Court Upholds Conviction Of Hollywood Writers
The U S Supreme Court refused a hearing on the cases of screen writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo, upholding their contempt convictions and allowing Congress to compel witnesses to reveal Communist affiliations. The 6 to 2 decision leaves in place a lower court ruling that Congress may question witnesses about party ties during investigations.
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Supreme Court
Holly Wood
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High Court
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Dalton Trumbo
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Trumbo
Justice Department
Robert W. Kenny
The
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Communist Party
Court of Appeals
Hollywood
Ring Lardner, Jr
Albert Maltz
Alvah Bessie
Samuel Ornitz
Herbert Biberman
Edward Dmytryk
Adrian Scott
Lester Cole
Bridges gets five years for perjury in citizenship case
Harry Bridges the CIO longshore boss was sentenced to five years in prison for perjury and two more for conspiracy to perjury at his 1945 naturalization hearing. The government moved to cancel his U S citizenship and seek deportation to Australia. Aides Henry Schmidt and John Robertson received two year terms each for conspiracy to perjury and defrauding the government. Bail totaled 45 000.
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Harry Bridges
U. S
Bridges
Communist Party
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U.S
Australia
Gangland Slaying Victims Buried With Full Rites
Kansas City April 10 Charles Binaggio northside political boss and his henchman Anar ries Gargotta were buried in separate Catholic services then interred at the same cemetery. Police sought clues and planned further questioning as crowds attended the ceremonies amid denouncements of the underworld and officials who enable it.
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Democratic Club
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Bloody prints point to body in Wisconsin murder scene
Neighbors followed bloody footprints in the snow to the bed of Benjamin Renquist 46 found dead 12 miles east of Superior. Sheriff Simms noted possible mutilation with fingers and toes amputated, a hammer and butcher knife found inside, cat present, autopsy to be performed by Coroner Downs.
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Superior
Wis
Benjamin Renquist
William Simms
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Here
Onni Anderson
Simms
William Downs
99th Damage Suit Filed In Fatal Donora Smog
The 99th damage suit was filed in federal court against American Steel and Wire for the Donora smog deaths and illnesses. A $3,630,850 total is sought in suits against U S Steel subsidiary zinc works at Donora. Paul P Sovchak of Ellsworth seeks $25,000 for illness.
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Pittsburgh
American Steel and Wire Company
Donora
U. S. Steel Corporation
Paul P Sovchak
Ellsworth
Seamen Lost as Gale Sinks Two New Bedford Vessels
Nantucket reports 18 fishermen from New Bedford dead after a April gale sinks the scallop dragger Four Sisters with 10 crewmen and the Landry with eight. Coast Guard searches by land, sea, and air fail to locate survivors amid snow squalls and heavy seas.
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Nantucket
Mass
New Bedford
Coast Guard
William Jandry
Landry
Humboldt
Nantucket Sound
Family Names Boy Edwin Barrett Easterday
Munster Indiana April 10 a son named Edwin Barrett Easterday was born to Mr and Mrs Edwin P Easterday on Easter Sunday. It also marked the father s birthday.
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Munster
Ind
Edwin P. Easterday
Edwin Barrett
Ice storm debris cleanup hits Clinton Iowa
National Guard equipment aids the Mississippi river city of Clinton as 1 million dollars in damage prompts a call for rolling equipment and manpower. About 45 vehicles and 200 guardsmen from Cedar Rapids Dubuque and Clinton assist power restoration and street clearing. Power and long distance lines remain down with emergency radio as crews work.
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National Guard
Mississippi River
Don Allison
William S. Beardsley
Des Moines
Charles H. Grahl
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque
Easter Holiday Deaths Reach 253
The nation reports 253 accidental deaths over the Easter weekend, with 187 traffic fatalities and 66 from other mishaps. An unofficial 54 hour toll spans Friday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight, listing state totals across traffic and other causes.
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Virginia
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West Virginia
Wisconsin
Agent Detects Massive Insurance Settlement Mixup
Huntington April 10 Insurance agent Price M. Haynes saved his company from an embarassing error after discovering a certificate of deposit for 1 145 000 intended for a claim settlement. He knew the settlement should be 15 000 and realized the policy number had become tangled in the figure.
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Huntington
W. Va
Price M. Haynes
Haynes
Blacksburg Couple Survive Caribbean Plane Crash
Four survivors recount a night in shark infested waters after a Caribbean Airlines seaplane forced down off Jamaica. Anthony Brennan of Blacksburg Virginia and Harold Banting with his wife describe 16 hours in a dinghy before U S Navy rescue by the destroyers Rowan and Brownson at Kingston.
