Fire damages Cedars of Lebanon Hospital basement lab
An early morning blaze in a basement laboratory at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital caused about 10 000 in damage. Six fire companies contained the fire to the lab wing with 150 patients and 45 newborns unaffected. Assistant Chief Moore said a Bunsen burner sparked the flames, with evacuation not required.
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Hollywood
CNS
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Forest W. Moore
Dorothy Curry
Golden Boy Art Aragon Stops Cisco Andrade In Controversial TKO
In Los Angeles a welterweight bout at Wrigley Field ended with Art Aragon winning by TKO over Cisco Andrade amid a blaze of sanctions. The State Athletic Commission briefly suspended Aragon's license and halted his purse while a hearing was scheduled. Referee Abe Roth was suspended after stopping the bout in the ninth to award the victory.
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Cisco Andrade
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Abe Roth
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Four Arrested as Dope Seized in San Francisco Bust
Federal agents and Customs officials arrested four men over two days and seized narcotics valued at $200,000. Ah Pong Lee and Koh Seng Seong both 39, crewmen from the freighter Silver Wave, were charged with carrying opium worth $100,000. The ship arrived from Singapore via San Pedro. Rob ert Valarde Espinosa, 34, of Tijuana, and Frank Ruiz, 28, of Los Angeles, were also arrested. Espinosa allegedly sold heroin to an undercover agent, and police found 12 ounces of Mexican heroin and a quarter ounce of cocaine valued at $100,000 in Ruiz’s room.
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Customs Service
Ah Pong Lee
Koh Seng Seong
Braveness Lines
Silver Wave
San Pedro
Singapore
Robert Valarde Espinosa
Tijuana
Mexico
Frank Ruiz
Los Angeles
Espinosa
Ruiz
Narcotics Bureau
Police on Guard in Racial Tension
Police and sheriff's deputies were on guard in Mansfield Texas and Clinton Tennessee to prevent racial tension from school integration orders erupting into violence.
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Mansfield
Tex
Clinton
Hiroshima Opens Atom Radiation Hospital In Red Cross Complex
The world’s first atomic radiation hospital opens in Hiroshima this Saturday inside the Red Cross Hospital compound. The 120 bed facility marks a landmark in medical response to atomic bombing.
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Hiroshima
ATOM
Japan
Red Cross Hospital
Baseball Today National League Schedule Update
Brief note lists only games scheduled across the National League with teams like Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Mentions players Bubi and Rice in passing. no scores or dates provided.
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Cheng
Pittsburgh
Milwaukee
Bubi
Rice
Retrial Clears Slaying Suspect in Los Angeles
George W. Redston 54 owner of a Los Angeles bar was acquitted of murder after a retrial by Superior Judge Val P. Lucas. The earlier conviction was reversed by the District Court of Appeals over insufficient diligence to locate an eyewitness. The victim, Carl L. Roeckle 30, died after being struck with a baseball bat near the bar on December 27, 1954.
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Los Angeles
George W. Redston
Val P. Lucas
Redston
District Court of Appeals
Carl L. Roeckle
Stevenson to Speak in San Francisco at IAM Meeting
Adlai E Stevenson the Democratic presidential nominee will address the national meeting of the International Association of Machinists in San Francisco on September 6.
Suez Canal tension heightens as NATO set to meet
The British Foreign Office said the North Atlantic Council will meet in Paris next week to discuss the Suez Canal dispute. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd will represent Britain at the hurried NATO meeting opening Wednesday. French troops bound for Cyprus were reported arriving by air.
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British
Foreign Office
North Atlantic Council
Paris
Selwyn Lloyd
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NATO
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Defense Department
Egypt
Suez Crisis discussed by U S leadership amid troop moves
The National Security Council and President Eisenhower discussed the Suez Canal crisis today. Presidential Press Secretary Hagerty offered no details but suggested the issue was on the agenda. Reports from Paris claim Britain and France coordinated troop movements to Cyprus as a precautionary measure.
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Washington
National Security Council
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Portland Blaze Fatal Fire Kills Four In Home
A Portland house fire killed four people early today including Mrs. Elisabeth L. Murray and her children Diane 4 and Dean 6 and 6 month old Terry Anderson. Mrs. Gloria D. Anderson was in critical condition. Two Murray sons 8 and 12 escaped with a friend Paul Sinclair 9 while three others escaped. The blaze started near an oil furnace in the basement and spread to the roof.
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Ore
Elisabeth L. Murray
Diane
Dean
Terry Anderson
Gloria D. Anderson
Anderson
Chester Woodruff
Pickle Packers Honor Earl of Sandwich in Trade Award
The National Pickle Packers Association will honor the Earl of Sandwich, an 82 year old British nobleman, with its annual pickle award for his family's role in the trade. The award acknowledges his ancestor reputedly inventing the sandwich, linked to the pickle trade.
