Chinese Reds Shell 2 Quemoy Islands; Chinese Reds Shell Two Quemoys; Blow Held Reaction to Asia Talks
Communists shell Quemoy and Little Quemoy islands over 5 hrs; Nationalists rept 3 killed, 7 wounded; map
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In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[โ ]
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Communists shell Quemoy and Little Quemoy islands over 5 hrs; Nationalists rept 3 killed, 7 wounded; map
Apptd Under Sec for Foreign Affairs
Mme Ollier, ex-2d sec of French Embassy, arrested, Noumea, after testimony by Petrov that she gave him secret data about loading arms for French in Indochina
de Castries freed; reptd thin, tired but unbroken in spirit; wife gets wire from Gen; French POWs illus
Commerce Dept div repts durables inventories down $200 million, July; other data
FOA Dir Stassen repts some 2,500 cars, 50 locomotives for India under MSP will be built in US to ease unemployment; Penna indus repr hails decision
Repr Taylor notifies Gov Dewey he will resign as State Chmn because of ill health; State Exec Com to meet; to pass on conv details
Wiley in Bonn
Izvestia repts 200,000 private homes being built, article in effect ad Govt program; 26,000 already built, '54; '54 avg rate seen, 33 1/3% above '46-50; avg size of houses seen very small
Eisenhower signed 485, disapproved 22 since leaving for Colo
Nichols and TVA chmn Vogel rept 'meeting of minds' after Washington conf; Curtis and Paty to get Vogel rept; conf shows TVA got contract copy after complaint; Gore now has copy
Dulles in Manila; illus; confident that security can be advanced in talks