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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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In Baltimore, the $75,000 libel suit by Alger Hiss against Whittaker Chambers, key figures in a Communist spy investigation, was postponed indefinitely by federal judges at Hiss's attorneys' request, with Chambers' attorneys assenting. Hiss faces perjury charges in New York related to the probe.
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BALTIMORE, Dec. 29.—(AP)—Trial of the $75,000 libel suit of Alger Hiss against Whittaker Chambers, central figures in a Communist spy probe, was postponed indefinitely today.
Attorneys for Hiss, under indictment in New York on two charges of perjury growing out of the Communist investigation, obtained the postponement from Federal Judges William C. Coleman and W. Calvin Chesnut. Attorneys for Chambers assented to the motion for delaying the trial "indefinitely."
Hiss based his suit on a claim that Chambers' statements about him being a Communist were untrue.
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Baltimore
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Dec. 29.
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trial postponed indefinitely
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Trial of the $75,000 libel suit of Alger Hiss against Whittaker Chambers was postponed indefinitely today. Attorneys for Hiss obtained the postponement from Federal Judges William C. Coleman and W. Calvin Chesnut. Attorneys for Chambers assented to the motion. Hiss based his suit on a claim that Chambers' statements about him being a Communist were untrue.