Army Doubts Reds Took U S Secret Microfilm at Fort Monmouth
The Army said no evidence microfilm copies of Signal Corps secret data from Fort Monmouth have fallen to Communists in Germany. Under World War II lend lease, information sharing continued with allies. no missing documents are now found in unauthorized hands, though McCarthy links remain under investigation.
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Washington
Ft. Montmouh
N. J
Signal Corps Laboratory
Germany
Signal Corps
McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
New York
Ft. Monmouth
Julius Rosenberg
Army
Signal Corps Intelligence Agency
Signal Crops Intelligence Agency
Welconeen
Allong
Monmouth
Congress
Prisoners Reject Communist Persuasion in POW Explanations
At Panmunjom, Chinese and Korean POWs resisted Red explainers during a three day session. Of 400 Chinese interviewed, only nine or ten sought repatriation, while about 500 were questioned on Thursday with roughly 10 requesting return to communism. Violence echoed through the tents as detainees shouted anti Soviet and anti communist slogans.
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Panmunjom
Red
Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission
NNRC
Soviet Union
McCarthy Opens Spy Hearings on Fort Monmouth Case
Senator McCarthy began closed hearings naming witnesses tied to an alleged radar spy ring at Ft. Monmouth New Jersey. He postponed a visit to a federal prison to question David Greenglass and said an Army employee testified about the Rosenberg espionage network.
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New York
Sen
McCarthy
Wis
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Army
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Lewisburg
David Greenglass
Julius Ig
Rosenberg
Army Signal Corps
America
Ft. Monmouth Laboratories
Subcommittee
FBI
McCarthy Group
Boy Electrocuted During Impromptu Utah Football Game
In Salt Lake City a 15 year old boy, Kent Matson, was electrocuted during a dare near his home. Police say he climbed a utility pole to reach a football tossed by others and touched a live wire carrying 30 thousand volts. He died at hospital.
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Salt Lake City
Kent Matson
Matson
Monroney Attacks McCarthy Clean Bill From Brownell
Sen. Monroney denounces Attorney General Brownell for absolving Sen. McCarthy of fraud or election law violations in the 1950 Maryland race. Brownell said no evidence found. the Justice Department will not pursue further action. Former Sen. Benton similarly cleared amid campaign fund questions. The 1951 Senate subcommittee report dubbed the Butler-Tydings race a sicable back street campaign.
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Washington
Sen
Monroney
D-Okla
Atty
Brownell
McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
Justice Department
Maryland
Treasury
William Benton
D-Conn
Benton
John Marshall Butler
Millard Tydings
Subcommittee
Tydings
Earl Browder
Shelby Man Sentenced In Tax Case
Shelby businessman George D. Washburn received an 18 month suspended sentence and two year probation in Middle District Court for filing fraudulent income tax returns for 1945 46. He was fined 10000 and must pay within 30 days or face full term. His attorney said he has already paid 93218.43 in taxes penalties and interest covering 1942 46.
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Greensboro
Shelby
George D. Washburn
Johnson J. Hayes
Middle District
Washburn
Hayes
Fire Devastates Carrier Leyte Killing 33 at Boston Naval Yard
Navy investigators probe a deadly explosion and fire aboard the carrier Leyte at the Boston Navy Yard. Thirty three killed and about forty injured, many gravely burned, with reports of up to 1400 officers and men aboard at launch year 1945. FBI and Navy hold comments as a court of inquiry may convene, while Representative Lane calls for immediate, thorough investigation.
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Navy
Leyte
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Thomas J. Lane
D-Mass
Defense
Wilson
Tam
Boston Naval Shipyard
Newport News
California
John J. Ballentine
Atlantic Fleet Air
Korea
Thomas A. Ahroon
Norfolk
Ahroon
Burned Navy Pilot Describes Leyte Explosion Survival
Leonard Derosier, a 31 year old Navy lieutenant, survived with 90 percent burns after the Leyte carrier explosion. He recounted diving to the deck and escaping through a hatch as crew fought flames. Hospital authorities labeled him on the danger list while rescuers treated others across Boston hospitals.
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Boston
Boston City Hospital
Leonard Derosier
East Greenwich
R. I
Athens
Leyte
Wwe Tre
Gso
Derosier
Salvatore Impedaglia
Frank Garavaso
Brooklyn
Navy
Jud Price
Seneca
Kan
Ani
Eisenhower Calls for Self Reliance in Foreign Aid Push
President Eisenhower, in New Orleans for the Louisiana Purchase anniversary, urged strengthening allies to reduce direct aid from wealthier nations. He noted Iowa’s corn crop valued at over 700 million dollars as a sign of growing domestic production and said the U.S. should sell more abroad. He spoke after touring Kansas City and a city hall procession through the port city.
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New Orleans
United States
Eisenhower
Kansas City
Spanish
Iowa
France
Louisiiana
Big Three open on wartime era non aggression pact
London reports the foreign ministers Dulles Eden and Bidault grapple with a possible sweeping non aggression pact with Russia as they near the session midpoint. They also weigh Israel Jordan border action before the Security Council and tensions over Trieste and German unification.
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London
Russia
U. S
State Dulles
Eden
Bidault
Downing St
Israel
Jordan
United Nations Security Council
Britain
Trieste
United States
France
Moscow
Lugano
Switzerland
China
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Churchill
Dulles
Kremlin
Israel-Jordan
Sion
Security Council
Middle East
Mid- East
Suez Canal
Fazollah Zahedi
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co
State Mental Institutions Project Starts
RALEIGH initial steps in a 22 million dollar mental institutions program were taken by the State Hospitals Board of Control. Gov Amstead and Budget Bureau officials attended a meeting where renovation work at Butner and a new hospital and admissions building at Morganton were outlined. Bids on the projects likely by December. Butner project costs three million and Morganton two million.
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Raleigh
State Hospitals Board of Control
Amsstead
Budget Bureau
Butner
Morganton
John W. Umstead
Chapel Hill
Three Tar Heels Killed On Leyte
The Navy released a list of 31 Navy personnel killed on the aircraft carrier Leyte after yesterday's explosion. Eight officers and 23 enlisted men are among the dead, with four civilians also killed. Enlisted names include Arthur D. Harrelson Jr. of Southport, Kenneth G. Mayhew of China Grove, and Sidney Mills of Varina. H. Fields of Goldsboro was listed as wounded.
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Boston
Navy Today
Leyte
Arthur D. Harrelson Jr
Southport
N. C
Kenneth G. Mayhew
China Grove
Sidney Mills
Varina
H. Fields
Goldsboro
N. OC
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