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4 UNITED PRESS f NEWS ROUND-UP " FOREIGN: Expect Bulganin to Attend Geneva Confab MOSCOW, Russia, June 13.— Diplomatic observers believed today Premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin would attend the Geneva Big Four conference with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov and other foreign ministry officials. It still was not known whether Nikita S. Khruschchev, head of the Communist party who led a recent delegation to Belgrade, would go to Geneva. Leonid F. Hyichev, official foreign ministry spokesman and press chief, was expected to go to Geneva for press briefings. He attended the Berlin, Geneva and Belgrade conferences. Famine Threatens North Viet Nam SAIGON, Indochina, June 15.— Ho-Chi-Minh, Communist leader of North Viet Nam, confirmed today that the Red-ruled Northern half of the country is threatened with famine. The voice of Viet Nam, a-Communist radio station, broadcast a recording of a speech made by Ho to a recent production Congress in Hanoi. The speech, as monitored here today, said: "We must face the threat of famine in the coming months of -July and August." Mayor Wagner Visits Fathers Birthplace NASTAETTEN, Germany, June 15.— Celebrating villagers broke out an ancient 46-starred American flag today in a rousing welcome to New York mayor, Robert F. Wagner, Jr., the son of their most famous emigrant to the United States. The fact that the flag dated from before Arizona and New Mexico were admitted to the Union in 1912 failed to dampen their enthusiasm. "It is a great thrill to be here," said the son of the late Sen. Robert F. Wagner. "My only regret is that my father could not be here too." Two Argentine Catholic Leaders to Rome BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, June 15. — Two top Roman Catholic leaders in Argentina, arrested last night on charges of defying civil authorities and provoking disorders, boarded a government-owned airliner today, en route to Rome. The two churchmen, Msgrs. Manuel Tato, acting archbishop of Buenos Aires, and Ramon Carlos Novoa, left Buenos Aires aboard a regular passenger plane of state-owned Aerolineas and were due to mak a connection with a Rome -bound plane at 6 p. m. Thursday in Lisbon. Urge E. German Adopt Passive Resistance BERLIN, Germany, June 15. — East German factory workers are being urged to adopt a "passive resistance" policy toward Communist work quotas — the issue that sparked the Soviet zone workers revolt two years ago, informed- West Berlin sources said today. East German anti-Communists have distributed leaflets in Soviet zone factories urging workers to oppose work quotas by "passive resistance" and calling for the ouster of the Red East German government, reports from the Soviet Zone said. NATIONAL: AMA Opposes Democratic Polio Plan WASHINGTON, D. C, June 15.— The American Medical Association charged today that a Democratic plan to provide free polio vaccine to all children is "completely unnecessary" and would involve an "unreasonable" expense for American taxpayers. "In accordance with the great traditions of medicine," it asserted, "no child will be denied a vaccination because of inability to pay a physicians fee." AMA spokesmen told the Senate Labor Committee the physicians organization would reluctantly accept the presidents more modest 5,000,000 proposal to furnish free vaccine only to youngsters whose parents cannot pay. Bramblett Fined; Put on Year Probation WASHINGTON, D. C, June 15.— Former Rep. Ernest K. Bramblette R.-Calif. today was fined ,000 and put on probation for a year for padding the payroll of his congressional office. Appelate judge Walter M. Bastian first sentenced the former congressman to not less than four months or more than 12 in jail, and then suspended the sentence and put Bramblett on probation for one year. Knight, Venerable Federal Judge, Dies BUFFALO, N. Y., June 15. — Judge John Knight, one of the oldest active federal judges in the United States, died today in Buffalo General Hospital, where he had been confined since suffering a stroke April 10. He was 84. Judge Knight, who had presided regularly until the stroke, had been on the federal bench for 25 years and ruled in many prominent cases. At the time of his death, he was the senior federal judge in the 17-count Western New York district. Telephone Co. Requests Stopgap Increase ALBANY, N. Y., June 15.— The New York Telephone Co., today asked the Public Service Commission for a stopgap 4,000,000 rate increase pending the outcome of court action on a hike of double that amount. Under the requested hike, 3,545,442 residential subscribers would be subject to a 30-cent-a-month increase while most of the 503,407 business telephone subscribers would be upped 75 cents a month. There would be no increase for local calls from public pay stations. Ike Pledges Atoms-f or-Peace Co-operation WASHINGTON, D. C, June 15.— President Eisenhower today pledged "unremitting" American co-operation in an international Atoms-for-Peace program. The occasion for his re-eridorsement of a peaceful atomic energy program was his approval of proposed bilateral agreements for civilian uses of atomic energy with Belgium, Canada and the United Kingdom.
