Look-Alike Thugs Rob Finance Office at Noon
Two men, who looked alike, robbed a Lakewood finance office of 500 dollars at noon. They forced four employees to the floor, demanded small bills, and fled unnoticed as shoppers remained on the sidewalk. Office manager Ernest J. Smith, 29, and assistant manager Robert Jordan, 22, identified one suspect as wearing yellow gloves and both men as unshaven with dark glasses. Pearl Brock, 41, and Ruby Dobson, 21, were involved as employees ordered to the floor.
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Lakewood
Otlice Mgr
Ernest J. Smith
Metz St
Robert Jordan
Wilson Ave
Compton
Pearl Brock
Hanbury Ave
Smith
Ruby Dobson
Downey Ave
Surrounded Holdup Man Ends Siege in Kansas City
Jewell Wilbert McClelland, 32, held up a store with several hundred dollars inside a meat department and was surrounded by five patrol cars Monday night. Police say McClelland turned toward Patrolman Edward Owens with a gun and a paper sack, then shot himself in the heart as officers closed in, dying at the scene.
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Kansas City
P—A
Jewell Wilbert McClelland
McClelland
Edward Owens
McCleand
Owens
Eastern Argentina floods hit Buenos Aires and La Pampa
Two days of torrential rain caused floods across Buenos Aires and La Pampa provinces. Quema in La Pampa reported extreme rainfall, equaling about 0.15 inches in 48 hours, far above a full year’s normal total.
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
la Pampa
Quema
San Salvador Feels Two Earth Shocks
Two strong tremors hit San Salvador at 1:23 and 3:05 a m today. Early reports indicate no damage or injuries.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Light vote marks New Hampshire first primary activity
Light voting kicked off the New Hampshire Presidential primary with early interest in the Republican vice presidential candidate. In two small towns voters wrote in Sen Styles Bridges of New Hampshire for vice president while early Republican returns favored President Eisenhower for renomination.
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Manchester
N.hl J
New Hampshire
Sen
Styles Bridges
Eisenhower
Polish Red Chief Dies in Moscow
The Polish United Workers Communist Party announces the death of Boleslaw Bierut in Moscow from heart disease late Monday night. Bierut had led Poland’s provisional government with the Red Army and was named president in February 1947. Voters in Millsfield and Ellsworth report slow early voting with some write‑in preferences for Adlai Stevenson and Kefauver, while delegates split between district contenders and at‑large choices.
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Millsfield
N. H
Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Ada Sweeney
Genevieve Annis
Elmer Annis
Mark Sweeney
Ada
Adlai FE. Stevenson
Clinois
Sen. Estes Kofauver
Lennesssec
Moscow
Soviet
Polish United Workers
Ellsworth
Sen
Kofanger
Stevenson
Kefauver
Loontest
Bierut
Council of Unions
Biecut
Germany
Poland
Red
Diet
Polish
Greece Asks U.N. to Consider Cyprus Case
Greek Ambassador Palamas formally requested the United Nations General Assembly to consider Cyprus at its autumn meeting. He handed a letter to Secretary General Hammarskjold and did not seek an urgent session. The Assembly is expected to convene mid November after the U.S. election. Cyprus action may wait unless an extraordinary session is requested.
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Prest
Christian X. Palamas
United Nations Assembly
Cyprus
Palamas
Dag’ Hammarskjde
U. S
General Assembly
Makarios
Sheriff launches jail education experiment in Jefferson County
In Louisville 12 inmates aged 1 to 40 began a classroom program inside the Jefferson County Jail. Sheriff Bruce Hoblitzell started the school with John A. Wilson as head, offering morning and afternoon classes for 50 day to year long terms. Inmates welcomed the chance to learn signaling a desire for betterment and future schooling after release.
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Louisville
UPA
Bruce Hobiitwell
Jefferson County
John A. Wilson
Husky
Hoblitzell
Cyprus strike paralyzes commerce amid protest against exile
In Cyprus, an anti British strike shuts down commerce for a second day as Cypriot shopkeepers and workers protest Britain's exile of Archbishop Maximos. Some Nicolaia shops reopen briefly before closing again as the protest spreads. Turkish sector and American Cyprus Mines workers join the walkout.
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Cyprus
Britain
Maxarios
Nicosia
Cyprus Mines Corp
Scouriotissa
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchav
Bicrut
Widow Who Didn't Trust Banks Robbed
A 78-year-old partially blind widow in Chicago reported a burglary of $25,000 in twenty dollar bills from her third floor southwest side apartment. She said the money, saved with husband from real estate ventures, was kept in a paper bag in a trunk and last opened a month ago.
