Spy Probers Weigh Hiss Chambers Ties Over Maryland Farm
The House un American Activities Committee pressed to verify a claimed link between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers over a Maryland farm. A handwriting expert was brought in to assess a disputed 1930s real estate transfer involving a Ford car. Rep Nixon said findings could show a closer connection or mere coincidence.
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House un-American Activitiesommittee
Alger Hise
Whittaker Chambers
Westminster
Hiss
Maryland
Chambers
Ater
Nixon
Louis Budena
Fils
State Department
House un-Amérian Activities Committee
Couley
Handweiling
William Rosen
Wiliam Rosen
Assait Monel
Ford
Rosen
Atstis
McDowell
R-Pa
Rana
Communists Storm Berlin City Hall Amid Rival Government Clash
Police stood by as a Communist mob stormed Berlin city hall and disrupted a meeting of the elected anti Communist city council. The incident, following elections won by non Communist forces, echoes the Czechoslovak coup, as rioters vow to return and press for a rump administration in the divided city.
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Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Viat Republic
Council
Radio Rights of Godless Probed by Congress
A congressional committee probes radio rights of atheists in a clash over equal time for religious and anti religious broadcasts. The inquiry follows a 1946 FCC stance that licenses must weigh specific facts in controversy and that belief freedom includes disbelieving and speaking against belief.
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Washington
Congressional Committee
Chitman Harness
House Committee
Federal Communications
Nay
Farness
Ason
Communications Ack
FCC
Commission
Aradio
A& Case
Robert Harold Scott
Palo Alto
Calif
San Jose
KPO
KFRC
San Francisco
Scott
Harless Committee
Courageous Dorothy Kilmer faces life after paralysis
Washington reports Dorothy Kilmer, a 20 year old nightclub worker shot in July, has learned she will never walk again. Hospital staff gathered to tell her, and she responded with quiet resolve saying she will be happy and carry on. She expressed faith that her life has a purpose if God spared her life.
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Washington
Dorothy Kilmer
Miss Milmer
Dorothy
Molotov Meets Envoys Again in Kremlin Talks
In Moscow three western envoys led by U S ambassador Walter Bedell Smith meet Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov at the Kremlin for crucial German crisis negotiations. They plan to proceed to the British embassy after the session, with forecasts reportedly improving from fair to good.
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Kremlin
V. M. Molotov
U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
Yves Chabaigneau
Frank Roberts
Sub Due Here Che Wiss Saplensa at Portsmouth Base
Sub Che Wiss Saplensa is due at Portsmouth naval base Sunday for a 10 day period of restricted activity recorded by base officials. The sun is commanded by Lt Comdr A J Toulon Jr.
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Portsmouth Naval Base
Sun
Comdr
A. J. Toulon, Jr
Eight Hospitalized In Local Auto Crashes In Portsmouth Area
Eight persons were hospitalized today after four serious automobile crashes in the Portsmouth area. Readouts list injuries to Kittery youths Francis Krichbaum Charles Grant Carl Rowe and Thomas Sleet with varied head knee neck and ankle injuries. Two groups of Rhode Island residents were also injured on the Maine Turnpike near Wells. Police investigate and await condition updates.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth Hospital
Francis M. Krichbaum
Virgil N. Krichbaum
Stimson Street
Kittery
Charles 5. Grant
Stephen Grant
Grant's Court
Thomas B. Emery
Forrest Emery
Williams Avenue
Carl’ Rowe
Harold Rowe
Thomas H. Sleet
Lynn
Mags
Goodall Hospital
Sanford
Vincent Thorpe
Earl Smith
Pawtucket
R. I
Marcy Street
Krichbaum
Wallis Sands
Rhode Island
Maine Turnpike
Wells
Thorpe
Douglas R. Hall
Railroads Seek Higher Coal Rates
The railroads asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for nationwide rate increases to tall coal coke and iron ore. They proposed 25 cents a net ton or 20 cents a gross ton for coal and coke and 20 cents a ton for iron ore in the east and south. They said current rates lag other commodities and justify higher charges to offset rising operating costs.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce, Commission
Voters Defeat Bond After School Build Ok in North Hampton
North Hampton residents approved a $165000 school plan but rejected the bond needed to fund it at a special meeting. A legal posting error canceled the original session, prompting resignations from the three-member school committee and district treasurer amid a crowd of about 200 voters.
