Kravchenko recounts hiding refugee Samarine from Soviet capture
Victor A. Kravchenko says he helped Russian schoolteacher Samarine escape to safety in the United States after Soviet agents pursued him through New York and New Jersey. He says FBI officials later received Samarine in New York City and that the event was tied to Kosenkina's prior escape from a Russian consulate.
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New York
New Jersey
Kravchenko
House un-American Activities Committee
Oksana Kosenkina
New York State
Lomakin
Yakov Lomakin
Kosenkina
Samarine
Russia
America
New York City
FBI
Sherry's Fine Foods Ad at Ocean Center
Complete dinners offered from 4 30 P M to 4 A M 8 cup soup salad and dessert included with all dinners Special attraction every hour on the hour Free parking at Ocean Center corner of Ocean and Pine Bring check to Sherry's Sherry's Fine Foods 129 East Ocean Boulevard
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Ocean Center
Ocean and
Pine
Sherry
Sherry's
Fine Foods
East Ocean Boulevard
Los Angeles Transit Union Wins 3 Cents Hourly Pay Boost
An arbitrator's award gives Los Angeles Transit Lines workers an additional 3 cents an hour, on top of a 5 cent raise from June 7. The Transportation Union Division 1277 pursued 10 cents hourly pay via arbitration to avert a strike.
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Los Angeles
Transportation Union
Division 1277
Neighbors Accused of Aiding Greek Guerrillas
The United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans charged Albania Bulgaria and Yugoslavia with aiding Greek guerrillas by supplying arms and shelter. It cited government sanctioned radio support and territorial use as evidence, stating the help was known to the three governments.
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Albania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Mrs Truman and mother vacation in Colorado
Denver report indicates President Truman's wife and mother are spending time in Colorado on a vacation. Details are sparse with no additional names or locations provided.
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Mrs. Truman
Colorado
Denver
Truman
Colorado Toy
Pravda Denies U S Navy Spy Report As False
Pravda labeled U S State Department claims about Navy Lt. Robert Dreher as false contradicting McDermott’s account. The article cites Ambassador Smith as admitting Dreher’s alleged reception of military information and notes Dreher was arrested amid alleged secret document exchanges with a Soviet official.
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OSCOW
Pravda
United States State Department
Communist Party
State Department
Michael McDermott
Navy
Robert Dreher
Dreher
U. S
Russia
McDermott
Washington
Soviet Union
Walter B. Smith
Smith
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Oil City
Moscow
Odessa
Vishinsky
Russians Probe U S Firms for Strategic Data Across Midwest
U S Army officials confirm Russian agents seek basic information from American businessmen and public bodies in Wichita San Antonio and Rockford and nationwide. Letters from Soviet Germany fronts request plans maps directories brochures and other seemingly public data to aid potential attacks or invasion.
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Topeka
Kan
U. S
Washington
United Press
Midwest
Wichita
San Antonio
Texas
Rockford
United States
Europe
Germany
Chambers of Commerce
Soviet Germany
Leipzig
Music Reclaims Man His Symphony Lauded
Ernest Salisbury a 25 year old patient from skid row found purpose in a symphony created with Dr Ira Altshuler after rediscovering Tschaikowsky tunes. The outdoor state fair performance by the Detroit Symphony drew 14000 as the work received a thunderous ovation.
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Etrort
Ernest Salisbury
State Fairgrounds
Detroit Symphony
Salisbury
Ira Altshuler
Tschaikowsky
Young Firebugs Cause Downtown Blaze Tragedy
Two 9 year old Black youths were detained by juvenile authorities for a Sunday paper-fire in a vacant building basement that spread to junk and caused five deaths and 137 injuries. Police say they tried to extinguish it but failed. They are under Juvenile Court jurisdiction and housed in the county jail.
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Reno
L. R. Greeson
Battle Reported in Wallace Party Battle
Baltimore reports a clash within the Progressive party as Rexford Tugwell warns that discontent may steer the group. Tugwell fears certain leaders could seize control while noting uncertainty over Communist influence.
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Wallace
Baltimore
Baltimore Sun Today
Progressive Party
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Puerto Rico
Philadelphia
Washington
Howard Norton
Tugwell
Guard Suspect in Smuggling Benzenedrine to San Quentin
SAN QUENTIN Aug 20 UP A prison guard and a convict's wife were arrested in a bonzedrine smuggling case. The guard is Albert V. Perchert 27 El Cerrito and the woman Mrs Irene Tyler 30 Richmond wife of Virgil O Tyler who is jailed on bad check charges. Tyler was placed in solitary pending investigation. Perchert was arrested Wednesday leaving Mrs Tyler apartment with 20 cellophane packets of benzedrine. Mrs Tyler said her husband and many convicts needed the drug for asthma and hay fever.
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San Quentin
Alleg
Nay’ Hagen
Albert V. Perchert
el Cerrito
Irene Tyler
Richmond
Virgil O. Tyler
Tyler
Perchert
Japanese Transport Minister orders railway strikers back to work
Tokyo August 20 Transport Minister Seiichi Okada issued an ultimatum to 300 striking government railway workers on Hokkaido Island to return by tomorrow or be discharged. He alleged Communist leadership and said the strike tied up 80 000 tons of freight and cut train operations by about 15 percent.
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Tokyo
Seiichi Okada
Hokkaido Island
Okada
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