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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1956
Page
2
In Toulouse France 1 200 teens cheered Louis Armstrong era clarinetist Sidney Bechet as he played Dixieland hits. When he did not return for encores the crowd vandalized posters and the front of the hall. Police rushed in as fans demanded more music and the management cooled the building to end the scene.
In Columbus Ohio seven of forty seven Westinghouse picketers were convicted Thursday on contempt of court charges for a Oct strike at the Westinghouse electric plant. Forty five acquitted contempts had suspensions lifted and may return to work. 92 workers were suspended earlier. The plant manager E L Smith announced firings for contempt and violence against employees, with union attorney David Clayman planning appeals within twenty days.
A grand jury investigation into the holiday floods continued as the body of the last of 37 victims was recovered. Coroner Burwell Ulery said the missing list was closed with the recovery of Irving Hudgins, 47. About 500 local men contributed funds to honor servicemen at Beale Air Force Base for their help during the disaster.
FORT WORTH TEX Fort Worth Star Telegram reports Ann Cooper Hewitt heiress to Peter Cooper Hewitt died in Monterrey Mexico after a headache led to her death at 40. Her fourth husband Frank Nicholson a radio performer known as Rodeo Roy said she had complained of a headache eight hours earlier. Hewitt had a history of sensational headlines including claims of sterilization accusations against her mother and two doctors in 1936. She reportedly awaits burial in a Monterrey mausoleum and had lived in Mexico for six years with Nicholson.
The U S Army says 63 year old German war criminal Hermann Brueckner has been paroled due to ill health. He was sentenced to life for involvement in the 1944 murder of a captured American airman at Weimar.
Six Ohio Communist leaders were convicted today of conspiring to teach violent overthrow of the government while four others were acquitted after a weeklong trial. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey urged Congress to authorize ready reserve induction.
The Cleveland group admitted Communist Party membership before their November 9 1953 indictment but denied conspiracy. Of 21 originally charged, key figures include Joseph Bradt 45 a former Army commando and party leader Frank Hashmall 36 linked to Akron Columbus and Cincinnati. Several accused were acquitted while others faced sentences such as false auto registration.
Taipei city government reports a population of 700 080 at the end of January, an increase of about half a million since the Nationalist takeover from Japan after World War II. Many new residents fled the mainland after the Communist victory.
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