Reds Rise to New Depths at Korea Truce Talks
May 20 MUNSAN United Nations and Allied negotiators confront a vicious Red propaganda barrage at Panmunjom as talks stall over prisoner exchanges. Vice Admiral C Turner Joy warns further delays will perpetuate the stalemate while Gen Nam Il taunts the Allies demanding they give up efforts to retain captured personnel to resume progress.
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British View advocates repatriation for cease-fire
London editorial argues repatriating all Communist prisoners, even against their will, would help achieve a Korea cease-fire. The piece lays out a hard line on prisoner handling and peacetime diplomacy.
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London Daily Express
Korea
Western Union Proposes 7 Cent Wage Boost Amid Strike
Washington May 20 The Western Union Telegraph offers an average seven cent an hour wage increase to settle the strike. The offer depends on government approval of higher telegraph rates which could add 7.7 million dollars yearly to company revenues. The raise would offset pay losses from a shift to a 40 hour week and end overtime weekend pay rules. Union acceptance is not indicated. The union seeks reinstatement of the expired contract with weekend pay and the union shop plus an 18 cent an hour boost.
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Joske's Slates Fashion Show in San Antonio
A fashion regatta at Arneson River Theatre in San Antonio showcases floats from foreign lands and U. S. areas. The event benefits Cerebral Palsy fundraising, with Dallas designer help, Miss Mexico, plane tickets to Mexico City, and a program led by Ruth Matlock featuring dancers and performances from The King and I selections.
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Rose Suit Flabbergasts Wife in New Divorce Filing
New York May 20. Eleanor Holm Rose said she was flabbergasted by the surprise filing of a divorce suit against her by Showman Billy Rose. Adultery is the only ground for divorce in New York. Rose's suit was revealed yesterday.
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Hide Cost Drop To Cut Shoe Price
Cleveland May 20 National Hide association says shoe prices should fall from 25 cents to $1 a pair as hide prices drop to lowest levels in years. John J. Minnoch, executive director, predicts footwear costs will reflect the decline soon.
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Sewage Denial Sparks City Water Treatment Protest
Don Politico reports that W N Wells disputes revelations of 50,000,000 gallons daily of untreated sewage flowing into Mitchell Lake from the city plant. Wells claims chlorine supply exists and that dumping raises irrigation levels, but records show seven days without chlorine, primary treatment only, and a 32 inch lake level margin from overflow.
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Youths Sought In $800 Burglary At Parker's Pharmacy
Deputies Jack Howard and Tony Morin pursued two juveniles suspected of burglarizing Parker's Pharmacy in Westave and Olmos Jr. early Sunday. The thieves netted $800 and merchandise by prying out a safe bottom. The officers recovered $130, some merchandise, and the money sack.
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Fishing Trip Proves Fatal for Howard Coleman
Howard Coleman, 47, of 235 E street, drowned during a fishing trip on Salado creek. He slipped 100 yards north of the old Gonzales bridge into a 12 foot hole and was pulled from the water by companions Locker Hornsby Nathan Miller and Bernard Baypop. An inhalator was used without success. Deputies say no witness saw the fall. search began when he was missed. Justice Otto Marckwardt was called as coroner.
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Date Set for Assault Trial for Palmer Former Detective
A second aggravated assault trial for former Detective James Polk Palmer was set for June 23. Palmer had been convicted by a County Court-at-Law jury and sentenced to two years, but the conviction was reversed by the Court of Criminal Appeals due to inflammatory closing arguments by prosecutors. He is charged with assaulting Patrolman Oliver Blumberg during a gaming raid.
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Troops Quell POW Riots At UN Camp On Island
Reports from an UN camp show riot activity by Red war prisoners including 400 women inmates and a male prisoner doctors sitdown at the hospital. Commander Boatner moved strikers to a new compound after negotiations failed. patients and doctors resumed work. The hospital staff later cooked for all while prisoners refused meals, aligned with Geneva conventions.
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Tobin Urges Seizure Law for Defense Industries
Secretary of Labor Tobin urged Congress to pass emergency legislation authorizing presidential seizure of defense industries if the Supreme Court finds steel industry securitization illegal. He spoke to a Senate labor relations subcommittee and opposed permanent labor dispute laws tied to national security at this time.
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Socialists Force Bonn Meeting Before Peace Contract
Socialists in Bonn forced a special parliamentary meeting to block the Allied West German peace agreement. The move comes as U S Secretary of State Acheson and two Western foreign ministers arrive Friday to finalize the terms ending the occupation.
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Odets Faces Probe Over Communist Ties
Playwright Clifford Odets returns to the House Un-American Activities Committee to explain former affiliations. He testified that he joined the Communist party in the 1930s during a low period and left when pressured to conform his writing. He also acknowledged membership in the International Union of Revolutionary Writers, a Red group said to include many well-known writers in 1934.
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American Activities Committee
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International Union of Revolutionary Writers
Texas lawyers to meet in Houston on July 25
About 2000 attorneys are expected to attend the seventh tieth annual meeting in Houston on July 25, state bar president Cecil E. Burney said.
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