Record heat wave continues cooling at last along Southland
Temperatures soared across the Los Angeles area with a new Long Beach all time date high of 130 and several 100 plus days. Coast Guard reports 102 rescues in the region as boaters faced adrift vessels and motor trouble off Catalina Island and San Pedro. Fire hazard remains high in mountains and foothills with cooler weather forecast from sea breezes and desert air.
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Alameda
el Centro
Pasadena
Santa Ana
Mercury
Long’ Beach
Two County Folk Perish in Airplane Crash near Point Arena
Two Los Angeles County residents, Harold W. Kirkpatrick and Florene Kerr Gill, died when their private Luscombe crashed in heavy fog near Point Arena while en route from Boise to Los Angeles. A hunter reported hearing the engine sputter before the crash. Oakland officer Charles AicGovernor led a search and found the wreck among pines. The bodies were sent to a Point Arena funeral home. relatives were notified.
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W. 154Th St. Gardena
Boise
Idaho
Los Angeles
Feast
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Oakland
Luscombe
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Boyd Campbell
Ormsby Funeral Home
Point
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Arena
Arrests in Red China Claim 127000 Detentions
Nationalist Central News Agency estimates over 127000 arrested in the first half of the year in Red China based on blacklists of counter-revolutionaries. It accuses about 47000 of death sentences and more than 100000 condemned to slave labor.
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Central
Red China
Islave
Business Spokesman Honors U.S. Worker on Labor Day
A business spokesman paid tribute to American workers in observance of Labor Day. The statement highlighted worker contributions to the economy and national capacity.
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U.S
Washington
Federal and Labor Chiefs Hail Workers Progress and Politics
Federal and labor leaders praised improving employment figures with about 651 million Americans holding jobs and unemployment down from 1954 levels. Truman urged labor votes while CIO leaders criticized the GOP, pledging a stronger AFL-CIO united front and intensified political activity to back pro-labor candidates. They criticized Eisenhower era progress on social programs and infrastructure.
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Wayne County Federation of Labor
Meany
New United Labor Movement
S10
AFL
California Job Totals Reach New High Across Sectors
Job totals by sector rise with finance and real estate leading 8,450 and government 6,225. Migration fuels labor growth as Long Beach reports increasing wages across skilled to unskilled roles, while unemployment claims run at 1,366 of 4,040.
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Toll
California
Long Beach
Non
Langer Attacks Ike Speech At Prohibition Meet
North Dakota Senator Langer delivering a prepared address at Camp Mack, the Prohibition Party convention in Warsaw Indiana, denounces President Eisenhower as beholden to organized wealth and big power interests. He criticizes private power, Hell’s Canyon, and promises to reform but claims failure, urging action on health and farm parity amid a 17 state delegate gathering.
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Lilliam E. Lenger
R-Nd
Eisenhower
Senate
North Dakota
Prohibition Party
Camp Mack
Great Medical Trust
Langer
Snake River
West
Hell's Canyon
Idaho Power Co
Wall Street
Idaho
Taft-Hartley
Uabe
Dies After Swim in La Jolla Beach Incident
San Diego report states George Derman, 64, of San Fernando Valley, collapsed after four swims in the surf at La Jolla Sunday and died on the beach. He was a Standard Oil distributor for the San Fernando area.
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George Derman
San Fernando
la Jolla
Standard Oil
Storm Alert Hits Texas Coast and Rio Grande Valley
Heavy rains lash Weslaco and coast towns as Gladys moves toward the Gulf with hurricane force winds forecast. Authorities warn of potential flooding along the Rio Grande, while Falcon Dam and floodways brace for possible high water. The storm’s path threatens Santa Teresa and San Fernando, with coastal vessels advised to stay in port. Flora remains distant in the Atlantic as meteorologists track the two storms.
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Hagen
Santa Teresa
San Fernando
Falcon
Texas Point
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Texas Gulf Coast
Corpus Christi
Flora
Atlantic
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Man Chains Wife to Bed in Tennessee Case
ATHENS Tenn VP See Me Dowell 46 was charged with assault and battery after his wife said he chained her to the bed at night and worked in the fields all day. Deputy Reynolds quoted McDowell saying he feared she would get snake hit. Mrs McDowell mother of seven was taken to a hospital by a neighbor after escaping from the chain in her tobacco patch.
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Tenn
Dowell
W.R. Reynolds
McDowell
Ledge Says Duty Will Prompt Ike to Run
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr the US delegate to the United Nations says a sense of duty will prompt President Eisenhower to run for re election in 1958. He remarks that if Eisenhower believes it his duty to serve as President he will do so.
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Henry Cabot
L Adge Jr
United Nations
Eisenhower
Lodge Suntay
Two Killed in Private Plane Crash Near Stockton
A two seater private plane crashed in a pasture Sunday near Stockton. Pilot Joe Santos, 35, of Modesto, and his brother-in-law Matthew Ramos, 29, of Farmington, died. Santos had flown to a field near Copperclis to give rides to his sister and husband. Mrs Ramos rode first. Ramos went up fifteen minutes later. The crash occurred nose down in a field owned by W. S. Cook of Farmington.
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Joe Santos
Modesta
Matthew Ramos
Farmington
Santos
Copperclis
Escalon -Bellosa
W. S. Cook
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