Britain Axes 300 Million Pound British China Investments
Britain says remaining British businesses in China will close or sell 300 million pounds of assets and abandon the country. About 120 Britons seek exit visas as firms wind up. Britain maintains recognition of Peiping but lacks full diplomatic ties and a mission in London.
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London
Britain
Red China
China
Peiping
Foreign Office
L. H. Lamb
The
Daily Express
Reds
Asiatic Petroleum Co
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Tientsin
Hankow
Canton
Settle Wage Dispute at Lederle Laboratory
Pearl River New York. A federal mediated agreement ends a picket line siege at Lederle laboratories. An eight cent an hour across the board raise to $3.20 weekly increase two year contract. Food planes ferried provisions to workers and animals inside the plant as production halted during bargaining.
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Pearl River
N. Y—P
Lederle Laboratories
Thomas G. Daugherty
Lederle Establishment
Daugherty
AIL Chemical Workers Union
Tipton Residents Hurt After Two Car Crash Near Tama
Three Tipton residents and Irene Deker of Colorado Springs were hospitalized in Cedar Rapids after a Sunday two car collision at the junction of Highways 21 and 30 east of Tama. The report notes Iowa’s weekend highway deaths and injuries with other crash outcomes across the state.
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Tipton
Cedar Rapids
Tama
Associated Press
Virginia Hitzer
Sarah
George R. Geller
Irene Deker
Colorado Springs
Colo
Iowa
Kenneth Auge
Fort Madison
William Cramer
Cramer
Clarion
Clear Lake
Jack Bird
Jane Tillman
Lucille Miller
Shirley Pate
Ed Rohrer
Virgil Rink
Court Recesses No Steel Verdict
The Supreme Court recessed today without a ruling in the steel seizure case. Justices have held the case since arguments ended last Tuesday and may announce a decision before the next opinion day, though this is not certain.
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Washington
Supreme Court
U. S
David A. Pine
Truman
Rehwaldt Named To Light Board
Mayor Hert P Olsen announced Charles Rehwaldt will join the municipal board of light and water trustees effective June 1 until December 31 1956. A former city council member, he supports Muscatine flood control and traveled to Washington to push levee funding. He is linked with Lamp Rehwaldt Co and replaces James Figg whose term ends.
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Hert P. Olsen
Charles Rehwaldt
Municipal Board of Light and Water Trustees
Rehwaldt
Muscatine
Washington, D. C
Lamp-Rehwaldt Co
James Figg
Bride Vanishes in San Francisco Sparks Family Dispute
Des Moines mother Vera Miller disputes案 her daughter Janet Todd is missing. Richard Todd says Janet left May 2 for a beauty parlor and has not been heard from since, while Vera says it is just a misunderstanding and the couple will be all right.
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Des Moines
San Francisco
Vera Miller
Janet Todd
Richard Todd
Coon Rapids
Todd
Queen Elizabeth asks Parliament to set pay for husband and family
Queen Elizabeth II urged Parliament to appoint a committee to decide the Civil List for the British realm. She suggested her husband the Duke of Edinburgh deserve a pay raise from 10 000 pounds a year and asked provisions for Princess Margaret and other royal family members. The move mirrors historical allowances tied to the throne and involves estimates of past royal incomes and precedent.
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London
Elizabeth II
Duke of
H. F. C. Crookshank
House of
Commons
Elizabeth
Margaret
Mary
George V
Prince Charles
Duchy of Cornwall
Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Albert
Victoria
Truman Civil Rights Stand Shapes Democratic Race
President Truman pressed a robust civil rights plank with an ADA speech urging FEPC powers. Eisenhower narrowed Taft’s GOP lead after Oregon and Vermont wins as delegates accumulate toward national conventions.
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Truman
Ike
Oregon
Eisenhower
Taft
Ohio
Montana
Vermont
Associated Press
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Congress
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Family of ten escapes blaze in Des Moines home
A Des Moines couple, their eight children and two grandchildren fled a four room frame house after a fire and explosion ripped through it early Sunday. Mrs. Columbus Jones woke to smoke and opened the door to call firefighters, but the blast followed. The parents, a World War II veteran and Iowa Packing Co. employee, ensured all ten relatives escaped with no serious injuries, though they lost all possessions.
