MacArthur Extends Japanese Red Ban
General MacArthur moves to widen the purge of Japanese leftists by banning 17 more Reds, bringing total to 41 in 24 hours. Akahata headlines vow the party is indestructible as police raid unions and a general strike is called. Yoshida discusses outlawing the Communist Party amid talks with MacArthur.
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TOKYO
MacArthur
Akahata
new order
Communist party
Shigeru Yoshida
Japan
William J. Sebald
allied council
Russia
Eleven Ordered To Begin Terms In Contempt Conviction
Washington June 7 Eleven leaders of the joint anti-Fascist refugee committee including novelist Howard Fast were jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to produce records and reports. Barsky gets six months while the others receive three months and all pay 500 dollar fines. All are New York City residents awaiting reassignment of jail location and time to call families before transfer.
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WASHINGTON
Edward K. Barsky
joint
New York City
District of Columbia
O. John Rogge
Gentle confessed killer? Besnard described as gentle character
Paris June 7 1 Mme Marie Besnard aged 54 appears a kindly grandmother but police insist she poisoned 12 close relatives since 1927. After three months of mental testing doctors declare her sane and fit for trial for murder. Conviction could carry the guillotine.
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PARIS
Mme
Marie Besnard
Mme. Besnard
Untitled Baseball Snippet Highlights Night Games
Incomplete notes show national league matchups with Brooklyn visiting Pittsburgh Philadelphia at Cincinnati and Beaton at St. Louis while Detroit and New York have listed games. Other entries mention players Bietlow Dobeon Tebbetts Heaton Stephena Vollmer Dropo and teams Cleveland Washington Philadelphia with night games and a St. Louis-Sievers reference.
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Bietlow
Loul
Dobeon
Tebbetts
HES
St. Louis
Sievers
Thomas
Heaton
Stephena
Vollmer
Dropo
Cleveland
Washington
aes
Philadelphia
Detroit
New York
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn
Pittspurgh
Phuadelphia
Cincinnati
Beaton
New Stork
Chicago
Aircraft Crash Inquiry Begun
MARDA Bla June 7 A searching investigation began today into the crash of a C 46 plane in which 28 Puerto Ricans apparently lost their lives Representatives of the civil aeronautics board and the Puerto Rican government flew to San Juan and Charleston SC to open inquiries The Destroyer USS Saufley steamed toward Charleston with 37 survivors It was due to dock at 4 p m EST Eight were known dead and scant hope was held for 20 others aboard the twin engine plane that went down in the Atlantic 275 miles east northeast of Miami Monday night The 165 foot cutter Aurora three coast guard planes and one air force craft continued to search the area for possible survivors but officials said there was little hope for finding any more The pilot co pilot and steward were among those rescued from the Plane which was en route from San Juan to Wilmington NC with 62 Puerto Rican migrant workers aboard
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MARDA
Bla
civil aeronautics board
San Juan
Charleston
Saufley
Atlantic
Miami
Aurora
coast,guard
air force
Wilmington
N.C
Trade New Blast On Communists Trade New Blast On Communists
Washington June 7 The clash between Senator McCarthy and the state department prompts Senator Aiken to predict a political stalemate in the communist dispute. McCarthy cites an FBI list from 1946 naming 124 Soviet agents and sympathizers in the state department, while the department calls his charge an absolute falsehood as GOP lawmakers denounce a forthcoming panel as a whitewash.
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WASHINGTON
McCarthy
state ‘department
Truman
Mundt
R-SD
senate
state department
FBI
department
Barbecue King Faces Drug Charge In Oakland
Oakland police charged Henry Daniels 64 known as the Barbeque King after arrest at his cafe. Investigators found 500 marijuana plants growing on the roof and in the yard and said he used the barbecue pit vent to dry leaves of the plant.
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OAKLAND
Calif
Henry Daniels
Daniels
Guy Skelton
Girl 13 Walks Again After Steel Reinforced Legs
Marilyn Kay Howard, a 13-year-old Charleston girl born with osteogenesis imperfecta, endured multiple broken bones until surgeons at the University of Illinois Research Hospital reinforced both legs with steel rods. Doctors say there is a good chance her legs will grow back to normal, and she expresses awe at the miracle and hope.
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CHICAGO
Marilyn Kay Howard
Charleston, Tl
University of Ilinois research hospital
Marilyn
Rent controls loom as June 30 expires
Washington June 7 AP Congress must act soon to extend government rent controls beyond June 30. Senate action looms with Republican threats of hours of debate as Majority Leader Lucas considers a bill to prolong the controls. The article also notes foreign aid and farm price support developments, including a $1 222 500 000 second year program for arms aid and a two billion CCC farm bill.
