Rough Sea Tragedy Strikes Valencia Junior Academy Trip
A late afternoon sea squall threw nine overboard from the 43 foot sportfisher Otay off Newport harbor. A 12 year old girl named Geraldine Minetta Clark of Houston and Dr Victor L Mann of Fullerton are presumed drowned. Nineteen children aged 4 to 16, four chaperones and three crew were aboard. Survivors rescued by Skip-A-Lou after about ninety minutes in icy waters. Balboa fire station turned into an emergency hospital for shock and exposure patients. Continued on Page A-4 column 3.
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Victor L. Mann
Fullerton
Geraldine
Minetta Clark
Houston
Texas
Clark
Valencia Junior Academy
Seventh-Day Adventist School
Otay
Newport Harbor
Chil Troester
Balboa
Frank Crocker
Jack Jones
Al woman jury hears state in Owen slaying
Riverside June 7 The Prosecution opened against Mrs Agnes Garnier charged with murdering her wealthy employer John Owen There was no reference to actress Irene Rich and the dispute over cocktail glasses Owen received from Rich is cited as a possible motive Owen and Garnier 52 arrived from Los Angeles and dined at his ranch house Garnier later called ranch foreman Corales urging him to come for her then allegedly saying I just shot the boss to a maid Edna Austin and deputies found Owen dead in his bedroom while Garnier claimed she killed him
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Riverside
Agnes Garnier
John Owen
Irene Rich
Owen
Death penalty for careless driver in Shanghai traffic death
Shanghai June 7 The Communist garrison command fixed the death penalty today for a traffic death. Wang Kuo-jen a truck driver for the Commune was condemned for killing a bicycle rider.
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Shanghai
Wang Kuo-jen
Dock Strikes Grip British West Coast
Waterfront strikes tighten a paralysing grip on Britain s west coast ports. Sailors from strike bound ships for three weeks joined the work stoppage in sympathy. The dockers’ action spread to jetties at Bristol Harbor, Liverpool, and Avonmouth.
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London
Britain
Bristol
Liverpool
Avonmouth
Oppenheimer Questioned By House Panel On Espionage
Washington June 7 UP The House un American Activities Committee met behind closed doors with Dr Robert Oppenheimer head of the Los Alamos atomic bomb project now at Princeton. He was asked about several persons before the committee and cooperated members said. The probe focuses on Soviet espionage in the United States and includes allegations concerning Andrei Schevchenko who allegedly sought wartime jet propulsion secrets by bribing employees.
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House un-American Activities Committee
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Phe Ewell
un-American Activities Committee
Wood
D.ga
Oer
Princeton
N. J
Rep
Velde
R.ill
Truman
Andrei
Chenko
House on-American Activities Committee
Schevchenko
Truman Names Gray as Army Secretary
President Truman nominated Gordon Gray to be Secretary of the Army, sending the nomination to the Senate shortly after announcing his decision. Gray, the undersecretary, has served since the resignation of Kenneth C. Royall and is a long-time official in the defense department.
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Truman
Gray
Army
Washington
Gordon Gray
Senate
White House
Kenneth C. Royall
Plane crash near San Juan kills 45, 28 rescued
In Puerto Rico a converted Army transport plane with 73 aboard crashed and sank off San Juan. Coast guards and volunteers rescued 28, leaving 45 believed dead. Co-pilot Al Cockrill from Pittsfield Mass was missing. The All-American crew and 24 passengers were aboard the C46 carrier under Capt Wakefield of Stamford Conn, crash-landing 200 yards off shore after engine failure.
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Puerto Rico
San Juan
al Cockrill
Pittsfield
Mass
AML
Lee ‘Wakefield
Stamford
Conn
Atlantic
Plane crashes claim dozens across multiple nations
In the past 24 hours a Brazilian army transport crashed into a southern Brasil mountain killing twenty six, while a Puerto Rico crash left forty five feared dead. A Greek military general was among twenty two killed in a night crash north of Athens.
