Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that a leading Hungarian Communist, Jozsef Revai, had written in the Budapest Communist newspaper that a letter had been found to ousted President Ferenc Nagy in January from Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson promising support, and that President Nagy had responded regarding the Truman Doctrine, two months before the President had delivered his address to Congress on the subject on March 12. The article claimed that both letters had been discovered after President Nagy had been forced to resign.

Reports from Budapest suggested that the purge of the opposition was widening. The Communist-dominated Government was reviewing "resistance certificates" to determine whether persons had adequately resisted Nazi occupation. The penalty for failure was loss of lands.

In Kiriat Shaul in Palestine, near Tel Aviv, two British officers who had been kidnaped the day before, were found unharmed after they had escaped their captors, albeit providing apparently conflicting accounts as to whether they were released. They had been taken in front of 300 persons while swimming at a pool in Ramat Gan. The captors were seeking the release of five Jews on trial in a military court in Jerusalem. The two officers said that they spent the night in a room with two nooses which their captors told them were for their hangings. The captors then told them during the morning that they were leaving and would phone police as to the whereabouts of the two officers.

Work stoppages in southwestern Pennsylvania spread, as 11,024 miners walked off the job, shutting down 20 mines, in protest of the Taft-Hartley bill. Among the mines closed was the world's largest at Robena, employing 1,800 miners and producing 10,000 tons per day. All of the larger mines were captive mines, devoting their output to large steel companies. The strikes continued to be unauthorized by UMW.

It was reported from Nanking that Government military sources confirmed that Outer Mongolian troops, supported by four Soviet warplanes, invaded remote Sinkiang Province on Thursday, fighting a small number of Chinese defenders 200 miles northeast of Tihua.

From Massillon, Ohio, scene the previous week of the apparent murder of two babies in the care of the local hospital, dashed to the floor by an unknown assailant, it was reported that the murders were accomplished within the span of ten minutes, as the attending nurse had seen the babies sleeping peacefully ten minutes before discovering their dead bodies. The police were torn between the theory that the babies were dropped by accident and that a maniac had deliberately killed them.

After reaching record heights, the Mississippi River receded slightly in Eastern Missouri and North Central Illinois. The number of homeless persons in four states reached 22,000, 16,000 of whom were in Iowa, scene of the worst flooding at Ottumwa. The flood waters had gone down a fraction of a foot at Hannibal and Canton, Mo.

President Truman was taking a good will tour of Canada.

Former Vice-President Henry Wallace continued his cross-country speaking tour in Newark, N.J., saying that the average person in Europe now looked to Russia for ideas and inspiration, given the U.S. foreign policy. While they did not wish Russia to take over Europe, they feared that the U.S. policy might work that result, forcing so many people all over the world to work in munitions factories and serve in the armed forces.

A group of citizens in Newark had collected $5,200 for a fund to make Mr. Wallace a presidential candidate.

The CIO urged Congress to hold hearings on anti-lynching legislation.

Meat prices rose three to 11 cents per pound in New York, reportedly because of meat exports to Europe. Foreign meat dealers were paying up to four cents per pound more than American buyers were willing to pay. For the same supposed reason, livestock prices were also higher, at 28.5 cents per pound, more than during the black market days under OPA, when prices were 18 or 19 cents.

The Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte urged the City Council to approve the cross-town boulevard.

On the editorial page, "A Three-Year Experiment in Control" tells of Mecklenburg County, after nearly three decades of prohibition, having the second highest murder rate per capita in the nation, a drunkenness arrest rate of 10,000 per year, and a general reputation across the state for lawlessness. The upcoming referendum would allow a three-year experiment in ABC controlled sale of liquor. It could not be any worse than the conditions extant under prohibition.

"Toward an Efficient Congress" discusses Tennessee Congressman Estes Kefauver's A Twentieth Century Congress, written in collaboration with Dr. Jack Levin, a study of the problems inherent in the organization of Congress. A year after the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization bill had been signed into law, the streamlining it had authorized was a long way from completion.

The future Senator and 1956 Democratic vice-presidential nominee stated that the Reorganization bill, even if implemented fully, would have been only a beginning to the need for reorganization. He urged that a closer working relationship between Congress and the Executive agencies needed to be formed, greater party responsibility through revival of the caucus system, fewer committees, comprised of members chosen by criteria other than seniority, allowing for adequate staff for committees and individual members of Congress, installation of mechanical vote tabulators, and extension of House terms to four years. He also favored ending of "government by committee" and the filibuster, and that members be provided adequate pensions.

The suggested improvements were not partisan or ideological and so every citizen, it suggests, ought read Mr. Kefauver's tract.

A piece from the Christian Science Monitor, titled "It's Never Too Late", tells of Allegheny College in Pennsylvania bestowing on Robert Rownd a Bachelor of Arts degree 80 years after he would have obtained it, but for the intervention of the Civil War.

Drew Pearson tells of three Democrats on the House Labor Committee, Representatives John Lesinski of Michigan, Ray Madden of Indiana, and Arthur Klein of New York, recommending to the President that he veto the Taft-Hartley bill. The President had only said that labor would find that he was, as always, still on its side, remaining, however, non-committal on his intended action.

Marquis Childs suggests, correctly, that June 5, 1947 would be circled in the history books, with Secretary of State Marshall having given his Harvard speech, which outlined that to become known shortly as the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe.

Samuel Grafton tells of the tendency in Washington to view statistics on the economy but to do nothing about them, that trying to affect them was to exert control and control had become taboo.

A letter writer, who had visited wet Philadelphia for four weeks, reports that he had seen less evidence of public intoxication than in dry Charlotte.

A letter writer suggests that a letter of May 28, expressing the desire for fifteen minutes of radio time to convince everyone of the dangers of alcohol, was written too high on the soap box, and sometimes it got slippery.

A letter writer objects to legal sale of liquor, finds it selling out to the liquor business and crime. He favors enforcement of bootlegging laws instead.