Solons Fold US Heavy Water Shipment Sent Russia in 45
The House committee on un American activities heard that Russia received American heavy water in late 1945 after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Herman H. Rosenberg testified that the San Francisco Stuart-Oxygen Company shipped 1000 grams of heavy water in 1945 and 1000 pounds of uranium compounds in 1943. The case follows earlier uranium sales via New York firms and Great Falls Montana routes.
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Solons Fold
Russia
Washington
Japan
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
House Committee On un-American Activities
Herman H. Rosenberg
Chematar, Inc
Stuart-Oxygen Company
San Francisco
Rosenberg
Great Falls
Mont
Fulton Lewis Jr
Pregel
Radium & Uranium Company
New York
Philip L. Merritt
Atomic Energy Commission
Tulsa Police Admit Bait Plot Backfired
Tulsa police officer Jim Peters was killed last April. A life-term prisoner William Auburn Hunt was released to catch the killer, but Hunt vanished after five days of taped conversations and detectives watching him. Police Chief Bud Holmsworth said Hunt disappeared after requesting more expense money.
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Tulsa
Okla
J. W
Bud) Holmsworth
William Auburn Hunt
McAlester State Penitentiary
Jim Peters
Hunt
Watonga
Peters
James Devine
West Tulsa
Holingsworth
Jast
Got Rid of Dandruff and Itchy Scalp
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Hutto
Tex
Mata Graw
Box 183
Texas
Baker's
Baker’s
Ady
Economist Says Texas Should Honor Lewis
Dallas on January 24 a nationally known economist urged Texas to erect a monument to John L. Lewis. Dr Marcus Nadler said the United Mine Workers chief had done more for Texas oil by stoking a switch from coal to oil and by striking his union. Nadler serves as research director for the Institute of International Finance and is a consultant economist for Central Hanover Bank.
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Dallas
Texas
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Marcus Nadler
First National Bank
Nadler
Institute of International Finance
Central Hanover Bank of New York
New York University
Damages for Using Name in Film Denied
In Tulsa on January 24 a woman failed to win $400,000 in damages from Paramount after Judge Royce Savage and a jury viewed The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. Mrs Celia F Ivers claimed the title violated her daughter Martha s privacy but the court found the injury imaginary.
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Tulsa
Okla
Royce Savage
Celia F. Ivers
Paramount Film Distributing Company
Martha Ivers
Four Women Picked as Jurors In Mercy Killing Case
In Bridgeport Connecticut on January 24 four women with daughters around 21 were selected to serve as jurors in the trial of Carol Ann Paight charged with second degree murder for shooting her cancer-stricken father at a Stamford hospital. The defense argues she lacked the mental capacity to know right from wrong. Further jurors were to be chosen as voir dire continued.
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Dad
Bridgeport
Conn
Carol Ann Paight
Carol Ann
Judith A. Meinhard
Greenwich
Margaret Newman
Danbury
David Goldstein
Lorwin W. Willis
Venireman
Venireman Goldstein
Carl Wraight
Stamford Police
Goldstein
Willis
Peggy G. Newburger
Westport
Daniel Griffin
Stamford
Griffith
Stern
Superior Court
John A. Cornell
Carl
Sumners To Head Diocese Committee
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas ended its 101st annual council with Rev. James E. Savoy of Lufkin elected secretary and Horace Wilkins of Houston named treasurer. Rev. Charles A. Sumners of Austin was chosen to head the diocese standing committee. Other officials include Board of Regents members Grace Hall and J. J. Harte, Mrs. Pennybacker Jr., and George B. L. Carver, all of Austin, plus synod deputies James McKeown of Cameron and Harris Toler of Austin.
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Waco
James E. Savoy
Lufkin
Horace Wilkins
Houston
Episcopal Diocese of
Austin
Provincal Synod
James McKeown
Cameron
Harris Toler
State Tax Exemption Proposed for Voters in New York
Senator Mario M. Optatis of New York City introduced a bill proposing that voters and their spouses gain $500 each in New York State income tax exemptions if they voted in the preceding general election. The measure aims to reward civic participation with tax relief.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
Mario M. Optatis
New York City
This Gal Was Really On Pins and Needles
Detroit news report details Mrs. Carolyn Hutchison a 19 year old who swallowed 30 pins six safety pins and eight needles after saying her marriage did not work She was rushed to hospital underwent immediate operation and was reported in fair condition.
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Detroit
Carolyn Hutchison
Hutchison
Contempt Risked by Pastor Refusing to Testify
Eastland Texas January 24. Rev James W McClain the former Dr IL Q of a national radio quiz show said he would refuse to testify in the murder trial of Elva Mead Cisco asserting his religious principles would be violated if he testified. The case involves Emory E Moad shot outside Mead home. The minister faces possible contempt proceedings.
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Eastland
IL. Q
James W. McClain
Elva Mead
Cisco
McClain
Cision
Lloyd Jones
Ury
Moad
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Rebel Pickets Spread Idleness In Coal Fields
Roving pickets spread idleness through soft coal fields as the January strike grew to about 75 000 idle miners with 14 000 more joining the protest in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Many worked two days in 1950, while some elders faced lunches seized by pickets and a blocked road near Lumberport.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvannia
West Virginia
John L. Lewis
Pennsylvania
Johnstown
Rochester
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Fitzhugh Reynolds
Harrison County
Lumberport
Wheeling
Fairmont
Cops Question Man In Sweetwater Death
A 38 year old Sweetwater man is being questioned in the death of Robert West found Monday near downtown Sweetwater. West had head bruises and an autopsy is pending. The suspect and a companion were seen with West days earlier. West will be shipped to Stockdale for funeral services and burial.
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Sweetwater
Robert West
San Antonio
West
Stockdale
Robbers Net $2,000 Payroll From Union Club in Boston
Boston police remained puzzled by a grand cash theft while thieves struck the Union Club and stole a Brink’s armored truck payroll of $2,000. Investigators questioned Samuel S. Granite, not a participant, amid ongoing Brinks case and a prior 1947 $100,000 Sturtevant robbery.
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Boston
Brink's, Inc
Union Club
Brink Company
Massachusetts
State House
Beacon Hill
Samuel S. Granite
State Prison
Cropped Hair Name Origin for Chamorros
The Chamorros in the Marianas Islands are named from a Portuguese term meaning people with cropped hair a designation given by Magellan referencing their hair.
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Marianas Islands
Portugese
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