Ruth Gruber and Ickes clash over alleged Red links
Westbrook Pegler reports on Harold Ickes denying Ruth Gruber being a Communist amid a memo in Judith Coplon’s trial. Gruber, paid by the Alaska Railroad, is described as a charming yet controversial figure connected to Soviet contacts.
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New York
Harold Ickes
Ruth Gruber
Alaska Railroad
Judith Coplon
United Nations
Miss Gruber
Ickes
Soviet Arctic
Aretik
Bolshevick
Igarka
New York Herald Tribune
Jed Johnson
Oklahoma
Soviet Russia
Committee On Appropriations
Johnson
Gruber
Alaska
Maneer
Department of the Interior
Hiss Defense Closes as Stryker Completes Summation
In New York on July 7,Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker finished his four hour and six minute defense summation in the Alger Hiss perjury trial. He argued that Whittaker Chambers fabricated the Red spy story during the 1948 campaign and that the case should be decided by the jury. The trial moves to jury deliberation with the government set to present its summary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Alger Hiss
State Department
Steyker
Stryker
Chambers
Hiss
House
American Activities Committee
Flying saucers sighted over Alexandria Louisiana
In Alexandria Louisiana on Tuesday night Mrs. Edward Wolf and her sister Mrs. V Dardeau reported a silent flying disc with a yellow light moving overhead. They compared it to common flying saucer descriptions and noted it did not resemble a shooting star.
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Alexandria
Edward Wolf
V. Dardeau
Ville Platte
Britain faces steel strike threat and US sympathy wavering
Washington reports Britain nears its last 1.642 billion in gold and dollars with Congress cool to new aid. Secretary Acheson says Britain trims purchases as Marshall Plan aid tops 920 million. Cripps cites cuts in buying, while Taft pins aid at a likely limit. Politicians urge Britain to fix its economy.
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Washington
Great Britain
Congress
Britain
United States
Acheson
England
Stafford Cripps
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
U S Steel Rejects Union Demands Threatening Major Strike
U S Steel Corp rejects fourth round wage increase and union pension and insurance plans. C I O United Steel workers schedule July 13 wage policy meeting as talks recessed indefinitely. Philip Murray says talks deadlocked with no path to agreement. contract allows strike if unresolved by July 16.
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Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corp
C. I. O.-United Steelworkers
Philip Murray
C. Lt. O
Steel Corp
Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel
Arrests in baptism related girl's drowning in Holston River
In Kingsport Tennessee on May 1 a 14 year old girl drowned during a baptism in the Holston River. Franklin W. Lewis 53 a Holiness preacher was arrested along with Howard Lee Smith 38 of Bristol and Edna Earl King 34 of Kingsport on charges of murder. A preliminary hearing was set for Wednesday.
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Kingsport
Tenn
Holston
Here
Margaret Chapman
Franklin W. Lewis
Lewis
Howard Lee Smith
Bristol
Edna Earl King
Smith
Early Church of God and Christ
Holiness Church
Vaughan Angrily Responds To Questions On Guatemala Trip
Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan military aide to President Truman returns from a 19 day Guatemala vacation and refuses to discuss financing. He cites 11 vacationers paying 341 each aboard a United Fruit Company ship. Vaughan cites about 300 Washington contract negotiators but names none amid a looming five per centers inquiry.
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Washington
Harry Vaughan
Truman
Guatemala
Vaughan
United Fruit Company
Paul Grindle
James V. Hunt
New York Herald Tribune
Grindle
Hunt
Housing bill on final lap in Congress
Washington July 7 The administration's housing bill nears final approval after a house senate conference committee endorsed a compromise version. The measure envisions public housing slum clearance and farm housing aids with 810000 units in six years and annual subsidies up to 308 million dollars. President Truman then plans to sign, enabling early housing projects.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
House-Senate
Senate
House
McCormack
Mass
Hospital suspends two attendants over patient beating
East Louisiana Hospital for the mentally ill superintendent Dr. L F Magruder suspended two attendants for one week each for failing to prevent a patient being whipped. He said the patient showed bruises and scratches and appeared struck by a fist, though not necessarily by hospital staff. He argued minor acts cannot be ignored to prevent worse outcomes.
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Jackson
East Louisiana
L. F. Magruder
Dr. Magruder
Magruder
Plane with 54 on board returns to Shannon after engine fire
Pan American Stratocruiser from London to New York develops engine trouble 600 miles from Shannon. Pilot Captain Gunbransen diverts to 3 000 feet and safely lands after a magnesium fire and propeller loss in one engine. Passengers including tennis stars Louis Brough and Margaret Osbourne du Pont later continue to New York.
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Shannon
Ireland
Danny Kaye
H. G. Gunbransen
Meadow Woods Road Lake Success
N. Y
Gunbransen
London
New York
Louis Brough
Margaret Osborne du Pont
Miss Brough
State of Emergency Looms as Japan Sees Violence Rise
Tokyo reports worsening labor unrest with miners in Ibaraki Prefecture joining protests against the arrest of 19 miners and the discharge of 200. The body of Sadanori Shimoyama, president of the National Railway Corporation, is reported dead with doctors noting he had likely died over 12 hours earlier.
