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Independent from Long Beach, California • 1

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SS; low, It (Complete weather on Pago TheSouthland's ll Finesl MorningNewspaper Phono HE 5-1 1 6 1 XSlatttfied No. HE 2-S959 I 32 PARSES LONG BEACH lj TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, I95t VOL 21 r-Na 4 HOME EDITION IOd 6 it i 40-Foot lit i Bodies, Debris Nearly one million persons and one killer whale closed out the Labor Day week end Monday by spending the day at Southland beaches. An estimated 175JXX) persons were reported an local beach sands, i Bigg attendance was an estimated 200,000 at the Redondo-Manhattan-Hermosa Beach strip. THE SURF WAS CALM and only a dozen rescu were reported from all the beaches. There were no reports of drownings.

A giant killer whale was believed to have made an afternoon yisit in the Zumg Beach area. Lifeguards there said several hundred people fii the water rushed to the' beach when a 6-foot tall fin was spotted 000 yards off shore near Point Dume. lifeguard Cspt Kirby Temple said the 40-foot whale surfaced only a few feet from where small boys were floating on surf mats. It did not attack. THOUSANDS OF OTHER penonjMvatched as the whale made its two-mile swim- along the beach.

Eleven lifeguard stations were alerted by radio and- the warning was passed to all Killer whales are extremely vidqus when angered and likely to attack anything. This ohe-' didnt seem very excited, though one lifeguard said. He must have in a good mood." The guard said he had never seen a killer whale so dose to shore before and neither had he ever seen one traveling alone. Killer -whales usually travel in packs. The whale proceeded from Zuma Beach to Trances Beach before turning out to sea and (AP) 'plane GUAM (Tuesday) -LA military cargo with .19" aboard I into the Pacific miles west of Guam today.

No survivors been Debris and three bodies were spotted by ait Amphibian -from the. Naval Air Station. A yellow -cylinder, presumably an oxygen tank, and pieces of wood were among the debris. Maj. John Air Force information officer, said the Military Transport Service C124 was on a routine cargo flight to the Philippines.

It left the naval flight line here at 5:55 a.m. CRASHED an' estimated five minutes after takeoff without having radioed any warning of trouble. Walker said It is regular practice for' planes to menage the base within an hour after their departure. Of the 19 aboard, seven were crewmen and'i12 passengers. The Air Force, and Navy launched an, air and sea search.

The Air Force had two FH19 helicopters searching, the The Navy lent a UFX nates ance plane, a WV2 radar ticket plane and several surface craft The C124 was based at Travis Air Force -Base near Fairfield, Calif. It bound'for Clarke AFB in the Philippines. 3 RICHARD LABORED ALL DAY EV VAIN 45 San Francisco, and Richards feelings about the day are quite apparent The Dodgers dropped a doubleheader to Willie Mays, and the Giants Monday. (Staff Photo Skip Shuman.) Richard Riopelle, 14, of 1Q45 Lime spent all day Labor Day watching his beloved! Dodgers. The best they could do, however, was to dodge victory completely while competing in.

Injured in L.B. Area FRANK ZAMARIPPA COMFORTS WIFE BARBARA She's Victim of Mysterious Sniper Lightning Hits St. Louis Trolley Injuring Eight I that swept through the root andj injured at legst eight per-' TTi injured were sent to hos- ST. LOUIS, MoH(UPI) Lightning struck, a streetcar in midtown Louis Monday night setting' off' flash fire pitals with flash burns, about the face. The conductor said thAejj no panic aboard the trolley.

mostly was J' Formosa Warships Sink 12 Red Boats TAIPEI, FORMOSA (Tuesday) (AP) Nationalist warships! Red Chinese torpedo boats today hi a battle off Quemoy Island, Defmse Ministry spokesmen announced. -They called it the biggest action of its kind in the long-drawn hostilities in Formosa Strait. i 6 Phantom Sniper Suspects Arrested Six young men have been' arrested in connection with 'the phantom sniper shooting of Mrs. Barbara Zamarripa, 25, at San Pedro. San Pedro detectives Monday 1 Cattle Rock Bows to Court LITTLE Afk.

UII) The Little Rock school board Monday night bowed to the U. S. Supreme Court and set back to Sept. 15 the Opening of Central High School keystone- of the South's battle against (Tegro 4 The shooting occurred In the Rancho San Pedro' Housing Project. Detectives traced a car which left the area after the shooting and arrested Fred Montoya, -9, 934 W.

