Heat near record as Long Beach tops 83 degrees
Descriptions of a hot day in Long Beach with a forecast of 90 degrees possible later. The U S Weather Bureau noted the 83 degree midday temperature tied the January day record set in 1923. Lifeguards reported a very good crowd while other Southland readings ranged from 73 to 82 degrees at various stations.
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Long Beach
Mercury
Bee
Southland
San Diego
Los Angeles
el Toro
Los Alamitos
Long Beach Airport
Burbank
Santa Barbara
Escaped Tigress Birdsall Nabbed in Monterey Park
Sultry Rose Marie Birdsall, 26, an escaped inmate from Corona Prison for Women, was recaptured early today in a Monterey Park motel after fleeing on New Year’s Day. Roy Hoi ten, who helped apprehend the pair, said the two women had been living on $100 borrowed from a friend. Birdsall had been sentenced to 1 to 10 years but escaped the same day.
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Rose Marie Birdsall
Corona
Monterey Park
Mt. Baldy
Miss Birdsall
Roy Hoiten
Dolor
Long Beach
Din
Snow Ice Storm Kills 36 Across East and South
A sweeping winter storm crippled the East and sent power lines down from New England to the New York area. The death toll reached at least 36, most in New England, where accidents claimed 19 lives. Ice and outages disrupted transport and heat for thousands, while the Midwest remained comparatively warm.
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Deep South
Atlant
Seaboard States
New England
Midwest
New York
Manhattan
New Jersey
New York City
Atlanta
Rosenberg Spies Plead for Presidential Clemency
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted atom spies, appealed to President Truman for clemency. They face execution in Sing Sing next Wednesday for conspiring to leak atom secrets to Russia. A defense representative filed the petition at the Justice Department. the judge had given until today to file.
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Washington
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Truman
New York
Sing Sing
Russia
Defense Counsel
Justice Department
Irving R. Kaufman
Rosenberg
Ethel
America
Russi
180 More Casualties of Korea War Listed
The Defense Department released list No. 724 naming 180 casualties from the Korean War era. It includes 141 killed, three missing, two captured, and several wounded or injured, reflecting broader losses across service branches.
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Korea
Washington
Defense Department
Eisenhower Names Smith and Mashburn to Key Posts
President elect Eisenhower announced Gen. Walter Bedell Smith as Undersecretary of State and Lloyd A. Mashburn as California Labor Commissioner and Undersecretary of State. Smith, 57, retires as CIA chief, former Eisenhower wartime chief of staff and ambassador to Moscow. Mashburn, 55, appointed 1951 by Gov. Warren to lead Labor Law Enforcement, AFL member Local 42. Both jobs pay 17500 dollars. party affiliations not disclosed.
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NEW York
Eisenhower
Walter Bedell Smith
Lloyd A. Mashburn
California
AFL
Pitta
Eebady Ubuw, Smith
Central Intelligence Agency
Europe
Moscow
Smith
Mashburn
Earl Warren
Department of Industrial Relations
AFL International Union of Wood, Wire and Metal ‘Lathers
James C. Hagerty
Martin P. Durkin
Cabin Cruiser Grounded at State Park
The 63 foot cabin cruiser Sonar Queen grounded at high tide near the Santa Ana River mouth in Huntington Beach. Palmer Nicholls of North Hollywood was aboard and survived with rib injuries after reaching shore. Pacific Towboat & Salvage Co. sent a tug and derrick barge to assist. cause unclear.
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Santa Ana
Huntington Beach
Palmer Nicholls
Sherman Way
North Hollywood
Bendix Aviation Corp
Coast Guard
Nichols
Newport Beach
Long Beach
Conductor Falls 1500 Feet to Death Near Steamboat Springs
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad conductor Harry N. Ralston, 55, of Denver, opened a door to investigate an emergency near a trestle southeast of Steamboat Springs after the Beaver-bound train struck a rock. He vanished into darkness and was found dead at the canyon bottom by the crew.
