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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1953
Page
11
In Phoenix a 41 year old woman vanished during a midnight nude swim with only red sandals. A man and his wife reported their ditch swim when she disappeared. After a two hour search deputies Hill and Weisberger found her unharmed in a maize field, she claimed a premonition her husband might drown her.
LOS ANGELES two men face arraignment in Newhall on charges of assault with intent to kill the wife of one. William J Basom 22 Vallejo laborer and Hubert Leon Whited 21 soldier held on 10000 bond each admitted agreeing to kill Basoms estranged wife for 20 dollars plus bus fare to San Diego and any more Mrs Elizabeth Ann Basom had in her purse.
Lockheed Aircraft Corp announced an Air Force contract to build a jet fighter aimed at local air superiority by sweeping the skies of enemy planes. Observers note it would need supersonic level speed to outrun contemporaries like North American’s F-100 and Convair’s upcoming F-102.
Warsaw radio reported a priest testified at a treason trial that clergymen ran an American-financed spy center in Red Poland. Rev. Jan Danilewicz claimed the network covered 22 000 square miles and included a radio station bombs and grenades gathering information across four provinces forming one fifth of Poland. The final aim of the campaign remained to be seen.
In Kansas City Missouri a seventh bombing in a month injured three people. The blast at 3:30 pm struck the 11th floor of the Bryant Building downtown, wrecking Dr. Hugh Hamilton's examination room and shattering two walls and a street window. Police say the device had the same smell and appearance as prior bombs, with no fragments recovered.
Warsaw radio reported Danilewicz testified he met Kaczmarek and Cardinal Hlond in 1945 to set up a spy center to obtain military and industrial data from Poland. The information allegedly moved from Poland to the Vatican and then to the United States via Cardinal Spellman, citing U S State Department interest.
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