Menon urges U.S. China détente as pilots freed
Krishna Menon told reporters that both nations must contribute to easing tensions and seek settlements after China freed four American fliers. He suggested conciliatory U.S. gestures and voiced cautious optimism that broader talks might reduce the Formosa crisis, while U.S. officials kept mediation expectations restrained.
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Washington
Knight Lions Hard Liquor Tax Increase
Governor signed an administration bill raising state hard liquor tax by about 14 cents a fifth, with $11.7 million first year and about $14 million annually after. Assemblyman Glenn Coolidge sponsored the measure. The move prompted industry price debates and possible changes to fair-tender laws in the next session.
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Los Angeles Rejects Additional Cigarette Tax
Los Angeles voters and smokers escape a two cent cigarette tax after the city council revenue and taxation committee on Monday killed the proposed extra charge. The move ends plans for an added license fee per package aimed at raising city revenue.
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Revenue and Taxation Committee
Free Salk Serum for All Opposed by Sec Hobby
Washington reports the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee hears Mrs. Hobby oppose a mass free Salk vaccine program. She cites costs near 133 million dollars and supports targeted federal funding to assist states while favoring community wide voluntary vaccination with local control. The hearing considers safety questions and policy impact on existing state and private efforts.
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Peron moves on bishops amid labor surge and clashes
In Argentina, President Peron strips bishops from three church posts and fuels a nine hour loyalty strike by workers. Fresh clashes erupt at Plaza de Mayo as Peron denounces clergy and vows crackdown, with CGT rallies and nationwide demonstrations. Police guard cathedrals. stock market falls amid unrest.
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Flood Rips Through Las Vegas Continues On Citywide Flooding
Las Vegas, population 65 000, faced flash floods with traffic restricted on silt covered US 91. The Strip hotels sustained minor damage mostly water in kitchens and lower levels. The event marked Las Vegas as a growing postwar city facing rare desert floods.
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Las Vegas
Friday 13th Murder Case Trial Begins
In Raleigh North Carolina wake county superior court Richard Klackhohy faced second degree murder charges in the Friday 13th shooting that killed Bernice Searwell, 43, and wounded another woman from a hotel window. The Harvard faculty member’s stocky one-year-old son pleaded innocent as testimony opened with state witnesses detailing the downtown May 13 incident.
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Bernice Searwell
75 Aircraft Entered in Annual Transcontinental Air Cruise
Seventy five light aircraft will start Saturday in the third annual transcontinental air cruise sponsored by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. The mass flight, designed to showcase private flying for business and vacation, will involve 220 pilots and 220 travelers, with takeoffs at noon. Overnight stops are planned in Phoenix and Tucson Arizona Abilene Texas and Tulsa Oklahoma over the 2,579 mile course. The event uses a handicap formula and restricts entries to single engine postwar aircraft under 300 horsepower.
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Philadelphia
Wait'll He Gets Home Court Moment In Bus Passing Case
In Trenton New Jersey Judge Casimir E Bugdo was startled when his wife Margerek appeared before him charged with passing a school bus. The court heard the case and fined her 515.
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Missionaries Held in Communist China Report
Hong Kong SPI reports that 15 American Catholic missionaries remain in Chinese prisons while one more is detained by authorities. The update notes ongoing detention of U S citizens linked to religious missions in the region.
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SPI
Catholic Center
Safety signs vandalized then crash reported near road work
A safety official from IURI A reported to police that while he was stenciling slow down and live longer signs on the pavement an automobile crashed into a nearby area. The incident prompted a police response and investigation into the crash scene.
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Irita
Catholic Schools Aid Slash Approved in Belgian House
In Brussels the Belgian chamber voted 111 to 95 to cut state aid to Catholic schools amid protests. A government plan to trim support by about five million dollars follows a march by 60 000 to 100 000 Catholics and clashes that injured several and led to dozens jailed. The bill goes to the senate where the coalition also holds a majority.
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Belgium
House of Representa
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Louvain
Tourain-Aarschot
Space Fuel Explosion Injures Teen in Glendale
A 23 year old space travel enthusiast, Robert I. Snyder Jr, was critically injured Monday night in Glendale when explosives he mixed for space fuel blew up in his back yard. He underwent extensive surgery and received 13 pints of blood. a metal fragment pierced his liver, gall bladder, and other areas. Police say he tested a carbon dioxide cartridge with gunpowder and a projectile when the blast happened, and his father, a Southern California Gas Co manager, reported hearing the explosion and seeing him stagger to the home’s back door.
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Glendale
Robert I. Snyder Jr
Memorial Hospital
Southern California Gas Co
Salesman 23 Arrested on Girl Assault on UCLA Campus
In Los Angeles a 23 year old salesman Bertram Greenberg was arrested at his West Los Angeles home and booked on suspicion of criminal assault after eight women reported being attacked on the UCLA campus. Police traced the suspect through license plates and detained him following a bus stop incident.
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Bertram Greenberg
West
Irene Bryant
Greenhey
UN Chief Cites Duty to Service World
At Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore Dag Hammarskjold, secretary general of the United Nations, received an honorary degree after urging a duty to serve humanity. He spoke of technological and economic progress that binds people beyond race or creed and warned of dangers created by humankind.
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Court Backs Lattimore in Perjury Case
The U S Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of the latest perjury indictment against Owen Latti more. The court divided 4 4 with the eight judges not announced how each voted. The ruling upheld District Judge Luther W Youngdahl’s decision that the charge was too nebulous to permit preparation for a defense.
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U.S. Court of Appeals
Owen Lattimore
Eght
Luther W. Youngdahl
Smog District Aid Named Assistant Controller in LA County
Michiel Prateh, 37, longtime county administrator staffer since 1947, was named to a 315,500 dollar yearly post as assistant Myector of the County Air Pollution Control District. He will pursue faster handling of a backlog of industrial smog applications.
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Ufi—Michiel Prateh
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