Hungarian Polo Star Under Guard
Hungarian Olympic swimming champion Katalin Szoka Halasy, daughter of water polo star Oliver Halasy, was kept under guard and flown home to Budapest after reportedly falling in love with American water polo player Bob Hughes of Lancaster. Friends say she was compelled to hide her identity and was confined to her hotel room until departure.
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Stockholm
Katalin Szoka
Helsinki
Bob Hughes
Lancaster
Calif
Budapest
Hughes
Katalin Halasy
Hungary
Oliver Halasy
Katalin
Kate
Wero
Red Army Hero Weds American Bride in German Chapel
Fedor Ivanovic Belov, 33, three times wounded former Soviet artillery captain and defector, marries Adele Koskosky of Chicago in an Army chapel in Frankfurt. The couple, who plan a honeymoon and residence in New York, met after Belov sought political asylum eight months earlier. The ceremony blended Protestant and Russian Orthodox rites before about 50 friends.
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Frankfurt
Germany
West
United States
Fedor Ivanovic
Belov
Adele Koskosky
Chicago
Ill
U. S. Army Special Services
East Germany
Adele
Chicago University
Europe
New York
Two Famous Women Visit Border Town
NUEVO LAREDO Mexico August ninth wife of asbestos heir Tommy Manville sought a quick divorce but it was delayed overnight. She hoped for developments today before departing or staying. Ex Countess Nancy Oakes crossed the bridge from Laredo to marry Baron Ernst Lyssard Hoyningen Huene, German student, with plans for a Christmas wedding. Her first husband Count Alfred de Marigny faced murder charges in the Oakes case.
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Nuevo Laredo
Mexico
Tommy Manville
Harry Oakes
de Mar
Thieves Steal Lumber AndPhone From Houston Builder
Houston builder W. E. Keep arrived at his construction site to find 70 2 by 4 lumber pieces stolen along with the temporary office telephone. Police were notified after the discovery.
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Houston
Tex
W. E. Keep
Archbishop To Clear Name Of Red Taint
Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher sails for New York with pamphlets aimed to prove he is not the Red Dean Hewlett Johnson. He will holiday in Boxford, Massachusetts and address the 57th General Convention in Boston while stressing freedom of speech and his separation from Johnson’s pro Soviet stance.
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Liverpool
Eng
Canterbury
New York
New England
Episcopal Church
Boston
Hewlett Johnson
Church of England
Geoffrey Fisher
Cunard
Johnson
China
U.S
Korea
Fisher
Boxford
Mass
Henry R. Sherrill
United States
General Convention
Protestant Episcopal Church
Forgery Tops Counterfeiting During Year
Secret Service chief A E Baughman reports that check forgeries caused $2 385 750 in losses, while counterfeit bills totaled $374 002 and bogus coins $5 859 in the year ending June 30. A Brooklyn man cashed 60 forged checks while two wives were his cover, and addicts fueled many cases. A jail encounter linked a forger and his victim in the same cell and the victim later withdrew charges.
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Washington
Secret Service
A. E. Baughman
Brooklyn
Baughman
District of Columbia
Red Leaders Fired In Czechoslovakia
Prague radio announced the dismissal of Chairman Zdenek Hejzlar and several Communist Youth Organization leaders in Czechoslovakia for alleged influence by Rudolf Slansky and Marie Svermova. Ladislav Lis was named the new chairman by the party youth group.
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Vienna
Zdenek Hejzlar
Czechoslovakia
Prague Radio
Rudolf Slansay
Marie Svermova
Ladislav Lis
Tax Bureau Main Office Reorganized
Washington August 9 Three tax service career men all lawyers and the oldest 44 were named assistant commissioners of internal revenue in a headquarters reorganization. Justin F. Winkle Norman A. Sugarman and Edgar E. Hoppe were sworn in to supervise operations technical functions and inspection service respectively. The plan creates civil service posts and marks a streamline rather than a personnel shake-up with ousters having subsided.
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Washington
Tax Service
Norman A. Sugarman
Cleveland, O
Revenue Service
Edgar E. Hoppe
Thorndale
Tex
Bureau
Civil Service
Northrop Named Undersecretary of Interior
President Truman issued a recess appointment making Vernon D Northrop of Scranton Pennsylvania under secretary of the interior. He will replace Richard D Searles who resigns to return to private business. Northrop has served in the Interior Department since 1943 and has 29 years in government work including time with relief agencies.
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Washington
Truman
Vernon D. Northrop
Scranton
Richard D. Searles
Arizona
Searles
Northrop
Interior Department
House of Representatives
Department
Farley Attacks Dulles Criticism of Policy
James A. Farley dismissed John Foster Dulles critique of Truman administration foreign policy as illogical and silly. Farley said Dulles helped shape the policy and held high posts under it, arguing the charge is inaccurate and self-serving.
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New York
James A. Farley
Truman
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Denver
Farley
Democratic National
Introvert To Face Trial Mon
A 21 year old bank clerk George Rogers Austin Hiss V known as an introvert with pastel shirts and a fondness for big cars goes on trial Monday in a one day federal court term on two counts of embezzlement. FBI says he made 19 false entries at Wachovia Bank and Trust Co and investigators estimate about $16 000 was taken. He was arrested in Atlanta June 14 on car theft charges and extradited from North Carolina after police found a stolen car abandoned near his father’s home. He is confined in the county jail after his mother posted a $10 000 bond.
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Charlotte
N.C
George Rogers Austin Hiss
Hiss
Atlanta
Robert Anthony Musack
Ellenwood
FBI
North Carolina
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co
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