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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1950
Page
2
Michael Calfi, 14, burned in a July explosion, lies in a Pittsburgh hospital begging to die. Doctors warn loneliness endangers him more than his burns, after two skin grafts and months without mail or visits. His sister says letters and postcards could lift his spirits.
Judge McCormick in Los Angeles will decide tomorrow whether William Burt must disclose income tax details of book maker clients amid Fred Howser’s $200000 libel suit against columnist Drew Pearson over bribery allegations. Deposition testimony resumes after the ruling. remaining witnesses include Suter Thomas Howe Jenkins. Howser is in Florida attending a states attorneys general conference.
Manila December 2 The Central Bank of the Philippines today allotted eight million dollars to stockpile essential commodities for a possible emergency. It earmarked six million for the government's stabilization corporation. Private firms will receive the other two million.
Wintry weekend expected as central states and Florida suffer cold snaps. Florida crop damage estimated over 10 million dollars with truck crops hit while citrus spared. Snow blankets north central plains and upper Midwest with Wisconsin three to four inches and Montana nine inches.
Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan and Senator Theodore Green of Rhode Island depart Los Angeles on a Pan American Clipper for Honolulu. They travel with State Department Attache Thomas Wenner en route to Australia for the British Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting in Canberra on December 10.
Edward Abrahamson aged 58 of 1720 W Willow St died after an accidental shotgun discharge on the fishing cat Gay Hawk near Avalon. Roy Kelly 1615 Stanton Pl told constable Kern MacDavid Abrahamson moved for a shotgun to kill a sea lion and a stumble sent the gun into his shoulder. He died minutes after arriving at Avalon hospital. Earl George LeSage 45 of 416 40th St San Pedro died of a heart attack aboard the sport boat Kiaora in Avalon Harbor after an ambulance had brought Abrahamson in. Conservation officer MacDavid and Brneral assisted for 45 minutes to revive LeSage.
A Los Angeles area citizens group reports that the U S Public Health Service is ready to study the health effects of smog if invited by the state government. Irving Markheim, who led the complaint to the Surgeon General, said a telegram from J G Townsend confirms the service would proceed with a study as needed.
Senators from both parties express support for General Douglas MacArthur and his label of the Chinese Communist push in Korea as an undeclared war. They urge broader U N authority to strike troop concentrations and supply lines in Manchuria while cautioning against full-scale war with China.
U N decision to halt aggression by China could decide peace or total war. MacArthur cites 600000 frontline Chinese and North Koreans with 300000 moving from Yalu bases. The Chinese mass forces against the U N army as the Eighth Army faces encirclement risks and possible withdrawal to the 38th parallel. The Red commanders deploy expendable veterans and seek a rapid tactical decision before any peace move, threatening Formosa and Korea with broad mobilization and heavy bombings.
Agnes Smedley writer on China left her residuary estate and ashes to Gen. Chu Teh commander of Red China armies in her will filed in Rockland County. Bank accounts and cash go to niece Mary Smedley. Personal possessions sent to China for relief. Body to be cremated and ashes shipped to China for burial at Chu Teh’s designation.
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