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Old North Hampton
North Hampton
James F. Leavitt
Centennial Hall
First National Bank of Boston
Paul W. Hobbs
Chester A. Davis
Dow
Ada M. Fogg
Swanbury Construction Company
Manchester
North Hampton Selectmen
Hurricane Hunter Plane Links with 160 MPH Storm East of Miami
An AP report says a navy hurricane hunter aircraft entered a 160 mph hurricane about 300 miles east of Miami. The plane reportedly lost radio contact with land as it braved the fierce storm.
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Miami
Florida-Georgia
Grady Norton
Navy
C. W. Gibbs
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Psatmakis Nomikos
Cossle Guard
Judge to Inspect Raymond School In Building Fight
Superior Court judge Stephen W. Wheeler plans a personal inspection of the Raymond consolidated school building dispute over a $24,000 annex. A petition by Raymond businessman Charles McCarthy to halt construction was temporarily suspended as officials testified about light timbers and knotty fir. Raymond school board chair Josiah R. Gordon said 1988 plans are being used and funding delays paused further changes.
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Exeter
Raymond
Raymond Consolidated School
Wheeler
Charles ¥. McCarthy
Nicholas Isaak
Manchester
Josiah R. Gordon
Raymond School Board
Roscos M. Nowell
Isaak
Gordon
Clank Clank Cabriolet Cross Country Ride Ends Across Nation
Scituate Massachusetts August 27 AP two teens Brooke Durant and Holker Welch aged 17 finished a 9500 mile coast to coast journey in a mixed 1912 body with 1923 engine. They repaired along the way and found plenty of helpful locals including a Missouri restaurant owner offering $800.
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Mast
United States
Pennsylvania
Texas
Brooke Durant
Holker Welch
Los Angeles
Durant and Welch
Missouri
State Action Due On Story Contracts Probe
Concord Aug 37 AP The New Hampshire public awaits a state action outcome from the Story contracts probe questioning of officials linked to 700000 in Standard Construction contracts of Manchester. A report from special counsel Kenneth Graf is due by early September guiding possible criminal actions or civil rulings, with Standard appealing a civil suit expected before November or December.
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New Hampshire
Standard Construction Company of
Manchester
Ernest R. D’amours
Stephen
Story
D'Amours
Kenneth Graf
Graf
D’amours
Stanley Burns
Dover
Standard
Snow mound found by crane operator at coal yard
Crane operator Clyde B. Campbell of 523 Market Street spotted a large snow mound uncovered by a one ton bucket at Consolidation Coal. He joked about taking some home for lunch but feared it would melt in the 30 degree air.
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Clyde B. Campbell
Market Street
Consolidation Coal Company
Morolog
Campbell
Officials Confer On Bartlett Street Extension Plan
City Manager Edward C. Peterson and State Highway Commissioner Frederic E. Everett discussed extending Bartlett Street across the interstate highway with an overpass to relieve a bottleneck at Woodbury Avenue. Peterson said state plans are in talk stages with many details to resolve before action.
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Bartlett Street
Edward C. Peterson
Frederic E. Evereth
Peterson
Everett
Homer Richardson
Woodbury Avenue
Portsmouth
Heat Ties New England In Severe August Day
New Hampshire's Rockingham county and all New England sweltered for a third straight day with record heat. Concord hit 100 degrees the hottest August day in 77 years as ports and industries faced shortened hours and heat related intimidation. Fire risk grew as Maine forests dried and crops withered while public offices and shipyard workers considered early departures.
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New Hampshire
Rockingham County
All New England
Concord
New New Hampshire
Republicans Focus on Reds in Government Election Debate
Washington dispatch notes Republicans press the red-flag issue in the campaign. Senator Revercomb of Virginia argues the administration failed to purge Communists from federal service, calling it not un-American to protect America. He faces Matthew Neely, backed by AFL, in a tight November race. Rankin’s Mississippi renomination boosts the white supremacist bloc as a backdrop to the broader political fight.
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Revercomb
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Congress
Matthew M. Neely
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Russia
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Mississippi
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