Former State Department Aides Named in Hiss Perjury Note
The note read in court mentions Laurence Duggan, a former State Department aide who died in a 1949 New York fall. Noel Field, another ex aide, is named as well as details about prewar battleship plans and a 1939 Chambers talk. The note was read in a 1945 Chambers report to security officer Raymond Murphy.
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New York
Laurence Duggan
State Department
Alger Hiss
Duggan
Noel Field
Field
Europe
Russia
Karp
Molotov
Scott Feddis
Naval
Gompertz
Hedda
Hedda Golbertz
Chambers
Raymond Murphy
Bureaucracy holds vast Oregon land under federal control
More than half the total area of Oregon is under federal control. This includes 13 national forests, two national park service areas and extensive grazing acreages.
Pie In Eye Is Radio Plastering Job
A radio prankster named Becher describes pie throwing on the CBS County Fair show. He recalls the risk and stage craft of splattering pie filling, sometimes hitting police chiefs and bosses, with a nine foot maximum range and a 12 inch diameter pie created for a big stunt. In New York the Yugoslav UN response to Cominform pressure defies Tito’s overthrow, with Kosanovic asserting Yugoslavia’s unity and divergence from Soviet peace talk.
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New York
Bill Becher
Becher
CBS
Manchester
N. H
Milwaukee
Indianapolis
Buddy
Bercher
Yugo Slavia
United Nations
Cominform
Marshal Tito
Tito
Sava Kosanovic
Yugoslav Peoples’ Front
U.N
Kosanovic
Communist Party
People of
Yugoslavia
Britain
Hector McNeil
Assembly
McNeil
Soviet Union
U. N
Funeral services set for Miss Rachel Gaines in Tazewell
Miss Rachel Gaines 84 died Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Eva George in Bowser Street. Funeral at Wilbur Memorial Methodist Church Tazewell Va Friday at 1 30 with burial in Tazewell cemetery. Survived by a number of nieces and nephews. Flowerbearers and pallbearers chosen from church friends. Body to lie in church from noon Friday. Also notes on community events and club meetings in the area.
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Rachel Gaines
Eva George
Bowser Street
Wilbur Memorial Methodist Church
Tazewell
Henry Sinkford
Tip Top
Miss Gaines
Mrs W M Bandy Returns from Florida Funeral
Mrs. W. M. Bandy has returned from Melbourne Florida where she attended the funeral of her father.
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W. M. Bandy
Melbooune Fla
Mystery skeletons on Ruapuke Beach spark Maori death theory
Experts in New Zealand believe seven foot long skeletons unearthed on Ruapuke Beach may be Maori bones from an epidemic after the Maori wars with British settlers in the mid nineteenth century. Dr. R A Falla of the Wellington museum calls the find Maori remains.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Ruapuke
North Island
R. A. Falla
New Zealand Museum
Wellington
Woman's Divorce Suit Brings Unusual Return
A Bartow Florida divorce filing triggered a strange return of court notice. The clerk sent the standard appearance summons to the spouse, who replied from another state with a handwritten message directing the woman to contact the county court office in a Kentucky town to obtain her copy. The note cites a prior divorce dated September 14, 1942, claiming the husband left two years earlier.
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Bartow, Fla
Bartow
Circuit Court
D. H. Sloan, Jr
Co. Cort
Kentucky
Truman Receives 400-Book Gift From Booksellers
President Truman will have ample reading for the winter as the American Booksellers Association presents a 400 book collection chosen by authors critics and librarians as representative of the past four years.
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Washington
Truman
American Booksellers Association
Australia to Send Britain Cane Sugar under Long Term Pact
Brisbane reports Australia offers Britain up to 1,000,000 tons of cane sugar annually under a long term agreement. Britain calls a meeting of sugar producing dominions as West Indies seeks a larger quota for Britain.
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Brisbane
Australia
Britain
West Indies
4 Year Old Burned Boy Becomes An Optimist
Washington reports on four year old Mike Rector who, on the first hospital anniversary, is named Optimist of the Year by the Optimists club. He has undergone 32 skin grafts covering about 70 percent of his body after a cowboy suit fire.
