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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1955
Page
5
In Harrison New Jersey police say Edna O Connor 41 wife of Lt Peter A O Connor hanged herself in a jail cell after a Sunday morning disorderly conduct complaint by her husband. A police surgeon could not revive her as she was found by staff in the detention room.
Oakland aquaculturist Jack LaLanne swam two miles from off Alcatraz to Fisherman’s Wharf in 56 minutes with his hands cuffed. A modified sidestroke and a final burst of pushups followed the swim, claimed to refute nothing about escapeproofing. Warden Paul Madigan noted cold water and swift currents complicate escapes.
Six persons died and seven were injured in a two-car crash five miles west of Janesville Wisconsin Sunday night. Victims include Mr. and Mrs. James B. Tait and Mrs. Edward Litts of Janesville and Virgil Lounsbury, 32, of Tiffany with two daughters Cordia 6 and Joanne 5 months. Injured were Edward Litts and five Lounsbury family members. Conditions and ages of other victims were not immediately available. Authorities said the Tait and Litts couples rode in one car and the Lounsburys in the other.
Moroccan police report three people killed and a French national wounded in a terrorist attack targeting Rabat's native quarter. Authorities are investigating the incidents across several sites in Casablanca and Rabat.
UP-CIO telephone workers of the General Telephone Co of the Southwest returned to work last midnight in San Angelo and Carlbad and Hobbs, signaling a possible end to a wildcat strike affecting the five state system. Four workers reported for the midnight shift as the contract expired July 1 and negotiations showed little progress.
A historical brief notes a resident in Vicenza, Italy, celebrated a hundredth birthday today. The text references Pi-Facerica, an Italian figure nicknamed the ernie, noting the century milestone in 1875 context.
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