Pearson aide threatened on air over Greece passport
Westbrook Pegler reports that David Katz alias Karr, Pearson's leg man, vowed on air to blast General Vaughan unless he backed Pearson's project with a financial interest. Katz named a zero hour for compliance and pressed White House secretary Ross after Vaughan blocked a passport for Greek lawyer George Vournas seeking ties to Tito.
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New York
Drew Pearson
David Katz
Karr
Pearson
Harry H. Vaughan
Truman
Vaughan
George C. Vournas
Vournas
Greece
Tito
Jugoslavia
Charles G. Ross
White House
Two Scientists Branded Reds By House Probe
The House un-American Activities Committee named two atomic scientists, Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz and David Bohm, as members of a wartime Communist cell at the University of California Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. The panel traced the affair to Steve Nelson’s Bay Area network and noted a broader cell of young physicists, while clearing a physicist and his wife of subversive acts.
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Washington
I— House
West Coast
House un-American Activities Committee
Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
David Bohm
University of California At Berkeley
Steve Nelson
San Francisco Bay Area
Pennsylvania
Lomanitz
Fisk University
Nashville
Bohm
Princeton University
Nelson
Berkeley Laboratory
Spain
International Brigade
Berkeley
Prin
Baton Rouge Asks Decontrol of Rent
Baton Rouge city council voted five to two to petition the federal housing expediter to decontrol rents in the city. The move followed hours of debate at a council meeting that ran into the early morning.
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Baton Rouge
Ernest B. Roberts
Doug Svendson
FHA
Earl K. Long
Senate near vote on pact limiting A bomb transfer
Senate debate centers on a reservation by Wherry Taft and Watkins to prevent any obligation to share atomic weapons or know how with pact nations. McMahon says treaty carries no such obligation and focus shifts to arms for Europe. Senate leaders expect broad approval despite atomic concerns.
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Truman
Senate
Wherry
McMahon
D-Conn
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
United States
Boy Admits Fatal Shooting of Father in Winnsboro
In Winnsboro Louisiana 16 year old Wesley Collier admits shooting his father Marshall Collier 36 at their farm home after an argument with the mother who is pregnant. The coroner's jury will investigate as Wesley is held in parish jail.
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Winnsboro
Franklin Parish
Marshall Collier
Collier
Wesley
Parish
T. F. Bass
L. F. Robinson
Robinson
Bass
Wesley Collier
Memory Lost Woman Seeks Aid In Recovery Case
A 23 year old Chicago woman claims memory loss since 1946 after awakening in a Biloxi hotel. She believes her name is Hilda Mae Covacevich, once a secretary for Item New Orleans. Officers found a card bearing Hilda Mae Steinke and a Chicago bank checkbook. She was taken to St Luke's hospital for examination.
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Biloxi
Miss
Central Police Headquarters
James Derrig
Frances Knock
Hilda Mae Covacevich
The
Item
New Orleans
Hilda Mae Steinke
Donald Covacevich
St. Luke's Hospital
Truman says Vaughan may testify if called before Senate
President Truman affirmed Major General Harry H. Vaughan may testify if summoned by the Senate committee probing five percenters. He denied implications of a mock decoration and said he supports inquiries to prevent outsiders from steering government contracts. Senator Hoey noted Vaughan could be asked to testify.
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Truman
Army
Harry H. Vaughan
Senate
Vaughan
Hoey
North Carolina
Newsweek Magazine
Guatemala
Congressional
Newsweek
Mundt
R-S. D
Senate Committee
Philip M. Kaiser
Kaiser
Labor Department
Office of International Affairs
Final respects paid to Murphy in Detroit
Detroit honored Justice Frank Murphy age 59 who died of a heart attack. His body lay in state at city hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Relatives altered plans to allow public viewing and a hearse carried him to Harbor Beach for funeral rites with Governor Williams and Chief Justice Vinson among pallbearers.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Frank Murphy
Justice Murphy
George Murphy
Marguerite Teahan
Michigan
Harbor Beach
James J. Marvin
Our Lady of Lake Huron
G. Mennen Williams
Murphy
Fred M. Vinson
Hugo Black
High Court
Maurice J. Tobin
Truman
Congressional
McCarthy Diagnosed With Virus Pneumonia
Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, felled by a heavy cold and hoarseness, told Associated Press reporter Jack Bell that a virus pneumonia diagnosis was made at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He plans a brief hospitalization but expects to vote on the North Atlantic security treaty before returning to bed.
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Washington
McCarthy
R.-Wis
Wisconsin
Jack Bell
Associated Press
Bell
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Senate
Congress Sets September 1 Target for Adjournment
Washington July 21 Congress plans to adjourn by September 1 with Labor Day or later as possible. House leaders aim to clear all must bills by August end including a higher minimum wage and education aid. Taft Hartley revisions and other major bills are not expected this session.