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Chicago
National Pickle Packers Association
Earl of Sandwich
Sandwich
Canadian airliner crashes near Kodiak leaving many dead
A large Canadian airliner with 22 inboard caught fire over the North Pacific and crashed on a bleak Alaskan tidal flat near Kodiak. Officials say 12 dead and three missing after searches. seven survivors were reported injured critically as rescue efforts continued.
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Kodiak
Alaska
North Pacific
Stevenson Kefauver South Drive Promises Grassroots Campaign
Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver push southward on a cross country tour. Stevenson blasts the Eisenhower administration over farm and labor policies as they plan to address public and atomic power at a Knoxville conference. In Sioux City they condemn GOP farm policy and accuse Eisenhower of deafness to labor. The AFL CIO endorsed Stevenson Tuesday to bolster the labor pledge.
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Estes Kefauver
Stevenson
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Tenn
Sioux City
Iowa
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AFL Cio Executive Council
AFL Cio
Steven
Far-Flung Adlai Support Begins in Saigon
An English weekly Times ad urged American residents in South Vietnam to vote absentee for Adlai Stevenson as the U.S. presidential campaign opens abroad.
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U.S
South Viet Nam
United States
Times
Adlai Stevenson
Mother Killed, Baby Uninjured in Pacoima Car Crash
Police report a Pacoima crash when 28 year old Rae Peterson died possibly from a heart attack as she lost control of her car. Her 18 month old son Lyle Robert Peterson, in a baby seat, was unharmed and taken to Van Nuys station to await father Harold Peterson, a Los Angeles telephone company employee.
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Rae Peterson
Lyle Robert Peterson
van Nuys
Harold Peterson
Los Angeles
Polio Toll in Los Angeles County Reaches 14 This Year
Shirley May Collett, 19, died yesterday from polio in Long Beach, raising the county toll to 14 for the year. She fell ill on August 24, 1953, marking the second polio death in Long Beach this year.
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Long Beach
Shirley May Collett
Los Angeles County
CAB PROBES PAN AM CRASH IN THE ALEUTIANS
The Civil Aeronautics Board dispatched four staff experts to the Aleutian Islands to conduct an on the spot investigation of the crash involving a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Aleutian Islands
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Plane Crash Off Alaska Peninsula Kills Several
A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC6B bound from Vancouver to Tokyo crashed 20 miles southwest of Cold Bay Alaska amid rising tides. Captain Thorn ton A Tweed 33 survived with three crew. eight crew and 14 passengers aboard, including 10 Orientals, with several listed as dead or missing. Surviving passengers include Sharon Edelstein 16 and Patricia 7, daughters of CPA manager Ted Edelstein in Hong Kong.
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Canadian Pacific Airlines
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Vancouver
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Kodiak
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Thornton A. Tweed
Burnaby, B.co
Philip D. Iverson
William R. Hunter
Evelyn Lee
Anita Wong
Sharon Edelstein
Patricia
Ted Edelstein
Hong Kong
Kaiser Plans 14 Story Waikiki Hotel at $5 Million
Henry J. Kaiser disclosed plans to build a 14 story hotel on his Waikiki Beach property in Hawaii. The project carries a $5 million cost and a six month construction window.
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Kaiser
Hawaii
Honolulu
Jon
Waikiki Beach
Henry J. Kaiser
Labor Renews Drive Against Racketeers
In Forest Park Pennsylvania labor groups launched a new effort to purge racketeers from the labor movement. The campaign aims to strengthen union integrity and curb corrupt influence within organized labor.
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Forest Park
Nixon’s Father Given Only Day or Two to Live
Nixon’s father Frank A. Nixon was near death with intravenous feeding as Dr. I N Kraushaar said the elder Nixon could die within a day or two while Nixon stayed near Mantoloking New Jersey awaiting the news. Meanwhile AFL CIO moved to end questionable union locals amid a racketeering probe and John DioGuardi’s arrest.
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Nixon
Second Plane Victim Identified in China Coast Shootdown
The Navy identified the second body recovered from the patrol plane shot down off the Chinese coast as Lt. Cmdr. James William Ponsford of Long Beach California. Six widows and 13 children of the 16 men lost August 23 arrived in San Francisco. A Navy plane brought back Airman Albert P. Martin of Delta Ohio just before their chartered plane landed at Travis Air Force Base.
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Washington
Navy
Cmdr
James William Ponsford
Long Beach
Calif
San Francisco
U.S. Navy
China Coast
Travis Air Force Base
Albert P. Martin
Delta
Ohio
Americans Playlabor Day Traffic Roulette Across the Nation
The piece warns that Labor Day weekend traffic will be deadly as millions take to roads. It cites estimates of 25 million cars and 65 million riders, with 438 deaths nationwide over the three days, comparing the period to a high stakes game of American roulette.
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Relman Morin
Associated Press
National Safety Council
Weather Note Predicts Low Clouds Then Sunny Afternoons
A brief weather update reports low clouds overnight and in the morning with hazy sun in the afternoons today and tomorrow. The note appears among the paper's Page A-13 features along with sections on sports, classifieds, and editorial content.
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