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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1956
Page
7
Retail coffee prices rose four cents a pound today in many New York chains led by Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. amid ongoing green coffee cost increases. Independent roasters have raised wholesale prices twice since May.
In Katmandu Nepal an eight man Argentine expedition retreating from Mount Dhaulagiri 26 810 feet high. Avalanches killed two native porters and the climbers were about 1500 feet from the summit. Their leader died two years ago on a nearby attempt.
Westinghouse workers in Columbus returned to their first shift today after a two day layoff triggered by a three employee stoppage. About 1,638 first shift and 1,050 second shift workers were sent home last Thursday due to protests over higher work quotas. Local 746 of the IUE urged settling the dispute via arbitration.
In Hiroshima the Maritime Safety Board announced the arrest of North Korean intelligence agent Kim Yong Poe aged 35 on Kyushu Island as he attempted to leave Japan. The board said he was sent to organize Korean residents, revive ties with North Korea, and spy on the United States and South Korea. colleague Kil Sam Ik reportedly returned home in 1954.
Guatemala declares a state of alarm after police dispersed a 400 person protest at the capital rail station. The government says a communist plot prompted martial law and suspends several constitutional rights while ordering arrests without warrants and censorship. Six people were arrested as telephone service was cut for four hours.
The Justice Department disclosed it has been unable to locate detailed campaign contribution statements filed with the House by the two major parties for 1952 and prior years. Officials said the records were sought for investigations, including a federal grand jury probe in St. Louis into tax irregularities, with the FBI seeking the Republican statements and the IRS seeking the Democratic statements.
Los Angeles mayor Norris Poulson vetoed the council approved freeze of 3.3 million dollars for city rubbish collection in the 1956 57 budget. He reinstated funds for city collection and said private collectors seek to build a private rubbish empire while noting savings of about five million dollars annually versus private pickup. An advisory council of 400 private collectors suggested residents vote on an ordinance to regulate private rubbish pickup.
Dr Shih Chao Ying 53 former deputy foreign minister and ambassador to Rio de Janeiro died suddenly from a heart attack on Sunday. He served as counselor in Moscow consul general in Ottawa and ambassador in Johannesburg, taught political science at the University of Michigan, and is survived by Mrs Shih and five children in the United States.
HONG KONG. Charles Sydney Miner, an American businessman who waited in Shanghai over five years for a permit to exit Red China, left by air for the United States. Miner, who arrived in Hong Kong May 19, had lived in Shanghai seven years and served as representative for the American owned Shanghai Post and Evening Mercury and insurance magnate C. V. Starr. He said he was not imprisoned or ill treated, but his exit permit was withheld.
Two inmates from a Louisville jail, Arthur E. Penn and Jerry Powell, escaped Friday and were captured Sunday after their stolen car, traveling at 100 to 110 mph, left a highway curve near Pontiac and rolled twice. Patrolman Dean Kinsell held them at gunpoint by the overturned auto until reinforcements arrived. One officer said Penn, driving, earlier forced a car carrying two Negroes off an Illinois highway while fleeing impersonating officers. State police radioed that two men speeding north on Route 66 were impersonating officers.
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