U S Demands Freeing Yanks Amid Prisoner Talks
The United States drafts sharp notes to Russia Romania and Hungary to deny Red charges and press for immediate freedom for four American fliers held in Hungary. President Truman backs release amid claims of illicit spying and a forced C-47 down. Also notes on Oatis and a missing American trooper in Czechoslovakia with no further details.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Romania
Hungary
Chizens
Truman
Christian N. Ravndal
U.S
Budapest
Death Takes Laura Warner
Laura Leiter Warner 78 of 248 Belmont Ave widow of Augustus M. Warner and former Press Telegram display staff died at home after 30 years in Long Beach moving from San Francisco. Survived by four sisters Mrs Blyth Long Beach Mrs Woodman Denver and Mrs Brophy Denver and Mrs M Allen Johnston Wasco and brother George A Seiter Syracuse. Christensen Pine Mortuary directs funeral flowers omitted.
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Laura Leiter Warner
Belmont Ave
Augustus M. Warner
Press-Telegram Display Advertising Department
Long Beach
San Francisco
James Blyth
Arthur B. Woodman
Paul Brophy
Denver
M. Allen Johnston
Wasco
Calif
Prominent Physician Found Dead in Long Beach Home
Dr. Philip Paul McElhinney, a noted Long Beach physician and urologist, was found dead in his apartment at 2375 Chestnut Ave. Death appears natural. autopsy to follow. Survived by widow, daughter Marcia at UCLA, and son Andy. Body at Mottell's Mortuary.
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Philip Paul Bliss MecElhinney
Long Beach
Chestnut Ave
W. B. Palmer
McElhinney
Hemet
Traer
Iowa
Jefferson University
Bldg
Naval
Pacifics
John Dorsey
Seaside
St. Mary's
Community Hospitals
American College of Surgeons
American Board of Surgery
Shrine Club
Marcia
UCLA
Andy
Mottell’s Mortuary
Ex-L B Surgeon Named Defense Policy Council Vice Chairman
Ex Long Beach surgeon Dr Melvin A Casberg was appointed vice chairman of the Armed Forces Medical Policy Council by Defense Secretary Lovett. He will resign as dean of the St Louis University School of Medicine effective Jan 1. Casberg came to Long Beach in 1945 and lived in Belmont Shore with his wife and three children. He was born in India, son of a Presbyterian minister, and is described by Dr George Paap as closely associated with local medical circles. The council provides civilian guidance to the Defense Department on medical and health matters.
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Melvin A. Casberg
Long Beach Sureon
Armed Forces Medical Policy Council
Washington
Defense
Lovett
Casberg
School of Medicine
St. Louis University
Long Beach
Harriman-Jones Clinic
Belmont Shore
India
George Paap
Defense Department
City Sponsors Holiday Play and Recreation Program
The Recreation Department announces a holiday play program with swimming at Jordan and Wilson plunges, use of four new gymnasiums, and supervised sport at municipal playgrounds. Open play areas run daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a activity calendar led by veteran coaches at Rogers Chamber of Commerce Stephens and Hughes Junior High gyms, and open swimming for all ages 4 to 5 p.m. at the two high school plunges plus evening sessions 7 to 8:30 and 8:30 to 10 p.m. Morning hours feature swimming instruction for boys and girls. facilities close on Christmas and New Year’s Days and Eves.
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Recreation Department
Jordan and Wilson
Rogers
Cinabergh Stephens
Hughes
Boys Land Inns
Hundreds at Alan Thornton funeral in Riverside area
Friends and schoolmates mourn the 22 year old Rhodes scholar Alan Mark Thornton at Mottell's Mortuary chapel in Long Beach. He died of leukemia after being stricken at Oxford University and flown home with his parents by his side. Interment was at Rose Hills Memorial Park Whittier.
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Alan Mark Thornton
Long Beach
Mottell
Young Thornton
Mark W. Thornton
Brayton Ave
Pasadena
Oxford University
England
Mottell’s
James Henry Hughes
California Heights Community Methodist Church
E. Clayton Burgess
First Methodist Church
Inglewood
California Heights
Willis Brewer
Rose Hills Memorial Park
Whittier
Polytechnic High School
Rhodes
Pomona College
Pomona
School of Modern History
Oxford
State Department
Alan
Poly High
Radiation Effects Transfer To Corn From Nuclear Bomb Survivors
Caltech scientists report that corn grown from seeds descended from Bikini and Eniwetok atomic blasts show over 1000 radiation induced mutations. Plant anomalies include dwarfed and twisted stalks, withering leaves. The work, supported by the Atomic Energy Commission and Office of Naval Research, aims to gauge radiation impact on biology and humans.
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Arcadia
Caltech
Caltech Biology Experimental Farm
Ernest G. Anderson
Bikini
Eniwetok
Anderson
Atomic Energy Commission
Office of Naval Research
Albert Longley
E.D. Dale
Howard J. Teas
Three Escape Hellship From Charleston Harbor
A mystery ship known as a hellship left Charleston for New York with 14 stowaways and a fearful cook aboard. Three Latin American stowaways jumped ship and disappeared after a guard distraction during an attempted suicide, prompting FBI involvement and a $2000 bond posted for fugitive apprehension before the Canford could sail. Immigration officials expected a report on the voyage from the tropics.
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Charleston
S. C
New York
Fin Guatemala
Canford
FBI
Special Board of Inquiry
Tropics
Medal of Honor Earned by Dead Korean War Hero Kyle
LIEUT. DARWIN KYLE of Company K 3d Infantry wins the Medal of Honor posthumously for a February 16 1951 action near Kamil-Ni Korea. He crawled forward under heavy fire bayoneted enemy positions then drove the attack, allowing his platoon to pass and inflicting severe enemy losses. An eyewitness said Kyle’s bravery was the inspiration of the entire company and that he charged the embankment despite submachine gun fire at close range.
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Washington
Eo Kyle
Darwin K. Kyle
Charleston
W. Va
Kyle
Army Department
Icans
Fantry Regiment
3Rd Infantry
Kamil-Ni
Korea
James D. Yeomans
Los
Angeles
Calif
Arcount
Kyles
Kyle Port
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