House Probers Ready To Hunt Out Red Angels
The House Un American Activities Committee gains authority to inspect tax returns to uncover secret donors of Communist front groups. President Eisenhower issued an executive order empowering the probe, shaping a broader effort to root out subversives. The Rosenberg case is cited as an example of fund raising and propaganda by the party.
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Red
Angels
Washington
House Committee On UN- American Activities
U.S
Communist Party
Eisenhower
Francis E. Walter
D-Pa
United Press
Civil Rights Congress
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Rosenberg Committee
Walter
Herbert Brownell Jr
FBI
United States
Internal Revenue Service
Area Men In Service Area Men In Service
Sergeant Martin completes course at Fort Belvoir leading fuel yard duties for 7071st Area Service Units. Willie Patterson assigned to Fort Sam Houston for Exercise Sage Brush with 110,000 troops at Camp Polk. Carl Keener arrives in Korea with Korean Military Advisory Group from Duncan. Alonzo Collins serves with 290th FABn in Germany, Army veteran since 1947.
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Clarence L. Martin
Ollie
Bell
Engineer Center
Fort Belvoir
7071St
Martin
Carl T. Keener
Duncan
Korea
Korean Military Advisory Group
Keener
Mae
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Alonzo Collins
Hattie
Monroe
Germany
Set. Collins
Army
Fort Sill
Senator Doubts Chief Will Call Special Session
Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland doubts President Eisenhower will call a special session this fall or gain much from one. He notes unfinished business, lists bills, and praises bipartisan foreign policy cooperation led by Lyndon B. Johnson and Walter F. George while criticizing Congress for inaction on Eisenhower’s domestic program.
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Washington
Senate
William F. Knowland
Eisenhower
Congress
Knowland
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Walter F. George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
CIA Agent’s odd jail meal mission shocks San Francisco
A man in Union Square claimed CIA ties while fleeing with microfilm and a tear gas pen gun. He showed credentials to patrolman Don Murphy and said he sought secret documents stolen from another agent. Rear Adm. Cheek dismissed the claim as unlikely.
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San Francisco
Union Square
Don Murphy
Central Intelligence Agency
Richard Ernest Grayson
YMCA
Rear Adm
M. ¢. Cheek
CIA
Cheek
Grayson
Desk Cops Ordered To Keep Their Big Feet On The Floor
Hoboken New Jersey police chief John Reynolds ordered officers to keep feet off desks and stop listening to radio music at headquarters after two mayoral visits by John J. Grogan. The rule targets the “night club atmosphere” Reynolds described, noting desk officers were found slumped listening to music during Grogan’s visits.
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Hoboken
N. J
John Reynolds
Reynolds
John J. Grogan
Grogan
Malaya Guerrillas Described As Confused By General
Lt. Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, director of military operations in Malaya, said the Communist guerrillas in the Malayan jungles were confused and hesitant. He noted leaflets urging surrender have reached militants and that peace moves are being debated in jungle hideouts.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Geoffrey Bourne
Malayan
Bourne
Animal Day For Royal Family
In London on Aug 6 UP reports a pony tried to eat Queen Elizabeths bouquet at Brecon Wales but failed. In Inverness Scotland Princess Margarets dog got lost delaying a train trip by Margarets mother and the queen.
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London
Brecon
Wales
Queen Elizabeth
Inverness
Scotland
Princess Margaret
Margaret
Queen Mother
Elizabeth
Pre-Dawn Fire Hits Perry Cafe
A pre-dawn blaze swept through a two story cafe at the south edge of Perry Oklahoma causing about 4500 dollars damage. Fire Chief Loyd Berger said an overheated hot water tank started the Homer Thompson Cafe. It was the citys second major fire in eight days following a Long Bell Lumber Co fire that caused about 105000 dollars damage.
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Perry
Okla
Loyd Berger
Homer Thompson
Long Bell Lumber Co
Governor Opens Drive For Water Program In 1957
Oklahoma City Gov. Raymond Gary opened a campaign to rally support for a state water program to be proposed to the 1957 Legislature. He cited a 1955 water study panel now crafting a solution and urged broad cooperation from individuals, groups, agricultural and industrial leaders, and both state and federal levels. He noted urban rural tensions previously hindered passage and shifted focus to highways, urging funding plans as Congress may boost federal aid while states must cover their share.
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Oklahoma City
Raymond Gary
Gary
Congress
Porous flower pots waterproofed with paraffin
A practical note explains that melted paraffin can be used to waterproof the bases of porous flower pots. The method provides a simple coating to repel moisture and protect contents.
Cartwright to Address Lawton Junior Chamber Meeting
Cartwright, Oklahoma City Corporation Commissioner candidate and former congressman, will address the Lawton Junior Chamber of Commerce at their Wednesday lunch in the Hotel Lawtonian. Alfred Thomas chairs. Cartwright’s background spans state schools, legislature, and a 16 year US House tenure.
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Cartwright
City Junior Chamber
Wilburn Cartwright
Oklahoma City
Lawton
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Corporation Commission
Alfred Thomas
U. S
University of Oklahoma
State
IOOF
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
North Africa
Italy
Army Medical Corps Personnel Fetes Birthday
Fort Sill personnel of the Army Medical Service Corps celebrated the organization's eighth anniversary last Thursday. Since 1947, corps members have developed and employed new techniques in medical supply, administration and transportation, laboratory techniques and sanitation. A letter from Brig. Gen. L. Holmes Ginn Jr. praised the 18 medical service officers at Sill and urged continued high standards amid a shortage of medical and dental officers.
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Fort Sill
Army Medical Service Corps
L. Holmes Ginn Jr
Fourth Army
Sill
Yard Chief's Son Arrested For Murder
London the schoolmaster son of Scotland Yard's late chief detective superintendent was charged Saturday with murdering his wife and baby daughter. Frederick James Chapman about 40 taught at a school in Orpington and confessed at a Brighton police station after hours of questioning. The bodies were found in the Orpington bungalow with a blood stained hammer and fireplace poker nearby.
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London
Scotland Yard
Frederick James Chapman
Chapman
Orpington
Brighton
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