Russia, Canada probe Soviet atom spy activity
Ottawa officials report that Canada may share findings with the United States and United Kingdom. A royal commission says Soviet agents may still operate in Canada and that top secret atomic materials supplied by British scientist Dr. Alan Nunn May were laundered to Moscow. The 250000 word document notes compromised defenses and seeks action from allied authorities.
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Moscow
United States
Britain
United Kingdom
Alan Nunn May
Montreal
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Showgirl Wife Accused of Partying With Hollywood Notables
In Los Angeles, Patricia Lee Marquis, 20, is named in divorce papers by Richard Marquis, 28, who says she accompanied Errol Flynn George Raft and others to parties while he served overseas. He claims she alleged Mack Grey was the father of their stillborn child, a claim she denies.
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Richard Marquis
Navy
Patricia Lee Marquis
Errol Plynn
George Raft
Hollywood
Marquis
Santa Barbara
Calif
Harry
Film
Johnny Coy
Mack Grey
Raft
Grey
Battle Over OPA Moves Into House With Compromise Lines
The OPA wage and price control fight shifts to the House as leaders seek a compromise likely to pass both chambers and win presidential approval. Congress may form a joint committee after Republicans split on how to proceed while about 15,000 OPA workers await partial pay this week.
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Washington
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Insanity Plea Planned in Gordon Trial
Princeton July 16 William Gordon 21 a sailor from Washington DC faces murder charges for shooting Mrs Josephine Carr Bluefield housewife. His defense will be insanity based on psycho neurotic effects of Navy service. Gordon discharged then reenlisted after the war and overextended a 3 day leave prompting family to alert Navy officials. He was arrested April 2, a day after the slaying.
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William Gordon
Columbia
D. C
Josephine Carr
Bluefield
Mercer County Criminal Court
E. L. Phillips
Gordon
Navy
Phillips
Naval Reserve
Don
Doubts on Britain's War Loan Repayment Rise in West Virginia
Oak Hill West Virginia July 16 Republican senatorial hopeful Claude R Hill questions Britain's willingness to repay postwar loans. He criticizes the country for not paying earlier debts and doubts repayment of the current loan.
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Great Britain
Claude R. Hill
Russians Freed in Berlin Spy Case Reach U S Sector
Gen McNarney announced three Russians held in Berlin on espionage suspicions were released to the Red Army after two weeks in U S sector custody. A U S warrant officer and his wife were also released after 15 days with Russians.
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Berlin
Joseph T. "McNarney
Red Army
U. S
U. S. Army
Edwin L
Montana Senate Battle Surges Over Wheeler Nomination
In Montana a heated primary fight centered on Senator Burton Wheeler with his campaign manager predicting a narrow renomination win. Wheeler faces Leif Erickson, backed by James Roosevelt, as votes tally with about 123000 forecast and a projected margin near 15000 amid accusations of unfair, outside funding.
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Associated Press
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Burton K. Wheeler
Wyoming
Arizona
Arkansas
Truman
Wheeler
Burt Wheeler
Leif Erickson
Heirens Denies Murder Confession As 29 Indictments Arranged
CHICAGO July 16 Willi am Heirens, 17, questioned in the Degnan kidnap slaying and Frances Brown case, was summoned for arraignment on 29 indictments charging 24 burglaries and five assaults. Warden Sain said Heirens denied confessing, telling him no one knew if he confessed, while newspapers reported he had heard a radio broadcast of a confession.
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William Heirens
Frank Sain
Cook County
Suzanne Degnan
Sain
University of Chicago
Degnon
Frances Brown
Herrens
Herrenis
Heirens
WGI
WGN
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The
Chicago Tribune
Million Dollar Munitions Plot Renews Senate Probe
Allen B. Gellman testified before Senate investigators that he was misled into joining Henry and Murray Garassons in a multi million dollar munitions venture and has cut loose to fight his own battle. He said the war profiteering probe centers on a paper empire and denied wrongdoing by Erie Basin Metal and Batavia Metal amid background on the Garassons.