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Des Moines
Columbus Jones
Iowa Packing Co
UW Student Trapped In Mount St Helens Crevasse
At Mount St Helens a 20 year old University of Washington student Art Jessett fell into a 90 foot crevasse on the northeast slope while descending from the summit with three companions. He reported a possible broken arm and said he was slipping as heat melted the surrounding ice. Rescue teams work to reach him as the single rope available had followed him.
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Spirit Lake
Wash
University of Washington
Mt. St. Helens
Art Jessett
Seattle
Jessett
Harrison Named Chief Delegate for UN Korea Armistice Talks
Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison, 56, selected to succeed Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy as chief delegate of the United Nations command at Panmunjom. Joy chose Harrison, and Gen. Mark W. Clark approved the move. Joy heads to Annapolis as superintendent after June 9.
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Harrison
Joy
Tokyo
William K. Harrison
Adm
C. Turner Joy
United Nations Command
Mark W. Clark
Panmunjom
Annapolis
U. N
U. S. Naval Academmy
Union Signs Pact With Sinclair Co
The CIO Oil Workers International union announced a nationwide wage agreement for about 10,000 Sinclair Oil refinery workers in six plants plus crude oil production and pipelines. The deal, signed in New York, could end a 20 day strike as workers return to their jobs within hours.
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Denver
Sinclair Oil Corp
CIO Oil Workers International Union
New York
Sinclair
House Rejects Pension Boost in 149 to 140 Vote
The House voted 149 to 140 against a proposal to raise social security benefits at an estimated cost of 300 million dollars annually. The bill, advanced under a parliamentary rule blocking amendments, could return under another procedure with Rules Committee clearance.
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Washington
House
Doughton
D-Nc
Rules Committee
Demo Group Votes Not to Endorse Man
The American Democratic Action ADA delegates voted to defer endorsement of a presidential candidate until after the July major party nominating conventions in Chicago. President Truman predicted a liberal Democrat would win in November, criticizing Republicans and noting ADA backing for Kefauver Harriman and Stevenson supporters.
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Washington
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Truman
Chicago
Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic Party
Kefauver
Tennessee
W. Averell Harriman
Panty Raids Hit Two Southern Colleges in Weekend Stirs
In Nashville at Vanderbilt 300 students overpowered 10 officers injuring three policemen as they surged into women’s dorms and sororities. At Tennessee 15 students were arrested with no officer injuries reported. In Knoxville police preempted a planned raid by deploying eight cruisers and 15 officers. the campus raid did not occur.
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Nashville
Tenn
Universities of Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Vandy
Tennessee
Knoxville
University of Tennessee
Mass and R I clash over Brink’s robbery probe
Rhode Island Attorney General William Powers accuses Boston authorities of disinterest as he links the $1 219 000 Brink’s robbery to the slaying of Carlton M O’Brien owner of a Warwick RI dine and dance spot and a Providence RI diner. McGinnis is jailed then released while Gagnon awaits trial.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
William E. Powers
Brink
Carlton M. O’brien
Powers
Joseph F. McGinnis
O’brien
Warwick, R. I
Providence
R. I
West Warwick
McGinnis
Alfred A. Gagnon
Pawtucket
R. L
Rhode Island State Prison
Gagnon
Jamaica Plain
Henry Miller
William J. Foley
Francis E. Kelly
Grand Jury
Kelly
Reds Block Rail Line in Germany
A sudden Communist order shuts passenger trains on the border feeder line between Gutenferst in Thuringia and Hof in Bavaria. West German rail officials say the move is not covered by Soviet Allied agreements though the link has operated under a mutual unspoken understanding since the May 12 1949 Berlin blockade end. This marks the first interzonal rail cut in post blockade years.
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Frankfurt
Germany
West Germany
Gutenferst
Thuringiaa
Hof
Frontier Communications Center
Bavaria
Berlin
Red Order
Defense Dept Identifies 38 New Korea War Casualties
The Defense Department released casualty list No. 567 detailing 38 additional U S battle casualties in Korea. Among the figures are five killed, 28 wounded, two missing, and three injured.
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Washington
Defense Department
Korea
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Associate Press
Harrison Joy
Clark
Walter J. Ellis
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Sinclair Co
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