Malibua Fires Weldzed by Weather Calm After Five Day Siege
Small crews eye Malibu fires as weather brings relief. Fire chiefs declare blazes under control at 7 pm, while fog and humidity aid suppression on the coast. Arson probes continue into Palos Verdes and Bel Air fires. Over 40,000 acres burned in Zuma Hume and Lake Sheenwood areas. 67 homes destroyed. one man killed. two firemen injured. Ventura blaze near Piru added 800 acres before containment on Sunday. Red Cross aids the homeless.
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Constable Slain by Eire Rebels in Northern Ireland
Raiders from the Irish Republican Army attacked four police barracks near the border on Sunday night, fatally shooting 22 year old Constable John Seally in the back after breaching the front with a bomb. After a brief gun battle, the attackers apparently crossed into the Irish Republic six miles away. The IRA has stepped up attacks on police posts and government buildings, calling for the merger of Ulster and the Republic.
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Biscailuz Won’t Ride in Pasadena Parade
In hospital Biscailuz, a regular figure at Pasadena’s Tournament of Hoses Parade, won’t ride Tuesday. He is treated for eye injuries from smoke exposure while riding in a helicopter over Santa Monica Mountains fire lines. doctors expect discharge home soon.
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Los Angeles
Sugene Biscailux
Pasadena
Santa Monica
Eisenhower Plans Civil Rights Push In 1957 Session
President Eisenhower told GOP leaders he will press for action on his civil rights program in the new Congress. Hagerty said the meeting covered the 1957-58 budget outlook, tax-cut feasibility, and continued administration plans, with emphasis on balance and revenue projections.
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Long Beach Classifieds 1936 December 31
The Long Beach Press workers gather on Monday December 31, 1936, for the 24 page issue price ten cents. Classifieds section numbered c-NO. 2 r7 Vol. Tape NO. 289 details likely internal publishing identifiers and contact numbers.
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New Year Toll Rises Across Roads at Midpoint
Associated Press reports the New Year holiday toll to 302 lives as 285 traffic deaths, 25 fires, and 42 other accidents. California led with 27 traffic deaths, Pennsylvania a notable four teens and another occupant killed in a crash on an ice slick road. CHP logged 128 drunk driving arrests and 5,127 total arrests.
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Wisconsin Man Wins Liar's Medal For Earthy Hog Tale
Albert B. Hopkins of Madison is named 1956 world champ in the Burlington Liars Club contest for a yarn about hogs trapped by sticky gumbo soil. The 49 year old electroplater receives the gold plated medal, becoming Wisconsin’s first winner in 26 years as he quips that he never thought he was that good.
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Virginia
Burlington Liars Club
Dulles to brief U N on Middle East plan amid crisis
Secretary of State Dulles meets U N Secretary General Hammarskjold to outline the Eisenhower administration’s economic military plan to counter Soviet expansion in the Middle East. The briefing occurs at a lunch conference, stressing the goal to deter any Soviet attack or subversion in the strategic region.
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Pasadena New Year's Parade Hindered by Dense Fog
Heavy fog predicted by the Weather Bureau urged motorists to leave early for the Pasadena Rose Parade. Airports closed in the Long Beach area, with air traffic diverted to Burbank. Coast Guard searched for a missing two-masted vessel off Laguna Beach while mariners from eight smaller boats were rescued. The Rhapsody and Windward ran aground off Cabrilla Beach and Balboa, with Donna Jean locating off Pt. Vicente.
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Seal Beach
Sukarno declares state of war in North Sumatra
The Indonesian president Sukarno proclaims a state of war in revolt troubled North Sumatra as the nation reports on the latest political crisis. The same edition notes the Hungarian delegation plans to return to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday.
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Sumamatra
Budapest Communist Party
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Ex-Italian Senator Expelled by Reds
Eugenio Reale former senator and briefly Italy s postward ambassador to Warsaw has been expelled from the Italian Communist Party for bourgeois deviation The Naples party section cited his writings as grounds and noted he had not attended any meetings before the recent factional congress in Rome He was not present at the session that sanctioned the action
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Eugenio Reale
Italy
Warsaw
Italian Communist Party
Naples
Reale
Rome
New Year's Day Weather Outlook
Mostly sunny conditions expected on New Year's Day with heavy fog in the early morning hours. Winds light to moderate, cooler temperatures anticipated across the region.
Fifteen Die as U S Plane Crashes in Bahrain
A U S Air Force Constellation crashed at Dhahran Air Field in Saudi Arabia amid heavy fog killing fifteen aboard. Twenty seven survived. investigation to be led from Charleston. The flight originated in Charleston and was en route to Dhahran via McGuire and Azores with Tripoli as a waypoint.
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Air Crash Kills Three Family Near Seattle
A Seattle family of three died Sunday when their small plane exploded in midair and crashed into a vacant field near Puyallup about 20 miles south. The dead were Cornelius Root, his wife June, and their stepson Joseph Herb Root. Cornelius Root was a journalism professor at the University of Washington. A friend said the Roots spent Christmas in San Francisco and were returning home for the New Year.
Man Trapped 18 Hours in Broadway Elevator Sings to Stay Calm
Morris Gerson a 66 year old feather company foreman was trapped 18 hours in a third floor elevator at 649 Broadway after it stalled between floors. With no help nearby he sang prayers and a current song to stay hopeful until a coworker alerted police and rescuers freed him unharmed.
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