McCarthy and Peurifoy May Face Senate Inquiry
Senator Millard E. Tydings chair of the foreign relations subcommittee said it will meet soon to discuss calling McCarthy and State Department Security Chief John E. Peurifoy to testify about witness tampering in the Amerasia case. The decision rests with the witnesses, who may be invited to clarify the record regarding alleged security risks.
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John L. Steele
Washington
U.P
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
State Department
John E. Peurifoy
Senate
Amerasia
Millard E. Tydings
Dmd
Senate Foreign Relations
McCarthy
Pearifoy
Theodore F. Green
D-R. I
Tydings
Foreign Service
John 8S
Reds
New York
Philip J. Jaffe
Emmanuel Larsen
Service
Larsen
Navy
Andrew Roth
Roth
Indo- China
Peurifoy
Subcommittee
Solons Attack Lie Over USSR Ties and UN role
Washington reports two Republican senators Styles Bridges and William Knowland denounce United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie as a Soviet partisan. They urge his ouster unless he reverses his stance including seating Chinese Communists in the UN. Senator Tydings proposes inviting Stalin to discuss US USSR tensions.
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Washington
U.P
United Nations
Trygve Lie
United States
Styles Bridges
RN. H
William F. Knowland
R-Calif
Lie
Moscow
Knowland
Chiang Kai-shek
Navy Flying Boat Sets Honolulu to San Diego Passenger Record
A Navy flying boat, the Carole Mars, landed in San Diego Bay with 144 aboard to establish a non stop 2250 mile flight record from Honolulu. A sister ship Hawaii Mars carried 104 Marine Reservists from Pearl Harbor via Alameda to Camp Pendleton for two weeks of training.
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San Diego
San Diego Bay
Honolulu
Hawaii
North Island
Hawaii Mars
Alameda
Camp Pendleton
Pearl Harbor
George Cooper
Farmer Trapped in Well Breathes Through Garden Hose
Elkhart Indiana June 18 33 year old farmer Henry Milton Randell trapped by a cavern at the bottom of a well five miles southeast of the city. Walls caved in on him and he breathed through a garden hose as emergency crews from Elkhart and Goshen inserted an oxygen line and dug him out. His six children watched as rescuers worked and Randell was able to talk and was not believed to be seriously injured.
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Elkhart
Ind
Here
Henry Milton Randall
Goshen
Randall
Judy
Dunlap
Plane Crash Near Pierre Kills Three Passengers
The burned wreckage of a small plane missing more than 24 hours was found late Sunday with the pilot and two passengers dead.
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Pierre
S. D
Butte Weather Forecast for Monday and Nearby Areas
Partly cloudy to cloudy Monday with scattered showers or thunderstorms and warmer conditions. Airport readings show a high of 65 and a low of 40 from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon. West of Divide expect partly cloudy with storms south and high 68 to 78, east of Divide partly cloudy and southwest winds with a high of 70 to 80.
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Divide
Bridges Criticizes Methods in Senate Speech
Washington report notes Republican Senator Bridges on Sunday attacked the methods used by fellow senators in a speech. The brief item hints at a larger continuation on page five.
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Washington
Bridges
Missing Killer Believed Caught in White Tail Montana
Montreal police report a man fitting the killer's description captured in Sco bey Mont near the Saskatchewan border. He named Thomas Rossler, carried a Browning 32 caliber, and bore a thigh wound and bloodstains. Rossler turned over to Saskatchewan police. hunt for the Bank of Canada shooter continues.
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Montreal
J. R. Lemieux
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Whitetail
Mont
Saskatchewan
Lemieux
Thomas Rossler
Rossler
Mounted Police
Pat Horton
Scobey
Alexander Gamman
Bank of Canada
Gamman
Bank of Toronto
Beaver Hall Hill
Stan Bickley
Farley Emerges as Front-Runner in New York Democratic Shift
In Albany on June 18 Jim Farley moved into the lead as the Democrats seek to regain New York after Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s retirement. Observers say the party has its best chance in eight years to win the state and its 48 electoral votes.
