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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1950
Page
8
Two Vietminh nationalists launched a night assault 16 miles southwest of Hanoi using a homemade bazooka and rocket weapons to blow a thick brick fort within the Indochina defense zone. The attack was repulsed at dawn with French artillery support. rebels breached walls briefly and fought hand to hand.
Warsaw reports Prof. Frederic Joliot-Curie, head of the Defenders of Peace, told the World Peace Congress that two power blocs could exist side by side in peace. He called war mongers to expose themselves. The congress, backed by Communists, discussed abolishing atomic weapons and localizing the Korean War amid vows from delegates including Mann, Robeson, Ehrenburg, Picasso, Cardenas and Fast.
Rose Kuglis and husband Bert sue John T. Haldem in Superior Court over injuries from a Jan 23 collision at the Gaffey and Sts intersection in San Pedro. Attorneys Rolland G. Swaffield and Philip E. Poppler filed the complaint seeking 40000.
In Front Royal Virginia FBI says Andrew Danton former Census Bureau employee confessed to beating four year old Lynn Dan ton to death and injuring his wife Florence on Skyline Drive. He then slashed his wrists and drove the car off a cliff. Lynn body sent to New York relatives for burial. The mother remained unconscious in hospital.
U S Navy Secretary Francis Matthews arrived in Manila by plane on November 17 as part of a 10 day visit to Japan and Korea, continuing a Far East tour to review defense and security matters with Allied leaders.
Washington reports government steps to boost freight car output by directing workers into car construction and repair. The NPA allocates steel for 10 000 new cars monthly and repairs 40 000 monthly in Q1 1951, with jobs focused in multiple states. Aluminum subsidies lure higher production as two ALCO plants near Massena and Badin reopen.
Dayton Ohio November 17 Delegates at the Evangelical United Brethren Church general conference approved a resolution denouncing social dancing for over an hour urging church schools and churches to back the church attitude. Dr Raymond Weh said the measure is not a mandate but asks colleges to adapt social programs. Delegates also opposed appointing a US representative to the Vatican and urged youth to consider the issues of mixed Catholic marriages.
John J. Fleck, a North Philadelphia news vendor, remained jailed in $5,000 bail after FBI arrested him for writing threatening letters to the wives of Senators Wayne Morse, Chandler Gurney, Claude Pepper, and Spessard Holland. He denied threats at an immediate hearing before U.S. Commissioner Henry P. Carr, calling it a misunderstanding as letters, longhand, warned of arming against a senator who votes contrary to supporting the President.
Jesse D. Stockton Kern County superintendent of schools was elected president of the California Association of County Superintendents of Schools at a three day meeting. Officers named include vice president Dean Trigga secretary Juanita Emmerson treasurer W Rolland Hanson and several regional directors.
Clarke Kerr director of the University of California Industrial Relations Institute has been named the second public member of the National Wage Stabilization Board. Sources say final word will come after a third public member is chosen to join Kerr and Chair Cyrus S. Ching. The board includes three representatives from labor, industry, and the public and will recommend wage policies and oversee government pay controls.
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