A Bomb Secrets Case Tied to Spy Ring Arrest
A former U S Army technician David Greenglass of Manhattan was charged with supplying atomic secrets to a wartime Russian spy ring. FBI seized him as part of a broader crackdown linked to Harry Gold and Klaus Fuchs, with related arrests in Syracuse and Philadelphia.
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Greenglass
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
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Alfred Dean Slack
Fuchs
Slack
Washington
Irving H. Saypol
Federal
Saypol
New Mexico
Anton A. Yakovlev
John
Perjury Charges Faced by Russian-Born Jet Lab Scientist
Dr. Sidney Weinbaum, a Russian-born physicist and mathematician, was arrested in Pasadena on perjury and fraud counts related to his Communist Party membership. He had worked three years at Caltech's jet propulsion lab and was later named a chemistry research fellow under Linus Pauling after his dismissal from the jet program. Weinbaum faced a bail set at $5,000 and told reporters the arrest was distressing.
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Philadelphia
Fuchs
Los Alamos
Britain
Pasadena
Cal
Sidney Weinbaum
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Communist Party
FBI
U. S
Howard Calverty
Weinbaum
Industrial Employment Review Board
No. 122
Sydney Empson
Jet-Propulsion Laboratory
Caltech
Ernest Tolin
Army
Tolin
Francis Wray
Jet Laboratory
Linus Pauling
Lena
City studies parking deck to serve riverfront lots
Citizens Traffic Advisory Committee discussed adding a 260 car parking deck to Kana wha Blvd lots. Cost estimated 200000 to 300000 funded by revenue bonds. deck would double capacity from 250 to 500. Project would rest on riverfront piers with a 30 foot rear ramp and connect to Union Building area. Traffic expert Robert E. Mitchell urged acquiring five more city lots for parking and placing control under a parking authority.
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Citizens Traffic Advisory Committee
Charles B. Hodges
Union Building
Hodges
Robert E. Mitchell
Philadelphia
Mitchell
Charleston
Ad Rule Modified In Cold Drug Case
The FTC allows five antihistamine makers to advertise relief of cold symptoms but not as cures. Firms named include Arahist Anahist Co Yonkers Antamine Grave Laboratories Tuhistan Union Pharmaceutical Kripton Bristol-Myers Resistab. Ads may claim symptom relief and safety when used as directed, ending improper cold cure claims.
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Federal Trade Commission Today
FTC
Arahist
Anahist. Co
Yonkers
N. J
Antamine
Grave Laboratories
St. Louis
Tuhistan
Union Pharmaceutical Co
Montclair
Kripton
Whitehall Pharmacal Co
New York
Resistab
Bristol-Myers Co
Japan Reds Sue To Avert Purge
Tokyo court doubts jurisdiction as Japan's Communists sue to block government purge of 41 readers from public life. Action follows Gen MacArthur orders banning Red leaders from office. Yoshida accused of constitutional violation. Communist rep Eiichi Iwata argues the order targets militarists, not communists.
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Japan
Gen. MacArthur
Tey
Shigeru Yoshida
Eiichi Iwata
Communist Central Headquarters
Kanjo Kato
Social Democratic Party
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Arms Bill Approved By Two Senate Groups
In Washington on June 16 two Senate committees moved swiftly to tentatively approve a $1,222,500,000 bill to arm Atlantic Pact nations and other anti-Communist countries. The Foreign Relations and Armed Services panels, meeting in closed session, made two minor changes to the President’s form-for-friends request, which asked authority to spend 10 percent of the funds, or $122,250,000, to arm unspecified countries.
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Aps
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services
Truman
Nationalists Fire On Invasion Coast Near Formosa
Nationalist fighter planes attacked targets along the invasion coast opposite Formosa amid bad weather. Reports cite 260 Communist junks near Amoy and a spearhead fleet anchored near Shanghai with claims of 20 000 assault troops arriving. An air force spokesman promised round the clock operations.
