Senators Uphold Bradley Silence On Truman Talks
Senate investigators upheld Gen. Omar N. Bradley’s right to refuse testifying about President Truman’s private talks with advisers on firing Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The vote was 18 to 8, sustaining a decision by Sen. Russell to protect Bradley’s silence.
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Senate
Omar N. Bradley
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
McMahon
D-Conn
Russell
Dga
Joint Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee
Bradley
UN Embargo Debate Bypasses Security Council Vote
The General Assembly blocked a Security Council vote on a proposed world arms embargo against Red China, ruling the Council only competent to debate. Soviet delegates balked, while U S Ambassador Ernest Gross prepared to introduce the proposal. The session also touched on MacArthur's dismissal and related White House talks, with Senate questions about confidential information and future witness plans.
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New York
Russia
China
United Nations Security Council
General Assembly
Security Council
Jacob Mank
Roberto Arbelaez-Urdaneta
Columbia
U. S
Ernest Gross
Truman Attacks Taft and MacArthur Over China War
President Truman sharply criticized Gen Douglas MacArthur and Senator Taft for push toward an all out war in China. He warned that such a move would cost 10 to 20 times rearmament and Korea containment, urging allies and stronger price and rent controls and higher taxes. He avoided naming Taft in speech prepared for the National Conference on Citizenship.
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Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Taft
China
National Conference On Citizenship
Korea
Far Eastern
Congress
Hotel
Statler
Mrs. Truman
Ohio
Russia
Cripps Condition Sparks Anxiety Over Health
In Zurich AP report Sir Stafford Cripps former British Chancellor of the Exchequer is said to be gravely ill. A statement from his wife notes he has a tubercular spine infection and is being tested for a rare abdominal complication described as dangerous.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Stafford Cripps
Tornado Toll Rises in East Pakistan Disaster
In Faridpur district, Bengal, a Saturday tornado killed and injured hundreds. The death toll reached 210 bodies recovered, with at least 1,000 casualties reported as the storm hurled people and livestock through the air.
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Dacca
East Pakistan
Faridar
Bengal
Army hunts cause of stomach upsets at Ft Meade Arlington
More than 400 soldiers report stomach aches at Ft Meade and Arlington, with 384 cases at Ft Meade including 95 hospitalizations and about 60 more at an Air Force camp in Arlington. Officials suspect food poisoning but have not pinpointed a cause.
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FT. Meade
Arlington
Air Force
Empress Sadako Dies in Tokyo at 66
Empress Dowager Sadako of Japan died in Tokyo at age 66 from a heart attack. Her husband Emperor Hoshihito had died on Christmas Day in 1936.
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Tokyo
Sadako
Hoshihito
State imposes gas heating unit freezes in Ohio
The Public Utilities Commission ordered complete freezes on new gas heating units for six companies and continued partial freezes for four others. It also set a July 9 hearing to review Columbia Gas System subsidiaries and noted potential shortages for about 270,000 space heating customers.
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State Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Dayton Power and Light Comany
Natural Gas Company Ofest Virginia
Portsmouth Gas Company
United Fuel Gas Company
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company
East Ohio Gas Company
National Gas and Oil Corporation
Newark Consumers Gas Company
Toledo Edison Company
Commission
Ohio
Columbia Gas System, Inc
Dayton Power and Light Company
Central Kentucky Natural Gas Company
Ohio Fuel Gas
Rollback Means More Meat Now But Less Later Says Brannan
Secretary Brannan said the price ceiling rollback on cattle may raise beef supply in the near term but reduce long term production, as cattlemen adjust breeding and sales. He warned results are uncertain and depend on cattle marketing, production trends, feed costs, and future market prospects.
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Brannan
Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Senate Banking Committee
Western Union Walkout Hits Eight States
AFL Commercial Telegraphers Union members walk out at Western Union in Philadelphia and Cincinnati. About 800 employees refuse to work slowing telegraph service in Pennsylvania Ohio New Jersey Delaware West Virginia Kentucky Tennessee and parts of Maryland. Union cites contract dispute and non union workers. officials say wider wage-reopen demands drive the action.
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Western Union
AFL
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New Jersey
Delaware
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Maryland
AFL Commercial Telegraphers Union
Commercial Department
Pittsburgh
Patedeipale
Gary Coopers Separate as Property Talks Continue
Hollywood AP report says Gary Coopers have separated and are negotiating a property settlement. Mrs. Cooper's lawyer confirms ongoing talks and the couple is handling matters privately.
