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Sen rejects final effort to give Truman seizure authority: Case and Maybank withdraw amendments; House com bars seizure amendment; Murray calls union exec bd conf
issues statement; Bevan comment
drops real estate and consumer credit controls, extends all others for yr
Compounds 66 and 60 yield peacefully to break-up after leaders tour ruins of Compound 76; Boatner accords mil respect to enemy officers; to assign them orderlies as required by Geneva Conv; no bodies found in Compound 95
Emerson Hotel: 3 youths steal $500 in cash, $3,000 in jewelry while running hotel 3 hrs
1952Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian martial artist and politician[†]
Jean-Marie Louis Dedecker is a Belgian politician.
1952Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.[†]
The Catalina affair was a military confrontation and Cold War-era diplomatic crisis in June 1952, in which Soviet Air Force fighter jets shot down two Swedish aircraft over international waters in the Baltic Sea.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]