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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1951
Page
4
League of Women Voters will not meet to Thorrow in Lafayette Hotel as previously announced. The next meeting will be in June at a time and place to be announced.
Long Beach Community Players hosted a membership gathering at the new center stage playhouse 5021 EB Anaheim Ct with a reading of A Trio for Two Cats by John Green and Fred Schott. A buffet supper for about 100 preceded the meeting while Mrs. Walter Case, president, reported on finances. roughly 150 attended the program.
City Health Officer Dr. I. D. Litwack urged community focus on children during a public meeting at City Health Center. He noted child health as a basic city service and stressed preventive medicine benefits for all ages. The event was part of a Community Volunteer Organization tour series with a May 24 Hughes School session planned on public schools.
The VFW Sunshine Girls of Post 2S, composed of Long Beach girls, captured the sweepstakes award at the Torrance area Yours Band Festival. Mascot Gail Schachleiter earned second place in majorette contest. They are VFW state junior girl champions, directed by Jack Schachleiter and Pat Smith.
Funeral service for Mrs. de Claire Garn 38 of Broadway Fidenie Beach killed in an automobile crash will be at 4 p.m. tomorrow at White and Day Colonial Chapel 901 Torrance Blvd Redondo Beach. Garn was a teacher in the Bernnia Beach schools and widow of James Garnet who died in an auto crash last year. Survivors include James Stanley 14 Hazel Ann 13 and Virginia.
Brig. Gen. Crawford F. Sams of Saint Louis Missouri, a medical mission hero behind Communist lines in Korea, requests return to the United States. He led Allied occupation public health efforts and received the Distinguished Service Cross for a daring March 14 East Coast mission to verify disease among Red troops, landing ashore for over three hours and discovering smallpox prevalence.
Officials at Ban Zoo report a dental operation on a young gorilla named Bouba. Two teeth were removed May 2 under general anesthesia by Dr. Q M Stephen Hassard. The zoo notes this may be the first disclosed case of such surgery on Bouba.
A 47.7 million suit against Edward S. Shattuck, former candidate for attorney general, was dismissed by a Superior Court in Los Angeles. The judge ruled the action a sham filed for publicity. The suit, earlier moved from San Francisco, accused Shattuck, financier Arthur C. Wright, and construction engineer Ernest BR Hook of breach of contract.
David K. Niles resigned as administrative assistant to President Truman effective May 31 1951. A veteran aide from Roosevelt era Niles cited fatigue and desire for travel abroad in a letter released by the White House. Truman indicated they would discuss future plans after his rest.
A group of prominent Americans gathered at Arden House, led by Columbia University, to review the debate on U S aid to Europe against communism. The American Assembly aims to clarify national and international issues and help the public form opinions. Speakers include Senators Taft and Douglas with Lewis W Douglas opening remarks.
In Hoboken New Jersey gunmen fired on the Local 867 office of the International Longshoremen's Association CIO, killing Munzio Aluette a 43 year old North Bergen resident. Union delegate John Nolan and another man escaped injury as police began investigations into a gangland style attack amid a pattern of waterfront violence including a March Jersey City union bombing injuring five.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, U S delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, arrived from Paris after Geneva conferences. She denied reports she would retire from her U N post.
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