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i ♦ UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUND-UP . "---i*1* * j $ t I ■ ■ r r f | i j I c i i 1 j j I j I ] i 1 ] I I NATIONAL: AEC Postpones Final Atomic Spring Test P LAS VEGAS, Nev., May 11.— The Atomic Energy Commission again postponed the r 14th and final shot of the 1955 spring test t series just 35 minutes before the nuclear t device was to be exploded atop a 500 -foot v tower at Yucca Flat today. 1 1 Capehart Says Powell Remarks Harmful i WASHINGTON, D. C, May 11.— Sen. I Homer E. Capehart R-Ind. said today remarks Rep. Adam Clayton Powell D- S N. Y. made about Indian Prime Minister Nehru and the U. S. State Department f were "harmful to world harmony." Chair- e man Walter P. George D-Ga. also was 5 critical of parts of Powells testimony be- i fore the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- c tee yesterday, but was milder than Cape- i hart. George said some of it "might have I just as well been left unsaid." Ike Ready for Meeting to Test Russia WASHINGTON, D. C, May 11.— Presi- i dent Eisenhower said today that he is I ready to attend a Big Four chiefs of state 1 meeting to test Russias sincerity on re- lieving world tensions. Concedes Salk Vaccine Released Too Soon j WASHINGTON, D. C, May 11.— Presi- dent Eisenhower conceded today that un- der great public pressure the government probably released the Salk polio vaccine I for distribution too quickly. He told a news conference that under this pressure the j scientists in charge and development of the ] vaccine probably tried to take, as he put j it, a little bit of a short cut. 1 Ford Foundation May Sell Some Stock NEW YORK, N. Y., May 11.— The Ford j Foundation disclosed today it may sell some of its 3,089,908 shares of Ford Motor j do. stock late in 1955. "Such action will j undoubtedly be taken some time in the fu- j ture," said H. Rowan Gaither, Jr., president of the Foundation and former San I Francisco attorney. The actual sale of Ford stock — giving the public the first I chance in 51 years to buy these shares — ! would climax one of Wall Streets most I talked-about events. I P r t t v 1 1 i I S f e 5 i c i I i I 1 j I j ] j 1 j j j j I I ! I I FOREIGN: Rebels Attack in Rice Bowl i SAIGON, Indochina, May 11. — Strong rebel forces attacked government troops in 1 the southern "rice bowl" of Free Viet Nam 1 today, ending a week -long lull in the civil : war. The fighting erupted in the rice-rich Mekong River Delta between the armies loyal to American-backed Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and the rebel troops of the Hoa Hao Buddhist religious sects. Seventy-One Drowned in Ferry Collision TOKYO, Japan, May 11. — A crowded ferryboat rammed another ferry in the early-morning fog of Japans scenic Inland Sea today and sank within two minutes. At least 71 passengers were reported , drowned. Sixteen were missing. Quick . rescue work saved at least 692 persons. Fifty-one were injured. Russia Regards Positively Big 4 Confab WARSAW, Poland, May 11.— Sovier Premier Nikolai Bulganin said today that Russia "regards positively" a meeting of Big Four chiefs of state and will study carefully a Western invitation to such a conference. Bulganin made his statement in a general policy review before a nine-nation Eastern European conference which opened this morning in the Polish Council of Ministers. NATO Asks Cease Fire in Formosa Area PARIS, France, May 11. — The North Atlantic Treaty Organizations Council of Foreign Ministers called today for a cease fire in the Formosa area, warning that further hostilities there would "clearly endanger the peace of the world." The council wound up its historic three-day meeting here with a final communique which issued the warning about Formosa and gave its official blessings to a proposed Big Four conference "at the summit" with Russia this summer. Rearmament Forces Reds to Protection WARSAW, Poland, May 11.— Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin told a nine-nation Eastern European conference today that German rearmament has forced Communist nations to seek measures to protect their security. I Dulles to Dine With Molotov Saturday PARIS, France, May 11. — U. S. Secretary , of State John Foster Dulles today accepted an invitation to dine Saturday night in • Vienna with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. j Molotov. The Soviet foreign minister, invited . the Western Big Three to dinner . there on the eve of the scheduled signing of the Austrian state treaty on Sunday. The dinner will group Dulles, Molotov, British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMill-an and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay.
