Los Angeles youth shot down in gang violence clash
A 17 year old Lincol n High School student George A Montoya was fatally shot on Fifth Street near Union and Loma Drive as two rival gangs the Temple Street and Clanton Street clashed. Investigating officers said the Temple Street group planned retaliation after a prior stabbing.
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Los Angeles
CNS
George A. Montoya
Fifth Street
Union Street
Loma Drive
Montoya
Lincoln High School
Central Receiving Hospital
Clanton Street
Carole’s Destiny Up to Jury
In Los Angeles the defense pins Carole Tregoff’s fate on a jury as Dr R Bernard Finch and a former model stand accused of murdering his socialite wife Barbara Finch last July. Rexford Eagan urges the panel to guard the destiny entrusted to them, citing Carole’s courtroom poise after a six hour concealment near the Finch home.
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Los Angeles
Carole Tregoff
R. Bernard Finch
Barbara Jean Finch
Boy Kills Mother in Alamosa Home
In Alamosa Colorado a 13 year old boy named Robert Espinoza shot and killed his mother Rose Espinoza 30 after she criticized him for skipping class. Police say she was found in a blood smeared bathroom with gunshot wounds to the shoulder and behind the ear.
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Alamosa
Colo
Robert Espinoza
Lavern H. Burns
Rose Espinoza
Three Buildings Wrecked by Train
In Mason Michigan a 55 car New York Central freight derailed after a wheel failure. Twenty two cars jumped the tracks and struck three buildings including a lumber store basement and a warehouse, with fertilizer ruptured and 200000 dollars in non-rail damage estimated. no injuries reported.
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Mason
Mich
UPI
New York Central
Jackson-to
Grade Crossings Cost 108 Lives in California in 1959
The California Public Utilities Commission said 108 people died at railroad grade crossings in 1959, the lowest toll since 1921 and 22 percent below 1958 when 139 fatalities were recorded.
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Los Angeles
UPI
California
State Public Utilities Commission
Crippled DC-7C Lands Safely in London
A British Overseas Airways Corp. DC-7C carrying 73 aboard landed safely at London Airport after the pilot feathered the fourth engine over the Atlantic. The flight had skipped Prestwick and Manchester to reach the London airfield.
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London
UPI
British Overseas Airways Corp
Atlantic
Prestwick
Scotland
Manchester
England
Pasa dena Braille Club Featured In Community Album Page
Inside Today The Star News visits the Pasa dena Braille Club to paste a new page in the Community Album. Gen Maxwell D Taylor says the Defense Department holds old gear to discard. Page references indicate multiple items.
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Star-News
Pasadena Braille Club
Maxwell D. Taylor
U. S. Defense Department
Protestant Leaders Demand Apology Over Communist Charges
Six major Protestant churchmen demand Rep. Francis Walter apologize and retract alleged Communist infiltration in churches. Walter invites appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Church leaders press Air Force to repudiate or halt reissuing the withdrawn manual citing false charges.
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New York
Francis E. Walter
D-Pa
Walter
House Committee On un-American Activities
Air Force
Dudley C. Sharp
Sharp
Manuel
Lackland Air Force Base
Tex
Defense
Thomas 5. Gates Jr
National Council of Churches
Mid-East Tensions Seen Easing Despite Egyptian Troop Moves
Cairo sources report easing border tensions between Israel and Egypt as troop movements in the Sinai Desert are described as precautionary and defensive with no outward signs of aggression.
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Cairo
UPI
Israel
Sinai Desert
70 Percent Rain Forecast for Pasadena Area
The U S Weather Bureau issued a 70 percent chance of rain tonight and tomorrow. Light sprinkles were reported in Palos Verdes hills. Temperatures will stay chilly with a high near 58 in Pasadena. No smog is expected. Snow may fall in Southland mountains above 5 000 feet tonight.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Palos Verdes Hills
Pasadena
Southland
Saves Wire Then Dies in Flames
A 72 year old San Pedro man Volta Briggs died after rescuing his wife Phaleta 70 from a burning home at 3417 S Patton Ave He re entered the house as fire fighters fought the blaze near a water heater Briggs was not badly burned and police speculated a heart attack or smoke asphyxiation while the wire remained unhurt Four city fire units led by Battalion Chief A B C Erven extinguished the blaze.
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San Pedro
CNS
Volta Briggs
Phaleta
S. Patton Ave
Briggs
A. B. C. Erven
C 119 Crashes Near Liberty Schools In South Carolina
An Air Force C 119 crash near Liberty South Carolina sent four crew members parachuting away, with witnesses seeing four parachutes. The flaming wreckage lay 200 to 300 feet from Liberty High School, tearing down power lines but causing no injuries. Firefighters from Liberty and Easley responded promptly.
