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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1953
Page
4
Bank holdup ends with a robber killing himself after two masked men burst in and hostage tellers. Carmen Smith and Miss Summers recount hiding, police fire, and a satchel of money estimated at 150000 dollars. Bank executives and president Dillon Ross coordinated with authorities during the incident.
A cigarette caused a fire that damaged the Richard Johnson home at 1562 St Anne's Cypress around 10 30 p m Thursday. Cypress volunteer firemen saved part of the structure and some furnishings while neighbors helped move gear.
Allied leaders pressed for a larger sick and wounded prisoner exchange within Geneva norms. San Antonio’s Hert Dela Garza, a Seventh Infantry Division prisoner, had been in captivity over a month, with estimates of hundreds more ill servicemen. The program could broaden repatriations, allowing future captives to be returned if wounded. The latest returnees include Airman 2C Robert L. Weinbrandt, shot down near Pyongyang, and a second American officer. The plan envisions ongoing exchanges for captured veterans under a unified process.
NATO ministers pushed early ratification of the European Army pact as ministers meeting in Paris urged speed. Adenauer argued for legally binding treaties while withholding two sections requiring upper house approval. A NATO budget of 890 million was approved for airfields and infrastructure through 1956.
Funeral services for Frank Myers 61 Baldwin Park will be held at 2 p m Saturday at Mattes Mortuary chapel. A Long Beach native and World War I veteran he moved to Baldwin Park in 1952 and was employed by Day and Night Affiliated Gas Co. of Monrovia. He leaves his wife two brothers and two sisters. his daughter Mrs Richard Dale Livengood of Long Beach survives.
A Superior Court jury found James Wyatt Fox of San Pedro guilty on charges of mistreating a 5-year-old girl at his home on February 24. Fox, 53, was examined by two psychiatrists appointed by Judge Joseph M. Maltby. A probation hearing and sentence were set for May 28.
James Edward Pearson, 23, of 175 Costa Mesa Street, Costa Mesa, died when his car sped off Coast Highway near Crystal Cove at 345 this morning. The vehicle jumped a curb, rolled along the top, and fell 174 feet into a canyon, striking a tree and a house. Pearson, alone, was killed instantly. he apparently fell asleep at the wheel. His body was taken to Gravel Mortuary in Costa Mesa.
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