20 000 Leathernecks Storm Ashore Sea Jump at Pendleton
CAMP PENDLETON Calif By sea and air 20 000 Marines stormed ashore this morning climaxing one of the Navy s largest amphibious war games with no casualties four hours after daylight. Frogmen cleared beaches then Marines moved inland aboard helicopters and amph-tracts backed by 115 naval vessels. The operation, part of Operation Sea Jump, featured detailed landings and a simulated naval bombardment as a coordinated assault to test defense lines and the joint forces involved.
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Southland
United States
Camp Pendleton Marine Base
Oshore
Sicily
Aliso Canyon
Las Pulgas
Camp Pendleton
Marina ‘Corps
Pendleton
Calif
California
LST
Joan L. Cybart
John Warner
Elm Ave
Don Hansted
St. Joseph Ave
Jit
Korea
Pair Charged With Barber License Fraud
Los Angeles men Albert J. Willets and Charles H. May are held for trial on conspiring to file false documents for barber licenses. Investigators say Willets sent others to May for fake school certificates at 300 dollars each. Investigators cite disclosures of a racket within California Board of Barber Examiners. several named witnesses testify to payments and falsified certificates.
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Los Angeles
California
Albert J. Willets
Charles H. May
Oceanside
Board of
Barber Examiners
Dep. Dist
Frank Hourigan
Herman ™.Frieseke
Pasquale Angellilo
Vincent Scannella
Nicholas Caras
Arthur Conte
Willets
May
Angellilo
Chicago
Scannella
Eastern half of the U S affected by wet weather
Wet and cloudy conditions lingered across the eastern half of the United States with thunderstorms in the southeast. A band of rain stretched from eastern Kansas to western New York, while the Sabine River area faced floods and evacuations near Deweyville affecting about 100 homes.
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Florida
Kansas
Missouri
Pennsylvania
New York
Great Lakes
Lake Erie
Ohio River
Tennessee
Kentucky
Mississippi
Sabine River
Texas- Louisiana
Texas
Deweysville
Convention Dollars Up 25 Percent In Long Beach
Long Beach plans show a 25 percent rise in convention dollars for 1952-53, totaling 10 667 500 with 99 booked conventions this year and 42 scheduled for 1953-34. Delegates total 5 440, and a four member committee studies per delegate spend to set a local average.
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Long Beach
Frank
Finch
Larry Collins Jr
Bu- Peau
Ford Montgomery
Coittee
Victor Hart
William ‘Tomerlin
Jack Arnold
Fight Looms Over Civil Service Firing Power
Washington Democrats gird for a clash over a $1.143 billion State Justice and Commerce Department appropriation provision. It would grant the Attorney General and cabinet secretaries absolute authority to fire any employee deemed unnecessary, a move opposed by the American Legion and veteran advocates. Critics fear loss of due process as President Eisenhower’s security measures already allow suspensions with limited protections.
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Washington
State, Justice and Commerce Departments
United States
Legion
American Legion
House
Lewis K. Gough
Feene
Rep
Teague
Texas
House Veterans’ Committee
Eisenhower
Johannesburg wife claims 79 day water fast record
Mrs Cornelia Foster, a Johannesburg housewife, says she has lived on water and soda for 79 days and plans to continue for two days more before a small amount of milk. She hopes to reach a record fasting title linked to Willy Schmitz, the German hunger artist who fasted 79 days and three hours in Frankfurt.
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South Africa
Johannesburg
Cornelia
Foster
Willy Schmitz
Frankfurt
Schmit
Mother Kills Four Children Then Takes Own Life
Police in Toronto reported a 36 year old mother Adele Holmes killed her four children Nancy seven Trene Linda and another before taking poison or suffocating herself. The father was away at work when responders found the bodies after a 25 minute delay. Fire and medical teams attempted revival with inhalators but failed.
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Toronto
Adele
Holmes
Nancy
Trene
Linda
Mae
Wliremen
Two Prisoners Remain As Freedom Airlift Completes
A military transport brought 149 freed American soldiers from Korea to Hickam and Long Beach. 12 Americans, two Canadians, and six Colombians flew to Tokyo for a brief stop before heading toward Travis AFB. Only Capt Zach Dean and Pfe Clifford Smith remained in Tokyo for personal reasons and medical care.
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Honolulu
Pacific
Korea
California
Tokyo
Long Beach
Hawaii
Travis Air Force Base
San Francisco
Zach Dean
Douglass
Kan
Clifford Smith
Lake ’Charles
U.S
Freedom Airlift
Hickam Air Force Base
Red Cross
Cpt
Carl BE
Pel
Bloomer
Wis
Wayne R. Cottle
East Preston
Idaho
Free Ex-Officer of Girl's Murder Acquitted in Santa Barbara
Leonard M. Kirkes a 47 year old former highway patrolman was freed on murder charges in the 1942 death of Carpin terian choir singer Miss Margaret Sente ney. A Santa Barbara Superior Court jury after a 14 minute deliberation acquitted him. The case which led to a prior 1950 murder conviction was revived by a California Supreme Court ruling granting a new trial.
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Santa Barbara
Carpinteria
Leonard M. Kirkes
Donald Geary
Sonoman County
Santa Barbara County Superior Court
Kirkes
Margaret Senteney
California Supreme Court
Miss Senteney
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Marine Corps
Bert Resnik
Opede Telegram Star
D-Day
U. S
Mantalide Fernandez
Miami
North Korea
Royal N. Baker
James Jabara
Withite
Far East Air Forces
Demos
Marine Pie
Samuel J. ‘Amstrong
San Antonio
Wilford F. Hall
Military Air Transport Service
Walker's
Pine
Slim
Walker
Téth
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