Chambers Names Julian Wadleigh in Testimony
In testimony before the committee, Chambers identifies Julian Wadleigh as a collaborator in the state department. Wadleigh, a former official, was accused previously of passing U S secrets to Communist agents and later declined to comment. The record notes Chambers had at times claimed no independent recollection of informants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadleigh
Gabritanel
Lloyd Paul Stryker
State Department
Julian Wadleigh
Chambers
Henry Julian Wadleigh
House un-American Activities Committee
U. S
Woman to Be U S Treasurer Georgia Clark Nominated
President Truman proposes Georgia Neese Clark of Richland Kansas for the post of treasurer of the United States. The 49 year old former actress and bank director would be the first woman to hold the $10 000 a year post replacing W A Julian who died in an auto accident. If confirmed she will sign on the lower left of currency with Secretary Snyder on the right.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Georgia Neese Clark
Richland
Kas
United States
W. A. Julian
Clark
U. S
Treasury
John W. Snyder
Kansas
State Bank of Land
Last Yank Soldier Leaving Australia
Robert W. Metcalf of Elmira New York ends six years in Australia as the lone wartime U S Army member on duty since September. On loan to the state department he cleared surplus war material as representative of the foreign liquidation commission. He will return to the United States with his Sydney wife and their 18 month old daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Australia
Robert W. Metcalf
Elmira
N. Y
Metcalf
U. S. Army
State Department
Foreign Liquidation Commission
U. S
Push Labor Bill In New Drive
The senate opens Monday to debate a Truman administration bill to repeal Taft Hartley and replace it with a modified Wagner act. Party factions coalesce around three positions with likely two week stormy proceedings as strategy sessions unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Truman
House
Congress
Republican Policy Committee
Senate Labor Committee
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Douglas
D-Ill
Court Backs Death Order in Williams Case
The Supreme Court upheld the New York death sentence for Samuel Williams who killed 15 year old Selma Graff in Brooklyn during a 1947 burglary. Justice Black led with a 7 to 2 decision. Murphy dissented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
New York City
Samuel Titto Williams
Selma Graff
Brooklyn
Black
Vinson
Reed
Frankfurter
Douglas
Jackson
Burton
Murphy
Rutledge
New York
Louis Goldstein
Williams
Justice Black
Frank Tippett To Serve Term
Frank E. Tippett former Gila county attorney must serve six months in jail and pay a 500 dollar fine after pleading guilty to filing fraudulent federal income tax forms. He faced four counts and was sentenced by Judge Dave W Ling in U S district court in Phoenix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Frank E. Tippett
Gila County
Tippett
U. S. District Court
Dave W. Ling
Ling
Big 3 Hold Secret Parley In Last-Ditch Peace Attempt
Paris June 6 United Press report that the three western foreign ministers met privately to map strategy as Soviet refusal to agree on Germany or Berlin continued. They eyed how long to press talks and ways to adjourn without breaking east west ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Shackford
Paris
U.P
Germany
Berlin
Andrei Vishinsky
Council of Foreign Ministers
Paris Match
Vishinsky
Dean Acheson
Truman
Josef Stalin
Michael J. McDermott
Acheson
Stalin
Mr. Truman
Washington
St Lo Forgives Raids By U S
HAL BOYLE reports from St Lo France on June 6 describing wartime forgiveness amid destruction. He notes American and Allied sacrifices and the local view that liberty demanded costly aid, warning against judging the United States too quickly and stressing resolve to defend freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
ST. LO
France
America
Boyle
U S To Release Polish Vessel After Eisler Inquiry
The Polish liner Batory scheduled to sail Monday after U S officials finished questioning Captain Jan Cwiklinski and crew about Eisler. One hundred eleven of 683 passengers remained at Ellis Island as immigration hearings began for 111 detained passengers. A flare on the ship’s jetty caused a brief fire, and four crewmen were removed under guard as investigators probed Eisler’s escape last May. Shore leave was barred while in U S waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Gerhart Eisler
America
U. S
Ellis Island
Hudson River
Jan Cwiklinski
U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Eisler
Steward’s Department
U.S
Batory
Gdynia-America Line
Southampton
Copenhagen
Godnia
Poland
Denmark
Henrik de Kauffman
U.S. State Department
Washington
Berle Impersonation Sparks Soprano Defamation Suit
Hollywood June 6. Dorothy Kirsten sues Milton Berle over TV imitations she calls horrible and defamatory. She claims a blond wig impersonator and a La Traviata drinking song clip damaged her reputation and demands a public apology and substantial judgment. Kirsten cites similar outrage from Ethel Merman and urges action to stop the stunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
U.P
Milton Berle
Dorothy Kirsten
Berle
Miss Kirsten
Metropolitan Opera Co
Donnie Woodward Dies After Severe Burns
Vernon Texas reports the death of 10 year old Donnie Woodward who survived extensive burns but succumbed at 5 am after a long hospital stay. The farming family had kept vigil as doctors treated him with oxygen and transfusions following the May 10 blaze that left 70 percent of his body burned. He had shown brief improvement days before his death and spoke of his pet cow Old Jersey.