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Albany
N. Y
U.P
Jim Farley
New York State
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
MacArthur Urges Quick Aid to Formosa and Southeast Asia
General MacArthur is expected to tell Defense Secretary Johnson that Formosa can be saved with American equipment sent promptly to the Chinese Nationalists and to Southeast Asia. Briefing officials say loss of Formosa would threaten U S Far Eastern defense, and renewed aid to allied forces is needed to hold a defense arc from the Aleutians to the Philippines.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Defense
Johnson
Formosa
Southeast Asia
Far Eastern
Oma Bradley
United States Joint Chiefs of Staff
America
Johnson and Bradley
Japan
Far East
Greece
United States
Aleutians
Okinawa
Philippines
Flood Devastates Harlowton as 100 Homeless and One Dead
A flash flood swept through Harlowton Montana Saturday night washing out 4,000 feet of mainline Milwaukee track and 1,500 feet of branch line. One woman, Mrs Ed Macon, died at the Macon ranch north of town. About 25 homes were seriously damaged and 100 people sought refuge in hotels and undamaged houses. Rail service slowed to 3 4 hours late with trains routed around the area. Red Cross relief and disrupted communications were noted as the town recovered.
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Harlowton
U.P
Ed Macon
Wheatland County
Macon
Hal Stearns
Young Macon
Milwaukee Railway
Butte
Milwaukee
Northern Pacific Railroad
Sappington
Miles City
Red Cross
Stearns
Musselshell River
German Roads and Bridges Mined for Defense
Western Germany roads and bridges are being prepared for quick destruction in a Soviet attack, per a German picture magazine and a French source. Similar measures reportedly exist in other European countries under a master plan by western defense chiefs. An allied command reportedly ordered these precautions, though no official confirmation was given.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Lorelei
Rhine
Koblenz
Blue Star Marker Dedicated At Montana State Convention
The first Blue Star Memorial highway marker in Montana was dedicated Sunday in a ceremony near United States highway 91. More than 100 out of town delegates from 36 garden clubs attended, with about 500 people at the dedication. Baxter Larsen gave the principal address and accepted the memorial plaque for the state highway department.
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Montana
Montana Federation of Garden Clubs
Finlen
R. O. Steele
Laurel
Thomas R. Morgan
Butte
Explosion destroys Pacific Fireworks in Portland blaze
Southeast Portland was rocked by a late Sunday explosion that destroyed the Pacific Fireworks and Novelty company. One owner, Mike Hardesty, was repairing a spotlight when a spark ignited stored fireworks including 700 shells 14 to 15 inches long. No injuries were reported.
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Portland
Ore
U.P
Pacific Fireworks and Novelty Company
Mike Hardesty
FBI Ready to Close In on More Spy Ring Members
FBI units close to building strong cases against two or more suspects tied to the Fuchs-Gold Soviet atomic spy ring. The probe recalls the Gold arrest that folded the case, with Slack of Syracuse and Greenglass of New York previously charged, while Gold remains pivotal and may aid inquiries.
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FBI
Washington
U.P
G-men
United States
Russia
Alfred Dean Slack
Syracuse
N. Y
David Greenglass
New York City
Slack
Greenglass
Gold
Puchs
Los Alamos
N. M
Jury Urges Special Session to End LA Transit Strike
Los Angeles County grand jury urged Governor Earl Warren to convene a special legislative session after a three day transit strike persisted. The jury cited an arbitration offer from the transit line that failed to end the walkout, with union officials saying it carried too many qualifications to settle.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Los Angeles Transit Lines
Carey S. Hill
Warren
Desert wanderer admits desert tale was fabrication
Allen Lee Pearce 23, an itinerant laborer, confessed to Washoe County officials that his four day desert ordeal after a plane crash was made up to obtain food and shelter. He admitted hitching from Eugene to Reno and fabricating details, claiming alias John E Chenau and Oklahoma City roots.
