December 20, 1953

Baseball Commissioner Ford C. Frick set in motion yesterday the machinery for producing solutions to the problems of player control, the draft and bonus payments. He named a nine-man committee of major and minor league executives to frame new legislation covering those points.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance of fourteen nations. Last week as the NATO Council -- comprising the foreign, defense and finance ministers -- met in Paris, it seemed that the only two nations involved were the United States and France, and that they were not very close allies.

Money market uncertainties seem to have ended the prospect of any general increase in interest dividend payments to New York's savings bank depositors.

Shah signs decree dissolving Parliament and authorizing immediate elections; Brig Gen Farzanegan comments; says all pol parties except Tudeh can enter elections; warns against disturbances; Zahedi regime to offer candidates despite lack of organized pol party