Western powers seek limited Germany settlement with Soviet aid
A Western diplomat said Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky agreed in a weekend talk with British Foreign Secretary Bevin to seek limited aims for Germany. They discussed Berlin currency trade between East and West Germany and road and rail traffic as Western powers push for a signed pledge guaranteeing access to Western Berlin sectors.
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Paris
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Ernest
Germany
Big Four
Foreign Ministers Council
Vishinsky
Bevin
Berlin
West Germany
U. S
Dean Acheson
Robert Schuman
Four Power Council
Kevin
West
Georgia Probing Lynching as Nation Sees Record
Wilkinson county grand jury convenes to investigate the lynching murder of Caleb Hill Jr in Georgia. Prosecutors report Georgia has the South’s worst lynching record, with 23 lynchings since 1939 and only a few convictions nationwide, amid FBI and local police involvement.
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Irwinton
Georgia
South
Tuskegee Institute
Southern Regional ‘Council
Wilkinson County
Caleb Hill,Jr
Dennis Lamar Purvis
Malcolm Vivian Pierce
McIntyre
Georgia Bureau “of Investigation
Grand Jury
FBI
George Hatcher
Hatcher
Hill
Spurlin
Dixie
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Louisiana
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Weather forecast for Georgia and Florida region
Georgia sees considerable cloudiness with warm humid conditions tonight and Tuesday. Scattered thunderstorms expected this evening and Tuesday afternoon. Northwest Florida anticipates cloudiness and scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight with light to moderate southerly winds along the coast.
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Georgia
Florida
Three unions to set pattern for showdown
Three giant unions prepare to shape U S labor talks this week with wage and benefit demands. United Mine Workers led by John L Lewis ordered a one week coal stoppage to stabilize production while CIO unions target General Electric Westinghouse and United Steel Workers file new terms. Thurmond says miners violate contract terms by stopping work for supposed stabilization.
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Associated Press
United Mine Workers Union
John L. Lewis
Southern Coal Producers Association
Lewis
CIO
United Electrical Workers Union
General Electric
Westinghouse
United Steel Workers
Walter R. ‘Thurmond
Secetary
Southern
Scientists Back AEC Program As Oppenheimer Defends
Nine scientists on the AEC advisory committee told Congress the commission has a sound and forward looking program. Oppenheimer read the statement and defended export of certain isotopes while noting secrecy should yield to public information. He cited isotope exports to Finland and Norway and said no isotopes have been sent to Russia.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
AEC
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Congressional
Oppenheimer
Army
Russia
Finland
Norway
Atomic Weapons Laboratory
Los Alamos
N. M
Institute of Advanced Studies
Princeton
Iodine, Sulphur and Others of Similiar Nature Are, Isotopes, Dr. Oppenheimer
Hickenlooper
ABC
Soperton Mayor Steps Down As Judge In Klansman Trial
Soperton Georgia Mayor James Peterson stepped down from presiding as judge in the trial of three men found with Ku Klux Klan masks. The defendants face disorderly conduct and loitering charges with possible fines or jail time. defense lawyers cite civil rights violations and alleged improper arrest.
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Soperton
James Peterson
South Georgia
Recorder’s Court
James Wailer
T. Ross Sharpe
Lyons
W. Reeves Lewis
Vidalia
Sharpe
Peterson
Klan
Tering
Joaf Sharpe
Toombs
Robert Mallard
Mallard
Malcolm Braddy
Joe Greene
John Edge
The
State Highway Department
Truman
Samuel Green
Dr. Green
Atlanta
FBI Agent Details Amtorg Spy Probe in Coplon Trial
FBI agent Robert J. Lamphere testified that Amtorg employees functioned as espionage agents. He said he worked on the Amtorg inquiry in 1945 and 1946, covering internal security and failure to register as a foreign agent.
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Washington
FBI
Judith Coplon
Amtorg
Robert J. Lamphere
Lamphere
Bearded Pester Seeks Pacific Isolation on Desert Isle
Bearded Frederick William Pester, calling himself a desert rat and hermit, is in Long Beach California aiming to cross the Pacific to a lonely isle for solitude unavailable amid public intrusion into his desert sanctuary.
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Frederick William Pester
Long Beach
Calif
Pacific
Court Upheld Screen Writers Convictions on Communist Question
U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled congressional committees may demand a witness answer on Communist affiliation. The ruling upheld contempt convictions of screen writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo, moving them closer to one year jail terms plus $1,000 fines. Eight others face similar cases as appeal to the Supreme Court is expected.
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Washington
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Congressional Committee
John Howard Lawson
Dalton Trumbo
Lawson
Trumbo
U.S
House Un-American Activities . Committee
Supreme Court
Capitol Hill
Co. B. (Beanie) Baldwin
Henry A. Wallace
Baldwin
Congress
Bennett Champ Clark
Wilbur K. Miller
George C. Sweeney-S
House Un-American Activities Committee
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship Inc
Morford
House Committee
Council of
Kemper Named Welfare Director in Georgia Shakeup
Governor Herman Talmadge named Alan Kemper of Jonesboro as state Welfare Director, replacing Jack Forreston who quit amid the Milledgeville hospital controversy. Kemper, former Clayton County official and ex-president of the Georgia County Officers Association, previously led the highway department.
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Atlanta
Jude
Herman Talmadge
Alan Kemper
Jonesboro
Jack Forreston
Talmadge
Forrester
Milledgeville Hospital
Woo
Kemper
State Highway Department
Clayton County
Georgia County Officers Association
Joe Boone
Georgia House
House Spy Pro Y Working On Sup Report
Washington June 18 AP reports House Un American Activities Committee plans a lengthy espionage history study. It will cover wartime Red agents and atomic spying with hearings this week on Oppenheimer cases and Berkeley Radiation Lab ties.
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Washington
House Un-American — Activities Committee
Tod
England
Frank Oppenheimer
University of California At Berkeley
Oppenheimer
Unieversity
Minnesota
Atomic Research Center
Berkeley
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
Communist Party
Lomunitz
Fisk University
Nashville, Tenn
Four Powers End Germany Trade Talks
Berlin reports that the four occupation powers ended all Germany trade and transport talks with no agreement. The issue goes to the Council of Foreign Ministers in Paris after stalling strikes and a referendum threat by workers in Berlin. The plan would use West marks for wages, easing currency disparities, while avoiding reprisals.
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Berlin
Aeparte
Council of Foreign Ministers
Paris
German “Union
Bevaye
Rain
France
Russia
m+ mandant
Frank L
Howley
Westmarky
West Berlin
Vedi
Miner walkout under way as coal diggers strike for terms
John L. Lewis led 450000 coal diggers into a week long walkout in Pittsburgh as talks with Southern Coal Producers Association stall. Lewis seeks pay and work stabilization and hints at a share the work plan while contract discussions continue with industry groups.
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John L. Lewis
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
Southern Coal Producers Association
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Tallahassee
Fla
Scions
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House
State Department of Health
UMW
Walter R. Thurmond
Southern Producers
Southam
Tomorsrow
Bluefield
W. Va
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