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Joseph Sydney Petersen Jr., 40, a research analyst engaged in secret Government work since 1941, was fired on Oct. 1. One night last week, talking long-distance with an aunt in New Orleans, he said he was expecting a "big promotion." Next day he was arrested...
...Petersen was charged with obtaining secret documents-between March 1, 1948 and Dec. 31, 1952-"to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation." The foreign nation: France. U.S. agents said that secrets passed by Petersen to French government agents were later stolen in Paris by the Baranes spy group (see FOREIGN NEWS), which put the information into Communist hands...
When the A.F.L.'s Automobile Mechanics Union began organizing auto dealers' mechanics in Chicago in 1939, Carl Petersen's Chevrolet agency balked. Two of his employees struck and began picketing. After two years of it, they got fed up and quit. The union kept picketing anyway, using Alexander Orr, a ruddy, rotund little Scottish bachelor and professional picket...
Last week, after twelve years of walking up & down outside Petersen's, 69-year-old picket Orr's tour of duty finally came to an end. Dealer Petersen agreed to go along with an agreement signed by the Chevrolet Dealers Association and the union, and urge his few remaining nonunion mechanics to join up. Said Petersen: "I didn't care much one way or another." Orr, who reckoned that he had paced off 40,000 miles in twelve years, had worn out two signs and two dozen pairs of shoes. Said he: "Everybody was always nice...
...youth organizer: "Comrade . . . great things are happening. I want to meet you to discuss these things." Palle Voigt, editor of two Communist magazines that had urged the troops to resist an extension of the draft, was arrested on charges of inciting rebellion. The trouble, believed Danish Defense Minister Harald Petersen, "was obviously directed from abroad...