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! i I [ r : • L . . r - 1 s ■ J | [ 3 _ i . I s UNITED PRESS 1 ! NEWS i BRIEFS i ! Attacks Standby Controls WASHINGTON, D. C, May 13.— Sen. Wallace F. Bennett R-Utah told the senate today that standby powers to freeze wages and prices would be a "Typhoid j Mary." He attacked the freeze provision as the senate continued debate on its bill to ] extend some of the provisions of the De- fense Production Act. Stevenson Backs Churchill NEW DELHI, India, May 13.— Adlai E. | Stevenson, Democratic presidential candi- date in the November election, endorsed Prime Minister Winston Churchills call for a big power conference with Soviet [ Premier Georgi M. Malenkov today. "We should always keep the door open for wide consultations and negotiations with a view ; to peaceful resolution of the conflits that divide and torment the world," Stevenson said of Churchills call at a press confer-l ence here. Released Americans Return NEW YORK, N. Y., May 13.— Seven American civilians intered by Communists in Korea when war began in 1950 arrived at Idlewild International Airport aboard a Pan-American Airways plane today. Newsmen were not immediately allowed to interview the repatriated internees, who made 1 a 20 -hour flight from Frankfurt, Germany, on the last leg of a homeward journey ; [ which took them half way around the 1 world. Rush Forces to Suez CAIRO, Egypt, May 13.— Britain today ordered her Suez Canal defense reinforced L by tough, battle -ready marine commandos and a squadron of destroyers as her relations with the new government of Premier Mohammed Naguib neared the breaking r point. American authorities, alarmed by r the threat of new, open hostilities in the sensitive Mideast, held urgent consultations . with the British. Food Price Index Drops NEW YORK, N. Y., May 13.— Wholesale ; food prices on May 12 declined for the first I time in six weeks, Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., announced today. The Dun and Bradstreet index fell one cent to .42 from the previous weeks 1953 high of .43 and was the first drop since prices dipped to .32 ; on March 31. Mrs. Mesta to Visit Russia LONDON, England, May 13.— Mrs. Perle , Mesta, former U. S. Minister to Luxembourg, [ was granted a visa today to visit Russia for one month. She had been promised the visa before her resignation from i the diplomatic post. Mrs. Mesta said she i plans to go to Russia soon after the coronation - of Queen Elizabeth II., June 2. Press Search for Airmen NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., May 13.— - Canadian and American air and sea forces 5 combined today to search for two Bell Aircraft - Corp., airmen who disappeared from l a mother* B-50 after an X-2 experimental 1 i i - - 5 - l 1 plane it was carrying in its belly exploded . and crashed into Lake Ontario. Bohlen, Molotov Confer MOSCOW, Russia, May 13.— U. S. Am- bassador Charles E. Bohlen said today he . had conferred 20 minutes with Soviet For- . eign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov on "a certain concrete question pending between 1 the United States and USSR."
