Truman Defends New Deal as South Gains Power Dams
President Truman, in a Dixie stop at Bull Shoals Dam Arkansas, praised the New Deal and Fair Deal as aiding the South, dedicating two hydroelectric dams and pledging action for fair incomes and opportunity. He attacked special interests and linked flood control to broader economic progress for the region.
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Truman
American Medical Association
Arkansas
Missouri
Bull Shoals
Norfolk
Little Rock
Air Force
South
Democratic Party
Egypt Names New Non-Party Cabinet Under Sirry Pasha
Alexandria Egypt sources report Premier Hussein Sirry Pasha forming a new non party cabinet after Hilaly Pasha resigned. King Farouk expected to issue royal decrees appointing a 13 member cabinet to succeed the Hilaly administration. The list omits Ahmed Mortada el Maraghy Pasha who had held interior and Army Navy posts in prior governments.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Hussein Sirry Pasha
Farouk
Sirry Pasha
Ahmed Naguib Hilaly Pasha
Hilaly Pasha
Ahmed Mortada el Maraghy Pasha
Wafdist Party
Ten Die In Western Japan Floods
Heavy rains across western Japan in the past two days caused ten deaths and flooded 9 632 houses, police reported today.
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Tokyo
Japan
Americans abducted by Berlin Communists at border
Three American men and a German girl were seized by Communist police at Doep pel near Zehlendorf and driven into the Soviet Zone. U S Army officers said the men were Catholic priests from Frankfurt Catholic Relief Agencies and the girl worked for the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Witnesses noted the car bore American plates and crossed the border past iron boundary spikes and a red white barrier.
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Berlin
Germany
U. S. Army
Frankfurt
Catholic Relief Agencies
Katherine Wintzier
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Doeppel
Zehlendorf
East Zone
West Germany
GOP Committeemen Bar TV in Delegate Hearings
The Republican National Committee voted 60 to 40 to bar radio TV cameras and newsreels from its hearings in Chicago. The decision drew swift criticism from Eisenhower backers and supporters of Taft, while Taft himself voiced no objection. A subcommittee had proposed limited coverage before the final vote. The ruling does not affect planned coverage of the forthcoming convention.
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GOP
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Robert A.taft
Ohio
Taft
Brown
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Eisenhower
Conrad Hilton Hotel
McIntyre Faires
Los Angeles
Charles Hacker
Physicists Report Ultra Fast Missiles From Labs
Dr. R J Seeger of the National Science Foundation described new missile speeds reaching 180000 miles an hour at Los Alamos Laboratory. The speeds are said to theoretically equal 235 times the speed of sound at sea level.
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Denver
R. J. Seeger
National Science Foundation
American Physical Society
Los Alamos Laboratory
Plank Drafters Warned Against Isolationism
Chicago's Americans for Democratic Action urged GOP platform drafters to resist isolationism and pursue a peaceable foreign policy. ADA backed negotiating with the Soviet Union while aligning with Truman administration practices and denouncing any return to isolationist stances.
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Chicago
Americans For Democratic Action
Republican Platform
ADA
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kenneth W. Thompson
University of Chicago
GOP
Truman
Soviet Union
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sen
Nam Asks Day Recess Of Parleys
The Korean armistice talks paused for 24 hours at Communist request. The Reds offered no reason. the stop followed Maj. Gen. Harrison Jr.’s review of a prisoner exchange plan seen as a face-saving path to ending the stalemate.
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Munsan
Korea
U. N. Commando
William K. Harrison Jr
Harrison
U. N
Reds
Alles
Alan Winnington
The
London Daily Worker
Allied
Englishman Denies Guilty In Spy Case At Old Bailey
William Martin Marshall a 24 year old Foreign Office radio operator pleaded innocent to charges of slipping state secrets to a Russian diplomat. His trial date is set for July 9. Marshall faces five counts including furnishing information useful to an enemy and recording state secrets. He was arrested June 13 with Pavel Kuznetsov, second secretary at the Soviet Embassy in London, who was released due to diplomatic immunity.
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London
William Martin Marshall
Foreign Office
Marshall
Central Criminal Court
Old Bailey
Pavel Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov
Viet
NPA May Increase Aluminum Supply
The National Production Authority hinted at a 22 percent boost in aluminum allotments for civilian goods manufacturers. Radio and TV set makers will receive the increase this quarter, with other consumer goods industries likely to follow. The rise is possible as demand for aluminum has lagged expectations this spring.
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National Production Authority
NPA
Steel Workers target smaller firms amid union shop clash
In Pittsburgh, CIO United Steelworkers push to bring 50,000 plus workers into new contracts while industry leader Charles H White of Republic Steel warns of a long fight over a union shop. The Iron ore strike in Minnesota worsens ore shortages. Murray remains at his Pittsburgh desk as talks continue.
