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► : , UNITED PRESS I NEWS ROUND-UP ! FOREIGN: Ten Killed in U. S. Superfortress Crash STUTTGART, Germany, June 11.— A TJ. S. Air Force superfortress, climbing blind up a fog-shrouded dead end valley, smashed into a German mountainside last night in a flaming crash that killed all 10 airmen aboard. The big four-engined SB-29 was based in Britain at the Moles-worth Air Force Base that launched B-17s over Nazi Germany in World War n. It was making a non-stop instrument training sweep over Germany. Ike Expected to Stop in Paris, London PARIS, France, June 11. — President Eisenhower is expected to stop over in Paris and London on his way to Big Four "summit" talks in Geneva, Switzerland next month, authoritative sources said today. The sources said no arrangements for the visits have yet been made, and they will not be arranged before. Russia gives its formal assent to the Western invitation to the top-level talks proposed for July 18. But authoritative French sources said that if the parley comes off as planned," it is "extremely likely" that Eisenhower "would stop off here as well as in London. Bulganin Gets New Award From Soviet MOSCOW, Russia, June 11— Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin celebrated his 60th birthday today with a new award from the presidium of the Supreme, Soviet. Greetings poured in from all over Russia and the Eastern European countries.- Pravda, official Communist Party newspaper, splashed the anniversary with a two-column, page-one portrait and congratulations from the party central committee and the USSR Council of Ministers. Pope Privately Receives Bishop Sheen VATICAN CITY, Italy, June 11.— Pope Pius XLT. today received in private audience, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, auxiliary to Francis Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of New York. Bishop Sheen was received in the Popes private library and spent more than 20 minutes in conversation with the Pontiff. The bishop is touring Italy on a short vacation. Wagners on Sentimental Dublin Journey DUBLIN, Ireland, June 11.— New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner took a "sentimental journey" through the streets of Dublin tbday, inspecting the landmarks he remembered from his visit as a student. Wagner and his pretty blonde wife, dispensing with their- car, walked along busy Grafton Street, mixing with the crowds and looking into shop windows like any American tourist. The mayor slept late after a whirlwind day of sightseeing and receptions in the Irish capital yesterday. "It was a wonderful first day. . . . Irish hospitality indeed kills with kindness," Wagner commented today. Rail Workers Reject Government Proposals LONDON, England, June 11. — Striking British rail workers rejected government wage % proposals today and Minister of Labor Sir Walter Monckton intervened to try to • save faltering peace talks from breaking down. Leaders of the striking Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen turned down the compromise offer in a message to the British Transport Commission, which runs the nations nationalized railways. NATIONAL: Eisenhower Names Gray Successor to Hensel WASHINGTON, D. C, June 11.— President Eisenhower has nominated Gordon Gray, a Democrat and former army secretary, to succeed H. Struve Hensel as assistant defense secretary. The White House announced yesterday that Eisenhower will send Grays nomination to the Senate next week. Gray is president of the University of North Carolina. His predecessor, Hensel, was one of the main figures in the celebrated Army-McCarthy row. Hensel resigned, effective June 30. President Offers Atoms-for-Peace Help UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 11.— President Eisenhower offered today to help friendly nations build research and power reactors to promote use of atoms for peace. He proposed that the United States: 1. Pay half the cost of building research reactors for free nations which would use them for "peaceful atomic progress; 2. Offer the knowhow, "within prudent security consideration," for building and operating power reactors by friendly nations who would use them in peaceful pursuits. Eisenhower disclosed his new Atoms-for-Peace proposal in a commencement speech at Pennsylvania State University after inspecting a new 00,000 atomic reactor, on the campus. Ask Wilson to Withdraw Pamphlets on Reds NEW YORK, N. Y., June n.— The American Civil Liberties Union said today it has asked Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson to withdraw a pamphlet* entitled, "How to spot a Communist," used by the Ordnance Corps Watertown, Mass., Arsenal and by the Continental Air Command. The ACLU made public a letter sent to Wilson June 2, describing the pamphlet as a "serious threat to free thought and expression." The organization objected to the fact that the pamphlet, prepared by the First Army, asserts that a persons use of certain language and adherence to certain views and associations constitute "danger signals" pointing toward Communist beliefs. Weeks Hopeful of Holding Inflation Line WASHINGTON, D. C, June 11.— Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said today he has hopes the administration can hold the line against inflation despite a new round of government and* industrial wage increases. Weeks conceded on the CBS radio "Capitol Cloakroom" program that wage raises won or in prospect may cause "some slight reflections upward" in the overall economy. But he said, "Where you can hold the value of a dollar, as we have held it for two and a half years, the hope is that you can continue to do so." A.A.U.N. Requests Entry of Many States NEW YORK, N. Y., June 11.— The American Association for the United Nations tonight called for the speedy admission of World War H enemy states and neutrals to the world organization. In a resolution commemorating the 10th anniversary of the A.A.U.N., board of directors appealed specifically for admission of Germany, Italy, Japan, Austria, Ireland, Spain, Ceylon, Finland and Libya. Menon Confers With Hammarskjoid UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., June 11.— V. K. Krishna Menon, Indias roving trouble-shooter, conferred with United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjoid on further easing of the Far Eastern situation today. Menon returned, here last night. Both were in the midst of negotiations with Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai to gain freedom for American airmen and other U. N." command personnel still detained illegally by the Peiping regime as Korean War prisoners.
