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Last week, acting as subcommittee chairman in the absence of McCarthy, South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt sprang a stunner on the British. Information "confirmed by the Defense Department," he announced, showed that between Dec. 29, 1952 and April 20, 1953 exactly 100 British vessels made 177 trips to Red China. To prove his point, Mundt produced the names of 96 of the British ships as well as those of 62 additional ships which had put into Chinese ports flying the flags of twelve other non-Communist nations.* Said Mundt: "We have a right to expect from our friends...
...indictment for burglary of a detective and an ex-detective, accused of planning a robbery with an ex-convict, and 2) the formation of a special citizens' committee to investigate police corruption. But in the T-P's hour of victory, Item Publisher Stern sprang his own police scandal...
...with the same peddler at another busy street corner (19th and Harrison), and again Photographer Dennison was behind a window shooting the encounter. The two men-peddler and undercover agent-met in the agent's car, where the agent bought the dope with marked money. Suddenly other agents sprang from hiding and pulled the peddler from the car (see cut). The agent who had made the contact stepped out carrying the dope in a paper bag. The Tribune, owned by the family of California's Senator William F. Knowland, spread its exclusive pictures across Page One and eight...
...mutilated. He left quietly and went to his brother Alphonse's house, penned his mother and two small nephews into one little room, and then, swinging madly, hacked them all to death too. The brother was away on an errand; when he walked into the quiet kitchen, Peter sprang at him with his bloody weapon, killed him, and went out to the street again...
...their backs creaked beneath the violent tugging of bold hands, and the sweat flowed down in streams; and many a weal, red with blood, sprang up along their ribs and shoulders; and ever they strove amain for victory...