FBI Chief Links Red Lawyer Campaign to Smear Hoover
Director J Edgar Hoover publicly accused the National Lawyers Guild of a 10 year effort to weaken and discredit the FBI calling it a communist front. He cited internal agents and past efforts by guild leaders to push investigations and removal of Hoover with support from figures tied to communism and Roosevelt era appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
ULP
J. Edgar Hoover
National Lawyers Guild
FBI
House
Hoover
Lawyers Guild
Guild
Earl Browder
Communist Party
Truman
G-man
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Citizens Committee
Mr. Truman
Richard M. Nixon
Cal
House un-American Activities Committee
Durr
Five Quartets Compete In SPEBSQSA Finals in Omaha
Five barbershop quartet finalists vie for the SPEBSQSA championship in Omaha after 40 entrants. Finalists include Note-Blenders and Clef Dwellers from Oakland County Michigan Antlers of Flint Michigan Four Chorders of London Ontario and Buffalo Bills of Buffalo New York. The 1949 titleholder was Mid-States Four of Chicago. The society banned Sweet Adeline over its alcohol linked background prompting comment from Henry Armstrong who warned of complaints from fans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
U.P
Spebsqsa
Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of
America
Oakland County
Mich
Antlers
Flint
Four Chorders
London
Ontario
Buffalo Bills
Buffalo
N. Y
Omaha Auditorium
Chicago
Carroll Adams
Detroit
Adeline
Henry Armstrong
New York
Japanese Red Leaders Hide From Police
Six Japanese Communist leaders disappeared to evade police after anti occupation leaflets were found at a home. Hidetaro Ikeda was seized when leaflets were found, bringing arrests to seven since Wednesday morning. Police issued six warrants for leaders in Tokyo and Osaka including Hiroshi Nakazawa and Yoichi Takagi.
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Tokyo
WUP
Hidetaro Ikeda
U. S
Yokosuka
Here
Siin Sumida
Toichi Iizuka
Toichiro Sudo
MacArthur
Osaka
Hiroshi Nakazawa
Government Workers Union
Yoichi Takagi
Kenosha Evening News 1950 Publication Details
Kenosha Evening News issued daily except Sunday from 1717 58th Street Kenosha Wisconsin with a long publishing history dating to 1894. The item records its imprint and postal classification as a second class matter and local publication details.
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Kenosha
Wisconsin
The
Subscription Rates for Wisconsin Illinois and Kenosha Areas
The notice lists weekly delivery and mail subscription rates by region. In Wisconsin and Illinois counties including Kenosha Racine Walworth Lake, one year costs $10.00 for local and $12.75 for all other states. non local 3 cents 5S cents remain unclear.
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Kenosha
Racine
Walworth
Lake Counties
Wisconsin
Illinois
School Breaks Oklahoma Racial Barriers in Classrooms
Norman Oklahoma reports the first integrated class at the University of Oklahoma as 82 negro students attend opening day summer sessions joining whites in classes and meals. About 100 more expected by June 17 with Ada Lois Sipuel among graduates.
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Norman
Okla
Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma
G. W. McLaurin
Supreme Court
Ada Lois Sipuel
Shipment Back After Ocean Trip
A consignment of composition rubber shipped to Italy for UNRRA aid is returning to the United States aboard the S S Exceller. About 2,500 bundles arrived in Baltimore from Venice and are headed to the Buxbaum company in Canton Ohio. The rubber likely sat in Italy for months before a broker acquired it. it cost Italy nothing under the relief program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Italy
UNRRA
America
Atlantic
S. S. Exceller
Venice
Buxbaum Company
Canton
Ohio
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Program
Buxbaum
Scottsboro Boy Leaves Prison
The last of the Scottsboro boys to leave prison, 38 year old Andy Wright, left Alabama with his wife and child. He plans to go to Albany New York for a hospital porter job after six years of court battles over the 1931 rape accusations. Wright received travel funds and expressed no hard feelings toward the accuser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Scottsboro
South
Andy Wright
Albany
N. Y
Wright
Allan Knight Chalmers
Boston University School of Theology
New York
Chattanooga
Tenn
Atlanta
Paint Rock
Victoria Price
Ruby Bates
Bates
Price
Ozie Powell
Pittsburgh Milk Strike Continues
A strike by 3,250 milk and dairy workers halts most deliveries to 2,500,000 western Pennsylvanians. Hospitals and homes receive limited supplies via an emergency plan with Local 204. Key issues are wages, commissions, and a 40 hour week replacing 48, with pay protections. Contract expired May 1. negotiations stalled.
