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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1954
Page
5
Vatican City reports Pius XII attending mass in a small private chapel today. He declined to officiate, saying he can only do so while seated due to gastritis. German Jesuit Father Josef Heinrich, the Pope's secretary, recited the mass while the Pontiff sat in an armchair from his adjoining bedroom.
Sen. Saltonstall of Massachusetts attacked the so called Red Peril, saying the problem of Communist infiltration has been blown out of proportion. Testimony before the Senate armed services committee showed the services discharged security risks at low rates, despite claims by Sen. McCarthy of thousands of loyalty dismissals. The hearings cited Army Air Force Navy and Marine figures, with Adm Holloway noting administrative errors allowed some resignations under duress.
Odd phraseology describes a court hearing where defendant Renfroe requested a continuance after an odor during painting his house. Judge Hight instructed him to return in two weeks amid improvised courtroom details and a claimed misstatement in the record.
Mrs Libhel Moors, described as a rich Boston widow and descendant of Declaration signer Robert Treat Paine, married Royal Chaplain 68 in a ceremony led by Rt. Rev. Her Knox Sherrill. The groom, Canon Charits Raven, aged 68, and guests included Rev. George La Paine and John Taven. The bride plans to move to Cambridge after selling her Brookline home, her late first husband having left about 4 million dollars.
Weather reports describe rain hail and lightning hitting the city with snow levels near 4000 feet at Lakeview Point and Big Bear Dam. Federal authorities report a theft from an Army storehouse by a group planning to distribute the goods through friends.
Nine men fined a total of 1100 for share the wealth style thefts of 7000 dollars in government property from Army depots at Schenectady and Voorheesville. They pleaded guilty in Federal Court, part of a raid that saw 98 civilian employees arrested by the FBI last November.
Through a lost ad appeal readers are invited to help locate what has been misplaced. The notice asks to contact the listed phone number 6-9071 for the ad writer and mentions the number 77 as part of the page text.
Los Angeles reports singer iCaral Richards sues Decca Records and MCA Artists for 400000 dollars alleging her recording of Song of the Resurrection used on phonograph records without consent. She says she recorded it for the movie The Robe and seeks profits accounting and an injunction against further distribution.
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