Coplort Screams Frame-Up at End Of Testimony
Judith Copion shouted new charges of frame-up and entrapment during her espionage trial in Washington while hinting a Russian engineer she loved may have helped frame her. The case involves stealing FBI secrets to send to Moscow via Valentine A. Gubditchev.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Judith Copion
Washington
Moscow
Valentine A. Gubditchev
justice department
HISS
New York
Alger Hiss
state department
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
grand jury
Acheson Declares Reds on Defensive
Secretary of State Acheson says Soviet Russia is on the defensive in Europe and must be kept that way. He cites the Paris Big Four meeting showing Russia will not relax its grip in occupied Germany. He urges continued Marshall Plan aid NATO and arms for Europe while condemning Czech attacks on Archbishop Beran.
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WASHINGTON
Acheson
Russia
Europe
Paris
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
state department
Drop Race Bar Seattle convention bans branches denying women
In Seattle at the 51st biennial convention the American Association of University Women decreed that all branches must admit all qualified applicants or face expulsion from the association.
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SEATTLE
American Association of University Women
Baseball Box Scores and Night Games Highlighted
Fragmented sports wire notes list players including Berra and Jansen with abbreviated team references New York Chicago and others show night games and line scores across the National League and related matches.
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Shore
Lallar
Kinder and Tebbetts
HHS
St. L. Pratt and
Anderson
Boe
Mams
Detroit
New York
Gray
Hutchingon
Overmire
Housteman
Robins
Swift
Reynolds
Page
Chicago
Jansen
Highs
Hansen
Webb
Behrman
Wentrum
Hacker
Walker
Jan: Sauer
Greek Premier Sophoulis Dies at 88 in Athens
ATHENS June 24 Themi stokles Sophoulis premier of Greece died today at his summer home at 4 15 p m after illness and a severe heart attack He led Greece for half a century including the wartime civil conflict and postwar aid under the Truman Doctrine as head of the Liberal party.
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ATHENS
Themistokles Sophoulis
Greece
Sophoulis
Liberal party
United States
Turkey
Slaying Inquest Yields No New Light on Case
In Los Angeles the coroner's inquest into the slaying of Louise Springer returned a verdict of homicide by person unknown. An autopsy report said she was not raped. The twig used to mutilate the body was traced to a bottle tree in the neighborhood. The husband Lawrence Springer criticized police for dismissing his missing persons report.
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LOS ANGELES
Louise Springer
Lawrence
Flaming Asphalt Buries Firemen
In Perth Amboy New Jersey on June 24 a massive asphalt plant blast killed three men two of whom were buried alive in boiling tar and burnt workman later died eight others were injured. The California Refinery Co plant erupted in a chain of explosions sending a 10 000 gallon tank into the air and dark smoke rose for miles over the ruined site.
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PERTH AMBOY
N. J
California Refinery co
Manhattan
Minimum Wage Hike Approved by Senate Labor Committee
Washington June 24 The senate labor committee unanimously approved legislation to raise the current 40 cent per hour minimum wage to 75 cents The panel rejected broad expansion of wage hour coverage and aimed to cover about 100000 more workers under the statute according to Senator Pepper and the official notes.
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WASHINGTON
senate labor committee
Pepper
D— Fila
Senate Labor Battle Lines Now Clear Cut
Washington June 24 UPI The Senate moves toward a Tuesday vote on whether a new labor law should allow court injunctions to block national emergency strikes. Taft urged keeping the injunction power. Lucas Illinois proposed an amendment to drop it and rely on plant seizures. Taft opponents pushed a 60 day injunction bill with seizures removed.
