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UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUND-UP NATIONAL: Benson Urges Agriculture Promotion HOT SPRINGS, Va., June 12. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson said today it is "high time" agriculture fought for consumer attention and dollars with eye and taste appeal gimmicks used by other industries. "Im a little tired of watching other segments in the economy outpromote agriculture," he said. "Its time we started outpromoting some of our competitors." Pope Makes Offering to UN Fund UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., June 12. Pope Pius XII. donated a ,000 token offering for the United Nations Refugee Emergency Fund, it was announced tonight. It was the Popes second donation hi recent monthsLast year he gave ,000 to UNREF. Scientists Protest Oppenheimer Decision NEW YORK, N. Y., June 12. A group of 10,000 scientists, including virtually all the nations top nuclear physicists, today protested the decision to keep this countrys atomic secretsfrom the hands of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. The Council of the American Physical Society expressed "great confidence in the value of Dr;. Oppenheimer as a public servant." FHA Officials Predict New Disclosures WASHINGTON, D. C, June 12. Federal housing officials today predicted new disclosures of "windfall" profiteering by apartment builders -when investigators complete their check of thousands of government-backed housing loans. An interim report on the two-month-old inquiry into the scandal-scarred Federal Housing Administration disclosed that-builders of 70 apartment projects, involving 219 separate mortgages, cleaned up lush prof ts of more than 0,000,000. Approve New Dairy Products Plan WASHINGTON, D. C, June 12. The House Agriculture Committee has approved a plan that would give consumers lower prices for dairy products and at the same time maintain or boost prices farmers get. Under the plan, the government would pay processors the difference between the support price and the market price of dairy products. This would permit prices of butter, cheese and other dairy products to seek their own level. j I FOREIGN: Raid British Barracks in Belfast BELFAST, Ireland, June 12. A group of 15 men bearing British territorial army National Guard uniforms raided a British army barracks at pistol point today and escaped with a truckload of rifles, automatic weapons and ammunition. Fiye Canonized in St. Peters Ceremonies VATICAN CITY, Italy. June 12. A blacksmiths son who died at the age of 14, a nun and three priests were proclaimed saints of the- Roman Catholic Church in a moving ceremony in St. Peters Square today. More than 200,000 lay and religious pilgrims from all over the world witnessed the colorful rites which rivaled the May 29 canonization of Pope Pius X. No Confidence Vote for Premier Laniel PARIS, France, June 12. The French National Assembly voted "no confidence" in the crisis-ridden government of Premier Joseph Laniel today, and Laniel immediately offered his governments resignation to the President. Official announcement of Laniels action was made by Pierre July, secretary of state to the Premier, after a visit to National Assembly speaker Ande Le Troquer. Uruguay May Host Foreign Ministers Meet MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 12. Government officials said today Uruguay was prepared to act as host for a meeting of the foreign ministers of .the-,,21 American republics to consider Communism in Guatemala. At least 14 Latin-American nations have indicated they are ready to participate in the meeting suggested by the United States. Authoritative sources said the meeting will be held in Montevideo early next month. Militiamen Repulse Red Attack HANOI, Indo-China, June 12. Several thousand Catholic militiamen repulsed a big Communist Viet Minn attack on the important village of Vinh Mo, only 18 miles northwest of Hanoi, the French High Command announced today. See Indochina Talks Dying Out GENEVA, Switzerland, June 12. Western diplomats looked gloomily -today for a way to provide the Geneva peace conference with a decent burial. They believed the "no confidence" vote handed the government of French Premier Joseph Laniel by the National Assembly meant that talks on Indo-China here would peter out within a week, although rnilitary and skeleton diplomatic staffs might remain in case the conference is resumed.
