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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1952
Page
2
Levi Clough of Centreville Maryland ends a 47 year career delivering mail after traveling the equivalent of about 20 world circuits. He regrets not reaching 50 years but ill health ends his long service on the route.
New York April 11 Governor Earl Warren stated on CBS radio that he has no interest in the vice presidency. The California governor, a former Dewey running mate in 1948, defended Eisenhower endorsements and urged Republicans to offer forward-looking leadership to win nationally.
The Taft Eisenhower Republican presidential race gains clarity as Eisenhower resigns NATO command and heads home to campaign. In Kentucky Taft wins six delegate votes in three districts, leads 7-1 overall with four districts to decide. Eisenhower carried 20 Kansas delegates, Taft 2. Oregon is set for a May primary and New Jersey votes loom next week. Kefauver moves east after Portland stop, with plans for Idaho Boise visit. Brown slate fight ends in California. Stevenson hedges on 1948 strategy. Taft warns of a careful Ohio campaign ahead of the May 6 primary.
Washington April 11 UP House investigators considered borrowing Newbold Morris questionnaire technique in their probe of the Justice Department. Fairman Chelf said some thought would be given to adopting the questionnaire Morris devised to uncover officials outside income gambling ties and furs acquired. Morris, before the subcommittee, praised the idea but gave no leads. Chelf and Keating said they learned from his story of events leading to his break with Attorney General McGrath. President Truman severed McGrath from the payroll within four hours after Morris bounced, and Morris said the president may have dropped him to avoid cabinet revolt. He noted March 29 remarks ending his bid for re election ended presidential discipline.
Long Beach Postal Employes Charities Foundation contributed 200 to the tornado relief fund. The Long Beach chapter of the Red Cross is raising the aid and rehabilitating victims of recent storms in the south. Long Beach receives 12000 of a five million dollar national relief fund.
About 700000 Japanese workers scheduled a 24 hour strike in Tokyo in protest against an anti-subversive bill the government seeks to introduce in the diet. Another 2300000 union members will back the effort with sympathy demonstrations and stop work meetings. Strikes involve real, automobile, metal and chemical industries with rallies by seamen, government workers, railway and textile employees.
New Jersey editors forecast a Eisenhower win in the GOP primary with about 56 percent, Taft around 34 percent, Stassen about 9 percent and write-ins totaling 1 percent. The survey covers 17 counties with 21 dailies and 7 weeklies, noting regional differences and the impact of Taft’s withdrawal controversy. Urban counties Essex Bergen Union expected Eisenhower victory. Democrats not surveyed.
Los Angeles dispatch reports three Florida mayors arriving by plane amid a storm. Mayor Chelsie J. Senerchia of Miami accepts a key to the city and dismisses a LA joke that he brought the weather. Mayors Curtiss Hixon of Tampa and Lee D. Powell of Miami Beach join the lighthearted scene and agree with him.
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