Army Explains Mistake Labeling Clapp Unemployable
President Truman demands a full Senate inquiry after the Army says a junior officer used the word unemployed in relation to Gordon Clapp's name for a Germany lecture tour. Secretary Gray apologizes, stating Clapp was never deemed unemployable and the error resulted from a misworded note.
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TVA
Gordon Clapp
Kefauver
D-Tenn
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D-Wyo
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Defense Johnson
Little Rock
Ark
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Johnson
White House
Clapp
Tennessee Valley Authority
Secretary of
Gordon Gray
Germany
Army High Command
Kefanger
Trutan
Senate
Gray
General Staff
Scare Letters End Campaign Targeting Women Teachers
Washington reports the scare letter campaign aimed at women entering teaching appears to have ceased. The National Education Association says letters postmarked Seattle reached thousands of prospective teachers but produced no effect. FBI and Post Office probes yielded no results as investigators review motives and costs.
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Washington
Belmont Farley
National Education Association
FBI
Seattle
Post Office Department
Farley
N.E.A
Delay Likely In Trials Of Tucker And Seven Others
Fourteen defendants tied to the Tucker Corporation indictment face bonds of 25 000 for Tucker Cerf and two others and 10 000 for the remaining four. The case involves more than 4 million dollars distributed to officers directors and promoters with potential penalties up to 185 years in prison and 60 000 in fines per defendant. The Tucker plant once built the Car of Tomorrow and was shut down by a federal court order January 6.
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Floyd D. Cerf Company, Inc
Floyd D. Cerf
Chicago
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Cerf
Harold A. Karsten
North Hollywood
Calif
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Whoa O
Sinoix
Robert Merce
Detroit
Tucker Corn
Brices Manufacturing Company
Tucker Corporation
Staan! Court
Insistan
Iauler Supers
Truman Promises Plain Talk On European Aid
President Truman addresses World War I veterans at a reunion in Oklahoma City. He jokes with Battery D veterans at a 7 o clock breakfast and attends a reception at the Hotel Marion. He hopes delegates have a good time yet travel home without a headache. He greets an audience of about 240 at the Joseph T. Robinson auditorium and is joined by his sister Mary Jane and Major General Ralph B. Truman.
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129Th Feld Artillery
Hotel Marion
Joseph T. Robinson
Harry S Truman
Trina
Misa Mary Jane Tru- Pen
Independence
Ralph Bo Truman
Labor Party Backs Expanded State Ownership Plan
At the annual convention the British Labor Party approved a platform urging broader government ownership. Proposals target insurance sugar refining water supply wholesale and mineral sectors, with prior gains in coal railways electricity gas andCable and Wireless. Deputy Prime Minister Morrison signaled possible steel industry takeovers if conditions warrant changes.
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Bung
Prstata
Labor Party
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Pattara
Amahiet
Efer! Wey
Laborite Planar
West Life
Laborites
Cable and Wireless Ij Company
Dake
Indus
Herbert Morrison
No One Best Way To Make A Bed, U.S. Dept Finds
The Agriculture Department reports there is no single method for bed making. Studies by Marianne Muse show varied approaches save time, including one side bed making, using fewer blankets, and occasional skip of daily bed making.
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U.S. Agriculture Department
Washington
Agriculture Department
Marianne Muse
Vermont Experiment Station
Miss Muse
Caplon Figure Takes Own Life in Washington
Washington police reported that Morton K. Kent 48 of Chevy Chase Maryland who was named in the Coplon espionage trial commitment had died by his own hand. His body was found near Three Sisters Islands after he rented a boat and a kitchen knife was found at the water line. Kent a Harvard graduate and former State Department aide had worked for Labor and the Board of Economic Warfare and was in contact with Soviet secret police per FBI notes.
