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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1952
Page
2
A Wisconsin Dells couple sought a quick venison order when a live deer crashed through a restaurant window and sprang onto their table. The frightened animal was later shot after being cut by broken glass.
Ada Belle Watson, 32, wife of John Edward Watson, was arrested in Albany California after police and postal inspector recovered 75211.54 dollars of loot from a Monolith post office burglary. The haul included 67000 in postal money orders and 6675 in federal savings bonds. Mrs Watson denied knowledge of the crime.
The postwar disaster at Aachen's Grenzland track left 13 dead as a German midget racer named Helmut Niedermeyer, driving at over 120 mph, lost control on the Roer monder curve during the first lap. The car plowed into picnicking spectators, killing four schoolboys, three women, and two men. four others remained seriously injured.
Senate candidate John Sparkman addressed a CIO Labor Day picnic near Whittier criticizing the Taft Hartley Act as a covert effort to hinder union organizing. He cited Nixon’s stance, urged amendment rather than repeal, and urged civil rights progress with Adlai Stevenson.
Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr says civil rights will decide the November ballot in New York Illinois Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan and possibly New Jersey California. In a U S News and World Report interview he credits Truman for Negro vote support and criticizes Eisenhower's wartime handling of civil rights. Powell praises Stevenson for backing a strong FEPC in Illinois and notes his overall political trajectory.
A week old tropical storm moved from the South Atlantic along the coast to land in South Carolina then weakened over Maryland and Virginia. Four people died in the process including two motorists near Hargeeville and a lineman electrocuted by a fallen wire. Heavy rains and flooding affected North Carolina and Virginia with up to nearly four inches in Chambersburg and five feet of water on major highways.
Quito reports peaceful transfer of power as Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra becomes Ecuador's first three-time president in 130 years. He succeeds Galo Plaza Lasso, a former football player at the University of California, who served a full four-year term since 1925 coup.
Representatives from 13 states form the Constitution party to urge electoral college voters to back Gen Douglas MacArthur for president and Sen Harry Byrd for vice president. The group, led by Haliburton Fales, aims to influence the college rather than the popular vote. States represented include Pennsylvania New York New Jersey Maryland Ohio Connecticut California Indiana Texas Illinois Colorado Idaho and Utah.
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