Five-Point Agenda Set for Korea Negotiations
UN and Communist negotiators agree on a five point agenda to end the Korean war. Topics include agenda adoption, buffer zone, cease fire supervision, prisoner exchange, and recommendations on foreign troops withdrawal. Sessions begin immediately with a fuller deep dive scheduled for tomorrow.
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Robert B. Tuckman
Korea
United Nations
Matthew B. Ridgway
North Korea
38Th Parallel
Nam Il
Red
Acheson Pushes 825 Billion Aid Plan For Allies
Secretary of State Acheson urged Congress to approve 8.5 billion dollars in military and economic aid now, with two additional programs planned for Europe and Asia. He testified that Korean armistice talks won’t ease the need to rearm the free world against Communist aggression.
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Washington
Acheson
U. S
Congress
Europe
Asia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Korea
United Nations
Kremlin
Truman says UN action in Korea helped avert world war
President Truman released a letter with a 1950 UN participation report stating the resolute UN stand against the Korean aggression signaled by the UN troops prevented a broader war. He argued the action protected collective security and the UN charter, warning failure could have ended the UN as a shield against aggression.
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Washington
Truman
United Nations
Korea
South Korea
Congress
United States
MR. Truman
Timidity Of Leaders Hit By W Arthur Speech
Boston General Douglas MacArthur condemned administration timidity and wavering in a Massachusetts legislature speech. He urged a moral and spiritual rebirth, criticized lack of a war plan, and blamed shifting U.S. policy and heavy taxation for foreign aid burdens amid crowded public support.
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Boston
Douglas MacArthur
Massachusetts
Far East
Korea
Statehouse
MacArthur
Quincy
United States
U.S
Russia
FCC Relaxes TV Freeze With Power Grants
The FCC will permit temporary higher power grants to existing television stations as a partial loosening of the 34 month old freeze. The commission expects the general end of the freeze unlikely before year end, but allows increases to extend current station ranges and notes many stations operate below their transmitter limits.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
Police Break Up 2 Boy Crime Wave
Two 11 year old boys allegedly led a wild spree including stealing a truck that crashed through a guard rail and hung over a bridge then commandeering a second car and loading it with food from a market they robbed before a police pursuit at high speed. They were captured in Green Island. Police Chief William H. Freeman described their remark about seeing over the dashboard.
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Troy
William H. Freeman
Green Island
Used Car Tax Evader Fined Five Hundred Dollars
Gerald D. Deller, 28, pleaded guilty in common pleas court to perjury and making a false affidavit for evading the new used car sales tax. He declared paying 100 for a car but prosecutors show 1700 paid with 51 tax due. judge suspended 200 of the fine, noting the broader impact on taxpayers.
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Cincinnati
Gerald D. Deller
Keller
Common Pleas Court
Fred Bader
Field Testifies Army Offered Him Commission in 1942
Frederick Vanderbilt Field testified before the Senate Internal Security Committee that the U.S. Army offered him an intelligence commission in 1942. He cited outside interference and declined to name officers or detail the “problem” delaying the appointment. He faces a 90 day jail term for contempt related to bond questions.
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Washington
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
U. S. Army
Field
Senate
Institute of Pacific Relations
New York
Internal Security Committee
Costello Free On Bail In Senate Contempt Case
Frank Costello, reputed underworld king, is free on $5,000 bail after pleading innocent to contempt of the United States Senate. Indictments accuse Costello and associates Adonis and Erickson of defying Senate crime probers during televised hearings. Adonis and Erickson face multi-count indictments with penalties up to one year and $1,000 per count. Adonis and Erickson await arraignment as Costello remains in federal custody records show.
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New York
Frank Costello
Underworld
United States Senate
Joe Adonis
Frank Erickson
Senate
Costello
John F. X. McGahey
U. S
Senate Crime Committee
Adonis
Erickson
New Jersey
Brothers Little brothers collide in motorcycle crash
SIMONSBATH England AP Brothers Richard 19 and Dennis 17 rode from home on motorcycles in different directions yesterday. They returned and collided head on. Both are in adjoining hospital beds.
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Simonsbath
England
Richard
Dennis Little
House Panel Kills Seaway Bill in 15-12 Vote
The House Public Works Committee killed the St. Lawrence Seaway and power project bill 15 to 12, stopping any immediate return unless two thirds or unanimous consent is granted. Proponents claimed national defense value and cost savings, with Armco among supporters.
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Washington
St. Lawrence Seaway
House Public Works Committee
Representative Pickett
D-Tex
Great Lakes
Atlantic Ocean
Armco
Pickett
McGregor
Ohio
Canada May Carry Out Plans Alone
Ottawa reports that the defeat of the St. Lawrence Seaway project in a Washington committee likely ends immediate congressional support and leaves Canada to pursue the plan independently with no prompt action from the United States.
