Bell Aircraft espionage probe targets Russ request
The House Un-American Activities Committee plans hearings on alleged Russian efforts to obtain Bell Airacobra secrets at the Buffalo Bell Aircraft plant. Witnesses from Buffalo and Niagara Falls were subpoenaed, including Mrs. Joseph Franey, a Bell librarian, and Loren Haas of Buffalo, with others possible. The Russians reportedly talked to three locals who fed information to U.S. security.
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Associated Press
House
Bell Aircraft
un-American Activities Committee
Washington
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
N. C
Bell
Joseph Franey
Loren Haas
United States
Bell Airacobra Jones
Moscow
U.S
Russia Requests Sweden Return Air Pilot
Russia asks Sweden to return a fighter pilot who fled the Soviet Union three weeks ago. The pilot sought political refugee status in Sweden. The Swedish Foreign Office said no action could be taken until the state alien commission decides the flier’s status. The pilot crash landed near Stockholm and was detained. He cited resentment toward the Soviet regime.
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Stockholm
Russia
Sweden
Soviet Union
Swedish
State Alien Commission
Secrecy on A bomb stockpile may be lifted says Senator
Senator McMahon argues disclosure of America's atomic bomb stockpile is needed to properly assess the Atomic Energy Commission. He warns public and Congress must know stockpile size, while Hickenlooper resists publicity. McMahon pushes study as Lilienthal faces ongoing questioning.
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VV Ashington
America
Atomic Energy ‘Commission
Sen. McMahon
D.-Conn
McMahon
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Sen. Hickenlooper
Iowa
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
Hickenlooper
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
Fruman
Truman
Lilienthal
Connecticut
Lilienthal Monay
Commission
FBI
University of Chicago Argonne Laboratory
Turkish naval officers to visit Navy Base today
Highlights from the local front note a high-ranking Turkish naval delegation as today’s guest at the Navy Base. Other items include a harbor subsidence campaign meeting by 25 civic groups tomorrow and a Marine Stadium event by Girl Scout Mariners from four counties concluding the sixth annual gam.
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Navy
Southland
Marine Stadium
State-wide Hunt for Long Beach Arsonist Assassin
The Long Beach couple Theodore Raymond aged 46 and Myrtle 44 were asleep at 1921 W Lincoln St when a gas ignited attack burned them critically. Police issued an all points bulletin for a suspect tied to threatening notes and a feud between families. He has a prior record for theft and burglary and was seen near the scene Friday night. Raymond’s condition is serious with his wife given only a 50 50 chance of recovery.
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Long Beach
Theodore Raymond
Myrtle
W. Lincoln St
Iinto
Felice
Seaside Hospital
Raymond
Marchers Protest Jailing of Reds
A New York crowd of about 500 marched outside the federal house of detention to protest the jailing of three of 11 top U.S. Communists. Wives and children joined the demonstration as John Gates, Harry Winston, and Gus Hall were ordered imprisoned after a 20 week trial for conspiracy to advocate violent overthrow.
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New York
Federal House of Detention
U.S
John Gates
Harry Winston
Gus Hall
Gates
The
Daily Worker
Wimston
Hall
Victor Barge Seriously Injured in Car Crash
Victor Barge, 40, Danish concert pianist and entertainer, was reported in serious condition after a head on collision near Victorville that occurred while returning from a Las Vegas nightclub engagement. The incident involved another vehicle and happened last night.
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San Bernardino
Victor Barge
Las Vegas
Nev
Victorville
Oakland's 99 Establishes June 4 Record
The hot dry conditions across California set June 4 all time highs in the Bay Area San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. Oakland led with a 99 degree reading Fresno 97 Sacramento 96 San Francisco official 92 while unofficial towns hit 116. Three drownings and two mill worker deaths tied to the heat and wildfires plus scattered grass fires and a crowded beach scene marked the day.
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United Press
Farallon Islands
Coest
Oakland
Margie Chappell
San Franciscan
San Francisco
Beat ‘Trap Canyon
Monterey
George Wyrick
Carl Jershkl
Los Angeles County
Griffith Park
Veterans
Rodger Young Village
Gardena
Taglewood
Pasadena
San Gabriel
Vernon
Bay Region
Long Beach
Weather Bureau
San Diego
Eureka
Los Angeles
Indio
el Centro
South Atlantic Coast
Ohio Valley
Plateau States
Wyoming
Colorado
Kansas
Bulgarian Premier Dimitrov Ill in Russia
A Tass dispatch from Sofia reports Bulgarian Premier Georgi Dimitrov, receiving medical treatment in Russia, is afflicted with sugar diabetes, liver subnormality, and other health complications.