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Allen B. Gellman
Henry
Murray Garason
Senate
Gellman
Earler
Senate War Investigating Committee
Garssons
Mead
D-Ny
Gellmar
Gellma-Weiss
Erie Basin Metal Products Co
Batavia Metal Products Co
Siam asks UN Security Council on Indochina dispute
The Kingdom of Siam asked the United Nations Security Council to intervene in its frontier dispute with France over 20 000 square miles of Indochina listed as Cambodia and Laos. Siam claims historic ownership and seeks mediation before the council meeting by July 24. The request was filed by Siam’s Washington legation under a charter article for non members.
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United Nations Security Council
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Laos
Mekong River
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West Virginia Indicts Two Men In Kidnap Case
Elkins indictments charge Carl Francis Duralia and James O Blair both from Steubenville area with kidnapping Rosalee Wright from Parkersburg to Belpré Ohio. Wright suffered bodily harm after escape, making the abduction a federal capital offense. Charleston reports include resignation of Detective Lieutenant Edgar Bourne after failed extortion case and a request for information for the 1948 West Virginia Blue Book edition.
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Carl Francis Duralia
James O. Blair
Steubenville
Rosalee. Wright
Parkersburg
Belpré O
U. S
Charleston
Senate
Cleark Howard Myers
West Virginia
German SS Troops Sentenced to Death for Ardennes Massacre
An American military court in Dachau Germany sentenced 43 veteran German SS troops to death for the slaughter of about 900 American soldiers and Belgian civilians during the Ardennes Bulge winter offensive. Col. Gen. Sepp Dietrich, commander of the Sixth Panzer Army, was noted among those linked to the crimes.
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Ardennes Bulge
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Sepp
Dietrich
Adolf Hitler
Munich
VETS TO USE B&O SLEEPERS AT MEET
Cumberland Maryland July 18 The American Legion will stage the largest Sagette in its 28 year history in Maryland August 14 to 18 with about 2200 delegates for a meeting of the Legion the Forty and Eight and auxiliaries J Nelson Tribby state adjutant said Baltimore and Ohio railroad sleeper cars would be kept on sidings in Cumberland to handle overflow of World War I veterans and ties in addition to local hotels.
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American Legion
Maryland
Legion
Forty and Eight
J. Nelson Tribby
Baltimore ‘and Ohio Railroad
Labor, veteran, civic group seek return for OPA
Labor veterans and civic groups nationwide plan demonstrations in protest of the end of OPA. The CIO United Workers Union mobilizes 800,000 members for two hour work stoppages, led by President Walter Reuther, to spur a broad buyers strike against rising living costs. Communities schedule protests and cities plan one day strikes in solidarity with the movement.
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CIO
United Workers Union
Walter Reuther
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Locomotive Strikes Man Injuring Tom Daugherty
Charleston July 16. The New York Central train struck Tom Daugherty 30 of Ward as he sat on the tracks. The engine and two cars passed over him before he was removed unconscious. He lay in a Charleston hospital reported without life or limb endangered. Witnesses told Trooper J G Blake the train moved slowly and knocked him between the rails.
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New York Central
Tom Daugherty
Ward
J. G. Blake
Daugherty
Majority Of Pearl Harbor Panel Clears Roosevelt Blame
Eight of ten Pearl Harbor committee members signed a report absolving President Roosevelt and Cordella Hull of direct responsibility for the 1941 attack. Brewster of Maine Ferguson of Michigan did not sign along with Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. The panel issued 25 recommendations on Army and Navy procedures.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Congress of Powers Edges Toward Western Ties
Washington July 16 The United States warned Russia of a split over German economic unity as Byrnes said cooperation with Britain France and Russia is required on finance transportation and trade. He urged a four power approach and blamed the Soviets for lack of progress citing doubts about success.
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United States
Russia
Germany
Byrnes
Joshey
Frankfurt
Britain
France
Ures
Council
Paris
Bikini King May See Second Bomb Aboard MT McKinley
King Juda of Bikini may witness the atomic test in the district where his people live. A courtesy visit by Vice Admiral W H J and other Americans at Rongerik Island confirmed an invitation. The ad miral promised ringside viewing from his flagship for the July 28 test.
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