Real guns led to tragic cowboy play killing boy
An 8-year-old Long Beach boy, Larry Barnes, was killed by a 5-year-old playmate during a cowboy game. Police found six revolvers, four loaded, in the Steadman home where the incident occurred. The shooter DeForrest Steadman Jr, son of city sanitation worker and reserve police lieutenant, reportedly hid after the shooting. Larry wore a toy belt. a cap pistol lay beneath him. The chief said Steadman was dropped from the police reserves due to negligence of weapon safety training.
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Long Beach
Larry V. Barnes
12Th St
Orville
Nadine Barnes
Kansas City
Larry
DeForrest
Steadman UE
DeForrest Steadman Jr
E. 12Th St
Steadman
Long Beach Reserve Police
Doris
Compton
Rusty Barnes
Young Steadman
Steagmans
Seaside Hospital
Patterson & Snively Mortuary
William Dovey
Sid
Classified Ad Fragments From Various Pages
A reader-provided snippet lists where to find content in multiple sections. It enumerates Beach, Bagle, Bridge, Classified Ads, Comics, Crossword, Editorials, Financial pages, Lookout, Obituaries, Radio and Television, Shipping, Southland Cities, Sports, Theaters, Temperatures, and Women’s Activities sections with page numbers.
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Radio and
Televisio
Southland
U N Planes Bomb Greeks by Mistake in Korea Front
Allied forces report Greek troops accidentally bombed by four U N fighter bombers after Greek forces defend Nozi on Sunday. Chinese reds renew offensive with artillery and tanks across a 10 mile front as U N and Greek units repel counterattacks. U S F-86 jets down two MiGs. overall August air battles set a monthly record for enemy aircraft destroyed.
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Seoul
Korea
Nori Peak
U.N
Ee Ae Nana
U. S
Nozi
U. S. Highth Army
Marine Given 10 Years for Abandoning Mortars In Korea
Sgt. Ralph Chiarella faces review after a Korean court sentenced him to 109 years, dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay, and rank reduction for abandoning two mortars and 380 rounds when his unit withdrew. He is held in Norfolk awaiting Navy legal review.
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Washington
Korea
Corps
Ralph Chiarella
Norfolk
Chiarello
Marine Corps
Navy
Judge Advocate General's Office
Peather
Louis Chiarello
Trenton
N. J
Plane Production Resumes as Union Heeds President
In Southern California plants production restarted after about 40 000 workers returned to work amid stalled talks. President Truman urged a truce and unions agreed to retroactive pay increases, with IAM and Douglas first to reach deals in El Segundo and Lockheed at Burbank.
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Los Angeles
California
Truman
AFL International Association of Machinists
Lockheed and
Douglas Aircraft Companies
IAM
Douglas
Lockheed
Burbank
Air Force
Douglas el Segundo
Washington
Santa Monica
Donald Ww
Dud Bazooka Shell Kills Boy in Indiana Town
Two 14 year olds played Sunday with a supposedly dud bazooka shell that had been a neighborhood toy for years. David Thom threw it at a tree and the shell exploded, mortally wounding him as he ran across a lot. Fred Brooks was injured in the leg and eye. The accident happened in New Palestine, about 19 miles southeast of Indianapolis.
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David Thom
David
Fred Brooks
New Palestine
Indianapolis
Truman Opens Whistle Stop Campaign Against Ike
President Truman launched a cross country whistle stop tour blasting the Republican “unholy crew” of lobbyists accusing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as their front man. He vowed to tear them apart and warned GOP voters to avoid a third world war by not following risky foreign policy advice. In Fargo, North Dakota he cited government corruption charges as political football used by Eisenhower and urged removal of wrongdoers amid a crowd aboard the Truman train with Senator William Langer accompanying him.
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Truman Train
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
China
Republican Party
Sands
Fargo
N. C
GOP
North Dakota
William Langer
Congress
Eisenhower
Estimat
Girl Finds Note Parents Dead in Quiet Los Angeles Home
Carol Faulkin, 19, finds note and discovers her parents Orlando 43 and Florence 45 shot dead in their home. Police say Florence killed Orlando then herself after quarreling about divorce. Sister Mary Lou 12 alerted by Carol. Neighbors reported ongoing marital strife.
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Los Angeles
Carol Faulkin
Carol
Mary Lou
Florence Faulkin
Orlando
Death sails Loch Ness at 205 mph speed king dies
John Cobb legendary speedboat racer dies after Crusader explodes on Loch Ness during attempt to beat 205 mph mark. The 53 year old Briton suffered a broken neck as the craft broke apart near the mile course end. wife Vicky Cobb and witnesses recount the tragedy. Cobb had held world automobile speed record since 1947 on the Utah salt flats.
