Defense in Coplon Case Opens, Writers' Conviction Upheld
Defense opens in the Judith Coplon espionage trial as Archibald Palmer seeks to dismiss charges and calls for witnesses. In New York, Alger Hiss and Hollywood figures surface in related cases, with Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson losing an appeal on contempt of Congress.
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Archibald Palmer
Justice Department
IU Zvusdie Ig
Palmer
Washington Court
Edward A. Condon
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
New York
Alger Hiss
Mra.j. Whittaker Chambers
John Gates
Daily Worker
Vine S. Court of Appeals
U. S. Court of Washington
Valentine A. Gubrichev
FBI Fbex
FBI
William E. Foley
Foreign Agents Registration and Internal Security
Frederic March
Hiss
State Department
Chambers
Whittaker Chambers
Esther
Maryland
Lie Discounts War Chances is U.N. on Job
New York June 14 AP Trygve Lie secretary general of the United Nations predicted no war of importance will be started while the UN General Assembly is in session. He said the Assembly gives smaller nations a chance to act as checks and balances upon power and conflicts of the great nations. He spoke to Rotary International’s 40th annual convention emphasizing the value of the Assembly. He warned the international policeman lacks a club or gun to enforce peace. He commended world faith in the ID but noted it has not fully endured globally. The Rotary session will feature Americas Town Meeting of the Air tonight.
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New York
Trygve Lie
United Nations
U. N. General Assembly
Sesena
Rotary International
U. M
Rotarians
Lie
U. Nis
Iting
Hawaii Harbor Bosses Accept Unloading Offer
In Honolulu on June 14 conditional harbor employers accepted ILWU and Warehousemen’s Union terms to unload food and feed from ships in harbor deemed essential by the governor’s emergency committee. The agreement excludes nonstevedoring issues. Matson Line’s Lurline was rejected from sailing. The union offered to let Lurline return as a relief ship, with future sailings to be settled by arbitration. Employers cited no strike against shipping companies and reiterated refusals to arbitrate wage and work terms for Lurline.
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Onoluly
Hawaii
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s ‘Union
Havwai
L. W. UL
Matson Line
Honolulu
Lurline Waterbird
Women Win Civic War Over Incinerator Dispute in Uniontown
In Uniontown Pennsylvania on June 14 UM city officials faced 100 angry housewives at the incinerator plant. After a three day dispute over an odoriferous smoke the women agreed to protest with a picket line blocking garbage deliveries. Charles Keighley Jr represented the women and accepted health and safety department proposals. The protest ended with move to halt future garbage dumping and a rat extermination campaign. Meanwhile in another town incident Sylvia Edmondson a 42 year old operator was fined $3 for obstructing an officer and orderly conduct after removing chalk marks from her car tires during a parking dispute.
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Tniontown
Charles Keighley Jr
Conn A. E. Francis
Department of Health and Safety
Sylvia Edmondson
C. O. Williams
Willams
Beavera Meadows Water Supply Assured After Aid
Beavera Meadows residents gain temporary relief as borough agrees to assume water bills and receive emergency supply from Hazleton City Water Authority. Previously the Independent Water Company faced nonpayment issues and service was halted when its reservoir ran dry. Health Officer Thomas Williams links caverns and rock shifts to altered underground water flow.
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Hazleton
Beavera Meadows
Hazleton City
Thomas Williams
Beaver Meadows
Checks Four Up Three-man Combine DALLAS
Dallas report details a three man Negro run combine dealing hot checks. One man was arrested at his home and another was sought after by detectives. Conflicting statements show tension about responsibility and the corporation’s control.
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Dallas
Iatroney
Bob Abbott
George Wiliamson
Williamson
Man Drowned by Infuriated Bull Near Theresa
Melvin Calhoun, 37, died when he grabbed a rampaging bull by its horns to drive it from a pasture and was pulled into the Indian River. The bull swam to shore while Calhoun vanished in midstream as two other men watched. The incident occurred on a farm near a Jefferson County community.
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Theresa
Melvin Calhoun
Indian River
Calhoun
Jefferson County
Child recovering from beating in Yakima
In Yakima Washington on June 14 Joyce Minion a 43 year old girl is recovering after alleged beating by her father Walter E Minion 41 who is held on an open charge while doctors assess survival chances. Deputies Ryon and Pottratt report the child was unconscious in a Davenport for over a day and arrived at a hospital with swollen eyes and a severely damaged skull according to early x ray and clinical notes.
