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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1950
Page
14
An editorial notes FBI data showing crime rising since 1948 with 1,763,290 major offenses in 1949 and a crime every 179 seconds. It laments limited prosecutions and calls for stronger anti-crime actions amid public apathy and sabotage by opponents.
Virgil Peterson, noted investigator and Chicago Crime Commission leader, champions independent commission style to expose rackets in gambling and crime. He notes groups in Cleveland, Miami, Baltimore, Kansas City, St Louis, with Mayors Newton, Morison, Cobo, Bowron active. A 14-city crime-reporting syndicate forms as Congress weighs a $40,000 study. AMA backs local enforcement, urging sustained municipal action against nationally organized crime.
London and The Hague host top western planners as they sharpen the teeth of the North Atlantic Defense Pact. Talks address who will fund and operate tanks ships shells and planes, and who commands them. Generals and defense leaders from the United States visit Britain Germany and France to push readiness.
About 1000 German Communists demonstrated in Brunswick on Saturday against dismantling the former Hermann Goering steel works. August Hollaner of the Communist Party of Lower Saxony said the Allies are tipping down the plant to create a dead zone for a year, claiming the big plant was built solely for war production and cannot be operated economically.
Local officials report on a regional conference sponsored by Attorneys General addressing prohibition era gangs auto theft rings and kidnapping. Recommendations under study include banning state to state transmission of horse race results by telegraph or telephone and federal laws to curb illegal gambling devices with agency authority under review. Fingerprinting applicants for social security cards and dispatching tax records to local law enforcement are among proposed reforms.
US Army officers said Infantry Battalion and VA armored Constabulary squadron in Berlin will be on alert for a scheduled Communist youth march May 27 to 30. Units have trained since January on protective measures against street violence and will not be used unless Western powers or allied police request urgent support.
High allied officials say the western powers will stand firm on repeated pledges to preserve order and protect liner passengers from Communist intimidation.
About 300000 Japanese coal miners walked out for higher wages for a second time this month. They will conduct a seven day strike after wage talks again broke down. Rollations resumed March 10 after a three day stoppage.
In Belmont Massachusetts a pet boxer named Mike saved a gull that was ice covered and nearly frozen after a sleet storm. Mike led his owner Russell S Reed to the bird then Reed took the gull home to thaw and feed it.
The Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report denounced a Senate Civil Service Committee action to block a bid to remove politics from postmaster appointments. The Hoover group said the bill would strip senators of prerogatives in selecting postmasters, noting the measure was shelved despite a favorable subcommittee report.
About 900 Filipinos were left homeless after a fire destroyed 150 homes in Santa Rosa, 100 miles north of Manila, with one child reported missing. The report notes a separate historical fact about Guglielmo Marconi obtaining his first English wireless telegraphy patent in 1898.
Hong Kong dispatch reports both sides in the civil war bracing for a showdown over Hainan. Four squadrons of warplanes and tanks arrived from Formosa, with Communist units moved to Luhuo Peninsula opposite Hainan. Nationalists push to crush Red guerrillas on Hainan while pounding Red shipping along the mainland coast.
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