Confessed Spy Tells How Kin Pumped Him for Atom Secrets
In federal court, former Army sergeant David Greenglass testified that his sister Ethel and her husband Julius Rosenberg pressed him to pass atomic secrets to Russia. He described a New York City furlough and the Los Alamos plant details including scientists like Oppenheimer Bohr and Urey as part of the information he gave to the Rosenbergs.
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Losjr Alamos
Robert Oppenheimer
Niels Bohr
Har!old C. Urey
Walter Koski
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Los Alamos
Senate draft bill faces trouble in House
Senate approved draft bill for universal military training runs into House opposition. House leaders expect amendments that may drastically alter the Senate version. Republicans and civil rights groups push proposals to ban troop deployment to Europe, grant draftees a choice on unit segregation, prohibit race discrimination, and divide the bill into separate parts for floor votes.
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Textile Locals Vote on Strike in Massachusetts
Boston March 10 CIO textile union locals vote today and tomorrow on whether about 200000 cotton and rayon workers will strike March 15 for a 12 percent wage boost. Union President Emil Rieve called the strike after a stalled settlement. Negotiations with mills in New Bedford and Fall River areas ended in a stalemate.
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Papal Nuncio Named to West Germany
Archbishop Aloisius J. Muench of Fargo North Dakota was presented as papal nuncio to the West German government A Vatican spokesman announced. Muench, chosen by Pope Pius XII, is the first American appointed to such a post. He came to Germany in 1945 as apostolic visitator and led the Vatican mission at Kronberg.
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Aloisius J. Muench
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Kronberg
Parolee Killed After Toy Revolver Threat
A Sing Sing parolee Louis Antonacci of Brooklyn was shot and killed after threatening to shoot two police officers with a toy revolver. He held up a Manhattan delicatessen and liquor store, then cornered on the 18th floor of an apartment building as officers ordered him to surrender. He refused, cried he was just out of Sing Sing and would kill them, and was shot by Officers Mahoney and Fore after firing.
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Mahoney
Antonacci
Northwest Airlines to Modify Planes
Northwest Airlines will retire 20 Martin planes on March 17 for modifications aimed at preventing further disasters. Four Martin crashes have killed 84 people in three years. The Civil Aeronautics Administration recommended the changes after a study of design flaws.
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Koreans Hungry as Guerrilla War Grows
A March report forecasts rising guerrilla activity against Communist forces in Korea before the end of the year. An unnamed source says famine months grip the peninsula with food scarce for peasants and troops, pushing raids and resistance along the front.
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Browder Fails To Subpoena Several Senators In Trial
In Washington March 10 UPI reports Browder cannot reach eight witnesses including former Sen Tydings in England. Subpoenas were issued for the group during his contempt of Congress trial. Browder has yet to reveal his questions.
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UPI
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Hoey to revive five percenter inquiry on defense contracts
Sen Hoey of North Carolina said the Senate expenditures subcommittee will reopen its five percenter inquiry next week to probe influence peddling in defense contracting. Public hearings to begin Wednesday will feature chiefs of government agencies while the panel reassesses steps officials have taken to curb abuses found in 1949.
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President's Aid Snubs RFC Quiz
Washington March 10 President's Aid Donald Dawson has ignored a Special Senate subcommittee invitation to answer charges of influencing Reconstruction Finance Corp loans. Chairman J William Fulbright said Dawson did not acknowledge receipt of the letter. Fulbright offered a committee hearing whenever convenient. The Justice Department announced a federal grand jury will begin an inquiry into certain aspects of recent RFC hearings, with possible broader scope beyond perjury and tax violations.
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Justce Department
APC
Polish Vessel Faces Ban From New York Piers
The Polish liner Batory, tied up in a dispute with U.S. authorities after Communist Gest author escape, faces losing New York docking facilities. Its lease on a French Line pier expires March 30, and City Marine Commissioner Cavanagh calls it an undesirable occupant, signaling trouble securing other pier space.
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U.S
Gerhart Eisler
Jine
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Edward F. Cavanagh Jr
Cavanagh
German Communist Hoax Exposes Party Chaos
In Frankfurt a party newspaper ran a 1500 word manifesto claiming 1148 Munich delegates approved a March 3 convention. Bavaria’s Hermann Schirmer said no new date was set. Allied observers cite leadership fraud amid purges and widespread distrust among West Germany's 150,000 Communists.
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Munich
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Rayburn predicts House defeat of GOP troops to Europe plan
Speaker Sam Rayburn warned the House would likely reject a Republican demand for approval before sending U S troops to Europe. The GOP push split party ranks as Senate committees advanced conflicting resolutions, one seeking Senate action only and another inviting House consent.
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Rain and cold snap hit wide area coast to plains
A weather summary reports bitter cold from Montana to Montana subzero readings, snow in western Washington and Oregon, and freezing rain across southern Iowa Missouri Nebraska. Rain extends into Missouri Arkansas Tennessee northern Texas and Kansas as arctic air shifts eastward leaving the eastern two thirds cool.
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Two Train Crewmembers Die In Derailment Leap Near Martinsburg
Martinsburg West Virginia March 10 two Pennsylvania Railroad freight crewmen died attempting to leap from a derailed train near Cumbo. Conductor Eugene Claybaugh from Hedgesville and brakeman James F Sowers Jr of Martinsburg were killed when crushed by a toppling car as the locomotive diverted from track. Engineer J W Price said the train traveled about miles per hour just outside Cumho four miles north of Martinsburg. Two other crew members in the locomotive escaped unharmed.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Eugene Claybaugh
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James F. Sowers Jr
J. W. Price
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Sowers
Gem Smuggler Weeps at Penalty
Austrian gem smuggler Lesser Wellman or Weitman wept as he received a 22 month federal prison term and a 2000 dollar fine for smuggling gems valued at about 745000 into the United States. He concealed gems in shoe heels and his clothing, and was arrested January 21 at Idlewild Airport after arriving from Brussels. Deportation proceedings loom after release.
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Idlewild
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Swift 73 dies. meat-packing founder kin noted
Boston report that George H. Swift, 73, son of Gus Tavus F. Swift who founded Swift and Company, died last night at the Ritz Carlton Hotel where he made his home.
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George H. Swift
Gustavus F. Swift
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Wool Mill and Union Leaders Saued to End Strike
Federal officials will try to end a three week strike by 76,000 CIO woolen and worsted workers across 160 mills. Mediation called for a Washington conference after talks failed. The union seeks a 15 cent hourly raise and other benefits as the defense department warns of shortages for uniforms and blankets.
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Armed Services
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Emil Rieve
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Defense Department
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Rieve
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Air Line Workers Back Picket Lines Support
In New York on March 10 the CIO Transport Workers Union said about 4200 Pan American World Airways domestic employees will not cross picket lines if the port stewards strike on March 14. The group includes mechanics ground service and flight service personnel.
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Pan American World Airways
Congressional Medal Awarded Posthumously to War Hero
Cpl Gordon M. Craig of Elmwood Massachusetts received the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for smothering a grenade in Korea on September 10, 1956, saving four comrades in the U S First Cavalry Division near Taegu. His family includes Mrs Mildred L Craig and fellow honorees include Sgt William V Thiem and Cpls Robert D Perry, Charles S Dodge and Robert W Driver. He is the division's second MOH recipient in the Korean campaign.
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Janis Paige Plans Divorce Move to Las Vegas
Actress Janis Paige says April 12 she will go to Las Vegas to establish residence for her divorce from advertising executive Frank Martinelli. The couple, married three years, have no children.
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