British Socialists Widen Rift With United States Over Marshall Plan
Washington reports British Labour's executive rejected a pooling proposal for coal and steel with France and Germany. Attlee hedged in Parliament while American officials called the move isolationist, risking Marshall Plan funds with potential cuts of about 450 million dollars for the coming year.
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Washington
Senate
Great Britain
Labor Party
Clement R Atlee
House of Commons
Attlee
Foreign Aid
Paul G. Hoffman
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
H Alexander Smith
J. Heff- Mah
Congress
Hoffman
Robert A. Taft
Pat McCarran
Nev
Appropriations Committee
William F Knowland
Cal
J M Rice 63 Dies After Three Year Illness
J M Rice 63 an employee of FR Jacques Poultry Co Thorntown died in Indianapolis after a three year illness. Born December 6 1887 in Thorntown he was married to Ethel Fisher in 1913. Survived by wife daughter Mrs Lawrence Wetherald Indianapolis two half siblings two sisters and two grandchildren. Services 2 pm Sunday at Russell and Hitch Thorntown with Rev Floyd Smith Indianapolis. Burial Maple Lawn Cemetery Thorntown. Friends may call at the funeral home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Monroe Rice
FR. Jacques Poultry Co
Thorntown
Indianapolis
Rice
U. S. Rubber Co
Warren
Katherine
Osborne) Rice
Ethel Fisher
Modern Woodmen
Lawrence Wetherald
Dale White Winamac
Betty Rice
Mae Bussel
Jean Starkey
Russell and Hitch
Floyd Smith
Maple Lawn Cemetery
Indiana Weather Drenches State With Rain and Winds
Rain and strong winds across Indiana caused scattered damage to homes and structures. Officials warned mist and humidity may rise despite storms, with power and telephone lines down in several areas and rivers muddied by recent rains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snon
Indianapolis
New Castle
Indians Department of Conservation
McCarthy and Peurifoy Clash Over Larsen Testimony
Washington reports Sen Joseph R McCarthy and deputy undersecretary of state John E Peurifoy traded accusations of pressuring witness testimony in the Amerasia case. Larsen the onetime State Department expert is among those tied to the 1945 secret government document theft, with Larsen claiming offers were made for favorable testimony while Peurifoy denies the charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
R. Wis
John E Pourifas
Amerasia
Feminuet S. Larsen
State Department
McCarthy
New London
Conn
Penriifoy
Larsen
Senate
Peurttay
Farcen
John S. Service
Department
Cas
Peurifoy
Truman vetoes basing point bill to control price varying costs
Washington June 16 President Truman vetoed the basing point bill aimed at letting manufacturers set marked prices to cover differing wage costs. The move halts the measure seeking uniform basing points across suppliers.
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Washington
Truman
Indianapolis Sees Record Wet Year So Far
Indianapolis reports a record wet year with 29 inches of rainfall by 7 am, part of a 1950 tally that echoes prior top wet periods in 1880 1882 and 1890. The weather bureau notes historical daily totals and compares remaining peaks like the 1876 record of 57.65 inches.
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Indianapolis
Indiskis
Weather Bureau
Shickmore Fain
Bridges Loses His Citizenship
Federal Judge George Bo Harris upheld on appeal that Longshore Bridges, a former American citizen, was convicted of perjury and conspiracy for lying about Communist Party membership at a 1945 naturalization hearing. The ruling notes the presumption of innocence shifts to guilt in such felon cases.
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San Francisco
George Bo Harris
Bridges
Communist Party
Maturalizne Jtina
Harris
Morton Places High At Show
George Morton, 1é-year old son of Mr and Mrs. Pant Morton, placed high in the Junior Market Lamb Show at the Indianapolis Stockyards. He scored a second in the pen of three lambs and won a fourth in the Single lamb grand champion section. James Foster of Hancock County took all first prizes as 287 lambs from several Hoosier counties competed. Hancock County led with many entries and Boone followed. Henry Mayo of Purdue, one of the judges, praised the uniform lambs and quality of the top entries. After the show, the lambs sold for about 30 cents per pound. The grand champion was purchased by Ein- Continued on page
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Morton
Pant Morton
Indianapolis
Heavy Rain and Wind Pelt Lebanon and Boone County
A night of heavy rain and high winds struck Lebanon and Boone County causing structural damage. A Whitestown Lions Club tent toppled, damaging merchandise. homes and businesses reported losses including a TV set, appliances, and a gas range. Power outages and downed wires disrupted parts of Lebanon as weather observer Clyde Laugher logged nine tenths of an inch by 7 am, with unofficial reports up to two and a half inches.
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Lebanon
Boone County
Whitestown
Whitestown Lions Club
Ralph Bowers
Eugene Baird
Boone County Hardware
Baird
Bowers
Lebanon Automotive Supply Co
al Crawford
Lebane High School
Cosch
North East Street
Meridian
East Streets
Fordice
Jameau and
West North Street
Bast
Clyde Laugher
Reject Soviet Trieste Demand
Western powers rejected a Soviet demand over Trieste and accused Russia of aiming to derail peace. The United States and Britain denied maintaining forces or naval bases there, while Moscow accused the West of legal bases and sought withdrawal of troops from the city.
