Hiss Identifies Chambers in 1930s Links
Congressional probe links Alger Hiss to Whittaker Chambers in 1934-35, with Hiss admitting knowing Chambers as "George Crosley" and denying Communist ties. Chambers testified to underground activity. both men faced the House Committee on Un-American Activities in New York. Some members urged perjury prosecutions.
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Washington
Alger Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Red Underground
Hiss
Chambers
George Crosley
New York
House Un-American Activities Committee
Carnegie Foundation For International Peace
Time Magazine
Communist Party
Rep
Nixon
Rcalif
Crosley
Senate
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Republican
United Nations
Ex-Chief Jovanovic Said Killed While Fleeing to Romania
Belgrade dispatch says Arso Jovanovic former chief of staff of the Yugoslav Army was shot and killed in a pre-dawn border crossing attempt to Romania. The report states he and three others, posing as hunters, rushed the border at about 2 a.m. on August 12 and were fired upon after one in the group began shooting when ordered to halt.
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Belgrade
Borba
Yugoslav Communist Party
Arso Jovanovic
Romania
Jovanovic
Vast Estate Inherited By Perryopolis Village
Perryopolis in Western Pennsylvania prepares for a potential multi million dollar inheritance from Mary Fuller Frazier of Philadelphia. The late 83 year old left most of her vast estate to the town for public improvements. Estimates range from five to ten million dollars as lawyers sort the will.
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Perryopolis
Pennsylvania
George Washington
Washington
Commodore Oliver Perry
Mary Fuller Frazier
Philadelphia
Mary Fuller
Solons Clash Over Truman Attacks in Congressional Record
Washington. Senator Murray says Truman is scorekeeping politics with his attacks on Congress and finds public support, especially in the West. Senator Watkins counters that only Truman supporters are impressed. Rep. Halleck releases a 10,000 word defense of the 80th Congress in the final post-session Congressional Record.
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Washington
Murray
Mont
Truman
Congress
Watkins
Utah
Butter price cut announced by Fisher Bros Co
Four cent per pound reduction in butter prices announced yesterday by Fisher Bros Co becomes effective today. New rates set at 85 cents for premium grades and 77 cents for regular brands.
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Cleveland
Fisher Bros. Co
Ban on comic book sales asked after torture case in Indiana
In New Albany Floyd County officials called for a ban on comic books as three boys aged around seven were accused of torturing a fourth. A seven year old testified in circuit court detailing rope restraints, burns, and near asphyxiation while witnesses described the alleged acts and subsequent flight.
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New Albany
Ind
Floyd County
Frank Kelley
D. Kirke Hedden
A. Eugene Hancock
Kelley
American troops end night maneuvers in Berlin Grunewald
American foot troops wrapped up all night defensive drills in Grunewald Forest Berlin as Soviet and Western troops stage rival maneuvers nearby. Joint Rhine valley exercises with French units near Heidelberg marked the first postwar allied war games.
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Berlin
Grunewald
Hamburg
Catow
Rhine
Heidelberg
Grunewald Forest
16Th
D. B. Miller
San Antonio
Tex
Marshall Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Germany
Republic objects to Kaiser's lease of federal blast furnace
Republic Steel Corp protested a War Assets Administration decision to lease its largest blast furnace to Kaiser-Frazer Corp. The plant, owned by the federal government and operated by Republic, would transfer Sept. 1 with an option to purchase. Republic had bid earlier but was rejected. WAA says the deal prevents shutdown.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel Corp
U.S
Kaiser-Frazer Corp
Republic
War Assets Administration
Washington
Kaiser-Frazer
WAA
Jesse Larson
Tucker Corp
American-born Iva Toguri D Aquino to stand trial for treason
American-born Iva Toguri D Aquino age 32 known as Tokyo Rose faces treason charges in the United States after wartime broadcasts. She was photographed in Yokohama in 1945 and later released from Sugamo prison pending trial. She says she is anxious to get the trial over with.
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Iva Toguri D’aquino
Tokyo
Mrs. Garner Dies in Texas at 78 Once Trusted Aide
Mrs. John Nance Garner known as cactus Jack's "right hand" and personal secretary died at 4:30 p.m. in Uvalde Texas. The wife of the 32nd vice president, she served as his confidante and was with him when she passed. Garner left public life in 1941.
