Court Upholds Conviction Of Top U. S. Reds
The Supreme Court sustains the conspiracy convictions of 11 top U.S. Communist leaders led by Eugene Dennis ruling the defendants intended to overthrow the government. Justices Douglas and Black dissent citing a freedom of speech concern. The decision endorses the Smith Act as constitutional and signals possible prosecutions of rank and file members.
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Washington
Supreme Court
U. S
Communist Party
United States
Douglas
Black
J. Howard McGrath
McGrath
High Court
Vinson
New York
City Ban on Peddling Upheld by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court rules 5 to 4 that cities may require employee loyalty oaths to combat subversion and upholds bans on door-to-door peddling to protect privacy and peace. Justice Reed notes unwanted door knocks disturb home life and pressure prospects.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Court
Reed
Southern Areas Face Rain Or Rain Situation
For farmers across the sun scorched south rain offered relief except in Arkansas west Tennessee and southwestern Virginia where drought persisted for seven weeks. Tobacco expert Roy Milton warned middle Tennessee's 60 million dollar crop faced disaster without heavy rains in two weeks. Georgia coast area reported scald dry weather damage in south Georgia bright leaf belt.
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Atlanta
Arkansas
West Tennessee
Virginia
Roy Milton
University of Tennessee
Extension Service
Middle Tennessee
Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station
South Georgia
UN Forces Push Northward Against Chinese in Korea Clash
Allied troops moved slowly north along a rain soaked valley in North Korea after repelling a Chinese counterattack near Chorwon. U N forces, infantry, armor and artillery pressed toward the western central front as New Jersey and destroyers shelled targets at Wonsan.
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Tokyo
North Korea
Chorwon
Eighth Army
United Nations
Ridees
Yonchon
U. N
Hwachon
South Korea
Yongpyong
Yongong
New Jersey
Wonsan
Kansong
Fifth Air Force
Namchonjom
Pyongyang
Price lids on 20 food items to be imposed in Community
Washington June 4 Price Director Michael V Di Salle announced plans to clamp price lids on 15 or 20 food items within 30 days in a community by community program modeled after wartime OPA He said ceilings on beef would begin June 18 with veal likely included pork already selling below parity He also noted farm products may be exempt if below parity or pre Korean war levels The political fight over rent controls also continued as hearings near final phase with a potential extension of the 1950 defense production act expiring June 30
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Washington
Michael V. di Salle
OPA
DiSalle
United Labor Policy Committee
Akron
Tighe E. Woods
Snyder
Senate
House Banking Committee
Congress
Golfer Knocks Down Plane With Golf Ball
Union City Tennessee June 4 a golfer Robert Armstrong hit a powerful drive that struck a Piper Cub flying over the Union City Obion course. The plane tore two canvas holes but landed safely and Armstrong faced no penalty as play continued with five others.
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Union City
Tenn
Robert Armstrong
Joe Cook
Armstrong
Obion
Oil Tension Bases In Iran Oil Tension Bases In Iran
Tehran reports a shift toward amicable talks in the Iran Britain oil dispute as Premier Mossadegh accepts a promise from Anglo Iranian Oil company to send a London delegation for full discussions. Grady notes ongoing mediation and a mixup with a president Truman letter amid nationalization pressure.
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Tehran
Iran
Britain
Truman
Mohammed Mossadegh
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
AIOC
London
U. S
Henry F. Grady
Mos Sadegh
Herbert Morrison
House of Commons
Mossadegh
16Th Parachute Brigade
Warrior
Triumph
Portsmouth
Cyprus
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Grady
Attlee
Amir Alaie
Russia Could Field 30,000 War Planes in 12 Months
London reports a Royal Air Force assessment estimating Russia will have over 30,000 war planes next year. Current strength around 19,000 includes about 7,000 bombers and 10,000 aircraft in the tactical air force. The note cites MIG-15 being supplanted by Lavochkin jet fighters and suggests new bombers patterned after Britain’s Canberra.
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Soviet
London
Russia
Royal Air Force
Korea
Unese
Sailor Admitted After Wedding Plans Collapse
A 19 year old sailor, Thomas E. Amburn of Sioux Falls, is in a naval hospital after plans to wed Betty Thompson of Atlanta, who has four months to live, were disrupted. The navy described his condition as a case of nerves and limited comment was given.
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Norfolk
Naval Hospital
Air Station
Navy
Thomas E. Amburn
Sioux Falls
S. C
Omaha
Neb
Betty
Atlanta
Miss Thompson
Fire destroys nitrate plant and boxcars in Norfolk
Fire this afternoon destroyed a nitrate plant and more than twenty boxcars of nitrate of soda at Norfolk. The Chilean freighter Alamo was threatened but towed clear by responding tugs after signaling danger. The blaze reached the pier as the ship was berthed and later swung into the stream.
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Norfolk
Woman Slays GI At Door Of Home In Virginia Beach
In Virginia Beach on June 4, Carrie Fedrie faced a homicide charge after fatally shooting Pvt. Frank Larsen 21, a Fort Story recruit. She says Larsen tried to drag her from her doorway after she warned him, then fired once when he persisted. Larsen died en route to Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Fedrie to have a Monday hearing in Princess Anne county court.
