Midyear steel pact nears as talks push wage boost
Washington reports hint a two-year contract through mid-1954 may emerge from steel strike talks. Union and industry negotiators hope for a 22 cent per hour package plus improved benefits, with Truman urging Senate not to disrupt bargaining.
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WASHINGTON
CIO
Truman
senate
White House
Philip Murray
John E. Steelman
wage stabilization board
WSB
congress
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Maybank
D-SC
Down Payment Relaxation for New Homes Announced
The federal reserve board eased down payment rules for new houses effective Wednesday. Under Regulation X, buyers face as low as 5 percent down on homes under 7000, up to 40 percent on homes 25000 and above, with a sliding scale for middle-priced houses. The measure covers private residences built since October 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
federal reserve board
Van Fleet Declares UN Army Ready for Korean Offense
General James A. Van Fleet told reporters in Seoul the U N Eighth Army is ready alert and fit to meet any enemy offensive in Korea. He said morale is high and supplies, especially ammunition, are in good condition despite Communist buildup of artillery and forces estimated at about a million men 500 tanks and self propelled guns and 1800 aircraft.
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SEOUL
Korea
James A. Van Fleet
U. S
Eighth army
United Nations fighting machine
Van Fleet
United Nations
Revolutionary metal insulation claims to shield atomic radiation
The Sun day Chronicle reports British scientists have developed a new metal insulation that blocks atomic radiation and overcomes a major barrier to building atomic powered airplanes.
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LONDON
The Sunday Chronicle
Schooner Cynthia Olson Freed From Sandbar
The grounded lumber schooner Cynthia Olson with 28 seamen aboard was pulled free near Bandon Oregon after heavy waves battered it on a sandbar following a departure from the harbor at midnight Saturday.
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BANDON
Ore
Cynthia Olson
Oregon
Jet Powered Seaplane Tested In Baltimore
In Baltimore on June 9 officials announced tests of a jet powered seaplane derived from a WWII experimental craft. The M-270, rebuilt from the XP5M-1 hull, is being taxi tested and flight tested as a test model for future jet seaplane designs and to provide engineering data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BALTIMORE
Glenn L. Martin co
navy
GOP Delegate Contest Aims As Balance of Power Group
The GOP convention planning opens in Chicago with MacArthur tipped as keynote option. Taft and Eisenhower push to win 341 delegates balancing the race as 130 pledged and 211 uncommitted. Indiana and Pennsylvania actions shape the lineup with close AP tallies and possible shifts before the July 7 convention.
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GOP
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Republican convention arrangements committee
Chicago
Douglas MacArthur
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
John S. Fine
Pennsylvania
Taft
Fine
Gettysburg
inite
Indiana
hvo
Virginia
South Dakota
Connecticut
Brien McMahon
Massachusetts
Boston
Paul A. Dever
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
W. Averell Harriman
Koje Island POW camp breakup rehearsed by U S troops
U S paratroopers rehearse for breaking Koje Island POW camps into smaller units. Flames tanks and tear gas used as compound 76 77 and 78 are prepared for dispersal of about 80 000 prisoners into 500 man groups under Brig Gen Haydon L Boater. Date of operation not announced.
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KOJE ISLAND
Korea
U. S
Koje
Rose
Haydon L. Boater
World Court Opens Iran Oil Hearing
The Hague June 9. Iran Prime Minister Mossadegh urged the World Court to refrain from intervening in the dispute with Britain over the Anglo Iranian Oil Company. He described the company as a state within a state with its own intelligence service in Iran.
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HAGUE
Netherlands
Mossadegh
Iran
wenit be
world court
il company
Britain
i intelligence
Court to Rule On Segregation in Public Schools
The Supreme Court agreed to hear two appeals by Negro parents challenging school segregation as a violation of equal protection. The cases from Topeka Kansas and Clarendon County South Carolina could affect public school segregation nationwide, with the term starting October 6 and a decision possible by early 1953. Governor Byrnes warned that losing could lead to abolition of public schools in South Carolina.
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WASHINGTON
Supreme Court
Topeka
Kans
Clarendon county
S.C
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Alabama
Red Army Seals East German Flight into West Berlin
Soviet border troops reinforced by soldiers halted East Germans fleeing to the West as West Berlin faced renewed pressure. British raids on the Soviet HQ continued while Allied traffic on the main highway to West Germany remained blocked. Rumors grew of three more border closures leaving the Helmstedt Berlin autobahn as the sole supply link.
