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.. UNITED PRESS I NEWS ROUND-UP NATIONAL: Eisenhower Promotes Ryan to Maj. General WASHINGTON, D. C, June 14. Maj. Gen. Cornelius E. Ryan, commanding officer at Fort Dix, N. J., and a recent witness in the Army-McCarthy hearings, today was nominated by President Eisenhower for promotion to the permanent rank of major general. His present permanent rank is brigadier general. Young Wins Control of N. Y. Central ALBANY, N. Y., June 14. Robert R. Young, an ex-Texas cowhand, won control of the multi-billion-dollar New York Central Railroad today, ending a bitter proxy fight among, some of the nations most powerful financial giants. Official results of the balloting by some 6,000,000 share-owners was announced by railroad officials at a special stockholders meeting. Predicts Congress to Adjourn July 31 WASHINGTON, D. C, June 14. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland today predicted Congress will adjourn by its July 31 target date despite the possibility of lengthy debate on foreign aid, farm price supports, and atomic energy. And Knowland said a floor fight on the Atomic Energy Bill may be averted by compromises reached within the House-Senate Committee, which is .working on the measure. Anglo-American Cooperation Talks End WASHINGTON, D. C, June 14. The Defense Department announced today that secret, top-level talks on Anglo-American cooperation on weapons production and development have been concluded here. A brief announcement said special attention was paid to guided missiles. Dairy Price Supports to Be Boosted WASHINGTON, D. C, June 14. The House Agriculture Committee voted today to override Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson and boost dairy price supports by about 6.5 per cent. Gruenther Says Red Military Improved WASHINGTON, D. a, June 14. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, supreme allied commander in. Europe, said today that Russias military machine has been improved and modernized and that there has been a considerable build-up of Communist satellite forces. Gruenther also told a secret session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that studies so far show that application of atomic or other new weapons will not permit a cut in the size of Allied forces. j President Participates in Mock Air Raid WASHINGTON, D. C, June 14. President Eisenhower hurried into the White House air raid shelter today to take refuge from a fleet of imaginary atomic bombers attacking the United States in the biggest civil defense drill since World War II. The wail of sirens sounded the Red alert in the capital promptly at 10:01 a.m., EDT. By pre-arranged plan, traffic was halted on all downtown streets an d police guided pedestrians into shelters. FOREIGN: Fifteen British Nationals Home From China HONG KONG, China, June 14. Fifteen weary but happy British nationals set foot on British soil in this crown colony today for the first time after years of confined living in Red China. They came from behind the Bamboo Curtain aboard the British vessel, Pakhoi, which brought them here from Shanghai. Among-those released through British negotiations with Communist Chinese officials was blind, 74-year-old W. C. Whiting, who tiad spent: 50 years in China. Western Powers Open New Effort GENEVA, Switzerland, June 14. The Western powers today ignored the French Cabinet crisis and opened a new attempt to overcome Communist obstacles to a negotiated settlement in Indochina. The United States, Britain and France agreed on the new effort after receiving approval of the French Foreign Ministry in Paris. Queen Bestows Highest Honor on Churchill WINDSOR, England, June 14. Queen Elizabeth H. today formally invested her first minister Prime Minister Winston Churchill with the Order of the Garter the highest personal honor a British monarch can bestow. This morning, in a private investiture ceremony in the throne room of ancient Windsor Castle, the young Queen handed Churchill the golden insignia of the Order of the Garter and personally buckled below his left knee the blue i velvet garter of the order. - German Customs Intercept Shells, HAMBURG, Germany, June 14. Six tons of anti-aircraft shells bound for Red-tainted Guatemala were intercepted by West German customs guards here late in May and "were returned to Switzerland, Hamburg Radio reported today. Confiscate Munitions Bound for Guatemala HAMBURG, Germany, June 14.--U. S. High Commission and West German authorities announced today that eight tons of anti-aircraft shells, bound for Guatemala, had been confiscated in the port of Hamburg. American authorities in the West German capital at Bonn said the arms shipment was spotted by U. S. agents while being shipped overland from Switzerland to be loaded aboard a vessel, bound from Hamburg to the Central American republic.
