Shippers and Unions Edge Toward Pacific Strike Settlement
West coast shipowners and five maritime unions push talks to avert a Friday contract expiry. AFL shipwrights and machinists oppose a recent five-cent wage raise, threatening action to resist master contract terms. NLRB ruling boosts hopes for a settlement as elections disputes linger.
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Unity Plea by Governor at Occidental College
Governor Earl Warren urged a unified United States to provide world leadership for peace and freedom. He spoke at Occidental College commencement in Hillside Theater, noting unity gives strength and calling global peace the greatest cause. Warren and Willis H. Booth received honorary doctor of laws degrees.
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Heat Wave Touts High Temps Across Southwest
Chicago wires report sizzling weather with 107 in Yuma and 105 at Presidio Texas and Blythe California. Showers sprinkled the south from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains with light rain in the upper Mississippi Valley and Pacific Northwest. A tornado struck Hugo Oklahoma airport last night, wrecking two hangars two airplanes and damaging several houses and barns.
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London Straits Foil Manhunt
The largest international manhunt since World War II unfolds across France Spain and the Mediterranean as British officials chase clues to the disappearance of two Foreign Office employees Donald D MacLean and Guy Burgess last seen in Paris on May 25. Mor rison said there is no evidence they took documents and debate continues over possible defection to Russia. Burgess stepfather Bassett suggested a sea location but discounted Kremlin escape.
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San Diego Zoo Elephant Harry Shot After Attacks
In San Diego on June 12, keepers killed 7000 pound elephant Harry at the zoo to protect staff and visitors. The elephant had shown aggression since puberty two years earlier, causing difficulty for keepers and a pair of female elephants sharing his enclosure.
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Prince Aly Khan Flashes Rage at Photographers with Joan Fontaine
In Paris early today Prince Aly Khan and Joan Fontaine attended a lavish Elsa Maxwell party with 200 guests including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Barbara Hutton. Aly confronted photographers at 4 a.m. outside Laurant Restaurant, shouting that photo duty was serious business.
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Elephant escapes chaos at zoo and endures grim fate
A young elephant broke through a thick plank and steel door, sprayed water, and hurled dirt and debris with its trunk. Two weeks earlier it attacked a keeper who escaped by leaping into a moat. Zoo staff remain downcast yet hopeful Harry may become a sire posthumously.
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Blind Grad Girl Eyes Hope Regain Sight After Explosion
Boston June 12 Jace queline Sinnott graduates from Marshfield High School tonight but must return to the Massachusetts eye infirmary as doctors resume efforts to restore her sight lost in a school laboratory blast. She has light perception in both eyes after a rare double corneal graft from a donor.
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Beef Leading in Food Buying Beef Leading in Food Buying
Washington reports beef is favored in national food purchases as milk production lags. A Commerce Department note shows meat and dairy output follows price changes, with beef currently commanding higher farmer prices, prompting some farmers to shift from milk to beef cattle production.
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Koreans Told No Peace Thinks On Cease Fire
Washington reports South Korea's ambassador You Chan Yang says there is no cease-fire plan or peace feeler under consideration to end the Korean war. He quotes Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk as saying Gen Marshall's Korea trip was military only and denies a UN draw up of any peace accord. Yang warns Koreans see no 38th Parallel and fear a renewed invasion if fighting stops there.
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Meat Rationing Forecast Soon
Los Angeles June 12 The National Association of Retail Meat and Food Dealers president Charles Bauer predicts full scale meat rationing within weeks. He says price controls would be blamed if it happens, noting livestock declined 1940 to 1950 due to wartime price ceilings and rationing. Bauer, on a West Coast tour, cautions feeders will not endure ongoing losses.
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New Draft Will Hit 385000 Deferred
Washington dispatch reports congressional experts estimate up to 385000 draft registrants will lose deferments under a new law Truman is set to sign. The law ends dependency deferments for wives, lowers induction age guidance, and shifts 3A classifications. About 1,136,600 currently hold 3A deferments with 235000 potential reclassification to 1A or loss of deferment.
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Cold War Aims to Isolate the Free World
Ernest A. Gross, deputy U S representative at the United Nations, says Soviet strategy seeks to split free world allies. He told a Town Hall audience that American leadership aims to unite the free world against pressure from communism. He urged that Communists push the lie that the U S is the aggressor in Korea.
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Price controls not a fix for shortages Bauer argues
Bauer and Sala contend price controls fail to ease shortages as housewives will pay only so much for a product. They argue markets and efficiency better address supply without harming consumers.
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Ontario Youth Found in Texas
Elusive 15 year old David McCarther of Ontario California reappeared in Bonham Texas after a weekend disappearance. He said he traveled by Buckeye Arizona and Lawton Oklahoma en route to his father Clarence Ray McCarther in Bonham. He escaped unharmed except for bruises from a wreck and learned his father was there within an hour of arrival.
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