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BERLIN
West Berlin
Russia
radio
East
West Germany
Helmstedt - Berlin autobahn
Red Letter Blasts Recess in Talks
Tokyo dispatch says North Korea and Red Chinese leaders denounced the Allied imposed three day recess in Armistice talks. They urged delegates to Panmunjon and called for immediate meetings while the UN command said talks resume Wednesday.
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TOKYO
UPI
Korea
high command
Panmunjon
Kim Il Sung
North Korea
Peng Teh-Hua
Fasting Ozarks preacher dies after 51 days
The Rev. J. J. Ivie aged 57 and minister of the Assembly of God church in Cherryville Missouri died today after fasting 51 days seeking “the more perfect will of God.” He passed away at his modest home near the woods in Cherryville a village of 36 residents about 80 miles south of St Louis.
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CHERRYVILLE
Ozarks
J. J. Ivie
Assembly of God church
St. Louis
Defense Dept Identifies 130 More Korean War Casualties
Washington reports the defense department listing 130 additional Korean War casualties. The latest list No. p81 shows 15 killed 106 wounded and nine injured in combat area accidents.
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WASHINGTON
defense department
Korea
205 Graduates End Studies At 62nd U N Ceremonies
Carlyle Grafton of Reno won the gold medal from Reno jewelers R Herz and brothers for the highest average at the 62nd University of Nevada commencement. She earned a 3.80 average in French and received the French medal of excellence along with other prizes. Verlita Johnson of Reno and Lowell Miller of Henderson won Henry Albert Senior public service prizes of 37.50.
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Reno
University of Nevada
Carlyle Grafton
R. Herz and brothers, jewelers of
Delta Delta Delta sorority
Henry Albert
Verlita Johnson
Lowell Miller
Henderson
Hazel Inman Hardy
C. F. and
Frank Wittenberg
college of agriculture
Hardy
Nevada
American Association of University Women
Miss Johnson
Mardelle Kornmayer
James Hulse
Pioche
A. W
Bert) Cahlan
Grygla
Minn
Hazel DB
Jones Dayton
Hans Mohr
Canby
Calif
James F. Stubbins
Las Vegas
Norma Walsh
San Francisco
Associated Women Students
Marilyn Mills
Logandale
Foreign Aid Vote Sought in Senate
Washington June 9 The administration urges quick passage of a 6.447 billion foreign aid bill after a brief Senate debate. Senator Kem plans to move to send the measure back to conference to restore a tightened Allied blockade against Communist nations. The conferees removed that provision earlier.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
senate
Sen
Kem
R-Mo
house
Kenn
congress
United Nations urges 10 day truce in Rhee conflict
The United Nations calls a ten day pause in South Korea's political fighting to ease tensions. It asks President Syngman Rhee to lift martial law in Pusan and release 11 national assemblymen jailed on conspiracy charges.
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PUSAN
Korea
United Nations
U. N
Syngman Rhee
Senior Honor Students Named at University of Nevada
Carlyle Grafton of Reno led the 1951 52 senior honor roll and the four year course list, earning the gold medal for highest average and the French medal at the annual commencement. Other top scholars include Don Peterson of Fresno Juanita Rector of Reno Hazel Inman Hardy and James W. Hulse among many Nevada students.
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University of Nevada
Carlyle Grafton
Reno
Unversity of
Nevada
Miss Gratton
Delta Delta Delta sorority
Canterbury club
Don Peterson
Fresno
Juanita Rector
Bethel Roggencamp
Franklin Eccles
James W. Hulse
Pioche
Nancy Haggerty
Hazel Inman Hardy
Edwin Beauchamp
Ely
Gerard Schafer
Buffalo
N. Y
Carson
Japan Dismisses Offer of Russians as Propaganda
Tokyo rejects a Hong Kong message claiming Russia would repatriate 182000 Japanese prisoners if a separate peace is signed. The foreign office calls the report Soviet propaganda and notes the signer Mrs Tomi Kora, a Japanese parliament member who joined a Peiping trade pact with Red China.
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TOKYO
Russia
Japan
foreign office
Hong Kong
Tomi Kora
Peiping
Labor party selects Corliss Lamont for U S Senate
Leaders of the left wing American Labor Party pick Corliss Lamont for the U S Senate seat in New York. Lamont is the son of a former Morgan associate and is tied to the party's motion to challenge the major candidates.
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SENATE
NEW YORK
American labor party
Corliss Lamont
J. P. Morgan
U. S. senate
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