Six Vessels Sunk Near Outpost Isle
Taipei AP Chiang Kai-Shek's air force attacked more than 200 armed junks about 12 14 miles north of Nanchishan Island and renewed attacks on the Taishan Red base. It said one gunboat about 700 tons, five armed junks, and two other warships were damaged with many junks destroyed. Red vessels reportedly headed toward mainland harbors. no immediate clash at Nanchishan.
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Taipei
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nanchishan Island
Taishans
Nanchishan
Taishan Islands
Talshans
Kanchishan
Red
Cold L B Weather Keeps Southland in Grip
Long Beach reports a deep freeze with a downtown low of 36 degrees. Temperatures in surrounding areas were even lower as a cold wave persisted. The Weather Bureau forecasts warmer temperatures tonight in the 40s with increasing clouds. A weak front from Oregon and Idaho may bring scattered showers near mountains and light snow flurries in Southern California ranges.
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Long Beach
Southland
Oregon
Idaho
California
Washington Birthday Bargain Riot Spurs Store Melee
In Washington the annual birthday sales drew crowds as television sets sold for 99 cents and typewriters for 69 cents. Women and braver men surged into stores amid pushing and traffic jams, a festival of bargain snatching that has lasted about 30 years and spread to other communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Capital Area
DA Begins Probe of GI Marriage Racket in Long Beach
The district attorney’s office opened an inquiry into a GI marriage racket in Long Beach aimed at stopping service wives from collecting government allotments under false pretenses. Judge Paul Nourse ordered annulments in two cases, noting wives had married servicemen while already married to another, with one woman collecting eight months of allotments. Investigations may cite bigamy and fraud.
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District Attorney's Office
Long Beach
Paul Nourse
USS Manatee
Virginia Whiteside
San Diego
Dwight Garner
McCormb
Otis Whiteside
Navy
Eula Hall Sisson
Gardena
Edward Sisson
Sisson
Glenny Wymore
Tecome
Lynn
Compton
Head on Crash Kills Minister and Two Others
A collision near Oxnard Air Force Base killed three people including Rev. Benjamin Moore, 51, of Peoria Illinois, his wife Cora and Leslie Edward Morris, 44, of Tulsa Oklahoma. The crash also involved an FS4C Starfire jet explosion that killed two occupants. A probe began to determine the cause.
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Yupern
Here
Benjamin
Oxnard Air Force Base
Moore
Peoria
Ill
CPI
Cora
Leslie Edward
Morris
Tulsa
Okla
Assn
Cal
Defense Command
Three Texans die as plane crashes near Batchelor LA
Three Texans perished when their small plane spun out of control and crashed into swamps about six miles west of Batchelor Louisiana. The crash occurred Monday, and authorities investigated the scene.
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Batchelor
Upi
Intruder Falls As Shorts Attire Startles Newport Couple
In Newport Beach an intruder, a blond man about 20 to 25 in shorts, wandered into Mr and Mrs Pardee’s bed around 2:30 a.m. The elderly couple awoke to find a third person in their bed and after a brief exchange Pardee pushed the man out the front door. The suspect fled, leaving no other clothes behind as temperatures hovered near freezing.
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Newport Beach
Pearl Pardee
Ocean Front
Spray Poisons Greens Nine in L A
Los Angeles health officials warn washing mustard greens before cooking after nine people in southeast Los Angeles fell ill from greens traced to a Gardena farm. Investigators found the crop sprayed with nicotine sulphate the day before harvest, with harvesting timing not aligning to safety. Quarantine placed on greens from the farm and four retail stores with a shipment possibly en route to Santa Maria.
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Los Angeles
City Health Department
George M. Uhl
Gardena
Santa Maria
Uhl
Woman Drags Body 7 Miles Behind Auto
Groton Connecticut AP A 50 year old Willimantic woman admitted tying the body of 59 year old Harry Strasberg to a car rear bumper and dragging it 7.2 miles after a suspected heart attack death near East Lyme. She led investigators along the route and is held without bond awaiting autopsy results.
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Groton
East Lyme
Osmus Avery
Annie Sadd
Strasberg
Avery
Radiation fears and Bikini test fallout debated in Senate
A Senate subcommittee heard that radiation exposure may shorten life expectancy as an indirect effect of aging. Dr. John C. Bugher warned the risk is not from a single cause of death, while lawmakers seek public safety measures. In Las Vegas, the George shot of the 1955 nuclear tests rattled the city with an orange dawn flash seen from Los Angeles to St. George, Utah, with no reported damage.
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Washington
Senate
John C. Bugher
Atomic Energy Commission
Biological
Armed Services Subcommittee
Sen
Kefauver
D.-Tenn
Bugher
Bikini
Marshall Island
AEC
Las Vegas
Yucca Flat
Los Angeles
Sacramento
St. George
Utah
Eisenhower urges fast highway network for defense and economy
President Eisenhower told Congress the 101 billion dollar highway program is essential for evacuation and mobilization in case of atomic attack. He warned current roads cause deadly congestion, cost billions in accidents and fuel higher goods prices, and that growth requires expanded highway development to prevent crippling traffic jams in ten years.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Earthquake in Volos Kills One, Injures Several
A violent tremor struck Volos, about 100 miles northwest of Athens, killing one person and wounding several others with minor injuries reported. Authorities assess damage and a cleanup operation begins as residents assess aftershocks.
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Greece
Athens
Volos
Zhukov Warns West of U S War Readiness
Moscow report says Soviet Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov told a Russian TV audience the peacefull policy has no favorable echoes in the West and warned the United States and NATO that the USSR is ready to respond to any attack. He stood with Premier Bulganin and Khrushchev on Red Army Day eve.
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Moscow
Georgi Zhukov
Russia
West
Eisenhower
Marshal Zhukov
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khruschev
Bulganin
Zhukov
U. S
Hitler
Classifieds Section Listing
A brief index lists where to find regular newspaper sections by page and topic across different pages such as Beach Combing on B-1, Boyle on A-3, Editorial on A-8, Obituaries on B-2, and Sports on A-10 and A-11 with related features like Tides and Temperatures on B-2 and Women on B-4 and B-5.
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Boyle
Wilson
Nevada tests mark 33rd shot at test site
A huge bomb flare lit Long Beach briefly as two shock waves were felt in Las Vegas and at the AEC control point about 10 miles away. The atomic cloud rose over 20 000 feet with an ice cap, winds pushed it toward Utah and Arizona, prompting flight warnings near Grand Canyon Airport. AEC said three tests, including civil effects work, were conducted.
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AEC
Las Vegas
Nevada Memorial Hospital
Nevada Test Site
St. George
Utah
Arizona
Civil Aeronautics Authoriy
Grand Canyon
CAA
Weather Outlook Winds Across Mountains Tonight
Increasing cloudiness tonight with warm temps and a risk of light showers near mountains. Partly cloudy Wednesday, with a chance of a few showers and warmer night temperatures.
iFollow Series 1: Traffic Clinic and Las Vegas Gambles
Readers can follow three unusual interest series in today's Press-Telegram. The Traffic Clinic continues on B-1, while Ree Porter James Phelan’s Las Vegas-Boomdown’s Biggest Gamble runs on B-3. A new Alaskan defenses series by Elton C. Fay opens on A-4.
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Press-Telegram
Las Vegas
Ree Porter James Phelan
Nevada
Elton C. Fay
Associated Press
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Ike
Mt. Charleston
Goddesses OF Light
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Theas
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