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Uvalde
Tex
John Nance Garner
Cactus Jack
United States
Ettie
Garner
Ohio Solon Answers Labor Official's Charge
CLEVELAND The Solon Rep George H Bender replied to William Green president of the AFL offering to amend the Taft Hartley Act if it can be shown the law restricts fundamental rights of workers Green had urged defeating Congressmen who voted for the legislation and singled at Bender in a speech Monday
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Cleveland
William Green
American Federation of Labor
George H. Bender
Ohio
Green
Bender
Bicycle race disrupts with shooting wound in Ciotat
In La Ciotat France nineteen girls lined up for a bicycle race. A gun fired wounding one rider, Marcelle Dago bert, in the shoulder. The starter claimed he did not fire the pistol and hoarded the unused weapon.
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LA Ciotat
France
Marcelle Dagobert
Chiang Seen As Resuming Dictatorship
The Young China Party newspaper reports Chiang Kai-Shek plans to resume absolute power in China by decree under emergency authority. Nanking announces a ban on student demonstrations and labor actions, signaling a move toward a centralized dictatorship with Chiang returning from Kuling to push an emergency order.
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Shanghai
China
Young China Party
Nanking
Kuling
Chiang Kai-Shek
Executive Yuan
Chiang
Kuomintang
GOP Sees Midwest Tilt in 194? Campaign Visit
Midwest Republicans marked the region as the fall battlefront. A T Bert Howard of Scotts Bluff Nebraska, GOP campaign manager, predicted only three of twenty midwestern states would go to the Democrats. He spoke after a closed meeting of twenty state chairmen in America’s breadbasket. Howard said twenty states would likely be in the Dewey Warren column, but he did not name the three or the six extra troubled states.
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Chicago
Midwest
A. T. Bert Howard
Scottsbluff
Nebr
America
Howard
Sowers Seeks Funds for State Office Building Site
Columbus Ohio George Sowers state director of public works said he would ask the State Board of Control for 576400 dollars to pay for the site of a proposed new 4 million dollar state office building. One owner has agreed to the appraised value another would accept and a third wanted to think it over.
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Columbus
George Sowers
State Board of Control
Sowers
Allies Quit Jay Talks 27 Seconds After Start
The four power allied council for Japan adjourned its 66th meeting in 27 seconds with American Chair William Sebald saying nothing was up for discussion. It was the eighth straight meeting with no progress after earlier attempts ended in Russian American deadlock.
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Tokyo
Allied Council For Japan
William Sebald
Man crushed to death at Webb mine Cambria Coal
Robert Mc Farland age 55 of Shadyside was killed yesterday when crushed beneath a lift cage at the Webb mine of Cambria Collieries Co. The accident occurred in the Cambria region and authorities reported the fatality as a mining incident.
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Bellaire
Robert McFarland
Shadyside
Webb
Cambria Colilieries Co
Longshoremen Strike Delayed By Truman
President Truman used the Taft Hartley act to prevent a Friday midnight strike by the AFL International Longshoremen's Association. The shutdown would halt all shipping from Portland Maine to Hampton Roads Virginia including Marshall Plan goods. An inquiry board was named to report by Friday and court action could extend the delay about 80 days. A separate CIO seamen dispute was settled with 42 Atlantic and Gulf Coast shipping companies.
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Truman
AFL International Longshoremen's Association
Portland
Maine
Hampton Roads
Europe
Saul Wallen
Boston
Joseph Miller
Washington
Julius Cass
New York
CIO
National Maritime Union
Officials Plan Strike Session At International Harvester
CIO United Auto Workers members at seven plants walked out yesterday in a one day old strike involving about 18 000 workers. Grievances apprenticeship and arbitration procedures are disputed. Wages not in dispute since a June 23 raise. Affected plants include Melrose Park Evansville Memphis Springfield and two Indianapolis sites Fort Wayne also partially affected.
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Chicago
International Harvester Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Melrose Park
Evansville
Ind
Memphis
Pay Last Tribute At Bier of Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth lay in state at Yankee Stadium with 50 000 mourners filing past the candle lit bier. Crowds continued to gather as 59 honorary pallbearers led by Gov. Dewey prepared for the funeral mass at St Patrick's Cathedral and burial at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Westchester.
