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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1950
Page
9
Tokyo reporters note four Japanese will go on trial before General MacArthur. The case concerns an adverse letter criticizing the occupation, which is forbidden by MacArthur directives and Japanese law under the postwar regime.
In Portland Maine Lucia M Cormier a 38 year old Rumford book seller and Democratic national committeewoman faces Dr Adrian H Scolten in the First District. Republicans contest only in the First District with Ray W Stetson challenging Rep Robert Hale. Governor Frederick G Payne and Reps Charlies P Nelson and Frank Fellows run unopposed on the GOP side.
Five of the Hollywood 10 flew to New York and Washington to await court dispositions on contempt of Congress citations. Edward Dmytryk Lester Cole Albert Maltz Alvah Bessie Ring Lardner 4th Adrien Scott traveled by air. Sam Ornitz and Herbert Biberman head by other means. Two convicted writers remain jailed in Washington while the rest await rulings on Lawson and Trumbo. A protest by the Committee for the Hollywood 10 drew over 1000 at the airport.
Allan Lee Pearce of Oklahoma City confessed from a county jail cell to a drunken hoax about a flaming plane crash and a five day desert trek near Reno. He gave aliases John Chenau and false crash details to hide his trouble, and police are pursuing airplane theft charges while verifying family connections in Texas and Oklahoma.
New York June 19 4 Bene detto Macri 37 charged with last year's knife killing of Union Organizer William Lurge gave himself up to columnist Walter Winchell after a secret rendezvous. They drove to a Manhattan police station where he was booked for homicide. Another man indicted in the slaying John Giusto remains at large. Winchell gave the $25 000 reward to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and had urged suspects to surrender for the fund’s benefit.
MUNICH Germany June 15 Homer Cook a 27 year old escape artist probably will be well enough to stand trial Wednesday his counsel said today The big ex soldier from Muskogee Okla faces 20 charges before a high commission court including illegal entry into Germany He says he came here only to marry his German girlfriend.
A fragmented reminiscence notes cutting and frosting imagery for fancy gapers. It recalls 1774 New York when City Hotel offered dining with guests bringing own vegetables and bread and paying extra for cooking. Thanks are given to Mrs KE M Hughes of Long Beach.
West Berlin authorities detained 57 Russian zone barges amid canal clashes. Officials said the ships were held for improper cargo documentation, with most carrying chemicals destined for Russia.
In Reims on June 19 Miss Francoise Maginot, daughter of the Maginot Line builder, died in a hospital after her car wrecked and caught fire. She had been returning from Revigny where she witnessed the unveiling of a monument to her father, former War Minister Andre Maginot, a replacement for a German-destroyed monument.
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