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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1956
Page
4
Gunman invades the 54 room French Castle residence of Prophet Jones in Detroit firing one shot over heads as attendants flee. No injuries reported. Prophet contemplates moving to New York after the incident.
Northern California hog growers filed a superior court petition seeking a restraining order against State Agriculture Department rules requiring that all garbage fed to 40 swine be cooked. They argue the regulations are beyond the department’s power and costly to implement. The department says the rules are necessary to curb vesicular exanthema, a disease spread by raw garbage feeding, and notes they were adopted after public hearings.
Twenty four federal clerks start test of a keyboard shifting the home row from a d f to a o 2 u layout. Backers claim 35 percent higher output while the GSA uses 800000 standard machines with $15 per unit trial costs. General Services Administration officials emphasize no endorsement, only evaluation.
British Prime Minister Anthony Eden skipped the customary toast to President Eisenhower at a Washington state dinner hosted by Secretary of State Dulles. Eden, a veteran diplomat, had thanked Eisenhower but sat without offering the traditional closing toast. Eisenhower did not attend the dinner, and the President is limiting social engagements during Eden's current visit.
A private twin engine plane carrying 10 people including four U S citizens vanished Saturday and was found in the Capaya Mountains. Among the dead were Capt Charles C Baughan and his wife Mary Edgerton of Stamford Connecticut. Malcolm Edgerton of New York. The Edgertons were on vacation. Removal of bodies was to begin.
Paris UPI reports French Premier Mollet outlines a new Algerian deal to bind Europe and Moslem North Africa with “the unbreakable union” of Algeria and metropolitan France. He urged a genuine popular consultation via an Algerian assembly rather than force, linking reform and peace as France faces internal pressures.
The London News Chronicle reports Britain will explode its first hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific in 1957. A three-decker device with atomic trigger and uranium outer layer is described. officials decline to confirm. Britain has a nuclear test planned off Australia in April, though Australian sources doubt a hydrogen detonation.
The mother of 22 year old Doris Jean Ostreicher, who organized the abortion leading to the girl’s death, was freed by Judge VJ Carroll who condemned the act as against state and world law. Milton Schwartz and Rosalie Schwartz received prison terms with Mrs Schwartz to an indeterminate term at the Pennsylvania Industrial Home for Women. The court scene included Mrs Schwartz fainting and being carried from the courtroom as the judge weighed mercy.
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