Ridgway Answers Red Apology in Kaesong Talks
Gen Ridgway prepared a reply to the Communist apology for armed troops at Kaesong as U N negotiators led by Vice Admiral Joy flew to Tokyo for resumed talks. The Red apology followed a clash near the U N staff house as 150 Chinese soldiers approached Kaesong.
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Jim Becker
Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
Kaesons
C. Turner Joy
Fiveman United Nations
Ridgway
Kaesong
Admiral Joy
Adm
U. N
Tokyya
Korea
Red
Kiessong
Peipig
Army Coach Welcomes Probe Into Cadet Dismissals
West Point Aug 6 AP Earl Red Blaik head coach at the U S Military Academy said he would welcome a Congressional investigation to reveal the true character of the boys and the relation of football to life at the academy amid reports two dozen cadets face expulsion. He planned a New York press conference Thursday to outline his plans as a special screening board reviews each cadet case.
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West Point
Eayl
Blaik
U. S. Military Academy
Ophis
Bisik
Army
New York
Harold Loehlein
Congress
Academy
Special Screening Board
Bus Hits Gas Truck Near Bakersfield Injures 14
A Greyhound bus bound for Los Angeles rear ended a butane truck on Highway 99 near Wheeler Ridge twenty miles south of Bakersfield. Fourteen passengers and the bus driver were injured. Verlin Reiner of Fresno suffered compound leg fractures. The truck did not catch fire and traffic was delayed while ambulances treated injured occupants. Among the injured were William J. Howe of San Pedro and Frank Sanchez Sr. and Jr. of Torrance.
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Bakersfield
Greyhound
Wheeler Ridge
Here
Verlin Reiner
Fresno
William J. Howe
San Pedro
Frank Sanchez Sr
Minnie Sanchez
Frank Jr
Torrance
Senate OKs Floridan as Aid to Sec. Kimball
The Senate confirmed Francis P. Whitehair of Florida as Undersecretary of the Navy, succeeding Dan A. Kimball. Kimball had been elevated to Secretary to replace Francis P. Matthews, the new Ambassador to Ireland.
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Senate
Flaming Torch Murder Suspect Faces Charge in Tulare
In Tulare a 33 year old woman Hope Martinez dies from burns after her estranged husband W Martinez 37 is accused of pouring gasoline on her and setting her ablaze. District Attorney Robert Meyers says Martinez will be charged with murder after a knife lurched assault and prior threats. Police report witnesses intervened and held the suspect until authorities arrived.
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Tulare
Tulare District Hospital
Hope Martinez
Visalia
Robert K. Meyers
Hus
W. Martinez
Tulare Eorpiel
Meyers
Martinez
Virgil Kelly
Keily
56 Billion Arms Budget Wins Approval
The House appropriations committee approved a record 56 062 405 890 peacetime military budget, omitting 4 500 000 000 for public works and funding for Korea. The bill funds Defense for the year ending next June 30, with over half for hardware including tanks planes guns and rockets for a 3 000 000 manpower force, amid critique of wasteful practices by Rep Mahon.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Korea
Defense Department
House
Rep. Mahon
Texas
Mahon
Strik
Beach City Mayor Beaten by Thugs
Beach City Mayor W. Wayne Brown of Manhattan Beach was beaten and robbed on a Tor rance road. He regained consciousness at Harbor General Hospital and officials described his condition as good. Brown stopped to help two men, was found with a deep head wound, wallet missing, council badge nearby, and an attempted car theft evidenced by a jammed ignition key. He had attended a Redondo Beach American Legion parade as an honored guest.
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Manhattan Beach
Harbor, General Hospital
Torrance
Brown
Sepulveda Blvd
Hawthorne Blvd
Gerald
Newspaper Page Index Spiral of Sections and Pages
A listing describes where to find various newspaper sections and features by page. It outlines Beach Combing on B-1, Boyle on A-9, Bridge on A-9, Classified ads B-8 to Ti, Comics A-10, Enforint A-5, Financial 6 and 7, Obituaries 5-8, Radio and television A-10, Shipping Table 5-7, Sports A-11 to A-13, Theaters B-5, Tides and temperatures B-7, Women’s activities B-2 and B-3.
Ham radio saves life after highway crash near Castaic
An unidentified ham radio operator in a mountain shack spotted a rollover on the Ridge Route near Castaic. He alerted Torrance contact Arthur Enockson, who notified Newhall police and highway patrol. Hollis Nelson, 35, was pulled from the wreck with serious internal injuries after brakes failed.
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Newhall
Sacramento
Castaic
Torrance
Arthur Enockson
Enockson
Hollis Nelson
Nelson
Mercury hits 93 degrees setting Long Beach record
The temperature rose to 93 degrees at 1 p m delivering a new Long Beach daily high for Aug 6. The reading surpassed the 88 degree mark from 1936 while the all time August high remains 99 set on Aug 31, 1947. Lifeguards logged 13 rescues as beaches flooded with bathers and police noted minor accidents.
