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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1962
Page
3
At least 34 people died Sunday night as flash floods triggered by torrential rains damaged houses, washed out roads, and severed communications in southern Tunisia. Officials say 30 victims were from Gabes, four others, including children, perished in Gafsa amid heavy damage.
Stanley Walker, famed New York Herald Tribune editor and author, killed himself with a shotgun at his Texas ranch near Lampasas two days before throat cancer surgery. He was 64 and had returned to his birthplace in central Texas. His wife found the body on the ranch porch as arrangements were made for cremation in San Antonio. Walker, known for his sharp humor, led the Herald Tribune city desk through Prohibition and the New Deal era and authored several books including City Editor and Night Club Era.
Redlands reports Daniel L. Shoup brother of Gen. David M. Shoup Marine Corps commandant died Sunday apparently of a heart attack. He was stricken while irrigating an orange grove near his home.
A 30 inch bronze expressionist sculpture, cast in 1920 by George Kolbe and valued at 10,000, stolen from the University of Kansas art museum August 31, was recovered two weeks later and returned to the museum. A related Edouard Manet painting insured for 40,000 was not found. The sculpture was located by police near the Marysville station.
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