08 Feb 1955
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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1955
Page
1
Moscow shifts leadership as Malenkov resigns and Bulganin chosen premier after Molotov hails Soviet strength. Khrushchev gains prominence while red China backing and a joint European military command are announced, signaling a hard line toward the United States and Formosa.
Classified pages from the Long Beach Press Telegram dated February 8, 1935 show multiple listings and notices. The edition notes eight editions daily and provides a telephone contact for classified inquiries.
In Philipsburg New Jersey Bernice Makatura 23 of Belvidere Pike faces murder charges after allegedly starting a crib fire that killed her 7 month old son Stephen. She reportedly threatened her own life and her other son Richard 3 amid domestic difficulties while husband Stephen Makatura Sr was at work.
The resignation of Georgi Malenkov as premier signals the end of post Stalin collective leadership. Stalinism may dominate future Soviet policy both domestically and abroad as leadership questions linger. Bulganin appears figurehead while Khrushchev and others maneuver, with satellite reversals and closer Moscow Peiping collaboration feared. Continued on Page A-6. Col 41.
Ten years after the Yalta conference the Big Three leaders met on the Black Sea shore. The piece frames Yalta as a controversial, debated event and previews three interpretive articles by Leon Dennen on page A-14. It notes attorney Jerry Giesler as a famed Hollywood talent and announces a three part series on the Giesler girls on page B-6.
New York stocks weakened after Russian premier changes sparked uncertainty. American Telephone climbed $2.75 to $180.37 as some steel issues gained strength and General Motors fell to $100.25 amid its new common stock sale. Douglas Aircraft slid over $2 while aircraft shares rose. motors utilities copper chemicals oils and rails dragged among lower groups.
The notice lists where to find various sections in the newspaper header. It enumerates pages for Beach Combing, Bridge, Classifieds, Comics, Crossword, Editorial, Financial, Obituaries, Radio and TV, Shipping, Sports, Theaters, Tides and Temperatures, Wilson, and Women.
President Eisenhower called for a seven billion dollar emergency school construction program over three years. The plan includes 750 million federal bonds for hard-to-finance districts, 900 million in loans, 200 million in grants, and 20 million to plan long-term financing with a five million dollar first-year appropriation.
LA JOLLA residents and the UC Scripps Institution of Oceanography awoke to an explosion as a US Navy F9F Panther smashed from 36000 feet into a canyon near La Jolla. The aircraft, on an instrument training flight from Miramar NAS, disappeared after a radio plea to pull out. A second Panther on the wing reported the dive. oxygen failure or unconsciousness may have caused loss of control.
Nationalist evacuees, including women and children, stream from Tachens to landing craft and U S transports as American naval and air forces guard the retreat. Red antiaircraft fire challenges carrier planes over Yikiangshan while jets and warships patrol the east China Sea in a high gear evacuation effort.
Paris reports Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov urged an international conference on Formosa for ambassadors of Britain and India in Moscow last week. China’s communist government was said to be consulted. The United States opposes conferences outside the UN framework and would likely refuse if Nationalist China is excluded. Details on invited nations were not clear.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the Formosa Mutual Defense Treaty by 11 to 2. It commits the United States to defend Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa and the Pescadores, with a clear defense purpose and no pledge to keep Chiang in power indefinitely.
Occasional high clouds and early morning fog patches with little temperature change. The report describes muted conditions with minimal variation in temperature and visibility influenced by patchy fog.
Eleven U S warships sailed from Long Beach for Far East duty amid tensions between Chinese Communist and Nationalist forces. The force includes three heavy cruisers and eight destroyers with about 6900 sailors, part of Cruiser Division 3 under Rear Admiral Warder. The ships join the U S Tt Fleet in the waters near Formosa, while 11 other vessels will return later.
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