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Washington
Trieste
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
Alan G. Kirk
Weather outlook for tonight and Saturday cooling trend
Occasional thundershowers and turning colder tonight with low 60 to 65 in the north and 63 to 70 in the south. Saturday will be fair and cooler with highs near 75 in the north and around 60 in the south.
15 Slot Machines Are Stolen At LaPorte
In LaPorte Indiana bandits robbed the Ellis Country Club taking 15 slot machines. Custodian Ray Walters reported to Sheriff Norman Reeg that seven or eight masked men herded him several employees and two girl golf students into a dining room. The machines in a corridor were emptied and later hauled away by a truck. Witnesses said the bandits used a truck but did not see it.
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LaPorte
Ind
Ellis Country Club
Ray Walters
Norman Reeg
Walters
Oklahoma outlaw surrenders to German police in Munich
Homer Cook, 21, an American fugitive wanted for escape from Dachau, surrendered to German and American police in a Munich flat after a street sighting. He was weak from hunger and a hand wound, and he gave little about his 60 hours on the loose before capture amid notes of his escape plan and connections to Anna Sperer.
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Munich
Germany
Oklahoma
Homer Cook
Anna Sperer
Cook
Anna
Cpl
Albert Levison
Ashland Ky
PFC Fr
Skages
Ansted
Muskogee Oki
Nuembers
Batt
Annas
Ana
Nuerenberg
Philippines Republic Official Denies Collapse Report
Gen. Carlos P. Romulo the Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary writes for United Press rebutting claims of government collapse. He argues the republic remains stable, fights corruption openly, and rejects censorship while praising press freedom under President Quirino.
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Carlos P. Romulo
Philippines Republic
United Press
Washington
Philippines
Asia
Southeast Asia
Formosa
United States
Quirino
America
Named Assistant Dean At Purdue
Miss Cecelia Zissis, a Purdue graduate and former Mortar Board president, is named assistant dean of women at Purdue University. She will fill the vacancy created by Mrs. Margaret Fargo Baas’s resignation, effective July 15. Zissis, a former star writer at Purp Fadigsation WRAW, now advises Mortar Board and Women’s Press Club and will oversee campus organization chairs and women’s groups.
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Cecelia Zissis
Purdue University
Margaret’ Fargo Baas
Miss. Zissis
Purdue
Im Plassher
Mortar Board
Gold Peppers
Chemist Held As Russian Spy In Wartime Espionage Case
Syracuse reports Alfred Daan Slack a 44 year old chemist held on $100000 bail charged as the second American in wartime Russia spying. He allegedly passed data on an explosive called RDX to Harry Gold and two Russians who fled. Slack denied Communist ties, claiming the charges stem from an unresolved incident, while FBI Director J Edgar Hoover described the acts as aiding a foreign power. Slack had worked at Sundure Paint and Holston ordnance depot in 1943 and 1944 and reportedly supplied explosive details to Gold.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Russia
FBI
Alfred Daan Slack
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
Slick
Gold
Slack
Communist Party
Fort
Washington
J Edgar Hoover
Ie Wotting
Sundure Paint Company
IM48
G-men
Hijs
Holston Ordnance Depot
Kingsport
Tenn
Hoover
Army Veteran Held In New York Under Heavy Bail
FBI arrested 28 year old Army veteran David Greenglass in New York on charges of conspiring to commit espionage with Harry Gold and a Russian agent. He worked at Los Alamos on confidential material and was held on 100000 dollars bail awaiting removal to New Mexico where the alleged betrayal occurred. Also named were Anatoli Yakoviev and Alfred Dean Slack, with Fuchs already serving a sentence in Britain.
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Washington
FBI
David Greenglass
New York
Russia
Greenglass
New Mexico
Los Alamos
N. M
Harry Gold
Gold
Klaus Fuchs
Fuchs
Great Britain
Anatoli A. Yakoviev
Fort Dix
N. J
McGrath
Alfred Dean Slack
Syracuse
N. Y
Slack
Britain
Clyde Walker Expires Here Former mayor of Lebanon dies at 74
Clyde B Walker 74 longtime Lebanon resident and former mayor 1922 1926 dies at Witham hospital after six months illness Born Elizaville April 6 1876 he served as Union Township trustee and in real estate He survived by wife Ida May Pruitt two children Evan B Walker and Gayle Bales plus siblings and grandchildren Burial in Roaston cemetery after services at Russell and Hitch funeral home
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Clyde B. Walker
East Fordice Street
Lebanon
Witham Hospital
Walker
Union Township
Mr Walker
Elizaville
Littleton B
Aphire (Cook) Walker
Flora Mallett
Indianapolis
Roaston
Russell and Hitch
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