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Air Force
Gar East
Amoy
Hong Kong
Whangpoo River
Shanghai
Short Noti
Yangte
Contradictory Testimony Ends Oil Import Hearings
Washington June 16 Senators closed public hearings on oil imports after conflicting testimony from Standard Oil official M J Rathbone and Oklahoma Governor Roy J Turner. Rathbone argued foreign oil benefits the economy and opposed curbs, while Turner warned that 18 months of imports hurt state revenue jobs and general business. Senate Labor Subcommittee leader Neely plans to report findings by June 25 as independent producers and unions push for limits.
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Oklahoma
M. J. Rathbone
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Roy J. Turner
Ine Oomaasary
Senate Labor
Sen
Neely
D-Wva
Court strips Harry Bridges of citizenship in San Francisco
Federal Judge George B. Harris ruled Australian-born CIO longshoremen's union leader Harry Bridges loses U S citizenship earned in 1945 after his 1943 perjury conviction. The decision, based on he lied about Communist Party membership, orders deportation after prison term. Bridges appealed and left for Chicago.
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INS
Harry Bridges
West Coast
CIO
George B. Harris
Bridges
Communist Party
U. S
Superior Court
Harris
Ninth Federal Circuit Court
Australia
Chicago
Football Goal Nearest By Hen in Mississippi
PASCAGOULA Mississippi June 16 Adkinson reports a New Hampshire hen laid an unusual egg measuring six and a half inches in circumference and nine inches long. Inside was another perfectly formed egg with a hard shell two whites and two yolks found in the same egg.
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Pascagoula
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B. W. Adkinson
New Hampshire
Adkinson
Harriman Named White House Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs
President Truman named Ambassador W. Averell Harriman to a new White House post to coordinate foreign policy activities across government agencies. The move aims for total diplomacy in the Cold War context, with Acheson approving and delineating duties to avoid conflict.
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W. Averell Harriman
Truman
White House
Acheson
Russia
Harriman
Froman
Tydings Guards Spy Probe Veil
Washington June 16 The Senate inquiry panel led by Tydings holds to secrecy on key testimony from the Amerasia case and will not release it until the probe ends. Hickenlooper supports lifting secrecy, McCarthy presses for disclosure amid charges between McCarthy and State official Peurifoy over Larsen’s testimony.
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Tydings
D-Md
Senate
Amerasia
Fydings
Hickenlooper
Sen
Alowe
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Rngs
John Peurifoy
Peurifoy
Emmanuel Sigurd Larsen
Tydings Committee
State Department
Groton
Conn
Larsen
Capitol Bull
Larssen
Lustron Receiver Criticizes McCarthy Over Housing Manuscript
Columbus June 16 The Lustron receiver Clyde Foraker backs claims McCarthy acted unethically by selling a housing manuscript for 10000. Foraker cites government ownership rights and notes McCarthy defended selling to the highest bidder. The case follows Foraker’s take over of the Lustron plant two months prior. McCarthy argues bids reflect market value.
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Lustron Corp
Todey
U. S
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Lustron
Clyde M. Foraker
Joint Congressional Committee On Housing
Foraker
Sen
McCarthy
Two Detectives Demoted For Accepting Reward
Charleston detectives Sam Bedoff and J A Taylor were demoted to patrolman and suspended for a total 45 days on Mayor Andrews order after accepting a $56 reward for a fugitive arrest that was completed by two other detectives. Police chief Charles Bay supported the action as proper discipline.
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Andrews
Charles Bay
Sam Bedoff
J. A. Taylor
Ray
Bedooff
Taylor
Dal
Dewey Williams
Attlee Denies About Face On European Cooperation
London reports say the Labor government seeks to reassure allies that Britain remains committed to European cooperation. Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign Secretary Bevin fear U S criticism after a Labor party document rejected a supra national European authority while backing government led cooperation. Concerns center on potential U S congressional impact on Marshall Plan funds amid differing British views on federal European governance.
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London
France
United States
Britain
Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Europe
Attlee
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
U. S. Congress
U. S
Lewis Douglas
Anthony Eden
Yorkshire
Dulles Mae Set For Treaty Talk in Tokyo
John Foster Dulles arrived in Tokyo for talks with General MacArthur to gauge feasibility of a peace treaty for Japan. He will be joined by Secretary of Defense Johnson and General Omar Bradley from Okinawa for interlinked discussions next week.
