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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1953
Page
6
Chamber of Commerce directors urged the City Council to include 80000 in the next budget to buy historic Rancho Los Cerritos. Two other requests were sent to the city manager: 3500 for the Long Beach Youth Band travel and uniforms and 2500 for the Long Beach Police Reserve Corps.
Atlanta police say 18 year old David Jean Price admitted killing Betty Bagby, 22, a crippled neighbor, after sexual relations on Saturday night. He allegedly choked her, dropped a stone on her head, and later asked his mother for scary murder stories and hot dogs. Price, son of former baseball player Bill Price, was held on suspicion of murder.
About 500 Japanese men, women, and children will depart Osaka by ship Thursday for Brazil aboard the 8343-ton America Maru. It marks the first emigration to South America in 13 years, with 79 families among those departing. Japan had sent around 20,000 emigrants annually to South America from 1927 to 1939, a flow suspended in 1940 by Brazil.
Capt Jan Cwiklinski, master of the liner Batory, fled Red Poland after aiding fugitive Gerhart Eisler's escape. Officials say asylum request is under study. reports claim Cwiklinski and a medical officer are held in Durham Prison. The Batory sailed from Hebburn for Gdynia with the first officer in command.
Federal employment fell below 2.5 million on June 1 for the first time since July 1951 as Civil Service Commission notes a further May decline of 23 500 the largest since June 1950. Preliminary June 1 total 2 483 100 down 73 382 since February 1 with about 2.8 percent cut. Agencies told to curb hires starting July 1. Total employment peaked at 2 606 821 on July 31, 1952.
Los Angeles dispatch reports Harold D. Huycke named finance director for the Republican State Central Committee of California. Announcement came from Chairman Laughlin EB Waters and Finance Chairman Thomas P. Pike.
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