High Winds Lash L. B. Rip Wires Smash Windows
Strong winds lashed Long Beach and Laguna Beach last night causing power outages and damage from Broadway to Olive Street. A 45‑foot fishing boat was blown aground near San Nicolas Island. Santa Barbara reported the heaviest rain, with many areas flooded and traffic snarled on stormed roads.
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Long Beach
Laguna Beach
Wilson's Clothing
Broadway
Locust Ave
Sears Roebuck & Co
American Ave
Procter & Gamble
Seventh St
Ocean Blvd
Kinneber Ave
Artesia St
Firestone Blvd
Downey Ave
Paramount Bl
America IT
George Knowlton
Weymouth Ave
San Pedro
San Nicolas Island
Smallcraft
San Diego
Point’ Conception
Angeles Crest Highway
Santa Anita Race Track
Weather Today with Showers and Clearing Skies
Occasional showers today with gradual clearing tonight and cooler temperatures. Sunshine returns tomorrow as westerly winds ease. Weather page note from Home Edition.
Fairbanks Rebounds From 56 Below To Zero
In Fairbanks Alaska today the temperature rose from 56 below zero to zero marking a dramatic warm up. The unusual turnaround is noted as a local version of an Indian summer despite the severe winter setting.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
United States
Floods and Snow Halt Bay Area Roads in Sierra Blizzard
Violent snowstorms hit the Sierra Nevada piling snow and flooding lowlands around San Francisco Bay. Roads and rails blocked as hundreds flee homes while officials warn of more storms. Passengers on two Southern Pacific streamliners face delays. highway closures and isolated mountain towns persist as crews race to reopen routes.
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San Francisco
Sierra Nevada Range
U.S. Weather Bureau
Southern Pacific
Donner Summit
Overland Limited
Chicago
Cisco
Norden
Floriston
Overland
Sparks, Ney
Worden
Feather River Canyon
Western Pacific
California
Nevada
Feather River
California State Automobile Association
Sierra
Oregon
Reno
Red Bluff
Susanville
State Highway Division
The
Auto Association
Tao Los Angeles
Tehachapi Mountains
Crash Kills Veteran of Custer Massacre
Oglaia Sioux squaws wailed the death of Joseph High Eagle 94 one of three known Indian survivors of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He rode as a brave of 13 in Crazy Horse's camp on June 25 1876 when the Sioux massacred Gen George Custer and his men. He died when a car overturned on Pine Ridge reservation his neck broken.
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Rapid City
S.D
Joseph High Eagle
Little Big Horn
High Eagle
Crazy Horse
George Custer
Pine Ridge Reservation
Highlights of Today’s News Southland Magazine
Long Beach feature sections cover remodeling of the White House tales of lost gold in western deserts and a page of pictures of a Long Beach Navy ship in polar seas. Also includes homes and gardens cooking for big appetites camera art book news and parade caption pages. Public notices pages B-3 B-6 radio and television page B-4. Realty News sports pages 8-8 to 8-12 theaters page 5-2 waterfront page A-6 women’s activities section C.
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Southland Magazine
Long Beach
White House
New York
Rome
Paris
Obstueries
Public Forum
Waterfront
Womin
Saction C
Van Fleet vows strong Eighth Army in face of Red buildup
Gen James A Van Fleet told AP the U S Eighth Army is in better condition than ever and would meet a major Red offensive with disaster on land and in the air The general said the Communists have increased their air force and reinforced armor and artillery while the truce talks at Munsan adjourned without progress on airfields or prisoner exchanges, with Van Fleet denouncing the talks as a nagging disappointment and arrogant at times
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Seoul
Korea
James A. van Fleet
U.S
Eighth Army
van Fleet
William C. Barnard
U. N
Red Air Force
Munsan
Long Beach
U. S. Eighth Army
United Nations Command
Nam Il
Hsieh Fang
Air Force
Howard Turner
Hunt Continues for 45 on Ship in Pacific Storm
SEATTLE January 12 planes were readied to search the gale swept North Pacific at daybreak for the freighter Pennsylvania and its 45 man crew missing since Wednesday. Weather forced Coast Guard to call in search planes as two civilian ships were directed to head for their west coast destinations amid 40 to 50 mph winds and 15 foot seas. The Klamath and Stonetown remained, while a ladder search pattern would cover 12 000 square miles with three hour rotations. The search would continue until successful or hope abandoned, an indefinite prospect.
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Seattle
North Pacific
Pennsylvania
Coast Guard
Netherlands Victory
Pelican State
Canada
Vancouver Island
Klamath
Stonetown
British Valiant jet crashes on test flight in Bournemouth
In Bournemouth England on January 12 a Britain's four engined Vickers Valiant jet bomber crashed during a test flight. One crewman was killed and four others bailed out safely as the aircraft exploded and plunged to the ground in flames.
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Bournemouth
Eng
Britain
San Quentin Berserk Prisoner Slugs Guard During Cell Fight
A berserk prisoner Charles Hagadorn aged 22 attacked guard Delbert Taylor in his cell at San Quentin using a pipe fragment. Five guards removed Hagadorn after the assault. Taylor suffered a fractured skull but is expected to recover after surgery.
