Ottawa spies tied to Soviet Fifth Column networks
Ottawa based Royal Commission report reveals Moscow sought top secret political and wartime defense data from Canada the United States and Britain. It details a Soviet led fifth column via three networks military espionage NKVD and a political section with ties to the embassy in Ottawa and indirect reach into Europe and the United States.
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Ottawa
Canada
Supreme Court
Moscow
United States
NKVD
Great Britain
Europe
Itawa
Nicolai Zabotin
United Kingdom
Tgor Gouzenko
Col
Zabotin
Gouzenko
Wye Taseiat Raeenion
Savitt
Fair Rent Group Named By O Conor
Annapolis July 15 Governor O Conor announced a nine man State fair rent commission as part of efforts to prepare for potential rent control. He stressed the panel has no statutory authority and does not preclude a future special session, while the Baltimore real estate board urged the move to keep rents at fair levels in most cases.
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Annapolis
O'Conor
Fair Rent Commission
General Assembly
Baltimore Real Estate Board
Boston
Lve
Belfast
Roxbury
Back Bay
Clarence Wright
Pauline Kenney
Samuel Eisenstadt
Wright
Massachusetts Ave
Kenney
City Hall
Rose F. Dechene
Montreal
Canada
Parks in city to receive mid year attention
Frederick's parks will receive significant work between now and August 1 focusing on trimming trees lawns and shrubs and upgrading the miniature golf course to serve younger children once sufficient labor is available. City finances show $11,080.94 spent January 1 to June 15 with $12,460.06 remaining of $23,491 allocated for parks.
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Frederick
W. R. Walter
Culier Adinistration
Department of Parks
Park Department
Baker, Mullinix
Carrol and Schley Parks
Memorial Ground
Harmon Field
Hospital Park
Bentz Street
Seventh Street
Mt. Olivet Boulevard
McCurdy
East Third Street
West 14Th St
Baker Park
Mullinix Park
Sherman Avenue
Americans Freed By Reds In Soviet Zone Release
Berlin July 16 The Russians freed two Americans held 15 days for entering the Soviet occupation zone without a written permit. Warrant Officer Samuel L. Harrison of San Antonio and wife Helen were released to Major General Frank A. Keating. Capt. Harold Cobin and Lt. George Wyatt remained in custody, with word from American officials that Russia promised to investigate the base. The release followed a perceived reprisal tied to the pursuit of two Russians held by U S authorities.
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Berlin
Frank A. Keating
U. S. Berlin
Harold Cabin
Newark
N. J
George Wyatt
Oklahoma City
Oranienburg
Navy
Cobin
Wyatt
Harrisons
U.S
Red Army
U. S
Harrison
Keating
Baltimore Milk Price to Rise to 19 Cents Per Quart
Baltimore dairy officials announce a 1 cent per quart price hike effective Thursday, raising the base price for 4 percent milk to 19 cents a quart in the city. The increase, the third since June 1, follows similar rises in Washington and Philadelphia and affects producers at 25 cents per hundredweight for milk shipped to dairies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Shermantine
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Sherermantine
R. W. Shermantine
Maryland Co-Operative Milk Producers’ Association
Europe For Europeans Is Now Proposed
A U S Military Government report notes postwar German intellectuals push a Europe for the Europeans plan to free the Continent from American and Russian influence. They favor an economic union including Western Germany France Belgium Holland and Luxembourg with Europe’s independence restored. No official party endorses the plan though some see it as a Western European bloc against Russia.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Europe
U. S
France
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Russia
America
Nui
United States
Britain
Ruhr
Nine Executed for Selling of Pogrom Kielce Case
Warsaw reports that nine men, condemned by a Polish military tribunal for organizing the Kielce pogrom on July 4, were executed by firing squad early today. Three accomplices received prison terms after last week’s sentencing. appeals were denied. The Kielce pogrom claimed 41 lives, mostly Jews, amid mob violence sparked by a false rumor.
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Warsaw
Pre
Foreign Ministry
Kielce
Supreme Military
Congress Rejects Truman Housing Consolidation Plan
Washington July 15 Congress killed President Truman’s order to merge housing bureaus into a single national agency. The Senate 45 to 3 disapproved Plan No 1 after lukewarm support for other White House plans. The House had already rejected all three proposals.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
White House
Senate
House
Federal Security Agency
NHA
Wilson Wyatt
Taft
Ohio
Hood College Director of Music Named in New Music Leaders Book
Four years director of music at Hood College in Frederick has been named in the forthcoming Who's Important in Music. The Authentic Record of Leaders in the Field of Music and the Institute fen Dasadeeath tm Bierrenh publish the compilation highlighting notable figures in music education and performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood College
Frederick
Institute
Fen Dasadeeath Tm Bierrenh
Made No Confession
William Heirens denied confessing to the Suzanne Degnan kidnapping and the ex-WAVE slaying after being told by the warden about a radio report claiming he confessed. Heirens said he had heard the broadcast and insisted he did not confess to anyone.
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Chicago
William Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Cook County
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War Assets Administration
Albertina E. Papst
Chile
Hugh Jones
Atwood
Ren
Nantucket
Mass
Miss Papst
Alexander Graham Bell
Mark Twain
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
JAPAX
Yone
Brunswick
Potomac View
E. G. Miller
Boonsboro
Evelyn Lee Rickards
Oa Os Aru Vpdaiacuedee
Sds Cong
Oueae
Ben Sanertenenwick
Clyde B. Tucker
Dasa
Betas
Hanover
J.eet Frysinger
York
USA
Studebaker Cmdr
Packard
Oldsmobile
Hillside Motor Co
Tour Studebaker
W. Patrisk
Braddock Heights
Clark Sheetenheim and His Orchestra
Clude
Kerser
N. Market St
Shell Personal
Fredericktown
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
THE
Potomac Edison Coq
Hanes
F. F
South Market
Market ST
Weil Brothers Frederick, MD
Paul L
Romsburg
Bach
Harman
Social and Economic Research Foundation. Inc
S.E.R.F
Social and Economic Research Foundation, Inc
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West Patrick
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