Seven San Pedro Sea Scouts Safe After 13 Hour Drift
Seven boys and their leader drifted 13 hours in a fogbound Channel aboard a 36 foot converted landing craft. They ran out of fuel about miles off Sunset Beach and swam ashore at sunrise to alert authorities. Coast Guard cutters aided the three remaining men in the other missing craft, while the Scouting party from San Pedro’s Sea Explorers club headed to Catalina Island to explore caves.
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Sunset Beach
San Pedro
Sunset Beer
John F. Graham
Graham
Coast Guard
Catalina Gast Coast Guard
al Lee J. Cilovis
Enoch Troull
Sea Explo
Sar Wun
Catalina Island
U N Dispute Looming on Red Demand
U N tensions rise as Peiping calls for a round table at Korean peace talks. China seeks neutrals including Russia India Burma Pakistan Indonesia and asks North Korea and Red China to attend. US rejects plan and supports a two sided conference, backed by 43 to 5 approval.
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United Nations
China
United States
Peiping
Sunda
M Chau En-lai
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
A Hy
Chau
Russia
India
Burma
Pakistan
Indonesia
Red China
North Korea
U Assembly
U.S
Robert Murphy
American Association For the United Nations
Assembly
Big Pines Fire Flares Up In Angeles Forest
New spot fires reported in the Angeles National Forest as a six day blaze consumes over 24 000 acres of virgin timber. The fire centered in the Big Pines area about 40 miles northeast of Los Angeles remains uncontrolled with 1278 men on the line and crews fighting in Blue Ridge. Wrightwood remained unharmed as officials estimate total timber loss between 14 000 and 16 000 acres.
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Glendora
Angeles National Forest
Weather Forecast Clear Through Tuesday With Fog At Times
Clear weather continues through Tuesday with night and early morning fog and low clouds. Temperatures will edge cooler, bringing a slight drop in daytime highs and cooler nights across the region.
Thirteenth Coffin Mystery Stuns French Village
In Fronsac France the village is shaken by a 13th coffin found when a cemetery rearrangement exposes an extra body. The coffin contains a blonde girl in a ball gown whose identity is unknown. Police fear possible murder and plan official exhumation and inquiry under Libourne authorities.
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Fronsac
France
P. Darneau
Jules Taris
P. Dorneau
Libourne
Stock Prices Tumble Again to New Lows
The market declined for a second straight day reaching new low ground for the year. Losses ranged from $1 to $2 a share across sectors with about two million shares traded. The Associated Press average dropped to $101.30 as volume reached 1.95 million shares amid a five week downturn. Declining issues included C S Steel General Motors Richfield Oil Anaconda Copper Studebaker and New York Central.
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New York
Associated Press
C.S. Steel
General Motors
Richfield Oil
Anaconda Copper
Studebaker
New York Central
Inside Page Index Snapshot
A compact listing outlines sections and page numbers across sections such as Beach Combing on Page B-1 Billy Rose on A-11 Boyle on A-1 Bridge on A-11 Classified from B-? to 3 Comics on B-6 Crossword on B-9 Editorial on A-16 Financial on B-3 Obituaries on B-2 Radio and TV on B-8 Shipping Table on 8-2 and Sports on A-12 to A-14 Theaters on B-7 and B-9 Temperatures on B-9 Women on B-4 B-5 Your World on A-2.
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Billy Rose
Boyle
Bishop Put on Trial for Life as Spy
The Vatican and United States were named in charges against Msgr. Czeslaw Kaczmarek the Bishop of Kielce placed on trial by a military tribunal in Warsaw Poland. He and three priests and a nun face espionage and anti state accusations with the maximum penalty death. The Polish government and Warsaw Radio cited a conspiracy involving the Vatican and an American fifth column networks.
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London
Red Poland
Kielce
United States
Vatican
Czeslaw ‘Kaczmarek
Warsaw
Skacemarelli
U. S
Arthur Bliss Lane
Kaczmarek
Poland
Jan Danilewicz
Josef Dombrowski
Wladyslaw Widlek
Waleria Niklewska
Lane
Kacemarek
Turncoats at Kaesong among Allied prisoners
Allied prisoners who refused to return to their homelands arrived at Kaesong per Wilfred Burchett and are to be handed to Indian custody in the Korean neutral zone on Sunday. About 20 of the 320 are non Koreans, likely many Americans. Indian troops guarded 1800 Chinese being handed over Monday as PK observers watched outside the stockades.
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Panmunjom
Kaesong
Wilfred Burchett
Rita Hayworth’s children guarded amid death threats
Los Angeles Rita Hayworth and her two young daughters Yasmin and Rebecca Welles are under armed guard at the actress home after her attorney confirmed two death threat letters. The FBI opened an investigation as Hayworth, who is in Las Vegas, said she is concerned for her children welfare and will not relent on protection. The threats allegedly include a demand she return to Prince Aly Khan with postmarks from New Rochelle New York. Hayworth recently divorced Aly Khan and declined a large divorce settlement over conditions relating to Yasmins religious upbringing and travel arrangements.
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Los Angeles
Rita Hayworth
Miss Hayworth
Prince Aly Khan
Yasmin
Rita
Aly
Bartley Crim
Rebecca Welles
Orson Welles
Crum
Las Vegas
Dick Heynes
FBI
New Rochelle
Oatis Story First Trouble Sign At Prague World Congress
Editor's Note recalls William N. Oatis returning from two years in a Czechoslovak prison and recounting the August 1950 trouble at the World Congress of the International Union of Students in Prague. He describes his press access, a torn pass, and an official admonition that he was not acting as a journalist. The piece leads into further details on his ordeal.
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William N. Oatis
Prague
Red
Oatis
John A. Carlton
Cel
Czechoslovakia
United States
Datis
International Union of Students
IUS
jIest
England
Scotland
Denmark
Stalin
America
Korea
Jan Stransky
The
Jones
Stransky
Bowditch’s Torture Tale From Korea Prisoner Of War
Long Beach press plans a three installment feature by Cpl. Arthur Bowditch, a POW in Korea who endured battle, hunger, death matches, experiments, and illness. He is now recovering at San Diego Naval Hospital and urges the American people to hear his story.
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Press-Telegram
Long Beach
Cpl
Arthur Bowditch
Korea
Cpl. Bowditch
San Diego Naval Hospital
Press- Telegram
Suva Hit by Severe Quake and 10-foot Tidal Wave
Fiji capital Suva suffered heavy damage after a severe earthquake struck early today and a 10-foot tidal wave swept inland. Two people were killed, including an Indian girl drowned by the wave and a Chinese man killed by falling masonry at a Sikh temple. Across the harbor the wave wrecked boats and littered the area with debris while radio contact with the outside world was limited. Officials warned damage would be substantial though few buildings were demolished.
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Suva
Fiji Islands
Ahate
Edmunds
Fiji
Cop Who Shot Boy Kills Self
Floyd E Tharp chief of police of a foothill town shot and killed himself after learning his bullet killed a 13 year old Seattle youth at a roadblock near Mt Rainier National Park. He was inconsolable after believing he had slain his own sons in the tragedy and died instantly at the scene.
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Tharp
James
Nelson
Seattle
Sai James
Truce Hint in Indochina Suggested by Peiping Radio
The Communist Peiping Radio suggested a negotiated truce may be possible in Indochina. It claimed world peace demands pressured American forces to halt the war in Korea and asserted imperialists could be forced to abandon arms in Vietnam.
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Peiping
Korea
Vietnam
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