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Liberty
S.C
UPI
Easley
Alexander
Liberty High School
New Liberty Grammar School
Cuba warns of seizure of Guantanamo base
Costa Rica newsman reports Cuban refugee Manuel F. Artime Buesa says Fidel Castro is ready to seize the U S Naval base at Guantanamo if Congress tightens the sugar quota. He claims a decree nationalizing the base exists and accuses large numbers of foreign Communist technicians of turning Cuba into a Red beachhead with Russians, Chinese, and Eastern bloc advisers.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
IUPI
Fidel Castro
U.S
Guantanamo
Congress
Manuel F. Artime Buesa
Guantanamo Base
Artime
Cuba
United States
No Military Aid for Castro
Washington says there will be no U S military aid to Cuba or the Dominican Republic in the new fiscal year beginning July 1. State Department spokesman Lincoln White said the administration will seek no funds from Congress for this purpose.
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U.S
Cuba
Dominican Republic
State Department
Lincoln White
Congress
Jockeys Brother Dies in Los Angeles Car Crash
Masato Taniguchi 22, brother of jockey George Taniguchi, died in a broadside collision at Fl Segundo and Figueroa. Leandro Ruiz 29, driver of the other car, is held on suspicion of manslaughter. Taniguchi had just received a temporary license. Ruiz says he was returning from his dying mother’s bedside in Tijunga.
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Los Angeles
CNS
George Taniguchi
Masato Taniguchi
Navy
Fl Segundo
Figueroa Street
Leandro Ruiz
Taniguchi
Brighton Ave
Figueroa
Dalai Lama Gold Seizure Reported in Kathmandu
Kathmandu police seized a group of Tibetans carrying gold worth about 210000 dollars and one million rupees claiming ownership of the Dalai Lama. Sources said the seizure occurred today and involved the travelers and their cargo.
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Katmandu
Nepal
Dalai Lama
City reports first polio death of year
Los Angeles Health Department announced the year’s first polio death. Erle David Bearden, 51, of 5802 West 85th Place, died February 18 after not receiving Salk polio vaccine.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Erle David Bearden
Eisenhower praised as crowds greet visit in South America
Security tightens as about 500 Socialist demonstrators tear down U S flags in Buenos Aires after a rally while Eisenhower prepares to fly to Mar del Plata. Authorities fear a Peronista surge but welcome for the president remains strong across Argentina and Brazil.
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Buenos Aires
Ike
Eisenhower
U.S
Eisenhower greeted by huge crowd in Mar del Plata
President Eisenhower was welcomed by a large Argentine crowd in Mar del Plata as he arrived for a brief stop before a quiet weekend near Bari, with hundreds of thousands of locals lining the Atlantic resort.
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Juan D. Peron
Eisenhower
Mar del Plata
Argentina
Atlantic
Bariloche
Andes
The Joneses Upkeep Question Stages Housewife Comic
A Daily Herald cartoon shows a British housewife asking her husband how they will keep up with the Joneses. The caption reflects postwar consumer pressure and economic challenge.
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London
UPI
Daily Herald
Joneses
Smiling Princess Margaret Announces Engagement Ring
Princess Margaret posed with fiancé Antony Armstrong Jones at Windsor sharing the first official engagement photographs. Observers expect a wedding in spring or early summer with plans still undecided on scale.
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London
UPI
Margaret
Antony Armstrong Jones
Royal Lodge
Windsor
Spy in Sky satellite to retry after fatal test failure
The Air Force plans another launch of the Midas Spy in the Sky satellite within a few months after the first prototype failed to reach orbit. Telemetry showed the Atlas Agena rocket performed until contact ended five minutes after lift off. engineers suspect an electrical or mechanical fault prevented final separation.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla.api
Air Force
Midas
Midas I
Earth
AEC official predicts moon landing by nuclear rocket in the 1960s
Col. Jack E. Armstrong told the House Space Committee that the United States could reach the moon in the 1960s by speeding Project Rover. He asserted a nuclear rocket for space flight could be ready in the mid 1960s with urgent effort.
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Washington
LPI
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
United States
Jack E. Armstrong
House Space Committee
Armstrong
Former Judge Brennen Sentenced Over Court Contempt
Former Judge Norman E Brennan spent nearly 11 hours in jail after a client said he told her to attend a divorce hearing. He received a three day sentence and was freed on an Indiana Supreme Court writ. A hearing on permanency of the writ is set for March 21.
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Indianapolis
Norman E. Brennan
Brennan
Indiana Supreme Court
Officer Killer Suspect Held
Los Angeles reports Thomas Eugene Race a 28 year old parolee from New York was questioned in the Duvall murder near Victorville. He matches the bandit description who robbed a market near San Bernardino of 909 dollars just before the patrolman was slain and was arrested at gunpoint in a bar at 328 West Manchester Avenue.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Thomas Eugene Race
New York
California
Richard Duvall
Victorville
Race
San Bernardingo
Duvall
Manchester Ave
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