Woman Driver Flees After Hitting 7-Year-Old in Long Beach
Police pursue possible felony hit and run after a green 147 car collided with Barbara Ann McChristin at Fourth St and Orange Ave injuring her as a 7-year-old crosswalk victim. Witnesses forced the driver to curb but she fled. An ambulance crash en route to scene injures two responders. the Smith car reportedly had a green light and did not yield to an emergency vehicle.
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Fourth St
Orange Ave
Long Beach
Barbara Ann McChristin
Third St
Seasida Hospital
Walter Bernard Jensen
Rose Ave
Seventh St
Alamitos Ave
John Richard Smith
Walnut Ave
Smith
Vivian Veal
Hungerford SL
Jensen
Seaside Hospital
154 Dentists Drafted by Navy in Next Three Months
Washington reports the Navy issued a draft call for 154 dentists to be inducted in March, April and May. Seventy seven are due in March, forty in April and thirty seven in May.
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Washington
Navy Today
Nation records 1953 accident tolls and costs
The 1953 accident tolls reached 95,000 deaths and 9.6 million injured with a $9.1 billion bill. Traffic deaths rose sharply to 38,300, the third largest yearly total behind 1937 and 1942, while home and work accidents showed mixed changes. Ned Dearborn urged action against this avoidable waste of manpower and resources.
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Ned Wi. Dearborn
Council
Russians Offer £400 Million in Contracts to British Firms
Moscow transmitted a memorandum to 82 British business delegates offering contracts worth 400 million pounds for deliveries from 1955 to 1957. The list includes tankers, ships, plants, power stations, rail equipment, docks, and fish carriers. The move marks a major push to revive east coast trade amid Soviet Argentine talks.
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Moscow
London
G. Kabanov
Iis
Mercury Zips to Record 89 in Long Beach
The downtown Long Beach temperature hit 59 degrees on Wednesday, a February alltime record, with forecasts calling for continued cold, rainy weather into the month’s end. The week marked a string of daily highs: 86 on Tuesday, 78 on Monday, and 85 on Sunday, as the forecaster warned of more chilly conditions ahead.
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Long Beach
Southland
Suitor shoots family and nurse then surrenders
In Hollywood UMA a rejected suitor Albert J. Markle shot seven times at Mrs Juanita Simmons 41 wounding her chest and also hitting her father Charles Piers 80 and male nurse George Lawless. Markle a former attendant was fired after pursuing Mrs Simmons then fled to a priest’s office before surrendering to police.
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Hollywood
UMA
Albert J. Markle
Markle
Juanita Simmons
Mrs. Simmons
Charles Piers
Piers
George Lawless
Mrs.Simmons
Bob
Wads Worth Veterans Hospital
Weather outlook: clear conditions through Friday
The forecast calls for mostly clear skies today with a light bite in the air. Friday should be a touch cooler in the afternoon with a modest temperature drop and no precipitation expected.
Molotovs five point plan for all German government
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed a provisional all Germany government including Communist mass organizations to run elections and push unity. The West rejected the plan as unacceptable. He urged withdrawal of occupation troops before voting, shifting about 300000 Soviet troops beyond the Oder Neisse line while Western forces numbered around 30000. The plan sought recognition of East Germany on par with West Germany and joint all German elections under four powers oversight.
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Berlin
V. M. Molotov
alliGerman
Foreign Ministers Conference
Molotov
Youth
Women
Th League
The
Malatov
Oder-Neisse
Poland
Berkeley Area Jolted by Series of Quakes
A sequence of sharp earthquakes struck the East Bay for about four minutes after 11 a.m. No damage was reported. UC seismograph data suggested a local quake felt most strongly in Moraga, six miles southeast of Berkeley.
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Berkeley
East Bay
University of California
Moraga
Berkely
Drouth Leaves Dunklin County Families Foodless and Struggling
In Dunklin County Missouri the 1953 drought left about 5 000 people nearly foodless with little money. Some families received help from local agencies while a few men found odd jobs in towns. Farm jobs are scarce for a month and unlikely before May. County officials say the region, including cot ton, faced reduced labor demand and rely on federal surplus programs.
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Kennett
Moa
Missouri
Dunklin
Washington
House Post Office
Epi
Eisenhower
Yank Hvasta Free After Prison Escape From Prague
The State Department reports John Hvasta an American escaped from a Czech prison and fled to the U S embassy in Prague. He left for New York City from Nuembers Germany and is en route with two U S escorts. Hvasta was sentenced to 50 to 10 years in prison and disappeared 21 months ago.
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Washington
John Hvasta
Prague
State Department
Hvasta
United States
Department
U. S
Nuembers
Germany
U.S
Hrasta
Czechoslovakia
Classified page references listed for edition sections
The notice catalogs where to find sections such as Bench Combing on page B1 and Boyle on A17 along with Bridge A17, Pass B11 to B15, Comics on B8, Crossword on B10 and Editorial on A16. It also notes Financial on B3 Obituaries on 8-2 and radio TV on A4, Shipping Table on B10, Spectrages AA19 20 21 Theater pages B plus Women B4 to B7 and Your World on A2.
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Fage Bet
Pagat
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Red Prison
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