Market Robbery at Long Beach Market Basket
A bandit robbed Market Basket on Bellflower Boulevard and Spring Street at noon, taking about 5000 dollars. He fled toward Municipal Airport, where he was arrested while trying to switch cars as a cab driver followed the getaway vehicle and alerted police.
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Bellflower Blvd
Spring St
Long Beach
el Cabot
Lynn McClellan
Conant Sr
Lakewood Blvd
Herbert E. Scofield
Scofield
Robert A. Osborn
Osborn
Conductor Killed in Illinois Train Wreck
A Chicago to Evansville passenger train derailed in Iroqouis County Illinois. One conductor was killed and 25 people injured. Three cars derailed as a diesel locomotive flipped onto its side. three passengers were listed in serious condition.
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Walsbra
I. Vpi
Chicago
Night and morning weather with sunny afternoon
Forecast calls for clear night and morning, followed by mostly sunny skies in the afternoon. Temperature remains nearly unchanged with little variation.
15-Cent Pay Hike Ends Walkout in Steel Industry
In Pittsburgh AP report U S Steel and CIO United Steelworkers reached a 25-cent plus average hourly raise to end the nation’s shortest steel strike. Union president McDonald led talks with John A. Stephens as mills brace to resume operations, while picket lines may remain.
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David J. McDonald
CIC Steelworkers Union
Pittsburgh
United States Steel Co
U. S. Steel Corp
CIO
United Steelworkers
McDonald
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel
Plumbing Strike Threat Looms in Southern California
Eight thousand AFL Southern California Pipe Trades Council members face a potential walkout over wage terms with the Plumbing Heating and Piping Employers Council. Federal mediator Earl J. Ruddy scheduled talks to avert a tieup as employers threaten a broad shutdown. Current pay is 3.25 dollars an hour plus a 10 cent fund contribution. unions seek 12.4 cents and staged increases through 1958. Plumbers serve residential, commercial and industrial construction and maintenance.
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Los Angeles
Califfornia
Earl J. Ruddy
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Labor and Management
AFL
Southern California Pipe Trades Council
Plumbing Heating and Piping Employers Council
Employers’ Council
Pipe Trades Council
Pipe Trades Trust Fund
Draft Bill Extends Selective Service Four Years
President Eisenhower signed the extension of the selective service law before midnight, extending the draft age to 26 and delaying active duty for two years for all young men. The act also broadens the draft to cover doctors dentists and veterinarians while lowering the upper age limit from 31 to 46.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Torrance Steel Plant to Resume Work
The Columbia Geneva division of United States Steel said its Torrance plant would restart immediately but refining would take up to 10 hours. About 15 workers were notified by telephone that the strike had ended.
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Columbia-Geneva
United States
Torrance
Hwever
Steel union pact to be signed this afternoon
Outside struck steel plants as agreements at each company were signed and sealed. The formal agreement between big steel and the union was to be signed this afternoon. The union planned to meet im.
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Big Steel
Fire Aboard Windrush Collier Near Harbor
The coal carrying collier Windrush, smoldering in No 3 hold, was inspected by Los Angeles Fire Department officials as Coast Guard and port officials declare the fire under control. Adm Frank C Higbee and Coast Guard captains boarded the ship, which may dock to allow land-based firefighting. The Windrush was en route from Mobile, Alabama to Korea.
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Los Angeles Fire Department
Coast Guard
Adm
Frank C. Higbee
Los Angeles Harbor
Long Beach
Higbee
Mobile
Ala
Koroa
Copper Mills and Transit Strikes Sweep Nation
Aaycointed Press reports walkouts in copper mines and transportation threaten the economy. A nationwide steel stoppage ended as a settlement was announced, while Arizona copper activity and a Washington DC transit strike disrupted daily life. Negotiations in San Francisco and Salt Lake City continued as walkouts began at multiple Smelting plants nationwide.
