Mr. George Backer, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, issued the following Statement: “Miss Beatrice Heiman has been inaccurately described in a Washington dispatch as ‘correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.’ Miss Heiman has not been in the employ of the since last spring. She was dismissed April 10, 1948.”
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