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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1956
Page
1
City Council today scheduled a special election for Thursday July 26 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Council woman Ruth H Bach on May 1.
In Long Beach Harbor a high school junior, David A Railsback, drowned after driving his car off Pierpoint at 2:50 a.m. following a dispute with his girlfriend Rosanne Heeg. Police call the death suicide. The car landed in 50 feet of water, body recovered after hours of search. The incident follows a district redistricting vote and city council actions.
A 3000-pound Ringling elephant named Emily collapsed on a Manhattan street while en route to a Boston train. The animal, part of 46 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey elephants, died as the circus ended its Sunday show.
Weather experts said unfavorable winds likely delay the Cherokee H-bomb test for the seventh time, pushing the shot to Wednesday morning U S time, with potential further postponement to Thursday as conditions remained unsettled aboard the USS Mt McKinley.
New York City basked in sunshine as thermometers hit a May 13 high of 87.6 degrees, the date’s all time record. Forty Fordham University students were treated at campus infirmary after overheating during a religious service. Normal high for the day is 68.
The United Steelworkers 39 member executive board met in secret to craft a wage policy draft for coming steel industry negotiations. The draft will be reviewed by the 170 member wage policy committee this afternoon, with 650000 members in the union and 172 firms nationwide urged to negotiate new contracts by the June 30 expiration, or the union may strike.
A lumber schooner Howard Olson bound from Wilmington to Coos Bay sank after a collision with the freighter Marine Leopard off Monterey. Four crewmen were killed or missing, while 24 survived and were rescued. The accident occurred about 2:53 a.m. 175 miles south of San Francisco and 20 miles south of Monterey Bay. The Marine Leopard sustained a dented bow but did not take on water during the rescue involving several ships and Coast Guard cutters.
Police reported over 100 injured in a pre election riot as Lee Bum Suk, a rightist vice presidential hopeful, brandished a pistol. Lee, a former prime minister, claimed he fired only in self defense after attackers allegedly surged from behind. The clashes mark a pattern of violence cited by opposition to President Syngman Rhee during the campaign.
EASTBROOK Maine Arthur French a turkey farmer shot and killed a bear that bit his leg just below the knee on Sunday. He pried the jaws apart and hobbled home. Chief Game Warden Elmer Ingraham said the bear trapped French and that he will not walk comfortably for a while.
Weekend twisters and violent storms killed 13 people and injured about 270, with millions in property losses. Cleveland area saw 70 mph winds and multi‑million dollar damage. Flint Michigan faced 145 to 2 million in losses while 600 civil defense volunteers aided recovery. Separate incident in Los Angeles involved an Air Force veteran grabbing a pistol, firing into a crowd but causing only minor injuries.
A high level Soviet official told French Socialists visiting the Tula corrective labor camp near Moscow that the USSR will abolish concentration camps within 18 months. He said prisons and corrective labor colonies will remain for non-political crimes. convicts would work in factory settings and deportations require normal court trials.
Oklahoma highway patrol reported two people killed when a private plane crashed a quarter mile east of Bradley in Grady County this morning. Bradley School Superintendent William Nunn said papers near the craft bore the name Beach Testing Co. from Great Bend Kansas. he saw at least two badly mutilated bodies in the wreck.
In Effingham Illinois a polio crippled wife Naomi Larimer 33 reported to a neighbor she shot and killed her husband Noble 33 a drunk abusive laborer. Police say she fired the shotgun into his chest. the couple were parents of two children ages three and twenty one months.
Soekarno Indonesia's president arrived in Singapore today en route to Washington on his first trip to the West. He switched from an Indonesian airliner to a Pan American plane and will stop at Honolulu before Eisenhower's plane carries him to Washington. He plans visits to Canada West Germany and then the USSR and Red China.
The Soviet Union announced a major reduction of armed forces by 3,200,000 personnel and disbandment of 63 army divisions and 3 air divisions, with over 30,000 troops in East Germany. Navy ships would be mothballed, training schools closed, and the military budget cut though the amount was not specified.
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A noontime reading of 88 degrees broke a 1956 high in Long Beach as a morning windstorm sweeping Orange and southeastern Los Angeles counties damaged crops and created dust clouds. Agriculture chief D W Tubbs reported severe damage to orange and avocado crops, especially in the northeast county near the canyon mouth, with gusts up to 40 mph. No injuries were recorded.
Laverrie and wife watched as Alien 17 and brothers Charles 13 Claude 10 drowned after entering an artificial three acre pond on their Warren County farm. Father and older brother tried rescues, neighbor John Bauman helped drag the pond. Deputies recovered the bodies after draining the pond three hours later.
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