December 1, 1953

Parliament approves US aid pact by acclamation after Franco stresses need

ALBANY, Dec. 5 -- The State Civil Service Employes Association asked the state today for pay increases that would cost an estimated $22,000,000 a year.

PARIS, Dec. 2 -- The French Government issued a statement tonight leaving the door open to peace negotiations with Ho Chi Minh, Communist leader of the rebels in Indo-China, who indicated in an interview last week that he was willing to talk peace.

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 5 -- Thomas E. Murray, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, said tonight that the Soviet Union's development of a hydrogen bomb made it necessary for this nation's officials to be acquainted with "the atomic facts of life."

VICKSBURG, Miss., Dec. 5 -- Tornadoes smashed tangled paths of death, injury and damage across Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas tonight. The toll, still mounting, stood at four dead and many scores injured.