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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1955
Page
3
The article discusses Knowland's stance on a hard line against the Soviet Union and his potential 1956 presidential bid. It notes Republican leaders' reactions, Eisenhower's possible candidacy, and internal party tensions between isolationist and hawkish factions. It also covers Democratic prospects with Stevenson, Kefauver, and party dynamics surrounding primary timing.
United Nations New York supporters of Adlai Stevenson and Kefauver urged prompt action on admitting 18 new members to the world body. The council faced possible veto threats from Nationalist China and Soviet Russia as debate opened amid a procedural wrangle over priority for non communist applicants including Italy Japan Spain Cambodia Laos Portugal Ceylon Jordan Libya Austria Ireland Finland and Nepal.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Shanghai and his principal accomplices were arrested by Chinese communist authorities on espionage charges according to Radio Moscow. The report names the bishop and cites charges tied to intelligence activity.
Elmer Kimbell, 35, faces a hearing Monday on charges he killed Clinton Melton, 33, at a service station in Glendoria. Melton, father of four, was shot last Saturday as Kimbell said he fired in self defense after Melton fired first. Milam, recently acquitted in Emmett Till’s murder, was said to have no connection to the station incident.
President Eisenhower travels from Gettysburg to Walter Reed Hospital for a monthly physical. Doctors plan X ray and fluoroscopic tests to assess recovery from the September heart attack. The checkup follows a warm home visit and precedes conferences with Congressional leaders next week.
Two intruders awakened a 27 year old man in his apartment about 11 30 p m Friday night threatened him and ransacked the place. The victim Johnny L Gunn of 1405 Appli ed steady progress after injuries. A pocket knife was held to his throat during the attack and the pair fled taking about 300 dollars of clothing. Police are investigating the incident.
A college student was found slain on a Nebraska campus after leaving a part time job at Arenee. Investigators searched near the university and a colored convertible, reported in pursuit, was tracked from the site. A light check and a misplaced wristwatch were found at the scene. police questioned witnesses who last saw her near a bus stop before midnight.
Demos and GOP plan a bipartisan fund raising campaign proposed by Philip Graham. The two parties would run two joint drives titled Support Your Party to solicit contributions with changes to income tax deductions and a possible increase in contribution limits from 3 million to 8 to 10 million.
Hong Kong announces American defector Richard Tenneson will arrive at the colony border from Red China next Tuesday.
Private physicians and health authorities treated patients all day as a paratyphoid outbreak persisted in Lancaster Pennsylvania. By week’s end 116 cases were reported, mostly children, with no deaths yet. the source remained under investigation and a dairy bottling plant agreed to close pending probe.
The 1955 Nobel ceremony in Concert Hall honored Dr Vincent du Virmneau, physics prize laureates Willis Lamb and R Polykarp Kusch, and biochemist Alfred Hugo Theorell. Halldor Kiljan Laxness of Iceland won literature, with 2,000 attendees watching royal pageantry. Oslo presented the Peace Prize to Dr G J Var Henriksen Goodhart of the UN Refugee Office.
In Los Angeles a pair of California doctors warned that fumes from gasoline and automobile exhaust likely drive a rising lung cancer rate. They projected that by 1970 about one in 15 men could develop the disease if current trends continue. They noted chemicals need not be tied to smog and cited city residents’ higher risk.
A state board refused to post public warnings along parts of the San Pedro Hills shoreline while ordering studies into contamination. Officials say private and public owners will deter access to beaches from Long Point to White’s Point and near Portuguese Bend. A health warning was issued for Terminal Island south shore, with coordination to authorities including the 11th Naval District. The proceedings also covered parrot fever regulations and a Berlin Porgy and Bess review.
The bodies of a wife and child were found after the husband reported them missing early Friday. Police say the woman was found slumped at a car door and the girl’s body in the trunk, both covered in blood, with authorities considering charges against the husband or habeas corpus relief by 8:38 a.m. Sunday. The slayings occurred in a vacant lot beside Van Eeghens laundry, where bloodstains were found and the bodies placed in a car and driven to a funeral home nearby.
A 32 year old Paramount woman Dorothy Peasley hurled herself under a truck at Downey Avenue and Quimby Street in an apparent suicide attempt. She had earlier set fire to her home, overdosed on aspirin, and slashed her throat and wrists. Her boyfriend Marvin Coward 23 and truck driver Charles Jennings 23 were involved. Coward was booked on an unknown charge while Jennings received treatment for shock.
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