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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1950
Page
1
Washington reports Truman and Attlee seriously weighing a blockade of the Red China coast if UN troops are deterred or driven from Korea. Acheson urged the plan at talks. Attlee favors tough action but seeks broad Anglo American moves toward ending the Far Eastern crisis through negotiation if needed.
Billy Daniels a $5000 a week Negro night club star was slashed in the Hollywood apartment of white actress Mrs. Ronnie Quillan 29. Quillan jailed on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after doctors said 35 stitches were required for his neck and face wound. Daniels later released as Quillan was taken to Los Angeles city jail. Daniels and Martha Braun longtime wife of Carl Braun were married last January in Weehawken New Jersey. Quillan claimed a civil action against Daniels and said he came to her apartment at 3 am to discuss it amid a reported money demand for medical care. The assault occurred during a struggle at the actress’s home on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip.
The newspaper highlights the upcoming legislative districting effort led by Assemblymen with the briefing found across sections. Readers can locate related items in Beach Combing on pages B-1, Boyle on pages 6-9, and further notices in Editorial A-26 and Obituaries E-11.
Soldiers of the U S Seventh Division and First Marine Regiment push through zero weather and snow from Yudam to Koto, linking with other units after ten days of encirclement. Casualties are described as moderate, with frostbite and fatigue evident among weary fighters arriving at the Koto defense perimeter. The evacuation plane activity and ongoing road battles underscore the perilous push toward escape from Changjin reservoir area.
Sacramento reports an audience at the Governor's traffic safety conference hears Paul H. Blaisdell of the National Committee for Traffic Safety call for driver testing to weed out unsafe minds. He criticizes current spending and cites 90 mile per hour highways and vehicles as requiring better mental screening and attitude testing.
Seoul police were alerted to enforce crowd control and civic order after martial law was proclaimed by President Syngman Rhee. Citizens were urged to register if away from home and to report Communist collaborators while avoiding rumors. Home Minister Chough Pyong Ok barred police from evacuating families without orders.
Detroit July 7 1950 A Thunderjet intake incident at Wayne County Airport left S Sgt Robert A Lewis bruised yet alive thanks to fellow mechanic T Sgt Joe Cosenza who leaped from the wing and grabbed the stuck object as Lewis in the cockpit cut the engine switch.
CHICAGO December 7. A strawberry blonde, Marian Herben, 27, died after apparently overdosing on sleeping tablets in the apartment of Danish vice consul Jorn Ahlers. Police say the act may have been a suicide staged to test his love. a note urged him to choose between her and a shop girl. Ahlers had dated Herben for a year and she was separated from her husband Erwin, whom authorities questioned.
Fred J. Redington, 36, asked for very hot chili today in a Pasadena cafe. An ambulance rushed him to Emergency Hospital with mouth burns and scalded lips after the hot dish.
Tokyo Dec 7 CAP All lied troops braced on a new hill defense line 25 miles south of fallen Pyongyang as a stand against advancing Chinese Red expeditionary forces. The line stretched inland 70 miles in northwest Korea from the Yellow Sea. It was a defense in depth on commanding heights and not a solid line. U S Eighth Army, after a long retreat, was outnumbered but fought on. Chinese forces were estimated at 100000 with large reserves behind them and more moving from Manchuria. The Eighth Army strength on the line was just under 110000. Northeast of the line Marines and doughboys battled a blizzard to break from Red traps south of Changjin reservoir. They broke one trap but faced another. The withdrawal of the American garrison from Wonsan underscored the UN peril near the reservoir. Three destroyers bombarded the port and shore fire by South Korean Marines covered the pull out. Wonsan had been captured earlier by South Korean troops. The same Marines trapped at Changjin landed at the port after a week sweep of a minefield offshore. Hamhung and Hungnam become the Allies main northern escape route, more centrally located.
John B. Chapple, editor of the Ash and Ogily Press in Ashland Wisconsin, demanded the arrest of Andrei Vishinsky charging him with inciting mutiny in armed forces after labeling Gen Douglas MacArthur a war maniac in a U N General Assembly address. A Czech Communist, Vavro Hajdu, said any demand to Chinese Reds would have only platonic value amid rapid UN retreat in Korea. Vishinsky rejected Syria's Faris El Khoury appeal to drop his opposition and let the committee proceed.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed Alger Hiss's perjury conviction and five year sentence. The former State Department official had denied under oath that he ever gave secret State Department papers to unauthorized persons including Whittaker Chambers. Justices Hand Chast Swan announced the ruling.
President Truman conferred for more than 30 minutes today with his council of economic advisers. Members of the council declined to discuss the session.
Congress approved separate extensions of federal rent controls with the Senate backing a Feb 28 deadline and the House a March 31 deadline. A compromise bill is to be negotiated by Senate and House committees before sending to President Truman. The current law would end Dec 31 unless extended. Truman urged a 90 day extension to allow January's new Congress to shape longer terms amid wartime needs.
The United Nations political committee voted 42 to 5 to place top priority on a six power demand for Chinese Communist withdrawal from Korea. Soviet envoy Vishinsky called American intervention the crux of a third world war and urged halt. Fifteen Asian and Middle East nations met secretly to pursue peace. Turkey and Thailand joined 23 nations appealing to Red China to halt at the 48th parallel.
Atlantic Pact deputies approved a plan to integrate German troops into western European defense forces. The move aims to form joint political military structures with German participation, under Gen. Omar Bradley's military committee with Eisenhower possibly appointed as commander in Europe. France agreed to include German combat teams of 4000 to 5000 men each, without heavy weapons or a defense ministry.
Increasing low cloudiness tonight gives way to variable high clouds and a slight temperature dip. Winds shift from light variable to west at 10 to 15 mph by tomorrow afternoon.
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