April 24, 1952

Putnam authorizes price rise of nearly $3 a ton under Capehart Amendment, lr to Arnall; Sawyer gives to Putnam job to draft order for wage rise; latter reveals price order held up at indus request; Natl Advisory Bd votes 12-1 that WSB proposals are within Bd policy; condemns attacks on pub members; Sen Morse attacks indus; charges lavish spending of taxpayers' money; Murray scores J A Stephens statement on workers earnings, Sen Labor Com hearing

Peiping radio charges US violates secrecy accord; charges talks reach 'new and dangerous stage' over UN plan to withhold anti-Communists; says both sides submitted new lists of POWs, that UN list omitted names of those not wishing to return; claims US news agency disclosed data in dispatch from Panmunjom; says Ridgway-Steelman TV int 'confirms' US aim to withhold anti-Communists; charges US uses secrecy in talks to dupe its allies while preparing 'new and desperate adventure,'

H W Baldwin sees new-type around warfare from use of atomic weapons in infant stage; discusses problems

worst invasion of NY met area unions by gangsters since '33 discussed; C T Douds, NLRB regional dir, seeks legal basis for denying certification to shady unions; AFL and CIO aides pledge action; M Iushewitz and M T Lacey comment; NYC Anti-Crime Com role noted

Gen Wedemeyer holds Korean War might have been averted if Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam confs had not been kept secret