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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1953
Page
4
Immigration Service holds Alexeryslaw Koziel a Polish alien at Terminal Island station after he climbs down from an 80 foot perch atop a radio tower. He threatened suicide unless assured he would not be sent back to his Communist native land. Cold and hunger forced his retreat.
Senate leaders agreed to postpone a high stakes fight over Senate rules until after electoral ballots are counted. Senator Taft urged delaying the issue, while Senator Anderson said the move was satisfactory to liberal senators who planned to attack the rules enabling long filibusters against civil rights bills.
Miezeryslaw Koziel a 25 year old refugee, climbed down after 11 hours on an 80 foot radio tower at Terminal Island immigration station. He threatened to die if parole isn't granted within 24 hours, was detained pending deportation, and has a long history including stowing away from Argentina in 1947, joining the Army, and multiple deportation attempts. Officials seek a Polish passport to facilitate removal.
Bogota officials report 60 killed in a night raid on the Pelanauares Air Base. Army general Rojas says bandits attacked at 3 am after New Year celebrations, brief bloody firefight with sentries, five soldiers two NCOs and a sailor are dead. He cites 33 bodies on the field and claims over 50 attackers killed and more than 100 wounded, with some carried away and others dumped in the Magdalena River. No damage to planes or installations reported.
Bellflower Municipal Judge Roberta Butzbach Friday ordered Harold K. Weiler 24 of 12028 Carson Bt Hawaiian Gardens to Long Beach Superior Court for preliminary hearing on strong arm robbery charge. The alleged victim Ira W. Hing 45 of Los Angeles reported a $93 robbery on Nov 19. Accomplice Robert F. Daniels 21 of 11947 Carson St Hawaiian Gardens already remanded for Jan 3 preliminary hearing.
In Sandringham England the Duke of Edinburgh and six companions bagged nearly 800 pheasants in one day the season's largest score. The event involved more than 20 shooting experts on the royal estate during the winter holiday. Extra birds go to a deep freezing plant for royal staff with surplus shared with hospitals if needed.
Two white women repelled a six man armed gang at a Nyeri area farm. Three Africans were killed and British troops were later called in to curb Mau Mau activity amid ongoing colonial violence. Mrs Dorothy Raynes Simson, a tennis figure, and Mrs Kitty Heiselburger led the defense as one intruder died and another was later found dead outside.
WEST LIBERTY West Virginia UPi report says Joseph Taggert killed his wife's parents Raymond and Irma Monroe and wounded his son and sister-in-law before shooting himself. The 24 year old's body was found near the farm home. two other relatives were hospitalized in fair condition. Mrs Taggert said he raged after being urged to get a job and go to work. The couple had been living with her parents since November.
Forty five sailors from the San Diego Naval Training Station are stranded in Oklahoma City after their chartered airliner developed trouble. The C 46 plane halted for emergency repairs in transit to San Diego, missing a leave deadline at 7 p m today. Sailors wired their commander seeking extension, facing AWOL risk as no reply arrived.
A 17 year old girl named Carla Johnson remained in a coma after a massaged restart of her heart during an Oct 17 appendicitis operation in Houston. Surgeon says only time can tell when she may awaken. Carla was to fly home to El Paso with her mother and two nurses.
NEW YORK-4, Mrs. T. W. Lamopi, who died here Monday, left $4,115,000 in estate bequests, including almost three million dollars to seven women’s colleges. The will also mentions former business interests and supports women’s education at Barnard, Vassar, and other institutions.
Wilming ton men Abel Gonzales age 27 and William Cordova age 35 were jailed on grand theft charges after allegedly stealing an oil company truck and loading it with tools worth about 350 dollars. The truck was found abandoned in Wilmington on December 19 and the tools traced to Wilmington after the men divided them.
A private Beech Bonanza carrying four people disappeared Friday night on a flight from Oakland to Reno. Pilot Roy McLaughlin of Half Moon Bay named. passengers unnamed. Hamilton AFB search unit sent a twin engine amphibian plane to scour the route.
A report states Americans were fined for acting without a permit from the Arms Seekers Union. The charge centers on possession or use without authorizing documentation from the union, reflecting regulatory actions against unregistered members.
A fragmented prompt asks for identifying eighty more Korean cesuattios in Washington and the De. The text appears garbled without clear entities, dates, or events to ground a factual news item.
President-elect Eisenhower pledged to Senate Republicans that he will avoid any secret foreign commitments. The promise, made after a meeting with Senators Robert A. Taft Styles Bridges Leverett Saltonstall and Milton Young, targets potential aid deals with Britain and possible French requests in Indochina. The pledge also condemns the secret commitments made at Yalta and Tehran.
The Thermopolis Independent Record prints a seven step guide to becoming a cowboy in 1953. It lists actions such as acquiring a guitar and learning chords, riding a horse, singing with a bent voice, and performing publicly. The editor notes an external request from Soipere Magazine to compose the piece.
The Weather Bureau said typhoon Hester is moving at 11 to 15 miles an hour toward Japan and Ryukyu. It warned ships southeast of Formosa to take precautions.
Santa Ana reports the 1952 polio epidemic as the worst on record with 204 victims and 13 deaths. The last patient admitted to Orange County General Hospital polio pavilion was Linda Davies, 3, daughter of Mr and Mrs Fogens Davies of Temple Hills Drive Laguna Beach. Previous outbreak in 1948 totaled 106 cases, notes County Health Officer Dr Io Lee Russell.
The Senate, with Vice President Barkley presiding, swore in challenged members Chavez and Langer amid protests over certificates of election. Majority leaders argued swearing in should proceed, while objections noted future action by the rules committee. Some said unqualified senators could be rejected by vote, others debated two thirds thresholds.
Wisconsin Senator McCarthy was sworn in for a second Senate term amid silence from an elections committee that had challenged his honesty earlier. He challenged the group to block his seating, but no one spoke as his name was called.
Four half starved American Baptist missionaries in Hong Kong said the Communists ordered expulsion of all foreign clergymen as quickly as possible. They cited numerous Catholic missionaries expelled in the past 10 days, noting China has about 700 Catholic missionaries and under 190 Protestant clergymen. The four Baptists Dr Emanuel H. Gledt Bilsa Sanderson Miss Louise and Rev Loren E. Noren were held in solitary confinement in Swa tow since April 1951.
Palos Verdes Estates police rescued 9 year old Peter Rynders and two companions after they clung to a narrow ledge on a 150 foot cliff. Officer Jack Henman lowered to the ledge, lifting Peter to safety while Michael McCarthy and Jack Ginder managed to reach the top with a rope assist. The boys had become stranded during an afternoon excursion and one boy froze before rescue.
Three persons were reported killed and 300 made homeless by a wind whipped fire in the Akaspi residential area Friday. Five injured, 100 houses and tents destroyed before the Army firefighter fought the blaze under control.
In Santa Ana Gerald Marvin Tropp of Los Angeles is sentenced to prison after pleading he used drugs to cope with his crime. He admits stealing about $1000 in fishing gear and brass items. A co defendant, 38, from New York, is noted for a separate assault near Irvine. The case highlights a felony morals offense tied to a underage victim.
Diplomat Fey D. Kohler is removed from the State Department policy planning staff and suspended without pay for 34 days after an arrest for drunkenness while carrying secret papers. He paid an $8.25 fine for public intoxication in Arlington County Virginia.
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