Miss Universe pageant opens with Long Beach arrival
A plane full of delegates lands at Long Beach Municipal Airport signaling the start of the 1956 Miss Universe pageant. International beauties from across the globe arrive, with notable entrants from Japan, the Philippines, Vermont, and New York awaiting events and a harbor tour aboard the Shearwater.
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Long Beach Municipal
United States
Jin
Isabill Rodriguez
Philippines
Manila
Honolulu
Yoshi Baba
Japan
Long Beach
Washington
Oregon
New York
Hillevi Rombin
Carlene Johnson
Vermont
United States of America
International Beauty Congress
Lafayette Hotel
Los Angeles
Long Beach Harbor
Veterans’Memorial Stadium
Lakewood
Carson St
Miss Tennessee Contends With Cold Long Beach Arrival
Two Southern belles, Stella Wilson Miss Tennessee 1956 and Merce des Florin Espin from Guayaquil, arrived in Long Beach this morning unaware of each other. Miss Wilson, 19, a Bible student at Southwestern College Memphis, shivered in the 40 degree air and quipped she was not used to the cold while the other candidate knew only a few English phrases.
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Long Beach
Stella Wilson
Tennessee
Mercedes Florin Espin
Guayaquil
Ship Sinks in Collision Wins Miss Universe Pageant Mention
A Southwestern College junior Miss Wilson places among the top 33 Tennessee entrants in the Miss Universe All S 2d Pageant. She majors in Bible and English and aims for postgraduate study at a Presbyterian Theological school then Christian Education work.
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Long Beach
Tennessee
Southwestern College
Wilson
Presbyterian Theological School
Two freighters collide in fog. Panamanian ship sinks
In thick Atlantic fog 450 miles east of Boston, two freighters collided and one sank after 1:30 a.m. All 34 crew of the Estoril were reported missing, while survivors aboard the other vessel were aided by a Spanish language reporter and Mrs. Mazzella.
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New York
North Atlantic
Boston
Estoril
Miss Ecuador
Toj
Dea YL. Linnen
Mazzella
la Nacion
Caul
Ecuador
Sion
Southwater
Sfee
California
Coast Guard Casco escorts Mazzella after crash near Halifax
The Casco, 1171 miles away, arrived at 9 a.m. and reports escorting the Mazzella to Halifax after the bow was badly damaged and the ship listed. A 23-year-old from Benton Harbor, a Coast Guard flyer from Salem, and Donald Seaman, a former airman from Panama, were involved in dramatic rescue efforts amid thick fog and near Newfoundland. Seaman narrowly avoided jumping thanks to minister's urging and police intervention. he was taken to General Hospital for observation.
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Coast Guard
Casco
Halifax
Washington
Salem
Mass
Dulthe
E. B. Lewis
Rradar
Union “Methodist Church
Meivas
Donald Seaman
Dea
Lewis
Naples
Seaman
Newfoundland
Generalham
Fragmented newspaper page index note lacks a clear event
The readable text lists section names and page references such as Bridge Page A-19 and Classified B-13 to B-19 with minor cryptic phrases. No coherent event or person is described to summarize into a proper news item.
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Hal
Boyle
Japs Report Largest U S Atom Blast
Tokyo reports the Weather Bureau observed atmospheric changes signaling a major nuclear blast near Bikini at approximately 3 a.m. local time. Seismographs at Matsushiro Observatory also detected tremors suggesting a blast occurred.
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U. S
Tokyo
Japan
National Weather Bureau Sa
United States
Bikini Testing Grounds
Central Meteorological Observatory
Long Beach
Bikini
Matsushiro Observatory
Mountains
Senate confirms Hansen as antitrust chief prosecutor
WASHINGTON The Senate confirmed Victor S. Hansen of Los Angeles as the government's chief antitrust prosecutor and assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust actions succeeding Stanley N. Barnes who resigned. The confirmation was by unanimous voice vote.