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Long Beach
Truman vetoes pension boost for some disabled veterans
Washington August 6 President Truman vetoed a bill to raise pensions for thousands of veterans disabled for non service connected reasons. The measure would have increased monthly pensions from 360 to 72 or 120 dollars, but Truman said the aid targeted only non service connected cases and did not affect service-connected disability compensation.
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Washington
Truman
House
State Drunk driving Arrests Increase
SACRAMENTO Aug 6 The California Highway Patrol arrested 3815 persons for drunk driving in the first six months of the year, an increase of 744 arrests or 24.19 percent over the 3075 cited in the same period of 1950. Commissioner Clifford Peterson said that last year drinking drivers were involved in 516 fatal accidents and 12,195 other mishaps in which persons were injured.
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Sacramento
California Highway Patrol Ar
Clifford
Peterson
Retired Navy Man Dies After 8th Floor Courtroom Fall
Elsmore S. Cromb a 50 year old Arcadia resident, facing intoxication charges, leapt from an open courtroom window on the eighth floor of the Jergins Trust Building. He died at Seaside Hospital. He had been told his mother was ill in San Francisco and had been released to leave town on a prior probation. He was rearrested Saturday for intoxication and appeared again in court today.
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Arcadia
Jergins Trust
Elsmore S
Eddie) Cromb
Harry ¥. Keeler
Cremb
Seaside Hospital
Polite
San Francisco
Crem
Martin DeVries
DeVries
Cromb
Norwalk Guitar Instructor Arrested for Molesting Two Girls
Ralph Otis Tait, a 2 year old Norwalk guitar teacher living at 11902 Hopland Ave, confessed to molesting two pupils aged 9 and 7. Investigators say offenses occurred at his studio on 11829 Alondra Blvd and at the girls' homes over eight months. He was jailed and ar raigned in Downey Justice Court on two counts of child molesting.
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Norwalk
Ralph Otis Tait
Hopland Ave
Tait
Alondra Blvd
Dowiney Justice Court
Miracle Age Kidney Flown to Save Patient
A mechanical kidney from Allis-Chalmers arrived by air from Chicago to treat Mrs. Bertha Bigrew, 60, near death from uremic poisoning at Garfield Hospital Monterey Park. Disassembled in Chicago, the device was reassembled in Los Angeles and rushed to the hospital. Brownell Bigrew, her husband, is a sales engineer for Allis-Chalmers.
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Monterey Park
Chicago
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Milwaukee
Pistos
Los Angeles International
Garfield Hospital
Bertha BicGrew
Brownell
Allis-Chalmers
Daredevil dies going over Niagara Falls in home made barrel
William Red Hill, 33, perished as his rubber barrel failed at Niagara Falls in front of about 200000 spectators. His brother Major Lloyd Hill plans to attempt the feat next Sunday in a steel barrel, after police previously halted him last year.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
William
Red) Hill
Lloyd Hill
Red
Niagara River
Hill
Wee
Maid of the Mistill
T Hill
Stsho
Esa Daring
Iverman
Navy Plane Crashes Over Puget Sound With Nine Lost
Navy district reports a patrol bomber went down near Smith Island north of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Nine sailors were aboard and are presumed dead after witnesses from a nearby plane observed the crash. A second incident in Escondido notes a Navy helicopter crash killing two aboard, tied to Helicopter Utility Squadron 1 at Miramar near San Diego.
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Seattle
Navy District
Puget Sound
Smith Island
Escondido
San Diego
Weather Update Forecast With Fog Patches Tomorrow
Mostly clear conditions with fog patches early tomorrow. Temperature change noted. Tonight and early tomorrow light variable winds, shifting to westerly at 10 to 18 mph in the afternoon tomorrow.
Teenager Kills Father Over Curfew in Dallas
In Dallas a 17 year old in a fashionable home killed his father Wallace E. Hawkins 56 vice president and general counsel of Magnolia Petroleum Co. The youth admitted the shooting saying his father nagged him for staying out late. He cannot be charged with murder and will face Juvenile Court proceedings.
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Dallas
Wallace E. Hawkins
Magnolia Petroleum Co
WI Fritz
Igvearold
John Michael Hawkins
Texas
Fritz
Jack Palmer
Brownsville
E. C. Andrews
Glendale
Calif
Charles
Arizona
Air Force
Jesuit High School
Young Hawking
Capt
Stevedores End Boycott to Work on Yugoslav Ship
Union members reversing a boycott, due to wariness over a Yugoslav freighter Crna Gora, agreed to load no cargo here. Army officials explained the ship bears Tito imagery and is not Russia allied, with cargo deemed classified when loaded at a different port.
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New York
Dack
Joe Stalin
AFL International Longshoremen’s Union
Crna Gora
Stalin
Russia
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
U. S
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