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Hollywood
Gary Coopers
Butter Shortage Seen as Storage Dwindles
Washington AP reports a potential butter shortage next fall and winter as Agriculture Department figures show cold storage butter at 32.389 million pounds on April 30, far below 109.02 million a year earlier. April to June normally builds reserves, but demand outpaced supply, draining stocks and signaling tighter markets amid higher fluid milk use.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate approves wheat aid for India amid grain sales
The Senate passed an administration backed bill granting India 2,000,000 tons of wheat on easy loan terms for famine relief and requires India to supply manganese and monazite for U. S. stockpiles. India has bought about 70,000,000 bushels of American grain this marketing year, including 10,000,000 bushels in July, with Russia already selling 50,000 tons.
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Washington
Senate
India
House
U. S
Frazier Reams
Toledo
Secrest
Ohio
Soviet Union
Russia
Hearse Inquiry Lands Man in Prison for Crash
Baltimore AP report: Harry B. Jones, 35, told the judge he wanted to see how a hearse rode before he died. He wrecked a hearse in a street intersection but was unhurt. Judge S Ralph Warnke sentenced him to three years to recall the experience.
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Baltimore
Harry B. Jones
Jones
S. Ralph Warnke
Old Lady Seeks Alms Permit From Governor
An 80 year old, Eleanor Rulli of Youngstown, asked Gov. Frank Lausche for permission to beg alms on Columbus streets. She and her blind husband receive $55 and $53 monthly, plus another pensioner, Elizabeth Nucum, joined to cover rent. The governor warned that allowing pensioners to solicit alms would flood metropolitan street corners.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Youngstown
Lausche
Eleanor Rulli
Rulli
James
Elizabeth Nucum
Rullie
U S Casualties Rise In Korea to 65 523
Washington AP reports U S casualties in Korea reached 65 523, up 1 468 since last week. Totals include 9 848 killed in action, 44 669 wounded, 11 006 missing. Of the wounded 1 163 later died, and 101 of the missing are known dead, bringing deaths to 11 112.
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Washington
U. S
Korea
Beightler to Undergo Surgery at Walter Reed Hospital
Major General Robert S. Beightler commander of the Ruhukyus command from Columbus Ohio is slated for an operation next week at Walter Reed Hospital. He has been in Okinawa with troops and was struck by an undetermined ailment eight days ago.
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Washington
Robert S. Beightler
Ruyukyus Command
Walter Reed Hospital
Beightler
Columbus, O
Okinawa
Gap In Lines Is Plugged Up By UN Forces
On the western front Chinese forces attacked the Seoul perimeter Thursday night, but after a four and a half hour assault they withdrew, leaving UN forces to plug the gap and hold the line.
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Western Front
Korea
Seoul
China Says Reds Hit UN Lines Near Seoul In East Central Front
AP dispatches describe heavy Chinese assaults across the east central sector from Chunchon to Inje as 96,000 troops press the front and 25,000 Reds rally along the Pukhan route. UN forces counterattack to restore high ground while casualties rise and lines fluctuate amid censored battlefield reports.
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Pukhan Valley
West Central
Han
Pukhan
Seoul
Ront Line
U. S. Eighth Army
Fifth Air Force
Chunchon
Inje
William C. Barnard
U. S
John Randolph
No-Man's-Land
Sea of Japan
Kapyong
Red Korea
East Central Front
Nje
Polowetzky
Eighth Army
Auto Steel Cut Ordered For July 1
The government announced steel supplies for autos and other hard goods will be cut about one third below pre Korea levels on July 1. Reductions range ten to 15 percent below present civilian levels with 2,000,000 tons of steel available in the July to September quarter versus 3,000,000 before the fighting. Priorities will shift more output to defense, and a meeting will outline further cutbacks for civilian use.
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Capitol Hill
Truman
Washington
Edwin T. Gibson
Defense Productions
Gibson
Wage Stabilization Board Set to Approve Two Pay Thaws
The Wage Stabilization Board was reported to near approval of two pay thaws affecting about 0.72 million workers, with a U.S. official memo indicating a vote scheduled for tomorrow. The action would include a cent per hour increases for auto workers and inflation boosts for meat packers, plus additional adjustments for job classifications and a ten percent ceiling on above rates.
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Washington
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