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November 30, 1949

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NOTES ON SPY RING READ AT HISS TRIAL; Defendant Listed in Security Officer's Memo of Chambers Talk as No. 3 in Underground

By William R. Conklin

Chambers cross-examined further on possibilty of paper transmission by White; says no documents in evidence came from Wadleigh; says Hisses knew him as D Breen in '37; identifies 'X' and 'T' as State Dept employes R Post and Mr Lovell; prosecution offers A A Berle notes of '39 and Murphy notes of '45 and '46 talks with Chambers on Soviet-controlled Washington spy ring

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Notable Births

Jim Chones

1949Jim Chones, American basketball player[†]

James Bernett "Bunny" Chones is an American former professional basketball player, and current radio analyst for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Matthew Festing

1949Matthew Festing, 79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (died 2021)[†]

Fra' Robert Matthew Festing GCStJ OBE TD DL was an English Roman Catholic official who was the Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 2008 until his resignation on 28 January 2017, following a dispute with the Vatican.

1949Jimmy London, Jamaican singer-songwriter[†]

Jimmy London is a Jamaican reggae singer who first recorded in the late 1960s, and achieved chart success both in Jamaica and the United Kingdom in the early and mid-1970s.

Notable Deaths

Frank Arthur Cooper

1949Frank Cooper, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Queensland (born 1872)[†]

Frank Arthur Cooper was Premier of Queensland from 1942 to 1946 for the Labor Party.