Hiss Branded As Traitor In High Profile Trials
The article recounts Whittaker Chambers accusing Alger Hiss of delivering government secrets to a spy ring. It covers trial details from 1948 and 1949, testimony lengths, alleged lies, and the roles of witnesses including Supreme Court justices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FBI
Chambers
Wyer
Ambers
Hiss
House African Activities Committee
U.S. Supreme Court
Oo Frankfurter
Stan Reed
Rse
Edge Goddard
Knickerbocker Tel
Ward
Ney
Harvard Law
Washington
State Department
Time Magazine
un-American Activities Committee
Communist Party
Let Needs Decide Vote Urges Aid Amid Miner Distress
Public aid calls rise as hundreds seek relief at state offices and Salvation Army while county government lacks funds and authority. In Colorado a clash between union diggers and UMW pickets lands three hospitalized. Canon City miners sign a five day work contract with local mine operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Relief Agency
Salvation Army
Colorado
UMW
Canon City
Colo
Rocky Mountain Empire
Hemophiliac's Dream May Come True Through Newspaper Appeal
Union City New Jersey man Robert Van der Voort has hemophilia and dreams of uniting patients for research and cure. His story in a national paper helped merge his New Jersey group with Hemophilia Foundation, Inc. He serves as vice president on the foundation board while advocating research at Children’s Hospital Boston under Dr. Louis K. Diamond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union City
N. J
NEA
Robert van der Voort
New York World-Telegram
Sun
van der Voort
Robert L. Henry
Hemophilia Foundation, Inc
New York
Henry
New Jersey Hemophilia Society
Kiwanis
National Foundation
Eleventh St
Memophilia Foundation
Czarovitch
Russia
Don Juan
Children's Hospital
Boston
Louis K. Diamond
American Red Cross Blood Bank
Hemophilia Foundation
Union City Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis International
Senate plan would cut excise taxes across several goods
The Senate considers a 10 percent excise rate replacing 20 percent on jewelry furs and toilet preparations. luggage and handbags tax drops to 10 percent. long distance calls fall to 20 percent and local 10 percent. telegrams leased wires and wire service tax cut. transportation and camera taxes trimmed. admissions, light bulbs tax cuts. overall aim to accelerate tax increase portion of the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
George
German court absolves blockaded smugglers of crime
A Berlin court found two West Berlin butchers not guilty of lawbreaking for smuggling meat through the Russian blockade. They were fined ten dollars for failing to sell at public rationed prices, with meat sold on the black market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin —i
West Berlin
Asbestos Treatment Reopens Hope for Heart Patients
A doctor reports three human cases after animal tests showed asbestos aided heart surgery. A 45 year old butcher with angina is back at work after three years, no nitroglycerin, and no tablets. Another patient nine months post op now walks a mile daily without pain. A third patient died two days after operation from an unrelated infection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Phantom burglar haunting Ottawa targets halls
Ottawa police seek a "phantom bandit" who leaves no entry marks after burglaries. The American Legion hall was hit for 350 dollars, followed weeks later by Knights of Columbus Lodge theft of the same amount. The legion hit again yielded little money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ill
Walter M. Keim
American Legion Hall
Knights of Columbus Lodge
Legion Hall
Kannapolis Girl Shows Spunk Battling Polio
Faye Sullivan of Kannapolis defies polio with grit and drive. Despite paralysis she earns A and B grades at home, helps White Hill church bulletins, and plans a magazine subscription business. Coaches praise her resilience while she pursues a 1950 diploma and independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Workman
Central Press
Kannapolis
N. C
Faye Sullivan
Faye
Landis High School
White Hill
Kannakis Daily Independent
White Hill Baptist Church
North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital
Gastonia
Landis
T. Frank Bostian
North Carolina
Department of Public Instruction
Nancy
Earl Cavin
Landis High
John Oehler
Oehler
Jackson Park
George
James
Charlotte Memorial Hospital
Gordon Gray Nominee for Army Secretary
Gordon Gray, prominent lawyer and former Undersecretary of the Army, is nominated by President Truman for Army Secretary. The Durham and Winston-Salem regions figure in politics and media, with Gray’s family ties to the Reynolds Tobacco firm and his leadership roles in North Carolina government noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth E. Childress
Hugh Childress
Greensboro
Sedgefield
T. Rodman
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Winston-Salem
Evergreen Cemetery
Roanoke
Vincent Childress
Sidney Childress
Tommie Childress
Tom Pitts
Richard Pence
David R. Jones
Lee Conduff
Charley Con Duff
Yow
Hill
Gray
Bowman Gray
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Europe
New York City
Baltimore
North Carolina
Washington
Army
Royall
Truman
Senate
Piedmont Publishng Company
State Advisory Budget Commission
State Board of Purchase and Contract
Gordon, Jr
Burton
Boyde
Bernard
Woodberry Forest School
Virginia
Yale Law School
Victor Bryant
Durham
James E. Webb
Oxford
William Clyde Devane
Yale College
Carmichael
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Justice Clark
Supreme Court
Tom C. Clark
Tommy Nesbitt
Brooklyn
N. Y
Clark
Charles G. Berwind
Big Brothers of America
TRA Charge
Setler Tavsoey
Mrs, Childress
William E. Carson
William Ernest Carson
King Street
Sechrest Chapel
Elma Warner
Dockery Nance
Adrian Grout, Jr
J. A. Grout
A. C. Carson
Mains Arens
C. B. Nifong
Cay Myers
Gene Talbert
Carl Williams
Lloyd Harvell
Jeff Johnson
Oakwood Cemetery
Berlin
Marcelle Milloway
Jackson Park School
Samuel Cameron
Cincinnati
Gordon Gray
Willys Station Wagon
Piedmont Motor Sales
S. Main ST
Babyland
South Main St
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