Ammunition Shortages and Mobilization Debates Highlighted
Senate Armed Services hearings discuss ammo shortages cost lives and urge a defense department monthly supply report. The minority report questions mobilization scope and probes procurement, with cited remarks from Ridgway, Almond, and Van Fleet on artillery as a key killer and saver of troops.
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Senate Armed Services Committee
Defense Department
Kefauver
Senate
Air Force
Tennesseean
Eisenhower
van Fleet
Edward N. Almond
Matthew B. Ridgway
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Archibald 5. Alexander
Ridgway
Korea
State Department
Secretary of
National Security Council
Joint Chiefs of No
Truman
Defense
Louis Johnson
George C. Marshall
Robert A. Lovett
Frank Pace
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Omar Bradley
Collins
The
Hoyt Vandenberg
Forrest P. Sherman
William Fechteler
Mink pelts bring $35 from Hancock hunter
Willis H. Higgins of Hancock earned $35 for a mink pelt he killed by the tail after catching the animal in a pheasant pen.
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Greenfield
N. H
Willis H. Higgins
Hancock
McCarthy Letter On British Trade With Red China Is Withdrawn
McCarthy withdrew a letter to President Eisenhower regarding British trade with Red China before delivery. The Senate committee faced calls to reveal names of British owned vessels accused of housing Communist troops, but officials cited security rules and false charges. McCarthy left Bethesda Naval Hospital amid the dispute and was not expected to act further for days.
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Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
Eisenhower
McCarthy
Senate Investigating Committee
Far East
British Information Service
Impse
Karl E. Mundt
R-Nd
McCarthy Committee
Francis D. Flanagan
Flanagan
Bethesda, Md
MccCarthy
White House
China
Coronation Preparations Fill London Streets Amid Festivities
London buzzed with coronation fever as hundreds of thousands gathered to glimpse pageantry and royal departures. Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh left for Windsor while crowds clashed with police, and rehearsals for regalia and guard ceremonies unfolded. Separately, Belfast faced a flare of violence with about a dozen letter bombs aimed at ministers and civic figures, stirring security concerns ahead of the coronation.
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Ens Lanne
Prince Charles
Princess Anne
Windsor
Palace
Westminster
Westminster Abbey
Dean's Yard
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Westminster School
Elizabeth Regina
Elizabeth
Queen
Woolwich Artillery Depot
Pirbright
Surrey
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
United Ireland
Lfast
Britain
Ireland
Republic
Status Of Bills In Congress Detailed
Washington May 23 UP Status of major legislation in Congress outlines several items. Tidelands grants coastal states oil rights, while a companion bill extends far offshore to the continental shelf. Senate approves a 90 day wage price rent control stoppage in wartime. Hawaii statehood is advanced though Alaska statehood rides a challenge. Tax bills face deadlock and trade revisions continue. Foreign aid requests total about 5.828 billion dollars. Farm labor measures seek three more years to import Mexican workers.
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Congress
Tidelands
Eisenhower
Senate
House
House Banking Committee
Senate Interior Committee
Hawaii
Ways and Means
Taft-Hartley
House Labor
House Foreign Affairs
Boonsboro High Plants Three-Acre Alfalfa Lawn
Boonsboro Maryland high school students in a vocational agriculture course planted about three acres of alfalfa on the elementary school grounds this spring. Principal Douglas W. Bivens says the alfalfa lawn will enhance appearance and yield three crops annually for the school herd of about 20 cattle.
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Boonsboro
Douglas W. Bivens
Missing Child Found After Lona Hunt
Beverly Kay Bradley, 4, found unconscious in a swamp near her grandmother’s home after 49 hours missing. She told authorities she was taken in a car to a house, prompting a kidnapping theory. Sheriff Reindl noted the scene and her dry clothes but cautioned the story was not fully clear. Ahrendt, 18, was arrested for questioning after being found with a pistol, though officials doubt linkage.
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Mich
Beverly Kay Bradley
Edward Reind
Agnor
Beverly
Coast Guard
Upper Michigan
Carbondale
St. Joseph Hospital
Reind
David Ahrendt
Reindl
Ahrendt
Belly Dancer Samia Gamal Teeters Over Divorce Plans
Cairo May 23 Belly dancer Samia Gamal says she may abandon plans to divorce Abdullah King IIT her Texas husband after a change of heart. King arrived from Houston to win her back and met her lawyer for a private talks. She may meet King again to discuss the case and hopes to avoid court if possible.
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Cairo
Egypt
Samia Gamal
Sheppard (Abdullah) King Iit
Texas
King
Houston
Tex
Samia
Abdullah
Houstort
Anis Attia
Four To Speak At Carolina Services
Four business and industry leaders will speak at dedicatory exercises for the University of North Carolina school of business administration. Speakers include James E. Webb of Republic Supply Co. and George M. Harrison of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks at the afternoon program, with Dean Donald K. David of Harvard and Thomas B. McCabe of Scott Paper Co. at night.
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N. C
University of North Carolina
School of Business Administration
Durham
Raymond Weeks
James E. Webb
Republic Supply Co
Oklahoma City
George M. Harrison
Cincinnati
The
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
Donald K. David
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
Thomas B. McCabe
Scott Paper Co
Chester
Michigan Drops Racial Designation From Licenses
Lansing Michigan reports Michigan becomes the m th state to remove racial designation from drivers licenses.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
How To Put Round Berries In Square Box
Rochester engineers at Pfaudler Co solve the square peg in a round hole by adapting a rotary filler to place frozen berries into rectangular waxed cartons. The new system uses special nozzles and valves to fill up to 300 boxes a minute on a 14 piston machine and up to 175 boxes a minute on a six piston model.
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Rochester
N. Y
Pfaudler Co
Six VA Hospitals Targeted for Closure in Budget Cut
VA medical experts warn that fiscal 1954 cuts could close six or seven veterans hospitals, with 4,809 beds to be cut and 2,288 already inactive due to funds. Hospitals in Lake City Florida Fayetteville North Carolina and Dublin Georgia listed as candidates. Budget Bureau trims 279 million from VA request. chairman says beds and standards won t fall. VA officials must justify cuts before the Phillips subcommittee while arguing care will suffer.
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Veterans Administration
Veterans
VA General Medical and Surgical
Lake City
Fla
Fayetteville
N. C
Dublin
John Phillips
Calif
House Appropriations
Budget Bureau
Phillips Group
Auriol Seeks Socialist Help to Form New Cabinet
Paris May 23 President Auriol called on Guy Mollet secretary general of the Socialist party to help form a cabinet to replace Premier Rene Mayer whose government was toppled. Mollet deferred his reply as France weighs postwar leadership and European defense choices amid political uncertainty.
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Vincent Auriol
Guy Mollet
French Socialist Party
Rene Mayer
Mollet
Auriol
France
Mayer
Henri Queuille
Antoine Pinay
M. Rene Mayer
London Economist
Jance
Europe
West Germany
West
Germany
Marshal Philippe Petain
National Assembly
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