June 17, 1954

House passes $1.3-billion surplus disposal bill without curbs on E-W trade after Eisenhower opposes curbs; approves amendment barring sales to any country prior to Pres approval; kills anti-dumping provision, backed by State Dept, requiring safeguards for world prices; Reprs Hope and Abernathy comment

Pyun says conf failure to unify Korea invalidates armistice, int; says SK is free to act and will not waive rights to NK or leave it to be colonized by Chinese; says UN Assembly lacks authority to seek peaceful unification of Korea; reprs of UN Allies shocked; 1 says some Govts weigh withdrawing troops; Commonwealth repr wants to see int transcript; sees SK contradicting terms and spirit of signed declarations; Pyun says Communists fail to live up to truce terms; says he does not know whether UN would support SK action or whether US would have to give support under terms of US-SK defense pact; por

Margetts queried by Treas Alexander on why he ignored Employment Security Div fiscal operations for 5 yrs; says he acted on orders of ex-Atty Gen Parsons and ex-Deputy Atty Gen de Brier; Alexander comment; Kress calls purported signatures on 5 ctfs forgeries; S Amboy Trust vp Applegate repts no discrepancy in accts; says Hoffman never had access to books; US and NJ examine S Amboy Trust and Trenton Trust books; Richman reopens 2 probes involving Hoffman; 1 on his admission that in '51 he delivered note from A Ercole to J Adonis, other on purchase of $50 million of investment bonds by Disability Benefit Fund in '48, in which a broker reptdly got exorbitant profits

Brit Eur Airways plans service, Mar, from London Airport to city center; route will follow Thames River after Aviation Min agrees to set ceiling minimum at 500 ft over Thames and 1,000 ft over city; map

Princeton astronomer L Spitzer sees space observatory platform revolving round earth built within decades