White spy network claims loom in diary excerpts
Senate internal security subcommittee leader Eastland cites Morgenthau diary passages as evidence of a "world wide commercial espionage system" linked to Harry Dexter White. He asserts White wielded growing power at the Treasury and kept a far reaching intelligence network, referencing 1943 Portugal and Bolivia items as "inside dope."
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Washington
Sen
Eastland
D.-Miss
Harry Dexter White
White
Treasury Department
Brawnell
House Un-American Activities Committee
Sundsy
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Subcommittee
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Treasury
Portugal
Bolivia
J. G. Sourwine
Sourwiner
Hopes Rise for Settling LAT LATS Tioup
Los Angeles transit workers enter a third week on strike as Oakland Key System employees approve a wage increase. LATLgn says the Oakland agreement offers a basis to find a mutually reasonable settlement for the current LATL strike.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Los Angeles Transit Lines
Oakland
AFL
An Latlign
Struck Mines Await New Wage Parley
Denver union headquarters reports peaceful picketing at three copper plants by 22,000 workers across 12 states as wage talks resume after Independence Day. The IUIMSW seeks 20 cent an hour raise plus fringe benefits from American Smelting & Refining, Kennicott, and Phelps Dodge. Anaconda remains unstruck as talks hover in suspension.
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Denver
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
American Smelting & Refining Co
Kennecott Copper Corp
Phelps-Dodge Copper Corp
Anaconda Co
Anaconaha
William G. Hoise
Butte, Mont
Harriman Rated High for Nomination in 1955 Contention
New York Governor Averell Harriman is viewed as a leading possibility for the 1955 Democratic presidential nomination. Carmine de Sapio, ally and New York secretary of state, says the race is not settled for any candidate and cites Harriman and Adlai Stevenson as contenders. He notes New York's delegation is expected to back Harriman.
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Washington
Carmine de Sapio
Averell Harriman
New York
DeSapio
Harriman
Adlai Stevenson
de Sapio
Byrd Sees Congress Gaining Added Rein Over Spending
Senator Byrd says a new budget plan could restore annual congressional review of appropriations, shifting from lump sums to yearly approvals for contracts like dams and ships. He notes carryover totals near 125 billion, with the debt limit as the current brake and warns against reduced economy by the administration. If cuts occur, tax reductions could follow in 1956 with a balanced budget.
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Byrd
Congress
Washington
D-Va
Eisenhower
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Senate Finance Committee
Virginian
Executive Departments
Treasury
Washington transit walkout drags into fourth day
In Washington a citywide transit strike entered its fourth day as AFL drivers press for a 25 cent hourly wage rise. Capital Transit Co. offered a six month extension of the old contract while talks continue with a key DC commission and company officials.
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Arbiington
Eis Ge
AFL
Nanitale Crostears
Hneec
Seeee Aneer Aera
District of Columbia
Capital Transit Co
Samuel Spencer
Los Angeles
U. S
Louis E. Wolfson
Senate
Wolfson
Sen. Morse
D-Ore
Capital Transit
Ous
Two Los Angeles Brothers Drown While Wading
Two brothers, Willie Henry Logan aged 12 and Charles Logan aged 8, drowned while wading in a pond during a holiday visit with relatives. They were sons of Mrs Elizabeth Logan of Los Angeles.
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Bernarding
Los Angeles
Willie Henry Logan
Charles
Elizabeth Logan
Dock Strike Ends as 170 Ships Idle Reopen Ports
Britain’s 18 000 waterfront strikers returned to docks after a six week stoppage froze about 170 ships at London Hull Manchester Liverpool Birkenhead Rochester and Garston. Factional rifts lingered between northern and southern unions while 20 000 men were idle at the peak. many blame the dispute with the General Workers Union for the outcome.
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London
Britain
Hull
Manchester
Liverpool
Birkenhead
Rochester
Garrston
National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union
Stevedore
Transport and General Workers Union
General Workers Union
Death Takes Vets Leader Atty Jack W Hardy
A heart attack killed Atty Jack W Hardy at age 52 in Los Angeles He was first national commander of the American Veterans of World War I He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1950 losing to Sam W Yorty He was Stanford educated and briefly deputy state attorney general in 1948 He later defended Betty Ferreri in a murder trial and Barbara Graham who was convicted in 1953 and executed at San Quentin in 1954
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Jack W. Hardy
Amgers
Hardy
Congress
Sam W. Yorty
California
Stanford University
Betty Ferreri
Barbara Graham
San Quentin
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Boys Funder
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Cherry Ave
Lakewend Blvd
Death
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Broadway
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Arcadia
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Wumtington Park
Studio City
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Ourbank
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