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Pittsburgh
Soviet Tank Commander Mezhitsan Dies in Moscow
Maj. Gen. Ivan Mezhitsan died suddenly in Moscow on June 7. Described as daring and decisive, he was a recipient of the order of Lenin and other high decorations, and served 18 years in the Soviet army as a Communist Party member since 1941. A Swedish firm plans large exports of adding machines to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Ivan Mezhitsan
Mezhitsan
Communist Party
Underground Fires Being Checked
The federal government reports progress in its two year fight against underground fires. Fires smoldering in coal beds across Pennsylvania Colorado and Wyoming are being choked off by oxygen cuts trenches and earth removal. A very serious subterranean fire near Carbondale Pennsylvania is to be flooded with mud injected through bore holes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Mines
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Wyoming
Carbondale
Miners Wives Block Train In Strike at Zap Mine
Wives of striking coal workers lay on the tracks to stop a train carrying coal from the Zap mine. Police intervened as one by one they were pulled away. the train was diverted to a siding and no coal left the mine. The walkout began January 12 with substitute crews later brought in. Gov. Randahl ordered state police to restore peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zap
United Mine Workers
Fred Randahl
Joe Masini
UMW
Mud-Pie Party Stirs Neighborhood
In a vacant lot a group of boys aged four to five held a mud pie party and attached a garden hose to a ground hole. They pulled, tugged, and shouted for help as neighbors and police tried to release the hose. After several efforts the hose finally came free, wedged between rocks likely by suction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Johnny Hardesty
Freddie Richard
Johnny
China
Hospital Contract Awarded in Darlington Wisconsin
The L. J. Finger Co. of Manston won the general construction contract for the LaFayette County Memorial Hospital in Darlington at 249 750 dollars.
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Darlington
Wis
L. J. Finger Co
Manston
Friday
LaFayette County Memorial Hospital
Yonkers Daily Times Restored After Phone Shutdown
Yonkers Daily Times wins court order to restore its 12 telephone trunk lines after Public Safety Commissioner Patrick F. O’Hara cut service citing gambling concerns. The temporary ruling requires NY Telephone Co to restore immediately and appear Monday in White Plains for a permanent hearing.
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Yonkers
N. Y
The
Times
Supreme Court
Benjamin Rabin
Bronx
New York Telephone Co
White Plains
O'Hara
Westchester County
George Fanelli
Fred Rusco
High Brow Firefly Hunt Aids Light Bulb Research
Oak Ridge scientists study fireflies to unlock luciferin fluorescence for better bulbs. Dr. Harvard Strehler offers 25 cents per hundred. locals delivered about 6,100 fireflies worth over 15 dollars. He seeks 100,000 live specimens. two brothers earned a dollar for 400 bugs found at dawn on daisies.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
Harvard Strehler
Johns Hopkins University
Jon van Fleet
David
Almost Hopeless Hunt For Missing Airmen
Four airmen remain missing after a United States B 29 ditched in the North Sea last week as search planes comb the area. The bomber struck the sea after an engine fire caused by a shell burst during gunnery practice, amid ongoing efforts from bases and patrols. Tunisia boosted tourism with 769 American visitors reported last year as the nation aims to grow arrivals.
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Sculthorpe
Eng
North Sea
Truman Signals Continued Aiding Europe Beyond 1952
President Truman suggested ongoing aid to Western Europe beyond the 1952 Marshall Plan, drawing mixed bids from Congress. Senators urged closeout in 1952 or urged continued support, with debates on new programs and Atlantic collaboration.
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Washington
Truman
Europe
Congress
Columbia
Wherry
Nebraska
GOP
Paul Hoffman
Canada Guards Alaska Highway With 9 000 Strong Mobile Unit
Defense Minister Brooke Claxton told the House that Canada has a mobile unit up to 80 percent of its 9 000 man strength and sufficient equipment to withstand about eight months of war to guard the Alaska highway against an Arctic attack.
