Senator Attacks Government Ship Sales at Half Price
Sen John J Williams condemned the sale of two government ships to Oceanic at about half their original cost and the plan to subsidize conversion and ten years of operations. He highlighted a $11.9 million conversion request and noted Oceanic plans to spend over $15 million, with ships to run South Seas Australian service.
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WASHINGTON
John J. Williams
Delaware Republican
Oceanic Steamship Co
Senate
Commerce Department
House
Williams
Free State Mariner
Pine Tree Mariner
Oceanic fort
Oceanic
Maritime Administration
Congress
Matson Navigation Co
Pacific
Matson
Oceanic Cally
Willams
Red Carpet Reception Banned For POW Return
SEOUL June 28 A U S embassy spokesman said three former Korean War prisoners in Communist China may reconsider return via Panmunjom under conditions. If they refuse repatriation they may go back to the Communists with no hero's welcome and limited travel.
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P.O.W
SEOUL
Korea
UPr
U. S
China
Panmunjom
Robert Speer
Speer
United States
wel- Speer
Senate Defeats Eisenhower Plan For Atomic Merchant Ship
Washington on June 28 the Senate voted 42 to 41 to scuttle President Eisenhower s atomic merchant ship program. The vote refused to restore 21 million dollars in funds as part of a 269 159 million atomic construction bill passed by voice vote on party lines except for Sen Strom Thurmond who joined Republicans. The plan was blocked by 42 Democrats. Leaps for Peiping. London June 28 O Neill new British chargé d affaires in Communist China left London by air for Peiping. He is to name Humphrey Trevelyan as British ambassador to China.
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WASHINGTON
Senate
Eisenhower
Strom Thurmond
D-S. C
PEIPING
LONDON
Con O'Neill
allaires
China
Congress Extends Draft for Four Years and Doctors for Two
Congress approved extending the regular draft for four years and the doctor draft for two years. The measure heads to President Eisenhower for signature as the Thursday expiration looms. The House vote was 1388 to 5, with Senate swift approval.
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WASHINGTON
Congress
White House
Eisenhower
House
Adenauer Warns West Germany Rearms Amid East Threat
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer urged parliament to approve a volunteers bill allowing 6,000 recruits as a nucleus for a West German army, warning East German Communists prepare 150,000 men for civil war. Ollenhauer led opposition, calling the bill dangerous to democracy as tumultuous debate erupted in the Bundestag.
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BONN
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
Adenauer
Erich Ollenhauer
Ollenhauer
Bundestag
Carlo Schmid
NATO
New Gains Forecast By Teamster Chief
Los Angeles June 28 Dave Beck president of the International Teamsters Union predicted new gains for the union and urged election of political candidates who will support labor aims Beck spoke at the opening session of the 19th western conference of teamsters yesterday saying the union would not become a political organization but members should back supportive candidates.
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LOS ANGELES
Dave Beck
International Teamsters Union
Beck
western conference of
teamsters
Four Republicans attack foreign aid bill in House debate
Washington reports four Republican members of the House foreign affairs committee critique the 3.285 billion foreign aid program. They decry blank check authority for the President and urge a stop look and listen policy on aid to Communist Yugoslavia, which would include 40.5 million in indirect military aid under the bill.
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WASHINGTON
Fisenower
House
House foreign affairs committee
Lawrence H. Smith
Wis
Marguerite Stitt Church
E. Ross Adair
Ind
Alvin M. Bentley
Mich
Yugoslavia
Western Airlines Plans L A Phoenix Service Start
Western Airlines announced it will apply to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to establish competitive air service between Los Angeles California and Phoenix Arizona. The move aims to expand routes and offer travelers more choices between the two western cities.
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PHOENIX
LOS ANGELES
u.P
Western Airlines, Inc
Civil Aeronautics Board
bAriz
Two U S Marines Missing After Plane Crash Off Japan
A U S Air Force rescue plane sighted one of two missing Marine fliers 13 miles southeast of Mikurajima after a fog wreck of a fighter bomber four days earlier. The other man remains missing as ships and planes search the area. The wife of one flier arrived in Tokyo, learning her husband, artillery observer Bell, is missing. his parents Charles and Mrs Bell, with his father General Mills president, were notified.
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YOKOSUKA
Japan
U. S. Marine Corps
U. S. Air Force
Mikurajima
Tokyo
Josephine Kimberly Beit l
Wayzata
Minn
Maj
L. E. Brown
Bell
Brown
Navy
Charles Bell
General Mills
Molotov Shows Interest in Cadillac Air Conditioning
In Chicago on June 28 Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov toured a Cadillac limousine and asked about its air conditioning. When told Russian cars lack A C he replied that they will have it.
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CHICAGO
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Myron Heyman
Molotov
Halt to Atom Tests Proposed by Soviet
The Daily Worker reports from Helsinki that Russia offered to halt all atomic and hydrogen weapon tests as the first step toward a total ban. The proposal was made to the World Peace Assembly, now meeting in Helsinki, with Western correspondents barred from the event.
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LONDON
Communist
Daily Worker
Helsinki
Finland
Russia
World Peace Assembly
Price of Silver Raised by Dealers in New York
New York June 28 Handy Harman bullion dealers today hiked the price of silver three and a half cents to 90 cents a fine ounce after a series of three price cuts earlier this month.
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NEW YORK
Handy & Harman
Dulles Sees Summit Hope Amid Aircraft Incident
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said the Geneva summit next month should proceed on the assumption that all four participants seek peace. He noted Russia showed rare regret for the downing of a U S Navy Neptune and said the incident likely occurred in international waters near Alaska. President Eisenhower planned talks with congressional leaders before the June summit.
