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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1951
Page
7
The sky platform idea, an artificial satellite for earth orbit, remains under study by the Air Force amid testimony linking it to a 1947 intelligence leak. Analysts speculate the project could aid long range rocket guidance or radar control, though no clear progress is shown beyond early feasibility exploration.
Sen. McCarthy warns the United States must bolster Western Europe to curb Soviet guided missiles. He urges integrating Japan, Nationalist China, Spain, and West Germany into anti Communist defenses while criticizing Truman’s Formosa order and claiming it released Chinese Reds to Korea. He says Russia, aided by German scientists, is feverishly developing airborne missiles that could negate atomic bombers.
In Kanowny Burma sympathizers with Karen rebels and others gathered before the government compound demanding the ouster of Premier Thakin Nu. An armed guard stood by barbed wire while a no-confidence motion in parliament failed before the crowd dispersed after learning the motion was defeated. Demonstrators wore Karen robes and waved the Nationalist Karen flag seeking autonomy as Burma battles the Karen uprising for three years.
Dr G Masser Taylor of Los Angeles urged creating UK bone banks as national medical facilities. He said bone banks increase graft availability and reduce pain, noting less than 30 exist in the US. Banks store bone via deep freeze from living donors or within six hours after death.
Los Angeles report. Arthur W. Hall, riding a streetcar, intervened when a tall man attacked a woman, Charlene O’Neil. Hall, with a plastered left arm, rushed the assailant and aided the injured woman as the assailant fled.
Hong Kong report says hungry farmers armed with hoes and scythes seized stores and staged food riots in South China against Communist rule. Independent Chinese sources estimate 200000 guerrillas in Kwangtung and Kwangsi with 1.5 million nationwide. raids kill dozens, destroy bridges, and disrupt Communist meetings. clashes erupt on Hainan Island with casualties.
Barcelona's two day strike largely collapsed as 90 percent of workers returned to duty. Police civil guards and sailors from five warships patrolled the city while military units stayed in barracks. A labor delegate promised penalties if workers did not resume work.
MEMPHIS Tenn March 14 A mother visiting friends found her nine month old son Michael Lee Summar scalded to death and his older sister Phyllis critically burned in a downstairs apartment sink. The children had been playing with a toy boat in the bath when Phyllis apparently bumped the hot water faucet. A hot water tank was empty and the sink and floor flooded. The father was at work.
NEW YORK March 14 UP A threatened strike of port stewards against Pan American World Airways has been postponed for 10 days to allow more time for mediation of a wage dispute. The port stewards, members of the CIO Transport Workers Union, had set the strike for midnight tonight. The union, announcing the postponement, told the National Mediation Board that the action was taken in view of the present national emergency and in recognition of your invaluable expert services.
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