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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1954
Page
3
The testimony details Cohn’s claims that Stevens tried to halt the congressional probe and that McCarthy’s allies pressed for a commission for Schine. It covers debates over confidential informants, access to committee files, and disputed transcripts of telephone calls.
The United States begins withdrawing about 200 Air Force technicians who went to Indochina last March to aid French warplanes. Some American service members may volunteer to assist French ground crews, with 47 B26 bombers kept in Indochina to bolster assaults near the Hanoi area. Top allied chiefs plan secret strategy talks on outside intervention for the French Union forces.
In a Los Angeles grand jury probe of kickbacks by building contractors, two plastering inspectors Vincent Walsh and Joseph Stewart refused to testify on constitutional grounds. Gilbert Morris said no immediate action against them. other suspects include contractor W. W. Whitehead and union official Joseph Micelli, with more witnesses and bribes alleged. San Diego naval note adds submarine tender Nereus arrival details and related payments to influence testing, including an inspector’s claim of bribe requests and a contractor’s cost for patching holes.
Long Beach voters faced a district reshuffle as Reese wins District 1 and Wick takes District 4. May trails by over 3000 votes. absentee ballots could decide Spongberg Carleson contest in days. Incumbents faced strong sentiment. Sutter runs for municipal judge as incumbents slide. A separate drive-in robbery case ends with a bandit at large after a January special election plan faces criticism.
Akron reporter notes Bert Simmers stood on rainy Main Street signaling ambulance right of way when a skidding tow truck struck him. He rode to Peoples Hospital in the very ambulance he helped guide, suffering a broken nose and injuries to an arm and leg.
French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault plans to propose at the Indochina peace conference that Asian neutrals lead the supervision of a cease-fire. The move, backed by the United States and Britain, was to be submitted at the afternoon session. Bidault met with U S Under Secretary Walter Bedell Smith amid talks over a Viet Nam elections plan and Bao Dai’s letter.
In the San Gabriel Mountains a car tumbled 250 feet down a cliff then bounced 150 feet along a slope. Sheriff’s deputies, highway patrol, and ambulance crews rescued them after six hours. Mrs Sybil Hansen 21 of Glendora and James Lockhart 26 of Glendora were hospitalized with injuries.
A rural Vernal family on an outing 75 miles southeast of Vernal faced a tragedy when Charles Merrell Jr. fired at a coyote from their auto. A bullet pierced the car roof and a fragment struck 7 year old Robert Lane Merrell in the head. The death was attributed to brain pressure from the injury.
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