Cuban smuggling ring and visa move linked to Havana kingpin
Secret Senate testimony says a Russian born man nicknamed monovich dominates a Cuban smuggling network into the United States via Florida. Immigr ation officials identify him as the Havana center of the operation. The testimony prompts talks of tightening Cuban entry rules with visas and passports amid subversive infiltration fears.
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International News Service
Washington
Senate
U.S
Florida
Miami
Mages’ Subcommittee
Onlymonovich
Roates
Havana
Simonovich
Immigration Service
Capitol Hill
Cuba
Senate Department
State Department
California Physicist Under Indictment
Dr. Sidney Weinbaum, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on eight counts of perjury and fraud. The charges arise from his denial under oath that he was a communist. The indictment followed questioning of lab associate Dr. Jacob W. Dubnoff, 41, a senior biochemist at Cal Tech.
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Los Angeles
INS
Sidney Weinbaum
California Institute of Technology
James M. Carter
Jacob W. Dubnoff
Cal Tech
Weinbaum
Dangers Rise On Closed Harlansburg Road
Residents ignore a closed Harlansburg road to reach destinations, facing car damage from torn surfaces where culverts are installed. Nighttime bike riders on unlit city streets menace pedestrians and risk collisions with vehicles.
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Harlansburg
Partly cloudy and warmer with scattered showers today
Partly cloudy and warmer with some chance of scattered showers today. Scattered showers and becoming cooler Saturday. United States weather statistics show 24 hour period ending 9 am with a maximum 88 and a minimum 61 and no precipitation. River stage 5.5 feet. Year ago readings show a maximum of 80 and a minimum of 51.
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United States
Democratic Governors Hear Truman On Foreign Policy Lesson
President Truman outlined unity and cooperation at home as key to world peace for 18 Democratic state governors at a White House lunch. He urged support for “real Democrats” in Congress and defended foreign policy, with praise for Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
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Washington
Truman
Sen. McCarthy
Wis
State Department
House
Senate
Dean Acheson
White Sulphur Springs
Mr. Truman
Shriners Return From National Conclave in Los Angeles
About 200000 Shriners head home from the 76th national conclave in Los Angeles after a five day festival staged by Ancient Order of the Mystic Shrine nobles. The event culminated with 100000 locals at the Coliseum for an electric pageant. Dr. Hubert M. Poteat of Wake Forest College was named imperial potentate for the coming year.
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Los Angeles
Order of the Mystic Shrine
Boy Drowns Near Zelienople While Wading in Creek
George Robert O'Hara fourteen from Glenshaw Pa drowned in Connoquenessing creek near Zelienople while wading. His body was recovered 30 minutes later by his brother Edward an uncle and a friend who were fishing on the Pflug farm. Zelienople Harmony firemen attempted artificial respiration for an hour.
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Zelienople
INS
George Robert O’hara
Glenshaw
Connoquenessing Creek
Edward
Harmony
Plan To Probe State Primary
Harrisburg June 23. A U S Senate sub committee will investigate Pennsylvania's Republican primary campaign spending. Reports show Cooke Kunkel spent 892 459 while Duff Fine spent 864 323. Five Cooke Kunkel and 11 Duff Fine reports were missing at deadline. The probe may extend to Illinois Florida and North Carolina.
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Harrisburg
INS
Pennsylvania
U. S. Senate
State Elections Bureau
Cooke-Kunkel Alliance
Duff- Fine
Cooke-Kunkel
Bureau
Washington
U. S
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa
Illinois
Florida
North Carolina
Seek Big Fund For Arming Of Other Countries
The administration launches a senate drive for a 1.2225 billion bill to rearm Western Europe with new U S weapons and offset Soviet atomic superiority. The plan also offers military aid to the Philippines Korea the China area Greece Turkey and Iran with most funds directed to Atlantic pact nations. Taft and George indicate conditional support amid debate on arms sharing policy.
