Eldred Sentenced Up To Five to Fifteen Years in Fraud Case
Eldred received five to 15 year terms on five counts of grand theft and forgery as Judge Gardner rejected probation. The sentences stem from a collapsing financial empire harming primarily elderly victims who trusted him. Remaining charges include a conspiracy to obstruct justice over liquor licenses.
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Gardner
Eldred
Community Chest
Red Cross
Robert Fraser
Robert P. Kneeland
Fraser
Kneeland
Elred
Fldred
el Robert Co
Body of record speed flier found in Mojave crash
James B. Verdin, 36, a record-holding test pilot for Douglas Aircraft, died in a 30,000 to 35,000 foot Skyhawk flight over the Mojave Desert. A massive 23-hour search by 2,000+ ground crews failed to locate his parachute, though a report of survival proved false. Verdin, once a three-kilometer jet record holder, left a widow and three young children.
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Los Angeles
Verdin
Howard Knapp
Edwards Air Force Base
Douglas
Edward
Navy
Mdr
Michael Lithgow
England
Brentwood
Mojave Desert
Miles City
Mont
Latin War Probers to Visit Nicaragua
A five member Latin American probe team from the Organization of American States will arrive in Managua to on the spot check charges involving Nicaragua. Chairman Luis Quintanilla said Nicaragua is the center of rebel forces aiding Costa Rica and the council urged Nicaragua to cooperate fully with the inquiry. President Anastasio Somoza offered investigators use of Nicaraguan planes during the visit.
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San Jose
Costa
Anastasio Sormoza
Jose Figueres
Managua
Panama’s President Charged in Remon Murder Plot
Panama’s president Guizado faced removal as police tied him to a murder plot in Remon’s death. Miro’s Friday confession alleged Guizado and Rodolfo Saint Malo were involved, with Jose Ramon Guizado Jr and Tomas Nieves Perez arrested. Lipstein, a U.S. citizen, remained detained as intrigue deepened.
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Remon
Miro
Guizado
Rodolfo Saint Malo
Jose Ramon Jr
Saint Malo
Tomas Nieves Perez
Justice
Ft Remon
Guatemala
Ihamber
Gwizado
Rubens Mira
Mira
Foreign Ministry
Panama
Mexico
87 Year-Old Senator Leads Samba At White House Party
At a White House reception for congressmen, 87-year-old Senator Theodore Francis Green performed a lively mambo and samba with Senator Estes Kefauver's wife. The event drew the season's smallest attendance, with Lyndon Johnson applauding as President Eisenhower and his wife departed.
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Senator Hit
White House
Washington
Theodore Francis Green
Rhode Island
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate
Richard Neuberger
D-Ore
Joseph R. McCarthy
Susan
Cold and Wind Loom Across Much of the United States
Cold and windy conditions dominated from the Rockies to the eastern seaboard with no heavy rain or snow reported. The midwest faced colder air from the Rockies and northern plains, driving temperatures down by as much as 25 degrees, while Florida saw a chilly spell with 31 in Cross City and 49 in Miami. Brownsville posted the warmest early reading at 73.
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Associated Press
Rockies
East
Gulf States
Florida
Cross City
Miami
Mid-Continent
Midwest
Plains
Eagle
Colo
West
Texas
Ohio Valley
Pacific Northwest
Northern
Appalachians
Great Lakes Region
Brownsville
Tex
Long Beach Disease Rates Drop Sharply in 1954
Long Beach residents show better health trends with 1954 reportable diseases totaling 3,501, down from 6,330. Measles fell from 3,310 to 161, polio declined slightly, while tuberculosis rose to 185 and syphilis to 182. No diphtheria deaths were recorded for the second year in a row.
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Long Beach
I. D. Litwack
William R. La Porte dies at 85 in Palos Verdes Estates
Dr William Ralph La Porte longtime USC physical education head died of a heart attack at his home 801 Via Somonte Palos Verdes Estates He retired last June after 41 years leading the department In 1951 he received the Luther H Gulick Award from the American Association for Health Physical Education and Recreation Funeral services were set for 3 p m at White and Day Colonial Chapel Redondo Beach with a memorial service planned at the University Methodist Church at USC
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Palos Verdes Estates
Wiliam Ralph la Porte
University of Southern California Physical Education Department
Somonte
Luther H. Gulick
The
American Assn
Colonial Chapel
Redondo Beach
University Methodist Church
Plane crash in hill country injures three servicemen
A U S T E N Texas crash of a Air Force Reserve transport plane C45 left three servicemen injured and one uninjured. Pilot 1st Lt Basil B Mitchell from Memphis and Navy apprentice fireman Robert Pierce, 21, were aboard when the plane went down 15 miles northwest of Austin. J L Goodson Reynolds 21 of Bowling Green Kentucky and Army Pvt Guy Davis 21 of Memphis parachuted to safety. Reynolds suffered a sprained ankle.
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Austen
Tex
Air Force
Hill Country
Austin
Memphis
Navy
Robert Pierce
J. L. Goodson Reynolds
Bowling Green
Army
Guy Davis
Reynolds
Davis i
Morse Named to Fourth Senate Committee Post
Washington Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, an independent allied with the Democrats, received his fourth committee assignment today. He was named to the Special Senate Small Business Committee, expanding his leadership roles in the chamber.