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Railway Express
Arizona
America
Washington
D.C
Los Angeles
Ray
Ariz
International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter
San Francisco
American Smelting and Refining Co
Salt Lake
Kennecott Copper Co
Butte, Mont
Anaconda Copper Co
Douglas, Ariz
Phelpss Dodge Copper Corp
Tecoma
Wash
Selby
Calif
Hayden
Baltimore
AFL
Railway Express Agency
New York
Jersey City
Newark
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Boxer Intervenes In Street Attack On Belmont Shore Woman
A 33 year old Belmont Shore housewife walking her dog was approached by a 23 year old man in a car who grabbed at her and claimed he was for her. A neighborly boxer jumped to defend the woman, chasing the assailant who drove off with the dog and left the scene.
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Belmont Shore
Flier's Body Found on Jap Island
The body of Lt. Alan Murdock McAneny, Yonkers NY, identified among wreckage on Oshima Island near Tokyo. He and three missing Marine fliers were being sought after a Fury jet disappeared in fog while others remained lost at sea. Authorities vow to continue the search despite fading prospects.
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Tokyo
U. S
Fiers
Oshima Island
Marine Corps
Alan Murdock McsAneny
Yonkers
MecAneny
McAneny
B. G. Barnard
Rame, N
Sentinel
Air Force
Plans to Dwarf Empire State Building Tower Near Roswell
Bustwell I Co plans a 1610 foot TV tower awaiting federal approval. KSWS TV owner John A. Barnett says the structure would be 138 feet taller than the Empire State Building, set 43 miles east of Roswell, with an estimated cost of one million dollars.
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Bustwell, I. Co
U“T
John A. Barnett
Ksws-Tv
Roswell
Empire State Building
Barnett
15 Girl Scouts Guests for Southland Salon
Rep Holt hosts 15 Girl Scouts from Reseda Calif in Washington after a year and a half of fundraising. The group tours the White House Supreme Court Library of Congress and Capitol and joins Holt for lunch in the Capitol area before continuing to Williamsburg and New York.
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Washington
Holt
Utah Rifle Executed Slayer of Policeman at Point of the Mountain
Don Jesse Neal, condemned for fatally shooting Salt Lake City police sergeant Owen T. Farley after arrest in 1951, died at sunrise as five Utah riflemen fired. Neal maintained innocence. 150 observers watched, marking Utah’s 34th shooting, 40th execution, with one prior hanging.
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Point OF the Mountain
Utah
Don Jesse Neal
Teac
Salt Lake City
Owen T. Farley
Farley
Neal
Moore and Marciano to Fight Sept 20 at Yankee Stadium
Rocky Marciano and Archie Moore were matched for a heavyweight bout on Tuesday Sept 20 at Yankee Stadium New York. Marciano to receive 40 percent Moore 20 percent of receipts with possible TV and radio deals. If Moore wins a rematch is required within 120 days with 30 30 terms. Ticket prices range 40 30 20 and 10.
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New York
Millions to Hit Road for Holiday Travel Boom
Chicago dispatch notes an estimated forty million automobiles will crowd roads during the three day Fourth of July weekend. The National Safety Council projects about 380 deaths among motorists and pedestrians, and compares this with 342 in the non holiday period. Travel agencies report extra vehicles and service across trains planes and buses.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Safety Council
Where to Find It Beach Combing Boyle Bridge Classified
A compact listing shows page references for a newspaper’s sections including Beach Combing and Boyle on A-15, Bridge on A-15, Classified B-7 to B-15, Comics B-6, Editorial A-14, Financial B-3 and B-2, Sports A-16 to A-19, Theaters A-12 and A-13, Tides and Temperatures B-7, Wilson A-15, Women B-4 and B-5, and Your World A-2.
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Boyle
Financial
Mailie and
Alli
Wilson
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L.B. Market
Norman Walker
Torrance Plant
East
Aaycointed Press
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Gal
Bin
Antonio Sanchez
W. 3Rd St
San Pedro
3Rd
Bandini Sts
Sanchez
Alex Mendoza
S. Cabrillo St
Chuck Neiswender
Flier
Jap Island
Girl Scouts
Southland Salon
Utah Rifles
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