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INS
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Europe
America
Senate Foreign Relations
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Texas
Atlantic
Russia
Philippines
Korea
China Area
Greece
Turkey
Iran
GOP
Taft
Ohio
Sen. George
Fire on hillside near Cathedral property at Highland and Lincoln
Firemen were called to the Cathedral property at Highland and Lincoln avenues where grass on the hillside along Highland avenue was found afire. Fire Chief H. F. Steinbrink stated there was no image.
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Second Ward
Highland and
Lincoln Avenues
Highland Avenue
H. F. Steinbrink
Traffic signals arrive for West Side intersections
Atlantic Avenue and West Washington Street along with Greenwood Avenue will gain traffic signals. City Electrician Rex Hughes and assistants will install them as poles are placed and wires strung in preparation for the lights.
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Atlantic Avenue
West Washington Street
Greenwood Avenue
City
Rex Hughes
Bradley and Johnson Visit Far East and Return to U S
Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and General Omar N. Bradley concluded their Orient inspection tour at Haneda airport Tokyo and prepared to fly to Washington Anchorage Alaska. Johnson said U S security remains tied to Far East positions and favored retaining bases in Japan until the cold war settles. He dismissed premature talk of a Japanese peace treaty and clarified MacArthur's position was not misinterpreted.
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Louis Johnson
Orient
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America
Far East
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Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Alaska
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Johnson
Douglas MacArthur
Radio voice Don Wilson to marry Lois Corbet in Santa Barbara
Radio announcer Don Wilson and actress Lois Virgina Corbet obtained a marriage license in Santa Barbara and are expected to wed soon. Wilson, 49, and Corbet, 43, spend Miss Corbet's first marriage. The couple met through radio work and plan a formal ceremony in the near future.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
INS
Don Wilson
Wilson
Jack Benny
Lois Virgina Corbet
Miss Corbet
State Plans Lease of 27 312 Acres Forest Land for Drilling
The commonwealth will lease 27 312 acres of state forest land to drill for natural gas and oil. Sealed bids due July 18 will cover three tracts in Clinton Cameron and Carbon counties with royalties and ground rent as bid factors. Government approval by Gov. Duff is required for awards.
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Harrisburg
INS
Commonwealth
State Department of Forests and Waters
James H. Duff
Leidy
East Townships
Clinton County
Goorg Cownento
Cameron County
Wharton Township
Carbon County
Daniel M. Miller
Potter County
Sugar Truck Overturns On Lincoln Highway Near Gap
A truck carrying 40,000 pounds of sugar swerved off the Lincoln highway near Gap and toppled onto the roof of a house at the base of the roadbank. Homeowners Mr and Mrs Clyde Groff awoke unharmed on the second floor. Driver Romeo S Egidi 26 of Rachel West Virginia was fined 35 dollars and costs for reckless driving. Sugar bags remained intact.
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Gap
INSI
Lincoln Highway
Clyde Groff
Romeo S. Egidi
Rachel
W. Va
Worst Flood In Columbia River Region
The Columbia river basin faces one of its worst floods as water overruns dikes and officials raise forecasts. The Portland weather bureau now expects the river at Vancouver to reach 26.1 feet by Monday, with a crest still undetermined after the 1948 peak of 30.2 feet. The river stood at 24.6 feet at Vancouver today.
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Portland
Ore
INS
Columbia River
Weather Bureau
Columbia
Vancouver
Wash
E. S. Ellison
Portland Weather Bureau
Vanport
Service Questioned By Senate Probers In Loyalty Inquiry
Senate loyalty probes question career diplomat John S. Service behind closed doors about names in an address book seized in the Amerasia documents case. The hearing focused on Eugene Benogradoff, once Moscow-based, identified as a former press attache at Chungking. Senator McCarthy called Service a security risk after observing the session.
