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■ • ■ t . * UNITED PRESS r NEWS I = — BRIEFS Senator Taft in New York Hospital t NEW YORK, N. Y., June 13.— Sen. Rob- t ert A. Taft was in a New York hospital to- s day awaiting the start of a series of treat- ments his physicians hope will reviele a painful ailment of the hip bone. . z a Koreans Riot Against Truce i SEOUL, Korea, June 13.— Riotous Ko- t rean mobs, protesting against the proposed j armistice terms, - manhandled a cabinet minister, attacked Korean policemen and * stopped an American Army truck today in I demonstrations here and in the wartime i capital of Pusan. Expect Steel Price Rise 1 PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 13.— The steel ] industry was expected today to announce a price boost soon to offset an 8% cents an • hour general wage increase granted to 1,200,000 members of the United Steelwork- 1 ers Union CIO. j Switzerland to Serve BERN, Switzerland, June 13.— The Swiss government announced today its formal acceptance of membership in commissions 1 to supervise anti-Communist Korean war ■ prisoners and the enforcement of an • armistice. Threaten Federal Judge Kaufman NEW YORK, N. Y., June 13.— A threat was made today to bomb the xesidenqe of Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman, who i sentenced atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death. More than a score of police converged on the Park Avenue apartment building where Kaufman resides, but failed to find the bomb which an anonymous telephone "caller had said would "explode ■ within an hour." Reds Smash UN Lines SEOUL, Korea, June 13.— Two reinforced !• Communist battalions smashed the Allied 1 line in four places on the East Central front v today in a raging battle that fol- lowed the greatest artillery barrage of the J Korean war. "Capitol Hill is very probably in enemy hands," ah Eighth Army briefing officer said tonight, explaining official re-. ports from the flaming battlefront still are J fragmentary. « New French Program " PARIS, France, June 13.— Andre Marie i • said today he has developed a middle-of-" the-road program he hopes will result in - f parliamentary approval if he decides to ac- • cept a bid to become premier and end the I 23-day government crisis. His program was 3 worked out in conference with three men who had been offered the premiership but £ p E who were rejected by the Chamber of Deputies. Canadian Parliament Dissolved OTTAWA, Canada, June 13.— Governor J General Vincent Massey dissolved the 5 twenty-first parliament today and an elec- _ 1 • tion campaign to name a new House of 1 Commons on August 10 began in earnest. "_ It will be the nations twenty-second general election since confederation in 1867. McCarthy Blasts at Einstein MADISON, Wis., June 13. — Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., here to address the state Republican convention, said today anyone who gave advice like Dr. Albert Eeinstein did this week "is himself an enemy of America." "Anyone who advises Americans to keep secret information which they may have about spies and saboteurs is himself an enemy of America," McCarthy said. Warns of Truce Collapse LOS ANGELES," Calif., June 13.— Sen. William F. Knowland said today the Korean armistice negotiations still could collapse and that he knows of no "substantial" indication that Russia has changed its long-range strategy.