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Ottwa
Ont
U.P
Canada
Alaska
Arctic
Defense
Brooke Claxton
Claxton
House of Commons
Mine Found in Coal Tender on crowded New Jersey Train
Railroad officials investigated how an anti personnel mine from the South Amboy blast area ended up in a coal tender on a passenger train carrying 350 people from North Jersey to New York. Fireman Raymond C. Clayton, among those injured in a prior incident, helped uncover the device as train traffic continued. Army officials noted the mine could be triggered by heat, fire or agitation and suggested a hopper screen would have prevented entry.
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Red Bank
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
South Amboy
North Jersey Shore
New York
Raymond C. Clayton
Highway Official Urges County Zoning To Guide Land Use
Marinette Wis Friday Highway Commissioner James R Law urged broader county and local zoning to control land development along Wisconsin roads. He warned current ribbon development on U S 53 between Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire and along U S 41 in multiple counties makes rebuilding impractical, calling zoning the key to long term highway quality.
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Marinette
Wis
James R. Law
Wisconsin
Wisconsin County Highway Commissioners Association
U. S. 53
Chippewa Falls
Eau Claire
U. S. 41
Milwaukee
Waukesha
Washington
Dodge
Fond du Lac
State approves Totogatic river dam project
The Wisconsin conservation department was authorized by the Public Service Commission to construct a dam on the Totogatic river in Washburn county. The structure will lie about eight miles southeast of Hayward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
State Conservation Department
Totogatic River
Washburn County
Public Service Commission
Hayward
St Catherine's Hospital Auxiliary Group List
A long listing of names and spouses associated with the St Catherine's Hospital Auxiliary. The roster includes Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson, Dr. and Mrs. Thad Ashley, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Anderson, Jack Andrea the confectioner, and numerous other individuals and businesses connected to the auxiliary.
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Harry Anderson
Thad Ashley
Geo. Anderson
Jack Andrea
Kenosha Decorating Co
Kenosha Laundry
Kenosha Physicians Medical Lab
Ray
Joe Klotz
Wm. Keyes
Kenosha Produce Co
Tom Kennedy
Kenosha Cartage Co
Landgren’s Dairy
Lloyd & Carl
W. H. Lipman
George. Layden
Gilbert Lance
Steve Lepp and Co
L. H. Lokvam
J. Lutz
Tom Lane
V. J. Lucareli
Robert W. Lilley
Chas. A. Lawrence
W. L. Lipman
L. Little
B. Latham
C. Labanowsky
C. D. McWilliams
John McEvoy
Cathie McNamara
Moriarty Mfg. Co
Mary Moohan
Fabian Monfiis Molinaro
Morrison's Store
Leon Nickels
Patneaude
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By Lyle C. Wilson
United Press
Catholic Church
Clifford J. Durr
Federal Communications Commission
Roosevelt
Senate
Charles A. Horsky
Horsky
Dean Acheson
James L. Fly
Eden
Beatrice Helen Eden
Anthony Eden
United Byass
Algeria
Libya
Turkey
Lee
Israel
Egypt
Iran
Saudi Arabia
India
Arabian Sea
Russia
United States
Scottsboro Boy
Miners Wives
Tunisia
George
D-Ga
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
ECA
Western
Sparkman
D-Ala
Maybank
D-Sc
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Borden
Betty Mae Janzer
Howard
St. Joseph’s Hospital
John
ST. Catherine’s Hospital Auxiliary
James R. Anderson
Mrs. D. Gor
John V. Evans
Faulkner Epstein
Easterday Paint and Chemical Co
Eddie's Beer Depot
Leo Flatley
James Flatley
Fashion Cleaners
Frandsen Pharmacy
Flamingo Restaurant
Pete Barca
Vincent L. Frantal Nursery
L. H. Finkler
Richard Fischer
J. L. Gottschlich
Gallagher Brothers
Gerolmo Wholesale Beverage Co
Gordon Lumber & Supply Co
D. N
Josephson and Thomey
Albert Kappus
Ed Kappus
Sidney Kaplan
Harold Kappus
Fred Kaelber
Edward Kaelber
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