Johnson seeks three year extension of draft law
Secretary of Defense Johnson asked senators for a three year extension with no strings, urging presidential power to draft instantly in a crisis. He opposed the house bill granting a June 24 1952 expiry with emergency triggers and emphasized readiness amid the cold war. Generals Collins and Bradley backed extension as supporters warned about possible emergency delays and radiation contamination risks in Washington.
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Washington
Secretary of
Defense Johnson
Congress
Senate Armed Services Committee
House
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Johnson
Knowland
California
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs
Defense
Senate
Lee Receives Formal Ouster Notice Over Charges
June 1 Washington Lee a former white Russian and a $10,000 a year commerce official was formally notified he will be fired unless he can refute administrative charges within five days. Secretary Charles Sawyer served the discharge papers. charges unnamed. Lee said the charges were maladministration and cited senate subcommittee ultimatums. Remington, also a $10,000-a-year official, faced similar fire over loyalty. both deny pro Communist leanings.
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Washington
Michael Lee
Commerce Department
Secretary of Commerce
Charles Sawyer
Lee
Sawyer
Senate
William W. Remington
Remington
Department
Landon Campaign Chief Becomes Gold’s Attorney
In Philadelphia on June 1, Alfred M Landon’s former campaign director John D M Hamilton was named attorney for Harry Gold who faces espionage charges as the go-between for Klaus Fuchs. Gold plans to plead guilty but denies intent to harm the United States. Judge James P McGran ery noted Gold’s financial need for defense and access to Hamilton. Fuchs is serving a 14 year sentence in England.
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Philadelphia
Alfred M. Landon
Harry Gold
John D. M Hamilton
U. S
James P. McGranery
Gold
United States
Klaus Fuchs
Fuchs
Britain
McGranery
Gas supply cut after power failure in Bluefield
Bluefield officials cut gas service after a momentary pressure drop caused by a power failure. Service will resume today after technicians check pilot lights. residents warned not to light matches if gas odor is detected. The precaution followed a meeting with City Manager Emory P. Mitchell and Fire Chief E. L. McClure and includes radio updates on WHIS.
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Bluefield Gas Company
Emory P. Mitchell
E. L. McClure
WHIS
Animals Survive A Bomb Much Better Than Humans
Washington June 1 In atomic bomb warfare animals would fare better than humans says Richard Gerstell a former Pennsylvania game commissioner researcher who witnessed Bikini Atoll tests His article in Sports Afield argues sea life birds and wildlife near detonation face rapid death or radiation but turnover in Chesapeake Bay reduces long term danger He notes underground and aerial bursts kill most animals within a half mile and some creatures could be safely used for food though risks remain
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Washington
Richard Gerstell
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Bikini
Gerstell
Chesapeake Bay
Lebanon Veteran Kills Wife and Self
Deputy Sheriff W E Cross reported that Jack Lasley 25 shot his wife Elizabeth 23 to death and then killed himself at the Marshall Fields home in Lebanon Virginia The couple who had estranged lived with their six year old son There were no other persons present and the officer deemed it murder followed by suicide Lasley had been discharged from the Navy six days earlier.
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Lebanon
W. E. Cross
Jack Lasley
Elizabeth
Cross
Marshall Fields
Banner
Lasley
Youth Drowns While Trying to Save Classmate
Uniontown reports the drowning of Irwin Barrick sixteen as he attempted to rescue a classmate at a Deer Lake picnic. The classmate Tom Miller sixteen could not swim and was saved by another student while Peggy Walters and Dick Foster reached shore. Barrick and Harry Fornili also sixteen were on shore when the rowboat capsized and Miller cried for help.
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Uniontown
Irwin Barrick
Uniontown High School
Tom Miller
Deer Lake
Barrick
Harry Fornili
Peggy Walters
Dick Foster
Miller
Pulaski Girl Lived As Boy For 27 Years
In Pulaski Virginia a girl dressed and acted as a boy for 27 years. She faced seduction charges but a physician's report confirmed she is a girl. The charge was dropped after the hearing. The defendant said her parents dressed her as a boy since childhood.
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Pulaski, Va
Commonwealth
Crowell
Smith assails both parties over anti communism tactics
Senator Margaret Chase Smith denounces Republican and Democratic tactics in the anti communism row. She warns America risks calumny and division as both sides smear innocents and exploit fear, urging sober leadership and GOP unity beyond partisan politics. A six member GOP statement echoes the call for national interest over faction.
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Washington
Margaret Chase Smith
Senate
America
Maine
Mrs. Smith
Tobey
Aiken
Morse
Ore
Ives
Thye
Minn
Hendrickson
Atlantic Union Support Growing
Washington reports rising backing for the Atlantic union resolution as Owen J. Roberts notes 30 senators and more than 50 congressmen pledged support. Kefauver’s bill would urge President Truman to invite the original seven NATO members to a convention to explore a political union.
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Washington
Congress
Atlantic Union
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Atlantic Union Committee, Inc
Roberts
Senate
House
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Truman
North Atlantic Alliance
Distracted Mother Wounds Daughter in New York Incident
Emma Rose Curtis Tom, a 30-year-old American married to a Chinese man, shot her four-year-old daughter Toy Tom after claiming others mocked the child’s oriental features. The mother was taken to Bellevue for mental observation. the child is in very poor condition with a .32 caliber bullet in the right temple.
