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6 cos file rise pleas; O'Dwyer calls special bd meeting; H Bravin protests 3d Av rise
shippers of perishables press Truman to avert strike
Sen Repub policy com backs bills; Taft and Vandenberg approval noted; Sen McMahon makes pub atomic scientists opposition to compromise
WASHINGTON, May 7 -- First efforts to bring Senate and House Republicans to policy agreement on the entire defense program appeared tonight to have failed. Whether further attempts would be made before each branch had its own voting showdown remained to be seen.
Ex-Lithuanian Prime Min Cernius role in '39 discussed; Cernius, in US, compares Ger and USSR occupation of Lithuania
1948U Saw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (born 1900)[†]
U Saw, also known as Galon U Saw, was a leading Burmese politician who served as Prime Minister of British Burma during the colonial era before the Second World War. He is also known for his role in the assassination of Burma's national hero Aung San and other independence leaders in July 1947, only months before Burma gained independence from Britain in January 1948. He and five others were executed by hanging for the assassination.