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Chicago
Sophia Wysokinski
Defiant teens clash as police face stone throwers in Nicosia
Defiant teenagers stoned police in Nicosia prompting mobilization of reserves and military to disperse demonstrators. Six arrested at a church after youths climbed the steeple and rang the bell. At the city’s largest elementary school children hurled rocks at police. court records note a 76-year-old nearly blind priest involved.
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Nicosia
The Witching Hour Curfew Debate Starts Today
A three part series begins in the Press Telegram examining a curfew ordinance aimed at teens. The first article questions if curfew laws protect youth or curb freedoms, with Juvenile Bureau and law enforcement input guiding the discussion.
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Pago Bel
Press-Telegram
Juvenile Bureau
Witching Hour
Anmvers
Council selects Summit Hill site for city hospital
City Council unanimously chooses a Q1-acre Summit site on Signal Hill's southwest slope for a $6.65 million general hospital funded by bonds. Acquisition talks to begin with 25 landowners pending favorable soil reports. Site outside the airport flight path and approved by Seaside Memorial Hospital directors. Boundary details given. 25th Patterson area. Separate action: negotiate for a new osteopathic hospital at 27768 Pacific Ave as part of a $10.5 million bond program. May 12 National Hospital Day noted for dedication of 96-bed osteopathic hospital. sale of $390,000 of the bond issue anticipated around July 1.
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Signal Hill
Ed. Jones
Airport Boosters Assn
Oliver W. Speraw
Speraw
Toby Wick
Long Beach
Seaside Memorial Hospital
Columbia St
Atlantic Ave
Patterson Sha
Long Beach Blvd
Pasadena Ave
Sam Vickers
Pacific Ave
YWA
John Munholland
Vickars
Cabby Plans His Own Red Cross Drive
Chicago cab driver Milton Bronstein plans a Red Cross fundraiser this March. His Veteran’s cab signs pledge to match contributions up to the fare, hoping to inspire other cab drivers to donate. Bronstein already supports many charities with tips, free rides for the elderly and handicapped, and donations to blood banks.
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Cabby
Red Cross
Chicago
IMA
Milton Bronstein
Bronstein
Bell Gardens mechanic admits murder of 17 year old Margena Brunner
Los Angeles County investigators say 28 year old Orville Townsend confessed to killing Margena Joyce Brunner 17 after she resisted a second advance. Townsend 23 and companion Ian Dennis Woolery 23 were booked on murder charges. Woolery drove the car but claimed no further involvement. Margena’s body was found at 1:20 am in a car parked on Adamson Street after a party night that began at a Gene Whalen residence. Weathered timeline places death around 8:30 pm Sunday according to Sheriff’s Inspector Floyd Rossenberg.
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Leon Woolery
Orville Townsend
Margena Joyce Brunner
Bell Grdens
Townsend
Los Angeles
Bell Gardens
Gordon Bowers
Gilliland St
Colmar St. Bell Gardens
Ian Dennis -Woolery
Katella St
Los Alamitos
Woolery
Margena
Adamson St
Tionald G. McFarland
Dinwiddie St
Downey
McFarland
Floyd Rossenberg
Gene Whalen
E. Gage Ave
Classifieds and Listings Referenced in Paper Columns
A compact index lists sections and page numbers for Beach Combing Bridge Classified Comics Editorial Financial Obituaries TV Radio Southland Cities Sports Theaters Tides Temperatures Vital Statistics Wilson Women Your World across Pages A-2 A-8 A-11 B-2 B-3 B-4 B-5 B-6 B-9 B-15 B-1 3 9 11 14 15.
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Hal-Boyle
Southland
Wilson
Harbor Board Votes Tide Output Cutback
The Harbor Board moved toward drastic cuts in tideland oil production to combat subsidence. Commissioners urged a full cutback while preserving revenue from Long Beach tidelands wells, noting contracts with outside operators and potential offset wells. Revenue from tidelands wells averages 25 million dollars yearly.
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Board of Harbor
Tidelands
Hiyhon
William A. Har
Kington
Harbor Department
San Pedro
H. EB
Individusilly
Ridings
Monterey
Monterey Ol Co
Seal Beach
Joseph F. Bishop
AAR
Long Beach Oil Development Co
Richfield Corp
Long Beach Tidelands
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Greece
U.N
Sheriff
Council
Reim
Margena Brunner
Harbor Board
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