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: : UNITED PRESS -j NEWS ROUND-UP NATIONAL: House Seeks Freedom for People of Asia E WASHINGTON, D. C, June 10. A move was underway in the House today to get s President Eisenhower to call a conference c of Far Eastern leaders to draft a "charter i of freedom for the people of Asia." Rep. 1 John W. McCormick D-Mass., author of i the proposal, said the charter would help i mobilize free Asia against Communism the way the famed Atlantic Charter "galvan- i ized" the West against Nazism and Fasc- 3 ism in World War II. . Fulbright for Goal of Trade Not Aid WASHINGTON, D. C, June 10. Sen. J. t William Fulbright suggested today the ad- ministration could cut. its multi-billion 1 dollar foreign program if it would follow 1 its avowed goal of "trade not aid." The i Arkansas Democrat called for the adminis- 1 tration to: support a program for lower 1 tariffs so American allies could earn dol- 1 lars rather than being dependent upon U S. foreign aid. Cigaret Sales Drop Estimated A Per Cent , WASHINGTON, D. C, June 10. The : Agriculture Department has estimated that 1 cigaret sales dropped 4y2 per cent this ; year. It said it does not know if fears of . lung cancer had anything to do with the decline. The department estimated Ameri- : cans will smoke a total of 416,000,000,000 cigarets in the fiscal year that ends the last of this month. . 1 Bennington Death Toll Rises to 103 QUONSET POINT, R. I., June lO.-r-The death toll in the aircraft carrier Bennington disaster rose to 103 today. Lt. Frank M. Wells, husband of Diana Wells, 733 Fellowship Ave. Puente, Calif., died this morning. Hospital authorities listed six crew members as still in critical condition. OK Continuance of Reciprocal Trade WASHINGTON, D. C, June 10. The House Ways and Means Committee today unanimously approved legislation to continue the reciprocal trade agreements program for another year. The present law is about to expire. President Eisenhower asked for a three-year extension, but indicated recently he would settle for one year. U. S. Faces Serious Situation Eisenhower WASHINGTON, D. C, June 10. President Eisenhower told a news conference today that the United States faces a truly serious international situation with Communism, a situation which he said might last as long as 40 years. McCarthy Accuses Stevens, Adams WASHINGTON, D. C, June 10. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy swore today he personally heard Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens and Army Counselor John G. Adams attempt to divert his Communist hunting into .the Navy and the Air Force. McCarthy said it happened Nov. 6, 1953, at a lunch in Stevens Pentagon office. Both Stevens and Adams under oath have categorically denied the accusation. E s c i 1 i i i 3 . t 1 1 i 1 1 1 , : 1 ; . : 1 FOREIGN: Britain Stands Behind U. S. at Geneva GENEVA, Switzerland, June 10. Britain stood solidly behind the United States today in a Geneva Conference struggle against Communist attempts to dismember two Democratic Indochinese states. Western sources said British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U. S. Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell . Smith found themselves in complete agreement oh Indochina at a private meeting. Reds Check Traffic in Occupation Zone VIENNA, Austria, June 10. Russian troops started halting and checking vehicular traffic on roads at the borders of their occupation zone today for the first time since last June. Austrian officials said the new traffic control action appeared to have been imposed simultaneously throughout the zone. Trains were not affected. Communists Capture Two Red River Posts HANOI, Indochina, June 10. Communist troops captured two more posts in the south Red River delta, wiping out one of the garrisons, in fierce amphibious battles through flooded rice paddies, the. French High Command announced today. Rebel troops took the post of HakYen at the confluence of the Red River and Bamboo Canal, 30 miles southeast of Hanoi, and the garrison at Lat Khiem, 35 miles south of the northern Indochina capital. Hunt for Missing Navy Patrbl-Bomber IWAKUNI, Japan, June 10. Planes and ships ranged over the East China Sea today in a vast hunt for a U. S. Navy patrolbomber missing since yestefaay with 17 men aboard. The search was spurred by the admittedly slim hope that the twin-engined amphibious patrol bomber could still be afloat if it landed undamaged in the sea south of Japan. Ask Reds to Release 83 Americans GENEVA, Switzerland, June 10. The United States today formally asked Red China to release 83 Americans imprisoned or detained in the Communist country. The formal request for the release of the Americans was made public in a brief official announcement. It said the United States ambassador to Prague, U. Alexis Johnson, met an unidentified representative of Red China in the second attempt to gain freedom for the Americans through direct negotiations. Troops, Police Man Bogota Streets BOGOTA, Colombia, June 10. Armed troops and police patrolled the citys streets from midnight past dawn today to enforce security measures imposed because of Communist-agitated disorders that claimed at least 15 lives. Government spokesmen blamed Communists and other extremist elements, for provoking the bloody clashes between students and troops during the past two days. conference title at Milwaukee. It was the
