Congress Moves Quick Vote On Defense Budget
Washington AP reports congressional leaders push for weekend adjournment with fast approval of a defense appropriation totaling 34.871 billion dollars after a Senate House conference compromise. The bill is about 1 percent below Eisenhower’s request and over six billion below Truman’s budget.
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Senate
Senate House
White House
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Truman
Truce Critic May Get Key Senate Post
Senator Flanders of Vermont appears to have first claim on the vacancy on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee created by Senator Tobey's departure. If he declines, Senator Aiken may claim the seat, with Bricker Ives Jenner McCarthy and Malone following in line. Flanders has supported administration foreign policy but criticized the Korea settlement as dishonorable.
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Flanders
R-Vt
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Aiken
GOP
Tobey
R-Nh
Senate
Korea
Bricker
Ohio
Ives
Jenner
R-Ind
McCarthy
R-Wis
Malone
Nev
Draft chief warns speedup as 18 year olds face draft
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said 18 year olds, fathers and 4Fs will be drafted within a year due to manpower shortages. He predicted the monthly quota could double as the armed forces exhaust reserves built since World War II and Korea.
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Ike Suggests British Exit Egypt in 18 Months
Cairo reports the United States proposed Britain withdraw from the Suez Canal Zone within 18 months. The plan would leave up to 4000 technicians to maintain the base for no more than five years, part of a five point proposal sent to Egypt by President Eisenhower last week.
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Letter Routed by Clerks Finds Correct Recipient
A simple addressed letter marked Cow's Corner was delivered to a man at the Jersey and Guernsey streets intersection in Marblehead Massachusetts. The note shows how post office workers use local knowledge to assign misaddressed mail.
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Guernsey Streets
Taft in hospital improving after relapse reports
Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio was reported somewhat improved at New York Hospital after a hip ailment. Bulletins noted a restful night no pain and eating breakfast. Family visits continued as speculation about a possible Senate vacancy rose in Washington.
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U. S
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Ohio
Speculate on Successor To Ailing Ohio Senator
Columbus report weighs who could replace taft if illness forces resignation. Potential Democratic picks include Thomas Burke Michael V DiSalle and James Huffman. Dramatics mention Charles Taft or a Lausche Brown GOP deal but cautionary.
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Toledo
James M. Huffman
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Sect Members Raise Bonds In Polygamous Sect Case
Short Creek Arizona arrests include 34 men and 50 women from the polygamous sect. An attorney from Salt Lake City arrived to arrange bond financing while declining details on guarantors or defense membership. Predawn raid netted 263 children. 122 warrants were issued with 38 suspects believed to have fled to Utah.
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Doomed Tulsa Wife Faces Caesarean Birth
In Tulsa a young housewife with cancer of the lymph glands awaits a Caesarean delivery next Sunday to save her newborn, as doctors plan to take the baby two months early fearing the mother may not survive.
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Okla
British Still Want Parley With Russia
In London acting prime minister Richard A. Butler told the House of Commons Britain still seeks high level four power talks with Russia. He said unity exists with the United States France and Western Germany and that Britain, France and the US invited the Soviet government to a foreign ministers conference on German unity and an Austrian treaty, with a reply awaited. The possibility of a high level conference is not excluded and would be welcomed.
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Milwaukee Brewers End 76 Day Strike with 20 Cent Pay Rise
Milwaukee six breweries reach contract after a CIO United Brewery Workers walkout lasting 76 days. Workers vote over 3 to 1 to accept. some dissenters push for a 35 hour week without pay loss. Settlement includes a 20 cent hourly wage increase and may raise beer prices.
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New Look Abandoned by Dior Shorter Skirts Debated
Paris fashion notes report Christian Dior pushing a shorter Live Line skirts nearly to the knee and a new silhouette with a looser waist and fuller bosom. He aims to test whether Paris still dictates fashion as the New Look did in 1947.
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Pickup Case Opens Today
A Columbus policewoman testifies in the trial of Rep. James J. Barton. Margaret Stiver wore the same clothes she had on June 3 when the legislator allegedly accosted her on state house grounds. Barton denies the molestation claim, calling it a mistaken identity.
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Truce Ends Longest U S Naval Siege on Record
YOKOSUKA Signing of the truce at Panmunjom Monday halted the 2 year 4 month 11 day siege of Wonsan on North Korea s east coast The blockade ends as the second longest siege by U S naval forces after Vicksburg a Civil War site lasting under two months.
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French Units Tighten Noose on Red Rebels
In Indochina, French Union forces press a surprise assault against Viet Minh resistance along the central coast. A 10,000-man French force has seized control of 20 rebel-held villages after Tuesday’s attack.
