Warmest Day of Year Sets Record Peak at 94
Long Beach lakefront sweltered as a new high of 94 tied the all time August record. Beach crowds neared 250000 while a drowning occurred in a boating accident and three rescues followed amid routine coast guard operations. Desert winds and offshore breezes failed to relieve the heat as brush fires flared nearby in San Bernardino and Anza counties.
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XI Deerers
Jis Guard
Routin Coast Guard
Long Beach Municipal
UC. S. Weather| Bureau
Col
Southland
Santa Ata
San Tedro
Torrance
Los Angeles
Thermal
Waterman Canyon
San Bernardino Mountains
Central
Liobre Mountain
Anecries National Forest
Escanflido
Cartral
Hurricane Carol Aims Toward North Carolina Coast
Hurricane Carol of the season moves north northeast at 5 to 7 mph toward the North Carolina coast. The 11 am advisory places the storm about 100 miles south southeast of Cape Fear river port with 100 mph winds and 100 mile east wind extent. Officials warn dangerous winds and high tides along the coast and have issued hurricane warnings up to Wilmington and Manteo.
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Wilmington
Carol
North Carolina
Weather Bureau
Cape Fear River
Center
Cape Hatteras
Wilmington Tol
Manteo
N. C
Japs Argue Over Gas Bombs Removal Costs
Tokyo ministries clash on disposing of 4000 poison gas bombs dumped at Beppu Bay after World War II. Kyodo News Agency reports welfare and defense ministries refuse to fund the removal, delaying cleanup and posing ongoing risk.
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Tokyofi
Beppu
Japan
U. S
Kyodo
Welfare Ministry
Defense Department
Temper Boils Pasadena Police Case Overheated Motorist
A Pasadena police officer arrested or questioned a motorist after the driver, furious at a stalled car, bashed windows with a baseball bat in hot 58 degree heat. The motorist explained he overheated, then drove off with windows broken and officers cooling off the scene.
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Pasadena
Lyle Faden
French Assembly Votes to Delay Ratification of EDC
The French National Assembly delayed debate on ratifying the European Defense Community treaty. A procedural motion to delay indefinitely passed, with estimates of at least 300 votes against and no more than 270 in favor. Prime Minister Mendes-France faced possible resignations from ministers who backed the EDC as the chamber split on negotiating with West Germany and other EEC powers.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Pierre Mendes-France
Men
EDC
France
West Germany
Italy
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
HDG
Prensiers
Fdouare Herriot
Assembly
Boat Found but Fisher Disappears Near Catalina Island
Coast Guard crews searched by air and sea for Harold L. Cornette after his 25 foot boat Jeanne was found adrift and entangled with a barge near Catalina Island. Cornette, 32, left for a mackerel trip from Long Beach.
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Coast Guard
Catalina Island
Harold L. Cornette
Hawthornne
Jeanne
David Y. Fleming
Long Beach
Cornelle
Electric Farms, Inc
Los Angeles
Legal Eagle Bucks It With Deer
Long Beach judge Judge Martin De vries on a northbound drive near Alturas swerved to avoid a four pronged deer. The buck leaped into his path and was hurled 20 feet in the impact. Insurance agent Charlie Whitchurch joked about paying for the hood damage while the judge sighed Oh deer.
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Long Beach
Municipal
Martin Devries
Alturas
Charlie Whitchurch
Whitcchurch
Whitchurch
China Farmers Kill 24 Red Army Officers Scene Near Hong Kong
Kung Sheung Daily News reports Chinese farmers beat to death 24 Communist army officers who were buying rice at state fixed prices. The killings follow two local outbreaks of violence in Kwangtung Province near the Hong Kong border as farmers resist government orders to sell all crops to the state at fixed prices.
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China
Red Army
Hong Kong
Kung Sheung Daily News
Kwangtung
Eisenhower Demands Strong Military Reserve Plan
President Eisenhower told the American Legion a mighty military reserve will be a No 1 item in his 1955 legislative program. He urged building and maintaining a ready reserve to deter communism and said the plan will be submitted to Congress next year, noting it will not unduly burden men who already served.
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Washington
Eisenhower
American Legion Today
Legion
Lang-Fast
American Legion
Congress
Europe
United States
Contior
John Harneh
Pranksters Held After Wild Ride
Lakewood City youths staged a fake kidnapping prank that led to a high speed police chase reaching 100 mph from Long Beach Boulevard to Santa Fe Avenue Compton. Darwin LaMarr Yaeger 19 led the fleeing car, with Connie Smith 20 Sharon O Connor 18 and Shirley Foth 17 arrested. Smith and O Connor released on bail.
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Long Beach
Sharon Lynn O'Connor
Connie Sue Smith
Shirley Pauline Foch
Darwin Yaeger
Miss Foch
Lakewood City
Long Beach Blvd
Greenleaf St
Worth Long Beach
Olive St
Santa Fe Axe
Compton
Lester H. Fisher
Robert J. Carsen
Sn A
Darwin LaMarr Yaeger
Oliva Ave
Jhis Companions
Connie Sue Sraith
S. Castlegates Ave
Atlantic Ave
Shirley Foth
Harris Ave
Juvenile Bureau
Miss Smith
Miss O'Connonter
Santa Fe Ave
Yaeger
Fred Spence
Saunders
Artesia St
Three Slain in Robbery Probe in Kansas City
In Kansas City Kansas, a robbery probe left three men dead, one by mistake, after deputy Maurice Bedell shot a man believed about to reach for a gun. Arthur Herviey, 30, killed Bedell, then was killed fleeing. Roy Kenner led officers to the scene. Wiktie Guess was killed by a shot to the head during the arrest. The shooting sequence ended with Herviey killed and Kenner driving before a crash.
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Kansas City
Kan
Maurice A. Bedell
Arthur Herviey
Herviey
Guess
Robert Connell
Aemiey
Roy Kenner
Bedell
Louis Lemanske
Justice of the Peace
Lemanske
Lemansk
Medel
Kenner
Wenner
Soul Saver Seized at Bandshell Street Sermon Arrest
About 300 protesters surrounded two police officers as Eliphalet Jarvis Broyles of Los Angeles was arrested near Seaside Blvd bandshell for street preaching in a prohibited area. Officers Lee and Workman removed him after five minutes of prophecies calling for salvation. Broyles claimed to be counselor for the American Soul Cunie and faced warnings under the municipal code.
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L. Q. Lee
Charles Workman
Eliphalet Jarvis Broyles
Los Angeles
Broyles
Cunie
Fuliis
Seaside Blvd
Groves
Propies Orate
Hong Kong Rebounds After Typhoon Ida Toll
Hong Kong cleaned up after Typhoon Ida, the city’s worst in a decade, and found loss of life and damage limited. Two deaths, both Chinese, were reported as the storm moved inland over the Chinese mainland about 80 miles south of Hong Kong with winds peaking near 99 miles per hour.
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Hong Kong
Hong ‘Kong
Speir Peak
McCarthy to Call No Witnesses in New Inquiry
Senator McCarthy announced he will not call defense witnesses in the Senate probe into his conduct, aiming for a fast windup. He said he is willing to testify if asked but prefers to proceed quickly and cooperate to resolve the charges. He indicated some allegations from three senators may be admitted.
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Washington
l—Sen
Carthy
R-Wis
Senate
Pew
Los Angeles
McCarthy
Sor
Sen. Flanders
Spears
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