Private Talks Continue On Berlin Issue
Paris hosts a second day of private talks among U S secretary of state Dean Acheson and Russian and Western foreign ministers on Berlin. Observers note discussions center on restricting veto powers and a single Berlin administration while preserving four occupying powers. Pravda accuses the West of defying Potsdam. Nanking reports estimate 600000 Chinese Communist forces marching south toward Canton as Nationalists defend Chungking and Canton tensions rise. The British controlled Social Democrat notes Russia may use force to resume Berlin rail traffic.
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Associated Press
Paris
Berlin
U. S
Dean Acheson
Andrei Vishinsky
Acheson
Germany
Russia
Moscow
Pravda
Eveyone
Nanking
China
Canton
Chungking
Social Democrat
Old Maid's Day Celebrated by Norristown Women
NORRISTOWN PA AP Fifty women all unmarried celebrate Old Maid's Day. Fifty-four year old Marion Richards explains they are old maids not spinsters or bachelor girls. The idea started last year when some old maids talked of a day to honor their status and June 4 was chosen as Old Maid's Day.
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Norristown
Marion Richards
Miss Richards
Fremont Centennial Celebrates Name Change to Fremont
Fremont marks its centennial celebration from July 31 to August 7 with a naming shift from lower Sandusky to Fremont. The event highlights the historic change and community festivities across the week.
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Fremont, O
Fremont
Lower Sandusky
Espionage debated over missing uranium in 1945 loss
Senator Hickenlooper warned espionage cannot be ruled out as four grams of uranium 235 remain missing from Argonne Laboratory while McMahon urged patience and cited FBI findings. Recovery stands at seven eighths of an ounce with waste dredging at Oak Ridge ongoing. Lilienthal inquiry continues.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Atomic Energy Commission
McMahon
D-Conn
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Atomic Agency
David E. Lilienthal
Allan Nunn May
Canada
FBI
Argonne Atomic Laboratory
University of Chicago
Oak Ridge
Connecticut
Lilienthal
Atomic Commission
Argonne Laboratory
Judge Weighs Disclosure In Coplon Espionage Trial
Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves debated how much secrecy must be disclosed in Judith Coplon's espionage case. Archibald Palmer pressed for 22 FBI reports found in Coplon's purse, while prosecutors sought partial photographs. Reeves recessed the trial to consider whether full texts are material to guilt or innocence.
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Washington
Albert L. Reeves
Judith Coplon
Archibald Palmer
Miss Coplon
FBI
Raymond P. Whearty
John M. Kelley, Jr
Palmer
Whearty
Kelley
Reeves
Nimbus Wins Epsom Derby in Photo Finish
Nimbus, owned by Mrs. M. Glenisteg and ridden by Charlie Elliott, won the 170th Epsom Derby by a nose in a photo finish. Amour Drake finished second with Swallow Tail third as Royal Forest faded after a long field reduced to 32 entrants. The victor earned a record first prize of 56,680 dollars.
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Epsom
England
Nimbus
Amour Drake
Swallow Tail
J. F. Emery
Leon Volterra
Lord Derby
Amadeo Giannini to Receive Final Rites Monday
Amadeo Peter A P Giannini founder and chairman of Bank of America died yesterday in San Mateo at age 79. Final rites of the Catholic church are set for Monday in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Amadeo Peter
A.P
Giannini
San Mateo
Bank of America
Witnesses Ordered to Appear in Bridges Case
SAN FRANCISCO AP Eleven witnesses who fought to avoid appearing before the federal grand jury that indicted Harry Bridges were ordered to show up Monday. Judge Michael J. Roche upheld subpoena validity after arguments by attorney Herbert Resner who claimed illegal service. Bridges, head of the CIO Longshoremen, was indicted May 25 on perjury and conspiracy to defraud the government.
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SAN Francisco
Harry Bridges
Michael J. Roche
Herbert Resner
Bridges
CIO
Resner
Roche
F. Joseph Donohue
Taft Receives Honorary Degree at Cincinnati Commencement
Senator Robert A Taft was honored at the University of Cincinnati commencement exercises with an honorary Doctor of Laws. The event mirrored a similar honor conferred on his father, William Howard Taft, in 1925.
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Cincinnati
Robert A. Taft
University of Cincinnati
William Howard Taft
Three High U S Reds Are Jailed
In New York three of the 11 top American Communists on trial for conspiracy were jailed after a 20 week trial clash. Judge Medina ordered John Gates Henry Winston and Gus Hall jailed for the remainder of the trial following contempt rulings and refused bail amid courtroom turmoil and shouted accusations.
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NEW York
Federal House of Detention
U. S
Harold R. Medina
Gates
Henry Winston
Gus Hall
Ohio
United States
Jailing Reds Seen as Shocking by Wallace and allies
The prison of three Communist leaders in Medina’s conspiracy trial provokes protests across party lines. Henry Wallace calls the action shocking and threatens liberties. the American Labor Party denounces judicial tyranny. Civil Rights Congress and unions condemn the ruling.
