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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1951
Page
1
About 400 teenagers protested being labeled delinquents in Eureka. They pressured the city council to curb liquor sales to teens, urging stronger enforcement and closer control of underage access.
The Senate narrowly rejected a move to make the four division deployment to General Eisenhower’s North Atlantic Treaty Army into law. A broad compromise remains with amendments to limit future troop sending and require ongoing congressional input. A top priority is pressure from Truman’s administration and armed services leaders over whether four divisions will be sent without further approval.
In Wayne County a boy named Jimmy Sloan, unable to read or write and with a broken leg, walked seven miles to a road and was aided by a motorist. He traveled the rest of the way to Wayne on crutches and Army shoes. Doctors confirmed the fracture and planned surgery to correct bone knitting at an orthopedic hospital after Mrs. Charles W. Ferguson arranged admission.
Draft H outlines deferment rules for college students near graduation. Freshmen in top half sophomores in top two thirds juniors in top three quarters can be deferred for one more year. Seniors in top half or scoring 75 on aptitude tests may defer a year. Deferment by rank or test score, not both. Tests given May 26 June 1 and June 30 measure learning potential, not knowledge.
Washington reports casualties in Korea total 58550 through March 30, up 1430 in a week. Of these, 8753 killed, 39023 wounded, 10774 missing. 1025 wounded later died. Combat deaths total 9865, with 87 known dead among missing and 1094 returned to U S control and 122 prisoners of war.
Weather brief notes a few showers tonight and partly cloudy conditions on Thursday. Temperature expected to change little tomorrow with winds decreasing tonight then shifting south to southwest at 10 to 20 mph on Thursday.
Allied forces pushed four miles north of the Red Korea border amid heavy communist mortar and artillery fire near Topyong. A second Allied unit penetrated two miles into Yongpyong as patrols reported a large enemy buildup north of 38. air power claimed several enemy losses while ground forces reported hundreds of casualties and large-scale bombardment of rail and truck targets.
Fresno dispatch reports Los Angeles police seek Edgar A Werner a GI student at Fresno State College in connection with the strangulation death of his wife. A mysterious Hollywood telegram purportedly signed by the victim prompted the manhunt shifting to Southern California. The telegram asked her employer to excuse her absence and cited marital troubles.
San Francisco April 4 01 Attorney J W Jake Ehrlich announced the organization of a nonprofit corporation to outlaw horse racing in California. Ehrlich said major industry sectors would back a constitutional amendment to ban race tracks, planning to sponsor an initiative likely for the 1952 election. He filed articles of incorporation for the ERIC End Racing in California Corporation.
In Washington April 4 Chairman Carl Vinson announced the House armed services committee will begin hearings on legislation to expand the Marine Corps to 400,000. Current target is about 205,000 with World War II peak near 485,000. Vinson ordered Marine quartermaster general Maj. Gen. W P T Hill to assemble detailed base-building needs for 400,000 and signaled readiness to testify. The committee also unanimously approved a 4,147,000 construction project at Quantico and a 10,159.00 Marine project at Kaneohe Naval Air Station Hawaii.
McAlester Oklahoma April 4 AP Sixteen year old Jackie Parris was recovered alive after being abducted Sunday night by 23 year old ex convict Robert M Phillips who admitted to taking her to a tin pipeline shack near Kinta and molesting her though he claimed no actual harm. A posse surrounded him at Pittsburg County jail where Phillips awaited kidnapping charges. The girl’s high school sweetheart Bill Coghill confronted Phillips and was restrained.
The Army announced the reactivation of the 308th Airborne Infantry Regiment this April at Fort Bragg North Carolina. The regiment will form a separate unit under Third Army headquarters.
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Chicago dealer Morris Green testified before a House committee on profits from buying and reselling 100 surplus Army trucks. He reported $279,000 in fees and commissions plus $85,000 to his brother Seymour, totaling an apparent $425,000 after all expenses. The deal involved Philippines surplus trucks, some sold to the Atomic Energy Commission for Hanford, with brokers paid and an out of court settlement noted.
Speaker Sam Rayburn told the House the United States faces terrible danger that could start a world war while debating a bill to extend the draft and lay groundwork for universal military training. He noted a massing of troops in Manchuria and said not all are communists. he did not name Russians.
Mobilization Chief Charles E. Wilson urged President Truman to impose a parity freeze and broaden rent controls to curb rising prices. He also proposed tighter steel allocations for defense orders, subsidies for marginal metal producers, and continued defense production support for small businesses, with a potential ceiling on manufacturer profits under the Defense Production Act. The changes would be sent to Congress within days.
New York April 4. Twenty years earlier Alexander Ector Orr Munsell gave his fortune to experience poverty. He split funds with his ex wife and children and donated the rest to institutions. Now his mother Juliet Munsell’s will in Brooklyn surrogates court leaves one quarter of her 2.6 million estate to Munsell who lives in Manhattan. He had vowed not to take the money if it was willed to him. He once said poverty was not religious but a personal cure for a hollow life.
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