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Washington
Mike Rector
Optimists Club
Bert Langhenry
Mike
Dr. Ramsey to Leave Bluefield for Athens Polls
The Rev. Harmon B. Ramsey, seven years at First Presbyterian Bluefield, plans to answer a call to Athens Georgia. His pastorate boosted church activity and Sunday radio services. board will set date for congregational meeting to discuss the letter of intention. Ramsey, born in Aledo Illinois, educated in Arkansas and Louisville, earned B D in 1930 and did graduate work in Edinburgh. married Sarah Marshall in 1932. has two sons, George and Bobby.
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Harmon B. Ramsey
First Presbyterian Church
Athens
Ramsey
Bluefield
Church Board of Elders
Mr. Ramsey
Aledo
Jonesboro
Ark
Arkansas College
Batesville
Louisville Presbyterian Seminary
Walter Kennedy Patterson
University of Edinburgh
Sarah Frances Marshall
Marion
Ala
George Wilson
Bobby
Albemarle Street
Escaped Germans Form Nucleus of Yemen Community
Fifteen Germans who escaped Ethiopian captivity by boat in 1941 reached Yemen and form its small foreign community. Some returned to Germany while others became Muslims and settled there. A Swedish and Italian presence is among the few other foreigners in the isolated Yemen.
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Cairo
Ethiopia
Yemen
Germany
Shangri-La
Arabia
Radar: A Contraction From Radio Detecting And Ranging
Radar derives from radio detecting and ranging, describing its purpose to locate unseen objects at distance. The term reflects both the technique and its defensive and exploratory uses across science and military contexts.
Manuscripts Wanted But Not Published
Douglas Black of Doubleday & Co offers tips for aspiring writers. Start with a clean sheet, find a writing expert to help, and consult a publisher to test story promise. He notes publishers read every submission, yet none of 5,000 unsolicited manuscripts his firm received last year were accepted.
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Los Angeles
Douglas Black
Doubleday &Co
Ants Carry Food in Pocketed Jaws
An ant places solid food into a pocket behind its jaws. It squeezes the item to extract juice, which it swallows, then discards the remaining material.
New CIO Union Banishes Discord at IUE Convention
Philadelphia November 30 delegates to the CIOs International Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Workers began adopting a provisional constitution and moved toward adjournment. The session, aided by orderly conduct, featured planned addresses by Francis P. Matthews Maurice Tobin and W Stuart Symington though fog prevented a flight from Washington. Tobin lauded the anti Communist stance of the IUE and labor unity.
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Philadelphia
CIO
International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union
IUE
the Navy
Francis P. Matthews
Washington
Labor
Maurice Tobin
Air Force
W. Stuart Symington
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Finnegan
Eddie
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NBC
Blatz
Mlatz Brewing Co
Milwaukee, Wie
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Ken Williams
Colored News
Miss Rachel Gaines
Carolina Community Home
Mount Olive Baptist Church
The
Missionary Society of the Bethel A. M.E
Scott Street Baptist Church
Missionary Society of the North Side United Holy Church
Elizabeth Edwards
Norfolk Street
Blake Chapel
A.M.E. Zion Church
After Mitchell
Greenbrier Street
Missiona Society of the Church of Apostolic
Bernice Buford
Church Street
Scott Missionary Society
John Scruggs
Mineral Street
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Home and Garden Club
George Morrison
Morrison
Charles Clarkston
Milton Byard
Taft Johnson
Carolina
Florida
Better Foods
Bluefield Produce & Provision CO
Bluefield and
Mullens
Aly
Underwood
Telegraph Commercial Printing Co
Dr. Ramsey
Rev. Harmon
B. Ramsey
Calvert Reserve
Calvert Distillers Corp
CIO Union
Tobin
Mercury
Stedi
Lincoln-Mercury Sales, Inc
Cherry St
Stadium Drive
Dial
Bluefield, W. Va
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