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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1950
Page
2
About 15 000 people registered for the American Legion convention in Los Angeles as officials announced no hoodlumism would hinder the event. The first contingent of national officials planned to arrive Sunday to set up the convention schedule.
Sen Ives Republican urged President Truman to set up a central price control agency quickly, warning the price situation is worsening and improvements are unlikely by year end. The Federal Reserve Board noted living standards may decline as defense demand strains production and may force reductions in civilian supplies. The Interior Department created a Minerals and Energy Administration to allocate coal gas electricity and materials for defense, with possible future curb on octane ratings for gasoline and aviation fuel.
Washington reports more than 800 Americans evacuated from Seoul and Korea claim reimbursement for clothing furniture and automobiles left behind. Government employees and their families led the claims with estimates around 4000 per person plus 1250 per car.
Rep. Cannon of Missouri prepares a fresh anti communism bill to replace the vetoed measure. The draft would scrap the registration requirement for Communists and remove a section allowing denial of defense plant employment. critics warn it would make a spy list of defense plants too easy to access. Cannon notes the current law is ineffective and hinders national defense.
In Detroit during rush hour a city bus crashed into pedestrians, killing 54 year old Ora Mae Grant, a hotel housekeeper. Two other women were seriously injured. Police blamed faulty brakes. the driver was not detained.
President Truman begins temporary appointments to fill government jobs held up by Senate recess. First recess appointment goes to Robert T. Creasey of New Jersey as Assistant Secretary of Labor. Creasey is a 38 year old Dallas native and longtime C IO worker. The piece notes 100 nominations left unanswered as Congress recessed and explains recess appointment limits and potential Senate actions when it reconvenes.
Lt Billy McGarver of Abbens Texas and Platoon Sgt Olite Chapman of Lawton Oklahoma recounted a 200 mile march in manacles after capture near Yongdong Korea. They said North Korean officers posed political questions and threatened execution for impropriety while misusing Geneva conventions to intimidate them.
Washington dispatch reports the Defense Department warning that Russia aims to seize all of Germany. The document notes a growing East-West split and says observers fear Communist action committees in Western Germany to carry out a coup. It cites a 50 000 man force framed as police and infiltration of opposition parties into Berlin and western zones.
New York Sept 28 Emil Rieve president of the CIO Textile Workers Union announced a 12 cents an hour wage increase for 18 000 American Woolen Co workers. The workers are employed in jants in Maine Massachusetts Rhode Island New York and Kentucky.
Chicago report notes the nation’s weather pattern held steady with showers and cloudiness across much of the central and eastern regions. Clear skies appeared in the northern Great Plains, southwestern corner, and Pacific Northwest while the northeast grew cool and foggy and some warming was seen in the northeast.
A battered report describes towboats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman striking the railroad bridge on the Illinois River south of Pekin. One vessel damaged the safe pier amid repair work after another collision days earlier.
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