6th San Pedro, and his five companions. THEY ARE George Mo Dowell, 23, 664 W. 21st The board could have stuck to eviously scheduled opening on Septj night said a seventh is being sought- Zamarripa, in critical condition at Harbor General Hospital, was hit in the chest at dose range Sunday night as she' emptied trash in her back yrd, 110 S. Palos Verdes St. Doctors say they are waiting for her condition to Improve before they remove a bullet lodged in her right chest AUTHORITIES believed at first, she probably was shot from ambush.

Monday, however, questioning of the six men in custody led officers to believe it passible she was hit by a bullet intended for someone else in a gang warfare activity. Four warships took rparf: in the engagement in Uao-Lo Bay, the crescent-shaped southern side of Quemoy. Qne warship was damaged but was towed to safety, the ministry said. Military observers said site of the action bidicated the Reds possibly were trying to destroy landing ships used by the Nationalists to transport shells and otherj supplies to the Quemoy garrison. THE DEFENSE ministry said tens of Horpedo boats' operating in four groups were encountered.

Tjdey were described as highspeed vessels. The naval engagement began at 12:35 ajn. 'sted lasted until 2:09. I1 Word of the fighting came shortly after the. Nationalists announced thefr Quemoy batteries had blasted a Communist flotilla near Amoy In a night barrage Monday.

Three shells were fired at Tatan, a 96-acre islet 2ft miles south of Amoy. The shelling oif Tatan, considered one of the more likely targets for a Red invasion, came from Amoy. -The Nationalists returned the THE NATIONALIST announcement of Mondays attack on the Red flotilla near Amoy said five Communist gttnboats also. were, damaged. The communique failed, to mike the usual Nationalist charge that the Reds opened the fight, indicating the Nationalists fired first.

Amoy is an important Communist, island off the mainland near the Quemoys. Passage i of ship from Amoy to the Formosa Strait is-, blocked' by Tan islets 1 and Tungting, 17 miles south of Quemoy. There hai been wide speculation here the Reds would: eek to. invade these islands upf shipping into Amby.L v. Three persems were killed and 45 others injured in weekeni holiday traffic accidents in the Long Beach area.

Nationally, the toll was 392 dead in traffic, 83 from miscellaneous, accidents, 108 by drowning and 12 in plane crashes, a total of 583. Thousands of citations were issued by law enforcement officers as they sought to hold down the numbqf of accidents. Dead in traffic mishaps since 6 pi m. Friday: Mrs. Jane M.

Ogden, 75, 33 Esperanza fatally injured when struck by an auto Saturday night on Ocean Blvd. hear Esperanza Ave. Robert R. Martinez, 38, of Los Angeles, fatally injured when strode by a fear Friday night on Compton north of 66th St, in the Compton area. Clyde R.

Hummel, 2L of RockhiU, Mo from the USS Ashtabula, fataQy injured in -a two-car collisioh Saturday night atKafrlla Ave. and 9th St, a OF THE 45 injured hi 24 other accidents, one victim remains critical. She is Mrs. Frances L. Mif-fitt 72, 534 Ultimo struck for a car at 2nd St and Roy-croft Ave.

Sunday. She was admitted to Community Hospital with multiple fractures and internal Injuries. Admitted to St Marys Hospital with injuries, including a possibly fractured 2ftyearvold Stephen Bartlett 102 E. Bixby Rdr after he was. strode to a.ear Mah; day on--Pine Ave, sputh of Bixby Rd.

Dorme Q. 25, 510 N. Palos- Verdes Sti Alex' Mendoza, 19, 2617 S. Cabrillo Qeso Aziza, 26, 732 W. Santa Cruz all San Pedro and Jesse Lomelli, 21, 428 McDon- -aid Wilmington.

Police said McDowell re- centiy was arrested and charged' -with assault in. the shooting of a man at Cabrillo Beach. He --later was released- on bail, of- ficers said. Detectives identified ti seventh man wanted for question- ing as a Louis Montoya, 18 who had beat with Lomel about the time of the shooting of Mrs. Zamarripa.

