Condon Demands Hoover Apology Over Coplon Report
In Washington Dr Edward A Condon head of the National Bureau of Standards urged FBI Chief J Edgar Hoover to issue a personal apology for a secret Coplon trial report that smeared his wife Emile Condon He said Hoover must answer for alleged false and malicious information and criticized FBI tactics calling for a high level review by a professional board He did not rule out legal action if no apology was forthcoming and linked the report to his wife being named in evidence and a local businessman's death. Police continued investigations into the case.
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Washington
Edward A. Condon
National Bureau of Standards
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Condon
Hoover
Coplon
Federal
United Press
Phone Unions Vote to Merge C I O Groups
In Chicago on June 11 delegates representing about 90 000 C I O Telephone Workers Organizing Committee members voted 120 to 7 to unite with the Communications Workers of America another C I O union.
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Chicago
Telephone Workers Organizing Committee
The
Communications Workers of America
Silvery Grunion Run Draws Ten Thousand to Beaches
On last night’s high tide along beaches from here to Huntington Beach crowds of about 10,000 waited for the elusive silvery grunion. Hunters waded the surf though few exclaimed success as the run apparently failed to yield many grunion. Moonlight created a silvery glow on the sands while a 6.5 foot tide caused no notable harbor damage. Tonight’s expected grunion visit is from 9:49 to 10:45.
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Huntington Beach
Foreign chiefs meet in Paris to end Berlin deadlock
Paris June 11 AP Russian and American foreign ministers arranged a dinner after talks with Andrei Vishinsky. Acheson took top advisers on Germany as Vienna and Moscow heatedly debated a Berlin rail strike. Berlin officials welcomed a wage deal for strikers and a possible East-West trade pact as Big Four ministers pushed for agreement by Monday.
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Paris
Andrei Vishinsky
Moscow
Dean Acheson
Germany
Vishinsky
Kremlin
Acheson
Dr. Philip
C. Jessup
Robert Murphy
Charles E. Bohlen
Robert Schuman
Ernest Bevin
Berlin
Frank L. Howley
U. S
British soldiers to wear collars and ties on all occasions
The War Office decreed that all British soldiers must wear collars and ties at every occasion including battle. Previously enlisteds wore collars and ties only off duty.
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London
War Office
Klan Initiation Parade in Tallahassee Florida
In Tallahassee on June 11 more than 240 sheet-robed Klan members completed a woodland initiation for Florida recruits. A 67-car quiet parade with unmasked members passed city police and state patrol, who watched closely. The leading car bore a white Ku Klux Klan flag with K.K.K. in red, the American flag, and an illuminated Red Cross.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Southern Klan, Inc
Hotel Greeters Begin Registration For National Convention
Hotel greeters start registering today for the national convention. Readers are directed to Page B1 for details while Page B1 covers Bac colour notes on the commencement week exercises. The refinery visit by throngs is highlighted on Page 8-1.
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Union Oil Co
Bac
Guards Rescue Boy in Nick of Time at Zuma Beach
Lifeguards on June 11 at Zuma Beach California pulled Byron Stockton 16 from off the water after a dramatic rescue. He received an hour of treatment and recovered. The incident followed reports of a significant gift of 1,000,000 dollars from Alfred P Sloan Jr and other large gifts totaling over five million dollars linked to Massachusetts institutions.
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Zuma Beach
Calif
Byron
Stockton
Los Angeles
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Massachus
Marchetts Institute of Technology
Robert
Local Newspaper Page Index Shows Wide Coverage Areas
A scanned page lists where to find features in the issue. It outlines sections across pages including automobiles aviation bridge business classifieds a crossword and editorials with specific page numbers for local news luncheons new colony nearby communities pictures public forum radio log realty and oil news school sports theaters and women’s activities.
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Naw Colony
Polio Specialists Ordered to San Angelo
San Angelo Texas June 11 The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis tonight ordered an epidemic team of specialists into San Angelo a city where the nations first severe polio outbreak of 1943 is raging
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San Angelo
Texas
The
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Spe
West
Deputies raid binge. reefers seized near San Pedro
Deputies raided a suspected narcotics binge late yesterday near San Pedro arresting ten youths. Richard M Leona, 19, jailed on suspicion of furnishing heroin at four dollars per injection. Officers found heroin, marijuana and paraphernalia in multiple locations, with seeds potentially worth a million on the underworld market.
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San Pedro
Richard M. Leona
Big Canyon Rd
Jack A. Jones
Leona
Gilbert Leona
Santa Cruz St
Richard
Joe G. Aulla
N. Bandini
Kenneth K. Shaw
15Th St
Carl L. Ferrera
14Th St
Robert D. Earls
O'Farrell
James A. Chrisman
Eighth St
Pacific Ave
Teddy J. Platis
Eighth St.s
Philp W. Madsen
24Th St
Thomas Javier
Sixth St
Jones
Dwight Smith
Tom Farrell
Richard Leona
Shaw
Earl
Smith
Auila
Mexico
France
Lee Tracy Wife Found Poisoned in Hotel Suite
New York June 1 Helen Lee Tracy wife of actor Lee Tracy was in critical condition at St Clare's Hospital after being found unconscious in a Hotel Astor suite. Police records and a doctor indicate suspected barbiturate poisoning amid a recent illness under care. Tracy said he was downstairs when she fell ill and noted she had been under medical care recently.
