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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1955
Page
5
Final arguments are due today in the Harry Bridges citizenship trial in San Francisco. Government charges Bridges swore falsely in 1945 he had not been a Communist Party member to gain U S citizenship. Judge Louis E Goodman presides without a jury.
Galveston mayor George Roy Clough vows an open but clean island, ordering immediate action against prostitution. Police closed a bar and arrested eight women as authorities pursue clamping down on bawdy houses and tavern solicitations amid ongoing efforts to curb vice.
A four year contract resolved a strike that halted about one fourth of Mississippi River shipping and disrupted tributaries for three days. Union spokesman said 50 towboats and about 1000 barges tied up at landings across the 3000 mile waterway system would be back in service by noon.
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