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♦ 4 ♦ UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUND-UP , . j . • | " , - , • | • ; . . j , 1 . ! t j 5 ; ; j ■; J Z I s j _ 2 r s j a y a e : 3 5 NATIONAL: Await Full Report on Air Battle WASHINGTON. D. C , May 10.— State department officials said today they will await a full investigation and official re-r port by the Air Force before deciding whether the United States should lodge a formal protest with the Communist against todays Yellow Sea air battle. Pending such a report, they said, the department does not know whether a protest would be directed to North Korea or Red China. Complete Deal for Hilton Hotel in Berlin NEW YORK. N. Y.. May 10.— The Hilton Hotel chain announced today conclusion of an agreement to build and operate a new hotel in Berlin with a roof-top supper club oking over the Soviet sector of the divided city. The announcement said that John W. Houser, executive vice president of Hil-, ton Hotels International, had concluded an agreement with the Berlin senate whereby • the hotel, first to be built in the war ravaged , city since the beginning of World War • n., will be owned by a German company • j and operated by the Hilton organization. Object to Proposed Atomic Merchant Ship » ! WASHINGTON. D. C, May 10.— Sen. j j Henry M. Jackson said today President . j Eisenhower s proposed atomic merchant ship "may backfire on us" as a "bragging ■ I atomic museum piece. The Washington ; Democrat, a member of the Congressional j Atomic Energy Committee, suggested that -! . instead of "parading cur peaceful atoms ; around the world in a museum" the United j States take the initiative in bringing , atomic power to underdeveloped nations. Favors Economic Rather Than Foreign Aid | j WASHINGTON, D. C , May 10.— Sen. J. William Fulbright said today he thinks j ! I economic and technical assistance in the foreign aid program are probably more im-_ . portant than the military aid. The Arkan- sas Democrat told reporters that the non- military aspects of the program are "what I give these peoples the hope that they T might be able to keep from succumbing to Communism." Fulbright is a member of f i the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ; j j which is studying President Eisenhowers I ,530,000,000 foreign aid request. i Study Sarnoff Plan to Crack Iron Curtain I j NEW YORK. N. Y.. May 10.— Top gov-_ . j ernment officials studied today a plan of I j j David Sarnoff. chairman of :he board of I the Radio Corporation of America, to bring j together the United States and the people I behind the Iron Curtain over the heads of , the Russian rulers. The White House said key government officials in Washington are jl making a "concerted study" of the cold war I strategy plan presented to the president l by Sarnoff. • , • • j » ! j j . j I ■ ; j -! . j ; , | j j ! I . I T f i ; j j I i I j . j I j j I j I , jl I l FOREIGN: Plan Viet Nam Election; Resistance Ends SAIGON, Indochina, May 10— Premier Ngo Dinh Diem cleared the last rebel troops from Saigon today and promptly formed a new government to draft the first free elections in South Viet Nam. The i American-backed premier named a new j cabinet which included members of the revolutionary Junta which supported him ; in his struggle for power with absentee , Emperor Bao Dai. The new cabinet included no members of the various rebel | warlord and religious sects that touched i , off Free Viet Nams civil war in a bloody but vain effort to oust the anti -Communist premier with a coup. China Reds Hint Parley With U.S. LONDON, England. May 10.— Chou Er.-Lai has told Britain he intends to clarify Communist Chinas views on Formosa talks with the United States "in due course," the I foreign office disclosed today. But the Red Chinese premier did not say when he would do so. A foreign office spokesman j j said the Communist Chinese premier at last received Britains envoy in Peiping yesterday regarding a clarification of Red Chinas offer at the Asia-Africa Confer-j ence at Bandung to talk over a Formosa , settlement with the United States. Define Nationalists Formosa Peace Terms , I I , | TAIPEI, Formosa. May 10.— Premier O.K. Yui said today Nationalist China would never accept a cease fire in the Formosa Strait as long as the Communists , dominate mainland China. We will not j : stop in our efforts to regain the mainland," ! the premier said. "Until that day we will. ; j not be content to remain on an isolated j island." Yui said he did not believe the j Sino-American mutuel defense pact ef-» fected Nationalist Chinas right to attack • the Red Chinese -held mainland. | Eisenhowers Stand on Big Four Aid to Eden ; , LONDON, England, May 10.— President ; Eisenhowers acceptance of Big Four talks "at the summit" gave Prime Minister An- | j I thony Edens Conservative Party a big boost in the British election campaign to-5 | day. The American policy change gave J ■ ; : Eden the aura of a man who can influence the United States toward the British view, i | The United States had favored lower level j ; ; talks until the current meeting of western foreign ministers in Paris. This change dampened charges by left-wing Laborites j ! that the Conservative government dances 5 when Washington calls the tune. Ike Agreeable to Four-Power Conference PARIS, Frances, May 1G. — President; ■ ; Eisenhower was disclosed as agreeable to 1 j i a "feasible and useful" Big Four meeting j ; with the premiers of Britain, France and Russia today. Within a few hours, the i j western big three delivered identical notes 3 to Moscow calling for a general four-power conference of the heads of state. Diplo-1 i matic informants here and in London said I J I the identical notes called for a meeting at ■ *■ the summit." 1 Try to End Afghanistan-Pakistan War I j 5 LONDON. England, May 10.— Britain and the United States are trying to put an *! j s s end to the Afghanistan-Pakistan dispute I , B over frontier tribal provinces, officials here j 1 said today. They said Anglo-American I , B consultations are in progress through dip- " I • lomatic channels. Britain is seeking Ameri- | ! e can good offices in urging restraint on L Afghanistan, while Britain uses her in- I* fluence with her commonwealth partner. e Pakistan, the officials said. t
