Hiss Jury Requests More Data on Case
A federal jury in New York requested restatement of the instruction on corroborative and circumstantial evidence after six hours and 51 minutes of deliberation in the Alger Hiss perjury trial. Judge Samuel H. Kaufman told jurors they must judge Whitaker Chambers' story and weigh government evidence before reaching a verdict on counts one and two.
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Hiss
New York
Alger Hiss
Samuel H. Kaufman
State Department
Kaufman
Priscilla
Manhattan
U. S
Judas Iscariot
Benedict Arnold
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Roanoke Youth Given 99 Year Murder Sentence
Roanoke Virginia Lee Goode Scott a 16 year old Eagle Scout was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of Dana Marie Weaver 16 at the parish house. The jury convicted him of first degree murder and recommended the term which Judge Dirk A Kuyk formalized. Parole possible after 12 years.
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Roanoke
Lee Goode Scott
Dana Marie Weaver
Hastings
Dirk A. Kuyk
Scott
Kuyk
Virginia
Doubts Raised Over Chicago Boy Homicide Accident Claim
Prosecutor questions whether the death of Tommy Laux in a basement clubroom was accidental during an initiation. Robert Munday, 15, the club leader, gave conflicting versões while police enacted the scene. Charles Laux, 13, initially confessed to strangling the boy then recanted. Both youths held without charges in juvenile detention.
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Robert Munday
J. C. Doyle
Chicago
Tommy Laux
Timothy O’connor
Robert
Tommy
Charles
Hangmen Noose Club
Edward Breen
Breen
Laux
Boyd
Timothy O'Connor
Whitey
Tavern Manager Fined for Diluting Whisky Sales
John Baltewich, 30, manager of Sleepy's Cocktail Lounge, 1114 56th St., was fined 250 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to diluting nine bottles of whiskey and one bottle of brandy for sale. Two beverage tax inspectors testified each bottle tested below labeled proof. Baltewich's prior co defendant had charges dismissed.
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John Baltewich
56Th St
Sleepy’s
Dominic P. Baltes
Baltewich
Asst
Frank Shannon
State Beverage Tax Division
Fred Young
22Nd Ave
Ruetz
Mrs Mesta Sworn In as Envoy to Luxembourg
Mrs Perle Mesta, famed Washington hostess, was sworn in today as U S minister to Luxembourg with Secretary of State Dean Acheson presenting her official commission. She is expected to depart for Luxembourg in mid August.
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Washington
U.P
Perle Mesta
U. S
Luxembourg
Dean Acheson
Truman
Public housing plan gains approval in Congress
Congress approves a public housing plan as federal officials move to avert a looming steel strike. Cyrus S. Ching summons USW president Philip Murray and U. S. Steel VP John A. Stephens to Washington to avert a walkout set for July 16. Murray warns of combined pressure from the union and the National Labor Relations Board over pensions and non Communist affidavits.
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Pittsburgh
Cyrus S. Ching
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Philip Murray
United Steel Workers
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Corp
Washington
Murray
Stephens
Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel-Usw
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel
USW
Steelworkers
National Labor Relations Board
Robert Nathan
Nathan
CIO
Luciano Faces Exile to Sicily
In Rome the former New York vice king Charles Lucky Luciano was ordered exiled to Lercara Friddi in Sicily because his presence posed a crime threat. He was picked up yesterday in a Rome apartment and questioned over an international drug traffic drive, but police found no evidence against him.
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Rome
Charles “Lucky” Luciano
New York
Sicily
Lercara Friddi
Palermo
Nurses, Officer and Reporter Helped Save Man From Gas Death
In Omaha a nurse Vicki Fairchild and Patrolman Elmer Deman entered a gas filled home to restrain Mose Jackson as he struck four matches, each breaking. Reporter Kate Tuckey Ross kept a World Herald line open guiding rescue while Jackson, soothed by Fairchild, ultimately surrendered with emotions poured out.
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Omaha
Neb
Mose G. Jackson
Vicki Fairchild
Jackson
Elmer Deman
Deman
Miss Fairchild
Kate Tuckey Ross
The
Omaha World-Herald
World-Herald
Tel
N. 22Nd St
Mose
Mrs. Ross
Legislature Still Split Over Taxes in Wisconsin
Wisconsin lawmakers remain divided over the size of a new tax bill as the 1949 session nears adjournment. The assembly and senate clash over surtax rates plus a cigaret tax hike, while debates on school aid and rent-control extensions continue.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Senate Assembly
VanAuDave
Assembly
Senate
Oscar Rennebohm
Wisconsin Extends Rape Victim Identity Ban to Broadcast Media
Governor Rennebohm signed a measure extending Wisconsin’s ban on publishing a rape victim’s identity to radio and television stations and press associations. The bill also bars sharing the victim’s identity with out-of-state papers by any means. The act now covers living rape victims in Wisconsin and previously applied only to newspapers.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Wisconsin
Rennebohm
State Highway Department
Thief Swaps Clothes at Union Cemetery Office
A fearless thief entered Union Cemetery to steal from caretaker Joseph R. Smith. The intruder swapped his own clothes for those of the caretaker and fled with no injuries reported.
