Estimate Bd approves sales tax, compensating use tax, extension of gross financial business tax and other levies; sales tax extension protested by Halley; Boro Pres Wagner approves 'reluctantly'; Boro Pres Lyons abstains on gross financial business tax; tax protested by NYSE Pres Funston and by W A Lynch for Commercial Investment Trust Inc

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TRUMAN REQUESTS STEEL SEIZURE LAW; SENATE, IN REBUFF, ASKS TAFT ACT USE; ARMS OUTPUT PLAN HELD 'INADEQUATE'; APPEALS IN PERSON

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Truman appears before Cong to ask for seizure law; says proper law could assure production and aid collective bargaining by fair compensation to cos and workers; says Taft-Hartley injunction would penalize union and aid cos; Sen, 47-32, rejects Humphrey amendment granting Pres seizure authority; adopts, 49-30, Byrd amendment asking Pres to seek Taft-Hartley injunction; roll-call; Maybank and Monroney amendment rejected; co-union talks reptd to have collapsed 10 min after co group arrived; E T Weir charges Truman seeks seizure power to impose union shop

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Notable Births

1952Yekaterina Podkopayeva, Russian runner^[†]

Yekaterina Ilyinychna Podkopayeva is a retired middle-distance runner who represented the USSR and later Russia. She gained international recognition in 1983, when she won two bronze medals at the World Championships. The same year she managed an 800 m time of 1:55.96. She resurfaced in 1992, winning the European Indoor Championships and placing 8th in the Olympics. More victories in European and World Indoor Championships followed until she retired after the 1998 season. When she won the 1500 metres at the 1997 World Indoors, she was 44, the oldest World Indoor champion ever.

1952Donnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[†]

Donald Newton Van Zant is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as a member of the band 38 Special, from its formation in 1974 until 2013. Van Zant was the original lead vocalist for the band, appearing in that role on their first two studio albums. He is the middle of three sons; his older brother Ronnie was the original lead singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd who died in a 1977 plane crash in Mississippi, and his younger brother Johnny has been the lead singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd since 1987.

Historical Context for June 11, 1952

In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people^[†]