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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1952
Page
2
Edward Seiler, famed Tin Pan Alley lyricist, died of a heart attack while at home with nephews in Linden. He wrote the words to hits including I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire When the Lights Go on Again and Till Then.
William A. Irvin, who led United States Steel Corp. from 1932 to 1937, died after a long illness in New York at age 73. He began as a plant worker in 1894 in Pennsylvania and rose to prominence in the steel industry over more than five decades.
Washington educator Raymond Allen begins leading a new Truth Campaign facing postwar propaganda battles. He will steer a unified strategy amid Cold War tensions, succeeding Army Secretary Gordon Gray at the Psychological Strategy Board while returning to administration duties and planning collaboration with the Defense Department.
Moscow reports the death of Maxim Litvinoff aged 75, a former Foreign Commissar and diplomat who helped win U.S. recognition for Bolshevik Russia. He died December 31, with funeral planned. Survived by widow Ivy Low and two children. Litvinoff held key posts from 1930 to 1946 and played a pivotal but contested role in Soviet Western relations.
Senate preparedness chair Lyndon B. Johnson questioned sending Army recruits to Hawaii for basic training, calling it a costly, potentially wasteful use of tax dollars. Hawaii delegate Joseph R. Farrington defended the program as highly valuable for Pacific defense, while the Army said Hawaii offers ideal training conditions.
Washington reports the displaced persons program closed after three years. The DP head, John W. Gibson, says 336,000 refugees were resettled, cost 100.6 million dollars, with 54 percent male and 46 percent Catholic, 34 percent Protestant and Orthodox, 19 percent Jewish. About half are in the United States. the rest are to be settled within two months.
Proceedings were authorized today to annex the old municipal disposal site in county territory east of and adjacent to Paramount Blvd about 950 feet south of South St. In a separate note, the Quebec conference between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill produced no pledge of an immediate second front in Europe.
In Mountairy North Carolina the FBI may offer a clue to a fatal blast that killed 24 year old William H. Cochrane Jr., a White Plains teacher. Metal fragments and a small electric cord were sent to Washington as officers seek motive and suspect. Police report the blast occurred as he started a truck, he survived briefly, then died. no enemies or motives found, father Chief W H Cochrane Sr. says the boy had no enemies.
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