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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1952
Page
10
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover told the House appropriations committee that Communist membership has declined from 43 217 to 31 608 with many going underground about half in New York area and notes centers of heavy activity in California Illinois Ohio New Jersey Massachusetts Minnesota Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Warner Bros director Assessed $100 as his share for a new church in Hueymatia near Taxco Mexico as villagers report progress. Brahm owner of the hacienda in the village informed by locals. Burbank California note.
London report says the Clement Attlee wing of the Labour party wins a double victory over Aneurin Bevan's faction. A new disciplinary code is adopted to force party voting in the House of Commons, with Attlee presiding over Parliamentary Labour meetings and a conscience clause defending individual conscience.
Vienna dispatch reports Czechoslovakia's new budget shows a rise in military spending, with much of the outlays hidden in broad figures for national industries. The plan totals 32344 billion crowns about 64 billion dollars, with internal and external security at 443 million dollars, while industrial appropriations reach 4.35 billion dollars, over two thirds of the total. The Prague radio notes the economy is oriented to Soviet military needs and arms production remains a principal industry.
Moscow dispatch reports the death of Lt. Gen. Boris I. ShereMetvov at age 56. He was a leading figure in Soviet artillery command during World War II. Cause of death was not disclosed.
Mt Etna in Sicily erupted early today belching gray and white smoke and flames from the northeastern cone. The activity follows recent earthquakes that leveled homes and killed three people, with additional tremors and explosions shaking the eastern slope.
Sterling Insurance Company president AL A Breskin describes a new income protection plan offering $200 monthly from day one of medical attention as long as the insured is laid up, with up to 3 months of hospital pay, $5000 accidental death coverage, and up to $10,000 total benefits plus home nursing and ambulance services.
Joseph Richard, 57, a male nurse, and his wife Rosalind, 40, a polio victim, completed a cross country trip from New Haven to Los Angeles. They arrived by air from New York with funds from an anonymous New York benefactor. Richard has been offered three jobs and plans to stay with friends in Temple City while seeking work.
In Los Angeles on March 2 court testimony identified 15 defendants in a California Communist conspiracy case. Witness Stephen Wereb named four more party agitators active in Los Angeles County, including Dorothy Healey and William Schneiderman. The group faces Smith Act charges for allegedly teaching and advocating violent overthrow of the government.
The Senate preparedness sub committee will review secret intelligence on Russian air power and U S security. Lyndon B. Johnson says hearings open Monday with aims to compare U S and Soviet aircraft and project future shifts. He assigned staff to probe alleged waste at a Greenland air base and noted testimony about a talkative worker.
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