Dr. Ralph J. Bunche. right. mediator for Palestine for the United Nations and director of the United Nations trusteeship division. re- ceives an honorary degree of doctor of laws from President Harold Stassen at the liliird commencement exercises of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Dr. Bunche, a Negro. refused to take a government post because oi Washington "Jim Crow" laws.

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tlgian voters have rebuff‘ It Social Christian (Catholic) party's bid for an absolute parliamentary majority following the return of exiled King Leopold. Final ﬁgures released showed this standing in the Chamber of Deputies: Social Christians, 104 (gain o! 12); So- cialists, 66 (loss oi 3); Liberals. 30 (gain of l3); Communists. 12 (loss of ll).

Premier Paul-Henri Spaak's So- cialist party wound up second to the Social Christian party. Spaak headed a coalition cabinet which resigned. a formal step taken ai- ter every Belgian election.

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MAY BE STARS 0F B-SB PRO]!!! — LL-Gen. Curtis Leltlay. left, ha!‘ of the nation's 8-36 bomber ﬂeets, and Fleet Adm. William iialsey. Jrq right. now retired, are expected to get star billing when Congress start! probing tho 3-36 in the field of strategy. LeMay is for long-range, land-based bombers. Halsey is for the aircraft carrier. Both will de- fend their respective techniques. 1

. h '_ d i d’ in the St. Louis. M0.. City Court. But it so happens in thisncase‘; the judge xwghiﬁiltefjissewiiei:Lfllizmughe is iilling in for a vacationing gludge. Her answer was yes. p

HAND IT OVER. BUDi—-Caessr, funds for the Society for the Pra- IBB pounds of Great Dane muscle, i vention of Cruelty to Animals. isn't holding up the hank in Auck- The teller decided to contribute. land. New Zeaiand. He's soliciting

Jake La Motto and his wife, Vick relax in their Detroit hotel room and read the accounts of the fight in which Laliiotta became middle- weight champion of the world. LaMotta knocked out Marcel Cerdsn of France. when Cerdan failed to answer the bell for the l0th. round.

Bulgaria. on parade daring a recent celeb- snd Ilethodius. are pictured under the re-

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Jon Milton Vsnciusen. five. m Picton, Ont, died of head injuries suffered when he tell head ﬁrst down a chute in a canning fact- ory owned by his father. The boy's skull was fractured when he hit a cement floor after a i5- ioot drop. ' “'

One oi the greatest manhunt: in the history of the State of Mich- igan is on as police seek a clue to the murderer oi iour-year-oid Waiter “Peewee" Eaton. The body oi‘ the sandy-haired. blue-eyed child was found in an oil drum in the shadow of Michiganis capitol badly mutilated. apparently with s piece of broken beer bottle. Ev- idence poinfs to the killer's being a sex degenerate.

Arrested for hilure to support his two children by a former mar- riage, Francis H.

the Los Angola county Jail short- ly before he was released on bsii.

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Four-year-old Donna Richardson. first U. S. child to be stricken with polio in occupied Germany, is Ihown on stretcher as she was removed from "mercy" plane after LOGO-mile flight to Massachusetts. Comforting the youngster, at left. is her father, Capt. Donald Richardson. 0f DﬂnvcrS. M355" WhO arrived earlier in another air force plane. Donna was accompﬂﬂiﬂd 0Y1 U10 flight by he!” mOUIBI‘ ﬁnd younger brother. The Richardsons joined the occupation forces in Germany in 1948.

Holiday makers in England will soon be able to hire a new form of water travel. it is s two-sestcr type of water cycle. similar to that used 0n European resorts. The Pnsmltcrs can relax. and it is guided by a single joystick. which moves backwards and forwards. lﬂitfdills to required direction. The pedals are geared to a control shaft and s. screw which drives the water cycle at the desired speed. The craft weighs 150 pounds and is being mass produced-

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A rsee in the continental style was staged recently in London. Eng» for the first time by waiters from various hotels and restaurants in the city. Competitors. wearing ‘Vtlﬂtlllﬂ suits and aprons. were requir- ed to cover a half-mile. each balancing three full glasses and .a. cham- pagne bottle on a tray. Anyone spilling the liquid would be disquali- fied. Two of the waiters are seen. in above picture, running the ‘gsunk let. ' j

Mary Ashton (left), 20, told Pittsburgh police she was forced td live in terror for a month as the "prisoner" of Joseph Yeager (right); 22. son oi’ a packing house president. Yeager is accused of slashing and beating Betty Donovan to death last month with n broken beer bottle. Miss Ashton iolri police she suspected Yeager nf the crime. and he threatened her and kept her prisoner.

lq r. l. Thompson and his brother. DP- l0" TMMF“ Atwood. Ont were killed in this light piano mm at ‘amok 9 Thompson was accompanying James on pleasure 1mm lsniitoo home. m piano went into a roll. hit

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