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New York
Helen Lee Tracy
Lee ‘Tracy
St Clare's Hospital
Jiming
Tracy
Hotel Astor Suite
Mickey Helps Cure Alcoholics With Mickey Finn
In Atlantic City on June 11 two Seattle doctors described using pentothal to treat alcoholism. The method hypnotizes patients to reveal triggers for drinking and is reported to help about 58 percent of 479 patients over three years, especially the hardest cases.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Mickey Finn
Seattle
American Medical Association
Tere
Frederick Lemere
Paul O’hallaren
Shadel Sanitarium
Alhambran Wins on Jr. Chamber Presidency Race
California industrial relations expert Clifford Cooper edged John M. Hamrick to win the U S Junior Chamber of Commerce presidency at the Colorado Springs convention. Paul Reams of Long Beach was named an outstanding national director. The Jaycees adopted anti veterans pension and tidal land resolutions and Cooper pledged to focus on democracy and the free economy.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Jaycees
California
Clifford Cooper
Cooper
Alhambra
John M. Hamrick
Gaffney
U. S
Louisiana
Texas
German Nazi? Soviet claims atomic bomb asserted
In Munich on June 11, a Soviet zone professor told a Communist audience that the Soviet Union definitely has an atomic bomb. Prof Victor Klemperer of Halle University spoke to a Bavarian Communist cultural committee meeting as reported by the German agency Dena.
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Munich
Germany
Soviet Union
Dena
Victor Klemperer
Halle University
Bavarian Communist Party
Survivors, bodies recovered in Alaska fishing boat disaster
Five men drown when the Sunset capsizes near False Pass on the Alaska Peninsula. Four survivors are injured, three bodies recovered, two missing. Survivors and bodies moved toward Kodiak. weather will determine air transport to Anchorage. Victims include Captain Nick Mardesich and son Tony, and state Rep Snohomish County.
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Battle
Washington
False Pass
Alaska Peninsula
Ansernoneres
Coast Guard
Kodiak
Anchorage
Florence Horgan
Nick Mardesich
Los Angeles
Everett
Wash
The
Mardesichs Immediate
Capt. Mardesich
Tony P. Mardesich
Snohomish
Anton .R. Morrowich
Cook
Seattle
Vincent Viastelica
Frank Suryan
Anacortes
August Paul Mardesich
University of Washington Law School
Joseph Mardesich
Seattle University
Nick Mardesich Jr
Antone Mardesich
San Pedro
Mardesich
Mardesich Sr
Pacific American Fisheries Co
Bellingham
A.G. Tarrant
Alaska
Mary Elta Rock
Cape Paneos
Unimak Island
Truman silent on 1952 run hat in ring
President Truman returned to Washington after a two day reunion with World War I buddies in Little Rock Arkansas and dodged a definite answer on whether his hat is in the 1952 race He teased reporters by lifting his tan fedora saying the ring is a long way off He warned that the cause of peace remains under threat from Communism and outlined a three point plan for lasting world peace. His daughter Margaret greeted him with a blue stuffed donkey as he arrived at National Airport and led Battery D through cheering crowds in Little Rock before returning to the Marion Hotel for further remarks.
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Washington
Truman
Little Rock
Ark
Independence
Monroe Johnson
Harry
Margaret
National Airport
United States
Senate
Battery D
Marion
Brewing Strike Ends in New York After 10 Weeks
New York June 11 union and company officials announced a settlement ending a 10 week strike by workers against 11 New York City breweries and distributing companies. The agreement is expected to restore full production shortly.
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New York
New York City
Sixty Balts Escape Hounding by Reds on Death Ship
Sixty Baltic refugees fleeing Soviet pressure boarded an overloaded Briljning ship off Stenungsund on Sweden’s west coast. Police halted the vessel for overloading and poor condition. 30 Balts were taken ashore while the rest continued toward Canada with scant provisions.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Russia
Canada
Briljintin
Stenungsund
Douglas to Climb 18 934-Foot Peak
Supreme Court Justice William Douglas plans a summer ascent of Mount Demaved in northern Iran with his son. The National Geographic Society notes the 18 934-foot summit is the highest in southwestern Asia, taller than any European peak by 400 feet, during visits to Lebanon and Israel.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William ©. Douglas
Iran
Persia
Lebanon
Israel
National Geographic Society
Asia
Europe
Wildcat Strike Hits British Rail Lines
London Sunday June 12 rail traffic between London and the north disrupted for the fourth consecutive Sunday by a wildcat strike of rebellious trainmen.
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British
London
Britain
Rough Sea Plays Tricks Barges Disappear Near Alaska
Three barges in tow of the Kotzebue vanished in a storm near Bogoslof Island off Alaska as the vessel sought landfall. The Kotzebue reported bearings after separation and headed north to rejoin the barges. Coast Guard and geodetic survey data note the island’s shifting position over time.
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Utch Harbor
Alaska
Goslor Pena
Kotzebue
Coast Guard
Bogoslof Island
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Socialite Army Officer Dies in Livermore Crash
In Livermore a body tentatively identified as 2nd Lt Reginald Burbank Jr a New York bluebook member was found in a station wagon that veered off Highway 50 plunging 100 feet. Berkeley residents Clarence Bates J L Halliss and W S Barnett reported the wreck to CHP as debris spread over the embankment.
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Livermore
Reginald Burbank Jr
New York
Highway 50
Berkeley
Clarence Bates
J. L. Halliss
WS. Barnett
California Highway Patrol
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