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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1951
Page
2
Washington March 28 The president's temporary policy board says this is not the time for any merger program among U S companies handling overseas cable and radiotelegraph communications.
As America's oldest airline enters its second quarter century Western Air Lines completes 25 years of continuous operation this April. From its 1926 Los Angeles to Salt Lake City route with two open cockpit biplanes to a 5000 mile system serving 45 cities in 18 western states and Canada, the airline has shaped air travel, aided commerce and postal service, and supported military airlift in World War I and beyond. Today, personnel and aircraft are part of the Pacific Airlift under Air Force contract, linking California to Tokyo.
In the California Assembly a 54 to 20 vote approved the Waters reapportionment bill, reshuffling 80 districts amid 4 hours of debate. Democrats allege Republican bias while supporters argue the plan meets constitutional limits and reflects population shifts, moving seats from Los Angeles to faster growing counties.
In Waterbury Connecticut a German war bride, Mrs Kohn Rowland 42, committed suicide at a rest home after saying she planned to die. She jumped from a third story window at Southmayor Convalescent Home in the rear, discovered by Superintendent Charlotte W Sheen who noted the woman asked to stay as she felt she was going to die.
In Shanghai on March 17 the China Union Press reports 14 persons executed by the communists for contacting Nationalist guerrillas. One victim named Chen Ho-chin was a graduate of Columbia University.
The Citizens Association retained city government control with Mayor William E. Kemp winning a third term and the coalition taking eight of nine council seats. Kemp led 68,046 votes against Ber W. Swafford's 55,423. The nonpartisan race followed a decade of Democratic split after Tom Pendergast’s fall.
Spring rain pelted central and western states with snow in cooler areas. A tornado hit lower northern Oklahoma and south-central Kansas with no major damage. Strong winds up to 50 mph chilled western Kansas and eastern Colorado, turning rain to snow in Denver and Cheyenne.
AP reports the United States may establish a fifth atomic weapons proving ground in the sub Arctic Aleutian chain. Reasons include military control, ease of sea access, and climate considerations. The piece notes past tests at Alamogordo Bikini Eniwetok and Frenchman’s Flat, with subsurface options possible.
General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, commander in chief, arrived from Paris and headed to the Hanoi Haiphong sector where Vietminh forces mass for potential renewed attack. He told 160000 troops that a victorious end to the long conflict would soon come, after leaving Indochina March 14 to seek reinforcements.
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