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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1948
Page
3
Vice squad nabbed five young men on robbery suspicions and booked an 18 year old girl as a suspected accomplice. Detectives said Robert Chamberlain, 19, led officers to Joanne Medaris in a hotel, then to four more youths on Sunset Blvd.
Amsterdam Aug 24 Communist policies prevent a universal peace by law, John Foster Dulles told World Council of Churches leaders. He warned that crushing communism by force fails and urged Christians to translate faith into social action to deter war and reflect moral law. He said orthodox communism rejects peaceful means as expediency.
Edith Mac Irby a 20 year old from Hot Springs was admitted to the University of Arkansas medical school without segregation. Dr H Clay Chenault said no segregation could be set up and she will enter with her classmates as the 1948 49 term begins.
Reno Nevada city council outlawed legal houses of ill fame again after a six week community argument. The move targets Nevada's 23 legal brothels and may prompt a broader statewide drive against them.
Washington reports Russia and its eastern European allies intensify criticism of Tito. Diplomats say the rift within communism prevents compromise and raises the risk Tito seeks Western support, though troops are considered unlikely and UN action could follow if force is used.
In London on August 24, Dr Hewlett Johnson the so called Red Dean said the United States should welcome him as a friend of Soviet Russia or do without him. He had been refused a visa because the American government disapproved of the American Soviet Friendship Society that invited him. An American official suggested he might be admitted if he came on his own work. The 74 year old churchman, leaving for Poland, insisted he does not come as a split personality.
Harry Rothman, killed in a Sunset Strip robbery, was buried with detectives guarding mob figure Mickey Cohen. Police suspect the shotgun slaying aimed at Cohen, who faced ongoing threats from rival gamblers, drawing the largest security contingent at the ceremony.
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