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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1953
Page
4
In Tokyo the district court ordered the plush Ernie Pile Theater in downtown Tokyo to be returned to its Japanese owners. Toho Motion Picture Co. owns the venue and won an order directing the Tokyo Metropolitan Expropriation Committee to relinquish the theater now used exclusively by U S military personnel.
Seoul reported the Korean War entering its fourth year with a quiet front after heavy fighting the prior day. Chinese forces attacked central Korea, tested by U S and South Korean infantry who repelled them, while Sabre jets claimed six MIGs down and another damaged.
Cairo reports Egyptian President Mohamed Naguib and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spent a day aboard a Nile boat, reportedly discussing the British-Egyptian deadlock over the future of the Suez Canal Zone.
Betty Jean Stalcup Eckels of Breckenridge Texas identified as Stella Darlene Nolan, a four year old abducted from Auction City near Norwalk. Investigators say the girl was last seen with a blue car and potential leads involve a blue Mercury sedan and a blue-gray Mercury. Authorities note no ransom requests and explore possible sex kidnapping while tracing sightings in Sacramento and Stockton.
Ernest I. Pugmire 65 national commander of the Salvation Army since 1944 collapsed and died on 14th Street near the national headquarters while walking from a subway station to his office. He lived in Wyckoff New Jersey and had 46 years of service across the United States Canada China and Japan.
Rhee defies a Korean armistice plan and rejects a divided Korea while urging allies, as Eisenhower and Robertson push for peaceful settlement. Clark met with Rhee amid warnings and technical talks with Congress, with actions seen as delaying a public briefing.
President and White House aides push for an extension of the excess profits tax as the measure nears expiry next Tuesday. Martin reported the conference focused on the tax with broad sentiment to move the bill to the floor. The administration argues for an $800 million extension, while Reed opposes.
A chemical dust explosion blew out a wall of a small building at the West Coast Loading Corp plant Tuesday night. The wooden wall section burned.
TEHRAN Iran. Eight tons of caviar worth about five dollars a spoonful in western nightclubs were shipped to the Soviet Union this week by Iran's newly nationalized fishing industry. Hashem Sahba general manager of fisheries since Iran ended joint Iran-Russian control five months ago said this is the fourth shipment of caviar and frozen fish to Russia under the new arrangement.
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