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Hollywood
Ring Lardner Jr
Albert ‘Maltz
Alvah Bessie
Samuel Ortl
Herbert Bi
Edward Dmytryk
Robert Adrian Scott
Washington
Lester Cole
Lawson
Trumbo
Guadal
Arlington National
Preme Court
Limga Beach
Guadalcanal
Yakima
Wash
Joyce Minion
Walter E. Minion
Jack Runyon
Lester Pottratt
Minton
Indow
Ivy
Joyce
Oh, What a Beautiful Hen Okla City June 14
Oklahoma City dispatch reports Laverne Sandy’s hen causing a stir during a local event on June 14. The unusual spectacle drew attention as a bird became the day’s talking point.
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Oklahoma
City
Laverne Sandy
Eisenhower Opposes Broad Federal Education Aid Plan
Washington June 14 AP General Dwight D Eisenhower appears to block Truman era federal school aid by urging aid only to states unable to raise taxes and under strict formulas to prevent abuse or federal interference. His letter to Rep Gwinn signals a split within the GOP and influences House Labor Committee action.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
Congress
Columbia University
Military Chiefs of Staff
Eisenhower
Gwinn
R.N. Y
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House
Taft
Ohio
Wherry
Nebraska
Martin
Massachusetts
Picnic of Topeka egg processor sickens nearly two hundred
UPOEA Kan June 14 Almost 200 persons were stricken with food poisoning at a company picnic of a Topeka egg processor. The illness hit rapidly after supper as about 300 attendees and families watched, with officials tenting samples to identify the cause. J G Neville company president among those ill, doctors and Red Cross aided, hospitals crowded, preliminary verdict enteritis rather than botulism, recovery likely in 24 to 48 hours.
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Upoeeka
Kan
H. L. Clark
Clark
J. G. Neville
Red Cross
Watt
Western Air Lines Adds Two Daily San Francisco Flights
Western Air Lines announces two more daily flights out of San Francisco, boosting service to seven daily trips. The Rapeles will begin Thvaradagy as the new schedule expansion, elevating overall passenger capacity and flight availability.
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San Francisco
Western Air Lines
Front for Los Angeles finance firm linked to crime syndicate
June 14 Los Angeles The Governor's Commission on Organized Crime identifies a loan company operating as a syndicate front under the alias 33 Town Iron. The roguish outfit, named Guarantee Finance and others, allegedly ran a vast telephonic setup and kept ledgers showing figures like 31,200,068.15 for 1948 under the word take and 925,976.40 under pay. Witnesses testified about the firm’s records seized by authorities and named principals including Robey and four partners.
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Ls Angeles
Governor's Commission On Organized Crime
Guarantee Finance Go
Ing
Jetter
Warren ‘Olney
Public Utilities
Commis
Saded Seaghi
Juded An Alpha
Tha-Ayndics
Lsted
Joansome Harry Sackman
Kobey
Guarantee Finance Co. I
Phillip Coats Albert Kogus
Harry Sheleman
Boo
Robey
Mother-in-law testifies in Babich killing trial
Milwaukee, June 14. Mrs. Katherine Birmingham testified against Milton Babich, 38, accused of killing her daughter Patricia to conceal an out of wedlock pregnancy. She described finding Babich and Patricia's sister Kathleen in the house as Patricia disappeared and said two buttons were missing from Patricia's blouse when her body was found in the Milwaukee River.
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Milwaukee
Katherine Birmingham
Milton Babich
Patricia
Milton
Kathleen
Davenport
Babich
Milwaukee River
Mra Birmingham
Inlaw
Kathleeen
Ion
William McCauley
Migrant children in Texas urged to attend school
The League of United Latin American Citizens plans initiation to oppose pro peonage practices as reports claim children of migratory laborers in Texas are being kept from schooling and forced to work.
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San -Antonio
Texas
League of United Latin-American Citizens
Romant ic Q E D Students to Wed Over Heredity Argumen t
Seattle June 14 A microbiologist and premedic student from the Washington campus will marry tomorrow to settle a scientific argument on heredity. Prieilla Tona Tomlinson, 30, and Gare ner Hugh Tandy, 24, blue eyed, have debated whether brown or blue eyes predominate in offspring.
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Seattle
Prieilla
Tona Tomlinson
Eve Nagh
Hugh Tandy
Garener
Ben
Cty
Washington
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