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Drumnadrochit
Scotland
John Cobb
Cobb
Loch Ness
Stanley Sayres
United States
Sayres
Salt Flats
Utah
Vicky Cobb
John
Racey
Stevenson Reveals Ten Year Income and Taxes
Gov Adlai E Stevenson disclosed 10 year income totaling 500052.84 with taxes of 211980.42 leaving 288072.42. He showed 1949 1951 state salary 35209.68 and outside income 151210.26 totaling 186419.94 with taxes 84459.35 leaving 101960.59. He invited Eisenhower to reveal his own tax returns as a counterpoint.
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Stevenson
Illinois
Bandit Binds Beauty Shop Worker Here
A bold bandit with a revolver robbed a beauty salon on Eighth Street, binding the 20 year old attendant Betty R. Julian and taking $228 from a floor safe before fleeing. Louise White freed, police describe suspect as 40, about 210 pounds, blue gray trousers and maroon shirt. In Korea, Reds seized three U S soldiers near Panmunjom but released them seven hours later after liaison officers intervened. Identified as Cpl Andrew Herrera, Pfc Joseph Cullen, and Pfc Everett Salmons, none were mistreated.
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B. Eighth St
Betty R. Julian
Market St
Det
Eighth St
Pine Ave
Munsan
Korea
Reds
Panmarjom
Andrew Herrera
San’ Antonio
Tex
Joseph Cullen
Cleveland
Ohio
Everett Salmons
Corbin
Reds Spurn 3 New Allied Peace Plans
Peiping radio quoted Nam I, the Reds chief negotiator, as rejecting three United Nations peace proposals to end the Korean truce deadlock. U N negotiators said Nam denounced the plan as nothing new. A 10 day recess was set for Reds to study the proposals with talks to resume on October 8 unless Reds seek an earlier session.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Lwp
United Nations
Peiping
Oday
Nam I
U. N
Nam
William K. Harrison
U.N
Lone Bandit Robs Worcester Bank for 25000
A young holdup man robbed a Worcester County Trust Co teller of about $25,000 today after handing her a briefcase with a written order to fill it. He vanished into a Main Street crowd after leaving the first floor location.
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Worcester
Mass
Worcester County Trust Co
Main St
Weather outlook with low clouds and drizzle
Low clouds tonight and Tuesday morning with early drizzle. Mostly any Tuesday afternoon shows little temperature change and light wind.
Eisenhower to make public his financial status
New York AP dispatch reports Gen Dwight D Eisenhower will disclose his entire financial situation in response to Gov Adlai E Stevenson demand that presidential nominees reveal finances Stevenson had publicly shared his income and taxes for the last decade A Eisenhower spokesman said a year by year tax return or general financial statement could be issued later and no date was set before his Columba SC speaking engagement with Hagerty adding the general has not funded a political fund and has not focused on related stories
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Douglas B. Cornell
Springfield
Adlai E. Stevenson
Sam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
NEW York
Adal E. Stevenson
Illnois
Stevenson
Eisenhower
Columbia
James E. Hagerty
Land
War Heroine 2 Gun Wang Leaves Formosa for China
Two Gun Wang Pa-mei, a 45 year old Chinese woman guerrilla known as a World War II hero, has departed Formosa to join guerrilla forces against the Chinese Reds. The Nationalist defense ministry said she arrived at an island base off the Chekiang coast en route to Red China. She earned the nickname for her skill with a gun in either hand.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Twogun Wang
Nationalist
Defense Ministry
Wang Pa-mei
Chekiang
Red China
Two Gun
Five Catholic Priests Report Torture in China
The Vatican agency Fides reported from Hong Kong five Catholic missionaries held in Peking since July 1951 described torture by Communist authorities. The Belgian priests Rev. De Ryck Van Lierde Lebrun and others said they were beaten, hanged, deprived of sleep, had beards plucked, and were suspended by their feet while interrogated for alleged espionage.
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Vatican City
Fides Yee
Red China
Fides
Hong Kong
Maurice Kavanaugh
Joseph Schyns
Ulrich Lebrun
Albert van Lierde
Karel de Ryck
Belgium
Peking
de Ryck
Kavanaugh
van Lierde
le Brun
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Louis
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Ike
Ernest B. Vaccaro
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Bandit
Lone Bandit
Massachusetts
Adlai
Wang
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