Priest Beats Off Lion Attack At Whipshade Zoo
In Dunstable England a Roman Catholic priest, Rev Ronald Aylward, climbed a 20 foot fence and struck a lion with an iron bar to rescue an 11 year old boy, Tony Murphy of London, during a scout visit. The boy lost both arms and was in critical condition with a chance of survival. The incident occurred as the male and three female lions mauled the boy in the pit after he allegedly climbed over the safety barrier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunstable
England
Tony Murphy
London
Tony
Whipshade Zoo
Ronald Aylward
Father Aylward
Stevenson and Kefauver trade sharp charges in California
Adlai Stevenson campaigns for senior voters in California accusing the Eisenhower administration of neglecting older citizens while defending his pension record. Estes Kefauver counters with a charge that Stevenson has smeared him, cites Stevenson’s RCA defense in a civil suit, and notes a past mix up with an anti trust case. Both seek strong California support as the nomination race tightens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adlai Stevenson
California
Eisenhower
Kefauver
Stevenson
Radio Corp. of America
Zenith Radio Corp
RCA
Western Union Walkout Ends After Short New York Halt
About 34,000 Western Union Telegraph Co employees remained at work after a brief New York stoppage that interrupted roughly a third of the metro area's 150 branches. An uncertain 24 hour notice truce was arranged with the American Communications Assn Ind, covering nearly 4,000 New York area workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Western Union Telegraph Co
New York
American Communications Assn
Ind
New York Area
Eisenhower Aide Predicts Dirty Democratic Campaign
President Eisenhower's press secretary James C. Haggerty warned at a campaign conference that Democrats will wage a rough dirty campaign, saying they have no real issue and will "throw everything at us including the kitchen sink."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
James C. Haggerty
Baseball Today National League and American League slate
Baseball today features night matches across both leagues. New York visits Cincinnati with Sabine Craig facing Nuxhall in a strong pitched duel, while Campanella and Brosnan support the Dodgers in Philadelphia and St Louis. Pittsburgh travels to Milwaukee, and Cleveland meets Washington as Donsvan or Keegan duel Johnson in Baltimore. Detroit eyes a clash with New York as Hoeft battles Byrne, and Kansas City plays Boston with Winge against Brewer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craig
Sabine
Campanella
Brosnan
Land New Yor
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Washington
Lemon
Weisler
Chicago
Baltimore
Executives Paid Over $700,000 a Year at Top Firms
New York. Three executives topped $700,000 in pre tax pay last year, General Motors President Harlow H Curtice, GM Chairman Albert Bradley, and Bethlehem Steel Chairman Eugene R Grace. After taxes, take home figures are far smaller per Business Week, with Curtice at 776,400 total and 121,328 after tax. Grace 705,923 and Bradley 701,525.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harlow H. Curtice
Albert Bradley
General Motors
Eugene R. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Business Week
Uncle Sam
Curtice
Palm Springs Ax Victim Found Amidst Private Investigator Probe
In Palm Springs a woman was found axed in a trailer as a private investigator in the L Ewing Scott case faced grand jury questions. The district attorney sought testimony from Fred Witman of Whittier about Scott relations before Scott’s May 1, 1956 disappearance. Police also reported the second wedding anniversary death of Inez Perkins, whose body was found in a trailer outside the camp where she lived with husband Lawrence, 57.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palm Springs
Los Angeles
CNS
Scott
District Attorney
Fred Witman
Whittier
L. Ewing Scott
Evelyn Throsby Scott
Witman
L. Head
Vue St
Inez Perkins
Lawrence
Perkins
Hunt for flier Ed Tandy in Monterey Bay crash
Navy and Coast Guard search for Lt. (j g) Ed ward H. Tandy 24 after his FJ-3 Fury crashed in Monterey Bay Tuesday. A dented crash helmet found by a fisherman supports a theory he died in the crash. Divers could not locate the wreckage yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Cruz
Edward H. Tandy
Monterey Bay
Coast Guard
Hermosa Beach
Navy
Overpass Plunge Kills Car Driver in California Crash
A Palm Springs man, Oscar R. Clark, 72, was killed when his station wagon towing a house trailer plunged from a San Bernardino Freeway overpass at Alexander Ave. His wife Naomi, 65, was seriously injured with face and chest injuries and taken to Pomona Valley Community Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomona
Palm Springs
San Bernardino
Alexander Ave
Oscar R. Clark
Naomi
Pomona Valley Community Hospital
Fire destroys shop building at Temple City High School
A $42,000 fire gutted a shop building at Temple City High School trapping heat near homes on Emperor Ave. Sheriff’s deputies woke residents as explosions from cleaning fluids echoed. Fire crews saved a machine shop and drafting area. damage totaled $42,000 with $32,000 to the structure and $10,000 to contents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temple City High School
Temple City Sheriff's
L. R. Huston
R. F. Hines
Emperor Ave
N. Oak
Earl R. Dorning
Orlo Pederson
Woman Teacher Injured Sliding Into First Base
Mrs. Esther Hadley aged 55 is in good condition at City Hospital with a hip fracture after sliding into first base during a baseball game with grade school pupils she teaches at Kirkwood, near Binghamton NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binghamton
N.Y
Esther Hadley
