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. A UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUND-UP NATIONAL: Inaugural Atomic Attack Exercise June 14 NEW YORK, N. Y., June 1. The nations first coast-to-coast atomic attack exercise will be held June 14, it was announced today. Civil defense and disaster units will take charge in cities after air Iraid sirens signal the start of the exercise sometime in mid-morning. Persons at home or offices will go to shelter areas. NEA Reports Alarming Teacher Shortage WASHINGTON, D. C, June 1. The National Education Association reports there will be an "alarming" shortage of teachers when millions of new pupils crowd into the nations grade and high schools this fall. In its annual nationwide survey of the supply of teachers, the NEA found that 50,000 new teachers will be needed to handle a "sensational" rise in high school enrollment. Selassie Praises U.S. Segregation Decision NEW YORK, N. Y., June 1. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia said today that the Supreme Courts recent decision against racial segregation in public schools will win this nation "the esteem of the entire world." , Ferguson Takes Issue With McCarthy WASHINGTON, D. C, June 1. Chairman Homer Ferguson R-Mich. of the Senate Republican Policy Committee today took sharp issue with Sen. Joseph R. McCarthys assertion that it is the duty of government employes to give him secret information. Ferguson said he does not believe members of the Senate should, invite federal workers "to leave their loyalty to the administration, and owe homage to the Senate." Bennington Officer Disagrees on Center QUONSET POINT, R, I., June 1. The air officer of the ill-fated aircraft carrier Bennington today flatly disagreed with previous testimony that the catapult room may have been the center of a blast-punctuated fire that killed 100 men aboard the warship. Cmdr. John W. Fair told a Navy board of inquiry at its third session that his "strictly personal" opinion is that the original explosion of the Bennington emanated from the ward officers pantry in the forward part of the vessel. N.Y. Central Control Remains in Doubt ALBANY, N. Y., June 1. Control of the vast New York Central Railroad System remained in doubt today and officials said it may be weeks before the outcome of the fight between financier Robert R. Young and the present management is known. Three university law professors, counting more than six million votes cast by shareholders on a new board of directors, told Central president William White the official tabulation is still incomplete. They asked for more time, as White reconvened a stockholders meeting. McCarthy Accuses Justice Department WASHINGTON, D, C, June 1. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy accused the Justice Department today of trying to prevent the Senate Investigating Subcommittee from getting testimony on the Army-McCarthy dispute. The Wisconsin Republican made the charge as the subcommittees hearings on the angry row went into their 24th day with McCarthys chief counsel, Roy M. Cohn, in the witness chair for his third day. FOREIGN: Pavlichev Ordered to Return to Moscow TOKYO, Japan, June 1. Russia has ordered Gregori I. Pavlichev, chief of its unrecognized diplomatic mission in Japan, to return to Moscow, informed sources disclosed today. Pavlichev and his wife were reported to have obtained reservations on the Scandinavian Airways airliner leaving Wednesday with officials and members of the Soviet free -style wrestling team, which competed last week in the world championships. Hopes Soar for Hillarys Safety NEW DELHI, India, June 1. Hopes soared today for the safety xf Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mt. Everest, who was stricken with pneumonia high on the slope of Mt. Makalu in the gale-lashed Himalayas. Reports reaching here from Khatmandu, Nepal, said Hillary was recovered from the lobar infection. Hillary was stricken after he had broken several ribs in rescuing a member of the New Zealand climbing expedition he led from a 60-foot crevasse. Western Big Three Considering Indochina GENEVA, Switzerland, June 1. The Western Big Three today considered a plan which would put a four-nation neutral commission in charge of an Indochina armistice without the risk of any Communist-imposed paralysis such as occurred in Korea. Members of the commission would be the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Sweden and Switzerland. Nurse de Galard-Terraube Welcomed Back PARIS, France, June 1. - Heroic nurse Genevieve de Galard-Terraube, who survived the long agony of the siege of Dien Bien Phu, returned to Paris today and the home she thought she never would see again. Cheering throngs of Parisians, fellow air nurses and government officials greeted the broadly-smiling, 29-year-old nurse as she stepped down from a gleaming Air France plane at Orly Airport. Argus Mighty Glad to Get Off Mountain LADD AIR FORCE BASE, Fairbanks, Alaska, June 1. Cpl. George W. Argus, marooned for eight days in a tent high on Mt. McKinley, grinned through a thick growth of beard today and said he "was mighty glad to get down, off that mountain." Argus was reported in "surprisingly good shape" at the base hospital here. He was brought by manpower and by air from the 6,000-foot level of North Americas highest peak late last night. Pakistan Cracks Down on Communists KARACHI, Pakistan, June 1. Government officials said today 199 persons had been arrested in troubled Pakistan in a nation-wide crackdown on Communists and fellow travelers and unofficial reports said the total jailed approached 300. Eleven more "persons were arrested here today, including four newspapermen, and officials said more arrests were expected. A spokesman in Dacca, capital of East Pakistan, said 188 persons had been arrested there up to last night. Reds Capture Defense Post Near Hanoi HANOI, Indochina, June 1. Communist troops have captured a defense post only nine miles east of Hanoi on the lifeline to Haiphong, imperiling the flow of American supplies, the French High Command announced today. All supplies reaching this northern Indochina headquarters city travel over the 58-mile-long railroad and highway from the port of .Haiphong. Cutting the artery has been one of the major aims of rebel Gen. Wonguyen Giap.
