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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1952
Page
2
The damaged aircraft carrier Wasp is expected to arrive in New York tomorrow, a Navy spokesman said. Details on arrival time or ship progress remain unavailable after a collision with the minesweeper Hobson about 1200 miles east of Boston two weeks earlier. Hobson sank with 175 crew fatalities, while the Wasp carries Hobson survivors.
The Associated Press surveys delegates pledged or willing to express a preference show Eisenhower ahead of Taft in early tallies. Florida and Ohio hold key contests with Kefauver facing Russell and Pepper's backing boosting Kefauver in Florida.
Tokyo reports Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida selected Eichichi Araki, longtime Bank of Japan official and Tokyo Electric Co. president, as Japan's first postwar ambassador to the United States. Araki, 62, recently returned from wartime purge and is seen as an income-rich candidate suitable for Washington posting. The choice follows a strand of wartime and postwar financial leadership shaping Tokyo’s diplomatic aims.
In Wichita on May 5 authorities prepared a psychiatric examination for 22 year old William D Bircher who admitted living with the dumped body of a woman for four days after killing her The nude body in a duffel bag was found under his parents porch He said he stabbed 36 year old Mary J Brady during a drinking bout on Feb 9 and moved the body to the porch on Feb 14 or 15 He refused to talk to an attorney or his parents.
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