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UNITED PRESS 1 ! NEWS BRIEFS Warns on Foreign-Aid Cuts WASHINGTON, D. C, May 9.— Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen said today Congress cannot safely cut President Eisenhowers revised foreign aid program. Further cuts, he said, might result in "very serious consequences." German Youths Flee Conscription BERLIN, Germany, May 9. — East German youths are fleeing to West Germany at the rate of more than 500 a day to escape a ruthless Communist drive to conscript them for military service, authoritative German sources said today. Ryan in AFL Request NEW YORK, N. Y., May 9.— Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International Longshoremens Association AFL, said today he will ask the American Federation of Labor to hold off expelling the ILA pending contract talks with employers this fall. Peron Drive Against U. S. Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 9.— President Juan D. Perons campaign against American press associations was stepped up today when dispatches by U. S. news agencies disappeared from all Buenos Aires newspapers except the English-language Herald. New Coast Guard Ruling NEW YORK, N. Y., May 9.— The U. S. Coast Guard announced today that beginning July 1 it will require masters and crew members of certain types of vessels plying navigable waters of the United States to carry Coast Guard security cards. Chinese Seamen Arrested PUS AN, Korea, May 9. — More than 100 Korean policemen arrested 14 Chinese seamen and a Chinese wanted on suspicion of gold smuggling after an 80-minute battle aboard a British freighter here today. NLRB-ITU Dispute Ended WASHINGTON, D. C, May 9.— The National Labor Relations Board today wound up a five-year dispute between the American Newspaper Publishers Associations and the AFL International Typographical Union by ordering the union not to demand short-term contracts. Will Cooperate With Nationals VIENNA, Austria, May 9. — President An-tonin Zapotocky of Communist Czechoslovakia, following the line laid down by the Kremlin, said today his country "is ready to cooperate with all nations" to remove differences between East and West. Canadian Envoy Departs WASHINGTON, D. C, May 9.— Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent J ; departed for Ottawa today after two days of "quite fruitful" conferences with President Eisenhower and other officials. Queen. Elizabeth on Holiday LONDON, England, May 9. — Queen Eliz- . ; abeth II. flew North to Scotland today for , a final holiday before the gruelling days j I that will be climaxed by her coronation on I June 2.
