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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1948
Page
5
Two inmates at a police reform institute testified that jailers used prison labor and funds to build private homes. The court jailed the jailers and commended the inmates for honesty.
An official statement from China reports a government air strike on a building near Fuping in Hopeh Province where Mao Tze-Tung and about 200 other Red leaders were meeting. The attack on May 13 killed or wounded 80. Linfen fell to government forces after a two month siege, with 40,000 Reds casualties claimed by Teng Wen-Yi.
A claim for fifty thousand seven hundred eighty seven dollars filed with the City Council was referred to City Attorney Irving M. Smith through his attorney Paul Henderson. Jewell M. Brown alleges that on April 14, 1948, he was injured when struck by an electrical wire allowed to hang four to six feet from the street while riding in a vehicle driven by F. C. LeFevre on Daisy Avenue near Bronce Way between Ocean Boulevard and First Street. Brown says the injury left him permanently disabled.
Washington May 1 Eisenhower name may top Democratic nomination roll Alabama delegation may push for an Eisenhower boom before Truman is nominated Alabama plans walkout if civil rights plank passes and Truman nomination is pursued. Arrangements committee to name temporary and permanent chairs in Philadelphia. Dewey Stassen duel for Oregon votes to be settled in Friday primary with Montana and Maryland GOP conventions also choosing delegates.
In Yokohama today two American soldiers were sentenced by a U S Eighth Army general court martial to 10 years hard labor and dishonorable discharge for robbing four Japanese of 106 dollars in personal property on March 23. Pvt. Claude H. McHargue of Pine Hill Kentucky and Yan Kessinger of Whitehall are named.
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