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San Quentin
Charles Hagadorn
Delbert Taylor
Mill Valley
Taylor
M. D. Willeats
Marines Positions Called Impregnable in Korea
Honolulu dispatch quotes Maj Gen Gerald Thomas saying U S Marines in Korea occupy near impregnable fortifications on the eastern front and can halt any Communist attack. He notes virtually no cold weather casualties this year and credits an insulated therms boot for improved endurance.
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Honolulu
U. S
Korea
Gerald €. Thomas
U.S. Air Marine Division
Washington
Marine Corps
Thomas
Army commander praises Eighth Army strength in Korea
General Van Fleet says the army is in better condition than ever with units over strength and a sharp, fit force. He warns against napping near the provisional cease-fire line on the battlefront. The remark follows Far East air forces reporting their costliest week of the Korean air war with three Sabre jets shot down in dogfights.
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Eighth Army
van Fleet
Red
Far East Air Forces
Korea
Princess Margaret Engagement Rumors Stir in Royal Tour
Rumors swirl that Princess Margaret may be engaged to the 28-year-old Earl of Dalkeith. She shifted from Scotland to London with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, visiting Buckingham Palace then Sandringham amid talk of an official announcement before a planned March 7 royal cruise aboard the Vanguard.
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London
Margaret
East Anglia
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Scotland
Earl of Dalkeith
Buckingham Palace
Sandringham
Sunday News of the World
Buccleuch
Navy Plans Fleet of Ten 60 000 Ton Carriers
Secretary Dan Kimball announced the Navy aims to build a series of ten 60,000 ton supercarriers, one per year for a decade, with hopes some to be atomic powered. The plan follows naval power growth since Korea and envisions the Forrestal as a flagship with a retractable island. An atomic carrier would extend range and raise speed. nuclear propulsion is already tested on a submarine program.
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Washington
Dan Kimball
Navy
Forrestal
Newport News
National Sojourners
Kimball
California GOP backs Warren amid cancer rumors
In San Francisco the California Republican assembly endorsed Earl Warren as a 1952 presidential candidate while denying rumors of cancer following his November surgery. Warren, vacationing in Honolulu, said doctors found no truth to the reports and planned a vigorous campaign upon returning. Congressmen and party officials dismissed the gossip as a vicious whispering campaign.
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San Francisco
California Republican Assembly Today
Earl Water
GOP
Warren
Honolulu
Sen
Knowland
R.-Calif
Hawaii
University of California Hospital
Junius B. Harris
Sacramento
William F. Reichel
Oakland
Republican National
Siskiyous
Norden
Highway 40
Soda Springs
Reno
Young Couple Fatally Gassed in L B Hotel
A young sailor Ronald A Wallace and his wife Wanita June Wallace were found dead from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in a Long Beach hotel at 117 W Third St. They registered Friday from San Diego where he trained aboard the USS Colonial. Police noted a gas heater remained lit when discovered by a maid. The couple, married in Mt Morris Illinois, had a son adopted by an Illinois family. Wanita Wallace had been staying with her aunt Miss Louise Chase at the YWCA and had recently moved from San Diego. Autopsy planned. bodies at Patterson Snively Mortuary.
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Long Beach
Se8
Third St
Ronald A. Wallace
Wanita June
Polee
Julia C. O'Neal
Wallace
San Diego
The
YWCA
Louise Chase
Miss Chase
Mt. Morris
Illinois Family. Mrs. Wallace Is Survived Also By Her Father, Ora Ploughe
Kokomo
Ind
Long Beach City College
Olive Garrison
Bryan
Patterson & Snively Mortuary
Two Dead in Cincinnati Hotel Fire
A fire engulfed the top three floors of the Linton Hotel annex in Cincinnati injuring at least nine people, including two firemen. Raymond Hatrack of Mount Carmel Pennsylvania died after reportedly jumping from the eighth or ninth floor. an unidentified Air Force officer also killed. The blaze, believed started in a linen closet, sent dense smoke through the hotel as guests fled to safety.
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Cincinnati
Linton
George Pearcy
Raymond Hatrack
Mount Carmel
Air Force
Hatrack
General Hospital
Ralph Fray
New Orleans
U of C Benefactress Dies at 94 in Berkeley
Fannie Weinstock Bonnheim, co founder with her husband Albert of a UC Berkeley scholarship foundation, died at 94. The fund, started after their only child died at 16, helped more than 800 University of California students pursue education.
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Berkeley
Fannie Weinstock Bonnheim
University of California
Tree Topples Blocking Santa Rosa Road During Surgery
Mrs. Robert J. Miller of Santa Rosa saw a 100 foot eucalyptus fall across a side road. Her car drove over the trunk with all four wheels in the air, she was unhurt. The tree knocked out power lines to Sonoma County Hospital causing a surgeon to pause a major operation and return the patient to bed.
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Santa Rosa
Robert J. Miller
Sonoma County Hospital
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U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce
Uncle Sam
Hunt
Princess Margaret
Elton C. Fay
Lilness
Morrie Landsberg
Ronald A. Wallace JR
U. of C
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