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! j i £ 1 t t 1 « i * j j " . J j J j c £ UNITED PRESS s r e NEWS 1 | BRIEFS ■ Steel Consideration Promised * WASHINGTON, D. C, June 18.— Economic stabilizer Roger L. Putnam said to- *• day the steel industry has been promised J "friendly and sympathetic" consideration I * of a price increase beyond a ton if it | I J negotiates a wage contract with striking ■ steelworkers. ■ Prisoners Bolt from Koje Reds o t KOJE ISLAND, Korea, June 18.— Three hundred and four non-Communist prisoners bolsted from their Red comrades during the breakup of 5,600 Communist war s prisoners in once unruly Compound 85 ? 1! is today. E Lewis Sets Up Strike Fund WASHINGTON, D. C, June 18.— United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis to- , day set up a 0,000,000 fund to support the CIO United Steelworkers strike against e what he called the "rapacious and predatory " steel industry." I General Ridqway Arrives in Florence f FLORENCE, Italy, June 18.— Gen. Mat- c thew B. -Ridgway arrived today in this a strongly pro-Communist area from Naples t to inspect the headquarters of the Atlantic « Pact air command for Southern Europe. _ Senate Kills Seaway Project Bill 1* WASHINGTON, D. C, June 18.— The Senate today killed the St. Lawrence sea- s way project bill for this session of Congress p despite President Trumans warning that a a such action would be "one of the nations worst economic mistakes." jj t Move to Solve South Korean Crisis d PUSAN, Korea, June 18. — The national 8 assembly temporarily extended the terms f, o of its chairman and two vice-chairmen to- c c day in a move destined to help solve the ii in £ South Korean political crisis. Terms ■ Russian Plane Action Shocking 1 WASHINGTON, D. C, June 18.— Secretary t of state Dean Acheson said today that t the action of Russian fighter planes in cj s shooting down a Swedish plane was shock- rr i: ing and indefensible. N w S Swedish Air Force Rejects Charge and STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 18.— The j . t Swedish £ air force rejected today a Russian c charges that one of its planes fired on *■ £ Soviet jet fighters. Relations between v £ Sweden and Russia plunged to a new postwar v low. si C Opens Attack on Controls Bill Sc WASHINGTON, D. C, June 18.— Rep. n* c Clarence J. Brown R-Ohio opened a Re- 3: 31 p publican attack in the House today on a bill si t to extend price-wage-rent controls. He c called it a "socialist monstrosity." k B Bars Reds from Key Posts PARIS, France, June 18. — Interior minister i: Charles Brune said today the French v g government will bar Communists from key U p posts in all government and defense estab- d li lishments in the crackdown on Red plots ci a against the state. le
