerous fugitive known as the escaped babysitter slayer was recaptured after a police chase. Authorities say the suspect, formerly at large since last week, was apprehended without further incident and is in custody pending charges.
Knight Seeks Broad Backing in Long Beach Campaign
Gov. Goodwin J. Knight opened a full day of campaigning in Long Beach with a tide land ownership stance. He cited cross party support, urged unity among faiths, and framed the issue as federal overreach while avoiding named opponents. Knight planned a church stop that night.
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Wilton Hotel
Marine Room
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First Park Church
Richard Graves
Truman
California
Niagara Falls
Mussel Shoals
Planes Collide Over Moose Jaw Killing Forty
A giant airliner and a single-engine trainer collided over Moose Jaw and crashed, killing about 40 people aboard the North Star flight from Montreal to Vancouver, with no survivors among the Harvard crew. Windy, partly cloudy conditions preceded the tragedy as debris damaged homes and a golf course, while searchers looked for a missing cleaning woman.
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Imands
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Jiji Tenight
Beliner
North Star
Trans-Canada
Winnipeg
Montreal
Vancouver
Royal ‘Canadian Air Force
North Atlantic Treaty’ Organization
Stevenson cancels Indiana engagements for medical treatment
Former Gov Adlai E Stevenson cancels weekend speaking engagements in Indiana on medical advice. His office says he is entering Passayant Hospital today for further treatment of a kidney ailment.
Cash Lost in Willowbrook Farmhouse Fire
A farmhouse at 15905 San Pedro St in Willowbrook burned at 1 45 am. Thomas Johnston said he could not save $9000 in cash from the sale of farm equipment and livestock kept in a cardboard box. Fire officials attributed the blaze to defective wiring. Loss on the house was about $3000. The property owner is L H Reicher of Los Angeles. Fire crews prevented the fire from reaching a barn with goats and chickens.
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San Pedro St
Willowbrook County Fire Department
Thomas Johnston
William Wyant
Johnston
L. H. Reicher
Los Angeles
Beach Combing and Page References
A compact listing directs readers to where to find features on Beach Combing on page A, Boyle on page A-28, Bridge on page A-23, Classifieds from pages C-6 to C-11, Comics on page C-4, and the Crossword on page C-4.
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Solons Vote Court UK on Wiretap
The House passed a measure empowering the attorney general to tap wires with court approval to use evidence in espionage cases, erasing a 20 year ban. Vote 221 to 166 with 188 Democrats and 32 Republicans plus one Independent in favor. all opposing 166 were Republicans.
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Mean Thief Strikes Cars Of Legless Vet In Oceanside
Police hunt a suspected car thief after a vehicle was stolen from a legless veteran in Oceanside. The exact model and details were unclear due to the damaged OCR text but the incident involved a motor vehicle taken from the veteran’s vicinity.
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Oceanside
Young killer Debra Campbell captured after Lakewood case
Debra Mae Campbell, 18, who escaped Camarillo State Mental Hospital where she had been confined since strangling a six year old Lakewood girl, walked to a rendezvous with her aunt and uncle at Firestone Boulevard and Alameda Street but was stopped by deputies. She confessed to fleeing and said she had traveled from Camarillo to Bakersfield. The 1951 slaying of Donna Joyce Isbell occurred while Campbell was babysitting. She had been committed in April 1952 and was involved in a long fugitive period before arrest at the rendezvous.
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Camarillo State Mental Hospital
Lakewood
Gene Regan
Firestone Blvd
Alameda St
Los Angeles
Miss Campbell
Regan
E. C. Burling
Woodrow Garuth
Camarillo
Bakersfield
Hollywood
Roy Isbell
Nipomo Ave
Donna
Sidney Willner
Nipomore
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