White Potato Prices Soar After Ceilings End
The OPS lifted price ceilings on white potatoes after the Senate exempted fruits and vegetables from controls starting July 1. Wholesale California and Carolinas spuds jumped to $8.50–$9.50 per hundred pounds in New York, up as much as $3.22, while industry observers warn price spikes may ease later this month and in July.
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WASHINGTON
office of price stabilization
OPS
Senate
agriculture department
Pittsburgh
New York
California
Carolinas
U. S
Ellis Arnall
Arnall
house
congress
Senator Anderson seeks big cut in farmer payment program
Senator Anderson proposes reducing farmer payments by 100 million dollars in the next crop year as part of a 1.3 billion dollar farm appropriation bill. He says the cut is doable without harming anyone, while committees had approved 251 million for payments and defenses term the measure.
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WASHINGTON
Anderson
D-NM
secretary of agriculture
senate
senate appropriations committee
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Muccio and Rhee Discuss Korean Political Crisis
U S Ambassador John J. Muccio met with President Syngman Rhee in Pusan after cutting short a U S vacation. Muccio hurried back on state department orders and spoke to Rhee for under two hours before declining comment.
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PUSAN
Korea
P—U. S
John J. Muccio
Syngman Rhee
Muccio
United States
state department
Rhee
Escaped Inmate Killed Crossing Border into Lebanon
An escaped inmate from Acre mental home was killed today after crossing into Lebanon. A Lebanese frontier patrol returned the body to Israeli police.
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HAIFA
Israel
Acre
Western Union Seeks 9.3 Percent Rate Hike
Western Union Telegraph seeks FCC approval to raise domestic message and money order rates 9.3 percent. Effective July 6, the increase would boost annual revenue by about 13.2 million dollars. The 53 day AFLCT union strike ended last month with a new contract pending FCC approval.
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WASHINGTON
Western Union Telegraph co
federal communications commission
FCC
Western Union
W. U
AFL Commercial Telegraphers union
Scare Campaign By Reds Backfires In Berlin Flight
East German authorities warned that a Kremlin scare campaign failed as thousands of Russian zone residents fled to West Berlin and West Germany. Over three days West Berlin refugee stations housed more than 1510 East Germans as frontier posts reported 300 to 400 arrivals. Fears of a drafted East German army and new border belts spurred youths and families to seek safety westward amid stricter patrols and barricades.
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BERLIN
West Berlin
West Germany
Coburg
East Germany
Reds
Truman Delays McGrath Weekend Visit
President Truman postpones his planned weekend at J. Howard McGrath's Rhode Island farm to an early date. The White House cites the desire to spend the weekend with his daughter Margaret, her last Washington weekend before Europe travel.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Rhode Island
J. Howard McGrath
White House
Margaret
Europe
Sabre Jets Turn Red Air Ambush Into Death Trap
U S Sabre jets repelled a Communist air ambush near the Manchurian border Friday. Seven Red MIGs were shot down and two damaged as 64 Sabres faced 28 MIGs in two engagements. Rail lines were cut in 74 places while air forces reported 21 troop or supply positions and 13 artillery or mortar positions destroyed or damaged. Five Reds were killed in a Panmunjom vicinity probe.
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SEOUL
U.S
fifth air force
Manchurian
Manchuria
Pyongyanng
Air force
U. S. eighth army
Panmunjom
Atomic Program Check Promised
Washington reports two congressional committee leaders pledged to determine if the United States is moving as fast as possible in atomic weapon production. One member of the joint atomic energy committee said the U S has only a hall way program while Russia pursues a full-scale atomic effort. Rep Mahon said the program seems to be moving ahead as well as expected and military witnesses will be questioned again on preparedness programs.
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WASHINGTON
joint atomic energy committee
United States
Russia
Mahon
D-Tex
house
Japanese Communists Rally in Tokyo Protest U S Troops
About 5000 gathered in Hibiyashi Hall near the United Nations building to protest U S presence in Japan. Communist members of the diet denounced the troops while the crowd shouted go home Yankee and dispersed peacefully.
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TOKYO
U. S
Hibisa hall
United Nations
diet
Japan
Acheson to Visit Brazil for goodwill trip
Washington June 6 The state department said Secretary Acheson expects to arrive in Brazil for a goodwill visit July 1 or 2.
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BRAZIL
WASHINGTON
state department
Acheson
Eisenhower Reactions Split After First News Conference
Reports from across the 1952 political scene show differing reactions to Eisenhower’s debut speech. Taft charges improved prospects while backers celebrate. Kefauver attacks smear tactics and calls for greater freedom. South Dakota’s primary results loom with Taft leading in unofficial tally.