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WASHINGTON
UPI
senate
Taft
Ohio
congress
UNITY VICTORY Administration
Lucas
Ilinois
senate Democrats
Trutman
ROhio
Holland
Fla
Hoey
Bricker
Schoeppel
Kans
Lewis Presents Contract Terms
John L. Lewis outlined general contract demands at three conferences as tensions rise over which soft coal pits to strike first. With the contract due June 30 and 400,000 miners starting a ten day vacation, a full or partial strike would not begin until after July. Lewis negotiates with northern and western operators and steel company mines to press for a favorable deal amid weak markets.
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
W. Va
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Priests Deny Torture Report in Romania
Romanian Catholic authorities and an official spokesman denied reports that uniate bishops have been tortured. A Vatican source had alleged two bishops of Romania’s uniate church were tortured by Communist officials to force allegiance to Pope Pius XII.
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BUCHAREST
Romania
Vatican
Pius XII
Negro Named Moderator Of Presbyterian Synod
Frederick Maryland June 24 A Negro minister will head the Baltimore synod synodical of the Presbyterian church for the next 12 months Rev Dr Halley B Taylor pastor of Washington Fifteenth St Presbyterian church was unanimously elected moderator at the conference closing session He is the first Black leader in the 95 year history of the synod to hold the post.
Democrats Predict Big House Margin On Housing Bill
Washington June 24 The Democrats announced a larger House margin for the trimmed housing bill with Rep Priest Tennessee saying it will sail through with 40 to 50 votes to spare. Republicans are expected to back the measure, while bitter debate continues and final passage likely next week.
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WASHINGTON
house
Rep. Priest
Tennessee
Priest
Fire Destroys Guarded Naval Building
A top secret naval building under heavy guard caught a three alarm fire early today in Washington. Fire threatened nearby munition warehouses and could have caused massive explosions if flames reached them. Shore patrolmen with revolvers barred police from entering as Navy officials declined to estimate damage or reveal contents of building 13 at the research magazine.
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WASHINGTON
naval
navy
naval research magazine
Race Violence Incidents Flare in St Louis Parks
Isolated clashes between Negroes and whites erupted again last night in St Louis as a spillover from park trouble earlier in the week. Open swimming pools for mixed crowds sparked violence, with one white youth seriously injured and several others with minor injuries across scattered city areas.
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ST, LOUIS
St. Louis
Scientists Offer Sea Serpent View
Scientists from Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla say the sea serpents seen by fishermen may be ribbonfish. Nets pulled up eyes and larvae of the rare ribbonfish near the coast. The four to several feet long fish shoots upward and streaks like a fluttering ribbon over the waves.
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LA JOLLA
Calif
Scripps institute of oceanography
Living Costs Steady Two Months
Washington reports the cost of living edged down three tenths of one percent for the month ending May 15, with mid-April upticks and no substantial change over the past two months in the consumer price index for large cities. Food prices fell two percent while rents rose by one tenth of one percent, and city fluctuations exceed the national average.
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WASHINGTON
bureau of labor statistics
Policy on China Blocks Approval
Washington June 24 The nomination of Walton W Butterworth as an assistant secretary of state hung fire today although the senate approved four other assistant secretaries. Senator Taft yesterday asked a delay on approval of Butterworth saying he acted at the request of Senator Wherry who is out of town. Taft did not explain the delay but Senator Bridges earlier criticized the appointment not for personal reasons but on grounds that administration policy in China has failed and Butterworth is the symbol of that failure.
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WASHINGTON
Walton W. Butterworth
senate
Taft
Ohio
Butterworth
Wherry
R-Neb
Bridges
China
Strafing Reported Near Yangtze River
San Francisco June 24 The Chinese Communist radio reported that Nationalist planes strafed the American president liner General W. H. Gordon at the mouth of the Yangtze river on June 21, according to dispatches.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Chinese Communist radio
W. H. Gordon
Yangtze river
Nationalists Seize Star of Suez at Yangtze Entrance
The Egyptian freighter Star of Suez was intercepted by a Nationalist warship off the Yangtze mouth. Eight shots damaged her bow as she delayed overnight. Chinese naval officers boarded the vessel and removed the river pilot amid a Nationalist blockade of Communist ports. The ship had left Shanghai shortly before the seizure.
