Spy On U S Reds Receives Legion Medal
ROANOKE Virginia August 6 Mrs Mary Markward a Fairfax County housewife received a gold medal from the American Legion for six years of spying on American Communists Women Legionnaires praised her modesty noting her work compared with the men who earned the honors She served 1943 to 1949 as an active Communist reporting Reds activities to the FBI at their request The medal is her only citation following the disclosure of hundreds of names she provided last month to the House un american activities committee.
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Mary Markward
Virginia American Legion
Fairfax County
Markward
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FBI
Reds Open New Uranium Mine Near Jachymov
Washington reports Soviet backed sites in Czechoslovakia began uranium production at a pit near Hermanovo Seisy close to Jachymov. Soviet engineers and workers rushed to the site as Moscow expands exploration in Kremnica Spravnica and Banska Bystrica.
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Russia
Czechoslovakia
Hermanovo Seisy
Jachymov
Iron Curtain
Hermanovw Seisy
Liberty Legion
Committee For Liberation of
Slovakia
Kremnica
Spravnica
Banska Bystrica
Soviet Union
Kosice
Vv. S. Krajcovic
Committee For Liberation
Communist Radio
Prague
Texan Named Adjutant General of Far East Command
Tokyo August 16 1950 AP The supreme allied command said Col C C B Warden of Paris Texas has been named adjutant general of the Far East and United Nations command He succeeds Maj Gen K B Bush reassigned to Washington D C The promotion places a Texas officer in a pivotal post guiding Allied operations in the Pacific theater.
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Tokyo
Supreme Allied Command
Col. C. C. B. Warden
Paris
Texas
Far East
United Nations Command
K. B. Bush
Washington, D. C
Gas Subdues Prison Knife at San Quentin
At San Quentin California on August 16 an Indian inmate stabbed another prisoner with a prison made knife and then held officers at bay until tear gas subdued him. The victim Jack Don Hun saker 21 suffered multiple chest and abdomen wounds including a liver puncture and was near death in the prison hospital. The assailant Sherman Mullen 31 fled to his cell and threatened self harm before tear gas shells fired from pistols finally subdued him and he was taken to the hospital for treatment of tear gas effects.
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Calif
Jack Don Hunsaker
Los Angeles
Clinton T. Duffy
Sherman Mullen
Shasta County
Duffy
Mullen
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