United Press News Briefs, Daily Racing Form, 1957-05-04

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UNITED PRESS NEWS BRIEFS NATIONAL NATIONALMcCarthy McCarthy Funeral Services Monday MondayWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 3 Funeral services for Sen Joseph R McCarthy will be held at 11 am EOT Monday in the Senate chamber where he rose to fame and later was condemned by his col ¬ leagues The Senate services will be pre prei i ceded by a requiem high mass at 9 am EDT at St Matthews Cathedral where McCarthy was married in 1953 The Sen ¬ ate will meet briefly at noon Monday and adjourn out of respect for McCarthy McCarthyPostpone Postpone SpiesNEW Sentencing of Confessed Spies NEW YORK N Y May 3 The sen ¬ tencing of three confessed spies was post ¬ poned today until June 28 The three have been reported appearing before a federal grand jury investigating espionage and sub ¬ version Jack and Myra Soble pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transmit documents concerning national defense to Russia early last month Jacob Albam pleaded guilty to the same charge two weeks later Each of the three had been arrested and indicted on six counts of espionage espionageBeck Beck Surrenders Posts Bond BondWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 3 Team ¬ ster president Dave Beck surrendered vol ¬ untarily to the IT S marshal today and posted 5jOOO bond on federal income tax evasion charges Beck was indicted yes ¬ terday in Tacoma Wash on charges of evading payment of 56420 due in federal taxes for 1950 Beck and his attorney Gerard Treanor of Washington appeared briefly before Federal District Judge Ed ¬ ward M Curran here this morning Then they went to the clerkjs office where Treanor posted a cashiers check from the American Security Trust Co CoHouse House RequestWASHINGTON Group Refuses Flood Fund Request WASHINGTON D C May 3 The House Appropriations Committee today turned down President Eisenhowers re ¬ quest for 50 million dollars to finance a new federal flood insurance program The committee in a report to the House said plans1 for the program were too indefinite and costly It recommended that the flood indemnity administration take 325000 it now has and use it to develop a more workable plan v vFOREIGN FOREIGN FOREIGNDulles Dulles OptimismBONN Warns of Unlimited Optimism BONN Germany May 3 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned the At ¬ lantic Alliance today against unlimited optimism about prospects of a disarma ¬ ment with the Soviet Union A reliable dip ¬ lomatic source said Dulles delivered his warning as the North Atlantic Treaty Or ¬ ganization council plunged into a secret discussion of the disarmament negotiations now going on in the United Nations sub ¬ committee in London The sources said he was backed in this warning by Italian For ¬ eign Minister Gaetano Martino MartinoChurchill Churchill Scores U N on Suez Attitude AttitudeLONDON LONDON England May 3 Sir Winston Churchill today condemned the United Na ¬ tions for its attitude over the Suez crisis and said those who attacked Britain and France last fall may have reason now to reconsider their opinions The former pre ¬ mier in his first political speech in a year told the annual meeting of the Primrose League that the country and the Conserva ¬ tive Party owed gratitude to Sir Anthony EdenU Eden U N Troops Kill Gaza Inhabitant InhabitantCAIRO CAIRO Egypt May 3 United Nations emergency force troops killed one inhabi ¬ tant of Gaza and wounded another yester ¬ day at Rafah in the Gaza strip the U N Information Center announced today The announcement said an Indonesian UNEF guard spotted four civilians stealing army equipment from the Indonesian camp He opened warning fire and one of the shots hit one of the thieves killing him the announcement said saidMilitary Military Courts Operating in Jordan AMMAN Jordan May 3 Special mili ¬ tary courts to deal with those who at ¬ tempted to overthrow King Hussein and set up a proCommunist regime in recent weeks will begin operating at the end of todays Moslem feast of Id El FitrY Military governor Suleiman Toukan in making the announcement indicated actual trials will not start immediately But the courts will begin looking into cases submitted to them by the special military panels established when the king imposed martial law to end the crisis last week


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