Admitted falsehoods in Hiss perjury trial
Whitaker Chambers admitted he lied seven times before the federal grand jury that indicted Alger Hiss on two perjury counts. Federal Judge Samuel H. Kaufman noted inconsistencies between Chambers grand jury and trial testimony and allowed reading of grand jury minutes. Chambers also named Julian Wadleigh as another State Department employee who aided in obtaining secrets, a name already raised in related inquiries.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Chambers
State Department
Samuel H. Kaufman
Hiss
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Stryker
Communist Party
Julian Wadleigh
Henry Julian Wadleigh
Washington
Wadleigh
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Three Dayton Youths Killed In Accident
The Dayton area death toll from a scooter car collision rose to three with 16 year old Maurice Richards Jr dying at Good Samaritan Hospital from a broken neck and skull fracture. Teammate Warren Lewis 15 and Jerry Didier 16 Englewood were killed in the crash when Harold Sowers 23 of West Milton drove the car. Sowers is held by highway patrolmen pending investigation.
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Dayton, O
Maurice Richards
Dayton
Warren Lewis
Jerry Didier
Englewood
Harold Sowers
West Milton
Richards
Good Samaritan Hospital
Sowers
Jobless Mark Hits New High
Unemployment rose 273000 in May to 3289000, a postwar peak. Census notes May typically dips, but youths seeking summer work and farming seasonality boosted totals. Nonfarm jobs fell 279000 to 49720000 while farm employment rose 1154000 and total employment gained 875000.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Cleveland educators take non Communist oaths
Members of the Cleveland Board of Education and three top school administrators took non Communist oaths in Cleveland yesterday. The ceremony underscored anti Communist sentiment in the local school system and highlighted efforts to ensure loyalty among district leaders.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Board of Education
House Spy Prober Demands Facts On Soviet Operator
Representative Velde charges President Truman owes the American people an explanation after Soviet agent Andrei Schevchenko left the country without arrest following 1944 45 attempts to obtain jet propulsion and plane design secrets from Bell Air in Buffalo. FBI watched while witnesses Haas Franey and others testified, claiming officials blocked prosecution. Committee plans closed door session to probe Berkeley radiation lab and Oppenheimer links.
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Washington
Velde
Ill
Truman
Andrei Schevchenko
House
UnAmerican Activities Committee
Schevchenko
Bellair Company
Buffalo
FBI
Joseph J. Franey
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Loren G. Haas
Haas
Byrnes F
State Department
James F. Byrnes
Lis
Byrnes
Department of Justice
Justice and State Departments
Frank Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Los Alamos
N. Mex
University of California At Berkeley
Parents Burned Saving Child in Akron Fire
In Akron Ohio a couple saved their two year old Gary by dropping him to his father from a second floor window before both parents were fatally burned. The blaze started from the landlord's smoking in bed below. The child Gary was reported in fair condition.
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Akron
Cletus Cook
Gary
Carl Ellet
Cook
Coal Owners Demand End To Two Strike Clauses
Southern coal operators urged John L. Lewis to drop two wartime strike provisions from the contract. They want removal of rules that miners must be able and willing to work and that mines may close for memorials to dead diggers. The move came as four major changes were presented and a public negotiation session was debated amid a deadlocked bargaining table.
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Bluefield
W. VA
Southern Coal
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Washington
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
John Owens
Last Civil War veteran of Ohio GAR dies at 103
Alliance AP report: John H. Grate aged 103, final member of Ohio Department Grand Army of the Republic, dies in Atwater after a coma. A veteran, buggy maker and farmer, he served as GAR commander in chief 1946-47 and led the Ohio Department in the prior year. He married Laura Gilbert in 1872 and is survived by his son and a foster son. Funeral plans include viewing at Wood Funeral Home Atwater, then Cassaday Turkle in Alliance with services in Alliance.
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GAR
Ohio Department
John C. Fremont
Alliance
Randolph
Portage County
Atwater
Daniel Clingaman
Wauseon
George W. Carroll
Cincinnati
Grate
Newton Falls
Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
Cleveland
Virginia
Washington
Petersburg
Richmond
Edinburg
Palmyra
Laura Gilbert
Deerfield
Charles
Elyria
Clarence Eno
Wood Funeral
theCassaday
Turkle Funeral Home
Berlin Deadlock Ends Secret Talks Fail
Paris AP reports four power talks on Berlin end in deadlock after secret sessions. Delegations study two unity plans from Acheson and Vishinsky with Britain and France backing the American proposal. Disagreements focus on veto usage and restoration of Allied kommandatura versus expanding German administration.
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Paris
Berlin
U. S
Dean Acheson
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Britain
France
Acheson
Vishinsky
Russia
GOP Labor Parley Signals Rift Over Taft Hartley Plan
Senate Republicans convene for a policy conference on labor legislation as a growing dissent over retaining most of the Taft Hartley Act emerges. Senator Elbert D. Thomas urges repeal, calling the law a dangerous path toward government intervention in industry labor relations. The debate pauses for State Justice and Commerce funding approval before resuming.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
State- Commerce-Justice Departments
Thomas
Senate Labor Committee
Union Doubles Reward For Attacks On Reuther Family
DETROIT AP A $200000 reward is offered by the CIO United Auto Workers to locate the assailants of Walter and Victor Reuther. The sum doubles a prior $100000 reward from last spring and adds another like amount for the May 24 attack on Victor. Total rewards in both shootings reach $218800 with city and other group contributions. Walter, UAW president, lost use of his right arm after a shotgun blast. Victor, education director, lost his right eye. Attacks occurred as shots were fired through home windows. Information must be given to the union first before police. An additional $5000 reward is offered for information leading to a trial in either shooting.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter
Victor Reuther
Walter Reuther
Victor
UAW
Search Launched For Escaped Convicts In Salem District
A 50 man posse hunted abandoned coal mines near Salem after a rural housewife reported two masked men obtaining clothing and food. Descriptions matched two of 14 escapees from Moundsville prison break. Road blocks and dawn manhunt followed, with further reports of sightings near Millport and Viola, W Va.