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Dwight Eisenhower
New York
Republic
Ohio
Robert Taft
Cincinnati
Eisenhower
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Abilene
Carlson
Taft
Hugh Butler
Nebraska
General Eisenhower
South Dakota
District of Columbia
Estes Kefauver
Truman
Woodstock
Kefauver
Tennessee Democrat
America
Gambling Tax Ruling Appealed by Federal Government
The federal government filed an appeal from U S District Court Judge George A Welsh ruling the $50 gambling tax stamp unconstitutional. Assistant U S Attorney James F Brown filed the appeal, the first of its kind, under the national tax stamp law aimed at curbing gambling.
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PHILADELPHIA
federal
U. S. District Court
George A. Welsh
U. S
James F. Brown
Influence Use In War Contract Cases Charged
Auditor testifies the justice department failed to prosecute a civil suit over a $25,000 overcharge by Advance Plating Co. Detroit. Willam Boyle and J. Howard McGrath visited the contractor. testimony cites dead witnesses and a pending civil recovery action.
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WASHINGTON
justice department
J. Howard McGrath
Willam M. Boyle, Jr
Walter Sprague
general accounting office
Bernard M. Baur
Advance Plating Co
Detroit
Sprague
house judiciary
accounting agency
Lindsay Warren
George Petser
U. S
Petser
Baur
Boyle
McGrath
comptroller general
Holmes Baldridge
Baldridge
comptroller
Copper Price Boost Approved
Washington officials approved a further price increase for copper products to end a month-long import stoppage. Acting Mobilization Director John R. Steelman overturned an OPS favored subsidy plan. The new plan adds about six tenths of a cent per pound, aiming to break the import log jam, though doubts remain that industry will pay the 35 19 cent price abroad.
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WASHINGTON
John R. Steelman
office of price stabilization
OPS
Chile
Ridgway Warns Reds at D-Day Rites
General Matthew Ridgway marking the eighth anniversary of the Normandy invasion warned the "lords of communism" that another war would bring dreadful suffering to them and destruction to their power. He spoke at Utah Beach ceremonies and recalled parachuting with the 82nd Airborne to behind German lines. He urged unity under NATO to preserve freedom and peace and warned against underestimating Western resolve.
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NORMANDY
France
Matthew B. Ridgway
Ridgway
Settlement Hinted as Steel Strike Talks Resume at White House
Three man negotiating teams for the CIO unions and steel industry reopen intensive talks at the White House amid renewed optimism for a weekend settlement. Senate Democratic Leader McFarland’s floor remark spurred lawmakers to pause wage and price control legislation until Monday. Steelman said real bargaining was underway with no fixed price agreement yet, while Detroit Steel Corp reached a contract for 4,500 workers in Pittsburgh, including a wage stabilization package.
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WASHINGTON
White House
senate
McFarland
Arizona
CIO
John R. Steelman
Truman
Steelman
supreme court
Detroit Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
CIO union
Koje Island Prisoners Armistice Debate Deepens
In Panmunjom talks Gen Nam Il alleges Red prisoners on Koje island are denied food violating the Geneva convention. Allied delegates accuse Communist forces of blocking Red Cross access to war prisoner camps as negotiations stall. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr. says violations remove any consideration of claims.
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MUNSAN
Korea
Red Cross
Panmunjom
Nam Il
Red
Koje island
William K. Harrison, Jr
Morse Attacks Passport Policy
Senator Morse of Oregon blasted the state department passport division as acting like a law unto itself. He said citizens are denied passports with no clear way to seek a review or appeal.
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WASHINGTON
Morse
R-Ore
state department
senate
Kem Presses Fight On Aid Measure
Senate Majority Leader McFarland faces a renewed battle with Senator Kem over a tightened Allied blockade of Red nations as the Senate weighs a foreign aid bill totaling 6.4477 billion dollars for the year starting July 1. The House passed the measure 230 to 115 after brief debate. funds would be provided later by separate appropriations legislation.
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WASHINGTON
Senate
McFarland
Kem
R-MO
house
iron curtain
Russia Shifts Envoy to U S Amid Spy Ring Fallout
Washington June 6 Russian Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin will return to Russia as Georgi Zarubin, former Soviet ambassador in London, is chosen to replace him in Washington. Zarubin was recalled May 29 and his name is before the State Department. The London ambassadorship followed a Canadian spy ring affair in which the royal commission found no Soviet ambassadorial role.
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WASHINGTON
Alexander Panyushkin
Russia
U. S
Georgi M. Zarubin
London
Panyushkin
Zarubin
Moscow
state department
Canada
royal commission
Russians Seek 15 Million Marks for Berlin Telephone Cables
In Bonn on June 6 a British spokesman disclosed that Russia demanded Britain pay 15 million marks for the use of telephone cables to Berlin. The demand followed a prior 14 million dollar bill sent to US authorities in Germany yesterday.
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Germany
Britain
Berlin
U S
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