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Washington
Senate
Victor S. Hansen
Los Angeles
Hansen
Stanley N. Barnes
Soviet Parliament Backs Plea to Disarm and End Nuclear Tests
Moscow's Supreme Soviet both houses approved a joint appeal to world parliaments backing Soviet disarmament proposals and support for ending nuclear tests. Premier Bulganin and government leaders attended. Khrushchev appeared later from the Presidium. The agenda also covered ratification of decrees since December, pension increases, and dissolving Karelo-Finnish Republic into the Russian-Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
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Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Council of ‘the Union
Council of Nationalities
Bulganin
Kremlin
Communist Party
Nikitai Khrushchev
Council of the Union
Khrushchev
Supreme ' Soviets
Thrifty Rep Taber Urges Boost to Aid Bill
Washington AP Rep Taber Republican NY reversed his usual stance backing a $550 million increase in aid appropriations amid House debate. Leaders hinted at a last minute shift on the $3.1 billion aid bill as Eisenhower criticized deep cuts to fund a $1.4 billion program below his target for 12 months to aid free world nations against communism.
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Dulles
Soviet Union
United Nations
Free World
U. N
Russia
United States
India
Nixon
Asia
Washington
Rep
Taber
R-Ny
House
Eisenhower
Martin
Mass
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Passman
D-La
FBI Enters Tot Kidnap Case in New York
Washington UP The FBI today made its full resources available to solve the Peter Weinberger kidnapping case. Director J Edgar Hoover announced the bureau has entered the investigation with a view to a solution.
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FBI
N.Y
Washington
Pripeter Weinberger
J. Edgar Hoover
Peter Weinberger
Aid saves FBI chief in Watts bank raid firefight
FBI Agent Ed Plevade fired through a suspect’s gun line at John Malone during a Watts bank robbery and kidnapping. The suspect Evans and accomplice Brown fled with $1,600 and abducted a woman. Evans was wounded and hospitalized. The case ties to multiple liquor-store robberies and a ransom note in a chaotic federal local arrest scene.
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Los Angeles
FBI
John Malone
Ed Plevade
Watts
First National Bank
Maxie Brown
Evans
Hia
Philadelphia
W. Adams Blvd
Della Harris
Morris Weinberger
Weinberger
Barbara Webster
Lightning Kills Three Horses and Man in Montana
In Dillon Montana a lightning bolt struck a Garry Ranch near the Idaho border killing Clarence Cunningham 19 of Princeton Missouri and three horses. Cunningham and Ralph Quigley 55 were transporting stock salt when the strike occurred. Quigley freed himself from a horse that fell upon him and walked to a ranch three miles away.
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Quigley
Weather forecast with cloud cover and clear spells
Low clouds late night and early morning hours, otherwise mostly clear. High Thursday expected with light haze.
What Else Fire's in Water Weil
A Richardson Texas fire department responded to a morning call to extinguish a fire at Jess Tripp's water well. Deputy Sheriff Charles Condray estimated about 150 dollars of house paint burned off the siding, attributed to a four broken butane line leaking into the well shaft and fumes ignited by a spark from the water pump.
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Richardson
Tex
Jess Tripp
Charles’Condray
Condray
Rochester man convicted in narcotics case in court
Eddie Rochester Anderson, 28, faced a probation hearing after his narcotics conviction in Superior Court. A narcotics agent testified as the case proceeded, with sentencing to follow in the docket.
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Lus Angeles
Eddie
Rochester
Anderson
Billy
Superior
Silver Dollar Days Bargains Begin in Town Stores
Twenty pages of Bargains in the Telegram announce Silver Dollar Days in downtown stores. The special section highlights three days of discounts from Thursday through Saturday with thousands of silver dollar promotions and store deals. Details appear on the front page.
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Bomms- Merckam
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Boston Common
William F. McDonald
James H. Barry
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William’ Straube
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Ma ‘Lone
Plevack
Yachsor Maney
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