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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1952
Page
3
Senate leaders outline a compromise to end most wage and price controls gradually, with rental curbs lifted by October 1953 unless local votes keep them. The plan also relaxes credit checks, idles Regulation X, and targets broader exemptions while keeping key provisions to curb inflation.
Miss New York Miss Loughery won Miss U S A after a long evening of gowns bathing suits and talent as 39 state entrants and a European group paraded before 10 judges in Long Beach California. Finalists received film contracts and Miss Universe earned a Sunbeam Talbot convertible plus a watch and trophy amid sponsor ceremonies.
Detroit dispatch reports 75,000 Idle workers in Michigan as Ford shuts 14 assembly plants by Monday night and Lincoln Mercury plants scale back. GM has laid off 38,500 and Chrysler aims to keep lines moving. The AP survey warns widespread idling could force a near shutdown of auto production across the state by July amid steel shortages.
Peiping condemns U N raids as vicious and nonmilitary while arguing for severe punishment. The United States defends the Yalu power plant strikes as legitimate military targets. Army intelligence notes the plants supplied power to war industries, radar, and aircraft spotting gear.
Moscow reports accuse the United States of seeking war in Korea after American bombings of Yalu River power plants. Pravda headlines condemn the bombings as barbarous while stating world public protest. The articles portray Wall Street as opposing a Korea truce and claim Washington blocks peace efforts.
Former British defense minister Emanuel Shinwell urged the United Nations to convene an immediate conference to reexamine the Far East position and prevent the Korean war from spreading. He spoke at a Labor rally in Wellingborough and criticized the United States for not consulting Britain before Yalu River air strikes. He urged diplomatic settlement and new U N talks, saying Britain was treated badly by the U S over the attacks.
Paris notes Guy Mollet sharply protested American military actions in Korea and urged a return to a policy condemned in the MacArthur era. He said the French government was not informed about bombing on the Yalu River frontier with Manchuria after meeting Premier Pinay.
Kansas City June 18 The closing session of the Church of the Nazarene general assembly resisted salary raises. Superintendents rejected a plan to raise pay to 10000 annually, final figure set at 6000. Dr Hardy C Powers and Dr Samuel Young spoke against the increase.
The walkout hits Michigan hard with 16,500 steel workers in Detroit and about 8,500 iron miners in the Upper Peninsula directly idle. Numerous seamen on ore boats and railroad crews around the iron mines join in indirect idling, widening economic disruption.
The Colorado 16 vote Democratic delegation gathers at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden amid on the spot wooing by four presidential hopefuls. Kefauver presses western reclamation plans while Eisenhower camps near Denver ahead of Chicago convention. Taft remains in a tight GOP race as delegates shift and tally updates show Eisenhower leading.
Henry Weifel of Fort Worth, a national committeeman and Taft ally, says documents will be presented Tuesday as a hearing begins on disputes over the 38 vote Texas delegation and other delegate contests. Taft spoke in Washington and Virginia, criticizing Eisenhower and urging anti-Yalta policy while Democrats ponder Truman’s renomination. Russell and Kerr also attacked Eisenhower in Colorado, with Ike offering no direct reply.
A brutal heat wave kills 122 in the eastern half of the nation with highs from the 90s to 107. Records fall in Wilmington and Columbia while Alabama and Virginia face extreme heat. Deaths mount in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia and other states as temperatures stay above 100 for days.
In Los Angeles the UF Streetcar and bus operators voted 1475 to 643 to accept the latest wage offer from Los Angeles Transit Lines, ending a strike threat. The plan, including 20 cents more per hour, adds 2 cents next December for maintenance and 1 cent for operators, with three weeks vacation after 15 years.
In Jackson Michigan a teen’s jalopy traveling fast collapsed after the front undercarriage dropped out. Passenger Donna McDonald eighteen of Van dercook Lake died. driver Phillip Bofink eighteen suffered a skull fracture. Witnesses said the car rolled over in the incident.
Senator Robert A. Taft told reporters at Charlottesville there is no valid argument against his November bid and he expects a record opening delegate lead at the Chicago convention. He urged cutting off aid to western Europe, repudiating Yalta, and starting immediate anti-satellite propaganda. He defended limited aid under Marshall Plan and Point Four while protecting American strength.
Taft urged using propaganda and underground networks in Soviet satellites to combat communism. He argued Voice of America is ineffective and that air power and sea control are essential, warning that Western Europe could be overwhelmed by Soviet forces without a strong defense.
James K Reid, retired businessman and former president of the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club, is home at 380 Wisconsin Ave after illness in Seaside Hospital. His condition is improved but he remains confined to bed.
A series of underground sewer gas explosions rocked downtown Columbus shortly after noon injuring two firemen and demolishing an automobile over a manhole. Firemen traced the fire to an underground electric company cable causing gas accumulations that spread about a mile away.
Two transports brought more than 3700 military and civilian personnel home today from posts in the Orient. The Gen. J. C. Breckinridge docked at Fort Mason and carried about 2100 passengers including 472 combat veterans from Korea. The USS Noble docked at Treasure Island with 911 Army men 561 Navy 17 Marine Corps and three Air Force personnel.
Hollywood reports film star Lana Turner has established residence in Nevada to seek a divorce from her husband Henry J. Topping. Turner left for Reno and will be absent about eight weeks as a studio spokesman indicated she plans later marriage to Fernanda Lamas after the divorce.
In Syracuse Italy a fighter plane struck a three apartment building killing the pilot and a 16 year old boy. Six people were injured amid the crash on a sunny June day. Local authorities investigated the wreckage and the cause remained under inquiry.
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