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Babe Ruth
New York
Yankee Stadium
Ruth
America
Bill Robinson
Robinson
Yankee
Claire
Pop
Dot
Dorothy Flanders
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Fifth Avenue
Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Westchester County
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Barkley Urges Farmers to Choose Between Parties at Illinois Fair
Senator Barkley told Illinois State Fair attendees farmers must pick in November between a Democratic administration with high farm prices and a Republican regime with lower prices. He warned a GOP win could return the economy and agriculture to past short-sighted policies. He credited Truman with stopping Republican efforts against farm cooperatives and noted 1947 soil conservation battles.
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Springfield
Barkley
D-Ky
Illinois
Earl Warren
California
Truman
Kentucky
Socialist Party Seeks Ballot Access in Civil Rights Fight
In Columbus the Socialist Party told a three judge federal court that Ohio election restrictions violate civil rights and asked the court to order Secretary of State Edward J. Hummel to place its candidates for national and state offices on the November ballot. The Ohio supreme court previously ruled against voting under the party name or its affiliate.
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Columbus
Socialist Party
Ohio
Edward J. Hummel
Ohio Supreme Court
Hummel
Sewer Project Talks Held in Pomeroy City Hall
Mayor D A Cana day announced a public meeting at 8 p m in city hall to discuss Naylor's Run Monkey Run and Sugar Run sewer projects with council members and area representatives. A special council session was slated for 12 15 a m Thursday by three council members.
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Pomeroy
D. A. Canaday
Naylor
Canaday
Mother of Five Indicted For Husband's Slaying
Betty Gest 29, a mother of five, was indicted for first degree murder in the August 3 slaying of her husband David T. Gest 47. The Fairfield County grand jury returned the indictment at a special session. Gest pleaded innocent by reason of insanity at a preliminary hearing last week.
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Lancaster, O
Betty Gest
Fairfield County Grand Jury
Pendergast Machine Regains Influence In Kansas City
Control of the Jackson County Democratic Committee returns to the Pendergast organization led by Jim Pendergast after Leo T. Schwartz edges Ralph M. Russell 30 to 26 for committee chair. Russell backed by rival faction, Schwartz supported by Pendergast camp.
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Kansas City
Jackson County
Democratic Committee
Jim Pendergast
Tom Pendergast
Missouri
Pendergast
Leo T. Schwartz
Ralph M. Russell
Russell
Beebe murder suicide Ends Young Couple Tragedy
Wayne Oak ton, 24, shot and killed Bernice Coen, 23, at her Beebe home then killed himself. The two had dated despite parental objections. Dalton, after a failed search, found Bernice in a barn and shot her. he then killed himself. Parents named Coen and Dalton.
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Beebe
Stewart
George Bateman
Wayne Oakton
Bernice C. Coen
Dalton
Coen
Bateman
United States to Answer Red Protests Over Refugee Cases
Secretary of State Marshall says Washington views Soviet charges against the U S government and officials in refugee and school teacher cases with serious concern. A formal U S note to the Soviets is expected within 24 hours and may be made public after delivery. The note could request Moscow recall of consul general Lomakin, under consideration alongside other responses.
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Washington
Marshall
United States
New York
Alexander S. Panyushkin
Panyushkin
Molotov
U.S
Walter Bedell Smith
Moscow
Jacob M. Lomakin
State Department
Clemency Denied for Youngstown Man on Death Row
Ohio Governor Thomas J. Herbert refused to commute the death sentence of Donald Frohner 18 of Youngstown scheduled to die in the electric chair Friday. The governor cited the pardon and parole board recommendation and noted public letters on the case. Frohner killed an Ashtabula salesman. The Ohio Supreme Court had recently upheld the sentence. A reunion with his dog Smokey was planned with permission from Warden Ralph W. Alvis for Friday.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Herbert
Donald Frohner
Youngstown
Frohner
Ashtabula
Ohio
State Pardon and Parole Board
Clem
Smokey
Ohio Supreme Court
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Solons
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Solon
GOP
Allies
Jay
Gregg Sherwood
A Lei
Claire Ruth
Memorial Hospital
Bessie
Kenneth Coen
Guy Dalton
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
Soviet Union
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