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WASHINGTON
congress
senate
Lucas
D-II
Quenaral Manresa Marchal
Marshall
house’ foreign affairs committee
United States
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Smith
New Jersey
Europe
McMahon
D-Conn
United Nations
commodity credit corporation
CCC
house
Third Shelton Brother Killed in Fairfield Farm Scene
In Fairfield Illinois on June 7 Roy Shelton, about 59, was killed after being shot twice and run over by a harrow following an attack on his farm. Earlier, two of his gangster brothers, Carl and Bernie, were killed, while Earl survived prior ambushes. A nearby farm hand Frank McKibben, 49, was shot at but unharmed as he came to aid Roy. Dalta Shelton, 50, of Cisne, not involved in gang activity, remained farming nearby.
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FAIRFIELD
Ill
Roy Shelton
Roy
Illinois
Pond creek bottom
Frank McKibben
Shelton
McKibben
Shelton brothers
Iinois
Carl
Bernie
big Earl
Dalta
Cisne
Acheson Opposes Armed Germany
Secretary of State Acheson said the United States opposes rearmament of western Germany as a military bolster. He noted General Bradley did not advocate rearming Germany and spoke only on military judgment. Acheson urged western powers to strengthen defenses and move forward with plans to counter Russian expansion. He also said there is no magic for ending the Cold War and that U.N. policies he called obstructionist must be faced.
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WASHINGTON
Acheson
United States
western
Germany
west
Omar Bradley
Bradley
Trygve Lie
Lie
United Nations
Moscow
U.N
Last Scottsboro Defendant Freed
Montgomery June 7 The Alabama pardon and parole board ordered the release of Andy Wright the last Scottsboro defendant still in prison At a brief hearing he said he hopes to lead a law abiding life Wright will leave Kilby prison Friday for an undisclosed New York city to work as a hospital porter He previously was paroled in 1944 but returned to prison in 1947 Wright one of nine negroes convicted of raping two white women aboard a freight train in 1931 Eight were sentenced to death then reversed. four were freed and the ninth Ozie Powell got 20 years.
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MONTGOMERY
Ala
Alabama pardon and parole board
Andy Wright
Wright
Alabama
Ozie Powell
President Seeks Business Backing
President Truman urged businessmen to back his legislative program at the Association of Better Business Bureaus dinner in Washington. He argued government action supports private enterprise and cited loans, deposit insurance, stock market regulation, and social programs as strengths of 17 years of policy.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Association of Better Business bureaus
congress
association
Weekend Accident Toll Comparison
The Associated Press reports over the last two long weekends more than 1000 lives were lost in violent accidents, with 123 more killed during Memorial Day. The four day Memorial period tallied 571 deaths while a 4 day non holiday weekend recorded 448. The latest 102 hour period from Friday 6 pm to Tuesday midnight logged 266 fatalities versus 347 in the Memorial period, with 73 drownings vs 97 and 109 total deaths in other accidents vs 128 a week ago.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nore
First Negro Enters University of Texas as Student
AUSTIN June 7 John Saunders Chase of Austin became the first Black student to enroll at the all white University of Texas. Horace Lincoln Smith of Waco aged 50 followed as the second Negro admitted. Chase said only that he is very happy to be here.
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Texas College
AUSTIN
Tex
John Saunders Chase
University of Texas
Horace Lincoln Smith
Waco
Chase
November Contest Set in California
California voters moved toward a November runoff between Earl Warren and James Roosevelt for governor. Roosevelt led in Democratic returns, while Warren led on the Republican side. both had crossfiled. Roosevelt carried Los Angeles in early counts as precincts reported.
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California
SAN FRANCISCO
Earl Warren
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Warren
SOUTH
Los Angeles
U. S
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Richard Nixon
Whittier
Manchester Boddy
Los Angeles Daily News
Nixon
Douglas
Boddy
Frederick N. Howser
Edward S.S. Shattuck
Douglas MacArthur
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
GURNEY
South Dakota
Chan Gurney
senate armed services
David Chavez
Sen
Dennis Chavez
New Mexico
Hungary Signals New Church Attack in June Speech
In Budapest on June 7 Hungary, the Communist party leader criticised the Vatican led Catholic clergy as imperialist and predicted religion may be abolished in secondary schools. He attacked certain Jewish church elements for Zionist support and warned of a broader campaign against Baptist and Adventist Protestant groups.
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BUDAPEST
Hungary
Joszef‘Revai
Hungarian Communist party
e-4
U N Secretary Backs Red China in UN Seat Clash
U N Secretary-General Trygve Lie urged all United Nations members to admit Red China to the world body and demanded the Russians return to UN meetings. He said no progress toward peace is possible while the Chinese seat remains vacant and Moscow stays away.
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LAKE SUCCESS
Pi U. N
Trygve Lie
United Nations
China
U.N
Protest Maneuvers Block Danube Shipping Near Belgrade
Pi Yugoslavia protests Russian naval maneuvers on the upper Danube that are hindering commercial shipping on the central European waterway near Belgrade. The dispute underscores tensions over navigation rights on a key regional corridor.
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BELGRADE
Yugoslavia
upper Danube
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Howser
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EDMUND G. BROWN
N. HOWSER
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