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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1950
Page
2
New First District supervisor Herb Legg appoints Long Beach veteran George Turner as field secretary. Turner, an old political hand, knows city problems and is expected to serve with loyalty without seeking to usurp the boss.
French police mobilized as Communist leaders led a planned protest on the Champs Elysees to the Elysee Palace in opposition to German rearmament. Jacques Duclos urged a general strike and mass turnout of women and children despite warnings of arrests.
Costa Mesa December race tragedy leaves Richard M. Gilbert 29 dead after his hot-rod overturned during a race at Orange County Airport. He is survived by four children.
United Press reports floods along the San Joaquin River and its tributaries covering about 106000 acres of valuable farming land in the upper valley. Three weeks of flooding have caused over 25000000 in damage south of Stockton. thousands evacuated as four levee breaks and Highway 50 submerged. Guardsmen used amphibious jeeps. rail service disrupted. Weather Bureau forecasts light rain spreading south. Mrs Mary Seamans calls this flood worse than the 1911 event.
Two people were injured in hit-and-run accidents reported to Long Beach police. Kathusin Wilson, 43, from Los Angeles, was struck while crossing American Ave at Seventh St and treated at Seaside Hospital. Lloyd Lowery, 29, of 123 Mitchel Ave, suffered a cut to his lower lip when a speeding car struck his ankle and delivered a glancing blow on 52nd St west of Cedar Ave.
A Korean War dispatch from Tokyo reports Chinese Communist troops charging despite American air strafing. Lt. William J. Sims of Dothan Alabama, a Mosquito spotter pilot, witnessed massed Chinese troops pressing toward the Chongchon River breakthrough, disregarding fighter attacks as they crossed frozen fields. He described trains of troops advancing under heavy fire with little effect on their advance.
Pakistan and India were cited as pivotal in potential talks between Red China and the West. Quazlr Mohammed Isa, head of Pakistan’s UN delegation, spoke at a United Nations event in Hughes Junior High marking Human Rights Day. Isa highlighted Muslim unity as a stabilizing factor and predicted India and Pakistan would grow stronger.
The ferry boat Russian River ran aground in San Francisco Bay in heavy fog. A Coast Guard tug towed it into deeper water five and a half hours later. 450 automobiles and several dozen passengers aboard. Deckhand Wilford Hobson of Richmond, 33, suffered a heart attack and was treated at Marine Hospital. The vessel remained near Richmond with food and water on board and no danger to passengers.
A winter storm moving from the Midwest threatens the East Coast with 40 mph winds. The Weather Bureau issued warnings from Block Island to the Delaware breakwater. Forecasters expect gusts to hit the northeast tonight and shift to the northwest by morning as the low pressure system off Cape Hatteras approaches battered regions already hit by repeated gales since November 25.
OTTAWA Dec 1 Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced Canada has joined Britain and the United States in a peace without appeasement alliance. He said Britain and the United States share close objectives and methods to resist Communist aggression and noted general Canadian agreement with the plans. Attlee acknowledged some diverging views with Truman but called talks broad and non binding. In a CBC radio address Attlee said there is complete agreement with the Americans on aims: peace and freedom for all, with opportunity for individual development.
Naples boat owners plan to participate in the fourth annual Canal Carols event on December 22 and 23 at 8 p m. Decorated boats with carolers will travel the canals while larger lighted boats anchor in Alamitos Bay. Naples Improvement Association's boat committee is accepting applications from owners to take part.
The forecast notes high tide at 6 05 p m reaching 3 2 feet and low tide at 12 10 p m of 0 9 feet. Tomorrow highs at 1 42 a m 5 3 feet and 7 70 p m 3 3 feet with lows at 1 02 p m 0 4 feet and 11 45 p m 2 1 feet.
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