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I ♦- i j UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUND-UP ! ■ , t I ; I J J 1 i [ • I i NATIONAL: j Smith Reveals Ikes World War II. Threat I NEW YORK, N. Y., May 7.— Gen. Walter Bedell Smith said today President Eisen- hower threatened in the closing hours of 1 World War IT. to have his troops shoot 1 German soldiers trying to surrender if they i failed to surrender to the Russians as well j as the Western Allies. Smith said Gen. ] Gustav Jodl, chief of staff of the German army, "pressed for a cease-fire to Western ] troops only, which, of course, we would not i accept." * i Continue Ban on Officers to Law School i WASHINGTON, D. C, May 7.— Members , of the House Appropriations Committee said today they believe the armed services i should solve their military lawyer shortage by offering civilian barristers financial in- ducements to accept commissions. The ■ committee this week voted to continue a . ban against sending regular officers to law , school. It said there was no reason why , the taxpayers should finance such training j when the services could recruit attorneys from civil life. Ford Foundation Announces Huge Grant NEW YORK, N. Y., May 7.— The Ford j Foundation announced today that it will grant more than 5,000,000 to strengthen research in mental health over the next ! decade. The foundation said the decision is the outgrowth of more than two years study of the problems and opportunities . in the mental health field by its behavioral : sciences staff, in consultation with many ; of the countrys leading specialists. Finletter Attacks Far East Policy ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 7.— Thomas i K. Finletter, former secretary of the Air I Force, today attacked the Eisenhower administrations Far East policy, charging | that our threat of massive atomic retaliation against the Chinese Reds is a bluff that will not work. Finletter, speaking at the University of Rochesters annual International Collegiate Debate Tournament, described the loss of Northern Viet Nam to the Reds as "a national humiliation for I the United States." Eisenhower Accepts Resignation of Armour WASHINGTON, D. a, May 7.— President Eisenhower accepted the resignation of Norman Armour as ambassador to Guatemala yesterday. The president named Edward J. Sparks, another veteran Foreign Service officer, as Armours successor. It was the fourth time the 67-year-old Armour had retired from the Foreign Service since he entered the State Department in 1912. Reds Postpone New Plan for Prisoners Gifts WASHINGTON, D. C, May 7.— The Chinese Communists today postponed for 15 days the start of a new plan for getting gifts from home to 44 Americans held captive in Red China. The Reds also ruled that gift packages must be limited to 2.2 pounds instead of the 11 pounds which was the standard for prisoner-of-war parcels in World War II. The American Red Cross announced only yesterday that the Communists had agreed, after more than two months of negotiations, to a simplified and speedier system for getting gifts to the U. S. prisoners. I 1 1 i j ] ] i i i , i ■ . , , j j ! . : ; i I | I FOREIGN: Dulles in Paris for Conferences PARIS, France, May 7 — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrived today from Washington for a series of momentous diplomatic conferences and said the West would have new opportunity of test- , ing Russias "professed wishes of seeking relaxation of tension." Dulles first major conference was a showdown today with France on the Indochina crisis. He then i will join a Big Three meeting to fix the time and place of a Big Four conference , with the Soviets. Other activities included the formal admission of Germany to NATO ] and the Western European Union. i Ambassadors Propose Meet With Pushkin BONN, Germany, May 7. — The three Western Allied ambassadors today pro- ] posed a Berlin conference May 20 with Soviet High Commissioner G. M. Pushkin . to discuss the Communists cold blockade of the city. The proposal was made in identical notes to Pushkin by the United States, British and French ambassadors. The Western Allies earlier had proposed a meeting with Pushkin today, but he turned it down on grounds he would not be in Berlin until after May 16. He is believed attending a Soviet bloc meeting in Warsaw. Revolt Against Church, State Separation BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 7. — Police were alerted for possible further violence today following a mass demonstration by more than 10,000 Catholics in protest against the proposed separation of church and state. Uniformed officers equipped with tear gas, sabres and other anti-riot equipment battled the demonstrators in the streets here last night. Several persons were hurt and more than 40 were arrested, including retired Gen. Carlos Garcia Cuevas. Expect Reed to Leave Hospital Soon ROME, Italy, May 7. — The specialist treating Rep. Daniel A. Reed R.-N. Y. said today he expects the elderly congressman to be sufficiently rested to leave the hospital around the end of next week. Prof. Giorgio Mattoli said "everything is going favorably. This is a case that takes its own course and we cannot hurry things up." Reed, 79, is in Blue Sisters Hospital as the result of a heart attack April 17.
