Floods bog down Red China southern offensive
China floods reported by the Central News Agency at Canton bog down the Nationalist southbound push. Hengyang in Hunan province and nearby areas suffer heavy losses, with 20 000 dead. Rail and road disruption noted, while fighting around Sian and Sienyang is limited to outskirts.
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Canton
China
Yang
Huanan
Hengyang
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Changsha-Hengyang
Canton-Hankow
Yangtze River
Nanking
Hankow
Central
Sian
Shensi
Sienyang
Secrets in Hiss perjury trial reveal handwriting link
New York June 15. Moore state department secrets enter evidence as government seeks handwriting and typewriting analysis to connect Hiss to a Soviet spy ring. Whittaker Chambers testified about copied documents said to be given by Hiss, with photostats shown to jurors and 37 documents introduced yesterday.
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New York
Moore State Department
Alger Hiss
Fils
Whittaker ~Chambers
Hiss
Priscilla
Washington
Chambers
Boris Bykov
State Department
Hisses
Biss
Fire crews extinguish two West Monroe blazes
Fire at 300 Desiard Street was put out by Company One at 12:32 a.m. A second kitchen fire at Jimerson's Cafe, 112 South Riverfront Street, West Monroe, was helped by Company Three and West Monroe firefighters at 11:36 p.m. The Watts building suffered only kitchen and supply damage. O C Jimerson runs the cafe.
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Company One
Desiard Street
Company
West Monroe
Jimerson
South Riverfront Street
F. J. Watts
O. C. Jimerson
Oppenheimer silent on Reds in House hearing
Washington June 15 Atomic Scientist Frank Oppenheimer and his wife refused to name or deny acquaintances as Communists. House committee chairman Wood said contempt could be cited but no action planned. Oppenheimer testified he and his wife were card carrying Communists 1957 to 1941, left for practical reasons, and remained loyal Americans. He noted friendships were not ended, and he would protect associates who had no loyalty concerns. The pair said they sought remedies for unemployment and wealth in the world’s wealthiest nation, later resigning from positions at Stanford, Caltech, and the University of Minnesota. A Groves letter dated 1945 was produced praising Oppenheimer’s role in the atomic project. The panel linked Malina and others to Communist activity, while the Oppenheimers admitted meetings at Pasadena but would not discuss names or locations beyond social contact.
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Far East
House
American Activities Committee
Francis B. Sayre
Hiss
Sayre
United States
Thomas F. Murphy
Murphy
State Department
Hoe
Yvon Delbas
France
Germany
Delbas
Adolf Hitler
Delbos
Hitler
William C. Bullitt
China
Austria
Italy
Japan
War Department
Walter H. Anderson
Washington
Frank Oppenheimer
Wood
D.-Ga
House UN American Activities Committee
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimers
Velde
Walter
D.-Pa
Harrison
D.-Va
McSweeney
Ohio
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Stanford University
Palo Alto
University of Minnesota
Leslie R. Groves
Louis J. Russell
Groves
Openheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Russell
Frank J. Malina
Malina
Steve Nelson
Isaac Folkoff
Washington Times-Herald
Minnesota
Martin defends phone rate hike in Louisiana
Baton Rouge June 15 Wade O. Martin Sr chairman of the state public service commission says Louisianians may have been spared bigger telephone bills because the commission granted the telephone company an annual increase of about 3.5 million dollars in revenues Martin said he was proud the commission did not take the line of least resistance He noted criticism of the increase Martin and Commissioner Harvey Broyles voted for it Commissioner Nat Knight dissented He said the commission must permit the company to earn six percent to maintain securities for market movement
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Baton Rouge
Wade O. Martin
State Public Service Commission
Martin
Harvey Broyles
Shreveport
Nat Knight
Gretna
Robber Messamore hunted along waterfront in Kentucky
William D. Messamore, 33, alleged bank robber, escaped from McCracken jail and fled toward the Ohio River. Federal, state and local officers pursued across Kentucky, Indiana, and Mississippi connections tied to a $19,000 Kevil bank theft. Messamore linked to multiple escapes. co defendants Gore and Stegall held in Vicksburg before being returned for trial.
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Paducah
William D. Messamore
Messamore
McCracken County
Kevil
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ohio River
Bill Owings
Messemore
Bobby Owings
Coryon
Ind
William Vandiver
Vandiver
Vandivers
English
Oho River
Kentucky
Brandenburg
Federal Grand Jury
Thomas W. Gore
Charles Stegall
Gore
Stegall
Vicksburg
Miss
LSU Hosts Summer Orientation Trip Plan for Latin Americans
Baton Rouge La June 15 An LSU summer orientation course for Latin American students includes a New Orleans cuisine sampling tour a Natchez Ante Bellum homes visit cultural study voice recording of English and dormitory living with Pan American House meals The six week program costs 180 dollars with 27 hostesses from last year Also North American students will take a reverse trip to Latin America with groups bound for Guatemala and Bogota.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
New Orleans
Natchez
Miss
LSU
Latin America
San Carlos
Guatemala
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Bogota
Big Air War on Hoppers Opens in Wyoming and Montana
A month long aerial campaign begins from five bases in Wyoming and Montana to combat a grasshopper plague. U S Department of Agriculture Iverson leads bug experts sweeping a 30 million acre danger zone to locate critical infestations for targeted poison broadcast by planes. The effort involves 16 counties with funding shared by federal, state, county and farmer entities.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Wyoming
Montana
Leo Iverson
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Iverson
Wisconsin
Texas
California
Illinois
Montana-Wyoming
Jim R. Dutton
U. S. Grasshopper Control Division
Lusk
Buffalo
Gillette
Worland
Forsythe
Georgia records twenty sixth unsolved lynching
IRWINTON Ga June 15 Georgia added No 26 today to an unbroken string of unsolved Negro lynchings. A Wilkinson county grand jury probed six hours into the Caleb Hill Jr murder but found insufficient evidence for trial. Two white men Ennis Purvis and Malcolm Pierce were released after ten days in jail. Federal agents weigh civil rights charges and sheriff Hatcher described the attack in a Negro cafe leading to Hill’s capture and death May 30. Georgia has not secured a lynching conviction since 1900.
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Irwinton
Georgia
Wilkinson County
Caleb Hill, Jr
Ennis Lamar Purvis
Malcolm Vivian Pierce
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hatcher
Hill
Robed men flog World War II veteran in Alabama
In Birmingham, a 31 year old World War II veteran, Billy Guy Stovall, was dragged from his home and lashed 20 times by robed and hooded assailants. The attack followed two earlier robed incidents in the week, including a cross burning witnessed by a neighbor and a cross burn at a small restaurant.
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Birmingham
Ala
Billy Guy Stovall
Hugh McDonal
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