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Ibaragi Prefecture
Sadanori Shimoyama
National Railway Corporation
Boy Admits Then Denies Hanged Neighbor Child
A 13-year-old boy confessed to strangling and hanging three-year-old Thomas Whitey Laux, then recanted claiming nervousness. Officials dispute the retelling, with conflicting statements from police and prosecutors. The boy’s mother found the victim’s body bound in a basement sack ending an all-night search.
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Boy
Laux Tot
Chicago
Edward T. Breen
Frank Reynolds
Stockyards
Charles Munday
Thomas “Whitey
Laux
Reynolds
Timothy O'Connor
Charles
Thomas
O'Connor
Munday
Edith
South Side
Leo Poch
Pegler Criticizes Unions as Infiltrated by Despots
Washington July 7 Cornmentator Westbrook Pegler told a House labor subcommittee unions in the United States are infiltrated by despots criminals and Communists. He said rank and file members have little voice and accused the government of ducking the Communist question for political reasons.
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Washington
Westbrook Pegler
Pegler
House Labor
Representative Jacobs
D-Ind
Indianapolis
Locomotives for sale at Angola prison yard in Louisiana
Two locomotives a 44 ton Mogul and a 35 ton Prairie Type 22 plus cars and rails are auctioned by State Commissioner J H Rester. Bid opening August 26. Cane transport will switch to tractors and cane buggies, rail haulage deemed obsolete.
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Baton Rouge
Angola
Louisiana
J. H. Rester
Rester
Truman bullish on economy but opts not to push tax hike
President Truman described the domestic economy as bullish and promised a full midyear economic report to Congress next week. He indicated resignation to likely failure to pass his $4 billion tax increase, urged House Democratic leaders to decide on labor reform, and favored a new bill replacing Taft Hartley though wary of its timing ahead of 1950 elections.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
United States
Paris
London
Wherry
D-Mont
Admin
Monroe businessman E N Florsheim dies at 69
Edgar N. Florsheim 69 of 1119 Park avenue founder in Monroe gas field development died shortly after 2 30 a m Thursday after years of illness. Funeral at his residence Friday 4 pm with Dr F K Hirsch officiating and burial in Jewish Cemetery. He helped drill the first well that discovered the Monroe gas field and held posts with Swartz West Virginia Oil and Gas Co Thrift Oil and Gas Co. He founded the Lotus Club and is survived by his wife Blanche. Funeral by Davis Lawhead.
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Edgar N. Florsheim
Park Avenue
Monroe
F. K. Hirsch
B’ Nai Israel Temple
Fred Fudickar, Sr
W. Courtney Oliver
Marion Sorkin
Morris Haas, Jr
David Kaplan
Milling Bernstein
J. Q. Graves
E. W. Cruse
Henry Haas
H. H. Blanks
Bridger Thornhill
J. O. Miller
B. B. Handy
Meyer Glazer
Aubrey Haas
Bernard Levi
Francis Barringer
C. P. Gray, Jr
David Silverstein
Jim Cox
John Edwards
Mr. Florsheim
Shreveport
Florsheim
S. D. Hunter
J. H. Trousdale
W. B. McCormick
A. L. Smith
Swartz
West Virginia Oil and Gas Company
Thrift Oil and Gas Company
Lotus Club
Davis-Lawhead Funeral Home
Blanche M. Florsheim
Detroit Moves to Clean City Workforce of Communists
Mayor Eugene Van Antwerp appoints a three member loyalty board led by Police Commissioner Harry S Toy to review 30 000 municipal employees for Communist ties and consider a non Communist oath. George Shenkar junior water department engineer was fired after failing to declare his stance, while four or five teachers were suspected by School Superintendent Arthur Dondineau Dondineau. The board will report next Monday and Kelly and Cahn join the panel.
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Detroit
Eugene I. van Antwerp
Harry S. Toy
Arthur Dondineau Dondineau
van Antwerp
George Shenkar
Water Department
Shenkar
Raymond J. Kelly
The
American Legion
Chester A. Cahn
Civil Service
Dulles Named to Senate Post by Gov Dewey in New York
Gov Dewey appoints John Foster Dulles to fill the late Sen Robert Wagner’s seat interim until Dec 1 1949. A special election November 8 will determine who serves the remainder of Wagner’s term through 1950.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
John Foster Dulles
United States Senate
Robert F. Wagner
Dulles
Wagner
Dewey
Washington
United Nations General Assembly
U. N
Council of Foreign Ministers
Man with Seventeen Thousand Hidden In Plain Sight
In Omaha a 73 year old man living in a $10 a month room reportedly kept 17180 in bonds and cash in a black purse worn around his neck. He said he never deposited savings, citing no use for banks, after a heat illness led to discovery by a nurse.
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Omaha
Fred Wecheler
Wechler
Weehier
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Corliss R. Bruntlett
Fort Madison
Iowa
J. E. Bennett
H. V. Rongers
Percy Smith
Council Bluffs
U.S
U. S. Steel Corporation
Tribee
Robert S. Penick Uest
Newellton
LaFayette
Ala
Bob J. Shay
Penick
Owens Field
Columbia
S. C
Wadley
Jim Abney
Japan
Pan-American World Airways Stratocruiser
Tokyo
E. N. Florsheim
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