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John Foster Dulles
Gen. MacArthur
Japan
State Department
Defense Johnson
Gen
Omar Bradley
Joint
Chiefs of Staff
Okinawa
Dulles
South Korea
Johnson and Bradley
U. S
Truman
Acheson
John Allison
Allison
Acheson Sees Labour Pool Plan Rejection As Party Affair
Secretary of State Acheson said the Labour party’s rejection of the Schuman plan for European steel coat pooling is a party statement not a government position. He noted party machinery may issue statements between elections reflecting writers’ views, while Paul Hoffman called the stand deplorable isolationism and planned to seek an informal explanation from Britain.
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Washington
Acheson
Labor Party
Paul Hoffman
Senate
Hoffman
State Department
President Truman vetoes pay-point bill halting fair competition
Washington June 18 President Truman vetoed the paying point bill saying it would hamper fair competition and harm public interest. The measure would let manufacturers absorb freight costs and set uniform delivered prices to any point in the nation. Opponents argued it weakens anti monopoly laws while supporters planned broad rewrites of antitrust statutes. Truman contended the bill would not clarify the FTC and Clayton Acts and noted fear among businessmen of repercussions.
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Truman
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Senate
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D-New
State Judiciary Committee
Sen
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Federal Trade Commission
VFW Asked To Help Encourage Voting In WV
Huntington June 16 The 64-year old Attorney General William C Marland urged West Virginia VFW members to assist turnout for the upcoming state and national elections. Marland a Democratic AG candidate warned that voter disinterest has grown over a decade and could let minority groups choose lawmakers, eroding freedoms.
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Wiliam C. Marland
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Marland
Attorney General's Post
West Virginia
VFW
Coal Industry Criticized On Ohio Basin Pollution
Kenneth S. Watson, assistant director of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, told ASME delegates that mining ranks poorly in reducing river pollution. He cited coal’s “most serious unsolved stream-pollution problem” and noted mine drainage affects public water supplies, urging better industry actions.
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America Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Kenneth S. Watson
Ohio River Valley
Water Sanitation Commission
Dan Iy ‘Iel Boone
Watson
Appalachian
ASME
West Virginia State Water Commission
U. S. Supreme Court
Allies Reject Moscow Demand on Trieste as Propaganda
The United States Britain and France rejected Russia's call to internationalize Trieste calling it propaganda to hinder peace. They denied any violation of the Italian peace treaty by stationing 10,000 troops in the Adriatic port area and said the western Allies may retain occupation forces as legally required. Trieste, a 287 mile strip along the Adriatic, is jointly occupied by Yugoslavia in Zone B and Allied forces in Zone A including the city of Trieste. State Department noted only routine naval calls at Trieste by a warship, dismissing Moscow's accusations of an illegal base.
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United States
Britain
France
Russia
Trieste
Moscow
Adriatic
Red
State Department
Italy
Yugoslavia
United Nations
Michael McDermott
Shovel Destroyed In Mystery Blast
In Clarksburg a $60,000 power shovel was destroyed by a dynamite blast at an idle strip. B H Swaney, owner, suspects an insider familiar with explosives. sheriff Reynolds and state police continue the investigation as the shovel had been idle for about two months. Brooks Kyle, nearby, heard the blast at about 1 am.
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B. H. Swaney
Frryhugh Reynolds
Brooks Kyle
Swaney
Flash Flood Sweeps Ohio Town Strands Residents
Crooksville and nearby Roseville near Crooksville, Ohio, were hit by a flash flood after two clouds burst over the Black Fork Creek watershed. A dam under Misco Mine Co reportedly broke, sending floodwater into low areas and leaving residents marooned on rooftops. Water stood one to two feet deep in Roseville streets. no immediate casualties reported. Crooksville population about 3,000. Roseville about 500.
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Croeksville
Here
Ohia Highway Patrol
Black Fork Creek
Misco Mine Co
Roseville
Jonathan Creek
Crooksville
Charleston Skies Forecast For Saturday June 17
The Saturday sky map shows sunrise and sunset times, a first quarter moon near Pollux and the Moon, with visible planets Venus and Mars in the southwestern and western regions. Temperatures are expected to be mild with evening values around 10 pm and late night near 15 degrees.
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