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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1954
Page
2
The Vatican said Pope Pius, 77, shows no table improvement yet remains hiccuping. Medical tests ruled out cancer and point to a neuro digestive disturbance, with negativity reported for a week long illness that has caused growing concern in Rome.
The joint Tokyo news conference split into Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio sections as reporters grilled the couple. Marilyn joked about marriage plans and past suspensions, while Lefty O’Doul assisted. A separate court scene followed where Ray C. Franklin laughed through a drunken disorderly conduct hearing, receiving 15 days in jail.
In Newcastle Anthony Farrer, recently made a lord, was fined 10 shillings for drunkenness after pleading guilty today. A Nashv ille jeweler used coffee promos to draw shoppers, selling 1600 pounds at a loss while no jewelry sold. Tokyo residents lament high U S coffee costs as Japanese pay the equivalent. In Tulsa a man lost $200.16 after counting out cash for coffee, and in Crystal, Minnesota a family kept a donated S700 TV despite no order. Philadelphia receipts turn up money found in a dress pocket aiding a gas heater purchase.
The AFL Executive Council meeting on Florida’s beaches urged President Eisenhower to immediately implement pump priming plans to revive a lagging economy. They push for a public works surge, higher federal minimum wage, expanded unemployment benefits, doubled housing aid, and extended tax relief while noting high unemployment figures and a shrinking job market.
Los Angeles sheriff's deputy David Scott Lynn, 29, arrested at his Pasadena home on a charge of murdering Stanley Keith Swain, 26, a Santa Cruz cabinet maker found shot near Highway 101 north of Malibu. Ballistics tied a round from Lynn's snub-nosed .38 to the victim's head. authorities say robbery was the apparent motive. Swain was beaten before the fatal shot. Lynn claimed he was with Swain until early morning but cannot recall events.
Mrs. Ramélé Roosevelt maintains indisputable evidence to back her separate maintenance suit against James Roosevelt, naming three corespondents. He admits past infidelities in a signed 1945 letter he says was signed to deter divorce, while denying blackmail. A Pasadena Superior Court hearing is set Friday for the separate maintenance cases with potential congressional plans discussed for April.
Narriman Abdul Navid or Nariman, the former queen, is granted a divorce from ex king Farouk in a Cairo mosque court. She drops a monthly alimony claim and custody demand, seeking instead that the revolutionary government pay costs from Farouk’s confiscated Egyptian property. The judge’s ruling ends a month of negotiations and comes amid a broader confiscation of Farouk’s assets by the new regime.
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