10 Jan 1951
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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1951
Page
1
Editorial asserts Samish-Sam Colling bloc controls state government with assembly support for Collins as speaker. Claims national Collier’s scandal hasn’t weakened their grip and describes legislators as supine, continuing Collins’s leadership amid political influence. Page 14 continuation referenced.
An AFL Teamsters Union official was shot and wounded outside his southside Chicago home tonight. Police reported the incident occurred in Chicago with no immediate details on the suspect or motive. The injured union official was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
Tokyo dispatch reports 8th Army saying communists probing near Wonju and Chechen. Red tanks 30 miles southeast of Wonju with 13 North Korean divisions in Central Korea preparing another push toward United Nations lines. Allied lines remain firm while U.N. forces retake Wonjo to within two miles of the city amid reports of armor near Chechen and Tanyang Road corridor.
President Truman awarded the Medal of Honor to five soldiers or their next of kin for gallantry in Korea. The ceremony at the State Department honored Maj. Gen. William F. Dean and Pfc. Melvin L. Brown among others. Dean's son William F. Dean Jr. attended the event as his father received the nation’s highest military decoration.
TOKYO AP U S Army censorship rules threaten court martial deportation or other punishment for war correspondents who publish any item that embarrasses the United States its allies or neutral nations injures morale or aids the enemy or discredits UN forces. The 2000 word order bans publishing details of fighting areas road conditions and similar facts.
Wisconsin Supreme Court refused Mil ton Babich a new trial for the 1949 murder of Patricia Birmingham 16 whose body was dumped in the Milwaukee River. Babich 19 confessed saying he killed her to keep her from revealing a pregnancy involving his wife Kathleen.
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