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WASHINGTON
John Foster Dulles
Geneva
Ite
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Dulles
Bering strait
Alaska
U.S
Taulles
U. S
China
Eisenhower
Bering Straits
Kodiak
St. Lawrence Island
White House
Dixon-Yates Power Project Advances In Senate Panel
Washington June 28 The Dixon-Yates power project cleared another hurdle as a Senate appropriations subcommittee voted 6.5 million dollars for a transmission line link. The Hill proposal to cut the money was rejected 9 to 6 with three Democrats joining six Republicans. The action followed a subcommittee division that also considered TVA and Atomic Energy Commission funding and approved the line.
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WASHINGTON
Dixon-Yates
Senate appropriations
Subcommittee
Lister Hill
DAla
Tennessee Valley Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
Perjury Case To Be Dropped
Washington June 28 U P reported Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr announced the government will drop its three year old perjury case against Lattimore. The appeals court on June 17 upheld a lower court dismissal of the two key counts. With those counts gone there is no likely successful prosecution on the remaining counts and steps will be taken to dismiss them, ending the litigation. Latimore allegedly lied before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1952 about being a follower or promoter of Communist interests.
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WASHINGTON
U.P
Attornney
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Owen Lattimore
court of appeals
Lattymore
Supreme Court
Brownell
Plea Entered by U S Prisoner in Korea Case
New York June 28 W P Cpl Harold M Dunn pleaded guilty to aiding and collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner of war in Korea. He pleaded guilty 22 minutes after the court martial began and faces life imprisonment and a dishonorable discharge. Dunn is the first former Army prisoner to plead guilty in such charges. four others have been convicted and one acquitted.
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NEW YORK
W.P. Cpl
Harold M. Dunn
Korea
Dunn
First Army
Deer Stymies Jet Age at Denver Air Base
A deer halted jet operations at Lowry Air Force Base Denver for 45 minutes as pilots delayed takeoffs and landings. Air police, operations personnel and the base fire department pursued the animal until it collapsed dead en route to a veterinarian.
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Denver Air Base
DENVER
Lowry Air Force Base
Upper River Project Voted
Washington June 2g The House interior committee approved a bill to authorize the Upper Colorado Reclamation Project after removing Echo Park Dam. A 20 to 6 roll call backed the bill. 19 to 6 favored eliminating Echo Park Dam studies. Navajo Dam inclusion was approved, and Denver Interior Department talks on Blue River water supplies were allowed. Estimated unit cost 766 million. Senate version around 1.5 billion. Subcommittee move to require immediate Canadian River construction was defeated 15 to 12.
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WASHINGTON
House interior committee
Upper Colorado
Echo Park Dam
Navajo Dam
New Mexico
Denver
Department of Interior
Blue” River
Senate
Texas
Clair Encle
Calif
Craig Hosmer
House
Hosmer
A. L. Miller
California
Major Strike Set Thursday If Talks Fail
PITTSBURGH June 28 11P The steel industry faces a crippling strike threatened for midweek Thursday while offering CIO United Steelworkers wage increases averaging 10 cents an hour. Bethlehem Steel Corp and Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp proposed wage boosts as talks continued.
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PITTSBURGH
CIO
United Steelworkers
Bethlehem Steel Corp
massion
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Weaker steel copper talks loom with wage demands near 20 cents
Washington officials warn of a strong possibility of strikes in the steel and copper industries this week. Expiration of wage contracts for CIO United steelworkers and Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind.) with four copper producers looms at Thursday midnight as unions press for wage increases around 20 cents per hour.
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WASHINGTON
UPI
CIO Rte workers
Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union
Ind
Ice Follies Manager Wally Shipstad Dies at 50
Burlingame California June 28 Wally Shipstad a member of the Ice Follies family and properties manager died at Peninsula Hospital after a long illness He was 50 Survived by widow Marie two children sister Mrs Myrtle Gier Nevetrand Mina and three brothers Roy Eddie and Harry Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Ice Follies
Burlingame
Calif
Wally Shipstad
Peninsula Hospital
Shipstad
Marie
Myrtle Gier
Nevetrand
Mina
Roy
Eddie
Harry
Reverend Kenna Named President of University of Portland
The Rev. Howard J. Kenna, president of Holy Cross College in Washington, D. C., has been appointed president of the University of Portland, Ore. The announcement was made today.
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PORTLAND TV
SOUTH BEND
Ind
U.P
Howard J. Kenna
Holy Cross College
Washington, D. C
University of Portland
Ore
Steel firms, union brace for possible strike amid stalled talks
United Steelworkers President Dan McDonald and key negotiators held morning sessions with U S Steel, Jones & Laughlin, Great Lakes Steel, and Bethlehem Steel as plants prepare for potential walkouts. Major producers ordered furnaces banked and coke ovens cooled to standby by Thursday. Talks continue with no firm wage figure from the union, while companies consider layoff pay plan contributions for next year's bargaining.
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Bethlehem steel
USW
Danl J. McDonald
GUC steel
storn
McDonald
U.S Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin
Great Lakes Steel
Bethlehem Steel corporations
Youngstown Sheet & Pubs
Inland Steel
Gnien
aed sarkers
Bonakl
CIO Auto Workers
Anti Peron Leaflets Blamed on Communists in Argentina
In Buenos Aires police say five people are held over a plot masterminded by the Communists to provoke disturbances at Catholic churches. They seized large quantities of anti government leaflets and pamphlets in the roundup, announced from Eva Peron.
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BUENOS AIRES
Argentina
Eva Peron
La Plata
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