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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1961
Page
1
Police and firemen rescued ten construction workers after they were trapped for an hour and twenty minutes in a four deadend sewer tunnel in Cincinnati. The workers, 40 feet underground and 3,600 feet from an escape shaft, faced a tunnel fire 100 feet in, with a barricade delaying spread until crews contained the blaze.
Federal grand jury in Washington indicts the Communist party for failure to register under the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950. The 12 counts name the party and officers, with registration deadline cited as November 29. The case follows swift action after the deadline.
Two workers spotting fire while riding an electric mule in a nine foot tunnel slammed a wooden barricade, fled to warn others, and prompted a speedy response. Inside the shaft Maria rushed an air compressor to the Spring Grove vent and begun pumping air. firemen with gas masks extinguished the blaze as rescue crews vented smoke and gas from the tunnel.
Two brothers, Joseph J. Chilla and Benedict Chilla, chair man and secretary treasurer of Liberty Savings & Loan Association in Hammond, Ind, were arrested in Whiting on embezzlement charges totaling about a million dollars. They waived preliminary hearing. bond set at 5000 each. Embezzlement traced to 1939, with charges for a false loan entry and a false October 1961 board report. Depositors protected by federal insurance. institution has over 6 million in capital assets.
Russian forces stopped nine U S Army vehicles for 74 minutes on an autobahn near isolated Berlin as part of intensified checks on American convoys. The move followed Russian warnings that such troop movements could provoke dangerous consequences. Capt. Harry Daniels resolved a travel document error and the 150 vehicle convoy to West Germany proceeded without further incident.
Considerable cloudiness through Saturday with a 60 percent chance of occasional light showers. Maximum temperature by noon today is 62 degrees.
A city newspaper page reports a clash between the United States and the Soviet Union over seating arrangements related to Red China. The notice appears in the Long Beach Daily Telegraph edition, dated December 1, 1861, with standard local telegraph lines and pricing.
Four persons were killed and two injured in separate Long Beach area crashes Thursday and today. The deceased include Ralph King naval crewman, 21, and three civilian residents. One driver survived with no serious injuries. King’s convertible hit a tank trailer on Figueroa Street near 22nd Street. Mrs. Bette Fisher, 50, Palos Verdes Estates teacher, died when her car left a sharp curve on Via Zumita. Further details continue on Page A-8.
A truckload of troops moved through about a thousand women near the electric company offices in Santo Domingo injuring at least 10 and a male spectator. Unconfirmed reports say 36 more women were injured in Santiago as troops used rifles and noise bombs to disperse protesters seeking to join the general strike.
An item notes racial violence flare in McComb Mississippi with plans for a new arrival of Freedom Riders from Louisiana. It references the story location on Page Ad Beach and multiple section pages across the edition.
Federal agents arrest 45 year old Baltimore housewife Sylvia Belly Vale on threats against Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Edmund Muskie. Evidence links letters mailed since 1957 to Muskie when Maine governor and to University Hospital in Baltimore. Kennedy life threatened by anonymous letter in May 1961. Vale faces up to 20 years imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. she has three children.
An explosion ripped through the engine room of a burning Romanian freighter in Gallipoli killing 12 crew members. The towed vessel named Jasiqsa reported a fire by SOS and carried about 45,000 tons of barley.
In Greenfield Indiana a man identified as Forest Conrad 44 of Detroit kidnapped Dorothy K Smith 23 of Morgantown West Virginia from her mother's home and forced her to drive to U S 40. When she escaped at a stoplight near Greenfield the suspect fled and later fatally shot himself after officers cornered him near Fountain town Indiana. Mrs Smith and a 46 month old daughter were involved.
In Botany Bay the four engine Viscount operated by Ansett Australian National Airlines on charter from Trans-Australian Airlines plummeted after takeoff from Sydney to Canberra. Navy divers and police recovered bodies as wreckage washed ashore, leaving 15 dead.
An Air Force F100 jet crashed into the Niagara Gorge near the United States Canada border after ejecting the pilot, 1st Lt. Edward M Iaether, who parachuted to safety. The plane struck the riverbank then plunged into the water seven miles below. No ground injuries reported.
In SCOUSH BEND Indiana the United Auto Workers halted a planned walkout at Studebaker Packard as new contract talks ran past the old expiry. UAW Local 5 reported postponement of any strike or picketing while negotiators continued meetings led by President Woodward A Frick.
At the United Nations a US move to block Red China's seating with a two thirds vote spurs Soviet criticism that Washington withholds recognition of Peiping. Ambassador Stevenson to reply as Tingfu Tsiang condemns alleged lack of representation for 600 million Chinese.
In Kenyon Minnesota the Municipal Utilities Commission stamped a November bill as Paid reflecting year end savings. Officials say lower expenses this year allow the commission to pass along more than 10 000 dollars to residents as a Christmas present by offsetting electricity costs.
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