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i . , 1 j i j J ! ! * J . | J l t a 1 s •• l t ;. e i . • a - r t o UNITED PRESS » NEWS I BRIEFS 1 Failey Sees Possible Democratic Deadlock WASHINGTON, D. C, June 23.— Former Democratic national chairman James A. • Farley forecast today a possible national convention deadlock in the "wide-open race" for the Democratic presidential nomination. Farley, one of Americas shrewdest political observers, said senators Estes Ke-fauver of Tennessee and Richard B. Russell of Georgia "could easily deadlock the situation j and then someone else would be ! named." Allied Planes Strike Heaviest Blow of War r SEOUL, Korea, June 23. — Air Force, Ma- rine and Navy planes, acting on orders J "from higher up," struck their heaviest l blow of the war today at Yalu River and J other vast power plants supplying both the , Red Chinese and Russian war machines. More than 500 planes took part in the massive assault which included among its 5 targets powerhouses of the great Suiho Dam i on the Yalu whose generators supply electricity - for Antung and Mukden and Rus- - sian-con trolled Dairen and Port Arthur at t the head of the Yellow Sea. Warns Against Slashing Construction Bill WASHINGTON, D. C, June 23.— Presi-1 - dent Truman warned the Senate today r against slashing the military construction l bill. He said a rumored 50 per cent cut t would be a "terrible disaster." Mr. Truman i said in a letter to chairman Richard B. . Russell D.-Ga. of the Senate armed serv-" • ices committee that he has heard the committee is considering a 50 per cent slash i in the house-approved ,758,000,000 mili-5 tary construction bill. Reds Object to Allied Decision on Internees s PANMUNJOM, Korea, June 23.— Com-l - munist truce negotiators objected today to an allied decision to release 27,000 Korean l civilian internees. North Korean Gen. Nam l H said the Communists never have recognized - the U. N. right to reclassify those persons from prisoners to civilian internees. ; Congress Plans July 5 Adjournment WASHINGTON, D. C, June 23. — Congress - set its sights today on adjournment t July 5, two days before the Republican national - convention opens in Chicago. House e speaker Sam Ray burn and Senate majority y leader Ernest W. McFarland said the big I drive to clean up "must" legislation prob-■ ably will involve meetings on the July 4 j holiday. Acheson Arrives in London LONDON, England, June 23. — Secretary y of State Dean Acheson arrived from Wash- - ington today to discuss with British and d French leaders "the great common task k. which our three countries are carrying for- - 5 i - - t - r l t i . • i s - l l - ; - t - e y I 4 j y - d k. - _ ward in the world today." In a crowded d week, Acheson will confer here on such h critical issues as Germany, relations with h Soviet Russia, the Middle East and the Far East, including the Korean war. Japan Applies for UN Membership UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., June 23.— - Japan formally applied for United Nations s membership today. The application was s delivered to U. N. acting secretary-general •1 Guillaume Georges-Picot of France this 5 morning by Hisanaga Shimadzu, Japanese e consul general, and Toshio Yamanaka, l» consul. Rhee Wins Two Important Victories PUSAN, Korea, June 23. — President lt Syngman Rhee won two important parliamentary victories today — possibly his big- gest in the current political crisis — in his ■ fight with the South Korean national as- sembly to stay in office. The assembly y voted, 61 to 0, with 35 abstentions, to keep p the 77-year-old Rhee indefinitely in office e until a new president is elected. Refuses to Consider Seizure Amendment WASHINGTON, D. C, June 23. — The J Senate today refused, 42 to 32, to consider a proposed constitutional amendment to ™ forbid the President to seize private prop- erty without Congressional authorization, In doing so, the Senate went along with k its Democratic and Republican leadership. 3 Russians Free 43 Kidnapped Germans BERLIN, Germany, June 23. — British h troops backed by armored cars took positions i- along the border of the Soviet-occupation i- *one today after the Russians freed 43 13 Germans who had been kidnapped into ;o East Germany yesterday. The Reds freed ;d the kidnapped Germans this morning and id also withdrew from a strip of British ter- r- ritory the Rusisans grabbed a week ago. ,
