Paradise Island and a Candy Heist Dominate Court News
London schoolmaster Charles Violet reports a secret Mediterranean island with a blonde beauty and a bronzed companion living as Adam and Eve. Norman Beake, 38, jailed for breaking into a Bristol candy shop after a chocolate binge. A Bristol hotel awards $1.75 for lost pleasure on a wedding night. William Smith, 26, crashes into an aquarium after dozing off behind the wheel as fish cling to the windshield.
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Charles Violet
London
Marilyn Monroe
Violet
Paradise
Norman Beake
Bristol
Dennis Rippin
Triplets Born After Bet on Wife’s Hand
Gregory Melanson won a $3000 bet with Lloyd’s of London after his 26-year-old wife delivered triplets two girls and a boy in Santa Monica hospital. Police in Buffalo investigated a reported “concrete kimono” found in a body suspected case. Pittsburgh firemen faced a condemned building fire hazard. Minnesota Secretary of State Virginia Holm rushed to speak at the Girls State meeting in St Paul, aiming to be punctual.
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Gregory Melanson
Lloyd's of London
Lloyd’s
Mama
Santa Monica Hospital
Virginia Holm
Minnesota
St. Paul
Fairgrounds
Canadians Won’t Back ROK Fight
Canadian Foreign Minister Lester B Pearson spoke at a Toronto rally stating Canada will not deploy troops to support any offensive by South Korea against the North after an armistice. He emphasized no obligation to participate in ROK actions not approved by the United Nations. He condemned a late ROK order on POW releases as potentially harming peace goals and declined to comment on possible POW roundup issues.
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Toronto
Lester B. Pearson
Korea
Pearson
U. N. General Assembly
Republic of
South Korea
United Nations
Republic of Korea
Warren Signs Bill Boosting Gasoline Tax
Gov. Earl Warren signed a $70 million California highway financing bill and a transit study measure on television, calling it the Legislature’s major act of 1953. The highway bill raises the state gasoline tax by 4.14 cents and boosts diesel fuel taxes, license fees, and truck and bus weight taxes.
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San Francisco
LLP
California
Earl Warren
Warren
San Francisco Bay Area
Luther H. Lincoln
Oakland
Communists halt Panmunjom hut construction at truce site
Communist engineers abruptly stopped work today on a hut at Panmunjom where over 200 North Koreans had nearly finished foundations. American security police could not explain the sudden halt. Red radio hinted the structure may host the armistice signing or armistice commission work.
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Panmun
Panmunjom
Red
Road and transit plan outlines funding for state buildout
On July 1 a bill projects an extra 692 million dollars for state roadbuilding over the next century. The rapid transit law would supply 440 thousand dollars from state funds and 350 thousand dollars from nine Bay Area counties to fund the study.
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Nine Bay
Sabrejets Down Six MIGs as North Korea War Rages
Air Force reports six Communist MIGs destroyed in air battles over northwest Korea with five more downed and four damaged. Capt. Ralph Parr of Apple Valley Calf downed his sixth Red jet in 12 days, joining Capt. Joseph McConnell as a local ace. Ground fighting persists along central and east central fronts with probing attacks by Communist infantry and Red forces attacking hill positions as factional broadcasts urge peace and homecoming ahead of a possible armistice.
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Secul-Uf
Korea
East Central
38Th Parallel
Suiho Dam
Yalu River
North Korea
Manchuria
Ralph Parr
Apple Valley
Calif
Parr
Joseph McConnell Tr
Battle
Air
Checker Board
Ron
Eighth Army
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