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Judith Coplon
Morton K. Kent
Chevy Chase
Potomac River
MacDonald
Kent
State Department
Harvard
State
Board of Economic Warfare
Sease
Three Sisters Islands
FBI
George Dimitrov Sotirev
United Nations Secretariat
Sotirov
Emily Condon
Edward V. Condon
National Bureau of Standards
Justice Department
Italy Awaits Trieste Return in Municipal Vote
At a rally in Trieste on June 11 Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi urged righting the Italian government position awaiting Trieste’s return. The town prepares its first municipal election in 27 years tomorrow amid Yugoslav and Soviet influenced opposition.
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Alcide de Caspert
Free City
United States
Britain
Italy
Yugoslavia
Russig
Marshal Tito
Luscious Lucy Chooses Man Over Script at Convention
Luscious Lucy Archibeque of Los Angeles rejected a staged husband selection at the V. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce convention. She accepted Jay Kinzer of Wenatchee Washington after telegraphing a proposal. Lucy left a note in her hotel room saying they would marry in Nevada. The couple had announced their engagement in Albuquerque New Mexico on February 2. Art Linkletter lamented the canceled honeymoon.
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Coto
Luscious
Lucy
Afton
Taey
Lucille Archibeque
Los Angeles
V. S
Nevada
Kinzer
Albuquerque
NX. M
Art Linkletter
Grand Jury Urges Sabbath Law Review In Maryland
The Grand Jury reports 19 indictments from a special session focused on Sunday entertainment. It stresses law and order, notes exemptions for charity and necessity, and urges a 1959 legislative amendment to the Sabbath Breaking statute with a countywide referendum considered.
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Calvin Shank
Grand Jury
Colonial Theater
Claude E. Poole
Charles D. Warter
Charles E. Berry
Trava Z. Siebert
Maryland Theater
Irvin M. Linebaugh
John M. Hersh
Morris Petefish
George N. Payette, Jr
Auto Speedway
Edward Goetz
Ross Millhouse
Samuel Parker
Clinton Karn
Jack McKee
F. W. North, Jr
Judgei Mish
Washington County
Tia
Maryland
Synod Adjourns After Merger Vote In Frederick
The Potomac Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed ended a three day conference in Frederick Maryland with a vote to merge with the Congregational Christian Church.
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Frederick, Md
Potomac Synod of the
Evangelical and Reformed Tonight
Congregational Christian Church
Marlow Comments On Question Of Permitting Communists To Teach
Washington June ji There is a long running debate over whether party members should teach in American schools. Proponents of academic freedom warn against spying and silencing teachers while opponents argue a Communist is bound to follow the party line. Notable voices include Sidney Hook Arthur M Schlesinger Jr General Eisenhower James B Conant and the National Education Association board urging excluding Communist party members from teaching citing loss of intellectual independence.
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Marlow
James Marlow Washington
June Ji
Communist Party
Sidney Hook
New York University
New York Times
Hook
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr
Jackson
Saturday Review of Literature
Ths
General Eisenhower
Columbia University
James B. Conant
Harvard
National Education Association
Communist Party of the United States
Experts To Take Stand In Hiss Trial Next Week
Esther Chambers testified about her friendship with the Hisses dating to 192??, recounting private nicknames and near weekly park walks. She noted her husband Carl Chambers ceased Communist activity around 1957 or 1958, a detail she could not recall exactly.
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Hiss
Hilly
Press
Chambers
Samuel Kaufman
Mrs Chambers Defends Views Amid Senate Hearing
Mrs Chambers, describing herself as sympathetic to Communism yet not a party member, testified about her past work for the New Masses and Amtorg. She noted gifting a painting to Mrs Hiss and detailed life on her Westminster Maryland farm with dairy cattle and children.
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Chambers
The
New Masses
Amtorg Trading Corporation
Congress To Peek At Records In Public Hearing
The congressional panel debated whether to publicly reveal FBI records while Chairman McMahon criticized Hickenlooper's proposed process as unworkable. Senator Edwin C. Johnson was the lone Democrat voting with seven Republicans against the closed hearings. McMahon urged full disclosure to allow a fair judgment of the charges and the commission's defense, noting risks of exposing FBI file details.
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McMahon
Hickenlooper
Mezhon
Commission
Spep
FBI
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