-All seven men are close friends, police said. None was armed when taken Into custody. Mr. Uranium Safe SEATTLE (A) The Mr. Uranium of the mining world, Vernon Pick, and his brother flew in from Alaska Monday afternoon after a 24-hour disappearance which had raised con- cem for their safety.

1 Pick, Saratoga, uranium millionaire, and bis brother Uoyd, of Warroad, were forced down south of Annette.1 Island, Alaska, Sunday forenoon on a Uight south from Petersburg, Alaska, and a widespread search was begun by United States PICK Coast Guard and Canadian authorities. "We just had a little engine trouble, nothing serious, Pick said after tending his big float plane on Lake Union. Pick, and his 'brother had been at Fairbanks, Alaska, jkxddng over' mining int Gale Winds Expected in Florida 1 its and eight were reported Chinese motorized sank fat that 8 th only white students; -adniittec to tral, a move backed Qov. ojrVal FRubiis and many white parents heijej Instead, it took no chances pn Jeopardizing its plea to the high court to delay admission of Negroes to Central until 1961. It delayed Central's start until after court meets on Sept.

11. At. a news conference Monday nigpt, School Superintendent Virgil Blossom jwas the Supreme Court rules jthat Seral High must proceed with lnftegi -a-ion, will the school open Sept, 15 kite- prated or segregated? Blossom answered, the yard ill grpas'- that bridge when it conges to iti" Chief Dies at Game; i i SAN FRANCfISCQ Chief of Police FYapk Ahem of San. Francisco suffere a. heart attack in his.

box at- Seals' Stadium Monday and died' almost immediately suffered the1 attack during le ining of the Log Angeles Dodgefd-' Sair FrahcisCo Giants National League baseball. game. He was kjt-tihg-m his box bapk'pf homerpiate at he time 4dfiv Mrs. Ahem. j'Sha: 1 i a 1 y-' Called ur and a doctor and a priest hurried to big side-.

The priest gave the chief the last rites of the- Catholic church 8nd Ahem was carried N.j weatherman CONFUSED BY WITCHDOCTOR Y. exchange opened up king the 11th of sheUing. target for 857 defense while. HU THE AB the island again today, consecutive Quemoy was rounds of Red spokesmen Has your mather-ilaw been ig doctors7 followini orders, 360 Fight Modoc; Fii ALTtJRAsj' CaliL (UPD More than 360 men1 Marked In sizzling mpera ures Monday jtd briiig tinder control a which has gutted upwards of 700 in the Modoc National Forest daze i on (r Bossr asked Asst' WM. Well," to-tbrted WM, fbot exactly.

'He a pillbefore MIAMI, Fla. tiPi Gale warnings were hoisted for south Florida Monday night as hurri-ine Ella blustered throutfi mountainous Cape Crist, in southeastern Cuba. adrisory said winds of 30 to miles jm hour would be folt from the straits northward to Palm Beach on the east coast and Fort Myers on the Gulf, coast. THE1 HURRICANE itself, forecaster. Arnold Sugg eai weakened from 115 miles an hour peak force to an estimated' 85 m.ph.

when it went, inland near Santiago de Cuba. Sugg said, there were indications the storm may become disorganized and relocate itself along Cubas north central coast to early today 7V2 Die Forest Service said arly was each meal and Missouri Pflot Dies in El Toro Crash An Air National Guard jet fighter from the 170th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Spring-field, crashed, and exploded shortly after takeoff from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station Monday afternoon. The. pilot was killed. The' filer was identified as 1st Lt Howard D.

Jones, 26, of SL Lcmis, Monday evening that the fin broke out anew atjboth eiute hi late afternoon. Dis-patdbersj wen. not able yet, howeve to determine the amount Of new aerjeage threatened flames. fighters viewed, with concern weather forecasts calling for, continued high temperatures; low humidity and tively strong winds ela- beaten to stal who. cut beg 1 to the'iv scalp and rippedhSrwedding'gownto Page D-3.

I DEPUTE Ker' mit Kynell rjetires from a TV quiz program with wiiK sings of $2500l Page B-L a small toddy And.atlat--ebunt, it appeared tome that my. unwelcome-house guestjwas qUte a taw pOls'behind but about a year ahtod on. th toddy A 1 fc'. ij'a to the first teid station uhder tbe stands. He was dead on Ahern; cpl- 1 tepsed and yn under 'medical treatment forshock.

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