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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1955
Page
2
In Pasadena a judge ruled jazz bandleader Freddie Slack was not intoxicated when arrested after completing the piano number Slaughter on 10th Avenue at a nightclub on May 23. The ruling acquits him of the drunk driving charge.
Otto Ernst Remer, a former general who helped crush the July 20 plot against Hitler, filed a libel suit in Oldenburg against producers of It Happened July 20. He says the movie degrades him publicly though he offered no details. Remer led the Berlin guard battalion during the revolt and later joined the Socialist Reich Party before its 1952 outlawing and served a prison term for defaming the plotters.
Convention officials predicted 20000 attendees at the American Legion event in San Diego with 14000 delegates on day one as the 40 and 8 and its auxiliaries prepared to clear roads and occupy hotels. The Rev Albert J Hoffman of Dubuque Iowa, Legion chaplain, noted the organization’s oath to God and country as proceedings began amid noise makers and parade displays.
Los Angeles testimony in court reveals singer Virginia OBrien, smiling after the divorce, says actor John Feggo abused her on several occasions. She waives alimony while Feggo agrees to $75 monthly child support for three children. couple wed in 1942.
Mrs. Aurania Rouverdil, 69, noted playwright and actress, creator of the Andy Hardy series for radio and film, died Friday.
West Berlin opened its fifth annual film festival with The Constant Husband shown in two theaters. The event features 31 nations with a 12 day run and audience voting to determine winners. U S entries include Beau Brummel Vanishing Prairie Strategic Air Command and The Seven Year Itch. Hiroshima from Japan is also shown while a fifth of seats are reserved for East Berlin and East German residents.
Mitchums attorney seeks to move Robert Mitchums California libel suit to trial in California. Judge Orlando L. Giesler requested the magazine submit to court permission to travel to New York for statements from executives. The move aims to force trial jurisdiction in California.
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