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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1947
Page
2
John P. Davis former president of the Chamber of Commerce will speak at the Chamber's Breakfast Forum at 7 15 a m Wednesday in the Hilton Hotel providing an early morning business briefing.
Gen Albert C Wedemeyer arrives in Boul Korea for a week long survey to inform President Truman on how to deal with Korea He pledges objective study with no commitments or prejudgment and says information will guide policy for welfare and peace. The mission follows talks in Tokyo with Gen MacArthur amid disputes over a provisional government for Korea and arrests of leftists in the southern zone.
John L. Lewis was urged by 15 central Pennsylvania United Mine Workers locals to reopen the wage contract signed last month to raise pay for tonnage workers. A committee led by James Richardson of Beaverdale credited the change boosting northern miners’ daily pay from 11.85 to 13.03 while nonmechanized diggers on tonnage basis kept lower rates.
Lloyd Blondin Reilims a 42 year old aerial performer from Chicago died after falling 75 feet during a stunt before about 20 000 spectators at the Minnesota State Fair grandstand Investigators say a cable slipped causing the revolving device to topple as he rode a bicycle atop high rigging His wife and two young children witnessed the tragedy He began performing at age 19.
In OGAWA VILLAGE Japan Premier Tetsu Katayama and Education Minister Tatuo Morito faced ten and twelve year old reporters from Nozumi Children's Association. The youths asked what the Socialist party plans for children. Katayama evaded the question saying they are too young to ask such questions.
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra repudiates his resignation as Ecuador's president and accuses Col. Carlo Mancheno of seizing power in a bloodless coup. Velasco Ibarra, exiled in Cali, calls the move illegal and says he was coerced and deprived of liberty when signing. Mancheno forms a new cabinet in Quito and vows no change in international policy.
Three former North Carolina highway patrolmen Cpl. C L Teague Patrolman John W Wilson and Patrolman Arthur P Fields were charged with assault with a deadly weapon for beating Claude Gregory 45 of Cleveland County after he was recaptured from a Halifax prison camp. Gregory said he was handcuffed to a tree and whipped with saplings and a cartridge belt. a Halifax physician found bruises but no internal injuries. The officers resigned and surrendered their commissions cars and equipment to Sheriff H A House.
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