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Newspaper

Long Beach Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Apr 16, 1955

Page

9

Woman Mail Clerk Fights Off Desert Center Holdups

Eleanor Smith, a Kaiser employee and mail clerk, escaped a two bandit ambush on a desert road near Desert Center. The gunmen halted her car and pursued after she accelerated away, fleeing toward Eagle Mountain where a Kaiser mine is located. Roadblocks were set, but license plates were not readable.

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Fourth President Across 3 Emporium Y Fourth U S

Puzzle like list of clues mentions Madison River, Payne, Belgium, and a wife linked to White House affairs. Reads as a word game with references to presidents, geography, and obscure terms, lacking a coherent news narrative.

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Answer to Previous Puzzle

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Weather Mild Across Nation With Rain In North

Cloudy skies and scattered rain plagued northern areas while mild spring weather prevailed across most of the nation. Temperatures rose into the 60s and 40s in the east, with warm spells in the central plains and lower Mississippi Valley.

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Court Master Scans Water Suit Evidence

The US Supreme Court special master in the Arizona-California water suit began reviewing four days of evidence in Phoenix. George S. Knight will report on admitting Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico as parties. A decision is anticipated in the fall. California seeks to make the four upper basin states parties. Nevada supports, while Arizona and the others oppose.

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Clouds Move East as Nevada Atomic Cloud Heads Sea

Weather Bureau reports high level remnants of Friday's Nevada atomic test over the lower Great Lakes, moving toward the mid Atlantic coast and out to sea by nightfall. Movement at lower levels slower with no forecast. authorities deem the cloud harmless and routine aviation precautions remain in effect.

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Nab Suspect in Murder for Little Girl

EL PASO police arrested a Detroit man James J. Dairy forty at the YMCA in El Paso on March 24 in connection with the murder of seven year old Barbara Gata of Detroit. He was later detained near San Jacinto plaza while talking to a girl about nineteen and released after vagrancy checks. Detroit police requested he be picked up and he was taken to jail at the MCA. He admitted past sex offense arrests and carried a bus ticket to Durango Mexico with a visa claiming he planned to see a girl there. He said he had been a factory worker in Detroit for 15 years and is being questioned.

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Explosion Rocks Portland Store with Mystery Cause

Portland police withhold details as a mysterious blast damages the Meier and Frank department store on the third floor restroom. A dozen shoppers were present, two injured lightly. Authorities say the residue hints at a homemade black powder. Store manager Aaron Frank declined comment.

Portland Ore Meier & Fran James Purcell Jr Walter Stickney Aaron Frank

Airliner Lands Safely After Flat Nose Wheel Tire

A Pan American World Airways plane traveling from Puerto Rico landed safely at Idlewild Airport Friday night with a flat nose wheel tire. The crew brought the aircraft to a stop without injuries reported among the 74 aboard.

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Japan Fleet Takes Record 1092 Whales

Kobe Japan UPI One of Japan's three whaling fleets returned from the Antarctic claiming a postwar record of 1092 whales. The mothership Tonan Maru carried 6346 tons of meat and 8660 tons of oil. Eighteen fleets from six countries hunted whales south of the Antarctic Circle this season.

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State Taxpayers Rush to File Before Friday Deadline

In California as many as 400000 taxpayers waited to file state income returns, creating long lines at all 13 state tax offices. Officials cite 200000 more new taxpayers and federal filing extension to April 15 as factors. Anticipated state take reaches 100 to 110 million from about three million filers.

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