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Lincoln, Ill
Joseph R. Smith
Union Cemetery
Wisconsin Weekend Weather Outlook With Warmth
Partly cloudy skies shield Wisconsin this weekend with highs in the high 70s to high 80s, while overcast conditions yesterday yielded minor rain. Northwest may see local thundershowers today and tomorrow, with statewide temps ranging from 78 to 85 and a peak 89 at Prairie du Chien yesterday.
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Wisconsin
Lake Geneva
Milwaukee
Land O’ Lakes
Superior Duluth
Superior
Prairie du Chien
Lake Michigan
Kenosha
Simmons Delivers Mercy Shipment for Polio Epidemic
A 20 crib and 20 mattress mercy shipment from Simmons was flown from Billy Mitchell field Milwaukee to Dallas for Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation Texas. An army transport plane carried the goods to aid infantile paralysis victims, with delivery expected back in four hours.
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Simmons Company
Army
Billy Mitchell Field
Milwaukee
Dallas
Texas
Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation
Gonzales
Simmons
Dulles Sworn in as U S Senator
John Foster Dulles is sworn in as New York’s second Republican senator to serve until a November 8 special election. He expects to serve only until about December 1 when elected successor takes over, filling the seat vacated by Robert F. Wagner.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
New York
Dulles
Robert F. Wagner
Teachers Vote To Ban Reds From NEA Membership
Boston report says nearly all of about 3,000 National Education Association delegates voted to bar Communists from teaching roles and exclude them from NEA membership. President Mabel Stude baker called for opposed delegates. only a few stood in the rear.
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Boston
National Education Association
NEA
Mabel Studebaker
Snyder Meets British Financial Chiefs Over Dollar Crisis
U S Secretary of the Treasury John W Snyder met at 10 Downing Street with British leaders including Prime Minister Attlee and Chancellor Sir Stafford Cripps to discuss the sterling area's dollar shortage. Attendees included Bevin Wilson Noel-Baker Douglas Abbott and Harriman. talks continued after lunch.
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London
U. S
Treasury
John W. Snyder
Britain
United Kingdom
Snnder
Downing St
Attlee
Stafford Cripps
Ernest Bevin
Harold Wilson
Board of Trade
Philip Noel- Baker
Commonwealth Relations
Lewis W. Douglas
Douglas Abbott
Canada
Snyder
William McChesney Martin
U. S. Treasury
W. Averell Harriman
Sterling
Cripps
Douglas
Knudtson Local Driver Killed in Collision
Selmer O Knudtson aged 52 of route 4 Eau Claire was killed instantly yesterday when his car struck a truck in a traffic crash authorities said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eau Claire
Wis
Selmer O. Knudtson
Route 4
Measure Moves to Truman for Housing Pact Approval
Congress sent a vast housing bill to President Truman after House and Senate approval. The plan funds 810,000 public housing units and rent subsidies up to 308 million dollars yearly. Debate included concerns about displaced tenants and Negro housing benefits. A Pace bill proposal would test production payments on three crops starting in 1950.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Senate
House
Mr. Truman
Phillips
R.-Calif
Spence
D.-Ky
D.-N.y
House Banks Committee
Agriculture Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Rep. Pace
D.-Ga
Protest Over Jailing of U S Vice Consul in Shanghai
The United States protested to Chinese authorities over the jailing of Vice Consul William M. Olive in Shanghai. The State Department instructed the American embassy in Nanking and consular officials in Peiping to file the protest. Olive was arrested on a traffic violation and held incommunicado. two fellow officials attempting to assist him were rebuffed.
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Washington
United States
U. S
Shanghai
State Department
Nanking
Peiping
William M. Olive
Jury deadlock delays Alger Hiss fate verdict
Federal jury in New York reported a deadlock over the Alger Hiss case and was sent back to continue deliberations. In golf news, Bobby Locke of South Africa and Harry Bradshaw of Ireland finished tied at 283 after 72 holes and will play a 36 hole playoff for the British Open title.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Sandwich
England
Bobby Locke
South Africa
Harry Bradshaw
Ireland
Britain seals secret grain deal with Russia
Britain has secretly agreed to buy nearly 1 million tons of coarse grains from Russia in the coming year. Officials say part of the barter agreement was initialed in Moscow last week, shortly before Britain announced a three month standstill on dollar spending.
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London
Britain
Russia
Moscow
Revealed Deaths of 15 Mental Patients at Alton Hospital
The St. Louis Star-Times reports fifteen mental patients died last weekend at the Illinois State hospital in Alton Illinois. At least four deaths were attributed to heat conditions.
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St. Louis
Illinois State Hospital
Alton
Ill
State Senate Votes Major Bills in Wisconsin
Madison Wisconsin reports the state senate approved the governor's long range building program valued at 25 million dollars a 25 percent surtax on individual incomes and an increase of one cent per pack tax on cigarettes as part of the package
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Senate
Assembly
Alex Nicol
Nicol
Board of Regents
State Senate
Madison
Wis
App
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Elizabeth
Women’s Royal Army Corps
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Shropshire
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Shrewbury
Luciano
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