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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1953
Page
7
Nine people were killed and 17 injured when four tourist buses collided in Le Faou Brittany on Monday night. Nine of the injured are in critical condition.
President Eisenhower concludes a five day swing with a stop at Falcon Dam dedication near the Rio Grande. Mexican President Ruiz Cortines joins the ceremony as crowds cheer in both nations. A Mexican plane crash near the site killed over twenty workers, dimming the celebrations.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, British commander in the Far East at Pearl Harbor time, died at a Royal Air Force hospital in Halton England at 75. He led land and air forces in Malaya Burma and Hong Kong from 1940 to 1941, with defenses described as unprepared and overoptimistic by critics at the time.
Vice Admiral Ballentine dismissed sabotage and personnel failure theories regarding the Leyte explosion and fire. He remains convinced a material failure caused the blast aboard the carrier tied at Boston Naval Shipyard, noting nine top catapult experts died and accidental ignition of vaporized hydraulic oil sparked the disaster.
An advertisement offers constipation relief with a complete service using new devices and thorough examination. It lists Dr Carlson D C and a Beverly Street contact number, inviting readers to call for an axominador style assessment.
Clarence Manion head of Eisenhower’s Intergovernmental Relations Commission calls for selling the Tennessee Valley Authority to private industry. He says the government should not have built TVA and supports shifting functions to state and local levels. Manion previously led Notre Dame law school.
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