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UNITED PRESS — - 1 N EWS I BRIEFS Marshall Seeks More Men TOKYO, Japan, June 11.— TJ. S. defense secretary George C. Marshall left by plane for Washington today to tackle what he called the "very serious matter" of finding enough men for the nations armed forces. He said the government is considering calling up additional National Guard units, but has made ho decision. V Air Force May Use Draft WASHINGTON, D. c, June 11.— The Air Force as well as the Army soon may be drafting men under the Selective Service Act, reports indicated today. Under a "qualitative distribution" program set up in April by defense secretary George C Marshall, all services have been permitted to accept volunteers. But any service failing to obtain its needed quota for any two months is required to take draftees in the following month. UN Shatters Triangle TOKYO, Japan, June 11.— United Nations forces shattered the Communist "iron triangle" in central Korea today with twin drives through Chorwon and Kumhwa in pursuit of fleeing Red armies. Beaten Chinese Reds streamed north from the mountain redoubt by the thousands toward Pyonggang and Kumsong, both 28 miles above the 38th parallel. Wedemeyer Backs MacArthur WASHINGTON, D. C, June 11. — Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, one, of the Armys China experts, today joined Gen. Douglas MacArthur in denying he ever favored promoting a coalition of the Na-tionlist and Communist regimes in China. Admits Search Fruitless LONDON, England, June 11. — Foreign secretary Herbert Morrison admitted in Commons today that the government had been unable to find two British diplomats who disappeared May 25. It was disclosed that the search for Donald D. MacLean, head of the American section of the foreign office, and Guy Burgess, far eastern expert formerly attached to the British Embassy in Washington, has extended to Greece and Egypt. Dewey, Goldstein Confer NEW YORK, N. Y., June 11. — Gov. Thomas E. Dewey conferred yesterday with his attorney general, Nathaniel L. Goldstein, as a prelude to public hearings into narcotic traffic among New York Citys teen-age school children. The hearings will begin at 10 a. m. tomorrow. Sillitoe Arrives in New York NEW YORK, N. Y., June 11.— Sir Percy Sillitoe, chief of British Military Intelligence, arrived today from London to confer with FBI head J. Edgar Hoover about the mysterious disappearance of two high-ranking British diplomats in Europe. British Delegation in Iran TEHRAN, Iran, June 11.— A five-man British delegatjpn*flew,.into Iran .today, for a last-ditch stand against the oil nationalization program. But -even as the delegates of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company approached Tehran, Iranian officials prepared to tack a huge signboard reading "Iran National Oil Company" to the main refinery building at Abadan. Lie Urges Cease-Fire SWARTHMORE, Pa., June 11.— United Nations secretary-general Trygve Lie urged both sides in Korea to grab any chance to open talks on a cease-fire around the 38th parallel. In a commencement address at Swarthmore College, Lie said: "I feel that no possible opportunity for opening conversations to this end should be neglected." - Say Note Aim at France LONDON, England, June 11.— Russias new proposal for a general Japanese peace conference this summer seems designed to split the western powers, British officials said today. They said the Soviet note handed by U. S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk in Moscow yesterday appeared to be aimed mainly at scaring France off Anglo-American efforts to conclude an early separate peace with Japan* « , i » r *
