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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1953
Page
2
A garbled, humorous international recap notes a Rome statistics claim about gender ingenuity, a teen traveler turned to Sweden’s king, auto fashion safety via Dior hemlines, a Czech–U.S. protest over a West Berlin incident, Romulus crew rumor about an atomic launcher denied, and a British dealer’s obituary with a large cash find in his coat.
Two men from Los Angeles addresses Julio R Flores 30 and Seferino O Jiminez 24 jailed on federal narcotics smuggling charges. Customs agents found 803 grains of heroin in their automobile as they crossed from Tijuana. Agents estimated the drug worth 5000 in the underground market in Southern California. Flores and Jiminez arraigned Tuesday and held in lieu of 10000 bail each, they said they did not know the heroin was in the car.
Italian Premier Giuseppe Pella met with U S Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce for an hour on Trieste amid Western diplomats later briefed. Rome indicated Tito’s free city demand would be rejected, with Pella set to outline Italy’s position in a Sunday address.
George Allison Wilson 69 a former Iowa governor and U S senator died of a throat tumor. He served as governor 1939 to 1943 launching farm to market roads and soil conservation act and later served on agriculture armed services and small business committees in the Senate. He was defeated for re election in 1948 by Gillette Soway. Born in Menlo Iowa he began in politics as a Senate page in 1898.
The Associated Press reports another pleasant day nationwide with scattered clouds and light rain in the upper Mississippi Valley, western Montana, and central plains. Coolest readings in the northeast and central Appalachians, while the southwest desert hits 112 in Thermal. Grand Marais Michigan records 64 as a warm day elsewhere.
President Eisenhower offered no comments on potential successors to Chief Justice Vinson after his death in Washington. Aides said he would attend Vinson's funeral, while speculation centered on Gov. Earl Warren of California and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, with no official word on plans.
The Navy will discontinue the multi million dollar oil exploration project in northern Alaska as an economy measure. Secretary Robert B. Anderson halted exploration in Naval Petroleum Reserve No 4 along the Arctic coast at Point Barrow. Engineers reported exploration was stopped in March and by mid October the reserve will enter a caretaker status.
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