McCarthy Warns of Plot to Halt Probing in Texas Speech
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy told Texans on San Jacinto Day that a conspiracy aims to derail his Senate Permanent Investigating Committee. He warned of rules being changed to paralyze hearings, citing Army probe pressures on Pvt. G. David Schine and defense of Maj. Irvin Peress.
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Houston
Joseph R. McCarthy
Senate
Wisconsin
San Jacinto
Texas
Mexico
McCarthy
Army
Roy Cohn
Pvt
G. David Schine
Maj
Irvin Peress
Peress
Sons of the Republic of Texas
Hugh Roy Cullen
San Jacinto Day
Cullen
Veterans defend Dr Oppenheimer amid security hearing
Washington April 22 UP The American Veterans Committee announced a defense fund for J Robert Oppenheimer head of the wartime Los Alamos atom bomb project. The group said many WWII veterans would have faced death on a distant Pacific atoll if he had fallen under a ban. Oppenheimer faces a hearings panel led by Gordon Gray over past Communist associations and hydrogen bomb delays. He acknowledges some associations and disputes delaying the H bomb.
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Washington
American Veterans Committee
Defense Fund
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Pacific
Oppenheimer
Los Alamos
N.M
Special Atomic Energy Commission
Army
Gordon Gray
Truman
Mr. Truman
Area Men In Service Exercise At Fort Bragg
Sgt. Alphonso Ferguson, wife Evelyn in Lawton, serves with the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment as part of the enemy aggressor force for Exercise Flash Burn at Fort Bragg North Carolina. Ferguson is an ammunition specialist in Howitzers Company from Camp Pickett.
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Alphonso Ferguson
Evelyn
Lawton
Third Armored Cavalry Regiment
Fort Bragg
N. C
Ferguson
Howitz
Camp Pickett
40th Division Leaving Korea for Home in June
The 40th United States Infantry Division will be relieved May 1 and sail for home in early June under Gen Maxwell D. Taylor. About 56 officers and 1,100 enlisted men will depart, joining the second unit to leave Korea since the cease fire with the 45th Division. Processing for homeward troops begins May 17 at Ascom City near Inchon. ships sail around May 22 and arrive San Francisco June 5.
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Seoul
40Th Uss
Korea
Maxwell D. Taylor
Taylor
40Th
National Guard
California
45Th
Oklahoma
Ascom City
Inchon
San Francisco
Panhandling Gull Fools Police Again
A clever seagull feigns injury to beg for food and dupes Hartlepool police for the fourth time in three weeks. A bird lover delivers the bird to the station where officers feed it while the RSPCA is contacted. the bird bears green paint and is identified by G. W. Spencer of the society as the winged beggar.
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Hartlepool
England
Royal Society
G. W. Spencer
Society
Spencer
Frederick Man Listed Dead in Defense Dept Notice
Cpl. Lester Arley Duncan of Frederick has been officially listed as dead by the Defense Department. He had previously been reported missing in Korea, the family of Mrs. Myrtie Foley confirms.
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Cpl
Lester Arley Duncan
Myrtie Foley
Frederick
Defense Department
Duncan
Korea
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Russell - Ford Insurance Agency
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Briggs & Stratton Clinton Engines
Ron Stephens
RCA Victor
Eddie Fisher
Tony Martin
Lou Monte
Hardy Suggs Music CO
Ren
D Avenue
Roce
Ecaaker
U.S.P
Bell
Gillette
Revlon
Fire & Ice
Eau de Parfum
40 de One
Lady Esther
PRIDE
Johnson
Edna Wallace Hopper
Dewy-Uesh Shin
Hazel Bishop
Kea
Ueth
Expello
Walgreen Agency
Gilbert Woods Drug
Fairmont’s
Fairmont
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