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UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUNDUP NATIONAL Morse Calls for Code of Fair Play PlaySYRACUSE SYRACUSE N Y May 1 Sen Wayne Morse Oregon Independent yesterday at ¬ tacked the abuses of procedural rights by Congressional investigating committees and called for a code to insure fair play Morse accused his fellow congressmen of play mock court in Congressional hear ¬ ings If fair procedure had been adopted there would havce been no problem of Mc Carthyism he asserted assertedTrio Trio Aims for Top Place in Labor LaborWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 1 Three powerful union leaders today appeared to be aiming to take top place in labor leader ¬ ship from CIO president Walter Reuther and AFL president George Meany John L Lewis United Mine Workers chief David Beck head of the AFL Teamsters Union and David McDonald president of the CIO steelworkers reached an informal agree ¬ ment here yesterday to work together on mutual political and economic problems problemsFarmers Farmers Holding Own Economically EconomicallyWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 1 The na ¬ tions farmers bolstered by the highest pork prices in six years are holding their own on the economic ladder An Agricul ¬ ture Department report yesterday reported a fourtenths per cent increase in overall farm price levels in the month ended April 15 esough to boost the average of all farm prices to 91 per cent of fair price parity They averaged 90 per cent in March MarchMcCarthy McCarthy Dworshak Have FallingOut FallingOutWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 1 Sen Jo ¬ seph R McCarthy RWis and Sen Henry C Dworshak RIdaho once re ¬ garded as one of McCarthys staunchest supporters have had a serious fallingout Dworshak is serving on the Senate investi ¬ gating subcommittee in place of McCarthy during the inquiry into the ArmyMcCar ¬ thy fued Earlier this week Dworshak aroused McCarthys ire by the way he ques ¬ tioned Pvt G David Shine McCarthy in turn made Dworshak turn brick red with anger by the way he cut Dworshak off offCpT CpT Dickenson to Hear Fate Monday MondayWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 1 An eight man military tribunal will receive final in ¬ structions Monday and begin deliberating the fate of CpL Edward S Dickenson of Crackers Neck Va The 23yearold sol ¬ dier faces a possible life sentence if six or more tribunal members find him guilty of charges he collaborated with his Red cap ¬ tors and informed on fellow FOWs in Korea The Army waived the death sen ¬ tence before the court martial began at Ft Lesley J McNair on April 19 FOREIGN FOREIGNNew New Earth Shocks Jolt Greece GreeceATHENS ATHENS Greece May 1 New earth shocks jolted central Greece today in the area where a major earthquake killed at least 17 persons and left nearly 20000 homeless yesterday Official figures issued by the Ministry of Security said there were 17 known dead and 170 injured in the 5000square mile district of Thessaly where battles have been fought since the time of Achilles Press reports from Larissa in the quake zone said 26 persons were dead deadFrench French Cleaning Out Red Pockets PocketsHANOI HANOI Indochina May 1 French Union forces were disclosed today to be cleaning out Communist pockets along the 18th parallel and informed sources said they may be trying to set up a truce de ¬ marcation line The 18th parallel cuts Indochina at its narrow waist and about onethird of the country lies to the north including the rich Red River Delta around Hanoi and the besieged fortress of Dien j Bien Phu 180 miles west of Hanoi Japs Protest HBomb Tests TestsTOKYO TOKYO Japan May 1 More than 150000 persons screamed slogans against American hydrogen bomb tests and Japan ¬ ese rearmament today in Japans biggest and noisiest but most orderly postwar May Day Moderate elements led by former socialist premier Tetsu Katayama blocked any Communist plans for leading the snakedancing demonstrators into acts of violence violenceFishermen Fishermen Tell of Firing in North Sea SeaTOENNING TOENNING Germany May 1 Crews of more than 50 West German fishing cutters told today how they were sent scurrying when three planes believed to be British fired guns in target practice over the North Sea last wek At least one of the vessels was hit by a 12V7 milimeter shell German port police here said saidDeny Deny Reports Pope Will Resign ResignVATICAN VATICAN CITY Italy May 1 High Vatican sources today denied that Pope Pius xn planned to resign Such reports have circulated ever since the pontiff be ¬ came ill last January 25 Vatican author ¬ ities have denied them consistently The first set of Xray tests of the Pope showed he had gastritis a stomach ailment which resulted from fatigue and nothing more serious according to the official com ¬ munique issued February 5 by his doctor doctorDulles Dulles Chou EnLai Meet in Secret SecretGENEVA GENEVA Switzerland May 1 TJ S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Red Chinas ChouEnLai met face to faqe today for the first time in a secret meeting of the West and Communist blocs aiming at breaking the deadlock on Korea
