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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1950
Page
2
An attorney who defended racketeers was killed in Los Angeles amid a spate of gangland slayings in fashionable districts. The piece argues for tougher action against bookmakers and stronger court penalties to curb the racketeering activity in the city.
Ed James a Studebaker dealer will head the 1951 Long Beach March of Dimes campaign. Mrs Gail Hudson president of the Long Beach Chapter National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced. Luncheon at the Lafayette Hotel will explain campaign details to press radio and publicity executives. Campaign runs January 15 to 31 with advanced gifts solicitation soon after Christmas. Goal set at 100000 to fund extra care for polio patients.
Harbor board members voted to fund the employment of former Senator Sheridan Downey to pursue the state's tidelands claim. Port Manager E. J. Amar said other ports did not share the cost. Downey will be paid 1500 dollars monthly salary and 1500 dollars monthly expenses, retroactive to December 1.
High tide today at 10 37 a m with unknown height. Low tides at 4 24 a m and 1 7 feet. Tomorrow high tides at 1 05 a m and 11 3 a m with 3 9 and 6 feet respectively. Low tides at 6 33 a m and 7 06 p m with 2 7 and 0 5 feet.
President Truman accelerates toward a national emergency declaration to unlock war powers and wage price controls. White House meetings with key advisers and bipartisan leaders loom as officials weigh a formal proclamation and targeted price and labor measures.
The Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education voted to require atomic first aid training for nearly 2000 district employees. Ten instructors will be trained by the Red Cross next month to teach about 1900 staff, with program rollout targeted for April 30. The government booklet Survival Under Atomic Attack will guide the program.
General Douglas MacArthur flew to Korea and found the Allied Army secure in the face of heavy fighting, then returned to Tokyo to coordinate South Korea war plans. He met Lt. Gen. Walton Walker and Maj. Gen. Edward Almond, and said UN units remained intact with high morale and limited losses compared with the enemy.
Seoul dispatch reports a week long Korean front lull broken as Eighth Army and North Korean troops regroup. Carrier based planes pounded Reds near Hamhung while Marines and Army units held a 15 mile defense ring around the city. F 84s aided major air support in a decisive move believed to surpass World War II levels.
Secretary Acheson will fly to Brussels likely this weekend to attend a North Atlantic Council Foreign Ministers meeting. The State Department did not specify departure timing, but Brussels announced the meeting is set for next Monday, with possible departure from Washington as late as Sunday to reach on time.
Police reported a dynamite cap blast in a garage behind the home of David Davis 15 at 430 East Plymouth Avenue yesterday. The cap exploded when he tried to pick it up, blowing off his left thumb. He was taken to Seaside Hospital.
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