Senators Push for 45 Dollar Combat Pay in Korea
Senators Morisney Sparkman and Moody urged congressional approval of $45 a month extra hazard pay for U S troops in Korea. In a joint letter to Senate Armed Services chairman Russell they said the matter requires urgent consideration and that the men in foxholes cannot wait.
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Washington
Korea
Sens
Morisney
D - Okla
Sparkman
D-Ala
Moody
D-Mich
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Moral Rearmament delegates urged to start world reform
Peter Howard told 1500 delegates from American, European and Asiatic nations at Mackinac Island that millions are determined to change the world but must seek individual change. Dr. Frank Buchman opened the 13 day assembly, stressing four moral standards: honesty, purity, unselfishness and love. A large Japanese delegation was expected to arrive as the conference runs through June 10.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
World Assembly For Moral Rearmament
Peter Howard
Howard
MRA
Germany
France
Ridgway
Frank N. D. Buchman
Buchman
Tulsa woman shoots in downtown before suicide
Tulsa police say Ruth M. Elliott 42 shot Mary Jean Leonard 26 in the arm on a sidewalk then killed herself with a temple shot. Inspector Roy Graves noted Elliott, a former Eastern State Hospital patient, fired several wild shots aiming to kill others. He found a purse note implying a plan to take three lives.
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Tulsa
Ruth M. Elliott
Roy Graves
Eliott
Mary Jean Leonard
Desert turned into full farm in a day at Columbia Basin project
In Moses Lake Washington May 30 a desert area was transformed into a seven room house and 110 acres tilled within 24 hours showing the Columbia Basin project irrigation. Veteran WWII farmer Donald Dunn received the $75 000 fully stocked farm and the event drew about 10 000 onlookers as 12 pumps moved water from Grand Coulee Dam to nourish the desert land and orchards.
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Moses Lake
Wash
Columbia Basin
Columbia River
Michael Straus
Donald Dunn
Marion
Kansas
Friends
Dunn
Grand Coulee Dam
Columbia
Bond Cut Reduces Weinberg Bond in Perjury Case
A federal judge ordered a 50 percent bond reduction in the $10,000 bond for Dr. Joseph W. Weinberg 35 the Scientist X who was indicted for perjury in denying he was a Communist.
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Mineapolis
Joseph W. Weinberg
Russians Propose Berlin Telephone Restoration Amid Censorship
The Russian sector offered to restore limited telephone service in West Berlin on lines controlled by the Communists and open to tapping. West Berlin authorities demanded full intercity communications as before the Tuesday cut-off. The East proposed 70 lines through the central security police switchboard, while over 2,000 cross-border lines remain severed and subjected to censorship and sealing by the people’s police. Barricades rose at many border points the American British and French sectors meet the Soviet zone, though none along the Soviet sector border within the city.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Elbe River
Leipzig
People’s Police
Mystery writer Craig Rice hospitalized after despondent report
New York May 30 Craig Rice 44 year old mystery novelist was at Bellevue hospital for observation after police were called to her Midtown Somerset hotel room when she reported she was despondent.
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New York
Craig Rice
Bellevue Hospital
Somerset Hotel
Berlin border barriers surround the city in wartime measures
The area from the Elbe to the Oder around Berlin is being sealed with crude road blocks of felled trees. 118 travel points between West Berlin and the Soviet zone existed until last Monday. since then three were blocked at Frohnau and Hennigsdorf. Barriers appeared yesterday near West Staaken in the British sector and Steinstuecken in the American sector.
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Elbe
Oder Rivers
Berlin
West Berlin
Frohnau
Henningsdorf
West Staaken
Steinstuecken
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