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UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUNDUP NATIONAL Smith Moves for AntiDiscrimination AntiDiscriminationWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 4 Chair ¬ man H Alexander Smith of the Senate Labor Committee said today moves to write an anti discrimination clause into the Taf t Hartley Law threaten the administration bill to revamp the act The New Jersey Republiian said any real effort to push antidiscrimination amendments would touch off a filibuster by southern senators senatorsConstruction Construction at Record Pace in April AprilWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 4 Construc ¬ tion work moved along at a record pace again last month the government reported today New construction in April totaled 2800000000 nine per cent above March This brought the total so far this year to 10000000000 slightly above the first four months of boom 1953 1953Canadas Canadas Massey Guest of President PresidentWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 4 Governor General Vincent Massey of Canada arrived here today for a threeday state visit as the guest of President Eisenhower Returning a visit Eisenhower made to Ottawa last fall Massey landed at Washington National Air ¬ port at 4 p m EOT EOTUMW UMW Drives Against NonUnion Mines MinesSOMERSET SOMERSET Pa May 4 Roving bands of United Mine Workers pickets pushed their drive against nonunion mines in Somerset County today blockading 22 pits For the second day TJMW men patrolled approaches leading to the mines stopping automobiles and trucks Several trucks were turned back but state police and the sheriffs office received no reports of vio ¬ lence lencei lenceSays i Says Eisenhower Will Oppose Intervention InterventionWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 4 Sen Ralph E Flanders RVt said today after a conference with President Eisenhower that Eisenhower will oppose any military intervention in Indochina unless it has the full support of the people of that area Browned Temporarily Barred on Hearing HearingWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 4 The U S Court of Appeals today temporarily barred Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr from going ahead with an administrative hearing on listing the National Lawyers Guild as a subversive organization The court by a 2 to 1 vote granted a prelim ¬ inary injunction against the justice depart ¬ ment until a lower court can hear argu ments on the merits of a complaint brought by the guild against Brownell BrownellEconomists Economists Confident of Good Business BusinessWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C May 4 Govern ¬ ment economists are confident that busi ¬ ness will be good Assistant Secretary of Commerce Lothair Teetor said today We are predicting a continuation of good busi ¬ ness and any business man who is prepar ¬ ing for the gloomy rainy day will probably find himself out in the sunshine with his overshoes on Teetor told the National Building Material Distributors Association here FOREIGN FOREIGNReds Reds StrongpointHANOI Overrun Dien Bien Phu Strongpoint HANOI Indochina May 4 Shouting Red rebels drove to positions less than 500 yards from Brig Gen Christian de Castries underground headquarters today and a sec ¬ ond Communist force overran another strongpoint on Dien Bien Phus western flank1 The massive new rebel assaults brought the Communists closer than ever to the nerve center operated by de Castries hero and commander of the lieleaguered French Union bastion in Northwest Viet Nam NamPress Press CompromiseGENEVA South Korea to Compromise GENEVA Switzerland May 4 The United States and 15 other nations which fought Communism in Korea today pressed the South Korean Government to agree to a compromise plan for elections under United Nations supervision in both halves of divided Korea British PolicyLONDON Press Demands Facts on Policy LONDON England May 4 The British press demanded today that the government give us the facts of a reported policy dis ¬ pute between the United States and Britain over intervention in the Indochina War The influential Times of London carried a lead story and editorial calling for an official statement statementPresident President Assures Peace Formula Support SupportPARIS PARIS France May 4 President Eisen ¬ hower has assured France he supports its quest for an acceptable Indochina peace formula at the Geneva Conference in ¬ formed sources said today These sources said Eisenhower sent a message to the French Government expressing deep regret over what he believed was French misin ¬ terpretation of his recent remark that a satisfactory peace with the Communists in Indochina was impossible