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Washington
House
McCormack
Massachusetts
Ways and Means
Senate
House Labor and Education
Witnesses To Guatemala Revolt Reach New Orleans
American witnesses to the Guatemala revolt arrived in New Orleans on planes from the scene. Tourists described firing near the national palace and a child shot during the fighting. One witness filmed the chaos as crowds gathered after the assassination news.
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Guatemala
New Orleans
Pan-American
T. A. C. A. Airways
Maurine Stein
Annabelle Osberghaus
St. Louis
Miss Stein
National Palace
Gang warfare spikes in California as Cohen shot
Gunfire on the Sunset Strip wounded Gambling Boss Mickey Cohen, special agent Harry Cooper, and others as state county and city officers merge efforts to curb a recent surge of gang violence. Cohen’s lawyer named some suspects, though names were not disclosed.
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Mickey Cohen
Harry Cooper
Attorney General's Office
Little Cohen
Sunset
of the Angels
Fred Howser
San Francisco
Cohen
Sam Rummel
Howser
Cooper
Edward
Neddie) Herbert
Dee David
Sherry’s
C. B. Horrall
Internal rift hits Alabama Ku Klux Klan leadership
Dr. B P Pruitt resigned as Klan board chairman after clashing with in–group elements amid a grand jury probe into floggings cross burnings and boycotts. Klan director William Hugh Morris stays jailed seeking membership records as 44 indictments issued for mob violence.
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Birmingham
Pritt
Klan
William Hugh Morris
Pruitt
Morris
Albert A. Carmichael
Federated
Ku Klux Klan, Inc
Dolph Bailey
Goodwater
Bobby Buckner
Buck Burkhalter
Alexander City
Governor Long Returns to Desk After Chicago Visit
Gov. Earl K. Long resumes duties in Baton Rouge after a several day trip to Chicago. He immediately tackles a backlog of papers and postponed conferences while his aide notes he has had little time to assess the trip.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Chicago
R. A. Fredericks
Truman Denies Dark Secret At Blair House Meeting
President Truman said the secret atomic conference at Blair House was relatively unimportant and refused to disclose what took place. He warned of an advance leak and named Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan as a possible witness while denying deep hidden motives.
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D. Harold Oliver Washington
Truman
Blair House
Harry H. Vaughan
Senate
Farm measure defeat looms in Congress vote
In Washington on July 21, a Democratic Republican coalition pressed to sink the Aiken farm law and consider Brannan subsidy plan. Pace urged consumer concerns while Gore pushed to continue price supports, citing costly potato purchases and farmer subsidies as stakes in the farm policy fight.
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Washington
House
Truman
Aiken
Vermont
Pace
Georgia
D-Ga
House Today
Gore
D-Tenn
The
Brannan
Pact Ratified by Italian Chamber After Earlier Shuffle
Rome January 21 The Italian chamber of deputies voted 323 to 160 to ratify the Atlantic pact amid Russian protests This marked the second vote after a preliminary tally was ruled invalid Giovanni Gronchi announced 469 deputies voted though 546 ballots were cast The chamber earlier defeated Palmiro Togliatti motion for rejection and Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza called Russia note protest astonished The ministers in Washington last April said the pact is not an aggressive alliance.
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Rome
Chamber of Deputies
Giovanni Gronchi
Chamber
Gronchi
Christian Democrat Party
Palmiro Togliatti
Togliatti
Carlo Sforza
Russia
Washington
Polio cases rise again across nation in mid July report
The U S public health service reported 1 013 new infantile paralysis cases for the week ended July 16, up 49 percent from the prior week and raising the year’s total to 4 895. Increases appeared in 13 states with New York Indiana Illinois Arkansas California among the hardest hit and nine states exceeding 100 cases since January.
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Washington
U. S. Public Health Service
New York
New York City
Indiana
Illinois
Arkansas
California
Texas
Oklahoma
Minnesota
Michigan
Porterie Enjoins Oakdale Picketing
Picketing at Newport Industries Oakdale plant is temporarily enjoined by U S District Judge Gaston P Porterie. The order bars mass picketing and threats against employees and sets July 28 for a hearing on permanent injunction in Lake Charles court. Newport Industries says it and its workers are not involved and the dispute targets the Industrial Development Corporation of Baton Rouge which holds a construction contract.
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Alabama
Georgia
Clermont
Willie Padgett
Lake County
Tavares
Florida
Charles Greenlee
Samuel Shepherd
Walter Irvin
Padgett
W. W. McCall
Padgetts
Truman Futch
Futch
J. W. Hunter
Shreveport
Oakdale
United States District
Gaston P. Porterie
Porterie
Newport Industries, Inc
Lake Charles
Newport Industries
Em‘es
Industrial Development Corporation of
Baton Rouge
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