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Long Beach Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Jan 12, 1955

Page

5

Rockefeller Gift Fuels Protestant Theological Education

John D Rockefeller Jr. donated securities worth about 20 million dollars to the Seatlantic Fund Inc to strengthen and expand Protestant theological education in the United States. The gift, described as the largest religious training grant, was sent with a note stating the purpose to develop Protestant theological education nationwide.

New York UP John D. Rockefeller Jr United States Seatlantic Fund Inc Rockefeller

Dog Saved From Icy Lake Rescue Then Fatal Missing Boy

In Anson Michigan on a Tuesday night 15 year old ANN Anson et al heard a splash at Pleas ant Lake. A cocker spaniel fell through the ice and was saved by rescuers. Skating companion James Burkhardt 14 disappeared and was later recovered dead from the lake.

Ann Anson Mich

Hoaxer David Brown Slashes Self in Hotel Room

Los Angeles police report Civil Rights Congress official David Brown aged 49, who claimed FBI informer status, cut himself in a downtown hotel room Tuesday night. He had 16 wounds on wrists, arms and temple, was treated and released. Brown had claimed kidnapping earlier, then recanted, saying he was an FBI informer since 1950. The FBI declined comment. The Civil Rights Congress, of which he was LA chairman, is listed as subversive by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

David Brown Civil Rights Congress FBI Los Angeles Brown House Committee On UN- American Activities

Red China Plans 620 Miles of Rail and Yangtze Bridge

Pi-Peiping Radio reports Red China will lay about 620 miles of new railway track this year and begin work on a Yangtze River bridge to provide through railway lines between north and south China, expanding national rail links.

Tokyo Pi—Peiping Radio Red China Yangtze River North South China

Vanderbilt Wife Details Cruelty and Hardship in Separation Case

Mrs. Patricia Vanderbilt testifies in New York Supreme Court about abuse by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. including being thrown into a tub and struck. she says she sought city relief in 1953 after spending years and $100,000 yearly on living costs. She recalls a Thanksgiving Day 1933 donation of $5 from a policeman for food for her and her daughter.

Vanderbilt New York Patricia Wallace Vanderbilt New York City Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr State Supreme Court Samuel ‘di Falco America Europe

Tunis Moslems attack Jewish shops in Tunis and cemetery desecration

Groups of young Moslems attacked several Jewish shops in Tunis forcing merchants to close and summon police. In the town of Medenine in southern Tunisia the Jewish cemetery was desecrated by attackers. A classified line advertises money via the classifieds to spread it.

Tunis Medenine Tunisia

Three Moslem Brotherhood Terrorists Get Life Imprisonment

CAIRO The revolutionary government commuted death sentences for three Moslem Brotherhood members to life imprisonment at hard labor. The men were convicted Sunday by an auxiliary people's court of terrorist activities and complicity in an anti government plot.

Cairoe Ife People's Court

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