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Steamboat Springs
Colo
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
Rainside
Harry
N. Ralston
Denver
Ralston
Korean passenger ship sinks near Pusan killing 249
A crowded Korean passenger ship named Chang Yung Ho foundered in mountainous seas near Pusan and sank with 249 lives lost. Only seven of 256 aboard were saved, including the captain Ha Yang Mo. Rescue efforts continued as authorities warned no more survivors were likely. Reports also note other Pacific maritime incidents this week with missing crew and naval collisions.
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Pusan
Korea
Korean Ministry of Transportation
Ha Yang Mo
Kim Suk Kwang
Yasu
Pacific
Japan
Sasebo Harbor
Navy
Creighton ‘Victory
Creighton Victory
Seattle
One of Three GAR Survivors in Coma in LA
William Magee aged 106, one of three Civil War GAR survivors, lies in a coma at Sawtelle VA Hospital after a stroke on January 2. Isabel Magee of Van Nuys recalls that he ran away as a boy to serve as a bugler in the Union Army. he retired as a first sergeant and hoped to reach his 107th birthday on August 19.
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Los Angeles
William Atten Magee
Veterans Administration Hospital
Sawtelle
Pikes Teed
Isabel “Magee
van Nuys
Taft Sees Fast Senate Action On Tidelands Bill
Republican Leader Taft of Ohio forecasts quick Senate action on a bill to grant states title to oil rich tidelands. He expects the measure, introduced by 40 senators, to be among the first considered. Truman vetoed a similar bill last year. Taft plans talks with President elect Eisenhower before setting a schedule.
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Washington
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Truman
Eisenhower
Wilton B. Persons
New York
Princess Watches as Her Ex-Boy Friend Weds Model
In Edinburgh crowds estimated around 50 000 gathered as the Earl of Dalkeith wed Jane McNeill a 22 year old former top model from London s fashionable West End The bride is the daughter of a Hong Kong lawyer and the Earl s family heir to Buccleuch with vast estates and wealth The city s holiday mood contrasted with the foggy weather as royalty and commoners alike watched the ceremony unfold
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Earl of
Dalkeith
Margaret
Queen Elizabeth I
Duke of Edinburgh
Lespie
Jane
McNeill
Hong, Kong
London
West End
Salona
Stricter State Dope Laws Proposed By Pasadena Group
Bills prepared for the Legislature seek harsher narcotics penalties. First offense possession would carry two to 20 years, second offense five to 50 years no parole. Selling or transporting narcotics would draw 10 to 500 years, with second offenses life imprisonment without parole. A possible pardon would hinge on constitutional provisions.
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Jack B. Tenney
Pasadena
William E. Fox
Long Beach
Eisenhower Son Flies From Hawaii To Inaugural Day
Maj. John Eisenhower, son of President Eisenhower, flew from Hawaii to assist at his father’s inauguration. He arrived in Tokyo aboard a Pan American charter, was met by guards, and departed again at 1 a.m. en route to Travis Air Force Base in California for the ceremony.
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Amu
Ly Ana
John Eisenhower
Washington
Travis Air Force Base
California
Tokyo
Travis
Bath tub scene spoils Hilltop’s round stage show
In a Baltimore in the round production of The Women at Hilltop Theater Friday night a bathtub scene was interrupted when the plug failed. Soapy water flooded the floor as Michaele Myera’s exposure drew rounds of attention. Ten-year-old Judith Lloyd spoke lines from the flooded stage until a stagehand restored the plug and the scene ended.
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Baltimore
Hilltop Theater-in- the-Roand
Hilltop
Michaele Myera
Judith Lloyd
Esther Halston
Lmne
Unidentified hit and run rammed fishing boat near Canadian waters
The 38 foot Kanagian fishing craft Phyllis W. suffered serious damage after being rammed by an unidentifed hit and run vessel that crew members believe to be an American dragger. The other vessel did not stop after the crash Friday near the three mile limit of Canadian territorial waters.
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Digby
N. S
Phyllis W
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