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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1950
Page
2
The president announced a fivefold increase in air plane production for the coming year. Douglas Long Beach will see more war workers relocating here, creating a surge in downtown housing needs and straining parking. Merchants warn that without adequate parking, business may drift to new trading areas, harming the city’s commerce.
Los Angeles dispatch: Capt. Carl Pearson, on the sheriff’s force 26 years, was dismissed for lying about a Sunday night conference with attorney Sam Rummel before the assassination of a crime figure. Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz announced the discharge and loss of retirement pension, noting Pearson admitted false statements to internal investigators and LAPD.
Rail workers return to duty at Chicago Washington St Louis and Boston as the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen ends a three day wildcat strike. Postal service resumes and the mail embargo is lifted after President Truman’s rebuke. Four brotherhoods seek a 40 hour week plus pay increases.
President Truman issued a nationwide mobilization proclamation and ordered wage and price controls in autos, with ceilings on 1950 model prices set and further material and production limits to be enforced. The nine man wage board meets amid auto industry talks as GM Ford and CIO UAW criticize the measure while pledging cooperation for national defense.
Washington dispatch explains President Truman's national emergency, calling citizens to put country first while 67 emergency laws take effect. It outlines military age mobilization, production boosts, price controls, potential wage adjustments, possible overtime suspensions, rationing steps, and overall aim to curb Communist world dominance.
Today's tides show 3.3 feet high at Rem. with low 1.5 feet at 11:24 a.m and 7.4 feet at 10:27 p.m. Tomorrow's tides rise to 5.1 feet at 6:10 a.m and 2.2 feet at 6:15 p.m with low tides 0.9 feet at 12:18 p.m and 1.8 feet at 11:07 p.m.
In Seoul, two Catholic priests failed to meet President Rhee to protest a wave of mass executions. Over the past five days at least 800 alleged Communist collaborators and others have been shot or buried in mass graves near Seoul. Soldiers, locals, and Western troops witnessed the killings, with accounts of women and children among the victims and soldiers reporting fear and disgust at the shootings.
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