Nine scientists back AEC competency and progress
Nine scientists on the Atomic Energy Commission advisory panel issued a statement to Congress praising the AEC as having a sound forward looking program. J. Robert Oppenheimer, panel chair, said the members unanimously endorsed the report noting the civilian takeover in 1946 and progress from stagnation. He defended isotope exports and noted no isotopes have gone to Russia, but some to Finland and Norway.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Atomic Energy Commission
Advisory Council
Joint
Congressional Atomic Committee
U. S
AEC
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Commission
Robert Oppenheimer
Congressional
Army
Oppenheimer
Russia
Finland
Norway
Vandenberg
R.mich
Miliary Maison
Ppenheimer
Betty Grable Tops Paid Women in A S Page A-2
Celebrity earnings spark headline in the A S section noting Betty Grable as the highest paid woman. Local nostalgia features and cross references to town pages A-7 and A-11 hint at familiar sections and recurring columnists.
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Betty Grable
A. S
MacArthur Accuses Soviets of Disorder in Japan
In Tokyo on June 13 General Douglas MacArthur charged the Soviet Union with inciting disorder and violence in Japan and employing deceptive demagoguery. He criticized a Soviet letter by Lt Gen K N Derevyanko for misrepresenting facts and aiding labor suppression while praising human rights.
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Tokyo
Mac.Arthur
Russia
Japan
MacArthur
Mac ‘Arthur
K. N. Derevyanko
Allied Council For
Schacht Cleared by German Court
A German denazification court in Stuttgart acquitted Dr Hjalmar Schacht former Reichsbank president and eight year labor camp sentence was nullified amid postwar legal actions in June.
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Schacht
Bby
Stuttgart
Germany
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank Presi i K
Stocks Fall to 4 year Low in Selling Wave
Wall Street tumbled to a four year low as selling swept the market with prices across the board dropping. The total loss in market value exceeded one billion dollars with many issues setting postwar or multi year lows and volume surpassing one million shares. Major declines hit U S Steel Chrysler Sears Roebuck Du Pont Kennecott and Standard Oil among others as deterioration in business signals and coal miners walkout rumors weighed on sentiment.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Reading
Skelly O11
duPant
Associated Press
Wall Street
U. S. _ Steel
Chrysler
Sears Roebuck
Kennecott
Copper
du Pont
International Paper
Santa Fe
Southern Railway
N. J
Soldiers Hurt in N Y Shooting
An unidentified man on Henry Hudson Parkway fired on an Army command car early today wounding two soldiers from the Army Transportation Corps at West Point. Cecil Boyer and Harry Manzer, both 25, suffered superficial bullet wounds to the left shoulder and back respectively.
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New York
Army
Henry Hudson Parkway
Sets
Cecil Boyer
Harry Manzer
Army Transportation Corps
West Point
Boyer
Three Kansans Die in Plane Crash Near Wichita Airport
A light cabin plane piloted by Russ Prater of Wichita crashed and burned near the municipal airport killing three occupants. Identified by Dr. Lang Bowman as Russ Prater, Austin M. Cowan, a Wichita lawyer, and his wife Dr Edwina Cowan, a child specialist. Cowan had served on the Kansas Supreme Court from June 8, 1948, to the November election.
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Wichita
San
UPA
Russ Prater
Lang Bowman
Sedgewick County
Prater
Austin M. Cowan
Edwina Cowan
Cowan
Kansas Supreme Court
Conquerors Fail to Reach German Trade Agreement
Berlin dispatch reports four occupying powers ended all German trade and transport talks with no agreement. Russia resisted key points, delaying east west trade and Berlin reunification. A 24 day strike by German union leaders seeks resolution, with a referendum to decide continuation. Terms outlined by US Britain France and accepted by Russia include payment of wages in west marks and protections for union leaders, while the strike has disrupted rail delivery and stalled an eastward accord.
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Berlin
Germany
Council of Foreign Ministers
Paris
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Benin
Frank L. Howley
West Berlin
USM Gutignee
Foreign Ministers Council
New York
Council
Austria
Marshal ‘Tito
Yugoslavia
Moscow
Andrei
Vishinsky
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Four-power Parley Nearing Pacifica Accord
ARIS reports four foreign ministers near agreement on a pacific accord. Sources say efforts aim to resolve tensions among the four powers. The anticipated accord would shape regional diplomacy and security arrangements in the coming months.
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ARIS
El Segundo Officer Wounded in High School Safecracking
A Torrance man and an El Segundo officer were wounded as a safecracker pair pried open Torrance High School and El Segundo High School safes. Officer Alex Haddock shot and killed James Manley, while Arnold Moore was captured. The bandits escaped with about $1000. Haddock is recovering in Hawthorne hospital in fair condition.
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Alex Haddock
el: Segundo
el Segundo
James T. Manley
Vermont Ave
Torrance
Yegg
Sam, Potts
Haddock
Haw
Thorne
Johns Stroh
Torrance High School
Strohe
Expenditures Group Chief to Introduce Cutback in Congress
The Senate expenditures committee approved a resolution directing President Truman to trim 5 to 10 percent off funds voted by Congress for executive agencies. It could save $2.0 to $4.0 billion in the next fiscal year, aiding a balanced budget without new taxes. The plan targets all executive agencies but not Congress or the judiciary.
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Ashington
Truman
Congress
Senate Expenditures Committee
McClellan
D.-Ark
Judiciary
Senate
Peureah
Privilege to Quiz Witnesses on Red Status Is Upheld
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled congressional committees may compel witnesses to state if they are Communists, upholding contempt convictions for Lawson and Trumbo. They face one year in jail and $1000 fines, with appeals to the Supreme Court planned as other figures await trial. The decision touches broad constitutional rights amid ongoing Capitol Hill debates.
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Washington
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Congressional Committee
John Howard Lawson
Dalton Trumbo
Lawson
Trumbo
U.S
House un-American Activities Committee
Trump
Supreme Court
Robert W. Kenny
Circuit Court
Lawson-Trumbo
Ring Lardner
Albert Maltz
Alvah Samuel Ornitz
Herbert Biberman
Edward Smytryss
Robert Adrian Scott
Lester Cole
Capitol Hill
C. B. Baldwin
Henry A. Wallace
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Bob Hoekle
Frances Elaine Noll
Congress Told Group
Werean
Tallahassee
Fla
Florida Highway Patrol
Prass
N. Y
EI Segundo
Strong Thug
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