City Hospital
Kirkwood
Editor Shot to Death on Honeymoon
Two men in masks killed Thomas Dombrowski editor of Glos Ludowy and Frank Grodzki in a lower East Side social club on the editor’s honeymoon. A third man wounded. Dombrowski had testified before HUAC in 1952 and his paper was banned in Detroit as communistic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Detroit
Lower East Side
Thomas Dombrowski
Glos Ludowy
People’s Voice
Frank Grodzki
New York City
Dombrowski
Bodies of 2 Trapped Miners Found
Ex exhausted rescue workers found the bodies today of two miners trapped deep underground by a violent explosion at Alabama By-Products Corp. The blast occurred 700 feet below ground and injured several others. Relatives waited through an all night vigil as rescuers faced debris filled shafts and air supply challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama By-Products Corp
Rural Areas Seen As Worst Traffic Problem in California
Henry E. North of the California Traffic Safety Foundation told the Western Regional Conference that rural and county areas pose the greatest traffic danger. He cited 2,302 of California’s 3,431 traffic deaths in 1955 occurring in unincorporated rural areas and warned of rapid population growth toward an estimated 16 million residents by 1960.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
California
Henry E. North
California Traffic Safety Foundation
North
Four Die in Bomber Crash at Denver
Four men were killed and four others injured when a twin engine B-25 bomber crashed between two houses south of Lowry Air Force Base while en route from McChord Air Force Base Tacoma to Panama City Florida. The pilot radioed for an emergency landing after leaving the field and the craft exploded on impact. Names of dead and injured withheld. A mother and her two small children narrowly escaped harm as debris hit a parked car and sprouted chaos in the yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Lowry Air Force Base
Mc.Chord Air Force Base
Tacoma
Wash
Panama City
Fla
William Morgan
State Board May Quit in Boxing Probe
Governor Knight said he would accept resignations from California's five athletic commissioners if offered. Commissioner Joseph J. Phillips has already offered to resign as part of cleaning up boxing and wrestling. Knight stressed the resignations are the commissioners' idea, not his, and would give him a freer hand to restore public confidence in genuine contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Knight
California
Joseph J. Phillips
San Francisco
Regents Back UCLA County Hospital Plan
The University of California regents favor creating a county hospital at UCLA in Los Angeles. The move aims to expand public medical care and leverage UCLA facilities for broader community service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
University of California Regents
Ucla
Detroit firm to suspend Ramler output for five days
Detroit based American Motors said it will pause Ramler model production for five days starting next Monday to adjust inventories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
American Motors
Newsman tests Queen's Guard security during royal birthday incident
Simon Ward, Daily Sketch columnist, claims he could have bombed Queen Elizabeth II from close range during the Trooping of the Colour ceremony. Ward and a companion positioned themselves near the route as hundreds of police and security officers guarded the royal procession. He described posing unchallenged with a mock bomb and questioned the adequacy of security arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Simon Ward
The
Daily Sketch
Ward
Cyprus
England
Scotland Yard
Molotov Out as Foreign Minister. Shepilov Promoted in Moscow
Pravda editor Dimitri Shepilov is named minister of foreign affairs replacing Vyacheslav Molotov who remains first deputy premier. The shift, announced in Moscow, comes as Tito visits and follows Khrushchev denouncing Stalin. Molotov, 66, served long in the Communist cause. Shepilov, 51, rose through party ranks including chief of propaganda. Moscow Radio confirmed Molotov’s resignation and said the Supreme Soviet accepted it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Dimitri Shepilov
Pravda
Foreign Ministry
Molotov
Supreme Soviet
Council of Ministers
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Dmitri T. Shepilov
Shepilov
Voice
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Stalin
Tito
Yugoslavia
Central Committee
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Moscow Radio
New York City Real Estate Value Reaches All Time High
The assessed valuation of New York City real estate hits a record high of 21.3749 billion dollars, rising 353.7 million from the previous year, reflecting strong property values across the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York City
Weather Report With Clearing Skies And Mild Temperatures
A light night of cloudiness giving way to mostly sunny conditions today. Expect a high near 77 and a low around 49 F with calm to light winds. Blank pages note sections for Altadena and various local features.
Also Mentioned on This Page
West Berlin
Queen Elizabeth
Priest
Lion
Adlai
ESTES
Associated Press
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Western Union
Ike
Baseball Today
Grace
Bradley
Mr Scott
Mr. Scott
L. Ewings Scott
Fire Perils School
Temple City
House UN- American Activities Committee
TV City
Hollywood
CBS
Red
Star-News
City High School
Billie Jo
Gwen
Gwenn
Billie
Treviso
Italy
Here
Jacqueline Walter
Queen
Inside Information
Horse Guards Parade
Edinburgh
Gloucester
Coen
H . Hate
Altadena
Financial
Oscawesn Dae
Seees
San Gabriel Valley
Sscogacem Vital Statistics
World News Eeeen Oo
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!