United Press News Briefs, Daily Racing Form, 1953-05-28

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1 • ■ . ♦ * UNITED PRESS 1 I NEWS BRIEFS New Security Plan in Effect i WASHINGTON, D. C, May 27.— The t Eisenhower administrations new tough se- j curity program for federal employes went . into effect today as set forth in an execu- t tive order by Presfdent Eisenhower last month, the new program replaces the old j loyalty program inaugurated by President j Truman in 1947. Dulles Arrives in Greece ATHENS, Greece, May 27.— John Poster t Dulles, United States secretary of state, and his "fact finding" group arrived here j today from Ankara, Turkey. They are on y the last leg of their tour of the Middle- j East and Southern Asia. Auto Workers Back on Job * DETROIT, Mich., May 27. — Some 85,000 • Ford Motor Co. workers from coast to coast j trickled back to work today following , settlement of a parts plant strike that • brought production to a grinding halt last | week. Coronation Festivities Begin LONDON, England, May 27. — Queen : Elizabeth II. today opened the ceremonies of coronation week by banqueting with the , premiers and lawmakers of the common- wealth in Westminster Hall and speaking ftom the exact spot where Charles I was convicted of treason 304 years ago. Oatis to Enter Sanitarium NEW YORK, N. Y., May 27.— Newsman William Oatis, recently released from a a Czechoslovakian prison, has canceled plans for a vacation and will enter a sani-tarium for observation and treatment for a Jung condition. Prank J. Starzel, general manager of the Associated Press, announced that Oatis would spend an "in-"definite period" in a sanitarium in the New York area. French Troops Fall Back nsHANOI, Indochina, May 27.— French ftreops evacuated a key sector of the "little laginot line" defenses 30 miles south of THnoi today and" regrouped behind new formications for an expected mass Communist onslaught. NewvPlea by Rosenbergs "NEW YORK, N. Y., May 27.— A new ap- jjjation to set aside the death sentences of crjfivicted atom spies Julius and Ethel jRosenberg was filed in federal court here TWrJBiy. The petition, filed by the Rosen-fcbergjS attorney Emanuel H. Bloch, claimed tlWTentence was- illegal and that 20-year *Mr*prfeonment was actually the maximum sentence allowable. ifUissie Executes Spies MOSCOW, Russia, May 27. — The Soviet press -announced today the execution of Jfour American spies charged with being jdrdpped, by parachute from an unmarked "TO"*, bomber on Ukrainian soil last April 2iLwith espionage equipment. Izvestia, the government organ, and other Moscow newspapers devoted two columns of type to a communique from the ministry of internal security announcing the four had been shot to death.


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