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August 25, 1948

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Hiss, Chambers Meet Openly At House Spy Hearing Today; HISS, CHAMBERS DUE TO MEET IN PUBLIC

By C.p. Trussellspecial To the New York Times

com gets Hiss lr scoring its tactics and urging it to prove charge of Communist party membership; names many US high officials and personalities who can be subpoenaed as character witnesses; com gets word Immigration Bur ordered Peters to appear and subpoena can be served on him then; com hears L Budenz, auto co official, former Hiss maid and others in closed session

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State Department Gets Note After Regular Closing Time; Ambassador Panyushkin Was in New York -- Soviet Action Not Unexpected and Does Not Mean Break in Diplomatic Ties NOTE FROM SOVIET DELIVERED TO U.S.

By the United Press

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- Diplomatic officials took a calm view tonight on a Russian note announcing the closing of the only two Soviet consulates in this country and demanding a similar shutdown of the sole United States consulate in Russia.

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CZECH REDS ARGUE FOR SIX-DAY WEEK; Labor Confederation Asserts That Increase of Eight Hours Is in National Interest CZECH REDS ARGUE FOR SIX-DAY WEEK

By Albion Rossspecial To the New York Times

Premier Zapotocky pledges action against subversives

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FACTS CHALLENGED; Moscow Holds Lomakin Justified in 'Defending' Citizens of Russia 'KIDNAPPING' REASSERTED U.S. Statements 'Unfounded,' Says Soviet, Ordering Its 2 Consulates Shut at Once RUSSIANS REJECT U.S. TEACHER NOTE

By the United Press

State Dept gets note

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Wallace Backers Get Sound Truck 'Ticket'

By Unknown Author

summonses issued to Progressive party and ALP group campaigning for Wallace for using sound truck without permit, NYC

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Notable Births

1948Ledward Kaapana, American singer and guitarist^[†]

Ledward Kaapana is a Hawaiian musician, best known for playing in the slack key guitar style. In 2011, he received a National Heritage Fellowship, the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. He also plays steel guitar, ukulele, autoharp, and bass guitar, and is a baritone and falsetto vocalist. He received Na Hoku Hanohano Awards from the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts (HARA), and has been nominated for Grammy Awards.

1948Nicholas A. Peppas, Greek chemist and biologist^[†]

Nicholas (Nikolaos) A. Peppas is a chemical and biomedical engineer whose leadership in biomaterials science and engineering, drug delivery, bionanotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, chemical and polymer engineering has provided seminal foundations based on the physics and mathematical theories of nanoscale, macromolecular processes and drug/protein transport and has led to numerous biomedical products or devices.

Historical Events

1948The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.^[†]

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties. It became a standing (permanent) committee in 1946, and from 1969 onwards it was known as the House Committee on Internal Security. When the House abolished the committee in 1975, its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.