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New York
Emma Rose Curtis Tom
Bellevue Hospital
Toy Tom
Income Tax Files Open To Crime Probe
President Truman empowers the Senate crime investigating committee to inspect income tax returns of gamblers and racketeers to broaden the inquiry into illegal book making. Kefauver reports the order is in the works and Truman will ensure access through Attorney General McGrath.
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Washington
Truman
senate crime _ investigating committee
Kefauver
D-Tenn
White House
Mr. Truman
McGrath
Tobey
R-Nh
Yugoslav Paid Lobbyist Probed by World Peace Group
John Rogge former U S prosecutor and adviser to Paul Robeson declares he is a registered lobbyist for Yugoslavia and other groups at a Soviets backed world peace committee meeting The gathering heard Rogge defend his stance while Robeson calls him a paid lobbyist amid a push to reinstate Yugoslavia peace efforts and a global petition to abolish the atom bomb
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London
O. John Rogge
U. S
Kremlin
Yugoslavia
Russia
Rogge
Paul Robeson
Marshal Tito
New York
Tito
Cominform
Soviet Union
Alexander Korneichuk
Two More Czechs Plead Guilty In Spy Trial
In Prague on June 1 two of 13 Czech defendants pleaded guilty to high treason and espionage. Dr. Josef Nestaval and Dr. Jiri Hejda said their aim was to destroy the democratic regime and its political and economic system. Milada Horakova, a former deputy and chief defendant, had pleaded guilty at opening.
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Prague
Czechslovakia
Josef Nestaval
Jiri Hejda
Milada Horakova
National Socialist Party
Charlie McCarthy to Appear on TV this Fall
Edgar Bergen announced plans for at least three television appearances next fall on CBS. He and his famous dummy Charlie McCarthy will film major portions on motion picture film. The TV stint will run in addition to Bergen's weekly radio series resuming in October after a summer hiatus.
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New York
Edgar Bergen
Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Columbia Broadcasting System
Truman Sees Peace But Seeks Arms to Fight Communism
President Truman said the world is closer to peace than in five years and urged Congress to approve 1.2225 billion dollars to rearm nations against the growing threat of Communist Russia.
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Washington
Congress
Russia
Gallup
United Nations
Soviet Union
Jap Reds Call General Strike in Anti US Campaign
The Communist party in Japan called an anti US general strike and occupations with 350,000 potential walkouts. Police prepared to curb violence as Prime Minister Yoshida met General MacArthur amid election tensions and trials of eight youths charged in an attack on U.S. soldiers.
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Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
General MacArthur
Japan
U.S
Soviets Slow Allied Trucks In Reprisal
Soviet border guards slowed western truck traffic at Helmstedt as a reprisal for alleged mistreatment of German youths at Lübeck and detentions of east German barges. West Berlin rejected Soviet concessions for unification while Bonn probed a suspected kidnapping by Russian zone Communists.
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Berlin
Russia
Luebeck
East Berlin
Helmstedt
West Berlin
Bonn
ADN
West Germany
Rderuebec
Fre German Youth
FDJ
Whitsun
Baltic
United States High Commission
Neue Zeitung
Erich Honecker
Soviet Zone
Free
Meresyev
Stalin backs 500000 German youths at peace rally
In Berlin on June 1 Stalin approved the 500000 young peace fighters who attended the communist youth rally last Sunday. He telegrammed the Communist Free German Youth praising German youth as active builders of a unified democratic and peaceful Germany and wishing them success in this enterprise.
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Berlin
Stalin
Communist Free German Youth
DJF
Germany
Window No Obstacle To Fleet Footed Oldster
Charleston, June 1. E. B. Shanklin Sr., 83, raced across the street and collided with a corner drug store window. Doctors at St Francis hospital treated cuts and bruises after glass shattered on him.
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Charleston
W. Va
E. B. Shanklin, Sr
St. Francis Hospital
Shanklin
Baby’s cries trigger gun-waving seaman on crowded train
On a Sunset Limited eastbound coach, 27-year-old H. P. Huff of Polkville Miss. fired up by a crying baby. He brandished a rusty pistol, threatened mother and child, and roamed the car for two hours before police jailed him for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon. A passenger, S/Set. R. L. Keeton Jr., tried to help but was shoved aside.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Southern Pacific
Sunset Limited
Desert Way
Phoenivy
H. 'P. Huff
Polkville
Miss
Huff
R. L. Keeton, Jr
Dallas
Texas
Keeton
George van Doren
B 29 Dives Into Earth Killing Three in New Mexico
A Walker air base B-29 on a test flight crashed near Dexter in the Bottomless Lakes area south east of Roswell New Mexico. Three of seven crew were killed while four fliers parachuted to safety as the plane struck the ground and exploded. Local farmer Fred Barnes described the fiery impact witnessed from ten miles away.
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Roswell
N. M
Walker Air Base
Air Force
Fred Barnes
Bottomless Lakes
Dexter
UN Votes Down New Russ Bid To Oust Chine Lake Success
The United Nations trusteeship council rejected a Russian proposal to oust Nationalist China. One vote for Russia, nine against, Britain and Argentina abstained. A walkout followed as Bevin’s warning on Red China’s UN role echoed in Britain.
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Chine
Britain
China
Security Council
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