Grand Jury to Probe Murder Claim in Scott Case
Los Angeles grand jury set aside two days to probe allegations that Evelyn Throsby Scott, missing since May 16, was murdered. District Attorney seeks 13 counts against L Ewing Scott for forgery and grand theft and to reopen Phase Two of the investigation into a possible murder.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Evelyn Throsby Scott
L. Ewing Scott
Ernest Roll
Charles E. Beardsley
Weather Outlook With Clouds And Showers Expected
Weather page notes considerable cloudiness today and tomorrow with showers. Forecast high around 68 degrees and a low near 51 degrees with daily temperature ranges.
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Eee Eerree
Fu Weather Report
Indict Editor on Sedition Charge in San Francisco
Editor John William Powell and two associates were indicted under a 1953 sedition law. Powell allegedly used the China Monthly Review in Shanghai to hinder U S military progress in Korea. The indictment lists twelve counts against Powell and accuses the Review of denouncing U S policy and aiding enemy aims.
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San Francisco
John William Powell
China Monthly Review
Shanghai
Powell
Sylvia
Julian Schuman
New York
Review
United States
Korea
China
North Korea
John W. Powel
Federal Grand Jury
Ohio State Hit with Big Ten Probation and Rose Bowl Ban
The Big Ten placed Ohio State University on probation for at least one year and barred the team from Rose Bowl participation during the probation period.
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Ohio State
Chicago
Ohio State University
Big Ten
Death of Siegel associate ruled homicide unknown
Coroner's jury in Los Angeles ruled the death of Elmer Perry 61 as homicide by person or persons unknown. Six witnesses testified including Perry's girlfriend Anita Whitaker in the gunshot death linked to the former speakeasy operator associated with Bugsy Siegal and Tony Corrinero.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Elmer Perry
Perry
Anita Whittaker
Benjamin
Bugsy) Siegal
Tony Corinero
Chotiner to Pick Up Subpoena
Beverly Hills attorney Murray M. Chotiner said he would go to the U S Marshal’s office in the federal building in Los Angeles at 2 p m to pick up a subpoena ordering him to appear before a Senate Investigations Subcommittee on Wednesday for questioning about Army contracts.
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Beverly Hills
CNS
Beverly Hill
Murray M. Chotiner
U.S. Marshal’s Office
Federal
Los Angeles
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Sign of Summer Stolen Fans Worth Eight Thousand
A truckload of electric fans valued at 8000 dollars was stolen from a loading dock as summer signs arrive in Chicago. Police investigate the theft and review surveillance for clues.
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Chicago
Graham murder trial nears key confession testimony
Prosecutor Bert M. Keating said the Graham murder trial will reach a decisive point no later than tomorrow as FBI agents testify about the defendant John Gilbert Graham's confession to blowing up a jetliner killing his mother and 43 others. The confession is pivotal to sending Graham to the gas chamber.
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Denver
John Gilbert Graham
Bert M. Keating
FBI
Graham
Keating
Six Gl's Die in Truck Crash Near Stuttgart
Six American soldiers were killed and eight more seriously injured when their heavy Army truck left the road and plunged down a 90 foot embankment near Stuttgart.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Convicted spy says Reds played him like violin
Harry Gold, serving 30 years for atomic espionage, told a Senate Internal Security subcommittee hearing that Soviet agents lured him into a network by manipulating him as a virtuoso would a violin. He described early industrial espionage and later military spying, crediting a superb Russian psychological effort. The hearing continued with other Rosenberg case figures set to testify.
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Washington
Harry Gold
Gold
Federal
Lewisburg
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Philadelphia
Russia
Senator Welker
Idaho
David Greengrass
Rainstorm Expected to Continue Across California
Rainfall from a coastal storm progressed east and south with Sacramento recording .41 inches and Pasadena .58 inches by noon. Pasadena’s seasonal total reached 17.67 inches, compared with 12.95 inches at the same point last year and the normal 19.41 inches. The forecast calls for more rain tonight and tomorrow as smog remains absent per the Air Pollution Control District.
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Pasadena
Air Pollution Control District
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Duarte Ee
Glendora
la Canada
Monrovia
Nixon states he will seek re election with Eisenhower delighted
Vice President Nixon announced today he will seek re election after conferring with President Eisenhower who said he was delighted by the decision. Nixon told reporters at the White House that he would accept the Republican vice presidential nomination again if the party and delegates desire it. The president and Hagerty confirmed the delight as reporters awaited Hagerty's briefing.
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Nixon
Eisenhower
White House
Republican Party
James C. Hagerty
Ang Ee
House
Senate
Missing Michigan teacher found slain in pine forest
Patricia Burdick, 21, was found dead three miles north of Seney in Michigan's Upper Peninsula after vanishing three days earlier. Paroled convict Leonard Lundberg, 35, from Marquette, confessed to the killing saying he picked up the hitchhiking teacher near Seney and then killed her on a side road. authorities say rape was the motive and an autopsy was planned.
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Mich
Patricia Burdick
Seney
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Murrell Clark
Leonard H. Lundberg
Marquette
Lundberg
Eva Burdick
Lake Superior
Sault Ste. Marie
Clark
CHP Issues 100 Citations For Shoulder Lane Passes
California Highway Patrol cracked down on motorists using the shoulder lane to pass on the Santa Ana Freeway. Officers said more than 100 citations were issued in the past two weeks to drivers who pass on the right of the regular lanes.