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Indochina
East Germans Arrested Over Western Food Aid in Berlin
Communist police detained scores of East Germans who accepted Western food gifts as crowds swarmed West Berlin relief centers on day three of the American funded aid program. Arrests were brief, identities were seized, and border controls intensified as shipments continued to reach the enclave.
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Security Pay Change Next In the Plans
President Eisenhower plans a congressional message this week urging a social security boost with broader coverage. Proposals would target next year, adding over 10 million to the 60 million already served and introducing a method to drop four years of lowest pay when calculating benefits.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Hunt Maniac On Turnpike
State police hunted a maniac armed with a .32 automatic after two brutal slayings on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The second victim, Harry F. Pitts, 39, of Bowling Green Virginia, was found shot in his parked truck near Donegal 50 miles from Pittsburgh. The first victim, Lester B. Woodward, 30, a truck driver from near Harrisburg, was killed as his truck rested about 30 miles from Donegal.
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Donegal
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Harrisburg
Poor Salesmanship Blamed for Dairy Surplus
Washington report says a miserable sales effort led to surplus dairy products stored by the government. The American Dairy Association plans a 10 million dollar annual sales promotion to boost consumer purchases of milk and dairy products.
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American Dairy Association
General Clark Plans US Visit and Family Events
Gen Mark Clark and Mrs Clark will visit a daughter in San Francisco and attend their son's wedding in New Orleans on August 3. Afterward Clark goes to Washington for conferences with UN and Far East command officials.
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Mark Clark
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New Orleans
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UN Wrecks Defense Line To Create Bullet Zone
Allied and Communist forces peel back from the 150 mile truce line under an armistice deadline as both sides salvage fortifications and equipment. Reports cite red and gold peace dove insignias from Chinese troops and orderly withdrawal by South Korean units along the widened front.
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Ike Warned On Debt Bill
Key Democrats warned President Eisenhower to face a tough battle if he proposes raising the 275 billion dollar debt limit in this session. Senators George Byrd and Lyndon Johnson predicted the Senate will reject any increase, while Senator Williams said he would oppose lifting the ceiling without solid supporting facts.
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D-Ga
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Train derailment injures 17 near Guymon
A Rock Island Imperial streamliner bound for California derailed 17 miles north of Guymon Oklahoma injuring 17 passengers none seriously hurt. Conductor George White from Pratt Kansas blamed a broken baggage car truck for the incident.
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South Air Force claims destroy 984 enemy planes in Korean War
In a three year Korea War summary the Sth Air Force reported destroying 984 Communist planes with 159 more probably destroyed and 5 damaged. Fifth Air Force tallied 823 MiGs downed by Sabre jets, plus 142 probably destroyed and 929 damaged, while losses totaled 71 aircraft with most losses from ground fire or other causes.
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Senate Okays Refugee Bill Amid Immigration Debate
The Senate approved Eisenhower's emergency refugee bill 49 to 40, rejecting Sen Jenner's amendment to halt admissions unless other nations share the burden. The plan caps refugees at 209,000, below the president's 240,000 target for the next two years to aid those fleeing Communist tyranny.
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Eisenhower
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Jenner
R-Ind
Congress
Dulles Prepares Korea Policy After Red Unification Doubt
Secretary of State Dulles signals a policy of pressuring for Korean unity through principle and attraction of the free world, not by buying unity. He plans to travel to Korea to urge South Korea’s President Rhee to avoid resuming fighting and rejects any deal that would bring Communist China into the United Nations or Security Council.
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Armistice Commission Sees Protests Labeled Minor
The Korean Armistice Commission heard North Korean accusations of eight violations during the two day-old truce. U.S. Maj. Gen. Blackshear M. Bryan called the charges broad and unsubstantiated while seeking more information. The exchange of prisoners remains planned to begin Sunday, with 86 000 prisoners to be swapped within 60 days. Withdrawal of forces from the cease fire line continues and neutral inspection teams are set to start work soon.
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Panmuniom
Child Beaten to Death Tied to Water Pipe in Chicago
Police say an 8 year old mother tied her 3 year old son to a water pipe and beat him to death with a chair. Detectives found a note to her husband describing tying the child and concealing injuries. The woman, Veronica Burowsky, is held for questioning.
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Army reports 555th Field Artillery Battalion overrun in Korea
The Army said the 555th Field Artillery Battalion was overrun by Chinese forces July 14 during a major offensive on the East Central Front. It ranks among the war’s worst massacres for Americans with only five of its 105mm howitzers surviving and heavy personnel losses.
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