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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1952
Page
5
A lawsuit over the Miss Universe title seeks 3 million dollars, with defendant Meinhardt calling the suit a shakedown and asserting Nadeau never registered the title. He says the pageant will proceed and that the world will know the winner as Miss Universe.
SEATTLE Wash June 18 The boss of Alaska's armed forces Lt Gen William H Kepner disclosed that Russian fighter planes are sighted occasionally over the Bering Sea and warned that Alaska could not withstand a large sustained Soviet attack yet pledged Alaska would not be abandoned if invaded He added that help would be needed in a hurry if Russians moved large numbers of troops and he believed they could do it.
Isabella and Ingrid were delivered in a normal birth seen as a distraction from Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini’s legal clashes with Pia Lindström. Lindström had publicized accusations of Rossellini, while Bergman sought to visit Pia in Italy. Rossellini postponed plans to travel to California as the twins arrived.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson reversed a ban on Hilde Speer, daughter of Nazi architect Albert Speer, allowing an 11-year-old to join a U S student exchange program. She joins about 400 West German teenagers slated to spend a year in America beginning in August.
A House-Senate conference committee agreed on compromise legislation to enlarge the Marine Corps and make its commandant a part time member of the joint chiefs of staff. The corps would be kept at no fewer than three combat divisions and three air wings with equal status for the commandant on Corps matters. President Truman is expected to sign the bill into law.
California manufacturing employment rose in May to 937,400 wage and salary workers, up 73,400 from April and 814 percent above a year earlier, according to the state department of industrial relations. The gain contrasts with nationwide manufacturing activity, which trails last year.
A flash fire aboard the submarine USS Harder while tied up at Groton Connecticut on June 1 injured four sailors. One man is seriously burned as the Electric Air Division of General Dynamic Corp. investigates the blaze.
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