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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1955
Page
11
Libyan monarch expected in Cairo to pursue marriage as reports from Libyan circles in the Egyptian capital note plans to acquire a second wife.
Reported Moslem king plans to marry Alfa Abdel Moneim Lamloun 38 daughter of a Libyan origin landowner in Egypt. The union would be his second of four wives under Moslem law, as he seeks a male heir while his first wife Fatima has not borne a son. Libyan sources note the king has not seen the bride ahead of arrangements during a recent Egypt visit.
LA based 1st Lt John Conroy of the California Air National Guard flew the Sabre nicknamed the California Boomerang from Los Angeles to New York and back, 5085 miles in 11 hours 26 minutes 33 seconds, averaging 445 mph to set a coast to coast daylight record. He says the jet's age means faster fighters exist and plans to return to civilian work building pools. Navy records note a similar daylight coast to coast flight by Lt Cmdr George Whisler in 1953 but in a different aircraft.
Virginia recorded twenty four violent deaths over a brutal weekend. Sixteen died in automobile crashes including a fatal dead-on collision near Fredericksburg and another crash near Jetersville. A fire near Charlottesville killed three children. Three men died in plane crashes including a Marine pilot and five West Virginia businessmen. Two shootings occurred, one homicide and one suicide after an attempted homicide.
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