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Washington
WPI
Wayne L. Morse
Ind-Ore
Senate
Morse
Sefhiate Smail
Cannery Executive Succumbs at 67
Antoinette Bogdanovich vice president of French Sardine Co and Star-Kist Fonds died at home in Rolling Hills aged 67. Yugoslav-born widow of founder Martin J. Bogdanovich she helped grow a single boat operation into a major canning center on Terminal Island. Survived by son Joseph and six daughters, two sisters, 18 grandchildren. Rosary Sunday in San Pedro, mass Monday, entombment Calvary Mausoleum. Donations urged to San Pedro Community Hospital.
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Antoinette Bogdanovich
French Sardine Co
Star-Kist Fonds, Inc
Saddleback Rd
Rolling Hills
Terminal Island
Joseph
John T. Tripps
Manual Laraneta
Donald B. Loker
Nicholas F. Trutanic
Walter E. Brewer
Stine
Geraldine Bogdanovich
Lucretia .S. Buda
Geraldine Patuzzo
San Pedro
McNerney
Mortuary
Mary Star of the Sea
Calvary Mausoleum
Whittier Blvd
Los Angeles
San Pedro Community Hospital
Two Assessed Fines for Smog Violations
Smog law violators paid 65 dollars in fines as the city crackdown on air pollution continued. Frank Howard of Los Angeles and Azel Watkins of Santa Maria were fined in municipal court on Friday.
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EUS
Frank Howard
Los Angeles
Azel Watkins
Santa Maria
Union Delays Philly Transit Tieup a Week
Philadelphia transit workers delay a threatened strike to consider a company offer. The CIO Transport Workers plan calls for a seven cent an hour raise over two years, with a vote by members on Wednesday to decide on a settlement.
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Philadelphia
TWU
Imembers
Press Telegram Publishes Daily Except Sundays on Street and Pine
An OCR fragment notes a daily press publication on 1xth Street and Pine Avenue in California. It references the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Carter Delivery charges, and post office handling at a California beach location. The text is garbled with numbers, months, and price figures.
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Elegram Publishea
Pine Avenue
Lee Bezend
California
Audit Bureau of
Sear
Carter
Fess
Iors Beach
Order Act of Marea A
Knight Signals Fight for New Tax in Gardena Poker Clamp
Governor Knight outlined an $75 million tax push and backing a bill to ban commercial poker palaces in Gardena. He noted Gardena voters favored home rule, while Assembly efforts target jobless pay fraud and stricter eligibility as part of an $80 million tax program. Senate views questioned votes to move bills.
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Gardena
Counsimen
Assembly
William A. Burkett
State Department of Employment
Harold K. Levering
Los Angeles
Department of Employment
Burkett
Treasury
Goodwin J. Knight
Glenn Coolidge
Felton
Senate
Ben Hulse
R-El Centro
Russia in New Bid to Kill Paris Pacts
The Soviet Union offered to normalize relations with West Germany if the Paris agreements to rearm are not ratified. A seven page Foreign Ministry statement urged German people to choose between reunification or remilitarization and claimed four power talks are necessary but pointless without French backing.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
West Germany
Paris
Russia
Anna Adcock Celebrates 100th Birthday in Barnsley
Anna Adcock marked her 100th birthday in Barnsley England today with husband John who is approaching his 108th birthday. The couple have been married twenty years sharing a long life together.
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Barnsley
Eng
Anna Adcock
John
Neverper
Lodge Says He's Sure Airmen Will Be Freed
U S ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said he was confident imprisoned American airmen would be freed by the Chinese Communists. President Eisenhower supported Hammarskjold's efforts, and Lodge cited firsthand UN information. Hammarskjold met with several UN ambassadors as talks continued without immediate release.
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U. WB
Henry Cabot
Lodge
U. S
United Nations
State Dulles
Strategic Air Command
Omaha
Neb I . Dulles
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Hej Ihe
Imans
Eisenhower
Hammarskjold
Peiping
New York
Chou En-lai
Dulles
Herbert Hoover Jr
Hoover
Congress
U. N. Am
China
T. F. Tsiang
Hammarskjon
Selim Sarper
Turkey
J. R. Jordaan
South Africa
Francisco ‘Urrutia
Columbia
Arthur S. Lall
Russ to Return 27 Lend-Lease Ships
The Asahi Evening News reports 27 U S warships leased to Russia in World War II will be sent home in June from Maizuru Japan bound for the United States. A Japanese navy official denies any plan to lease the ships to Japan.
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Tokyo
U. S
Russia
Maizuru
United States
Asahi Evening News
Rem
Kunihiko Ito
Japan
Employers Urged to Fight Jobless Insurance Frauds
Dick Jones of Pacific Telephone addresses Lafayette Hotel luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce urging employers to curb unemployment insurance fraud. He notes only 6 to 15 percent of California employers respond regularly to Department notices and calls for changes in minimum earnings and seasonal employment definitions for cannery and packing workers.
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Dick Jones
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
Jones
Lafayette Hotel
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Relations Committee
Manufacturers Council
California
Department of Employment
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Lu” Rayburn
Ed Bartley
Rayburn
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James Roosevelt
Ir Force Base
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Shelby Instrument CO
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