Jury Indicts Judge Who Helped Reds
Sullivan Indiana jury indicts Circuit Judge Norval K Harris on bad check and embezzlement charges tied to a divorce alimony payment. Harris co chaired with Paul Robeson a protest group against the New York trial of 11 Communist leaders and disqualified himself from further proceedings.
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Sullivan
Ind
Sullivan County
Circuit
Norval K. Harris
Harris
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Paul Robeson
New York
Judge Harris and Wilson Indictment Case in 1948 Election Battle
In the 1948 race for a six year term as judge, ine Wilson filed suit to contest the election after Harris spent seven months in Chillicothe penitent iary in 1932 for forging veterans names to government checks. Wilson had been pardoned in 1941 by President Roosevelt restoring the right to hold public office. Harris answered with a $100 000 slander suit accusing Wilson of calling him a Communist during the campaign. Both suits were later dismissed and the grand jury case was sent to State Attorney General J Emmett McManamon for review. Harris urged jurors to act without malice as the indictment was read.
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Wilson
Harris
Chillicothe
Ohio
Roosevelt
J. Emmett McManamon
Purcell
Screen Test Offered Iowa's Singing Mouse
Mrs Jess Rausch owner of Midnight the singing mouse said a Hollywood studio offered a screen test. Universal International Studios telegrammed Cherokee Chamber of Commerce it would consider Midnight for a part with Francis the talking mule. Midnight has prior theater experience appearing on a television show last Monday.
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Cherokee, Ia
Jess Rausch
Midnight
Hollywood
Universal-International Studios
Cherokee Chamber of Commerce
Francis
Omaha
New Des Moines Thief Targeted Tavern Heart Fund
A Tuesday tavern burglary in Des Moines yielded about 4 dollars stolen from a heart shaped counter bank used for donations to the heart and cancer fund drive. A new candidate for "meanest thief" was reported Wednesday.
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DES Moines
Heart and Cancer Fund
Comedy Playhouse Airs Misbehaves Tonight on KCRG
A light comedy by Fred Jackson titled Bishop Misbehaves will air on Comedy Playhouse at 8.00 PM on KCRG KCRK. The piece features Mark Trail the naturalist Kibbee the expert angler and Himber with bil liards and magic as the cast.
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Kcrgak Romos
Fishing and Hunting Club OF the Air
Ed Dodd
Guy Kibbee
Richard Himber
Dodd
Mark Trail
Kibbee
Himber
KORG
Fred Jackson
Comedy Playhouse
KCRG
KCRK
Powell and Team Flash Through Studio Lineups
A compact radio guide lists CBS Screen Guild Powell and Hussey with Tropic Echoes and Rollini Trio. Nearby are Eddy Arnold Farm News Dreier Weather Polka Players and two Kitchen Club offerings featuring Cliff and Helen. Edward Murrow PBS in Peace and a Crime Photographer segment anchor the schedule with Lon McCallister and Clive Brooks in Hollywood theater spots.
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Screen Guild
Powell, Hussey
Tropic Echoes
Rollini
Jack Smith Club
Edward Murrow
PBS
Nelson
Hilliard
Sports for All and News Schedule Snippet
Thursday tide of programming lists Sports for All at 7 30 followed by News at 7 55 Then Playhouse at 0 00 Prank Edwards at 2 00 and a Newsreel at 0 15.
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Prank Edwards
C.R. Forward
Revel Air Aex Benske O Oe Boz
Patrien
Jane
Liies
Music Room
Engine Tears Loose From Plane Over Illinois
Northwest Airlines to investigate why an engine tore from a 75 passenger Stratocruiser en route Minneapolis to New York. The single engine plunged near a recreation hall at Glenview Naval Air Station causing no injuries among 37 passengers and seven crew. The aircraft landed safely at Chicago Midway after the incident Wednesday night.
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Chicago
Northwest Airlines
Glenview
Ill
Naval Air Station
Civil Aeronautics Fuece
Minneapolis
New York
Chicago Midway Airport
Naval Base
R. A. Ernst
Judd Halenza
Ernst
Milwaukee
Halenza
Better Prices Hold Up Government Pork Buying
Slightly improved hog prices have kept the government from buying pork to prop up prices. The Agriculture Department had planned purchases of bacon, hams and picnic shoulders if prices fell below support, but prices rose and markets have stayed above support, so no pork purchases have been made.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Stillwater businessmen plan outdoor ice cream social
Stillwater Minnesota, business leaders arranged an outdoor ice cream social to be held Friday near the town. The event aims to foster community ties among local merchants and residents in a casual setting.
