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. . « UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUND-UP FOREIGN: Bibault to Carefully Consider Armistice PARIS, France, May 26.— The French Cabinet today ordered Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to consider carefully a Communist Viet Minh armistice proposal1 which the United States has warned would lead to a dishonorable Indochina peace. Pope Pius XII. to Speak on Monday VATICAN CITY, Italy, May 26.— Pope Pius XII. will make a speech next Monday to the cardinals, archbishops and bishops attending the canonization of the late Pope Pius 2L, the Vatican City newspaper Ob-servatore Romano said. Vatican sources said it will be an important speech. Labor Party Leaders to Visit Red China LONDON, England, May 26.— Eight top leaders of the British Labor Party today accepted an invitation to visit Red China this fall. Their aooeptanGe of the invitation represented a resounding propaganda vic-1 tory lor the Chinese •Communists who .have [been wheedling for nine months to get [prominent British political leaders to be their guests behind the Bamboo Curtain. United States Warns Britain, France GENEVA, Switzerland, May 26. — The United States warned Britain -and France today that acceptance of new Communist cease-fire terms for Indochina would mean a "dishonorable peace." TJ. S. "Undersecretary of State "Walter Bedell Smith stressed his countrys opposition to. the Red plan at a morning meeting with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and French Ambassador to Switzerland Jean Chauvel. French Warplaries Blast Communits HANOI, Indochina, May 26. — French warplanes blasted Communist troop buildups in the limestone hills below Hanoi today to ease the grave enemy threat to this citys lifeline to the coast. The aerial strike with bombs an d flaming napalm came as French Union troops began pulling back toward Hanoi from isolated outposts in a stop - gap measure designed to strengthen forces here by a full division to meet the threat. Mme. de Castries Fears Husbands Health PARIS, France, May 26. — Mme. Jacqueline de Castries said today she Ihopes the Indochina Communists will treat her captured husband numanely and free nim.soon "because nis physical-state will not permit him to stand a rigorous confinement." Viet Minh Troops Assault Yen Phu HANOI, Indochina, May 26.— Elements of two divisions of Communist "Viet Minh troops today exploded a full scale assault on "Yen Phu, one of the keys to the southern "defenses of Hanoi. The Red assault promises to become the most serious Ued threat since the fall of Dien Bien Phu. NATIONAL: At Least 79 Killed in Fire on Carrier QUONSET POINT, R. I., May 26.— At least 79 men were killed and 220 injured in a disastrous fire that swept the "huge U. S. aircraft carrier Bennington off the New England coast :early today. It,,was announced Secretary of Navy -Charles S. Thomas was flying from Washington to investigate the tragedy. Justice Dept. Dismisses LorwinHndictment WASHINGTON, D. C, May 26.— The Justice Department has decided against seeking a new indictment in the strange case of Val R. Lorwin, former State Department official accused of lying when he denied being a Communist. Informed ; sources revealed this today following the I sudden dismissal of a December, 1953, indictment because the departments prosecutor committed "irregularities" in presenting the case to a grand jury. Thailand Preparing Appeal to U. N. WASHINGTON, D. CL, May 26.— Thailand today was -reported preparing an early appeal to the United Nations to dispatch a special :mission to Southeast Asia to determine whether the Indochina 1 IVar threatens world peace and security. Last-minute details on the Thailand move I were said by diplomatic informants to be i under urgent study in Allied capitals. There were official forecasts that action would develop "very soon." j FBI Seizes 11 Puerto Rican Nationalists WASHINGTON, D. C, May 26.— The FBI today seized 11 leaders of the fanatical Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, including the wife of .assassin Oscar Collazo, on charges of plotting the overthrow of the TJ. S. Government. FBI Director .E. Edgar 1 Hoover, and Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., announced that six of the arrests were made in Chicago, four in INew York and one in Puerto Hico. Longshoremen Vote Orderly NEW YORK, N. Y., May 26.— Some 23,-000 longshoremen began going to the polls in their Sunday manners today in a new attempt to settle the bitter fight lor union 1 jurisdiction over New "Yorks sprawling 1 waterfront. Voting was orderly in the six off-dock polling places and all factions | appeared to be trying to avoid the disturbances which caused the voiding of a I December election for intimidation of I voters. j
