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June 8, 1949

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Headlines from June 8, 1949

2 Get $19,565 in Day Hold-Up Of Payroll Guards at Columbia; COLUMBIA ROBBED OF $19,565 IN CASH

By Unknown Author

Columbia Univ: 2 gunmen get $19,565 from 2 Wells Fargo guards at Columbia

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PIER WORKERS ROUT ANTI-RYAN PICKETS IN 14TH ST. BATTLE; 2,500 Leave Work to Attack Group Demonstrating Against Alleged Racial Bias POLICE IN ACTION QUICKLY Fight Lasts for Only a Few Minutes -- AFL Men Lay Trouble to Communists DOCK MEN ATTACK ANTI-RYAN PICKETS POLICE QUELL FIGHTING AMONG RIVAL LONGSHOREMEN

By Arthur H. Richter

2,500 ILA members rout Negro pickets and backers in brief battle; counter-pickets charge communism; police quell riot; illus; bar picketing; Ryan thanks attackers; orders work resumption; 4 held for disorderly conduct

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Russia Got Atomic Devices, Coplon Trial Report Reveals; FBI Document Is Disclosed as Judge Rules U. S. Must Show Secret Texts -- Two Other Shipments to Soviet Blocked FBI REVEALS RUSSIA GOT ATOM DEVICES

By the Associated Press

Reeves ruling forces Govt to submit full texts of FBI repts; appeal to have names deleted rejected; FBI agent testifiies on 1 FBI rept on USSR receipt, through purchasing agency Amtorg, of atomic research devices from US in '47, and that '48 and '49 shipments were blocked; memo in Coplon purse mentions names of F March and S Legge

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3-YEAR EXTENSION OF SALES TAX VOTED; City Council Passes Measure With No Ballot to Spare -- Other Levies Renewed CITY'S SALES TAX EXTENDED 3 YEARS

By Kenneth Campbell

Council renews sales tax for 3 yrs; Councilman Palestin restrictive amendment rejected; others comment

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Truman Asks $150,000,000 For South Korean Recovery; Policy for Anti-Red Stand in China Looms -- Wedemeyer in Secret '47 Report Urged a U. N. Trusteeship for Manchuria 150 MILLION ASKED FOR AID OF KOREA

By Anthony Levierospecial To the New York Times

new US policy reptd being evolved based on Nationalist stand against Communists, far western provs; Wedemeyer '47 rept kept secret because it proposed UN trusteeship for Manchuria to prevent USSR take-over

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1949Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator^[†]

Emanuel "Manny" Ax is an American classical pianist. He is known for his chamber music collaborations with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinists Isaac Stern and Young Uck Kim, as well as his piano recitals and performances with major orchestras in the world.

1949Hildegard Falck, German runner^[†]

Hildegard Falck is a retired West German runner. At the 1972 Olympics she won a gold medal in the 800 m and a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay with West German team. In the 800 m final she finished 0.1 seconds ahead of Nijolė Sabaitė and Gunhild Hoffmeister.

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1949George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in the United States^[†]

Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.

Headlines from June 8, 1949

2 Get $19,565 in Day Hold-Up Of Payroll Guards at Columbia; COLUMBIA ROBBED OF $19,565 IN CASH

Russia Got Atomic Devices, Coplon Trial Report Reveals; FBI Document Is Disclosed as Judge Rules U. S. Must Show Secret Texts -- Two Other Shipments to Soviet Blocked FBI REVEALS RUSSIA GOT ATOM DEVICES

3-YEAR EXTENSION OF SALES TAX VOTED; City Council Passes Measure With No Ballot to Spare -- Other Levies Renewed CITY'S SALES TAX EXTENDED 3 YEARS

Truman Asks $150,000,000 For South Korean Recovery; Policy for Anti-Red Stand in China Looms -- Wedemeyer in Secret '47 Report Urged a U. N. Trusteeship for Manchuria 150 MILLION ASKED FOR AID OF KOREA

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