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« f UNITED PRESS 1 NEWS I BRIEFS B-47 in Record Flight WASHINGTON, D. C, May 20.— A B-47 stratojet bomber has made a 12,000-mile non-stop flight in 24 hours to break "all distance and endurance records for jet aircraft," the Air Forse announced today. Details also were given on two other historic stratojet missions — the first jet flight over the North Pole and a 5-hour 38-minute West-to-East Atlantic crossing by two of the atom bombers. Dulles, Nehru Confer NEW DELHI, India, May 20. — American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, here to examine Indias role as a "bridge" between East and West in the hot and cold wars, spent a "very good" half hour today with Premier Jawarharlal Nehru. The meeting, which was their first, was described as "preliminary" to later more serious talks. Senator Taft Enters Hospital WASHINGTON, p. C, May 20.— Senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft entered the Armys Walter Reed Hospital today for diagnosis of a hip ailment. In recent days the Ohioan has visited the hospital for an hour of two each morning, but was informed recently that a thorough analysis of the trouble would require his remaining there for several days. Churchill Invites Eisenhower LONDON, England, May 20.— Prime Minister Winston Churchill invited President Eisenhower today to visit Britain during his White House term and said a visit right npw would be welcome if the President could get away from Washington. U.S. Casualties Up 197 WASHINGTON, D. C, May 20.— American battle casualties in Korea now total 135,155, an increase of 197 over last weeks report, the Defense Department announced today. The overall casualties include 24,063 dead, 98,206 wounded in action, 8,967 missing, 2,377 captured, and 1,542 previously missing, but since returned to military control. Mark Time in Truce TOKYO, Japan, May 20.— Gen. Mark W. Clark and his Korean truce negotiators waited today for a higher level decision on the latest United Nations proposal for ending the war prisoner deadlock. The proposal, reported to be the U. N.s "final" plan on disposition of some 48,000 North Koreans and Chines Communists held by the Allies, was believed to be getting its finishing touches at U.N. headquarters in New York and in Washington. Says Britons Transport Reds WASHINGTON, D. C, May 20.— Senate investigations were told today that British-owned vessels have been transporting Communist troops in the "Far East. Assistant counsel Robert F. Kennedy told the Senate permanent investigating subcommittee that other ships owned by the same Hong Kong firm have been engaged to carry United States foreign aid cargoes. Smash Reds Near Hanoi HANOI, Indochina, May 20. — French and Viet Nam troops smashed a new mass Communist attack today on the vital French "Maginot Line" defenses south of Hanoi. The assault by Viet Minn rebel forces was their second large scale attempt in a week to breach the steel-and-concrete defense works guarding the rice-rich Hanoi Delta.