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Vernon
Tex
Donnie Woodward
Vernon Hospital
Donnie
North
Texas
James W. Woodward
Mine Chief Loses U.S. Fine Appeal
The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld contempt of court convictions and a 1.42 million dollar fine against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers for refusing to call off the 1948 coal strike. The three-judge panel rejected Lewis’s arguments that no strike occurred and that fines were excessive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S.court of Appeals
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Lewis
UMW
Union
T. Alan Goldsborough
Goldsborough
U. S. Supreme Court
Baseball Results From Open MLB Card
Cincinnati edged New York 4 11 1 in a nine inning game while St Louis topped Boston 7 14 0 as Fox Howell Jones Webb Cooper and Munger Wilks Baker Salkeld Mass and Stubbs Batts Kretlow Swift contributed key plays. Philadelphia faced Cleveland in a night game with scores not listed.
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Cincinnati
New York
Fox and Howell
Jones
Webb
Cooper
St. Louis
Boston
Munger, Wilks
Baker
Spahn
Potter
Salkeld
Mass
Stubbs
Batts
Kretlow
Swift
Philadelphia
Cleveland
More Parking Meters Asked in Tucson Budget Plan
Tucson City Treasurer Joseph D. McAllister urged buying about 20 new meters at 85 dollars each to cover more downtown blocks. He noted current 520 meters cost under 1 dollar per meter to maintain and that coin income reached 44 416 through May, with penalties adding over 100 dollars daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson
Joseph D. McAllister
McAllister
North Church Street
Alameda
Toole Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Indians reshuffle lineup as Boudreau moves to third base
Cleveland announces manager Lou Boudreau shifts from shortstop to third base after a coaches conference with President Bill Veeck to lift the club from a slide. Rookie Ray Boone takes over at shortstop while Kenny Keltner is benched. In New York stocks slide to a year low with heavy turnover and many shares changing hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Lou Boudreau
Cleveland Indians
Tribe
Bill Veeck
Boudreau
Ray Boone
Kenny Keltner
New York
Senate Panel Backs Atlantic Pact For Ratification
Senator Fulbright says the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the Atlantic pact and issued a report urging ratification by the full Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen
Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Soldier stabbed by Russian in Berlin incident
U S officials reported a American private identified as Pvt Lee was stabbed four times by a Russian civilian who was then killed by a German crowd. The soldier lay in a Soviet sector hospital with serious wounds while Russian authorities held the civilian suspect for killing the Soviet man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
U. S
Pvt
Lee
Murdock Pushes Arizona Project Hearings Momentum
Chairman John R. Murdock of the House Public Lands Committee ordered a speed-up of hearings on the Central Arizona Project amid protests from California. The move aims to advance the water project despite opposition from California interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John R. Murdock
House Public Lands Committee
Arizona
California
Short Circuit Fills Building With Smoke
Three Tucson fire trucks and about 300 onlookers responded to a 1 05 p m call at the Arizona clinic on 260 E Congress St A short wave machine caused a thick smoke fill but no other damage was found Dr Howard Glaesner said the machine had not been used that day
Garvey Hopeful Of Attending Sessions
Phoenix June 6 UP Gov Dan E Garvey said it looks as if he might attend the national governors conference in Colorado Springs June 19 22. A lack of travel funds has forced the governor to delay his decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Dan E. Garvey
Colorado Springs
Colo
Purge Shrinks Russian Communist Party by 300000
The New York Times reports a Moscow driven purge expelling about 300,000 members from the Communist Party amid ideological realignments. It notes figures near Zhdanov and other top leaders were affected while denying ties to the Molotov Mikoyan cabinet shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York Times
Russia
Paris
C. L. Sulzberger
Communist Party
Komsomol
Communist Youth League
Taklen
Times
N. A. Voznesensky
A. A. Kuznetzov
P. S. Popkov
Supreme Soviet
Uri A. Zhdanov
I. T. Golyakov
Soviet Supreme Court
Sulzberger
Georgi M. Malenkov
Zhdanov
G. F. Alexandrov
Ussr
the Times
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist
V. M. Molotov
A. I. Mikoyan
Hickenlooper Attacks AEC Security Practices
Senator Hickenlooper charged during a Senate investigation that an atomic reports draftsman faced suspension after an FBI loyalty inquiry. He cited an August 1947 emergency clearance, a March 1948 derogatory finding, and a June 1948 security clearance speedup amid testimony by Lilienthal and other AEC officials.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Congress
FBI
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
Calle
Hick
Lilienthal
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Vet
Steve Garzick
Robert
Frank Tippett
Big 3
Kirsten
Ethel Merman
Burns
U.S. Fine Appeal
Bulletins
Garvey
Reds
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