New England Faces Heat Wave With Fire Danger Rising
Heat and drought grip the Northeast with at least a week of hot humid, dry weather. Vermont closes woods to hunting and fishing. New Hampshire and Maine ban fires in woodlands. Temperatures in the 80s persist. scattered showers expected in New York and Pennsylvania as forest fires flare across Adirondacks and Oregon remains at risk. Milk and crop conditions worsen in New Jersey amid dry pastures.
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Missing uranium at Argonne prompts fresh questions
July 17 1949 statement from Hickenlooper cites seven-eighths recovered of missing material from Argonne National Laboratory Chicago. He notes the container was found but remains unconvinced the mystery is solved. Four grams still unaccounted for fuels surmise of surreptitious removal.
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Monroflay News-Star
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
Commission
Atomic Agency
Hickenlooper
Americans in Welsh town charm festival crowds
The American youth choir toured a Welsh town during a grand festival, drawing cheers in bright frocks and vivid neckties. They toured Shakespeare country and London, then Antwerp, The Hague, Brussels and Paris, returning to the United States June 27. Miss Nichols said the group is a broad cross section, not elite performers, with chaperones Miss Ana Lea Wallace and Miss Mary Lea George reporting orderly behavior.
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Wales
Miss Nichols
England
Tower of London
Antwerp
Hague
Brussels
Paris
United States
Music Education National Conference
Waitkus Case: Steinhagen Quizzed After Court
Miss Steinhagen was questioned by Dr. Haines of the Cook County Behavior Clinic after a court appearance. He said the girl might be suffering from schizophrenia but would keep an open opinion after a full examination. Before entering court she told reporters she regretted shooting Waitkus and admired him, implying personal distress if he dies.
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H. Haines
Cook County
Chicago
Miss Steinhagen
Dr. Haines
Catholic Church Crisis in Corpus Christi Noted
Police raided the archbishopric palace on Tuesday and Wednesday, detaining Rev. Dr. Rudolf Doerner and Rev. Dr. Kucera as government demand for church records rose. A multi copy machine used for clerical letters was seized while Archbishop Beran, Bevan, and other bishops met, and a government backed weekly Catholic News began campaigning for church state peace.
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Education Ministry
Rudolf Doerner
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Beran
Bevan
Kucera
Catholic News
Quadruplets Die Minutes After Birth in New Jersey
Premature quadruplets two boys and two girls died within 15 minutes of each other after a 5 month pregnancy. Mother Mrs. Raymond Caffrey of Union Beach gave birth at Monmouth Memorial Hospital where she was listed in good condition. Quadruplets occur about once every 551,271 births.
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N. J
Raymond Caffrey
Union Beach
N. J. Monmouth Memorial Hospital
Coplon Testimony Reveals Personal Tie With Russian Spy
Miss Coplon described a 1948 Christmas gift exchange and a brief, nonromantic kiss from Gubitchev as she testified about her relationship with the accused Soviet spy. She recalled a vacation to Europe in 1948 and said she never gave him government papers, while confirming her job at the Justice Department and the espionage charges pending against both.
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Los Angeles Sex Murder Echoes Black Dahlia Case
In Los Angeles, a 28 year old hairdresser and mother, Louise Coulter Springer, was found garroted and sexually assaulted in her husband’s sports convertible. Coroner calls strangulation probable. husband reports she disappeared Monday night. Neighbors recall a man in naval style uniform. murder echoes the Black Dahlia case of 1947.
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Louise Coulter Springer
Ben Brown
Los Gatos
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San Francisco
Bennie Moritz
Robert White
Elizabeth Short
City Hall Practice Sparks Eisteddfod Prep Speech
The group rehearsed from about 7:30 to 9 at city hall for the Eisteddfod under director Mr Williams. They note safety walking home for the girls and express gratitude for the trip and support received.
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Owe
Wallace
Lois Radley
Llangollen
Dayton
Ohio
Rape remark and Austrian settlement tensions cited
A controversial remark on ministers calls rape the best antidote to communism. The main obstacle to an Austrian settlement is Russia's claim to Nazi‑era properties in east Austria, including oil assets and Danubian Steamship Company properties.
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Russia
Austria
Danubian Steamship Company
Witness Wadleigh backs Chambers claims of Communist ties
Wadleigh testified for the prosecution that he collaborated with the Communists but denied party membership. He admitted sharing documents with Chambers and with David Carpenter while in the State Department, saying he stopped aiding in 1939 after the Nazi Soviet pact and that he used only material that came over his desk.
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Hiss
State Department
Wadleigh
David Carpenter
Carpenter
Murphy
China
Mr. Chambers
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Stryker
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Hatton Sumners Retires and Jacobs Critique Emerges
A Dallas man Hatton Sumners retires amid sharp attacks on Congressman Jacobs. The writer urges applying criminal standards to union racketeers and accuses Jacobs of seeking publicity with a private act. The piece, dated 1949, reflects Democratic infighting and calls for constitutional reform within unions.
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Hatton Sumners
Dallas
Jacobs
Indianapolis
United States
King Features Syndicate, Inc
New Orleans Names Joseph L Scheuering Police Chief
Mayor Morrison announced Joseph L Scheuering, 41, as superintendent of police in New Orleans. He has served as acting chief since February 15 after A Adair Watters resigned and will seek approval from the commission council at today’s meeting. Shower baths were used by the ancient Greeks.
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New Orleans
de Lisseps Morrison
Joseph L. Scheuering
Scheuering
Acts
A. Adair Watters
Morrison
Commission Council
Atomic commission under fire over leaks and waste
Huie quotes Chairman lacking stomach for weapon production while Hickenlooper defends Lilienthal rebutting claims of restlessness. Price calls for leaks probe as Hickenlooper targets waste in Oak Ridge Hanford and Los Alamos. Senate subcommittee tightens on a 1.09 billion AEC request amid three spending criticisms. Yesterday a uranium-235 case opened the atomic hearing.
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Commission
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D-Ia
Hickenlooper
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Hanford
Wash
Los Alamos
N. M
Senate
Atomic Committee
Babich questioned as prosecutors reveal fear motive in Patricia case
Prosecutor cites Babich testimony that he bought a gun to scare Patricia and prevent her revealing Kathleen's pregnancy. Dr. Carter and Dr. Van Hecke present autopsy findings on Patricia’s death by two bullets. water delay complicates order of shots. The note ends by recalling England's 1870 abolition of drawing and quartering.
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Patricia
Kathleen
McCauley
Pat
Babich
Thomas A. Carter
Chicago
Cook County
L. J. van Hecke
Black man executed in Arkansas prison
Mizell Palmer, 23, a slight-built Black man, was executed at the Kansas electric chair at Tucker Prison Farm near Little Rock for raping a young white woman during a 1947 crime. He died quietly after the sentence. co-defendant Charles Hamm received life imprisonment.
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Ark
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Kansas Electric
Mizell Palmer
Charles Hamm
Ex-Governor William A. Comstock Dies in Michigan
William A. Comstock 71 former Michigan governor 1933 34 and Detroit city councilman since 1940 died last night in Alpena. The passage notes England banned bear and bull baiting by parliament in 1835, a historical aside.
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William A. Comstock
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