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London
UPA Tass
Sofia
Georgi Dimitrov
Russia
Big Four Make Little Progress in Berlin Talks
In Paris the Big Four foreign ministers ended a four and a half hour session with no real progress on Berlin. An American source noted only broad agreement exists between Russia and the West. In Berlin, West Berlin railway strikers urged splitting the system into east and west offices to end the two week walkout while West mayor Ernst Reuter offered to mediate and return 14 000 workers to work.
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Paris
Berlin
Russia
West
U. S
Dean Acheson
Andrei Vishinsky
Vishinsky
David K. Bruce
Charles Bohlen
State Department
Vladimir Flaviov
West Berlin
Willy Kreikemeyer
Kreikemeyer
Ernst Reuter
West Marks
Four Air Force fliers die in bomber crash north of Denver
Four Air Force fliers died when a B26 medium bomber crashed four miles east of Loveland Colorado in a blinding rainstorm. The Green SC based aircraft was en route to Great Falls Montana after a refuel stop at Lowry Field Denver. Pieces of wreckage were scattered up to two feet long and one body found under a torn parachute.
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Loveland
Colo
Here
Air Force
Airera Erie
Green SC
Great Falls
Mont
Lowry Base
Denver
State Highway Patrol
Eisler Escape Ship Under Scrutiny in New York
The Polish motorship Batory arrived in New York with Communist Gerhart Eisler aboard and armed guards surrounded the ship. Immigration officers questioned passengers and crew, sending 111 passengers to Ellis Island for passport checks and bond issues amid suspicions of Eisler’s escape.
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Eisler
N ™ York
Gerhart Eisler
New York
Ellis Island
Immigration and Customs
U. S
Pier 88
Hudson River
Germany
Ells Island
Washington
Josef Winiewicz
Batory
Winiewicz
Direct Attack Blasts Germs Through Chest-wall Tunnel
Dr Gustav Maurer of Davos describes a lung tunneling method to treat tuberculosis. A seven millimeter tunnel is enlarged to 18 millimeters using sea moss, gauze packs and a drug mix of streptomycin and para aminosalicyclic acid. In 38 cases since 1949 germs were cleared in about 17 days, with US testing planned.
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Tlantic City
N. J
American “College of Chest Physicians
Gustav Maurer
Davos
Switzerland
Maurer
Maurers
Edwin A. Levine
Chicago
United States
Pilot Dies After Plane Collision Off San Clemente Island
Lt. (j.g.) George Owen Cooke Jr., 26, of Waikiki Hawaii, bailed from a damaged Grumman F6F after a midair collision with Lt. (g.) K L. Nelson at 15,000 feet during target runs. Despite radioed bailout help, Cooke failed to deploy his chute and perished in the Pacific off San Clemente Island. Nelson landed safely nearby as Coast Guard searches continued.
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Naval Reserve
Hawaii
Pacific Ocean
San Clemente Island
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Navy
J.g
George Owen Cooke Jr
Ethel Givens Cooke
Seaside Beach
Waikiki
Oahu
Wifeh
Mary Jane Moffett
Nancy Jane
George Owen Iit
Los Angeles
K L. Nelson
San Clemente Air Strip
San Clemente
Naval
Cooke
Nelson
Coast Guard
Donnie Woodard Emerges From Coma in Vernon
Vernon Texas June 4 Donnie Woodard a 10 year old farm boy who suffered 70 percent burns from gasoline was briefly conscious this morning and whispered to his father that he felt fine He later fell back into a coma after a blood transfusion doctors expressed amazement at his survival and noted the boy was too weak to blow his harmonica as he wished to before his condition worsened
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Vernon
Texas
Donnie Woodard
Donnie
Magnificent Refloated After Grounding Off Nova Scotia
HM. C. S. Magnificent, an aircraft carrier returning from a training cruise along the coast, was refloated near the Nova Scotia coast less than three hours after going aground. There was apparently little damage and the ship headed for Halifax.
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Halifax
HM. C. S
Magnificent
Nova Jete
Apne
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Speier and
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Charleston
S. C
Marian Maran
A. P. Wiraphoto
Desert Breeze
Los Alamitos
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