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Pittsburgh
CIO United Steelworkers
Steelworkers
Charles H. White
Republic Steel
Philip Murray
White
John R. Steelman
CIO
Steelman
Minnesota
Murray
New York
Copperweld Steel
Warren (O
Wage Stabilization Board
Allied Industries
City divides Albuquerque into four quarters in new address plan
Albuquerque officials announce a new city plan taking effect today that shifts residents to four city quarters, renames streets, and reduces confusion amid rapid growth from 35,449 to 120,000 in twelve years.
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Albuquerque
N.M F
City Planning Commission
Four Billion Deficit in 1952 Despite Higher Tax Revenue
The 1952 federal deficit stood at 4.016 billion, with total outlays at 66.1 billion for the year ending June 30. Tax receipts reached 62.1 billion, aided by higher income taxes, while war-era spending lag reduced aid and military costs.
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Washington
U. S
Truman
The
Treasury
U.S
Social Security Fund
Malik Says He Will Veto Germ Probe at U N
United Nations report says Soviet delegate Malik will veto the American bid for an impartial inquiry into germ warfare charges in Korea. The U S insists on a vote despite Malik's plan to abstain and block the probe with a veto.
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United Nations
N.Y
Russia
Jacob A. Malik
U.S
Korea
Security Council
Malik
Council
U. S
Ernest A. Gross
Red China
North Korea
Gross
Governors Conference silent on possible party walkout over rights
Southern governors remained silent on a Byrnes hint of a party split over compulsory civil rights laws. Byrnes warned of a walkout if the Democratic convention bars contested conservative delegates, while others signaled support for Eisenhower or Stevenson in various states. He backed Richard Russell and opposed Adlai Stevenson’s civil rights stance.
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Houston
Tex
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Byrnes
Supreme Court
Texas
Charles H. Russell
Nevada
Dwight D. Eisenhow
Johnson Murray
Oklahoma
Stevenson
Richard Russell
Georgia
Adlai Stevenson
Lattimore Charged by Senate Panel with Conspiracy Ties
The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee charged Owen Lattimore with being a conscious instrument of a Soviet conspiracy and recommended perjury proceedings against him and John P. Davies Jr a State Department official. The panel concluded they testified falsely during a year long probe into the Institute of Pacific Relations.
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Washington
Senate
Owen Lattimore
John P. Davies Jr
State Department
Internal Security Subcommittee
Lattimore
Davies
Institute of Pacific Relations
Sen. McCarran
Jd-Nev
IPR
United States
Far East
Pacific Area
Twister Flips House 200 Feet. Farmer Dead
Louis Olson, 70, a farmer, was killed when a tornado lifted his house from the foundation and dropped it 200 feet away upside down. The storm flattened farm buildings and cut power and telephone lines across a five mile-wide swath.
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Wing
N. D
Louis Olson
Congressmen Cite Katyn Massacre as 15000 Poles Slain
A House committee report charges Russia with killing 15 000 Polish officers in Katyn Forest in spring 1940. It urges UN action and an international probe into mass murders and crimes against humanity. It compares Soviet tactics in Korea and Katyn and notes similar methods at Panmunjom.
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House
Katyn Forest
Russia
United Nations
U. N. General Assembly
World Court
United States
Madden
D-Ind
Special Investigating Committee
Panmunjom
U.N
Moscow
Smolensk Arta
Bonn Pacts Approved By Senate
The Senate approved two Western Germany pacts 77-5 and 72-5. One ends occupation and restores sovereignty. the other extends NATO security guarantees to Western Germany without full NATO admission. The pacts enable the European Defense Community and shift American troops from occupation status to NATO defense roles.
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Washington
Senate
Western Germany
German Republic
NATO
United States
Europe
International
France
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Germany
EDC
Britain
Gunmen Force Man To Load Hidden Trucks in Quicksilver Area
Margarito Perez, 40, says he was held 13 nights in a cave near Terlingua and Alpine Texas while forced to load heavy cylinders of quicksilver guarded by machine gun men. Police search focuses on a cave in the Big Bend border region as speculation swirls about smuggling for explosives. Election day for a Mexican President is Sunday.
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Paso
Tex
el Paso Times
Wild Big Bend
Terlingua
Alpine
Margarito Perez
President Seeks U S Share in St Lawrence Seaway Plans
President Truman urged Congress to allow the United States to join Canada as a full partner in the St Lawrence seaway and power project. He argued New York State involvement is essential and that the State Department and Canada have asked the International Joint Commission to expedite approval.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
United States
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
New York State
Barkley
House
Rayburn
State Department
International Joint Commission
Taft Forces Seize Georgia Delegates At GOP Meeting
The Republican National Committee ousted Georgia's Eisenhower aligned delegation by 62 to 39 and seated 17 Taft loyalists. The move boosts Taft 489 to 410 in AP tallies with 604 needed, signaling Taft control of convention machinery and possible delays for Eisenhower backers. The decision, likely appealed to Credentials Committee, could set patterns for five more disputed states.
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Taft
Georgia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Eisenhower
Republican National Committee
Associated Press
National Committee
Convention
Conrad Hilton Hotel
Texas
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