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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1959
Page
3
In Los Angeles a gunman identified as James A. Cathey, 27, was disarmed and beaten by bar patrons after a violent incident following a robbery. Jose Lara, 21, was killed and Paul Mercham, 30, wounded as Cathey fled with $150 from the register.
Lonnie Davison and Andy Powell, both 40s Tucson workers, survived five days after their light plane crashed in southern Arizona. Civil Air Patrol crews, including two members killed in a separate crash near Ray Airport, found them near Kearney. Davison crawled eight miles through 100 degree heat with a broken ankle and cracked vertebra to seek help, and Powell suffered multiple injuries.
gravely ill at Walter Reed Hospital John Foster Dulles receives hundreds of thousands of wishes from around the world. latest count shows more than 32000 messages with about 300 daily on average since his hospitalization. In a separate incident a bar patron was assaulted, Cathey sustained severe injuries including a partially ripped ear and multiple head wounds.
In Milan Alfredo Cadelo told the court he did not intend to pour soup on a policeman from his bedroom window. He said the soup was meant for his nephew but the officer intervened. Cadelo received eight months in jail for assaulting a public official.
Dulles, gravely ill with cancer and pneumonia, has received telegrams cards letters and flowers from thousands of well wishers. His aides say they are trying to acknowledge the volume but are behind as the flood of mail swamps the staff.
Mrs. Jane Gehres, 70, was assaulted as she stepped from a streetcar in Los Angeles. Two youths about eight years old struck her eye and arm, breaking her glasses and grabbing a purse with about $60. They fled, authorities said.
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