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Canada
Ottawa
St. Lawrence Seaway
Washington
Admiral Forrest Sherman Lying In State At National Cathedral
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman lies in state at the National Cathedral in Washington. The 54 year old Chief of Naval Operations died of a heart attack last Sunday in Naples and will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery after a Friday funeral. Twenty admirals and generals and top government and service chiefs saluted as the flag draped coffin arrived from Italy.
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Washington
Forrest P. Sherman
Arlington National Cemetery
Naval Operations
Naples
Secretaries of State
Defense
Treasury
National
Navy
Italy
Cincinnati's New Chief Is Only 38
Stanley R. Schrotel, age 38, will become Cincinnati police chief on August 6. He won the civil service exam with an average of 99.33 to fill the post left vacant since Eugene Weatherly retired March 1, 1950.
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Cincinnati
Stanley R. Schrotel
Eugene Weatherly
Six Elwood Men Die In Truck Collision Near Anderson
An automobile carrying six Elwood men to their jobs collided with a milk truck near Elwood. All six men died. they worked in the paint shop at the Guide Lamp Plant in Anderson. The milk truck driver escaped injury.
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Elwood, Ind
Elwood
Guide Lamp Plant
Anderson
Ind
FBI Roundup Targets Communist Party Leaders in Three Cities
The Justice Department launched a round up of secondary Communist party leaders in Los Angeles San Francisco and New York City with 11 arrests. FBI Director Hoover said those arrested were active in California driven party work amid prior seizures of 17 Eastern Seaboard Communists last month. William Schneiderman chairman of the California Communist state committee was among those arrested in New York City.
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Washington
Justice Department
Los Angeles
San Francisco
New York City
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
California
Eastern Seaboard
U. S
Pittsburgh
William Schneiderman
Communist State Committee
Department
Schneiderman
New York
Price ceilings rise as canned vegetables see boosts
Washington reports higher ceilings for canned vegetables under OPS rules. The measure allows use of 1948 material costs plus post-1948 increases, boosting average prices at cannery level. Meanwhile the cost of living index falls 0.1 percent from May to June, first drop since 1950.
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Washington
Michael V. DiSalle
OPS
Bureau of Labor Statistics
State Of War Ends Between Germany and Netherlands
Bonn AP reports the German Foreign Office announced today that the state of war between Germany and the Netherlands has been formally ended.
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Bonn
Germany
The
Netherlands
German Foreign Office
Demos Win Victory On Rent Curbs
Senate House conferees approved rent rollbacks to the May 24 to June 24 1950 level in new defense areas. The panel also junked a House provision barring rollbacks there, allowing designation of critical defense zones under rent control. The measure awaits ratification by both chambers.
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Demos
Washington
Senate House
Senate
House
Eric Johnston
Secretary of Defense
Maybank
D-Sc
Bricker
Ohio
Senate approves extra soil conservation funds for farmers
The Senate voted 41 to 39 to authorize 55 million dollars more than the House approval, totaling 280 million dollars for soil conservation payments to farmers this year.
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Washington
Senate
House
Judge Clears Reformatory Head in Slander Suit
Common Pleas Judge Leroy Allen directed a verdict for Mrs. Marguerite Reilley in a $25,000 slander action against the Marysville women’s reformatory superintendent. N. E. Davis, former Marysville taxicab owner, testified that Reilley accused him of aiding an inmate’s escape on June 12, 1950.
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Marysville
Common Pleas
Leroy Allen
Marguerite Reilley
Women’s Reformatory
N. E. Davis
Reilley
British cabinet delays on Iran oil talks offer
London sources report the British cabinet met to discuss the Iranian oil nationalization crisis and postponed a decision on accepting Iran’s invite for talks with a British government mission.
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London
Boyle Denies Pay-off Story in RFC Loan Case
Chairman William M. Boyle Jr of the Democratic National Committee says he had no involvement in negotiations for a 565000 government loan to the American Litheford Corporation. He acknowledged representing the firm in legal matters not tied to the RFC loan, which was granted in 1949 but paid off fully by August 1950 after private financing.
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Washington
William M. Boyle, Jr
Democratic Nation Committee
St. Louis
Boyle
American Litheford Corporation
RFC
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Truman
Kirk Will Retire Successor Unknown
Ambassador Alan Kirk plans to retire as ambassador to Moscow early next winter. Officials speculate on a successor as Kirk, who arrived in Moscow on June 1, 1949, has served two years in the post, a tenure considered near the maximum for such a posting behind the Iron Curtain. He has told the State Department he does not want another tour.
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Washington
Alan Kirk
Moscow
Kirk
State Department
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