July 3, 1956

Turkey rejects new Brit proposals; pub of Premier Menderes int in London paper ends Brit hopes; Menderes rejects any shift in Brit sovereignty over Cyprus; says self-determination would disrupt Lausanne Treaty; int reptd pub before official diplomatic repts arrived; new plan had been discussed by Amb Bowker and Turkish leaders, Ankara; Brit see 2 possible benefits from refusal: Turkey's stand may be better understood by world, especially US, and stand may have positive effect in Athens; Amb Bowker gets note restating Turkish stand, Ankara; Gen Templer in Turkey; denies visit link to Cyprus issue; Bishop Anthimos postpones trip to Athens indefinitely; end seen to plan to ask Greece to raise Cyprus issue in UN; terrorist bomb kills Greek Cypriote youth, hurts 2 Brit soldiers, Koma Tou Yialou; bomb-thrower killed by soldiers; Brit answer to Anthimos charge of desecration of Nicosia cemetery repts 36 headstones damaged; says Cyprus Govt will pay

9 injured in double explosion of thorium, Sylvania Elec Products lab, Bayside, NY; near-by residents fear radioactive fallout; AEC repts contamination confined to lab; police, firemen, others at scene to get periodic checks; AEC, FBI, NYS Labor and Health Depts send investigating teams

US State Dept denies and scores charge in USSR Communist party resolution that US instigated and financed Poznan riots; calls riots 'surge of bitterness' by oppressed people; text; Communists had charged that US aided rebels with $100-million fund allotted for aid to victims of communism under Kersten amendment to '51 MSP Act; had noted similar fund provided in current MSP bill; US Sen adopts Humphrey-Douglas-Mansfield resolution paying tribute to Poznan people and urging US aid through internatl orgns

Hogan announces indictment of 6 past and present Teamsters Local 875 officials for extortion; J Dioguardi, A Corallo linked

arrests put near 1,000; tanks reptdly patrol E Ger border to bar escapes; martial law in city eased; curfew suspended; food supply up; Ger newsmen, assigned to rept on fair, rept Western journalists were barred from phoning their papers during riots, were told that Gehlen (W Ger intelligence) orgn instigated riots; give other details; militia guards at damaged security police bldg illus; Stalinogrod newspaper repts unrest in Silesia coal dist since June 20, when special shifts were ordered to step up output; Brit visitor to fair repts continued shooting in Poznan suburbs; puts casualties at over 1,000; Warsaw radio repts wounded at 434