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Star of Suez
Shanghai
Nixon vows showdown over Condon hearing
Washington June 24 Nixon Republican leader says he will force a House subcommittee showdown on summoning Dr Edward A Condon director of the U S Bureau of Standards to testify at a hearing He spoke at Echo Lake Colorado where he attends a cosmic research conference Condon said he has not heard of any subpoena in more than a year and noted the committee knows where to find him at Echo Lake Lodge.
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WASHINGTON
Nixon
R—Calif
house
American activities committee
Edward A. Condon
U. S
bureau of standards
Echo Lake
Colo
Condon
Echo Lake Lodge
Polio Incidence Increase Noted in 1949 Rise
Washington reports the polio season has begun with 36 percent more cases nationwide than last year. If the trend continues, 1949 could near the 1916 peak of 30,000 cases, aided by better reporting and diagnosis contributing to the rise.
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WASHINGTON
Postmaster Choice On Merit Proposed
President Truman urged Congress to reorganize the post office department to remove postmaster appointments from politics. The plan would let the postmaster general name all postmasters under civil service laws, reducing Senate involvement for about 21 000 postmasters. It follows Hoover Commission recommendations and calls for updated rates and businesslike budgeting.
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WASHINGTON
post office department
congress
Truman
MALO Hec aatereaean
senate
pressent
HOOVER
Hoover commission
Tellman
postal service
budget bureau
civil service and classification acts
Inquiry Ordered By FBI On Alabama Floggings
Attorney General Tom Clark orders a full Justice Department field investigation into recent night rider violence in Alabama with KKK involvement alleged. A House Judiciary subcommittee will hold public hearings starting next Wednesday, with Birmingham reporters first on the witness list, as southern representatives urge minimal federal interference.
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WASHINGTON
Tom Clark
justice department
Alabama
congress
house
Clarke Stallworth
Birmingham Post
Clarence Lake
Birmingham News
Strikers Call for Soviet Zone Blockade in Berlin
West Berlin rail strikers urged a retaliatory Soviet zone blockade after being rebuffed by Russian appointed management in efforts to run an emergency service into Berlin. They prepared telegrams to West German union HQs asking unionists to refuse freight headed for East Germany.
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BERLIN
West Berlin
Frankfurt
east Germany
union
Crash Toll Reaches Thirty Three in KLM Constellation
In Bari Italy a KLM Constellation crashed off a beach killing 33 people. Twenty eight Dutch including 11 crew and five Egyptians perished during the final leg from Batavia to Amsterdam. Witnesses saw a straight dive and submersion, with an underwater explosion heard near the sinking.
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BARI
Italy
KLM
Royal Dutch airlines
Batavia
Indonesia
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Cairo
Astra
Hang Plesman
Purge Announces in Prague Excludes 200,000 Hung Communists
Matyas Rakosi, party leader, announced in Prague that about 200,000 Hungarian Communist members have been expelled in a purge targeting spies and provocateurs. The move signals a sweeping crackdown by the Hungarian party and reflects tensions within the region.
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PRAGUE
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Red
Matyas Rakosi
Communist party
Czechs Announce Drive on Church
The government says it will intensify police actions against Catholic priests and bishops in Slovakia, accusing reactionary clerics of creating disturbances as monasteries are closed and clergy arrested. Protestant minority reportedly backs the Catholic church in the church-state clash, seen as a bid to curb Vatican influence.
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PRAGUE
Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
provence
Vatican
Miner Vacation Starts Today
SCRANTON Pa June 24 The nations coal miners begin a one day paid vacation at midnight The outcome hinges on whether miners return at the end of the period If John J Lewis UMW president and coal operators fail to strike before June 30 miners may refuse to work under the No contract no work rule
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SCRANTON
John J. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
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Iowa
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