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NEW York
Henry Wallace
American Labor Party
Harold R. Medina
Civil Rights Congress
Tom Clark
Congress
Ben Gold
Cio International Fur and Leather Workers Union
John Gates
Communist Daily Worker
Gus Hall
Ohio
Henry Winston
Gates
Communist Party National Committee
Siamese Twins Doing Fine at Three Weeks Old
In Los Angeles three week old Siamese twins joined at the head are thriving. Dr. Phoebus Berman of County General reports each baby has a complete organs set and a separate brain. Separation surgery will be months away. the twins are daughters of Mrs. John Jones, a Negro mother of seven.
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Los Angeles
Phoebus Berman
Los Angeles County General Hospital
Berman
John Jones
Chambers Confesses To Lying Under Oath
AP report covers two main threads. In Carrollton Ohio a shotgun slaying at the Georges farm remains unsolved as sheriff notes lack of recovered weapon and car, while two suspects released without link to 14 West Virginia escapees. In New York City ex Communist Whittaker Chambers concedes lying under oath to a grand jury, detailing perjury and testimony about Hiss. A separate Warren Ohio crash kills a Geneva woman and her four-year-old son, injuring others.
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Carrollton
John D. George
Roy Orwick
Georges
Orwick
George
Virginia
New York
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Chambers
Hiss
State Department
Flovid
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Boris Bykov
Communist Party
United States
Stryker
Grand Jury
Russia
Grand
FBI
House UnAmerican Activities Committee
Warren, O
Hannah Townsend
Geneva
Anthony
Farmington
Eric, Jr
Tremont Township High School Crowned All Honors Graduate
In Pottstown Marian Agnes Kohr, seventeen, won all honors at Tremont Township High School commencement. She held every senior class office including salutatorian valedictorian president vice president secretary and treasurer. Marion was the sole graduate from Trentont Township in Schuylkill County as the community lost population.
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Pottstown
Tremont Township High School
Marian Agnes Kohr
Marion
Trentont Township
Schuylkill County
Democrats Beat GOP In Congressional Baseball Clash
About 3,000 fans watched as the Democrats edged the Republicans 16 to 10 in the annual Congressional baseball game. Notables included Don Wheeler starting pitcher, Gene McCarthy and Mendel Rivers homering, Hugh Addonizio making a leaping catch and a decisive Albert Gore grounder driving in two runs to turn the tide. The charity event, sponsored by the Washington Evening Star, benefited underprivileged children.
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Arthur Edson Washington
Tom Pickett
D-Tex
Don Wheeler
D-Ga
Wheeler
Gene McCarthy
Minn
Mendel Rivers
Hugh Addonizio
D-Nj
Francis Case
R-Sd
Albert Gore
Dtenn
The
Washington Evening Star
Torch singer Billie Holiday acquitted of opium charge
A 12 jurors panel acquitted Billie Holiday after two and a half hours of deliberation. Holiday testified that her manager John Levy handed her a parcel and urged disposal, claiming she dropped it when a struggle occurred. Prosecutors said the package hid opium and an improvised pipe found in her bureau. Holiday denied using opium and said she did not know the tube and nipple were present. Levy was alleged to have turned informer to end the relationship and arranged the raid and planting.
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San Francisco
Billie Holiday
John Levy
John
Miss Holiday
Levy
Case Society
Fire Damage at Mansfield Warehouse Estimated at 25,000
The Charles Schroer Furniture Company reported a $25,000 loss from a yesterday fire at its two story brick Mansfield warehouse. Fire cause was not determined and officials expected the figure could rise.
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Mansfield, D
Charles Schroer Furniture Company
Fugitives from West Virginia prison hunted in Ohio area
In eastern Ohio authorities pursued 14 escapees from the West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville. A storekeeper near Glen East, W. Va., arrested Dennis Taylor after recognizing prison garb, while gunfire erupted as officers chased two or three men into hills near Shadyside.
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Moundsville State Penitentiary
Moundsville
W. Va
W.va
West Virginia State Penitentiary
Orel J. Skeens
Dennis P. Taylor
Floyd Friteman
Glen Easton
Ohio River
Friteman
Taylor
Bellaire
Ohio
Harry Miller
Shadyside
Mike Ables
Ables
West Virginia
Rail and River
Three Children Found Dead In Refrigerator
In Walnut Ridge Arkansas a wooden ice box became a death trap for three children. Mrs Ed Chastain found them wedged in a small compartment with the door fastened from outside. Autopsy indicated suffocation. Joyce Ann Chastain died in a clinic later. Investigators seek how the children locked themselves inside and why no ice was present.
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Walnut Ridge
Ark
Ed Chastain
Joe Spades
James Delbert Chastain
Shirley Ramsey
Ethel Ramsey
Chastains
Joyce Ann Chastain
Wyatt L. Patrick
State Police Criminal Investigation Division
Patrick
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Medina
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U. S. Labor Party
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Penitentiary
Orel J. Skeen
Skeen
Colliers
Stanley Sheftie
East Liverpool
Lisbon, O
Frank Mosley
Lisbon
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