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UNITED PRESS- . NEWS — —BRIEFS Hits Mobilization Program WASHINGTON, D. C, May 13.— One-fifth of this countrys defense spending in the next fiscal year will represent a "needless tribute to inflation," Bernard M. Baruch said here today in a speech sharply critical of the administrations mobilization program. Damage Nine Red Jets SEOUL, Korea, May 13. — American jet pilots shot down or damaged nine Communist MD3 15 jets in four air battles over North Korea today, scoring two of then-kills over the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. General Ridgway at San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 13.— Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, flying East to take over as supreme commander of the North Atlantic treaty organization, arrived at nearby-Hamilton air force base from Honolulu at 9:22 ajn, 12:22 p.m. EDT today. False Alarm at Buckingham LONDON, England, May 13,— Four carloads of police were rushed to Buckingham Palace today when a man was reported climbing the palace wall. Embarrassed police found a workman cleaning the palace lamps. • Complete Steel Arguments -WASHINGTON, D. C, May 13. — The government and the steel industry completed their arguments before the Supreme Court today on President Trumans seizure of the steel mills. Cairo Rioters to Be Tried CAIRO, Egypt, May 13.— Egyptian Socialist party chief Ahmed Hussein and five other Socialists will go on trial May 18 on charges of instigating the bloody January 26 Cairo riots. Says Radar Failed on WASP BAYONNEN. J., May 13.— The commander of the WASP testified today that ! the aircraft carriers radar failed shortly before it knifed into the destroyer-minesweeper Hobson which sank with a loss of 176 lives. Bar U. S., British MPs BERLIN, Germany, May 13. — Russian [troops barred United States and British military police patrols from both ends of the 110-mile "lifeline" highway between Berlin and western Germany today. j Find Klansmen Guilty WILMINGTON, N. C„ May 13.— Federal Judge Don Gilliam found 10 of 11 former Ku Klux klansmen guilty today of kidnapping and conspiracy in the flogging of a white couple last October 16. J
