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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1953
Page
5
Three Mexican laborers hiding in a gondola freight car narrowly escaped death when a load of 14 inch steel pipe shifted and pinned them. Firemen cut through the back of the gondola to free them. Only Manuel Ortega, 20, was injured with broken ribs and a back injury. the others were knocked flat as the pipes passed over them.
Washington reports Attorney General Brownell seeks to denaturalize Sidney Steinberg and deport racketeer Jack Dragna. A Brooklyn court petition accuses Steinberg of hiding Communist ties when naturalized in 1930s New York. Dragna, once jailed for exclusion hearing, is labeled a Los Angeles racketeer by the Justice Department.
Gov Alfred E Driscoll rebutts mobster Willie Morettis claim as a demented imagination and false concoction He cites Morettis assertion of monthly bribes to the governor s office totaling 10000 and 12000 and 14000 in related schemes involving Adonis Stamler and Passaic County fraud probes The attorney general says he believed Morettis report while Parsonss committee hearing continues
The Senate on Monday approved 947,325,579 in funds for federal agencies, 22,152,659 more than the House. The supplemental measure includes minor boosts such as 980 for an automobile for Vice President Nixon and 178,000 for an emergency fund. The total 1,380,195,388 is below Truman’s earlier request. The bulk cut from the House slashed 1.2 billion for the military, labelled phoney by some, with differences to be settled in a House Senate conference.
A Korea letter to United Press from 83rd Tank Battalion and Company C details their March of Dimes campaign. The 39th Tank Battalion (M) ranked third in the 25th Infantry Division contributions, totaling 7252.60, with Company C giving 4001.35. Company C comprised about 130 men with a top single gift of 150 and an average around 31 per man, noted as possibly the highest unit average in U S service.
New Jersey Parole Board frees Frank Puckett who escaped from a 1920 prison camp and has lived as a superintendent in New York. At 78 he remains jailed in New York on an extradition warrant but parole in New Jersey would release him if returned.
Los Angeles investigators weighed narcotics as a factor in the death of Richard H Abajian a 23 year old Korea veteran found at the rear door of Holy Cross Hospital after leaving Camp Stoneman six days earlier A pathologist noted two puncture wounds on the left arm and possible respiratory failure from a heroin alcohol mix An autopsy chemical analysis was planned while evidence included a boy witness describing a man carrying the body and muttering get a doctor before fleeing downtown Los Angeles next to a fishing themed classified ad promotion.
Premier Alcide de Gasperi announces that the Christian Democrats gained control in seven of eight Sicilian towns in Sunday administrative contests. The party rose from three towns to seven, taking two from the Communist Socialist bloc and two from rightist groups. Communists won in one town, with substantial gains versus 1948 and 1951 results.
In Pasadena Oak Knoll a dispute between Thomas W. Ames and Arline Kraft centers on a cow tethered on Ames property. Officials say Kraft’s occupant is a renter or prospective buyer, while a planning commission and police note the cow’s grazing is lawful given distance rules. Signs warn against the rooming house menace.
Severe atmospheric disturbances cut trans Pacific radio links between San Francisco and Tokyo Hong Kong Taipei and Manila. The blackout affected San Francisco to the Far East for Monday and today with worst conditions in years. Duration unclear with potential lasting several days.
Floyd Ford and a companion pushed to free the stuck car in San Kanlidgu. The vehicle lurched from the rut and plunged over a cliff, with bystanders describing a dramatic rescue effort after the upset.
Pasadena reports James Bunting 26 received a potential 40 year term after setting the Annandale Golf Club fire last December 21. Superior Judge Benjamin Scheinman imposed a 10 year term plus two five year sentences on prior arson convictions in Oakland and St Louis to run consecutively.
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