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East Liverpool
Salem
Howard Clark
Columbiana County
Manndeville
State Highway Patrol
Sheriff's Department
Millville Hill
Washingtonville - Leetonia
Frank Fish
Route 4
Millport
Moundsville
W. Va
Denver Vannest
Gerald Nolan
Eddie Starcher
Orel J. Skeen
Vannest
Viola
James Tasher
Bail Sought In Red Trial For Winston And Hall
Defense counsel asked for bail freedom for Henry Winston and Gus Hall in the Communist conspiracy trial. Judge Leibell scheduled arguments as appeals court had refused release for third defendant John Gates. Gates remains jailed for contempt while Winston and Hall were remanded for the trial's remainder.
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NEW York
Vincent L. Leibell
Henry Winston
Gus Hall
John Gates
Harold R. Medina
Gates
Winston
Hall
Richard F. Gladstein
Defense Counsel
Leibell
Coplon Jury To Be Given Data Ruling
Judge Reeves ordered the jury in Judith Coplon’s espionage case to see the full contents of her purse and the complete FBI reports. The government objected, but the 12 data slips and many FBI documents must be shown to the jury.
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Washington
Albert L. Reeves
Judith Coplon
Reeves
FBI
Miss Coplon
John M. Kelley, Jr
United States
Kelley
Gray Selected For Army Secretary Post
President Truman nominated Gordon Gray to be Secretary of the Army. The nomination was sent to the Senate after the White House announced the decision.
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Washington
Truman
Gordon Gray
Army
Gray
Senate
White House
Plane crashes off Puerto Rico with 75 aboard
In the early hours a two motor C 46 plummet into the Atlantic near San Juan. Coast Guard reports 28 survivors and two bodies recovered. A total of 47 are missing or feared dead, including 19 children and 19 women. Captain Lea Wakefield piloted the plane with five crew members aboard.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
United States
Atlantic
U. S. Coast Guard
al Cockrell
Pittsfield
Mass
Coast Guard
Lea Wakefield
Senator Hickenlooper targets AEC laxity in security
Washington AP Senator Hickenlooper R la. seeks to base his case on alleged security lapses at the Atomic Energy Commission and on a dozen or so employees with questioned loyalty. He may press to name individuals while the Senate House Atomic Committee remains split on public testimony and procedure. A closed session halted public hearings as McMahon postponed further action.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
R-la
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate House Atomic Committee
AEC
Lilienthal
Senate
House Committee
Commission
Army deserter case recalls fire eating act in London shows
Pvt Delbert Hill of the U S Air Force, accused of desertion since July 1945, was arrested in a Newcastle hotel while in women's dress and with a fire eating act billed as Donna Delbert. London theater figures recall his 1943 service show appearance in Skirts and a Windmill theater stint.
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London
Delbert Hill
U. S. Air Force
Donna Delbert
Air Force
Hill
Burtonwood
Newcastle
Arthur G. Brest
George K. Arthur
Ben Lyon
Bebe Daniels
Hollywood
Johnny Gale
Windmill Theater
Arthur
Gale
America
Maisie Cryer
Will Rogers
Army
Air Forces
Philadelphia
City imposes ban on crime and sex themed comics
Springfield Ohio city commission approved an ordinance prohibiting the sale of comic books dealing with crime and sex to anyone under 18. The measure targets materials deemed improper for minors and was passed last night amid debate over censorship and teen access.
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Springfield O
Plane Crash Kills 26 In Florianopolis Flight
Reports say a Brazilian Army transport plane, a C 47, crashed into a mountain near Cambirelas peak shortly after takeoff from Rio de Janeiro. Wreckage located near Cambirelas peak, state of Rio Grande do Sul, with Army personnel and civilians aboard.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Florianopolis
Air Ministry
Cambirelas Peak
Rio Grande Do Sul
Coast Guard Reports 28 Survivors From Disaster At Sea
Captain Dexter says only about 28 survivors may be found alive after a disaster where half or more of the passengers and five crewmen perished. Air and sea searches continued while 26 survivors swam to nearby islands and awaited rescue.
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D. H. Dexter
Coast Guard
Twenty Two Die in Greek Plane Crash Near Athens
An Apollo-type Greek airliner Dakota crashed 17 miles north of Athens after catching fire, killing 18 passengers and four crew. Among the dead was Maj. Gen. George Kotsalos, military governor of Kavalla.
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Athens
Malakasa
George Kotsalos
Kavalla
Unwed Mother Is Sentenced In Ohio Prison
Audrey Aaron, 20, an unmarried mother, was sentenced to one to 20 years in Ohio women's prison after a judge found her guilty of forging others' signatures to department store charge accounts. Prosecutors say she stole goods totaling 1753 dollars. A Miami court previously dismissed a robbery charge on the condition she marry the child's father.
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Dayton, O
Ohio Women's Prison
Audrey Aaron
Calvin Crawford
Miami
Fla
Miss Aaron
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