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Stillwater, Minn
Stillwater
Drying Soybeans Catch Fire at Iowa Milling Co
Fire broke out in the soybean drier at the Iowa Milling Company plant on Sixth street NE above C avenue around 4 30 p m Wednesday. Fire believed caused by overheating the soybeans. Cedar Rapids fire department doused flames by flooding the drier from the top. Loss centered on burned soybeans with no other damage reported.
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Iowa Milling Company
Sixth Street
C Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Pointer to be Bremer County Extension head
Ralph Pointer, a vocational agricultural instructor at Elkader high school for two years, resigns Wednesday to become Bremer county extension director at Waverly. His resignation is effective March 1. Allen Evans, another vocational agricultural teacher from Clarinda high school, is hired to succeed Pointer and will arrive March 1. Pointer's home is in Champaign.
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Elkader
Ralph Pointer
Elkader High School
Bremer County
Waverly
Allen Evans
Clarinda High School
Elkader Board of Education
Pointer
Champaign
State Liquor Store Closed at New Albin
DES MOINES AP The state liquor store at New Albin in Allamakee county was closed Wednesday by the State Liquor Commission. It is the first closure since the commission began in 1934. Chairman George Scott attributed it to servicing difficulties and low patronage, noting Lansing store accessibly serves New Albin customers.
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Des Moines
New Albin
Allamakee County
State Liquor Commission
Commission
George Scott
Lansing
Urges Earnings Tax On Exempted Groups
Rep Mason of Illinois proposes a tax on earnings of tax exempt bodies such as cooperatives to offset revenue losses from excise tax cuts. He says the levy could raise over 1 billion dollars annually in a letter to Secretary Snyder.
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Washington
Mason
R-Ill
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Lye Fatal After Four Years In Rochester Boy Dies
A six year old boy from Bismarck North Dakota named Paul Ayers died in Rochester Minnesota after a 40 year journey of medical visits to the Mayo clinic. He had swallowed lye four years earlier and underwent his final operation a week before his death.
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Rochester, Minn
Paul Ayers
Bismarck
N.D
Mayo Clinic
Senators Demand CCC Accounting
Senators pressed for a complete financial accounting of four years of the Commodity Credit Corporation operations. By voice vote the Senate Agriculture Committee ordered Comptroller General and Secretary of Agriculture aides to testify on the government corporation’s price support program through purchases and loans.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
Government Corporation
Former Deputy Sheriff Gets Life for Murder
Sam Smithwick former deputy sheriff was found guilty of murdering crusading newspaper editor Bill Mason in Alice last July 29. He was sentenced to life imprisonment after prosecutors sought the death penalty.
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Belton
Texas
INS
Sam Smithwick
Bill Mason
Smithwick
Mason
Alice
Raiding Justice Seeks Polk County Sheriff Nomination
Earl W. Rinehart, raiding justice of the peace in Des Moines, announced on Wednesday his intention to run for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Polk County.
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Polk County
Des Moines
Earl W. Rinehart
Justice of the Peace
Invisible Light Beams Communicate Secret Messages
Northwestern University scientists unveil a light beam system for secure conversations avoiding enemy detection. Prof. Walter S. Huxford and Wallace R. Wilson describe directed light signals that may replace radio in some military uses, with range and design still classified.
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Evanston
Iil
INS
Northwestern University
Walter S. Huxford
Wallace R. Wilson
Research and Development Board
Department of Defense
Huxford
Normandy
Naval School Radioactivity Mishap At Treasure Island
A radium capsule spilled at a navy school on Treasure Island caused mild contamination among 18 armed forces officers. About 40 milligrams of radium chloride, worth $1,000, fell from a lead box during a radiological safety drill, triggering a rapid search and tests for 130 people present. Officers were ordered to submit contaminated clothing and undergo screening at home.
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San Francisco
Navy
Treasure Island
Army
Marine
Air Force
Navy reports limited radioactivity after radium work
Geiger counters found radioactivity on certain floors, rugs were removed and decontaminated. The navy says levels did not exceed the radiation from luminous wristwatch dials. About 70 to 80 percent of the radium has been recovered. The press was withheld to avoid alarm and to assess true danger.
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Ity
Navy
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