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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1955
Page
2
Author James Mitchener plans a Sunday wedding to a Japanese American woman in Chicago at the University’s chapel. Mitchener, famed for Tales of the South Pacific, refuses to answer if Japanese women make better wives, citing lack of courage. The ceremony marks his third marriage, following a 1943 divorce.
UCLA researchers reported in Los Angeles that bolts of lightning send low frequency signals traveling around the earth. An instrument in Borrego desert recorded signals correlating with major thunderstorm activity worldwide. They said signals may be initiated by lightning from Africa and South America and could help run global storm records.
A car in the St Marys River near Sault Ste Marie was recovered with the bodies of Mr and Mrs Earl Kirk eth inside. A Canadian official and consular staff aided the dive team in a four foot silt deposit near the canal. The missing couple had been sought for fifteen years after their disappearance.
Maj. Gen. Lewis Hershey criticizes American youth for softness in technical fields and consumer luxuries. He argues the nation must stress quality over quantity, maintain a ready reserve, and instill responsibility through church, home, and school to support national defense.
WEI Thes commission on elections has excluded 60,000 voters from registration lists for the November 8 elections. Among the names removed are Franklin D. Bielt and Merilyn Monroe.
Washington discussion on delaying draft of older men and fathers continues. Bricker argues many with families face disproportionate burdens, while Burgess notes no plan to stop inducting older men and plans study younger inductions for months. A Kansas energy damage suit was filed for a 27 year old from Waco as part of ongoing cases.
Lieutenant and two soldiers tied to Korean War era defection face military trial for aiding the enemy while prisoners of the United States. Cowart of Dalton Georgia Griggs of Jacksonville Texas await court martial. no date set. Army previously sought civil transfer defense challenge mirrored in other cases.
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