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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1952
Page
1
President Truman called for an immediate bargaining based settlement to end a 48 day steel shutdown harming the mobilization and civilian economy. He blamed steel management for spurning offers and urged Congress to back a new seiz ure law while stressing the need to resume production.
In Richmond Indiana Miss Jo Ann Clark now 22 married Lowell B Carver 26 a factory worker in the First Christian Church. She contracted infantile paralysis at age 10 and spent seven years bedridden undergoing 15 operations including treatment at the Warm Springs polio hospital three times.
Two Air Force pilots died when a T 33 trainer crashed during an attempted landing at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Orange County. Capt. Jack Little of Corona del Mar and Capt. Lloyd Babcock of Laguna Beach were on routine flight from Webb AFB, Texas. The crash occurred in overcast conditions as the pilot tried a go around. both were killed instantly.
Ensenada II and Gloria H. collided 240 miles south of Ensenada near San Martin Island in heavy fog. Four crew members died and 18 survivors, including a Catholic priest and four nuns, were rescued by the Ensenada II and taken to Cedros Island after the Gloria H. sank.
Public Forum and radio and TV listings appear across pages A-20 and C-9, with Realty News in Southland Magazine and sports items spanning pages A-22 to A-26. Theater and Water Front sections run through pages B-2 and A-17, with Werten's Activities listed on C-1 to.
A petite woman fled on foot after simulating a gun in a knitting bag during a 10 PM robbery at the West Coast Theater on 330 East Ocean Boulevard. She escaped with about 100 pounds of receipts from 9 to 10 PM, aided by a presumed male accomplice. The cashier, Miss Betty Courim, 20, described her as 1385 to 40 with dark brown hair under a bright scarf and a light tan short coat.
The Ohio Republican State Central Committee asks General Dwight D. Eisenhower Senator Richard Nixon and Arthur Summerfield to deliver major speeches in Ohio. Summerfield and Nixon plan to speak at the Columbus convention on July 31. Eisenhower would give one of his principal Ohio speeches. The move is disclosed by the GOP National Committee in telegrams between Ray Bliss and Summerfield.
Governor Earl Warren and his wife returned from the Chicago Republican Convention and planned a brief stay in Sacramento to clear desk work before flying to Southern California for a vacation with their three daughters.
Four year old Danny Tyler bought a frozen ice lolly and could not remove it as the ice block stuck to his tongue. A woman and the ice cream man helped, police were called, and an ambulance took Danny to hospital where hot water pried the lolly loose.
Navy carrier aircraft attacked a North Korean power plant near Chosen as repair crews worked on facilities damaged in the June 23 bombing. Corsair and Skyraider pilots faced heavy anti aircraft fire yet scattered workers and wrecked large transformers amid thick fog. On the central front UN troops, supported by tanks, pressed three attempts to retake a hill lost Friday, nearing the peak twice before heavy artillery halted progress. A Chinese Communist battalion reportedly held the hill after a night of fierce fighting.
The forecast calls for an overcast morning and a sunny afternoon with little temperature change. Yesterday ranged from 59 to 79 degrees as winds shift from light variable to west-southwest at 12 to 17 mph in the afternoon.
A four year old boy named Ernie Lefler disappeared from a forest camp near Lost Lake. A fifty man search party has been organized to comb the woods after he separated from his brothers during a hike from camp toward a store twenty miles northwest of Slammath Falls Oregon.
Huntington State Hospital and four state facilities launched sixteen transorbital lobotomies led by Dr. Walter Freeman in a mass surgery plan for insanity. About 200 operations are planned by Aug. 7 with consent from guardians and limited reports of improvement and risk, including one death.
Chicago July 19 official program lists Monday sessions in Long Beach time with Call to order by Frank E. McKinney Invocation by Cardinal Stritch welcome by Mayor Martin H. Kennedy and readings by Dorothy Vredenburgh Morning addresses include Governor Adlai Stevenson Senator Paul H. Douglas and others. Evening session features Sen Theodore Francis Green invocation by J Ralph Magee and keynote by Gov Paul A. Dever.
Chicago July 19 AP Deliberate maneuvering marked the Democratic race for the presidential nomination as Harriman and Barkley vie for delegates and possible White House support. Contested Dixie seating threatens unity with anti Truman delegations from Mississippi and Texas prompting a floor showdown. Western and midwestern state leaders plan meetings to coordinate backing while Stevenson remains a drafting possibility amid uncertain pledges.
Averell Harriman campaign managers demand that every Democratic convention delegate pledge loyalty to the convention choices for President and Vice President. Senator Kefauver urged rule changes to bar disputed delegates from voting on seating. The party already seated disputed anti Tru man delegates from Texas and Mississippi on a temporary basis.
National networks plan extensive Democratic convention coverage from Chicago with live floor scenes from 8:30 tomorrow. Local stations KNBH KECA KTLA KNXT will televise daytime and nighttime sessions, with key speeches by Gov. Dever and panels including Barkley Harriman Kefauver Russell.
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