view raw text
UNITED PRESS 1 NEWS BRIEFS Wants Profit Tax Extended WASHINGTON, D. C, May 19.— President Eisenhower told Republican congressional leaders today he wants the excess profits tax on corporations extended to next January 1. Eisenhower also told the GOP congressmen that he is willing for a 10 per cent tax cut on individual incomes to go into effect January 1 as scheduled. See Eisenhower-Churchill Parley LONDON, England, May 19.— Prime Minister Winston Churchill would welcome the opportunity for a meeting with President Dwight D. Eisenhower to smooth out Anglo-American friction, British official sources said today. The opinion is expressed in British Government quarters that, if an Eisenhower-Churchill meeting could be arranged, it would prove that Anglo-American opinion on the big world issues is not so far apart as it has seemed. Warns of European Defense WASHINGTON, D. C, May 19.— Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway told Congress today the Russian peace offensive has hurt European defense. The Allied supreme commander in Europe told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the Soviet peace offensive has had "a recognizable adverse reaction on certain segments of public opinion" in western Europe. Iran Banishes U.S. Newsman TEHRAN, Iran, May 19.— The Iranian Government today ordered Associated Press correspondent Marc Purdue to leave Iran within three days. Foreign Minister Hos-sein Fatemi said the action was taken against Purdue for "filing false and provocative news, harmful to Irans interests." Gulf Storms Kill Five NEW ORLEANS, La., May 19.— Sullen clouds hovered low over the Gulf Coast today as rescue workers evacuated more than 2,300 families in the path of boiling floods and counted at least five persons dead in the wake of a mighty storm. ROKs Hurl Reds Back SEOUL, Korea, May 19.— South Korean infantrymen today turned back two Communist attacks on Allied positions, killing an estimated 241 Chinese as fighting erupted anew oh the 155-mile Korean battle-front. Sabrejets went aloft, but met no resistance after knocking 12 Russian -made MIG-15s, and probably a thirteenth, from the skies yesterday. Ninth A-Bomb Exploded LAS VEGAS, Nev., May 19.— The atomic energy commission staged the ninth blast of its current test series today and a pilot-less navy plane made the first successful flight into the turbulent thermal envelope surrounding a -nuclear fireball. The test, held up by four postponements because of excessive radiation and of unfavorable weather, appeared to rank with the most powerful atomic explosions ever set off on Yucca Flat, 65 miles northwest of here. Tribal Warfare in Africa NAIROBI, Kenya, May 19. — Thousands of rival African tribesmen, armed with primitive spears and poisoned arrows and incited by throbbing jungle drums, today were drawn up in battle lines for what British authorities feared may erupt into bloody inter-tribal warfare.
