Hurley Attacks Yalta Policy in Senate Inquiry
Former Secretary of War Hurley criticizes the Yalta agreement and U S foreign policy since World War II. He claims secrecy betrayed the Atlantic Charter, condemns Acheson and State Department, and says Stalin was not pressing for concessions. Hurley cites dangers to liberty, China’s fate, and urges a return to principles of individual liberty and strong American power.
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White House
Forrestal
Bethesda
MacArthur
Hurley
Emmet
Rosie) O'Donnell
Far Eastern Air Force
David C. Barr
China
Hoover
Roosevelt
F. C
Yalta
Acheson
State Department
Japan
America
United States
Stalin
Balkan
Poland
Rhine
Scores Acheson
U. S
Churchill
Britain
Russia
Russsia
Manchuria
Dairen
Port Arthur
Germany
Herley
Korea
Patrick Henry
British Foreign Office
Tam
Jhely
Fdr
Tehran
Iran
Burley
Winston Churchill
Alger Hiss
Truman
Adm
Oscar C. Badger
U. S.S
North China
Badger
JCS
Joint Chiefs of Staff
U. N
Sen
Byrd
D.va
Mapes Tells Slaying Wife With Hammer
Police said Barney Lee Mapes after 39 hours of questioning admitted killing his estranged wife Viola with a hammer. Decomposed body found in Topanga Canyon. Mapes described an argument over car papers and money with the handover of a revolver, then killing her with blows and a claw hammer. He led officers to bloodstained evidence in a garage wall hiding place. Mapes claimed motive included love for his children despite enmity and his wife living with another man.
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Barney Lee Mapes
Viole
Topanga Canyon
Los Angeles
Viola
Lice Seueeataree
Wee Ryan
Uae
al. Ortiz
Stewart
Mapes
Lilly
Barney Lee Jr
Willie
Charles French
MacArthur Refuses to Testify Again in Senate Probe
General Douglas MacArthur asserts the full facts remain unclear due to presidential orders and his own role in actions leading to his relief. He cites silenced witnesses, urges inclusion of bimonthly UN reports, and defends his views on testimony from White House discussions and campaign interpretations.
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Gm Omar .N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
White House
Mac
Arthurs Bradley
Bradley
Acheson
Truman
Russell
MacArthur
Senator Russel
Senate
Fells
Certai
Virginia
United Nations
Far East Command
Dogulas MacArthur
Couple Convicted in Swindle Case
Stockton June 20 SPI A Lodi couple convicted in an eight state swindle netting about 300000 face sentencing June 27. Jury found Reuben B Wietz former president of Modesto Dairy Products Inc guilty on 10 counts grand theft two forgery and two violations of the corporate securities act. Alice Wietz convicted on two forgery counts. Walter Golding acquitted. The firm held a Chicago franchise to market and lease ice cream machinery and products in eight western states. Twenty seven witnesses testified during the seven week trial.
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Stockton
SPI A. Lodi
Superior Court
Reuben B. Wietz
Modesto Dairy Products, Inc
Alice
Walter Golding
Los Angeles
Taylorfreeze Corp
Chicago
Westzrence
FBI Seizes More U.S. Red Leaders in Smith Act Roundup
Federal agents arrested eleven top Communist leaders across New York City and suburbs, charging them under the 1940 Smith Act. The roundup targeted party officials, writers, educators, and activists with roles in the national and New York Communist apparatus. Suspects include Israel Amter, Marion Bachrach, Isidore Begun, Alexander Bittelman, and Elizabeth Flynn, among others.
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Communist Party
U. S
Hoover
New York
Smith
Supreme Court
McGrath
FBI
Ilustice Department
Jazainer
Tt Yle
Justice Jackson
Jackson
Wholeourt
Isil
Israel Amter
Friends of Soviet “Russia
United States
Denver
Colo
Marion Maxwell Abt Bachrach
New York City
Defense Commission
Chicago
Isidore Begun
The
Bronx
Civil Rights Congress
Begun
Newspaper Called Best Ad Medium
Denver observers were told that newspapers remain the premier advertising medium. Harold Barnes of the American Newspaper Publishers Association said papers deliver local reach and a common community denominator unmatched by magazines radio or television.
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Denver
Advertising Association of the West
Harold Barnes
Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Violinist Szigeti Wins Citizenship
Hungarian born violinist Joseph Szigeti was admitted to U S citizenship by federal judge Paul J McCormick after a hearing. He faced and denied charges that he belonged to subversive organizations and cleared the way to naturalization in Los Angeles on June 20.
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Los Angeles
Joseph Szigeti
U. S
Paul J. McCormick
Szigei
Weinstock Led Communist Party Members Named Sought
Weinstock a naturalized American with Hungarian roots and former Michigan party secretary, born in Russia and U S Navy veteran. Four others sought by Justice Department include Fred Fine 27 Chicago native and party public affairs head in Jackson Heights. James E Jackson Jr 36 Richmond Va native and southern regional director. William N Marron 49 Flushing NY naturalized Russian and NY state executive secretary. Sidney Steinberg 36 Jackson Heights Lithuanian naturalized and assistant national labor secretary.
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Daily Worker
George Blake Charney
New York City
New York State
Communist Party
Russia
Concord
Betty Gannett
Simon William Gerson
Brooklyn
New York
Arnold Samuel Johnson
Pennsylvania
Steve Nelson
Johnson
Seattle
Claudia Jones
Claudia Vern Scholnick
National Women's Commission
Party
Trinidad
Albert Francis Lannon
National Maritime
Communist Political Association of
Maryland
Washington, D.C
Jacob Mindel
Bronx
Pettis Perry
Negro Commission
Farm Commission
Marion
Ala
I Weinstock
William Wolf Weinstone
Long Island City
Michigan
U. S Navy
Justice Department
Fred Fine
Jackson Heights
Long Island
N. Y
Chicago
James Edward Jackson Jr
Richmond Ve
William Norman Marron
Flushing
N. W
Sidney Steinberg
Love for Books Bites: London Collector Pleads Guilty
A 57 year old factory worker in London amassed a 3000 volume library spending most of his wages and savings. He pleaded guilty in magistrates court to stealing five books from a stall but was given a warning to curb his obsession as his eyesight declines and he says he never read any of the 42000 books he accumulated.
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London
Sydney
Wordsworth
Orazy
Paul Bennett
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Alexander Leo Trachtenberg
International Publishers, Inc
Fourth Ave
Jefferson School of Social Science
New Haven
Conn
Louis Weinstock
the Bronx
National Review Commission
Violinist Szigeti
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