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Jamaica
United States Navy
Anthony Brennan
Blacksburg
Harold Banting
England
Caribbean International Airways Pby
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U. S
Rowan
Brownson
McCarthy Seeks Subpoena For Mystery Lattimore Witness
Senator McCarthy asked Senate investigators to subpoena a former high ranking Communist party member as a witness in the Lattimore case. Lattimore denies being a Communist and denounces McCarthy as a liar. Edward P. Morgan will disclose the witness name after subpoena. Lodge and Tydings debate findings as Hickenlooper dissents.
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McCarthy
Senate
Owen Lattimore
Communist Network
United States
Communist Party
Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
State Department
Edward P. Morgan
Morgan
Lodge
Rmass
Winter Wheat Crop Nosedives in 1951 Forecast Decline
Washington reports dry weather and insect pests cut winter wheat by about 121 million bushels since December. The Agriculture Department pegs April 1 production at 764 million bushels, down from last year's 901 million and below the 1939-48 average, risking a larger surplus and pressuring price support programs.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Great Plains
Soft Coal Price Fixing Bill Proposed
Washington: Senator Kilgore of West Virginia introduced a bill to create a five member federal commission to fix soft coal prices at mines and regulate distributions to prevent a chaotic price war. The measure, backed by coal operators and United Mine Workers locals, would establish minimum prices tied to average production costs with penalties for unfair practices.
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Washington
Kilgore
West Virginia
Congress
House
National Distributors Board
Department of the Interior
Wife Charges Hubby Cut Off Her Hat
Bellflower California April 10 Police booked Edward Lee Bruce 26 a drapery installer on suspicion of felonious assault after his wife Rosalie 22 said he cut off her hair tied her hands with a belt stuffed a rag in her throat and threatened her Bruce told officers he justified the act saying she was out and he wanted her to stay home with the baby The couple’s dispute followed her night with her mother in Ocean Park
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Bellflower
Calif
Edward Lee Bruce
Rosalie Bruce
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Carmen Franco Weds Madrid Physician in Royal Pardo Palace
Carmen Franco 23, daughter of Generalisimo Franco, married Cristobal Martinez Y Bordus Marques of Villaverde in a 17th century style ceremony at Pardo palace. The couple received vast gifts and planned a honeymoon cruise aboard Franco’s yacht after a banquet and night at a hunting lodge.
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Jordan
Rafaal Trujillo
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Franco
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Balearic Islands
Pardo Palace
Court Spurns Meyers Bid For Freedom
Washington April 10 The circuit court of appeals refused another bid by former Maj. Gen Bennett E Meyers to obtain release from federal prison Meyers wartime purchasing chief for the air force was sent to the Lor ton Virginia federal reformatory in 1948 for 20 months to five years after his conviction for inducing a business associate to lie before a senate committee He challenged the perjury conviction claiming a senate committee quorum was lacking The court upheld the district court finding the senate group properly constituted His parole request in December was denied and the board said no action before November.
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Washington
Circuit Court of Appeals
Bennett E. Myers
Meyers
Air Force
Federal Reformatory
Lorton
Meyer
Senate
Parole Board
Mercy Killer Is Sentenced In Mercy Killing Case
Allentown Pa April 10 4)-Har old A Mohr 36 convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the mercy killing of his blind cancer ravaged brother Walter Mohr 55 was sentenced to three to six years in prison. Lehigh county Judge James F Henninger noted the jury plea of mercy and that Mohr did not deny the rifle slaying. Maximum was 12 years and a $6000 fine. Mohr also fined $500.
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Harold A. Mohr
Lehigh County
James F. Henninger
Walter Mohr
Mohr
Henninger
Missing Navy Plane Objects of Big Search
In Wiesbaden on April 10 search planes and ships from three nations hunted the Baltic for a missing U S Navy PB 4Y Privateer with a crew of 10. The plane vanished during a 430 mile training flight to Copenhagen after reporting crossing the German Danish border. Two flares near Bornholm were seen but no wreckage or survivors were found despite heavy air and sea search efforts.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
Baltic Sea
Copenhagen
Denmark
Bornholm
A&P Denies Monopoly and Calls Antitrust Suit Misguided
New York April 10 The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. denies monopoly charges and accuses the Justice Department of trying to alter the U.S. economic system. It seeks dismissal, arguing the suit would cause irreparable injury and that its expansion was natural growth. The 109 point answer claims the government seeks radical new law to reshape the economy.
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New York
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Justice Department
U. S
India Pakistan Peace Pact Ratified in Parliament
New Delhi reports the India Pakistan peace pact ratified by India’s parliament and presented to Pakistan’s Karachi assembly. Nehru says the agreement halts drift toward catastrophe and guarantees minority protections while allowing unhindered cross border migration after seven days of talks with Liaquat Ali.
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Pakistan
Karachi
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Liaquat Ali
Moselm
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