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Los Angeles
California Highway Patrol
Santa Ana
CHP
Divorce Granted for Walda Winchell Von Dehn
Walda Winchell Von Dehn 28 daughter of columnist Walter Winchell wins a divorce from Hyatt R. Von Dehn 41 hotel owner. The ruling follows a disputed marriage reported in city court records.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Walda Winchell von Dehn
Walter Winchell
Hyatt R
Lausche candidate talk at Ambassador Hotel press event
Ohio Governor Frank Lausche spoke like a presidential hopeful at a major press conference, addressing key national issues. He was later billed as the guest speaker at Forest Lawn’s annual writing competition and projected as the favorite son at the Democratic Convention this fall.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Ambassador Hotel
Lausche
Forest Lawn
Arsonists Sought After Church Fire Damages Cantara Street
Arson investigators searched for vandals who set fire to the Four Square Gospel Church at Cantara Street and Ensign Avenue. Fire reports described extensive smoke damage and one room badly burned destroying many church records.
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SUN Valley
CNS
Cantara St
Ensign Ave
Poland and Cambodia to establish diplomatic ties
Radio Peiping reports Communist Poland and neutral Cambodia will exchange ministers and open diplomatic relations.
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London
Poland
Cambodia
Radio
Baseball Today Baseball Today American League results noted opposition
The New York game ended 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 with Byrne Konstanty and Berra involved. Cleveland’s Wynn and Hegan faced Crimian and Ginsberg. Washington at Boston was postponed by rain. Brooklyn at New York (night) postponed due to cold and rain. only game scheduled.
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Berra
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Thanlos
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Ginsberg
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Boston
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Brooklyn
Soviets Open to Discuss Nuclear Disarmament
Andrei Gromyko announced at the five power UN disarmament talks in London that the Soviet Union is willing to discuss nuclear arms reductions in addition to conventional cuts. Western sources cautioned it was early to judge if this is a real concession or propaganda to improve Moscow's proposal.
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Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko
Moscow
United Nations
Gromyko
United States
Britain
France
Canada
Harold Stassen
U.S
Stassen
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Bullets Miss Union Organizer in Miami Home
Bert H. Ross international vice president of the Hotel Employes Union narrowly escaped injury when two bullets shattered a living room window. Ross, 46, suspects his union work triggered the drive by shooting and an anonymous caller warned him to leave town ten minutes later.
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Miami
Fla
Bert H. Ross
Grandmother Wins Custody of Twin Girls in Los Angeles
A Los Angeles court awarded custody of 14 year old twin sisters to their paternal grandmother, Marie Brannon, 64, who has raised them. The judge found the mother waived parental rights by giving the children up at birth, prompting the emotional gesture as Karleen and Jonath Gage embraced Brannon after the ruling.
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Los Angeles
Karleen
Jonath Gage
Marie Brannon
Death Claims Veteran Actor Edward Arnold
Veteran stage and film actor Edward Arnold died suddenly at his Encino home at 2:20 a.m. of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 66 and had no known prior illness. Arnold, born Guenther Schneider in New York, was a familiar figure in Pasadena through Tournament of Roses appearances and as a frequent visitor to the Pasadena Playhouse. He appeared in over forty pictures after joining Essenay Studio in Chicago and later returned to Broadway and other theater work.
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Beardsley
Frank Verhoorn
Walter Backman
Hollywood
Edward Arnold
Arnold
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Encino
San Fernando Valley
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Guenther Schneider
New York
Pasadena
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John D. Barry
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American Academy of Dramatic Arts
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Ethel Barrymore
Richmond
Harriett Marshall
Elizabeth
William
Dorothy Jane
Francis X. Bushman
Essenay Studio
Chicago
Wallace Beery
Gloria Swanson
Essenay
Broadway
Russia Holds Back on Concrete Peace Plans
London reports indicate Russia will give moral backing to Middle East peace but will not back specific measures to reduce war risk. In talks with Khrushchev and Bulganin, Eden secures greater cultural and technical exchanges and a pledge to favor increased trade, but no progress on disarmament or other major issues.
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London
Russia
Middle East
Anthony Eden
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
California university funds use disclosed for 1954 55
The University of California spent over 146 million dollars in 1954-55 to run eight campuses and fund atomic research. Only about 58 million came from California state appropriations, while more than 64 million supported federal contracts, including Berkeley Livermore and Los Alamos laboratories.
Auto Fire Truck Crash Injures Two in North Hollywood
Two women, Minnie Dane age 52 and Ruth Ruben age 42, were in serious condition after a car they rode in collided head on with a fire truck rushing to an emergency call. The crash also involved two other cars as the vehicles spun out after impact. Mrs. Gertrude Tow, 40, was the car's driver.
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North Hollywood
CNS
Minnie Dane
Ruth Ruben
Gertrude Tow
Ex-Prisoner Reunites With Daughter After 26 Years
Roy E. Eaton, released after 26 years separated by a wrongful 1940 Rock Island robbery conviction, reunites at Dearborn Street station with daughter Emma Kerr now grown. The case closed when the true culprit confessed, easing decades of silence and divorce.
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Roy E. Faton
James Kerr
Eaton
Emma
Stateville
Rock Island
Kerr
Bloomington
Ind
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