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Virginia Beach
Carrie Fedrie
Frank Larsen
Fort Story
Larsen
Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
Fedrie
Princess Anne County Trial
Soviet Will Parley If Atlantic Pact Discussed
Paris June 4 The Soviet Union agreed to a foreign ministers meeting in Washington only if the agenda includes the North Atlantic pact and U S bases in Europe. Western diplomats call the demand a de facto refusal to attend without such terms.
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Paris
Russia
Washington
United States
Britain
France
Andrei Vishinsky
U. S
Europe
Gromyko
Vishinsky
Arkady Kasanski
Cohen Faces Tax Evasion Trial In Los Angeles
The federal income tax evasion case against Mickey Cohen opens in Los Angeles with a jury of seven women and five men. Cohen and his wife Lavonne, charged with joint returns for 1946 to 1948, deny evading taxes and pledge a clean conscience as the trial begins amid Cohen’s notoriety in California gambling and violence.
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Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Cohen
U. S
Ben Harrison
Polish Delegate Rules Out Korea Cease-Fire
At the United Nations Polish delegate Juliusz Katz-Sety spoke for the Soviet bloc and rejected an unconditional cease-fire in Korea. He tied Formosa and Red China’s status in the UN to any settlement and warned a cease-fire alone would only delay aggressors and allow new attacks.
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United Nations
Juliusz Katzsuchy
Korea
Formosa
Red China
U. N
Modern Technicians Replace Old Rough Tumble Miners
Delegates at the 41st Mine Inspectors Institute in Lexington hear Thomas Allen of Colorado declare the old beer drinking miner is gone, replaced by a modern technician. He says mining now resembles a factory with better ventilation, equipment, supervision, and trained personnel, and emphasizes safety.
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Lexington
B. H. Milles
U.S. Steel Company
Lynch
Joshua Smith
Mr. Hope
W. Va
W. R. Campbell
Melvin
Emery C. Olsen
Geneva Steel Corporation
Dragerton
Utah
John H. Hansford
Charleston
Allen
Twe
Addaed
United Mine Workers
Jaycee National Meet Opens Today in Miami
Delegates arriving for the U S Junior Chamber of Commerce convention stream into Miami for the event’s formal opening tomorrow. Registration passes 1,500 with a projected total of 4,000 to 6,000 by Wednesday while three candidates campaign for the national presidency Ed Rood of Tampa Lee Price of Swainsboro Ga and M C McDaniel of Dallas Tex vie for the post Election set for Friday the convention ends Saturday
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Miami
Fla
U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce
Ed Rood
Tampa
Florida Jaycees
Lee Price
Swainsboro
M. C. McDaniel
Price War Spreads To New Cities
Bargain hunters pressed department stores in New York as a price war expands to Philadelphia Baltimore Newark and Omaha. Sales rose 25 percent week to June 2 while new cut rates and replacing stock show merchants race to meet competition. In Bronx a crowd incident injured two shoppers during the scramble.
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New York
New York City
Federal Reserve Bank
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Newark
N. J
Omaha
Neb
Bronx
Margaret Truman Fatigued After London Tour
Margaret Truman, daughter of the president, tours London briefly on a vacation visit. She viewed the Tower of London and the Festival of Britain with photographers surrounding her. Mrs. Walter Gifford, wife of the ambassador, urged shortening the program as fatigue showed on her face.
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London
Margaret Truman
Tower of London
Margaret
Walter Gifford
Boston Symphony Conductor Serge Koussevitsky Dies at 77
Serge Koussevitsky, 77, conductor emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, died tonight at New England Medical Center after a short illness in Boston.
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Boston
Serge Koussevitsky
Boston Symphony Orchestra
New England Medical Center
Acheson Defends U S China Policy In Yalta War Debate
Secretary of State Acheson told senators there was no Communist influence guiding U S policy toward China and defended the Yalta decision that brought Soviet entry into the war against Japan. He argued Chiang Kai-shek leadership failures, not Yalta, caused collapse and cited strategic aims to tie down Japanese troops.
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Washington
State Acheson
United States
China
Yalta
Russia
Japan
Chiang Kai- Shek
Acheson
MacArthur
U.S
Asia
Douglas MacArthur
Britain
Anston Churchill
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stalin
Senator Morse
R-Ore
Morse
Chiang
Smith
Manchuria
Senator Smith
Cabell Jailbreak Thwarted By Saw Blades Found
Huntington West Virginia June 4 today authorities thwarted a jail escape at Cabell county jail after a saw blade rasp was heard and four blades were found in a mattress plus twelve in a headboard The raid uncovered others and police suspect a prisoner ring led by Walter Moore alias William A Shaw with several inmates named as suspects and a jailer said to have sounded the alarm.
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Huntington
W. Va
Cabell County
Midkiff
Walter Moore
William A. Shaw
Lexington
State Penitentiary
C. O., Thompson
Jess James
Henry Lee Thompson
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Benjamin J. Davis, Jr
Gilbert Green
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John Gates
John B. Williamson
Carl Winter
Gus Hall
Jacob Stachel
Henry Winston
Irving Potash
Chan
Chorwon- Kumhwa
Pyonggang
Chail
Chorwon and Kumhwa
OPS
Calvin K. Snyder
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Senate Banking Committee
Golfer Downs
Tennessee
Yaita
U. S. Supreme Court
Macy's
Gimbels
Macy
Andrei Gromyko
U.S. A
Jaycee National
Boston Symphony
Cabell
Ezra Midkiff
Blades
Orville Adkins
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