British Firms to Leave China
Britain announced that remaining British businessmen in China would wind up their 300 million pound investment and depart, seeking exit visas for about 120 Britons. London said it would maintain contacts with Peiping while noting no full diplomatic ties exist and Hong Kong would remain unaffected.
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London
Britain
Red China
China
Peiping
Foreign Office
L. H. Lamb
Selwyn Lloyd
House of Commons
Hong Kong
The
Daily Express
Joy Replaced on U.N. Team in Korea Move
Vice Admiral C Turner Joy will be relieved next Friday as head of the United Nations truce delegation. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr. to succeed him, with Vice Admiral C Robert Briscoe taking over naval command. Joy had urged relief after Communist talks stalled on final wartime screening and end of war terms. Harrison, known as a tireless worker, is nominated as successor.
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Panmuniom
Korea
Adm
C. Turner Toy
United Nations
Joy
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Mark W. Clark
Tokyo
Navy Department
Naval Forces
Far East
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
DWN
William K. Harrison Jr
Robert Briscoe
U. S. Seventh Fleet
U.N
Matthew B. Ridgway
Clark
Walter J. Ellis
Harrison
U. N
Holdup spree rocks Hollywood Sunset Strip and cafes
A Hollywood holdup spree netted over 7500 in cash and jewelry as two gunmen robbed Scandia restaurant on Sunset Strip and forced patrons to the bar. They took 3100 from the cafe safe and two registers, plus 5000 from the cafe and about a dozen patrons. A second raid at Encore Cafe yielded 1200 from its safe. Box office thefts at Diam Palladium and a Paladium venue produced small sums. Authorities consider the same gang possibly involved.
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Hollywood
Young
Handsome
Sunset Strip
Carl Hansen
Kenneth Hansen
Ler Laiger
Scandia
Paladium
Connie Rodriguez
Curbs Reinstated If Cotton Prices Rise
The Office of Price Stabilization suspended price controls on raw cotton and most textiles, with an official stating 43.39 cents per pound would trigger restoration of the 45.39 cent ceiling. The move affects white and extra white middling fabrics. officials expect no retail price changes.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Ellis Arnall
New York Exchange
Carolinas
Bad Weather Delays Atomic Test At Nevada Grounds
Las Vegas report says weather conditions are not suitable for a nuclear test at the Nevada proving grounds. AEC spokesman announced the new shot will be staged only after conditions improve and cut to the schedule.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UP An_ Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada Proving Grounds
Nurse Seized In Alabama Kills Niece With Poison
In Wetumpka Alabama nurse Mrs Earle Dennison confessed in writing to killing her two year old niece Shirley Diana Weldon with arsenic in a soda and was charged with murder The same nurse reportedly held life policies on two other children and is suspected in a prior death Polly Ann Weldon based on an autopsy showing arsenic traces with suspicions rising after a second child became ill
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Wetumpka
Ala
Earle Dennison
Lester Holley
Shirley Diana Weldon
G. Weldon
Holley
Mrs. Dennison
GOP Senators Challenge McGranery for Attorney General
Two Republican Senators, Ferguson and Watkins, questioned James P. McGranery's fitness for attorney general. They filed a minority report opposing the Senate judiciary committee's 8 to 4 confirmation vote for the U S district judge from Philadelphia appointed six weeks earlier to succeed J Howard McGrath as chief law enforcement officer.
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Washington
James P. McGranery
Ferguson
Michigan
Watkins
Utah
Senate Judiciary Committee
U. S
Philadelphia
J. Howard McGrath
High Court Silent on Steel Seizure Case Decision
The Supreme Court postponed ruling on the steel seizure case until next Monday. No formal opinions were issued today, only routine orders were released. The court could issue a ruling before its next opinion day, but a decision remains uncertain.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Night and Morning Clouds Then Sunny Afternoons
The forecast calls for low clouds at night and in the morning with sunny afternoons. Winds will be variable near 12 to 18 miles per hour in the afternoons, shifting to west to southwest later.
Commies Close East West Zone Crossing Point
FRANKFURT Germany May 119 UPA closed one of five border crossing points for German passenger trains linking the Soviet zone with West Germany. West German officials said traffic on the remaining six interzonal crossings stayed normal. The move, first interzonal rail cut since the post blockade years, heightened Berlin and Bonn fears as talks with the West approach.
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Frankfurt
Germany
UPA
West Germany
Gutenfuerst
Thurgingina
Bavaria
Berlin
Bonn
West
Where To Find It Beach Combing and More
A listing of sections and their page locations shows where to find features such as beach combing on page 6 1 Boyle on page A 13 and various departments including bridge on 8 2 classifieds B 10 to 13 comics B 6 crossword A 10 editorial A 12 financial B 8 9 obituaries B 9 radio B 4 shipping B 9 tides temperatures B 9 and sports A 14 15 theaters B 7 Woren's activities on pages 8 2 and 3.
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Boyle
Woren's
'Wildcat' Chutists Hold U. S. Official Hostage in Jungle
U S embassy reports assurance from Brazil that steps are being taken to free an American aviation inspector and a Brazilian Air Force major held by a wildcat parachutist group in the jungle. Parachutists demand transport to civilization from a helicopter strip near a Pan American World Airways crash site that killed 50 people.
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U. S
Jungle
Rio DE Janeiro
Miami
Fla
Gordon Bennett
Miami’ International
CAA
Scott A. Magness
Miranda Correa
Pan American World Airways
USAF
Student Falls in Crevasse on Mount St Helens
SPIRIT LAKE WASH May 19 AP A University of Washington student Art Jessett 20 son of Rey and Mrs Thomas E Jessett Seattle was trapped in a crevasse 8000 feet up Mount St Helens while three companions descended from the 9671 foot peak Rescue efforts by mountaineers from Seattle Portland and state patrolmen continued before dawn with news expected after base camp reports from Spirit Lake Jessett said he was trapped about 35 feet below snow surface and feared a broken arm as the ice closed around him.
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Spirit Lake
Wash
University of Washington
Mount St.Helens
Art Jessett
Rey
Thomas E. Jessett
Seattle
Iey Walls
Mt. Rainier
Portland
Ore
Scone
Jessett
Mt. St. Helens
Bruce Ray
Jassett
Raby
Night club owner released tied to Brink's case
Massachusetts and Rhode Island lawmen pressed for leads in the Brink's robbery and the slaying of Carton M. O'Brien, owner of a Warwick Rhode Island roadhouse. Rhode Island AG Powers accused Boston authorities of indifference while ex-convict Joseph F. McGinnis, tied to the case, was released after questioning.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
William E. Powers
Powers
Brink
Carton M. O’brien
Joseph F. McGinnis
O'Brien
Warwick
R.L. Dine
Dance Place
Providence
R. L
West Warwick
McGinnis
Alfred
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Bayonne
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Hobson
Alabama
Gops Assail McGranery
High Court
Commies
Arthur Jessett
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