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Smountain
Brasil
Greece
Athens
Showdown on Berlin as Big Four ministers meet
Paris June 7 The Big Four foreign ministers United States Britain France and the Soviet Union met in an open session to discuss Berlin issues. Western ministers outlined strategy while Russia and the West held divergent views in closed talks. The Berlin rail strike remains unresolved and U S forces cited Soviet stalling as hindering East West trade, amid ongoing tension.
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Berlin
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Britain
France
Soviet Union
Russia
Germany
West Berlin
U. S
Ane
Amerit
Large . Ing
Two Bakersfield officers overpowered by Long Beach brothers
Gerald Speer 28 of Bellflower was captured near the courthouse as he waited for his escaped brother LaVern 23 who aided their march back to Bakersfield from prison custody. The Speers, both convict brothers, fled after overpowering deputies near Moffett Field and returning their weapons before vanishing. Gerald offered no resistance when arrested.
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Long Beach
Bakersfield
Gerald Speer
Bellflower
LaVern
San Quentin
LaVern Speer
Associated Press
Speers
Art Overton
John Marco
Moffett Field
Sgt
Overton
Marco
Gerald
Norwalk
P. E. Johaness
American Ave
Leslie E
Ig Beach
Hynes
Plane Sinks After Lifebelts Declined by Half
Wakefield ordered all passengers to wear lifebelts and abandon ship after takeoff from Isla Grande, San Juan, bound for Miami and Newark. About half complied, leaving the rest aboard as the plane sank six minutes later. The wreck was about 200 yards offshore near Pt. Sauipe. Among survivors were Wakefield, first officer Jack Sennell of Bronx, and a Puerto Rican woman. She was treated for shock and exposure in a hospital.
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Jack Sennell
Bronx
Mental hospital turmoil rocked Georgia doctors and resignations
Thirteen of fifteen doctors faced threats of firing and ultimatums as upheaval swept a Georgia mental hospital. The page notes extensive administrative disruption and rapid staff changes, reflecting a tense institutional crisis amid broader regional reporting.
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Georgia
Slayers of Police Officer Nabbed After Car Crash
ARYSVILLE Kan June 7 Two desperadoes fleeing after a 72 hour chase began in Minnesota with the shooting of a police officer were captured near Morrowville by farmers when their escape car hit a washed out culvert. The trio Allan Hartman 20 St Paul Carl Bistram 27 and Bill J Beaty Jr 21 Tekamah Neb were brought to Randall Hospital in serious condition. Beaty claimed to be a hitchhiker aiding the group in the manhunt that stretched from Minnesota through Nebraska and into north central Kansas. The capture followed a report to Cal Smith by Beaty after the crash and involved other farmer helpers with shotguns. The men were identified by officers as the suspects in the Minneapolis suburb shooting of Patrolman Fred Babcock Sr. and faced an ignominious end to 72 hours on the run.
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Minnesota
Morrowville
Randall Hospital
Allan Hartman
St. Paul
Carl Bistram
Bill J. Beaty Jr
Tekamah
Neb
Hartman
Bistram
Arthur
Wisner
Fred Babcock Sr
Minneapolis
Art George
Beaty
Earl Rutherford
Washington ‘County
Smith
Washington County
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Rutherford
Olive Beaty
Bill
Stanton
Ezota
Nebraska
North Central
Cal Smith
United Press
Fugitive Bandit at Large for Year Jailed in Oregon
George Kimes a longtime Oklahoma bank robber who walked away nearly three years ago is jailed in Burns Oregon after being recognized by a fellow worker Sheriff Eldon Sitz said Kimes had been in the southeast Oregon area since fall working in lumber camps and on ranches He and his wife were preparing to leave for Portland when arrested The Kimes brothers once led Oklahoma bank robbers and each faced long sentences for murder and a Covington double bank robbery
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Ore
George Kimes
Oklahoma
Kimes
Eldon Sitz
Oregon
Portland
Sitz
Matt Kimes
Enid
Covington
Seminole
George Noland
Noland
Neilie
Matt
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