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Reno
U.P
Allen Lee Pearce
Washoe County
Nevada
Sheriff's Officers
Pearce
John E. Chenan
William Driscoll
Fernley
Here
Humboldt-Carson Sink
Air Force
Seattle
Civilization
Veterans’ Hospital
Driscoll
Chenau
Oklahoma City
Army
Desert
Four Cremated When Their Car Is Hit By Bus
Four members of a Chicago family died when their car burst into flames after rear impact and was buried against a stopped bus on Lake Lowell road Cedar Lake Indiana. Helen Freischland survived with minor burns while husband William junior and two children Sarah seven and William three perished. Foster Kain of Gary, driver of the other car, was found at a tavern and held without charge as sheriff Leo Clayton noted. Bus passengers evacuated safely.
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Cedar Lake
Ind
Chicago
Leo Clayton
Lake County
William H. Freischland, Jr
Elizabeth Schwellenbach
Sarah
William
Freischland
Helen
Foster Kain
Gary
Kain
Clayton
Strike Ends Dairy Strike Settled After Shortened Weeks
The dairy strike reducing Washington milk rations for eight days ended Sunday as workers and nine major dairies agreed to five days work one week and six the next with no pay cut. AFL Truck Drivers and Dairy Employes union backed the deal, about 700 to 100 voting in favor after a night-long federal-backed negotiation. Simultaneously, Pittsburgh hoped for an end to a similar 10 day milk stoppage in seven western PA counties.
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Washington
AFL
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Fifteen Missing From Mission Flight to Venezuela
Fifteen persons are missing after a missionary flight to Venezuela, reported from Miami on June 18. Ten adults and five children are among the missing. search efforts have continued for nine days with no trace found.
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Miami
Fla
U.P
Venezuela
Washington Death Toll Climbs to 6
Six people died in Washington state floods over the weekend as cloudbursts melt mountain snowpacks sent rivers rising. Among the victims were 12-year-old Milton Boy Scout Donald Airgood swept on the White river in Pierce county and 10-year-old John R. Jacobs drowned in the Calispell near Usk. Four others perished near Pomeroy and Longview in rapid flood events.
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Washington State
Pomeroy
Skyhawk Canyon
Donald Airgood
Milton
White River
Pierce County
John R. Jacobs
Calispell River
Usk
Pend Oreille County
Judy Giberson
Cowlitz
Longview
Herman Baden
Carl
Tatman Creek
Baden’s
Carl Baden
Baden
Idaho Guardsmen rush to reinforce Kootenai river dikes
Sixty Idaho National Guardsmen were en route to Bonners Ferry to reinforce sagging dikes as the Kootenai river rose to 31.8 feet by 5 p m Sunday. Sheriff Roy Boehm warned the dikes may fail if levels reach 32 feet, though no farmland was flooded yet. Thunder showers to the north worsened conditions.
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Bonners Perry
Idaho
U.P
Idaho National Guardsmen
Bonners Ferry
Kootenai River
Roy Boehm
Kootenai
Boehm
Flood Drives 1100 From Homes in British Columbia
Rampant flood waters topped dikes and seeped through bases, forcing 1,100 people from their Vancouver area homes. Forecasters warned of hot weather and storms, with rain and melting snow risking further river floods and dike breaches. Over 700 evacuated in the Fraser valley and 400 in Nicomen island as authorities brace for continued rising waters.
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Vancouver
B. C
U.P
British Columbia
Fraser River
Nicomen
Lewis Miffed but Unity Seems Close
Washington June 18. John L. Lewis urged AFL CIO to include United Mine Workers in forthcoming cooperation talks or risk harming national labor unity. Despite the dispute, labor unity advanced as Keenan urged joint action, unions joined on non political projects like aiding Histadrut, and the Railroad Trainmen agreed to a joint committee with CIO toward consolidation.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
AFL
CIO
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Joseph D. Keenan
Political Action Committee
PAC
Israelian Federation of Labor
Histadrut
Israel
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Philip Murray
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