Orient Storm Death Toll Rises Across Western Pacific
A four day storm battered the western Pacific leaving at least 18 dead and 242 missing as it moved toward Kamchatka. Unconfirmed reports by Asahi claim 28 dead and 81 missing on Hokkaido, with 35 ships missing or sunk. Two vessels feared sunk in Ryukyu seas carried 417 people, and fishing boats capsized near East China Sea port. The Nosh Maru and Midori Maru reportedly cruised into Okinawa ports with 169 and 148 aboard respectively.
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Tokyo
Pacific
Russia
Kamchatka Peninsula
Asahi
Japan
Hokkaido
Formosa
Kuriles
Ryukyuan
Okinawa
Kyodo
East China Sea
Store Loses 418 Loot to Bunco Group
Officials of the Long Beach Montgomery Ward store report a December 23 theft ring stole 418 dollars of merchandise. The same gang hit seven other California stores including Pomona and Whittier, using a stolen slip and a rubber stamp to obtain credit before taking goods. A Porterville arrest followed the discovery.
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Long Beach
Montgomery Ward & Co
California
Pomona
Whittier
Potice
Porterville
Red Fleet Attacked by Chiang Warplanes
Chiang Kai-shek’s forces reportedly sent Redis planes over Nanchishan in a claimed attack that did not occur. The Defense Ministry denied press reports of a halted invasion near the island, which hosts 5,000 Nationalist troops and guerrillas 20 miles off the mainland. U.S. stance looms as Washington weighs options to defend Formosa and the Pescadores.
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Defense Ministry
Nanchishan
Redis
Red China
Formosa
United States
Pescadores
U. S
Washington
Anchishan
George Yeh
Eisenhower backs highway plan with toll and bond debates
President Eisenhower outlines a highway program influenced by the Clay report while lawmakers oppose key features. He favors special 30-year bonds funded by gas and diesel taxes, with tolls limited to specific cases, and asserts a self sustaining federal program for a 40,000 mile interstate network. The plan totals about 114 billion in expenditures, with 25 billion from federal funds for interstates and 34 billions for primary and secondary roads, plus urban and forest routes.
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Lucius D. Clay
Senate
Federal Highway Corporation
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
United States
Congress
Bureau of Public Roads
Widow of Rear Admiral Endicott Dies at 104
Mrs. Mordecai T. Endicott, widow of Rear Adm. M. T. Endicott and former chief of the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, died Monday at her home. She would have turned 105 next Monday and was a native of Muskingum County, Ohio.
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Mordecai T. Endicott
Adm
M.r. Endicott
Navy
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Muskingum County
Ohio
Threat to Kill Ex Wife and New Mate Revealed in Los Angeles Murder Trial
In Los Angeles a jury hears testimony that James Merkouris once threatened his ex wife Despine Forbes and her second husband Robert Forbes. The case concerns the September 20 slaying of the Forbes at their ceramics shop. Merkouris faces trial for Mrs Forbes' murder.
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L. A
Los Angeles
James Merkouris
Despine Forbes
Robert Forbes
Merkouris
Washington
Forbes
C. F. Fairly
Forbeses
Fairly
Los An
Geles Ceramics
Merekouris
Grana Rapids
Mich
Folice
Gilbert J. Jones
Jones
Hot Springs
Ark
Charles W. Fricke
Pause Trial Goes On In Santa Ana Licensing Case
Five state liquor officials testified Monday as the prosecution pressed its case against Herman Pause a suspended Orange County liquor control officer and Glover Dockins Santa Ana juke box distributor in a conspiracy to transfer a liquor license to Pause relatives The defense argues licensing procedures were proper Key witnesses include Charlotte Harper manager of Snug Harbor Bar Newport Beach Pause employment shown 1935 to last month and state licensing officials outlined the proceedings The two defendants were among 14 indicted in a series of true bills last fall for liquor licensing irregularities
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Santa Ana
Herman Pause
Orange County
Glover L. ‘Dockins
Santa Ana Juke Box l
Pause
Max Eliason
Snug Harbor
Newport Beach
Charlotte Harper
Dockins
Szidit
William J. Calvert
State Board of Equalization
Thomas H. Morrow
Orville Washburn
New State Alcohol Control Board
Charles H. Shorey
San Bernardino
William C. Elledge
Orange County Grand Jury
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Ted Jordan
New York
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