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Washington, D. C
John Service
Joseph McCarthy
Wis
Senate
Service
Washington
INS
John S. Service
Amerasia
Robert Morris
Eugene Benogradoff
Moscow
Benogradoff
Chungking
Sen. McCarthy
Alger Hiss
William W. Remington
Pittsburgh Milk Strike Nears End
The Pittsburgh milk strike could end if rank and file drivers accept a new wage and hour proposal. The AFL Local 205 will vote tonight on the offer, which would halt the 15 day strike that has disrupted milk to about 2.3 million people across seven counties and closed 67 dairies.
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Pittsburgh
AFL
More Victims Of Plane Crash Being Hunted
Bedford Virginia June 23 Searchers combed fields and woods southeast of Bedford for more possible victims of a Navy four engine plane crash en route from Muroc California to the east coast witnesses said it exploded and burned in mid air four or five bodies were recovered state police and Lynchburg police said more victims were sought because the ship disintegrated and may have carried several more persons names of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin.
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Bedford
INS
Muroc
Calif
Virginia
Lynchburg
Draft Action By President Needed Today
President Truman must sign a 15 day stop gap extension to prevent lapse of the draft act at midnight. Congress locked in by recess, Senate approved a three year selective service extension. state of emergency required to draft 19 through 25. House and Senate conference to iron out differences. House not in session before Monday to act on any accord.
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Washington
INS
Truman
House
Congress
Senate
Senate House
Myers
Lightning strikes convict during escape near Winter Haven
Angelo Messina, a fleeing convict, was killed when two lightning bolts struck him while he ran across an open field near Winter Haven Florida during an attempted escape from a state road department truck. Witness J H Daniels described the first bolt stunning him and the second delivering the fatal blow.
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Winter Haven
Fla
INS
Angelo Messina
Florida State Road Department
J. H. Daniels
Messina
Steel Plant Burns in Tilbury Fire
A spectacular fire at the Chatco Steel Company Ltd plant in Tilbury Ontario destroyed the $500,000 facility. Explosions marked the blaze as firefighters protected nearby homes and a stove works from spreading flames.
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Tilbury
Ont
Chatco Steel Company Ltd
Death Records Update Listings From City Notebook
Death notices list Simon Straula aged 63 of R D 1 Mrs Mary Magdalen Wochner 76 of 1405 West Washington street infant Daugherty at 80912 West Washington street James Alexander Mitchell 177 2104 North Mercer Street and Frederick Melee 38 Sitp ipery Rock RD.
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Simon Straula
R. D
Mary Magdalen Wochner
West
Washington Street
Infant Daugherty
James Alexander Mitchell
North Mercer Street
Frederick Melee
Sitpipery
Rescuers Race To Reach B 29 Crew After Pacific Crash
A U S Air Force B 29 crashed 140 miles southeast of Guam. Nine of eleven crewmen were sighted in liferafts or life jackets as rescue vessels rush to the scene. The crash occurred en route from Andersen field to Okinawa with cause unknown. Lifeboats dropped. a Navy PBM seaplane and tug Munsey headed to aid. Names of the crew withheld pending rescue.
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Guam
INS
Pacific
19Th
Andersen Field
Okinawa
Cmdr
Edward P. Drake
Munsey
Apra Harbor
Prepare For Rail Strikes
Railroads in the Midwest and West begin to curtail passenger and freight service as a switchmen’s strike looms for Sunday. The Rock Island routes cut through service between Chicago and Los Angeles Kansas City and Memphis with suburban runs ending by Sunday at 3 a.m. Chicago time. A new walkout by the Pullman conductors division of the Order of Railway Conductors targets all roads at 6 a.m. local time July 11, marking the fourth strike threat in two days.
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Chicago
INS
Rock Island
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Memphis
Pullman Conductors Division
The
Order of Railway Conductors
Travel Folders Sell Ideal Spots By The Sea And Mountains
Bright travel folders promote sea side retreats mountains and ranch getaways with pictures of wide porches rockers and restless travelers. Prices are advertised as not too high and readers are urged to come soon to book their dream trip.
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Old Pine Tree
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